March 27th 2024:
Issues 799 and 800 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist, as well as Issue 531 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. This is the final issue of Con Nachzehrer in its Webcomic form. I will continue posting
it on GlobalComix, however. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 25th 2024:
Issues 797 and 798 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist, as well as Issue 530 of Con Nachzehrer have been released. These issues were produced together with all the issues to be released on this site through
April 3rd. That is because my schedule is changing, and so I am taking a little time off for that. That means, and sorry for the short notice, that the release time for the comic will be changing to
Wednesdays at 16:00 GMT-6. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 18th 2024:
Issues 795 and 796 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist as well as Issue 529 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. I decided not to release the original issue for tonight, which was the original issue for
last week, at all. Instead I decided to do this TikTok issue. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 12th 2024:
Issues 793 and 794 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist as well as Issues 528 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. I pushed the original Issue 793 to next week, which will make it Issue 795. This was so I
could make this weeks issue a tribute to Akira Toriyama. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 5th 2024:
Issues 791 and 792 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist as well as Issue 527 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. This week I am resuming the extra issues of Rick to resume the story arc I started. I meant
to do this sooner, but 2024 has had a tumultuous start for me, so the resumption of the story line got delayed. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 26th 2024:
Issue 790 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 526 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 19th 2024:
Issue 789 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 525 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 12th 2024:
Issue 788 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 524 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 5th 2024:
Issue 787 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 523 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 29th 2024:
Issue 786 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 522 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 22nd 2024:
Issue 785 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 521 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 15th 2024:
Issues 783 and 784 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist as well as Issue 520 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 8th 2024:
Issues 781 and 782 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist as well as Issue 519 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. These comics were made with all the comics released in the past two weeks. That was to
accommodate my annual holiday production hiatus. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 1st 2024:
Issues 779 and 780 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist as well as Issue 518 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. These comics were made with both all the comics posted to the site last week and the comics
to be released next week. That was to accommodate my annual holiday production hiatus. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 25th 2023:
Issues 777 and 778 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist as well as Issue 517 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. These comics were produced together with all the comics to be released in the next two
weeks. That was to accommodate my annual holiday production hiatus. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 18th 2023:
Issues 775 and 776 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist as well as Issue 516 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 11th 2023:
Issues 773 and 774 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist as well as Issue 515 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 4th 2023:
Issues 771 and 772 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist as well as Issue 514 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 27th 2023:
Issues 769 and 770 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist as well as Issue 513 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. These issues were produced together with all the issues to be released next week so that I
could take a production hiatus for Thanksgiving. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 20th 2023:
Issues 767 and 768 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist, as well as Issue 512 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 15th 2023:
Issue 766 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This issue is to commemorate the seventh anniversary of Ricks return. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 13th 2023:
Issues 764 and 765 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist, as well as Issue 511 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 6th 2023:
Issues 762 and 763 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist, as well as Issue 510 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 31st 2023:
Issues 760 and 761 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist have been released. These are the two Halloween Specials for Rick this year. I did two of them because I thought it might be fun while I am doing an arc
involving Universe 565 to feature the rivalry between Universes 218 and 491. I had major writers block earlier this year and Rick has been on autopilot throughout that. It was also on autopilot while I
was working on Rixa. The current storylines I have introduced are in some way me compensating for the fact I think the comic has been stale. Hence why I did two Halloween Specials. I began work on Issue
759 back at the end of August because my schedule has been busy. I also wanted to give myself plenty of time because the plan was to do two comics. (Though I did not fully commit to the idea until
later.) I completed Issue 760 and did the entirety of Issue 761 at the end of September. These issues were completed together with Issues 753-756 of Rick and Issues 505-507 of Con Nachzehrer. Issue 760
kills off Leah. This is only the second major character death in Rick and I was a bit hesitant about it. I always regretted killing off Cedric. Still, Leah does not do much for the comic and she is a
flat character. Leah was conceived out of bitterness Dustin and I felt over breakups that we experienced at the time. Looking back, I do not like the arc Leah featured in as much because she was such a
flat character. It would be one thing to do that arc and make Leah a little more complex of a character, but she was not. That is why I decided she had to go. It was my way of acknowledging the weakness
of that story arc. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 30th 2023:
Issue 759 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 509 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 23rd 2023:
Issue 758 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 508 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Issue 758 of Rick was originally slated for last week but got pushed to this week so that last week I could
post comics about the Israel-Hamas War. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 16th 2023:
Issues 756 and 757 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 507 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Issue 507 of Con Nachzehrer was produced together with all the comics that were released on the
site in the past few weeks. That was because of a production hiatus I took to prepare for starting a new job. Issues 756 of 757 of Rick were originally meant to be released next week, but I decided to
bump them to this week and post the comic I originally made for this week to next week. I found these issues to be more topical and better to be released now. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 9th 2023:
Issue 755 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 506 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These comics were produced together with the comics posted to the site two days ago along with the comics
to be posted next week. This is both to accommodate the change in release day and because I took a brief production hiatus to prepare for starting a new job. I wrote Issue 755 of Rick quite a while ago.
I heard the story about weather records being set in the 1930s and, since these stories often have a little truth to them, I wanted to see what the truth behind it was. This comic contains the
explanation I found when I researched it. This weeks comics were released early because I am on a first shift schedule for my first week of my new job. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 7th 2023:
Issues 753 and 754 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 505 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. As mentioned above the release date for all my comics is moving from Saturdays at 1 GMT-5 to
Mondays at 1 GMT-5. This change will take place on October 9th. To accommodate this change, I produced all the comics released today with all those to be posted through October 16th. This is for the
change, and also because I am taking a brief production hiatus as I prepare to start my new job. Issue 753 of Rick had to be rewritten a bit after I finished it. I wrote it anticipating a government
shutdown, which thankfully did not come to pass this time. This week will be the last of the double comic weeks for a while. The storyline I am working on for Rick is taking a pause. Stay tuned, more to
come.
September 30th 2023:
Issues 751 and 752 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 504 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. As mentioned above, the release date from my comics is moving from Saturdays at 1 GMT-5 to Mondays
at 1 GMT-5. This is because I am starting a new job and this release date better fits my new schedule. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 23rd 2023:
Issues 749 and 750 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 503 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Big news tonight, the release date for my comics will be changing from Saturday mornings to Monday
mornings at 1 beginning on October 9th. This is due to the fact that I am beginning a new job and the release dates for my comics always are scheduled around my work. I am excited and a little nervous
about it. I have been with my current employer for a long time, but this seems to be a positive change. It will still be second shift, but it will be Monday through Friday, holidays off. I am now working
in a warehouse as opposed to retail. In other news, Issue 750 of Rick brings back the characters from my original comic which gave the site its name: Geek Force. The primary reason I introduced Universe
744 was to bring the members of Geek Force into Rick. Also, Issue 749 was originally meant to be released last week, but I moved it to push out a comic about the Biden impeachment inquiry. Stay tuned,
more to come.
September 16th 2023:
Issues 747 and 748 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 502 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Issue 747 of Rick obviously deals with the impeachment inquiry against Biden. It is funny, because
the original issue for tonight, which will be posted next week, actually criticized the Biden Administration. Granted, it is from a liberal point of view, so conservatives might object anyway, but I
would spend far more time criticizing Biden were it not for the craziness of this current Republican Party. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 9th 2023:
Issues 745 and 746 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 501 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 6th 2023:
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the debut of Con Nachzehrer I have posted a new Con story to GlobalComix which is entitled Calm Down Robinson.
September 2nd 2023:
Issues 743 and 744 of Rick the Cryptozoologist and Issue 500 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. This issue of Rick introduces Universe 744. I told myself when I introduced the multiverse concept
that I did not want to add more universes for no reason. Universe 744 seems like one worth adding, though. I intend to do something fun with this universe which will occur in Issue 750 if Rick. Stay
tuned, more to come.
August 26th 2023:
Issues 741 and 742 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 499 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 19th 2023:
Issues 739 and 740 of Rick the Cryptozoologist and Issue 498 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. It is a double issue week for Rick because this marks the beginning of a new story arc for that
comic. I decided that, as with the story arc I did back in the beginning of 2021, Rick story arcs may feature extra comics. That way the comic can cover topical issues and I can progress the story arc
without those two goals conflicting with one another. The new story arc will consist of several runs of double comic weeks and this first one will likely end in early October. Then there will be a
break before another run begins. Issue 739 of Rick is inspired by a conversation I had with a friend about the idea that there could be an upside to slavery. My friend made a joke and it inspired me to
write my own(I ended up not using his. What can I say, it might be vanity but I do prefer to write my own material. His joke was killer though. I opted to not to use it because it was about the
Holocaust and I wanted to keep the focus on American atrocities. I would have asked his permission to use his joke and credited him had it made it into the comic.). Stay tuned, more to come.
August 12th 2023:
Issue 738 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 497 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 5th 2023:
Issue 737 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 496 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 29th 2023:
Issues 735 and 736 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 495 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Issue 736 of Rick is an extra issue to commemorate the 14th anniversary of the original debut of
the comic.
July 22nd 2023:
Issue 734 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 494 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 15th 2023:
Issue 733 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 493 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 8th 2023:
Issue 732 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 492 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 1st 2023:
Issue 731 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 491 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These issues were produced together with all the comics that were posted on the site for the past two
weeks. That is because I was on vacation from my job. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 24th 2023:
Issue 730 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 490 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These issues were produced together with all the comics that were posted on the site last week and all the
comics which are to be posted on the site next week. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 17th 2023:
Issue 729 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 489 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These issues were produced together with all the comics to be posted on the site for the next two weeks.
That is because I am on vacation from my job this week. I wanted to Issue 729 of Rick because I have not been as vocal about LBGTQ issues lately and there has been an ugly backlash against the LBGTQ
community from conservatives lately. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 10th 2023:
Issue 728 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 488 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Issue 728 of Rick was supposed to be Issue 725 of Rick but it kept getting pushed back so I could make
comics about the debt ceiling. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 3rd 2023:
Issue 727 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 487 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This issue of Con was based on an incident from my teens when a friend of mine was going through a breakup
because his girlfriend cheated on him and I asked him if he would feel better if I told him his girlfriend got AIDS from the person she left him for. He told me it would not. The current storyline of
Con is inspired by a heartbreak of sorts I have been going through lately. Life has been a little tough for me recently and I have not felt as engaged on my Webcomics. I personally think this past years
worth of comics do not represent my best work. I lost the passion for this, but I think I am starting to regain it and hopefully I can put out some awesome work over the next year of the site. I have not
been reading the news as much as all of this has been happening, so I do not feel I have been as on the ball as I should be with Rick. This weeks issue of Rick is about the backlash from the right
against the LBGTQ community. I do not think it is my best work, but I have a better comic I have written which I intend to drop later in June which is better. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 2nd 2023:
Issue 726 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 486 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Starting tomorrow, the release day for all of my comics will be switching from Friday mornings at 2 GMT-5
to Saturday mornings at 1 GMT-5. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 26th 2023:
Issue 725 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 485 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Starting on June 3rd, the release day for all my comics will be switching from Friday mornings at 2 GMT-5
to Saturday mornings at 1 GMT-5 Stay tuned, more to come.
May 19th 2023:
Issue 724 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 484 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Starting on June 3rd, the release day for all my comics will be switching from Friday mornings at 2 GMT-5
to Saturday mornings at 1 GMT-5 Stay tuned, more to come.
May 12th 2023:
Issue 723 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 483 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 5th 2023:
Issue 722 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 482 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 28th 2023:
Issue 721 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 481 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 21st 2023:
Issue 720 of Rick, the Crytozoologist and Issue 480 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 14th 2023:
Issue 719 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 479 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 7th 2023:
Issue 717 and 718 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 478 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 31st 2023:
Issues 715 and 716 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 477 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 24th 2023:
Issues 713 and 714 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 475 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 17th 2023:
Issue 712 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 475 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 10th 2023:
Issue 711 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 474 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. I had to retool Issue 711 of Rick. Originally it was just a shot at politicians promising not to cut
entitlement programs without proposing a plan to make them solvent. I have not been as diligent at reading the news as I normally am, and this past six months or so I have not been as engaged in my
comics as I typically am. I did not realize that politicians on both sides of the aisle actually have put forth plans to fix social security and medicare, so I changed the comic to reflect that.
Honestly, I like the sovereign wealth plan better than just raising taxes. I consider myself a fiscally responsible liberal, in that I support liberal policies and I think raising taxes should at least
be on the table to pay for them. I think one of the fundamental problems in American politics is that all Americans of all political affiliations want more government than they are willing to pay for. So
I hold the view that tax increases should be permissible and should be able to be discussed. On the other hand, if there is a way to fix a problem without raising taxes, I am all for it. I also think
taxes should be raised only as far as they need to be. I do not want to tax anyone into oblivion and I do think taxes can be high enough so as to discourage innovation. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 3rd 2023:
Issue 710 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 473 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 24th 2023:
Issue 709 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 472 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This issue of Rick is loosely based around the fact that a friend of mine recently texted me me in the
middle of the night for dating advice. I actually tried to help him, but I still think it was a bad idea to come to me for advice on such matters, and I told him as much. My buddy was not too happy when
I told him I was making a webcomic out of the experience. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 17th 2023:
Issue 708 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 471 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 10th 2023:
Issue 707 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 470 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 3rd 2023:
Issues 705 and 706 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 469 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. I decided to do Issue 706 of Rick because I wanted to do an issue on the death of Tyre Nichols.
Police Brutality is an important issue which I do not talk about enough. I decided to do it as an extra issue because the debt ceiling fight is also important. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 27th 2023:
Issue 704 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 468 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These two comics were produced together with all the comics that have been posted on the site for the past
two weeks. That is because I was on vacation. Stay tuned, more to come.
