Intermission — April 23 — Bigfoot Problems

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.

THE BOOKS ARE HERE!

I’m officially a self-publisher!

Thursday, a large truck rumbled down the street with two pallets of books. 500 copies of Evil Inc Annual Report Vol. 2 and 1,500 copies of Evil Inc Annual Report Vol. 3.

Unfortunately, the truck was a bit too large. He wasn’t able to maneuver his truck into the alley down the block and behind my house to get to my garage, where I had planned to store the books.

So, he unloaded both pallets onto the sidewalk in front of my house. Since my wife had the car that day, I didn’t even have a trunk to load the boxes into to drive them around the block to my garage.

So… I set about moving 1,370 pounds of books — one 30-pound box at a time into my house and then down to my basement — where I have a fruit cellar with some very sturdy shelves perfect for the boxes.

I didn’t want to have all the boxes in the living room at the same time, so I carried eight boxes into the house and then carted them down to the basement. Then I would cart eight more boxes in. And then eight more would go downstairs.

That’s ten stairs up to my front door, and then a dozen stairs down to the basement.

It took me about an hour to get all the books into the house and then another hour to get the shelves cleaned off and the boxes stacked neatly inside.

But the important thing is that they’re here.

And they look awesome. I’m so excited to get these out to you guys. And I’ll definitely have a supply on hand in Seattle for Emerald City Comic Con.

I will be packaging orders this weekend, and doing Artist Edition sketches in the evenings. I’ll be sure to post my progress here and in my Twitter feed.

Meanwhile, thank you to the many people who preordered their books. I wouldn’t have been able to pay for that print run otherwise. I’m very much overwhelmed by the response.

If you haven’t ordered yours yet, take another look at the photos of the fruit cellar above. I’m planning a Phables book, I should print about 500 copies of Vol. 1, and I’ll likely have Vol. 4 before the end of the year.

One thing’s for sure: Canning is definitely out this year.

I need to make some room. Get yours now.