Intermission — April 23 — Bigfoot Problems

Posted on April 23, 2026 by Brad Guigar

There are some Bigfoot problems that hit harder than others — and for certain legendary figures, male pattern baldness anxiety isn’t just about looks… it’s about legacy. Today’s comic imagines what happens when one very famous cryptid starts wondering if his myth might not survive a receding hairline.

What I’m Watching: Invincible, JJK, and the Great Animation Trade-Off

I’ve been watching Invincible with my sons, and I’ve got… thoughts.

First off: the story? Very, very good. Genuinely compelling stuff — even though the violence and gore is way past my personal comfort range. I'm not super comfortable with one character shooting another. The stuff that happens on a median-level episode of Invincible is a real challenge for me.

As someone who does NSFW comics, I'm constantly amazed at how perfectly acceptable Invincible is... yet an animated series based on Phil Foglio's XXXenophile would have people losing their ever-loving minds.

Further, it's a little disappointing to go from watching Jujutsu Kaisen (which we're also following at the moment) to watching Invincible.

JJK features jaw-dropping visuals and animation that constantly raises the bar episode after episode. It's phenomenal.

On the other side of the spectrum, Invincible clearly put all of its budget into getting celebrity voice talent. Some of them are very good.

I just wish a few of those Amazon dollars had been spent on the animation. Some of the scenes are pretty clearly PNGs that get enlarged to show an object moving through space, and it's a goddamned embarrassment.

But the story itself is very, very good.

Greystone Halloween 3

Posted on October 13, 2008 by Brad Guigar


From the Greystone Archive: Halloween

This was one of the all-time best Halloween storylines. I’ll put this up against any comic’s Halloween stories. It takes place at Transylvania University — which really exists in Kentucky. The story quickly becomes a retelling of the Curse of Rafinesque — a real-life botanist from Philadelphia. Rafinesque was hired as a professor at Transylvania University and placed a curse on the institution after the president threw him out. The president, of course, had a very good reason for throwing Raf out: The botantist was having an affair with his wife.

Every seven years since, something horrible has happened at Transylvania University, which still celebrates Halloween by sending two students to spend a night in Rafinesque’s tomb.

Rafinesque was a fascinating figure. I had way more stuff than I could cram into the storyline. Here’s the rest:

Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz (1783-1840) was called “the Daniel Boone of Botany.�

Although he was not appreciated during his lifetime, scholars now recognize his amazing contributions to science.

For example, his 5,400-line epic poem discussed a theory of evolution that predated Darwin’s by more than 20 years.

And he was the first to classify over 100 species of plants and animals.

One such classification stands out among the rest. A gentleman who had welcomed Rafinesque into his house was awakened in the middle of the night by a tremendous clatter.

When he went to inspect the disturbance, he found a mostly-naked Rafinesque, wildly running about the room, swatting in the air with the handle of the host’s favorite violin.

The disheveled houseguest was chasing bats, convinced that they belonged to an undocumented species.

They were.

And Rafinesque was the first to document them.

While spending the night in the house of John Jay Audobon.