Jnauary 20th 2023:
Issue 703 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 467 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These two comics were produced together with all the comics that were posted to the site last week and all
the comics to be posted next week. That is due to the fact that I am on vacation from my job this week. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 13th 2023:
Issue 702 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 466 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These two issues were produced together with all the comics to be released on the site for the next two
weeks. This is due to the fact that I am on vacation from my job this week. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 6th 2023:
Issue 701 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 465 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 30th 2022:
Issue 700 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 464 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 23rd 2022:
Issue 699 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 463 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 16th 2022:
Issue 698 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 462 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 9th 2022:
Issue 697 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 461 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 2nd 2022:
Issue 696 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 460 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These issues were done extremely late, as late as I have done them in a while. I have been in a bit of
funk lately. Unfortunately it is a reality of the grind of webcomics that there will be rough patches. I did not miss my deadline though, I just ran up close to it, with seven and half hours left to go
before release time. That was still better than the days where I would finish the comic with minutes to spare. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 25th 2022:
Issue 695 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 459 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 18th 2022:
Issue 694 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 458 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 15th 2022(2):
Issue 693 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This is an extra issue about the launch of Donald Trumps 2024 presidential campaign. I legitimately wish Trump would retire from politics so I
never have to talk about him again. Constantly writing and thinking about Donald Trump is exhausting and I hate how he has damaged our democracy. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 15th 2022:
Issue 692 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This is an issue to celebrate the 6th anniversary of the beginning of the second iteration of Rick. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 11th 2022:
Issue 691 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 457 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 4th 2022:
Issue 690 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 456 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Issue 456 of Con features the new designs for Corbin and Myrsina. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 31st 2022:
The 2022 Halloween Special of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. I recently did the Paqui One Chip Challenge in an attempt to impress a girl. My experience with it informed this comic. I like
to think that I have a high spice tolerance, but the one chip challenge kicked my ass. The spice was tolerable to me, but the chip gave me horrible indigestion both times I did it(I did it twice), and I
ended up vomiting both times. The second time, I did not pee blood, but my blood did burn, which I did not think was possible. I never whined or asked to be sent to the hospital, but I did get deathly
pale. The challenge was quite an experience. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 28th 2022:
Issue 688 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 455 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These comics were produced together with all the comics posted to the site in the past two weeks. Issue 688
of Rick was actually a comic I wrote for my last vacation, but I ended up going with another comic instead. Given that Issue 688 does not date, I saved it. Given how close we are to the midterms, this
seems like good timing to release it. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 21st 2022:
Issue 687 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 454 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These comics were produced together with all the comics that were posted on the site last week and all the
comics to be posted on the site next week. Issues 454 and 455 of Con Nachzehrer were actually supposed to feature Corbin and Myrsina, but I forgot that I have not remade the models for them yet. Thus, I
rewrote the comics so that they were not in them. One of the comics I wrote with them in it should be featured on the site in a few weeks though. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 14th 2022:
Issue 686 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 453 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These two issues were produced with all comics to be posted to the site in the next two weeks. That is
because I am on vacation this week. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 7th 2022:
Issue 685 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 452 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 30th 2022:
Issue 684 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 451 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 23rd 2022:
Issue 683 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 450 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 16th 2022:
Issue 682 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 449 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 9th 2022:
Issue 681 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 448 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 2nd 2022:
Issue 680 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 447 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 26th 2022:
Issue 679 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 446 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 19th 2022:
Issue 678 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 445 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 12th 2022:
Issue 677 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 444 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 5th 2022:
Issue 676 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 443 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 29th 2022:
Issues 674 and 675 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist as well as Issue 442 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Issue 675 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist is an extra issue to mark the fact that it has been
13 years since the debut of Rick, the Cryptozoologist. I am glad that the anniversary fell on the comics regular release day this year. I prefer not to have extra release days whenever possible. Stay
tuned, more to come.
July 22nd 2022:
Issue 673 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 441 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 15th 2022:
Issue 672 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 440 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 8th 2022:
Issue 671 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 439 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Issue 671 of Rick is in response to liberals blaming Democrats for Roe V Wade and stating they will not
vote for them because of it. This line of thinking bothers me. To me, the election of Donald Trump is the ultimate proof voting matters. The fact that Republicans are trying so hard to suppress the vote
proves that voting matters. I agree that our system needs structural reform. There is the electoral college and gerrymandering, but voting can still make a difference in spite of that. I also agree that
other peaceful action might be needed other than voting. I just do not think we should discount elections. Elections clearly matter. Issue 438 of Con displays the new design for Rabanus. Stay tuned, more
to come.
July 1st 2022:
Issue 670 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 437 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These comics were produced together with all the comics I posted to this site in the past two weeks
barring Issue 666 of Rick and a possible extra issue I may have released in that time. That is due to the fact that I was on vacation last week. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 24th 2022(2):
Rick Issue 669 has been released. This is a special issue to protest the fact that Roe v Wade has just been overturned. I finished it mid May and have been waiting for the actual decision to come down
before posting it. It is based on the leaked draft decision, so it may or may not reflect the actual opinion that overturned Roe. I wanted to have a comic ready in advance and I was sure that the court
would take this step even before the leak. I also wanted it to be based on the decision and so that conflicted with my desire to have a comic ready in advance. The leak was fortunate in that aspect,
because it gave me something to base my script on. I still think as a whole the leak was bad for the Supreme Court and the country would be better off had it not happened. Nevertheless though, the leak
did happen, and so I was happy to take advantage of the public information at my disposal. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 24th 2022:
Issue 668 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 436 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This were produced together with all the comics to be posted last week and next to this site. The
exceptions to this are Issue 666 of Rick and a possible extra special issue of Rick that may or may not have been released by now. I typically write the issues of Rick for my vacation in advance. I pick
an issue that will not date so that I can avoid not having 3 comics ready. Some weeks I struggle to write one comic. This time I did not have that problem and I bumped an issue I had prepared for this
one. Doing Yemen appealed to me because making anti war comics is natural to me and because I still like criticizing Biden. I have agreed with Biden more than I have with any president in my entire time
making comics and it unnerves me a little. The comic I did not use will not date, and I will probably use it during one of my off weeks or the next time I take a vacation. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 17th 2022:
Issues 666 and 667 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 436 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Issue 667 of Rick and Issue 436 of Con were produced together with all the regular comics to be
posted on the site for the next two weeks. (There will likely be an extra issue in that time.) Issue 666 of Rick I made a few weeks ago when I decided to have fun with Issue 666 by making it about Donald
Trump. I debated whether to release it this week or with last weeks comic. After I decided to make this weeks comic about the January 6th attack, I knew when the comic should be released. Issue 436 of
Con features the new design of Thormond. I wish it looked more like the old design, but recreating the designs of the monsters is hard. Hopefully this is the last time I have to recreate it. Stay tuned,
more to come.
June 10th 2022:
Issue 665 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 435 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 3rd 2022:
Issue 664 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 434 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. A production note on Issue 434 of Con: I made the decision to introduce each of the main cast one by one
in this story so that I would not have to recreate them all at once. I am happy to report that I have been diligent with backing up on my back up drive this time around. I never want to go through the
loss of all my 3D assets again. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 27th 2022:
Issue 663 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 433 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 20th 2022:
Issue 662 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 432 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This issue of Rick I wrote with the intention of posting during my upcoming vacation. I decided to move it
up, however, given current events. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 13th 2022:
Issue 661 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 431 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 6th 2022:
Issue 660 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 430 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Issue 660 of Rick was actually meant to be released last week but I pushed it back so I could do a comic
about Elon Musk taking over Twitter. It worked out as this issue mentions abortion, which is very relevant this week. I have some more abortion comics coming up. I had one ready for my pending vacation
because I knew the court was getting ready to rule on the case. I may or may not push that one forward. I also wrote a special issue which I am saving for when and if Roe is officially overturned. Stay
tuned, more to come.
April 29th 2022:
Issue 659 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 429 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 22nd 2022:
Issue 658 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 428 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This is the end of a story arc of Con Nachzehrer, and as the comic above states, I am not a fan of this
arc. I was not very engaged during the making of it, so it is disjointed. Thus far, I have had more fun writing the next arc, which begins next week. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 15th 2022:
Issue 657 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 427 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 8th 2022:
Issue 656 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 426 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. I had some reservations about Issue 656 of Rick, which I incorporated into the comic itself. Still, I
thought the comic made a good point about the toxicity of the internet and our culture itself. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 1st 2022:
Issue 655 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 425 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 25th 2022:
Issue 654 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 424 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 18th 2022:
Issue 653 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 423 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 11th 2022:
Issue 652 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 422 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 4th 2022:
Issues 650 and 651 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 421 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Rick Issue 651 is a special issue about the War in Ukraine. I have mostly stayed silent on the
unfolding crisis up to this point. That is primarily due to the fact that Rick is focused on US domestic politics. Still, I eventually decided that I should speak up on it, even if I did so a bit late,
as is tradition for the comic. Special issues are partly supposed to be about issues I may have neglected which are nonetheless crucially important. I am not sure whether or not I should have mentioned
my previous opposition to NATO expansion, especially given that I have never mentioned it in a comic before, but I do try to approach every topic in the comic with nuance. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 25th 2022:
Issue 649 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 420 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 18th 2022:
Issue 648 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 419 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 11th 2022:
Issue 647 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 418 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. I decided to do an issue about the recent controversy surrounding Maus. Part of me did not want make the
issue because by now the controversy is old news and others have already spoken quite eloquently about the ban. Still, I did the issue because the ban of Maus was bothering me all week and it was all I
wanted to write about. I am against censorship in general, to a radical degree. It is something I wish I had more time to devote to in this comic. In the case of Maus, the censorship strikes me as
particularly egregious because Maus is about a major historical event that I would think everyone would want their children to be educated about. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 4th 2022:
Issue 646 of Rick the Cryptozoologist and Issue 417 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 28th 2022:
Issue 645 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 416 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These issues were produced together with all the comics posted to the site for the past 2 weeks. That is
because I was on vacation from my job. There are a couple of production notes on Issue 645 of Rick. The first is that this set was murder to recreate. The second is that I have had this idea in my head
to explain white privilege for some time. I saw in the news that some black people were suing over being denied their GI bill benefits and I decided to it was time to pounce. The backstory of Rick is
based on my own experience. My grandfather did fight in the Korean War and was helped out by his GI bill benefits. I draw a direct line from that to the fact my mother was able to go tot college and that
I was able to grow up middle class. I did not drop out of college, I never went, but I thought dropping out made more sense in the context of the comic. Regardless, I do feel like my parents and
grandparents set me up well but I messed it up. I have not done much with my life. I blame no one but myself for that. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 21st 2022:
Issue 644 of Rick, the Crytozoologist and Issue 415 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These issues were produced together with all the issues I posted to the site last week and all the comics to
be posted next week due to the fact I am on vacation from my job this week. At least, they were planned for my vacation for work. 3 days before I was set to go on vacation I tested positive for Covid, so
my vacation turned into my quarantine. My case was quite mild. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 14th 2022:
Issues 642 and 643 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist as well as Issue 414 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Issue 642 of Rick is to explain why the characters and sets might be different owing to the
second great hard drive disaster. As I mentioned before, I do not want to draw things out this time. I have a plot device that can explain the difference and I have deployed it. I also chose to tackle
the labor shortage in Issue 642 because this topic demonstrates how conservatives control the narrative. The idea it was unemployment benefits was always flimsy and the evidence does not bear it out. For
Con Nachzehrer, I wrote around the hard drive disaster. I do not have as good an explanation for Con changing, so I stalled. These issues were produced together with all the issues to be released on the
site the next two weeks because I am on vacation from my job. I decided to be stubborn and make the comics I wanted, the number of characters and sets I had to recreate be damned. Therefore production
on these issues was murder. More so than usual for a production day before I go on vacation. All of the sets in these issues were new. I had to recreate Rick 565, Owen 218, Dayton 218, and the Gaia
Rangers. I also had to make a new costume for Con. There is one other recreated set in the upcoming issues. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 7th 2022:
Issues 640 and 641 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist as well as Issue 413 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Issue 640 of Rick and Issue 413 of Con were made together with all the issues posted to the
site in the past 2 weeks. Issue 641 of Rick the Cryptozoologist was an extra issue I made owing to my disgust at Trump planning to hold a rally to commemorate January 6th. Even though Trump called off
his rally, I decided to post the comic anyway. What happened on January 6th 2021 sickens me, the attacks on our democracy continue, and I am not feeling at all optimistic. On another note, I have some
bad news so share. I lost another hard drive. Even after last year I was somewhat lax in my backup practices, so I lost a bunch of sets and characters again. I lost most of the Con characters and sets,
though I have most of the sets for the 491 and 565 universes of Rick. Uploading to the cloud backup takes forever and does not always work well due to the large file sizes involved. Therefore I got lax.
I am still angry with myself for letting this happen again. Though, I was somewhat less upset at first because it took place during a production break which bought me time and because I am shell shocked
from the dumpster fire year of 2021. (I did start feeling down when it came time to re-setup my Windows install and DAZ studio install in my virtual machine though.)This is just one more bad thing from
2021. I bought 2 hard drives to replace the one that went belly up, so I will have a backup that is easier to perform. I had wanted to buy another hard drive earlier, but I put it off because I did not
want to spend the money right away. I am not planning to drag out the process of recreating the characters and sets this time, and I hope to recreate everything faster this time than last time. I have no
plans of doing 100 comics in the course of 2 months, so that should help. There should be comics featuring recreated characters and sets on the site as early as next week. Stay tuned more to come.
December 31st 2021:
Issue 639 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 412 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These issues were produced together with the issues that were posted last week and the issues I will post
next week. That is to accommodate my Christmas/New Years production break. These issues gave me a lot of trouble since I had to create new characters for them. The mask for Mark Zuckerberg was the first
time I used the face transfer utility in DAZ Studio. I am not sure how well it turned out given that I made the mask look like, well, a mask. I wanted it to look creepy and I think I went overboard with
it. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 23rd 2021:
Issue 638 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 411 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These issues were posted early. That is because I have to go in 4 hours early to work tomorrow. These
issues were also produced together with all the comics that will be posted to the site for the next 2 weeks. This is because I am taking a production break so I can celebrate Christmas and New Years.
Another production note on Issue 638 of Rick, this is the issue that replaced 636. I originally wrote Issue 636 for my production break, but I decided to move it up and write this one to take its place.
Stay tuned, more to come.
