Build-a-Baddie Returns (And It’s Bigger, Badder, and More Chaotic)
The last Build-a-Baddie Poll was such a hit, it spun off not one but two projects — a microfic and a 1,500-word short story!
So naturally… we’re doing it again.
Welcome back to Build-a-Baddie — the crowd-sourced character experiment where you decide:
I take your winning combo and turn it into a brand-new illustration.
There’s also a Wildcard section if you want to whisper your weirdest ideas into the void. No promises… but I will read them.
Voting opens this week on Patreon. Bring your best (and worst) ideas.
Transcript — Evolution Success Stories
A single-panel cartoon shows two bug-like creatures standing on a forest floor surrounded by large green leaves. Both have tall, thin, purple bodies with spindly limbs and antennae. The bug on the right has colorful, symmetrical butterfly wings with orange, black, and white patterns and looks relatively normal — an evolution success story The bug on the left has a strange, mismatched set of wings that resemble bold, graphic signage instead of natural wings. The wings are black with bright orange arrows and large words pointing in different directions, including “TASTY,” “HERE,” and “YUM!” with arrows directing attention toward the bug’s own body. The malformed-wing bug looks uneasy, while the butterfly-wing bug looks on. Beneath the comic, a caption reads: “All I’m saying is… it’s easy to be a fan of evolution if all you hear about are the success stories…”
To the right of the panel is a blue box that reads: “Intermission — The Evil Inc storyline will continue next week.”
Today marks eight years of doing a daily comic strip for me. It’s kind of a big day for me because doing this is the one thing that I
really dreamed about doing when I was a kid. It’s a lifelong fantasy, and I am
so loving the fact that I’ve been able to pursue it.
It’s a time when I like to acknowledge the people who make it possible for me to live this dream. Tops on that list is my wife, who puts up with untold amounts of stuff when it comes to my life in comics. If she didn’t believe in me, I would have never made it past Year One. She is the model of the perfect life partner, and I pity anyone who hasn’t found their particular version of her in their lives.
And secondly, it’s you. I’ve said it before, and I’ll never get tired of saying it: You guys make this worth doing every day. Your comments; your reactions; your excitement; and your support. It all makes this a dream-come-true for me.
And that’s why I’m going to celebrate this anniversary by giving
you a present.
And… well… I think you’re really, really going to like it. I can honestly say, I haven’t been this excited about something in a long time.
But I’m not going to unveil it until Monday.
Till then, please accept my heartfelt gratitude for eight wonderful years.
