HoloClone Miss Match races to Dr. Muskiday’s rescue with the one weapon the macronanoes never saw coming: an outrageously dramatic declaration of love. The macronanoes quickly discover a much more tempting emotional smorgasbord.
New eComic: The Best of Cassie Cruz
A new Tales from the Evil Inc After Dark Archive eComic is now available: The Best of Cassie Cruz.
This 27-page collection gathers some of the best appearances of Cassie Cruz, one of my favorite characters to write and draw. Patreon backers have already received a free copy as part of their membership.
If you’d like a copy, you can get yours here: https://go.evil-inc.net/Best-of-Cassie
Cassie brings exactly the kind of energy Evil Inc After Dark was built for: confident, chaotic, dangerous, and more than a little likely to make a bad decision feel like a very good idea.
Transcript
Panel 1:
Dr. Muskiday is completely under the control of the macronanoes.
(from off panel) HoloClone Miss Match: My sweet baboo! What have they DONE to you!
Panel 2:
Holoclone Miss Match runs onto the scene.
HoloClone Miss Match: I never had the chance to tell you my true feelings — to express what has been buried deep inside me!
Panel 3:
HoloClone Miss Match: (with a slight eyeroll) You know… without the massage oils and putting the lab in ‘privacy mode.’
Panel 4:
HoloClone Miss Match:I love you, Dr. Phineas Muskiday! I always have!
Panel 5:
The macronanoes start to break up from around Dr. Musikday’s head.
Macronano 1: Hey! What’s THIS?!?
Macronano 2: We’re wasting time with these sad, little scraps…
Panel 6:
The macronanoes surround HoloClone Miss Match
Macronano 2: …when there’s a smorgasbord standing right here!
Alt text
Six-panel Evil Inc comic. Panel 1: Exterior of the Evil Inc Fairmount offices. Inside, Dr. Muskiday is completely covered and controlled by a cloud of macronanoes. From off-panel, HoloClone Miss Match cries, “My sweet baboo! What have they DONE to you?!” Panel 2: HoloClone Miss Match runs into the lab with her hands dramatically pressed to her face. She says, “I never had a chance to tell you my true feelings — to express what has been buried deep inside me!” Panel 3: Close-up of HoloClone Miss Match giving a slight eye roll and shrugging as she adds, “You know… without the massage oils and putting the lab in ‘privacy mode.’” Panel 4: She drops to one knee and reaches toward the cloud-covered doctor, declaring, “I love you, Doctor Phineas Muskiday! I always have!” Panel 5: The macronanoes begin breaking apart and drifting away from Dr. Muskiday’s head. One exclaims, “Hey! What’s THIS?!” Another says, “We’re wasting time with these sad, little scraps…” HoloClone Miss Match watches nervously from the floor. Panel 6: The grinning macronanoes surround HoloClone Miss Match as one finishes, “…when there’s a smorgasbord standing right here!” She ducks and shields her head while the creatures close in.
As part of the Kickstarter campaign for Evil Inc Vol. 8, I released
The Complete Greystone Inn as a digital book formatted for your tablet. It has previously been available only as a
print-on-demand hardcover.
Special note to my Patreon backers at the the $20 and higher levels: Check your email. You’re getting a free copy of this eBook. Click here for more details.
Greystone Inn was my first webcomic. It ran six days a week from February 2000 to June 2005. And this 416-page book collects the first comic through the last.
GI, of course, provided the jumping-off point for
Evil Inc. In fact, the very first official Evil Inc comic was Lighting Lady (who first appeared in
Greystone) interviewing for a job with the evil corporation.
In addition to the complete collection, there’s a thirty-page introduction that includes:
- A sampling of my high-school- and college-era editorial cartoons.
- Three weeks of a comic-strip prototype I created in college.
- Nine weeks of the unpublished strip that was the precursor to Greystone, called Single Guy.
- All of the details behind my introduction to cartooning, the failed syndicate submissions, and the path that brought me to webcomics.
Over the life of
Greystone, there were four collections created — three book were published by Plan 9 Publishing, and I published a
fourth. Plan 9 has since disappeared and those books are nearly impossible to find.
This volume collects all of those
plus a year-and-a-half of strips that have
never been collected in book form.
I can’t tell you how proud I am to be able to offer this book to you. If you were a fan of
Greystone Inn, this is a keeper. If you’re an
Evil Inc fan, I think you’ll appreciate the writing — and the deep roots of some of your favorite characters, like Lightning Lady, who have their roots in the comic.
Let me put it this way. I’ve long since forgotten what I wrote in those strips, so the punchlines catch me totally by surprise. And I have to say. I wrote some pretty funny stuff in that strip.
Don’t believe me? Here’s a smattering of what you can expect:
Greystone sampler (PDF).
I think you’ll agree. At $19.99, it’s a freaking steal.
Get yours right now.