December 17th 2021:
Issue 637 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 410 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. I hate to sound like a broken record, but issue 637 of Rick is the type of comic I really want to do, but
the current state of our politics prevents that. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 10th 2021:
Issue 636 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 409 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Issue 636 of Rick was actually intended to be released at a later date. My comics never go on hiatus, but I
do take production breaks. Whenever I take a production break, I do several comics in one week to cover the break. I have two back to back production breaks coming up due to the holidays. Thus, I have
been writing some extra comics for Rick. I always try to write some comics for my production breaks that I know will not become dated. This abortion issue was one of those comics. However, with the
Supreme Court hearing the case on the Mississippi abortion ban I decided to bump this issue up and write another issue to take its place. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 3rd 2021:
Issue 635 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 408 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This issue of Con references Kaiju films. I am a huge fan of Godzilla and I always watch the Godzilla films
at Christmas time. So, Kaiju are on my mind, hence the reference. I typically write an entire story of Con Nachzehrer before the first issue of it is even posted. This one I have been making up as I go
along, to the detriment of the comic, in my opinion. I hate this story arc with a fiery passion. I considered abandoning it altogether or ending it prematurely. I had a difficult time trying to write it
because of all the extra issues of Rick I was doing. Then, this year has been difficult, so it has been hard to motivate myself to write it except on a weekly basis. Writing Con Nachzehrer is low on my
priority list as far as the other projects I have done this year. I wrote this other thing, an action comic I would like to do instead. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 26th 2021:
Issue 634 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 407 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 19th 2021:
Issue 633 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 406 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 15th 2021:
Issue 632 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This is an extra issue to mark the fifth anniversary of the debut of the second iteration of Rick, the Cryptozoologist. There is an interesting
story behind this one. Given that, by tradition, the anniversary issues are apolitical, I tend to write them well in advance. I write them as I get the inspiration for them. The script I wrote for this
anniversary was ripping on Mark Zuckerberg. You may notice that is not at all what this issue is about. I decided that with the Facebook papers releasing a few weeks ago that it would be too political to
release.(Even though it just pokes fun at Zuckerberg and does not really make any point about Facebook.) I wanted to preserve the tradition of anniversary issues being apolitical, so I wrote an entirely
new comic instead. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 12th 2021:
Issue 631 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 405 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 5th 2021:
Issue 630 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 404 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This issue continues my trend of having a rough time getting back into the swing of things after my
vacation. I went a little late with these ones. You can also see from Issue 630 of Rick that I do the comic way in advance. When Issue 630 was written, it was a few days from Halloween. Speaking of, I
did do these issues at the same time as the Halloween Special, so that could be why they went late. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 31st 2021:
The 2021 Halloween Special Issue of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This issue was inspired partly by my disdain for online recipe blogs where you have to scroll through ten pages of text
just to get tot he recipe. I do not care to read about the story behind a dish, I just want to make it for myself. I also had an idea a while back to put Jew Avenger from my old Geek Force comic into
Rick, the Cryptozoologist, because it makes sense for Jew Avenger to be in Universe 565. I really like the character, but if Geek Force does return some day, it will be as a straight drama, so Jew
Avenger no longer fits. That is why I put him into Rick. I am not sure if I will use Jew Avenger, but the groundwork has been laid. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 29th 2021:
Issue 628 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 403 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These issues were produced together with all the comics that were posted to the site for the past two weeks
due to me being on vacation. Issue 628 takes aim at the liberals. There are certain things I find excessive about the left, but I despise the right more, so I end up criticizing them more frequently.
Also, in Issue 403 of Con, I might have added new characters and had them get out of the food truck if not for laziness. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 22nd 2021:
Issue 627 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 402 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These two issues were produced together with all the issues that were released on the site last week as
well as next week. That is because I am on vacation. Issue 627 was a problem child. It never ends well when I make new characters and sets for an issue I am doing on vacation, because it is always a
marathon to do six issues all at once so I can relax while I am on off work. In spite of that, I keep doing writing issues that require new characters and sets. The production was further complicated by
the fact that I messed up my settings to export to Blender(which I came up with before DAZ had a Blender bridge, so it is complicated) and I had to spend a few hours getting that fixed. It all ended ok
though. I got the comics done more or less on time. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 15th 2021:
Issue 626 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 401 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These two issues were produced together with all the issues to be released on the site for the next two
weeks. That is because I am on vacation. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 8th 2021:
Issue 625 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 400 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This is not the issue I was expecting to write this week, but when I researched it, I found that price
controls do impact innovation. I still think having cheaper drugs outweighs innovation though and I am glad to have a chance to talk in this issue about the lack of nuance in our political discussion. To
me, it is one of the things fundamentally wrong with our current politics. We are no longer able to solve any problems as a nation in part because of our immaturity. We talk in terms of absolutes rather
than talking about balancing competing goals. Republicans point out the problems with government and argue for no government rather than better government. That is where my philosophy diverges with
modern conservatism. I acknowledge that the government is flawed, but I think government is a necessary evil and that there are ways to make it better, there are ways to conduct our business without
trampling on the liberties of the people. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 1st 2021:
Issue 624 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 399 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 24th 2021:
Issue 623 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 388 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 17th 2021:
Issue 622 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 387 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Issue 622 of Rick is another example of the terrible lead time of the comic. This issue of Con is also a
little political, which I mostly avoid in Con. I figure one political soapbox comic is enough. This issue of Con is also slightly conservative, a rarity for me. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 10th 2021:
Issue 621 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 396 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This issue of Con was actually meant to be the opening issue of the current story arc. I ended up deciding
to scrap the original story arc and come up with a new one. The new story arc is a mess though. I still have not finished writing it and I wish I could just scrap it altogether. Stay tuned, more to
come.
September 3rd 2021:
Issue 620 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 395 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 27th 2021:
Issue 619 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 394 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released.
August 20th 2021:
Issues 617 and 618 as well as Issue 393 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. I decided to do an extra issue this week because of Afghanistan. This is both because it is such a major story and
because I have spent so much time being critical of the War on Terror. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 13th 2021:
Issue 616 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 392 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 6th 2021:
Issues 608-615 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 391 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. This week, I decided to do a bunch of extra issues around the coronavirus pandemic. I have been wanting
to do a bunch of issues for the past couple of weeks, but I have not had time up until now. I was inspired to do these issues due to my frustration with all the misinformation going around surrounding
Covid. I have also had a hard time writing universe 565 up to this point because it is difficult to write a current events comic that is set in the future. Also, a note about Issue 391 of Con, it is
based on a true story from my 20s. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 30th 2021:
Issue 607 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 390 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 29th 2021:
Issue 606 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This extra issue is to mark the 12th anniversary of the initial debut of Rick, the Cryptozoologist. There will be a normal issue of Rick
tomorrow, along with an issue of Con Nachzehrer. I got this idea for this issue while doing the Grand Special. I thought about how I was making this big effort to explain a change in art style when there
were things about the Grand Special that did not make sense. I figured I would let it go and make it so that universe 565 is also fictional. This also partly stems from an idea I had for a one shot where
a character would realize that he is living in a fictional universe within a fictional universe and gain the ability to hop dimensions. I never did that one shot because neither of my one shots did
particularly well and I figure if I am not going to make money, I may as well stick to my webcomics. Anyway, I could see myself revisiting the idea in Rick or Con now that I have introduced the
multiverse. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 23rd 2021:
Issue 605 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 389 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 16th 2021:
Issue 604 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 388 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This issue of Rick is about Right to Repair. It is partly inspired by an attempt I made to fix my own phone
last fall. I ended up breaking it further and ended up having to get a new phone. I try to avoid getting new phones as much as possible because I think it is wasteful. This issue was done before Biden
came out in support of Right to Repair and if I had known he was going to come out in support of it, I probably would not have done this issue. (I am glad that he supports it, though.) I wanted this week
to be more offbeat, and not touch either of the major parties. For now, I am trying to have some variety in the comic. I suspect that as we get closer to the midterms, I will turn to mostly criticizing
Republicans, so I am trying to talk about other things right now while I have the chance. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 9th 2021:
Issue 603 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 387 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This issue of Rick is about my philosophy. I feel obligated to criticize those in power who I otherwise
disagree with. I felt the need to spell out my beliefs because in this polarized era, people assume that if you criticize one side, you are automatically with the other team. One of the worst parts of
polarization is how it destroys nuance. This is also the third issue of Rick in a row to be set in universe 218. I figured I would come to favor one universe over the others, but I did not plan it that
way. I come up with the concept for a comic and then I decide what characters fit the concept I have come up with. I never deliberately favor one set of characters or another, although some characters do
seem to become my favorites. Now I have to decide what universe fits the concept I come up with as well. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 2nd 2021:
Issues 602 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 386 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 25th 2021:
Issue 601 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 385 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Issue 601 of Rick is the same issue concept I thought about doing for one of my vacation issues. I decided
to use it this week because I think it has a limited shelf life on it. I also wanted to establish a time skip for Universe 218, but I am not sure how effective that is, given that I waited to establish
it until Universe 218 had been back a few weeks. Also, Universe 218 is typically roughly contemporaneous with current events anyway. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 18th 2021:
Issues 599 and 600 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 384 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Issue 599 of Rick and Con Issue 384 were produced together with all the comics posted to the site
in the past two weeks. That is because I was on vacation. I did Issue 600 of Rick as an extra issue when I got back from vacation because I believe these voter suppression bills are dangerous and I think
congress needs to put a stop to them. A production note on Rick Issue 599, I wrote it before all these Pentagon UFO reports began coming out. All the focus on UFOs make it less funny to me now. I try not
to post topical comics when I am on vacation so that I can do them in advance. That way I can just focus on doing the extra comics and not having to write extra as well. I also have weeks where the
writing is harder than others, so doing the comics in advance is a hedge against that. I also write the apolitical comics in advance because I can. I have both the anniversary issue and the comeback
anniversary issues written for this year. The flip side of that is sometimes I come up with an idea I like better and write something entirely new. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 11th 2021:
Issue 598 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 383 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These two issues were produced together with the issues posted to the site last week and those to be posted
next week. That is due to the fact that I am on vacation this week. I was a bit hesitant to do a special this week, given that this issue would be produced along with several others. Still, I was looking
for an issue that would not be as topical and one that would rib the liberals a bit. This idea I had for a special issue fit that bill perfectly. I actually came up with the idea for this comic last
winter when talking with my father about schools banning the book Huckleberry Finn. I was further encouraged to do this issue after learning that some woman in my area is launching a holy crusade against
the book, The Perks of Being a Wallflower. My area is very conservative, and that is why I made this issue to cover censorship that both sides try to indulge in. I was a little wary of doing a special. I
try to limit the amount of specials and there have already been several this year. Still, with all the extra comics, I figure it is ok to do a little extra on the specials. I also was originally going to
make this comic about banning the Iliad and Shakespeare, but after doing research and seeing the asinine reasons books actually get banned, I realized that would not work. One more production note, I am
happy to be doing comics where the characters do cryptid skits. The cryptid skits were at first a causality of Covid and then of my hardrive disaster. I like the cryptid skit comics and I am glad to
bring them back. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 4th 2021:
Issue 597 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 382 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These two issues were produced together with all the comics to be posted onto the site for the next two
weeks. That is because I am on vacation from my job this week and thus I am taking a production break. I am a bit burned out from the past 7 months of chaos on the site, so I am hoping this break will
really help me recharge. For Rick issue 597, I had a hard time deciding what it would be about. I decided I was going to do abortion, immigration, or police brutality. I am hopeful that congress will
pass police reform, so I narrowed it down to abortion or immigration. At the end of the day, I have done a lot more immigration comics than comics about abortion, so I picked abortion. I also decided to
make it about why I have not done many comics on abortion: I find it a difficult subject to joke about. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 28th 2021:
Issue 596 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 381 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Issue 596 of Rick deals with the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. It references an issue that I did on this
subject during the first iteration of Rick which used the Hitler puppet. It is an issue that I made within the first year of the comic that in retrospect I should not have made. I have shied away from
the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict ever since then because I felt like I should not have made that comic and because I have come to view the issue as more complicated than I did at the time. When I first
began the comic, I my objective was to be a troll and that is not the case now. Another production note on Issue 596, I am trying to introduce more settings to the comic now that it has returned to
being a weekly series and thus I have more time to work on it each week. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 21st 2021:
Issue 595 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 380 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 14th 2021:
Issues 593 and 594 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 379 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Issue 594 is the last issue of the 565 arc, and so next week Rick will return to a once weekly
release schedule. I am honestly happy to have this story line behind me. First I lost all my 3D assets, then I did all those extra comics, I had to redo the code for the archive pages, then I did this
arc and the Grand Special. It has been a long few months for the site. From here on out it will be a free for all. Any of the 3 universes can appear as the setting for a comic on any given week. I
suspect one will become my favorite, but that is not my plan. I do have a story line planned out for Universe 218. My original plan was to discard Universes 491 and 565 once this story line wrapped up,
but I did not originally think that this story line would be over 100 issues either. I like Johanna because she is transgendered, I also like the Beast of Bodmin, and I think Damon is a good villain.
For those reasons, I have decided to keep using the different universes. It gives me a bigger sandbox to play with. Also, I feel like a bit of tool for putting out a comic that tells people to get
vaccinated. I originally also included a part of this comic that urged Biden to support issuing a patent waiver on the vaccine, but he went and did it before I was able to put this comic out. I am glad
that he did, but man, Biden is proving hard for me to criticize and I have always taken pride in criticizing whoever is in power. I am fully vaccinated myself(it was easy for me, since I work at a retail
establishment with a pharmacy.), and I hope everyone else gets vaccinated too so that we can all return to normal soon. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 7th 2021:
Issues 591 and 592 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 378 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Remaking Rick and Johns house reminded me that I have amassed quite a collection of 3D assets over
the years. It took me some time to track down all the models I used in the original set. I was considering writing in that they did some redecorating before I managed to find everything Stay tuned, more
to come.
April 30th 2021:
Issues 589 and 590 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 377 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Universe 218 has appeared occasionally since the start of the 565 story arc began, but tonight
marks the official return of Universe 218. Now, Universe 218 will appear more regularly. Part of me thinks that I should have drawn out the return of Universe 218. I did make a huge point out of John
quitting, and it would have been better for the story if he had to work harder to make a come back. Still, that is not really what this story arc is about. This is just a convoluted way to explain why
the art style changed and to give me leeway to not recreate all of my characters and sets perfectly. I never imagined when I started this that it would take nearly 100 issues to finish this arc. It is
still surreal to me that I have done that many issues in such a short span of time. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 23rd 2021:
Issues 587 and 588 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 376 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. The two issues of Rick were produced together with the issues posted to the site last week,
however, this issue of Con was completed earlier tonight. I got a new idea for the next story arc of Con Nachzehrer and decided to completely scrap what I had done before. So, I opted to do a different
issue from last week. Production was a little hectic, due to growing pains. I run DAZ Studio in VMware now, which runs better. Additionally I am now using version 2.10 of GIMP, so it is a little
different. The next story arc of Con deals with Covid, which is why I decided to go ahead and do it instead of what I had planned initially. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 16th 2021:
Issues 585 and 586 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 375 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. These three issues were produced together with the three comics to be released next week. I did a
double production week because I am building a new computer. I wanted time to get it all set up. On another note, this marks the end of the current story arc for Con Nachzehrer. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 9th 2021:
Issues 583 and 584 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 374 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Issue 374 of Con Nachzehrer reveals the cause of the cosmic anomaly. Issue 583 of Rick I am
unsure of. I originally wanted to do a more straight forward issue about gun control, but I also wanted to do an issue about Caniglia v Strom. Eventually I decided to do an issue about Caniglia v
Strom that was also about gun control in general. My problem with Republicans is that they have become outright authoritarians who do not want our government to function at all. My problem with
Democrats, and the problem I had with both the Obama and Bush administrations is that they are rushing to fix issues that we need to address without weighing the constitutional implications. We need
to have a functioning government and we need to address some issues, but we also need to do so in a way that upholds the constitution. To me, that is the more insidious threat to rule of law. We have
one party that is deliberately attempting to destroy rule of law and another party that is inadvertently harming it. Personally, I think the latter proceeding and help lead to the former. Stay tuned,
more to come.
