Intermission – April 21 — Evolution Success

Posted on April 21, 2026 by Brad Guigar

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:

  • The creature

  • The personality

  • The situation they’re caught in

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.”

Exciting news for Courting Disaster and Phables

Posted on January 3, 2008 by Brad Guigar
If you’ve checked out Courting Disaster and Phables lately, you’re sure to notice a new look and new features on the two Web sites. Check out the new RSS feeds and the new blogs under the comics. Both sites are going to be much more useable and fun! I’m still working out some bugs, so be sure to give me a holler if you find any. In other news, Courting Disaster, which gets distributed by the McClatchey News Service for use with the Sexcetera sex-advice column, looks as if it has been picked up by another paper. From the looks of their Web site, The Charlotte Observer is now running both the column and the cartoon. Someone from Charlotte, North Carolina, is going to have to buy the paper and tell me for sure.