April 2nd 2021:
Issues 581 and 582 of Rick, the Crytozoologist and Issue 373 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Production on these issues ran late. This is because I had to make six characters. There was also
a bit of a mental block when creating the characters since I was recreating them. Recreating them in 3D is difficult, especially so for monsters. I like the way Rabanus and Myrsina turned out. I
thought I got pretty close. Corbin is different, but in ways I like and I already wrote in an excuse to change the design. The designs for Thormond and Desma I really do not care for. I may yet tweak
them given that Desma does not appear at all in this issue and Thormond only appears from a distance. I already rendered next weeks issue, but I always could re-render it with new figures if needed. I
also need to finish writing the next issue of Con Nachzehrer given that it debuts in a few weeks. I have started on it, but only barely. This would be the first time in years I have not written the
story arc for Con before I began posting it. (Although I did heavily edit the current story arc, and I typically edit the story arcs for Con as they post.) Stay tuned, more to come.
March 26th 2021:
Issues 579 and 580 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 372 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. I have a bit of news to share tonight: the 565 story arc will be ending on May 14th and starting
on May 21st Rick, the Cryptozoologist will return to a once weekly release schedule. A production note on Rick Issue 580, I always wanted to circle back to Issue 500 and incorporate it into the 565
storyline. The way I did it was a little different than what I first imagined though. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 19th 2021:
Issues 577 and 578 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 371 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Issue 577 is my take on the filibuster. I have been deliberately avoiding mentioning the
filibuster. This is because I wanted to make sure to do a nuanced take on it. My ethos with the site is that I would rather delay making a comic in order to get the subject right than discuss the issue
sooner and get it wrong. I only do one issue a week, which means that I have to be very selective about the issues I put into the comic. The advantage of this is that I can wait. The disadvantage, of
course, is that sometimes I never discuss important issues. Even the filibuster issue seems a bit late, since Biden and Manchin have already turned on it. I also like the Biden era better so far
because Trump was so outrageous I had to be topical, to criticize the issue of the week. I did not have the luxury of waiting as I do with Biden. The comics this week were delayed in production by last
weeks Grand Special. As I mentioned last week, I will post the production notes on the Grand Special this week. I waited so as not to spoil the surprise of the first official crossover between Rick,
the Cryptozoologist and Con Nachzehrer. I have been wanting to cross the two over pretty much since Rick returned in 2016. I first thought about Rick and Con doing a special on Trump. I decided
however, that I should save the crossover for something special. I thought that might be the 15 or 20 year anniversary of the site. At first, I was thinking that the 2 comics took place on planets in
the same universe. The main reason I wanted them in different places is because Rick makes more sense if monsters do not exist. Eventually I settled on a multiverse idea. Probably because multiverses
have become common in fiction in the past few years, and the concept has always fascinated me. The current story of Con Nachzehrer involves multiversal shenanigans specifically to set up a crossover.
Originally the idea was that Rick would meet Slewfoot and his father. Everything changed when I lost my hardrive. I introduced the multiverse to Rick as a means of covering up why the character designs
changed, and so I realized that would be a better path to take to create the crossover. I was and am very disappointed that the crossover happened so early. All the extra issues I did due to the 2020
election really messed up my plans for both Issue 500 of Rick and the Grand Special. I have had to do a lot of extra issues, and big event comics all in a short span of time. I was really hoping I
could finish the Universe 565 plot before the crossover. Unfortunately it did not work out that way. The silver lining is that the Grand Special worked into the plot perfectly and it helped the story
come together. I always had a vague idea of how I wanted the 565 plot to go, and I always knew the ending, but the Grand Special helped to bring the rest of the plot into focus for me. I am glad to
have it behind me though. I am behind on the projects I have that do not post immediately to the site, including the writing of the next story arc of Con Nachzehrer. I try to do that in late January
or early February. Honestly, part of me thinks I overdid the Grand Special a bit in length, but I thought the first crossover between the 2 comics should be something really spectacular. The production
of the art itself was also a nightmare. There were so many characters and sets to make. I did get lucky in that I found a few sets that survived my hardrive failure. Basically when I did the comic
Ostraka, it had a separate drive, so all those characters and sets survived. It turned out, I used Cons house in that comic, along with the school. That is also why Therese survived, because she began
in Ostraka. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 12th 2021:
Issue 574 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 370 of Con Nachzehrer have been released, along with the Grand Special. It occurs to me that this blurb occurs before the comic on the site, so I will
save most of my production notes on the Grand Special for next week. I will say that the Grand Special was a pain, and I was procrastinating on it all week because I knew it would be a pain. I was
afraid I would not get it done on time, and I only finished it about 4 hours ago. It is an idea I have been contemplating for a while, but wanted to save for something special. Tonight marks 1000
issues posted to this site. That is something which is completely surreal to me. A note on Rick Issue 574, it is based partly on a real conversation I had recently, because most of my creative energy
went into the Grand Special, so I needed something easy to write. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 5th 2021:
Issues 572 and 573 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 367 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. I tend to be averse to hyping things, I prefer instead to just surprise people. Nevertheless, I w
ill say that a comic will be releasing on this site next week which is very special. It will be the longest comic I have ever released. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 26th 2021:
Issues 570 and 571 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 366 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. This week I am rolling out a brand new code for the Rick, the Cryptozoologist archives. The
biggest feature change to the archives is that it now sorts the characters by the universe they appear in. Additionally, the character tally is broken down by universe. I meant to roll out this feature
change weeks ago, but I discovered 2 bugs in my old code. One of which I was able to fix, and one of which I was not. In light of this, I decided to completely redo the code for the archives from
scratch. I was dragging my feet on this, due to the fact that it hurt my ego a bit to have found the bugs and not be able to fix one of them. I also discovered there is some basic Javascript knowledge I
did not possess which would have made some of my coding easier. Anyway, the massive snow storm hit, and I was forced to call in to work for a few days(for the first time due to weather.). Having this
extra time off finally gave me the time to sit down and redo the code. It manages to do what the old code did and more with far fewer lines of code, I hope it has turned out well. Stay tuned, more to
come.
February 19th 2021:
Issues 568 and 569 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 365 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 12th 2021:
Issues 566 and 567 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 364 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 5th 2021:
Issues 564 and 565 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 363 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Issue 565 of Rick introduces another alternate universe. Now that Biden is in office and I have
had my vacation, I am going to explain how the Rick multiverse came to be. To facilitate this, Rick will temporarily be twice weekly. I am not sure for how long, but by the end of this run, the
multiverse will be explained. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 29th 2021:
Issues 563 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 361 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These 2 issues were done with all the regular issues released over the past 2 weeks on the site. That is
because I was on vacation last week. I opted to do a pro Democracy reform issue as kind of a breather from the Trump presidency before I go back to heady topics. Unfortunately, it looks like that will
be talking about impeachment. I am still a little attached to the idea I had when I started Rick, the Cryptozoologist that I would criticize both parties. The Republican Party was not openly anti
Democracy back then though, and if they continue, I will probably ignore Biden to keep going after them. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 22nd 2021:
Issues 562 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 361 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These issues were produced together with the
regular issues of both comics from next week and last week. That is because I am on vacation this week. I only worked one day of my vacation
on the site to produce extra issues about the capitol riots. I actually wrote this issue of Rick before the election. I had to tweak it a
little after Trump got banned from Twitter. I am glad that the Trump presidency is over. (An update from my post last week, I found a decent
video card, and good monitors. I even have some of my stimulus money left over.) Stay tuned, more to come.
January 15th 2021:
Rick Issues 557-561 and Con Nachzehrer Issues 360 have all been released. I was due to take a production break, so issue 557 of Rick and
Issue 360 of Con were made together with the regular updates due to be posted on the site for the next two weeks. I am also off work, so it is
tough for me to work on the comic during this production break, especially after doing 69 comics in a 2 month period. Still, fully taking a
break is unthinkable to me with what has happened last week. I also wonder if I should not have done Issues 559 and Issue 562 of Rick.
Especially Issue 562, given that I do not have a stance, it is merely me expressing reservations about something. Still, I have always been
concerned by government overreach in a time of crisis, so I feel obligated to address the fact that I want the government to strike the
balance between civil liberties and dealing with this possible insurgency that it typically struggles to achieve. Also, Issue 561 is inspired b
y my real struggles to get a video card. (In real life I want it for the sake of my comics, especially since I use the Eevee render engine now
and it is heavily reliant on gpu strength.) I have had mine since Bush was in office, I think. I have upgraded my computer many times, but
never my video card. That card has served admirably and in several computers, it is time to send it to Valhalla. Stay tuned, more to come.
Jnauary 8th 2021:
Rick issues 552-556 and Con Nachzehrer Issue 359 have all been released. Issue 552 of Rick and Issue 360 of Con Nachzehrer were done back in
December to facilitate my Christmas production break. The other issues of Rick were done yesterday about the despicable riot at the US
capitol. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 6th 2021(2):
Rick Issues 549-551 have all been released. These are extra issues about the shameful riots which took place at the US capitol today. Stay
tuned, more to come.
January 6th 2021:
Rick Issues 545-548 have all been released. These are extra issues about the counting of the electoral votes that will take place today, and
also about all the chaos and protests surrounding that vote. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 2nd 2021:
Rick Issues 542-544 have all been released. These are more extra comics about the ongoing refusal of Republicans to acknowledge Trump lost as
we head into the official vote count on January 6th.. Issue 543 introduces the Universe 491 counterpart to Lillian, who is a Ningen themed
magical girl. This is a concept I have been toying with for some time. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 1st 2021:
Issue 541 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 358 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These issues were produced together with the
comics that were released last week and the ones which will be released next week. (Except for Rick Issues 538-540, which were extra issues.)
I am taking a production break(Barring extra issues over the ongoing attempts by Republicans to overturn the election.). This week criticizes
Joe Biden again. I take issue with Lloyd Austin because he has not been out of the military long enough. I had some reservations with Mattis,
but I ultimately was mostly ok with Mattis in the hopes he could check Trump. I think right now we really need to be strict about and rebuild
our shattered democratic norms. Stay tuned, more to come.
Dcember 29th 2020:
Rick Issues 538-540 have been released. I really struggled getting these issues done. I am supposed to be on a production break, but I think
what the Republicans are doing is completely disgraceful. I decided that I would not make comics on Christmas or New Years proper, but any
other day of my break is fair game. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 25th 2020:
Issue 537 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 357 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These issues were produced together with the
comics that will be released next week and the week after. That is because I am taking a production break, as I customarily do around
Christmas and New Years. Typically I take this break to spend time with family, but with Covid, I will be taking this break to recharge. I
can, at least, adhere to two of my traditions, a Godzilla marathon for Christmas, and a Twilight Zone(Original Series) Marathon for New Years.
I somehow got a three day weekend on Christmas week, so I intend to relax at least. I did not have my usual Thanksgiving break, and while not
being a supervisor anymore, this year has been better at my work than most holidays, I did do 40 comics is November, so I need to recharge. I
also had to contend with a elderly relative of mine who is having health issues not related to Covid. I am ready to be done with this dumpster
fire of a year and I hope that 2021 is better for us all. This weeks issue of Rick makes fun of the left. I do not do many issues poking fun
at my own, but there are things I do not like about liberals. In this case, it is not their policies so much as how they promote them. I think
this contributes to the rise of Trumpism because it plays right into how Trumpism portrays the left. A major facet of Trumpism is that the
left is so horrible they should be stopped at any cost. Maybe with Biden taking office, I will criticize the left more. I actually have one
about political correctness I have been saving for when things are a bit less chaotic. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 18th 2020:
Rick Issue 536 and Con Issue 356 have both been released. This issue of Rick is special because it is the first issue to criticize President
Elect Joe Biden. In ordinary circumstances, I would have made a comic about Biden earlier. I decided to lay off of Biden because of Trump. In
2012, I was criticizing Obama during the early phases of the election. The first iteration of Rick ended in August, however, so I cannot say
what I would have done as November edged closer. I feel somewhat conflicted on criticizing Biden because of what the Republican Party has
become. I do not want to romanticize the old Republican Party. It had many issues, they had their obstructionism games, and we went after
Republicans a lot. We had 71 comics criticizing conservatives compared to 60 comics criticizing Obama in the first iteration of the comic.
The comic has always been liberal and our comics went after Obama from his left flank. I would never pretend to be neutral, or act like the
comic is not liberal, still I originally wanted to criticize everyone. I have a distrust of those any power, even if they agree with me. Like
I said, the current Republican Party and my opinion that they have abandoned Democracy makes me question that belief. I am not really less
liberal than when I began this comic, I consider myself more reasonable though. I do not believe in American Exceptionalism, but I am glad
that Joe Biden does. I am glad Barack Obama and George Bush do. That is a good attribute for a president to have. I think that people on the
ends of the political spectrum have invaluable roles as academics and advisors, but it seems to me that centrists should be running the
country. Good governance consists of making an attempt to unite everyone and taking care of the boring things. I am not sure the upper
echelons of government really need radicals on either the right or the left. Of course, I freely admit, my definition of radical might depart
from what others believe it to be. Both in that I think some left wing ideas are far less radical than they are portrayed, and that some of
the mainstream right wing ideas are far more radical than people acknowledge. For now, I am going to make some comics against Biden. I may
pull back based on what Republicans do. I have always maintained that I would criticize Democrats much more if the Republicans would tack more
closely to the center rather than going to the far right. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 11th 2020:
Rick Issues 532-535 and Con Issue 355 have all been released. Rick Issue 532 and Con Issue 355 were mostly done last week and then lettered
yesterday, as is my usual production schedule. Issues 533-535 were done at the last minute, finished roughly an hour before they were posted,
and made entirely- written, animated, and lettered-in the 2 or 3 hours before that. I was slow on the draw for this one, mostly because I am s
till worn out from doing 40 comics in November. I have been very lazy these past 2 weeks, even if I have been hitting my deadlines. I was
happy that I was able to do nothing for Thanksgiving, and I have been writing idea issues so I can do nothing on Christmas, too. I am planning
on doing 3 issues each of both of my comics so I can potentially to a break from doing comics for the rest of the year. The comics in the next
few weeks will actually feature a couple which criticize Biden and progressives. I will not get with my family on Christmas because of Covid,
but I can indulge in one of my Christmas traditions: watching Godzilla movies. I am excited about that and the prospect of having some time
off from the site, especially given this dumpster fire of year. I stopped doing extra comics because states were certifying their votes and
Trump was losing in court. The egregiousness of this new lawsuit, and the fact that I have not yet criticized it convinced me to do more extra
comics. There may be more extra comics depending on how things go. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 4th 2020:
Rick Issue 531 and Con Issue 354 have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 27th 2020:
Rick Issue 530 and Con Issue 353 have both been released. Given that the coup attempt by Trump seems to be effectively over, Rick will be
reverting to its normal once weekly schedule. If Trump does any more crazy things during the transition, I will post extra issues as needed,
however. This issue of Rick is a bit depressing, dealing with Thanksgiving. I meant to post it as solidarity with those who skipped
Thanksgiving, but I think it just comes off as complaining. The way Owen describes his Thanksgiving is basically how I spent mine this year.
Except my mother brought me Thanksgiving food, and I did sleep a lot. I did 40 issues of Rick in November, so I feel worn out. Stay tuned,
more to come.
November 23rd 2020:
Rick Issues 527-529 have been released. I was up a bit later than I wanted to be making these issues. I had to make the alternate reality
design for Jane, for starters. I also had to run some groceries to my grandmother. She is in ill health and gets her food delivered, but her
grocery store is having trouble keeping things in stock. I try to help out where I can. Issue 528 takes a shot at progressives. As liberal as
I am, there are things that my side does which I do not care for. Given how much I detest Trump, and how dangerous he and Republicans are to
our constitution, I have not mocked progressives that much in recent years. I intend to change that once Biden takes office, and I intend to
criticize Biden too, because my main philosophy is that those in power deserve criticism. Still, I do not think Trump is going away, and I
think Republicans will continue their authoritarian streak. It may be difficult for me to criticize Biden when I see the other side as more
harmful. I may do what I did in Issue 528 and what I did frequently during the Obama era and just make fun of everyone all at once. I have not
quite figured out how I am going to approach the Biden years just yet. I suppose it depends much on what Trump and the Republicans do, as well
as what Biden does. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 20th 2020:
Issues 518-521 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist have been released. These are more issues relating to the misinformation Trump is spreading about
the election. Some of these issues would have been released sooner, were it not for the fact that doing so many comics is starting to wear me
out. I am at the point where I pretty much always have a low level headache and I feel tired. I have done more comics this month than I did in
all of either 2009 or 2016. Both of those were partial years, but that still is a lot of comics. I was also frustrated this week because my
phone broke. It had a swollen battery a few weeks ago and I replaced it myself. I replaced it out of a determination to not get a new phone
because I think it is environmentally wasteful. It turns out that I probably broke my phone in the process and now I am getting a new one
anyway. I really struggled with the issue about Christoper Krebs, but I think what Trump did is so egregious, I wanted to make a comic about
it. I want to keep making comics about this issue though, because I think what Trump is doing is very damaging to our republic. Stay tuned,
more to come.
November 18th 2020:
Issues 518-521 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist have been released. These are more issues relating to the misinformation Trump is spreading about
the election. Some of these issues would have been released sooner, were it not for the fact that doing so many comics is starting to wear me
out. I am at the point where I pretty much always have a low level headache and I feel tired. I have done more comics this month than I did in
all of either 2009 or 2016. Both of those were partial years, but that still is a lot of comics. I was also frustrated this week because my
phone broke. It had a swollen battery a few weeks ago and I replaced it myself. I replaced it out of a determination to not get a new phone
because I think it is environmentally wasteful. It turns out that I probably broke my phone in the process and now I am getting a new one
anyway. I really struggled with the issue about Christoper Krebs, but I think what Trump did is so egregious, I wanted to make a comic about
it. I want to keep making comics about this issue though, because I think what Trump is doing is very damaging to our republic. Stay tuned,
more to come.
November 15th 2020:
Issues 513-517 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist have been released. Issue 513 is to celebrate the 4th anniversary of the return of Rick. Issues
514-517 are more issues about the continuing efforts of Trump and his allies to delegitimatize a fair election. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 13th 2020:
Issues 509-512 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 351 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Admittedly, I wrote this issue of Con
Nachzehrer as a stalling tactic so that I could continue to post issues of Rick. Con Nachzehrer is always getting the shaft, and it never
gets special or extra issues. Part of me feels bad about that, but Con Nachzehrer is a completely different beast from Rick. The release
schedule for Rick will remain at least one each Friday, with extra issues as I feel it is appropriate. There will be at least one extra
issue of Rick this week on November 15th to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the return of Rick from its long hiatus, and the debut of
its second iteration. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 11th 2020:
Issues 506-508 of Rick, the Cryptologist have been released. Issue 508 is semi autobiographical, in that I did just pass out on my couch on
Monday night. I did not plan to release any comics that night, but I also did not do anything else I had planned to do. These comics would
have been released about 12 hours earlier had I not gone to bed early last night. All I have done in the past week is work and make comics. I
wrote most of the extra issues on my phone on my breaks, which is not ideal, but it works. I am deeply dismayed by this attempt to
delegitimatize a fair election. To me, it is not about whether or not Trump will succeed. He is damaging the republic, and so are his
Republican enablers. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 9th 2020:
Issues 504 and 505 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist have been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 8th 2020:
Issues 499-503 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist have been released. I actually did Issues 499 and 501-502 last night. I wanted to release comics
last night. It took me longer to do Issue 500 because I wanted to make it special, and I wanted to follow the tradition of milestone issues
being apolitical. I wrote the 500th issue a while ago and I wanted to make what I wrote. It seems odd to celebrate the 500th issue while all
this is going on, but there it is. With my hardrive catastrophe and the fact I had to return to work, that was difficult to make it. I have
no idea what the release schedule for the comic will be in the coming months. There will always be a new comic on Friday. Anything else
depends both on how things progress and my ability to keep pumping out comics. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 6th 2020:
Issues 494-498 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 350 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. I opted to release 4 extra issues in
light of the attempts by Trump and his Republican allies to undermine the election. Issue 494 of Rick and Issue 350 of Con were stitched
together from previous issues of comics. That is because of my great hardrive failure. This was the worst possible time to lose all of my
characters and sets, seeing as I may be doing many extra issues of Rick in the coming days and weeks, depending on how chaotic things become.
With me losing all of my 3D sets and characters, I have introduced a multiverse storyline to Rick. This is to explain why the characters in
the main universe may be different. Hopefully it turns out ok. I am slightly dubious about it, because Rick does not really lend itself well
to multiversal hijinks. Hopefully my plan turns out well. I do not intend to explain the multiverse until after the inauguration at the
earliest. Con Nachzehrer will have another explanation for the art shift. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 4th 2020:
These are a bunch of comics in reaction to Trumps recent speech. I skipped work to make these comics in case this happened. I introduced an
alternate universe for Rick because I lost all my sets and characters. There is no evidence of voter fraud and there are ballots that have
been legitimately cast which must be counted. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 31st 2020:
The 2020 Halloween Special of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This was the last issue produced before I lost all of my 3D
characters and sets. I am making plans for how the comics will go forward, in light of this development. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 30th 2020:
Issues 488 and 489 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 349 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. This was, without a doubt, the worst
week of production I have ever had on the comics. The reason for this is that the hardrive containing all the sets and characters for the
comic died. I am not as good at backing things up as I should be, and I lost the back up I did have of the characters. That means I lost
everything. I lost both the characters and the sets. I will have to start all over from scratch. The issues I posted tonight were mostly done
and I lost all the work on them. Therefore, I had to complete these issues by reusing art from old comics. They are not good as a result and I
apologize for the lack of quality. I apologize for my negligence in not backing up my files. I am determined to keep the comics going without
a hiatus. I did not do well in posting updates early on in the history of the site and I have vowed not to miss updates again, as much as that
is possible. The characters and sets may undergo changes. I have plans for how to address the change within both comics. I am particularly
disappointed in Rick 488. I really liked the first version of the comic, which is now lost forever. I also had to rewrite the issue a little
bit. Originally it featured Dayton instead of Owen and had Rick as the moderator. The Beast of Bodmin Kid also came in at the very end. There
will be a Halloween Special of Rick this year, and it was finished before I lost my hardrive. This is a very 2020 thing to happen, but as I
have stated, I will continue to post updates. I will rebuilt all that I lost. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 23rd 2020:
Issues 486 and 487 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 348 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. A fun fact about both issues of Rick
this week: both of them were rewritten. Issue 486 was rewritten entirely. The first version of it was an entirely different comic. I thought
it was too vulgar, especially for something like encouraging people to vote, so I scrapped the first version. The first version of Issue 487
was basically the same concept as the version that was released, I just was not satisfied with my first attempt at the script. Stay tuned,
more to come.
October 16th 2020:
Issues 484 and 485 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 347 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Production went slightly better this
week than it did last week. I am a bit of a numbers nerd, so I looked it up(partly as a way of justifying my own exhaustion) I have already
done nearly as many issues of Rick this year as I have in years past. I have posted 61 issues of Rick this year so far, that is one more than
I released for the whole of 2018 and only one behind the number of Rick comics I made in 2019. Next week should cause 2020 to pass 2019 and
tie 2011 for 3rd place when it comes to the most comics posted within a year. By the end of the month, 2020 should beat 2012 second place for
the most comics of Rick released in a single year, being behind only 2017, which holds 1st by 3 issues over 2012. By the beginning of
December, 2020 should be in 1st place. Of course, a lot of this is up in the air. I guarantee only 1 issue of Rick a week. Even so, 2020
should beat 2017, but I am not sure how the rest of the year will go. It may be hard to post comics if the United States becomes a failed
state. I hope that 2020 does beat 2017 and not by a wide margin, because if it is a wide margin, it will be because the 2020 election is a
clusterfuck that caused me to decide to post many extra issues. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 9th 2020:
Issues 482 and 483 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 346 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. This week continues my recent trend
of going late with production. That being said, the comics were on time and I even managed to complete the 2020 Halloween Special for Rick the
Cryptozoologist. Issue 482 is an idea comic and an issue of Rick I have had for a couple of months. Issue 483 deals with Donald Trump having
Coronavirus. I have had many discussions with my liberal friends and family about how much or how little we should gloat over the president
getting the virus. My stance has generally been that it is bad for the country for our top leadership to be in the epicenter of an outbreak.
As much as I detest Trump, I do not wish this terrible illness on anyone. I had planned to release what is going to be issue 484 next week
this week. Issue 484 deals with Obamacare and also takes a pro choice stance. My plan was not to mention Trump at all with these updates. As
a wannabe satirist I do not really have any obligation to be tasteful, but, seeing that I have savaged Trump for his lack of civility, I was
going to refrain from mentioning him at all for now. My mind was swayed when he put at risk his own secret service detail for a photo op. To
me, that was beyond the pail and one of the most despicable things Trump has ever done. Moreover, the inability of Trump to quarantine
demonstrates perfectly why Trump is unfit for office. It is a flagrant disregard for science. More than that, it is a rejection of reality.
My opinion(I have no formal training in psychology) is that Trump is grandstanding about the virus because he is mentally incapable of
acknowledging he was wrong or that his mortality was threatened. Trump is incapable of doing that, so he has to brag about how he is a perfect
physical specimen. A sizable portion of the country is playing the role of enabler in the delusions of grandeur held by the president instead
of providing what he desperately needs: an intervention. Even Donald Trump Jr. can see that his father needs mental help. Trump should be
evaluated by a mental health professional. Moreover, Trump fails to understand that he has fared so well against the disease because of his
privilege as a wealthy man and as the president of the United States. While we do not know the details of Trumps illness, the evidence we
have suggests that it was quite severe. Trump received access to treatments that the average American does not have. Instead of acknowledging
that, he purports to be superhuman. I would argue that his access to top medical care likely has as much to do with his recovery as anything
else. Particularly given that Trump is not physically fit and his obesity coupled with his age put him in a high risk category. Lastly, I
would like to point out that violating quarantine is a criminal act in most jurisdictions. I know in my home state of Missouri, breaking
quarantine is a crime that can be prosecuted. It varies from state to state, but in the case of any other person, law enforcement might be
empowered to forcibly detain someone who violated their quarantine. They can take no such action with Donald Trump. On paper, our president
is not above the law, but in practice it is a very different story. I think we ought to take legal steps to remedy the immense power of the
presidency, but regardless, the nature of the position means that office will always be vested with great power. Therefore, we should select o
nly the most responsible people with the greatest moral integrity to that esteemed position. Trump has demonstrated, by failing to abide by
basic safety precautions rooted in common sense and empirical evidence, that he lacks any such qualities required by his office. Donald Trump
is a vile narcissist who suffers from delusions of grandeur, he has been a disaster for our country, and it is my sincere hope that he loses
by a landslide on November 4th. Stay tuned, more to come.
Octoer 2nd 2020:
Issues 480 and 481 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 345 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. This was another tough week of
production for me. That is partially due to it to the extra comics, and partially due to a side project I am working on. I should, if all goes
to plan, be done with my side project by next week. So, hopefully production will get easier again. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 25th 2020:
Issues 478 and 479 of Rick, the Cryptologist and Issue 344 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. This week of production was rough,
partly because I did the extra issue about the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It is silly to say, given that this comic is practically read by
no one and is just my hobby, but I find myself worn out by all the extra issues I have done this year. This has also been a bad year for me,
as it has been for many of us, both personally and because of what is occurring in our country. So I am feeling drained. On the plus side, I
canceled a vacation I was due to take in October because I got quarantined at the end of August. That means I will be better able to make
extra issues of the comic if I think it is merited. I would almost guarantee that I will think it is merited. The only reason I am not just
outright making the comic twice weekly until after the election is over is because I am not sure I could keep that commitment. As for issue
479 in particular, I have concerns about it. It is a bit tasteless, but I like the type of humor that pushes the boundaries of good taste. I
am disappointed that kind of humor has fallen out of favor. In my personal life, sometimes I get accused of being insensitive because I tend
to make jokes about tragic situations. I mean no disrespect, that is just how I cope, and I think a lot of people are that way. When I first
began the comic, I really wanted to be a provocateur. My intention was to be offensive and I regret some of the early Rick comics as a result.
Now I do not explicitly seek to be offensive, but I also do not pull my punches. I am not afraid to be provocative. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 18th 2020:
Issue 477 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 343 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 11th 2020:
Issue 476 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 342 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These two issues were produced together with
the issues posted to the site last week because I had unexpectedly had to quarantine. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 4th 2020:
Issue 475 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 341 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These two issues were produced together with
the issues that will be posted to the site next week. The reason for this is that I was unexpectedly forced to quarantine by my work. Not to
get too graphic, but basically I had diarrhea and they forced me to go home. It was for ten days. The issue of Rick this week was loosely
based on my experience. I told them my symptoms at my daily health screening, and they sent me home. It was an odd experience. I was planning
on taking time off in October which I now plan to cancel, so I hastily put together two issues of Rick and two issues of Con so that I could
take some time off. Hopefully there is no drop in quality because of the change in plans. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 28th 2020:
Issue 474 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 340 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned. More to come.
August 21st 2020:
Issue 473 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 339 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 14th 2020:
Issues 471 and 472 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 338 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. I decided to do an extra issue this
week because I find the executive actions Trump signed to be particularly egregious. They strike me as a classic authoritarian move. The
executive orders are flagrantly unconstitutional and aim to solve real problems so that it is difficult for people to oppose them. The extra
issue was made two days ago as a last minute decision. The other issues were created at their normal time, and production was a bit difficult.
Not only did I have to design a new character, but I had a bad day at work the day before, so I felt lazy. I am working on a project outside
of the site and I had a challenging week there as well. I actually had to work on the project during my off day from both work and my
creative projects. Production this week has gone much more smoothly thus far. This issue also introduces a new character. Part of me thinks
Rick has too many characters already. On the other hand, I have long wanted to do an issue where actual Cryptozoologists take issue with Rick.
I am not sure what to do with this new character or how often she will appear. It might be a one off thing, although she does appear in next
weeks issue. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 7th 2020:
Issue 470 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 337 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 31st 2020:
Issue 469 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 336 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. The issue of Con this week was challenging
because of the second head. It took me a little while to figure out how to pull it off. I might have gone back and fix how the head is
deformed, except that I think it fits. Part of me thinks I went too far with both how Mr. Lewis is depressed, and the body horror of suddenly
having a head pop out of his abdomen. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 29th 2020:
Issue 468 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This issue is to celebrate the 11th anniversary of the debut of Rick. My original
idea for this comic no longer worked, as it related to a storyline I had to put on hold due to the pandemic. This is what I came up with as
far as a apolitical comic that is relevant to this current moment. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 24th 2020:
Issue 467 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 335 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. The archive page for Rick has been updated.
Basically, now the archives will list characters or subjects that appear or are the subject in the comic first in the archive pages. Generally
I save site updates for important anniversaries, but this update I have just been introducing gradually. There are a few other features I
want to introduce to the archive page, but I am not sure when they will be ready. I am preparing to start a new project, so if I cannot
finish the planned updates before next week, then it will be sometime in the fall. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 17th 2020:
Issues 466 of Rick the Cryptozoologist and Issue 334 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These two comics were produced together with
the comics from last week. I produced them together because it was easier with some schedule changes I am experiencing in regards to my job.
The issue of Rick this week covers capital punishment. Given that I had to make this issue ahead of time, I required a topic that was not so
topical. Given what is going on with capital punishment at the federal level, I chose the death penalty. The issue of Con this week introduces
a version of Kolman from an alternate reality. This version of Kolman is a detective. I picked this vocation for Kolman in reference to old
Con Nachzehrer stories I conceived as a child. My brother and I crated Con Nachzehrer as children. I made countless Con stories as a child
without ever writing them down. I basically made these stories my backstory for the current comic. That is partly why the comic mainly focuses
on Kolman. My original stories were about Con. In the stories, Con eventually starts a family, and then over time the focus of the stories
shifted to Kolman. Anyway, in these old stories, Kolman becomes a child detective. I decided not to use this plot line in the comic. The only
things that are canon are what appears in the comic itself. I have a backstory for my characters, but I will sometimes tweak the backstory as
long as it has not previously been revealed in an issue of the comic I am working on. There are many things from my original Con stories I
changed when I made the Webcomic. Kolman being a kid detective is not canon, but I added Slewfoot as a reference to that old rejected plot
point. Also, the bowler hat for Slewfoot is just because I wanted Slewfoot to have a hat, and I happened to have that hat in my library of 3D
assets. I wanted to purchase a new hat. Alas, my recent demotion came with a pay cut, so I have to be more frugal with my funds. I do still
have some money set aside for the comic, but I have to stretch it indefinitely, so I am hesitant to use it. Luckily, I make a habit of
snatching up any free DAZ 3D models I can, so I have a lot of 3D assets to spare. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 10th 2020:
Issue 465 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 333 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Starting today, the release time for the sites
comics has moved up to 2am on Friday morning. I did not announce this change last week partly because the comic is moving to an earlier time.
It is not like it would be late. Anyone who looks for the comic at its usual time will find it. I also did not announce the change because the
reasons for it are rather abrupt. I have stepped down from my supervisor position at my job and I am now in a non supervisory role. It was my
choice to step down, but my bosses did push through the change very quickly, within a week. That is telling about what my work situation was.
Anyway, my new position comes with a new schedule and hence the reason for the release time change. The comics this week were also produced
together with the comics to be released next week. I am adjusting to a completely new sleep schedule and the way my new days off fell, it sort
of eliminated a comic working day, so I decided to produce extra comics to cover the change. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 3rd 2020:
Issue 464 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 332 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 26th 2020:
Issues 462 and 463 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 331 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Issue 463 of Rick criticizes a liberal
position, which is a bit rare for me. The issue deals with how protesters are taking down statues of historical figures considered as racists.
I am not terribly fond of the practice of removing statues. First, let me clarify that I do not take much issue with statues to confederate
leaders being removed. Those statues were erected for propagandistic purposes. The figures glorified by those statues do not have much a
historical legacy other than attempting to advance a racist and morally repugnant cause. Likewise, I take little issue with statues of
Christopher Columbus being taking down. George Washington, Winston Churchill, and Ulysses S. Grant I have much more of a problem with,
however. I know that each of those leaders held views which were problematic. I have long despised the way we are taught about the founding
fathers and other historical figures in America. They are portrayed as unambiguously good and infallible superheroes. I take issue with
portraying history in that manner. I think that we should be more willing to acknowledge the flaws of historical figures that we idolize. On
the other hand, I do not think they should be written off entirely. We should take a realistic view of historic events and not go to the
other extreme by portraying historical figures as simplistic, self interested villains. Human beings are complicated and contradictory
creatures, neither wholly good or wholly evil. Our history and our greatest leaders reflect this basic truth. Washington was not perfect, nor
should he be presented as a perfect human being, still, he advanced liberal values that are precious to me. He might not have been progressive
by our modern standards, but he paved the way for further progress to be made. We must acknowledge that progress does not come easy, and it
takes often takes painful centuries of work to complete. Naturally, our Republic had to begin somewhere, it had to go through stages of
progress, and it is easy to look back from our modern era and find that what came before is inadequate. That is the essence of progress. We
should celebrate that our country is more fair than today than it was at its founding. Still, we must not forget that the intermediate phase,
wherein only one class of people could vote, was a necessary phase of our Democratic experiment. Without it, we would not have gotten to the
place we are today as a society. It is impossible to go from a monarchy to a modern constitutional republic with universal suffrage in one
single step. I think that we ought to consider the time period these figures were from when we judge them. We should consider whether or not
their overall contribution to history is good or bad, taking into consideration all of the positives and all of the negatives. In some ways I
am not sure whether any human being is good enough to have a statue erected of them at all. Nonetheless, we do have statues of these people,
and we ought to be more careful before we vilify figures who, while they might have been flawed, stand on the right side of history overall. I
did not touch upon this in the issue in the comic, but I likewise take issue with the idea of censoring problematic works from the past, like
Gone With the Wind. I have no issues with leaving it up while including additional context(As HBO is doing), but it troubles me that there
are some people who would remove problematic works entirely. Again, I think the overall intent of the work should be considered. If a work is
intended strictly as propaganda, then perhaps it ought to be removed from circulation. I do however, think we should be free to study works
like Gone With the Wind and look at their cultural impacts while separating the racism of the work from other aspects of it. We ought to have
the intellectual capacity to study problematic works of art in this manner. The censorship issue also bothers me because works like
Huckleberry Finn or To Kill a Mockingbird sometimes get thrown up as texts which should be banned for racism. Perhaps there are parts of
those works that are troublesome, still, the overall message of those texts are anti racist. Once you begin censoring artistic works, it is
easy to get carried away with it. I question where the censorship ends once it begins. I can scarcely think of a single piece of classical
literature that does not have some viewpoint which is problematic by modern standards. In spite of that, works of classical literature are
still important and should be studied. Part of me thinks that people should be taught even maliciously racist works. They should be exposed
in their education to these views and be given the proper context behind them, much like what HBO is doing with Gone with the Wind. As people
go out into the world, they will invariably be exposed to racist views anyway. In my view, it is better for people to be exposed to these
views in some old, long, and some would say boring, movie than from trolls on the Internet. If decent people are banned from seeing or talking
about these views, then people will first be exposed to these ideas by racists. These ideas will not be refuted, instead they will be
glorified by those who present them and some people will get sucked into the vile ideology of racism. That is why I believe controversial
things must be allowed to stand and to be placed into the proper context. People have to learn about racism from decent human beings who
reject it so that they can recognize it and defeat it when it rears its ugly head in the real world. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 19th 2020:
Issue 460 and 461 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 330 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These comics were produced with all
of the comics posted to the site for the past two weeks. That is because I was on vacation last week. Being on vacation and making issues way
ahead of time, I always pick issues that are not topical to post. Almost always this includes one comic on the subject of Climate Change. I
wrote this issue some time ago. I have been very anxious about writing some non topical issues written for my vacation. With Coronavirus,
there has not been much else to discuss, and the crisis evolves rapidly, so it is hard to write about what will happen a few weeks out. I also
at the last minute decided to do some Black Lives Matter comics. This issue in particular is something I feel strongly about. As a society, we
need to question how we are asking our police officers to act. I did not touch on this in the comic, but we should not incentivize them to
arrest people because it generates revenue for cities. Also, as touched on in the comic, I am not sure that police are well equipped to handle
social issues and I think that contributes to brutality. I know that most police display great compassion during calls like that, and some of
them are excellent at this social worker function, but I ultimately think they are not well trained for it. We ought to take some
responsibilities off of their plate. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 12th 2020:
Issue 458 and 459 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 329 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These comics were produced together
with the comics I posted last Friday and the ones to be posted next week. That is because I am on vacation this week. Whenever I am on
vacation, I always like to do what I call idea comics. It is something non topical which is a more broad idea. It is a big picture sort of
thing. Honestly, these are the topics I would prefer to write about, but speaking out against Donald Trumps outrageous policies takes
precedence. In this case, the issue I picked was ranked choice voting. I think it would be a better system than what we currently have. I
also decided to do some comics about Black Lives Matter and the current protests about police brutality. I was conflicted in the week leading
up to my vacation. On the one hand, I felt the issue probably merited extra issues. On the other, I felt checked out and ready to be on
vacation. I did not want to do extra work. Ultimately I decided to make the comics. I did them at the last minute, and Issue 457 was finished
just minutes before it was posted last week. I did Issue 459 and next weeks Issue 461 after posting last week. When Trump used force on
peaceful protesters, that was the turning point for me. That moment is the thing I have been dreading ever since Trump was elected. It does
not surprise me that these protests are taking place while we have a white supremacist authoritarian in the White House. Another factor in my
decision to make the extra comics was that I did extra issues for impeachment and this topic seems just as important if not more so. For my
very first webcomic, I picked a release schedule that was impossible to meet. I rarely posted and was always late. I ended up adding to my
depression at the time and burning myself out. That is why I always pace myself with my comics now. I generally make my vacations from work
vacations from my creative endeavors as well, just to recharge. In this case, I am glad I pushed back the start of my vacation for a few hours
to make the extra issues. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 5th 2020:
Issue 456 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 328 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These issues were produced together with all
the comics I am posting to the site for the next two weeks. That is due to the fact that I am on vacation this week. It is, naturally, a
staycation in light of the pandemic. Honestly, I tend to prefer staycations anyway. As much as it feels odd to be taking time off while the
world is coming apart, I sure need a break from everything that has been going on. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 31st 2020:
Issue 455 of Rick, the Cryptologist has been released. This is an extra issue and a special issue about the death of George Floyd and the
protests that it has provoked. I decided to make and release this issue because I felt weird about not covering this issue on Friday. The main
reason I did not mention George Floyd in the comic released Friday is that the comic has a terrible lead time. I made the comic for last week
on Sunday, before all this blew up. I am also very close to being on vacation and I feel exhausted from working in retail in the midst of a
pandemic so I was not quite on the ball enough this week to make an extra issue before now. I wanted to post an issue about this topic this
weekend because I felt like next Friday would be too late. There will of course, be a regular issue of Rick this week. I found this issue to
be incredibly hard to write. I toyed with making it an entirely serious issue to match my angst. I also struggled with finding the right tone
and making the right arguments. Anyway, I made it a special issue because police brutality perfectly matches my criteria for making something
a special issue. It is an important topic and one I do not cover enough. It has been many years since I have mentioned police brutality
against people of color. My brother posted a meme to Facebook which had the headline about things you need to know about George Floyd. The
meme continued to list many admirable qualities and traits of Floyd. This list reinforces the fact that Minneapolis and Floyds friends and
loved ones have suffered a terrible loss, but there is only one thing I personally need to know about George Floyd: he was a human being. No
one deserves to die that way. No one should be bound in handcuffs and have their airway obstructed by the knee of another person. My anger is
not directed towards all police officers. I know that it is not all cops, but it is far too many of them. Police brutality happens enough
that it merits a response form all of the law enforcement institution in the United States. I also wish police officers, the decent police
officers, would be more willing to speak out against the bad ones. It seems to me that police officers tend to get automatically defensive and
I wish they would be more willing to speak out against their brethren who act in bad faith. I wish they were willing to speak out against
their brethren that besmirch the reputation of police everywhere. If police officers and politicians around the country would respond to
minorities with empathy and take steps to discipline the truly bad police officers, I think it would go a long way to making things right. I
also think that police officers should be trained differently in how they approach these kinds of situations. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 29th 2020:
Issue 454 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 327 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. I was hesitant to do another issue of Rick
with Rick, Dayton, and Owen, but I really wanted to establish that Dayton became a delivery driver during the pandemic. I had not gotten
around to showing that until now. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 22nd 2020:
Issue 453 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 326 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These issues were a bit hard this week, but
not due to any production issue. It was difficult because I took some time to update the site on production day. I designed the algorithm that
controls the archives for Rick sorts topics in descending order based upon the number of issues that topic has covered. Then it sorts them
alphabetically in the case of a tie. Donald Trump is the category with the most comics by far, with 127 issues mentioning him or his moronic
policies in some way. I set up the archives that way in an attempt to show my bias. It is easy to tell what matters to me based on how often
I mention it. That works most of the time, but I have been frustrated with both impeachment and now Coronavirus that the number one topic in
the country is at the very bottom of the archives due to this algorithm. So, I assigned a ranking to each topic, from 1-5, and I altered the
algorithm to sort according to ranking first, then by issue count. That way, if there is a major issue, but I have only covered it a few
times, it will still show up at the top of the list. The inverse is true as well. Hopefully one day Trump is out of office and I can dock has
ranking to 1 so he shows up at the bottom of the list. With this new system in place, I am also considering further changing the algorithm to
display topics, characters, and cryptids at the top of the list if they are featured in the comic which is currently being displayed. I can
take advantage of my new ranking system to do this easily. I am also considering limiting issue count of the character archive to issues in
the past year. Characters have become more or less prominent as the comic has gone on, and I figure sorting the character archives by the
past year will better reflect how major or minor a character really is. It also got me thinking of another change that might be beneficial to
the archives. Unfortunately, I did not have any more time to mess with it. In some ways I am proud of doing everything for the site myself,
but the drawback is that my time is divided. The last site upgrade that I rolled out in 2018 was something I wanted to do for years. I just
never had the time. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 15th 2020:
Issue 452 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 325 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 8th 2020:
Issue 451 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 324 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This is the last of the lockdown comics, at
least for now. I want what is happening in Rick to reflect what is happening with the Coronavirus in real life. I considered writing a
different comic because the lockdown was lifted where I live on Monday. I decided against it however, because I like the concept of the Rick
Drone. I always feel pretentious when I enjoy an idea from my work, but I am pleased with this one. The Rick Drone will be appearing in a
least one other comic. My plan is for that comic to be posted sometime in June though. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 1st 2020:
Issue 450 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 323 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 24th 2020:
Issue 449 of Rick, the Cryptologist and Issue 322 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This issue of Con kicks off a new story arc. I
suppose this arc was not the hardest to write, seeing as it is finished. There were other arcs that were not finished by the time the first
issue was posted. Still, this one was difficult. I got writers block in the middle of it. Hopefully it turned out ok. Stay tuned, more to
come.
April 17th 2020:
Issue 448 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 321 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This week I took a break in Rick from talking
about Coronavirus to cover Joe Biden. This is one of what I plan to be many comics to illustrate the futility of progressives refusing to
back Biden because he is too moderate. Donald Trump is far worse for progressivism than Joe Biden would be. I feel strongly about this topic
partly because I used to be one of those progressives who would rail against Biden. Hell, if Biden is elected, I probably will criticize him
for not being further left. That will not stop me from voting for him though, when the alternative is a populist wannabe fascist. I suppose
my change of opinion is just the result of more life experience. I am more willing to compromise now, to accept that I will not get
everything I want. I am more accepting of the fact that most often we get to choose from options that are flawed and imperfect. Honestly, even
Bernie Sanders had some positions I was not fond of. I would have criticized him too, if he had become president. There we 60 issues of Rick
which criticized Obama, despite the fact I voted for Obama. No candidate will ever be perfect. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 10th 2020:
Issue 447 of Rick, the Cryptologist and Issue 320 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Keep your distance, and stay tuned, more to come.
April 3rd 2020:
Issue 446 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 319 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. The issue of Rick this week sets up the new
Coronavirus based status quo. I thought it might be interesting to use the changes to the comic to showcase characters who appear less often.
I also feel like the absence of more prominent characters reflects the abnormally of the Coronavirus pandemic, it serves of a reminder of the
things we are missing right now. The issue of Con this week resets things back to normal after this storyline. Of course the deaths of Kolman
and Thormond would not stick. This is the first of three comics wrapping up the current storyline, then the next storyline begins on April
24th. Keep your distance, and stay tuned, more to come.
March 27th 2020:
Issue 445 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 318 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. The concept for this issue of Rick came to me
fairly early. I wanted to do a comic that dealt with Coronavirus related layoffs. It was a fun script for me as a writer, because it allowed
me to show a side of Rick that is normally hidden. I struggled a bit with what specific aspect the Coronavirus crisis I wanted to single out
for focus on this issue. I try to make topics the comic covers vary a little from week to week, and the previous issue was fairly
comprehensive. I picked the insider trading because it is utterly disgraceful. I also tacked the DOJ thing onto the end because it sickens me
as well. The fact the government is infringing on our civil liberties was what started me on the path to making political comics. As a teen, I
was disgusted as the government used the threat of terrorism to curtail our civil liberties. I may revisit this issue in the coming weeks. The
Coronavirus is a good example of my views on civil liberties. I am not a strict libertarian. (I say that because every political party
requires one to have purely black and white in addition to extremist views on everything.) I support the ability of the government to
quarantine people, to shut down businesses and entire cities. This crisis is a very narrow set of circumstances in which I think the
government should have expanded powers. There would be dire consequences if the government fails to act. This is a very black and white
situation. Moreover, the crisis will last for a finite span of time. The powers the DOJ are requesting would enable them to suspend habeas
corpus for any vaguely defined emergency. Any tyrannical leader, Democrat or Republican could abuse that authority for their own ends. I
believe that if the government needs emergency powers, they should be granted under very narrowly defined circumstances. Those circumstances
should pose an imminent threat to the American people with stark repercussions if the government fails to act. I do not think the government
should be able to just suspend habeas corpus if there a bunch of protests. I also think that if a crisis is to be long term, for years or
decades, then we must adapt to it and find a way to uphold rule of law during the crisis. America is after all, a country that held a
presidential election in the midst of a brutal civil war. Stay safe everyone, keep your distance, and stay tuned, more to come.
March 20th 2020:
Issue 444 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 317 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. The issue of Rick this week is a special
issue dealing with the Coronavirus. I suppose it focuses mostly on the panic buying that has been going on because I work in retail and it has
been crazy seeing the madness first hand. I have some sympathy for the people who are hoarding goods. They are scared, although I do think
they need to dial it back so that the vulnerable can buy supplies and to help us maintain our supply chains. I have no sympathy whatsoever for
those who are peddling snake oil cures and attempting to profit off of this national emergency. I think the people who are doing those things
are the scum of the Earth. I also think the Trump Administration has botched the whole response to the outbreak. Trump is doing a little
better now, in that he is speaking coherently for a few sentences. Overall, I think the United States has handled Coronavirus poorly because
of our collective ignorance of science and our collective shunning of expertise of all kinds. It seems to me like this crisis exposes the
weaknesses of healthcare system and our national policies on sick leave. It also exposes the problems with gutting the federal government as
opposed to reigning in legitimate government overreach and trying to make the federal bureaucracy work better. Rick will probably deal with
Coronavirus in the next few weeks because this is the biggest issue facing our country and world right now. I have also been planning out
storylines that will reflect daily life for Americans as this situation continues. I have plotted out some adjustments to my planned
storylines to reflect our new national reality as well. This week was tough from a production standpoint. Not only was it a special issue of
Rick, and the issue of Con was challenging with character and effects work, but I have worked a bit of overtime. I have been stressed from
that and in general to the point where it was hard to motivate myself this week. Stay safe everyone. Social distance if you can, and hang in
there if you are experiencing economic hardship from this crisis. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 13th 2020:
Issue 443 of Rock, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 316 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 6th 2020:
Issue 442 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 315 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 28th 2020:
Issue 441 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 314 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Issue 441 was definitely not one of the issues
of Rick that come easy for me. I wrote it at the last minute. Meanwhile, Issue 314 of Con marked a return to a scene where I had to render it
out as separate elements and composite them together later. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 21st 2020:
Issue 440 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 313 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 14th 2020:
Issue 439 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 312 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. I opted to make the issue of Rick this week
about abstinence only education. It seemed a fitting topic for Valentines Day. I would do more comics on offbeat topics like this if we had
a normal president right now. I like doing these sorts of comics. In a sense, the issue this week gives me a break from doing serious comics.
By coincidence, the issue of Con this week is fitting for Valentines day as well. I am about halfway through writing the next Con story. That
is a years worth of comic. I am having a difficult time with it. I find Con difficult to write because I write it as 52 individual strips. I
think of a years worth of Con Nachzehrer as a single episode. The pressure to write 52 punchlines and structure the story as individual strips
is difficult for me. I am also exploring a new project. I may or may not be releasing another Webcomic/more digital comics later this year.
(It would probably be digital comic issues later released as a Webcomic, running a few issues behind the digital comic.) I always have some
extra project on the back burner. Some of them have panned out, more of them do not. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 7th 2020:
Issue 438 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 311 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 5th 2020:
Issues 436 and 437 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist have both been released. These are the last of the impeachment comics. Issue 437 was actually
written almost 2 months ago. It was always my intention to release it at the end of the trial. It was only later that I decided to do extra
comics for the duration of the impeachment trial. Issue 436 I wrote in response to the arguments that the lawyers for Trump made at the trial.
These arguments have now been validated by the Republicans in the senate, given that they acquitted Trump despite admitting that Trump was
guilty of the crimes for which he was accused. I have also been wanting to make the case for a while that the expansion of executive power has
been going on for some time. You can read the comics I did about Obama and see that I have long been concerned about this issue. Trump is only
the most repugnant example of a president abusing his authority. The examples we have had up to this point have for the most part had noble
intentions. It was inevitable that eventually someone like Trump would get his hands on that unrestrained power. The War on Terror has
turbocharged the powers of the government and has increased our willingness as citizens to cede that power to them. For the sake of our
Republic, we must reclaim that lost power and restore the balance to our three branches of government. If the federal government does require
expanded powers to protect us, then we must also rectify our past mistakes and place some sort of check on that power. As it now stands, the
executive branch is the most powerful branch of the government through which most decisions are made. It even disgusts me that Bernie Sanders
has drawn up over 100 executive orders. I may yet make a comic about that if he gets the Democratic nomination. That is not how our system is
supposed to work. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 31st 2020:
Issues 434 and 435 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 310 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. Issue 434 of Rick is about a stupid
law that a state lawmaker from my home state of Missouri has proposed. Issue 435, is of course, about impeachment. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 24th 2020:
Issues 432 and 433 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 309 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. These three issues were produced
together with all the comics being posted on the site for the last two weeks. That is because I was on vacation last week. As for production
notes, I am excited to get Rick back on a stage. I knew eventually he was going to perform again on a stage, but I was not sure of the
specifics of it. I had considered eventually getting him back on the stage that he was kicked off of, but I like the idea of a different
venue better. Not only do I get to use more of the bar set, but it makes sense for him to perform there. I may yet have him return to his old
stage in some way, though. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 17th 2020:
Issues 430 and 431 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 308 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. These three issues were produced
together with all the issues being released on the site for a two week period. This is due to the fact that I am on vacation this week. This
is one of my big idea Rick issues. I am not sure about the joke portion of the issue, but the point about Democratic societies is one I have
wanted to make for a while. This issue of Con was also difficult for me to arrange, though not as difficult as the previous issues. Stay
tuned, more to come.
January 10th 2020:
Issues 428 and 429 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 307 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. These issues were produced together
with all the comics to be released on the site for the next two weeks. That is because I am taking some time off work next week. I survived
the holidays and now I need some time to just kick back and relax. As for production notes, I found this issues of Con Nachzehrer extremely
hard to make. There is a lot that is going on in panel 3, and it took me a while to figure out how to set the whole panel up. I also had to
make alterations to my original script because it would not have worked out like I had hoped. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 3rd 2020:
Issues 425, 426, and 427 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 306 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. These comics were produced
together with 14 others in order to free me up for pain of going through retail during the holidays and to free me up for some R and R. Tonight
the second iteration of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has officially surpassed the first in the number of issues released. It is a great way to
kick off a new year and a new decade. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 27th 2019:
Issues 423 and 424 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 305 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. These comics were produced over a one
week period along with the 14 other comics. This is due to the fact that I work retail and Christmas is rough. Not to mention that when I am
not working during these two weeks, I intend to be taking some down time. I picked Issue 423 to release this week because I initially thought
it would be a great note to end the decade on. 10 years, 702 issues between Con Nachzehrer and Rick, the Cryptozoologist released, 2 one
shots, 151 pages of a comic I abandoned, and many unpublished scripts sitting on my hard drive. A decade has gone by. I do not know what the
next decade has in store for me, or if I will even still be making comics when it has finished, but I cannot wait to see what the next ten
years hold. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 20th 2019:
Issues 421 and 422 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 304 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. These issues were produced together
with all the comics I will be posting to the site for the next two weeks. This is due to the holidays. Not only will I be busy at my job for
the next couple of weeks, but I will be spending some time with my family in my down time. I will also be enjoying some Godzilla movies and
episodes of the classic Twilight Zone series. I produced these comics over a longer period of time than I usually do when I take breaks like
this. That is partly because I made so many of them, 14 to be precise, but it also due to the fact that I was not initially planning so many
extra comics. Eventually I decided that impeachment deserves some extra attention. I declined an invitation to protest to visit with some of
my family for Christmas, so I felt guilty. This week brings the Christmas Special I have long had in mind for this year. I came up with the
concept some months ago. It took over eleven years and 420 issues, but Rick finally has a Christmas special. I have never cared much for
Christmas, but the idea one which seemed to suit the holiday. Merry Christmas to those who observe it, and stay tuned, more to come.
December 13th 2019:
Issues 419 and 420 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 303 of Con Nachzehrer have all been released. I posted two issues of Rick, the
Cryptozoologist tonight to celebrate the fact that this is the 160th week the comic has posted. The significance of 160 weeks is that the
first iteration of Rick ran for 159 weeks. As of tonight, the second iteration has officially overtaken the first in terms of how long it
has ran. The second iteration of Rick still has not surpassed the first in terms of number of issues, but it currently is due to pass that
milestone on January 24th. The reason for this is because the first iteration of Rick ran as a twice weekly comic for roughly the last year
of its run. Actually, in retrospect, I think that contributed to me canceling it. Additionally, I was in a place with the first iteration of
Rick where I could post more extra issues. I cannot do that as often now, though with impeachment heating up, I may post some extra issues in
the near future. Speaking of, the other issue of Rick tonight is about impeachment. It is also about the War on Drugs because it is issue 420
and I could not resist the temptation. Finally, a note about the issue of Con Nachzehrer tonight: I had a lot of difficulty designing Cooters
girlfriend. All I knew is that I wanted her to look weird and somewhat ugly. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 6th 2019:
Issue 418 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 302 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These issues were produced together with all
the comics I posted to the site in the past two weeks. This is due to the fact that I knew the previous two weeks would be a busy time for me
at my job. The issue of Rick this week was inspired by a Facebook conversation I involved myself in a while back. I did not bring up this
argument in the conversation, but the conservation caused me to come up with it. I guess my problem with conservatism is that sometimes it
fails to acknowledge when the world has changed. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 29th 2019:
Issue 417 of Rick, the Cryptologist and Issue 301 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These two issues were produced together with the
comics I posted last week and next week. This is due to the fact that I work retail and it is almost Thanksgiving. This time of year is busy
and stressful for me. This issue of Rick is one I wrote about a month ago and almost released at that time. The three issues of Con Nachzehrer
I did were difficult, both because of the laser effects and because this set is so intensive I have to render it in separate elements and
composite it together. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 22nd 2019:
Issue 416 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issues 300 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These two issues were produced together with
the next two weeks worth of comics that will be released on the site. I did this because it is the holiday season and I work retail. I have
been working fair amount of overtime and I am afraid that I might not have time next week to tend to the site. These issues were also released
early because some days I have been late enough getting home I would not have been able to update on time. My frustrations are evident in the
issue of Rick this week. I found it hard to write about impeachment because it disgusts me so much. Trump is so guilty it is embarrassing.
His misconduct is as plainly apparent as it is appalling. It is telling that during the public hearings the Republicans could not even defend
Trump by asking questions of the witnesses they insisted upon calling in. The only thing they could do is offer baseless conspiracy theories.
This is a dangerous and shameful chapter of American history. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 15th 2019:
Issues 414 and 415 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 299 of Con Nachzehrer have been released. There are two issues of Rick tonight to
celebrate the third anniversary of the return of the comic. I am a little conflicted about Issue 415. I am not sure it is well written and
the premise is not my best. I am just trying to express the in my opinion, the American public, I was thinking of the left, but in many ways
it applies to the right as well, the American public always looks for others to foot the bill for things they want to government to spend
money on. I do not want to be drowned in taxes and I do not want taxes to be increased to a point where it hurts people too badly, and that
includes businesses. Still, I think there has to be a middle ground between burying people in taxes and what we do now, which is to refuse to
pay even one cent more. As stated in the comic, I think the rich should pay more. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 8th 2019:
Issue 413 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 298 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This was an idea I had for a Rick issue
during October. It was partially inspired by the fact one of my younger brothers loves Halloween and watches horror films throughout October
to celebrate the season. No one in my family really likes Christmas though. I did throw some shade at a coworker for playing Christmas music
the other day. My other inspiration for this issue was the fact that I worked some overtime last week. I did not have time to read the news
as much as I normally do, so I went with Climate Change as a topic. I am also trying to avoid mentioning impeachment every week. Momentum is
already there for impeachment. Additionally, as much as I do frequently bash Trump, I have always considered Rick to be an issues comic.
More than criticizing politicians, this comic is about the issues. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 1st 2019:
Issue 412 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 297 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This issue is Rick is about workplace and
housing discrimination against the LBGTQ community. I always regretted not doing more comics about gay marriage, so I wanted to be sure that
I spoke up about this issue. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 31st 2019:
The 2019 Halloween Special of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This issue is oddly Wizard of Oz themed. I just figured Dorothy
would be a pretentious costume for Jane to wear as she was attempting to remake Halloween and it snowballed from there. I will say that the
most horrifying aspect of this issue is the layout of the characters and the lettering. Those two things are not my strongest suit, but I
really do not know what I was thinking when I was arranging the characters. I almost had a mental breakdown when doing the lettering.
Especially panel 6. I have a fun fact about this issue as it pertains to the flying monkey. It was a difficult character to include, but I
felt I had to because when I first watched the Wizard of Oz my mother told me that the flying monkeys terrified her as child. Apparently
whenever the Wizard of Oz was on, she would leave the room and my grandparents would go and get her whenever the scene with the flying monkeys
was over. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 25th 2019:
Issue 410 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 296 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This issue of Con continued to be difficult
because I have to render certain elements separately and then composite them together in GIMP. A fun fact about this issue of Con, it was
partially inspired by an actual encounter I had. There was a school acquaintance of mine with whom I shared a birthday. Years later, we
both got jobs working at the same place and I did not recognize him. He was rather put out about it. I tend to struggle in social settings.
As far as this issue of Rick goes, I originally wrote a script about social media, which is something I am increasingly concerned about. I
decided to write about Syria because I feel it is important for one, but also because of my longstanding opposition to overseas military
intervention. I also oppose ethnic cleansing, so I wondered if I was contradicting myself or perhaps was wrong in my opposition to getting
involved in Syria. This issue is me trying to work through my unease. The War on Terror is a complicated problem. I understand that we have
to do something about terrorism, but I consider it more of a law enforcement issue, and in my opinion, we have gone too far in curtailing
civil liberties in combating it. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 18th 2019:
Issue 409 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 295 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. The issue of Con this week continued to give
me difficulty as the scene is so resource intensive for Freestyle that I had to composite it together in GIMP. As far as production notes on
Rick go, I was conflicted about this issue. I did a straight up anti Trump comic last week but I have not covered impeachment yet, and it is
the biggest story in politics right now. I felt obligated to comment. If nothing else, these past few weeks demonstrate the utter lack of
competence that Trump possesses to be president. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 11th 2019:
Issue 408 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 294 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These issues were produced together with all
the comics for this site in the past two weeks. That is because I was on vacation this week. I wrote this script a while back, and I had to
tweak it a bit to reflect Daytons current storyline. I was conflicted about posting this comic this week due to the fact that one of the
comics two weeks ago was a straight up Trump bashing comic as well. Still, this comic is how I really feel about Trump. Trump is trashy. Not
all of his followers are trashy, but Trump himself belongs in a run down trailer park. Trump himself would be the resident that causes
trouble for everybody else. No amount of money or expensive suits will ever change that. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 4th 2019:
Issue 407 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 293 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These issues were produced together with the
comics on the site for last week as well as the comics that I will be posting next week. This is due to the fact that I am on vacation from my
job this week. The blood effects were another factor that made these comics challenging for me. Mostly because they increased production time
on a week I was already doing extra work. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 27th 2019:
Issue 405 and 406 of Rick, the Cryptologist as well as Issue 292 of Con Nachzehrer have been released. I decided to do another extra issue
about Climate Change this week. These issues were also produced together with the next two weeks of comics for the site. This is due to the
fact that I am on vacation from my job next week. The production on the comics this week was brutal because of my vacation, due to the fact I
made new sets for Con Nachzehrer, new characters, I also did effects such as the Lock Ness Monster shot above, and I experimented with
textures. Oddly enough, textures are something I have never done before. I did it this week because I really wanted Con to look like a
referee with a domino mask. I thought that would be funny, although, now that I see the final results it concerns me that he may look too
much like the Hamburglar. The boxing ring set was difficult because it involved so many extras. The characters are mostly from my canceled
Webcomic from four years ago, Ostraka. The extra characters made the scene so intensive to render in Freestyle that I had to render the
scene in layers and composite it in GIMP. My computer could not handle the whole scene at once. Above, you can see where I cut and pasted a
light to a different layer of GIMP. I did not do it quite perfectly. As I type this, I have three days left to go before vacation, but I have
already had a difficult week at my job. I feel ready for a vacation and hopefully that is the cause of my malaise towards work. Stay tuned,
more to come.
September 20th 2019:
Issues 403 and 404 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist as well as Issue 291 of Con Nachzehrer have been released. Issue 403 of Rick features a new
set. I am try to vary the sets used in Rick to prevent the comic from being too monotonous. I figured that Jane and Aidan would have their
own place to hang out, and it would not be a bar. It would be a hipster coffee shop. Issue 404 was not originally planned. I ended up
deciding on an extra issue of Rick when I remembered that the climate strike was this week. Climate Change has always ranked among my top
issues, so I knew I had to do something in solidarity with the Climate Strike. I consider Climate Change to be one of my top issues because
while all the issues I cover are important to me, Climate Change represents an existential threat. The action we must take on the
environment is urgent. Any damage done as a result of Climate Change will not be easily undone. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 13th 2019:
Issue 402 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 290 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Production on these issues was a bit
difficult. I had a family emergency to attend to last week. Everything ended up all right, but I was almost late posting the updates this
week and production on these issues was a bit rushed due to the resulting time crunch. I am not entirely proud of the script for this issue
of Rick due to it being rushed. The original premise was also that the main characters would have to find something else to protest due to
Afghanistan winding down. With the collapse of the peace talks I had to rework the script. (I am conflicted about the talks falling apart,
attacks by the Taliban show bad faith, but I think we should try to end that war. One of my big arguments against war is how difficult they
an be to end.) Stay tuned, more to come.
September 11th 2019:
My new one shot comic is available now for purchase on Comixology. The new comic is called Regalia. I am hoping to be able to get more comics
onto Comixology in the future as well as continuing to do the webcomics.
September 6th 2019:
Issue 401 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 289 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. The issue of Rick this week was written
shortly after the shootings at El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. (I of course made some edits to the script this week.) I opted to release it
this week because congress will be returning from recess on Monday. I consider myself a moderate on gun control and I am not sure I even
support an assault weapon ban. Still, I support universal background checks and red flag laws. My support for universal background checks is
stronger, because I see it as merely covering loopholes in existing law. I currently work in the grocery side of a store, but I did a 2 and
half year stint on the GM side. I was a hourly supervisor over hardware, electronics, apparel, housewares, lawn and garden, and sporting
goods. Since sporting goods was one of my areas, I have sold guns before. People have to undergo a background check anyway, so universal
background checks do not strike me as overly burdensome for gun owners. I also like about our current system using NICS that you can appeal
if you think your background check came back with the wrong result. My stance on red flag laws is more measured, because I do think these
laws need checks and balances built into them. There has to be both due process and a way of appealing an unfair decision. From what I have
read, banning high capacity magazines would also be effective and so I might revisit this issue in the future. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 30th 2019:
Issue 400 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 288 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This issue of Rick deals with the fallout
from Daytons heart attack. I had originally scripted it as a throwaway gag, but I decided to run with it and make it an ongoing arc. I guess
I am interested in making arcs right now, since this is the second arc I have decided to pursue recently. Somewhat unusual for Rick, I came
up with the concept for the strip before deciding what it would satirize. I had considered making this issue about the trade war. It does
seem like the most pressing issue right now, but I have made plenty of trade war comics. I have not talked much about NSA spying recently,
which I still care about. That is one of the biggest problems with the Trump era. There is way too much going on. Not only is it hard to
decide what to make comics about, but niche issues I care about and like doing as a break from more topical subjects get lost. Stay tuned,
more to come.
August 23rd 2019:
Issue 399 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 287 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This issue of Rick features Mattie, who has
not appeared in almost a year. I originally introduced her for the unfinished tenth anniversary special. I sort of forgot about her. When I
reviewed the tenth anniversary special script so I could post it, I remembered the character. I decided to use her in this comic. I am
unsure that the comic needs any more characters. Perhaps Mattie will disappear again. On a side note, in earlier comics, I always scripted it
so that there were tons of side characters. The kids that Rick is mentoring were supposed to always be different. It was Dustin who kept
drawing them as the same characters. It irked me a bit at the time, but now that I do the art myself, I realize how much of a pain it is to
keep constantly making new characters. The appearance of Mattie could also be considered foreshadowing of the comic I am going to post next
week. I have decided to add another arc to the comic. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 16th 2019:
Issue 398 of Rick, the Crytozoologist and Issue 286 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This issue of Rick is the one I probably should
have posted last week. Alas, the comic continues to have terrible lead time. I do think the rhetoric of Donald Trump is contributing to an
atmosphere of hate in a way that the rhetoric of his opponents is not. I have never heard Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren joke about
shooting their political opponents. Also, when I say that Trump is using white nationalist talking points, I specifically mean the talking
points white nationalists use to encourage violence against minorities. It is shameful and I wish the right would stop pretending that it is
not. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 9th 2019:
Issue 397 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 285 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This issue of Rick features a Cryptid called
the Harangutan. I came up with the idea for it a long time ago, but this is the first time this Cryptid has made an appearance in the comic.
I had an idea that Trump is basically just an orangutan that harangues people all the time. In the original script, I wrote that Damon
dressed up like a monkey. I decided to change it to stay true to the premise of the comic being about a fake Cryptozoologist. The costume for
the Harangutan was difficult to render. The beard would not work with Freestyle, so I had to remove the beard from the Freestyle scene. I
ended up shrinkwrapping a cube around the beard. Then I made that cube transparent and put it in the Freestyle layer. Freestyle still renders
objects which are transparent, so that made it so that there was an outline around the beard. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 2nd 2019:
Issue 396 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 284 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This issue of Rick features the debut of a
new character: Jane. I had already introduced her boyfriend Aidan and had intended to introduce her a long time ago, but I never got around
to it. This is partly because I criticize the liberal side of things less than I would like to think I do. I do have some issues with
certain things that are labeled as liberal. Political correctness when taken to an extreme comes to mind. I also had plenty to criticize
about Obama during the first iteration of Rick. Though I consider Obama to be a moderate, which many of my conservative friends would
dispute and have disputed in conversations with me. I criticize conservatives more because I see them as doing more harm than liberals,
especially with our current government. The Trump Administration is destroying the environment and locking kids in cages. They are damaging
our Democracy and our national security. I do not see the same level of impact on society from the extreme left, and most of the rest of the
left does not even take them seriously. They are just a bunch of whiny college kids. I had an issue written a few weeks ago about the mural
of George Washington in a California high school that is to be painted over because it depicted slavery. I had a lot to say about that. Both
about how Washington was a complicated figure who also made positive contributions to history and how to me, that is actually white washing
history and therefore encourages racism by hiding the truth. I opted instead to put out a comic on immigration because the lives of refugees
are being torn apart by those policies. To me, that is the greater issue. Conservatives turn away from liberals because of political
correctness. Well, I hold my nose at political correctness because I detest the naked racism and anti intellectualism of the Republican
Party. The damage Climate Change is doing to our world can never be undone. Anyway, I had intended to introduce these characters long ago.
There is an irony in the fact that I am turning Rick being banned from the theater into a storyline. I had all kinds of storylines planned to
lead into the canceled tenth anniversary special. I was going to have Rick feud with Flat Earthers and give Dayton a mistress. None of those
storylines occurred even though I planned them out. This one I am just making up as I go along. Rick being banned from the theater came about
because I almost used the theater set four weeks in a row. I wanted to use a different set, but I still wanted the characters to do a skit.
So, I made the joke about Rick being banned from the theater to explain why they were performing their skit elsewhere. I decided to run with
it, using Aidan because Rick got him beat up a while back. I figured I may as well run with it, since I wrote that one issue. I have some
ideas for how to continue the story, but I am unsure how long I will keep it up before I tire of it. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 29th 2019:
Issues 394 and 395 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist have been released. This is to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the debut of Rick. In
addition I have posted a PDF of the tenth anniversary special I never finished doing the artwork for. This is a big year for Rick, the
Cryptozoologist. Not only is it the tenth anniversary of the debut of the first comic, but this year the second iteration of the comic will
surpass the first iteration in both the length of its run and the number of issues it has. Hopefully the run of the second iteration of the
comic will last many more years. The comic will also be introducing a new character this coming Friday, though even I do not know if I will
like the character enough to make her a regular supporting character. Also, this pair of issues came out as more negative than I intended.
Still, I wanted to poke fun at the comic and to be sincere: it does bug me a bit that the comic has not done more in ten years of existence.
Both in terms of following and the number of issues. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 26th 2019:
Issue 393 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 283 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. July 29th is the tenth anniversary of the
debut of Rick, the Cryptozoologist, and so, per tradition, there will be an extra issue posted of Rick that day. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 19th 2019:
Issue 392 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 282 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 12th 2019:
Issue 391 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 281 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. I had a hard time writing this weeks issue of
Rick. I am not sure why, but it did not come easily this week. When in doubt, just make fun of Tucker Carlson. Surely he deserves it. I had
also resolved not to make mention of the embarrassing gaffe Trump made in his 4th of July speech, but I could not resist the temptation. This
is also the first time the bar set has appeared since I switched to Blender 2.8. This is somewhat ironic because I used the bar set and
Therese to test out my new render settings. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 5th 2019:
Issue 390 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 280 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 28th 2019:
Issue 389 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 278 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 21st 2019:
Issue 388 of Rick, the Crytozoologist and Issue 278 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. I came up with the idea for this weeks issue
of Rick while I was on vacation. Honestly, so much happened while I was on vacation I could have done an issue every day and not covered it
all. The straight pride thing irritated me so much I wanted to do it as a special issue. The second half of the issue is an idea I have had
for a while and attempted to write once previously, but it did not work out. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 14th 2019:
Issue 387 of Rick, the Crytozoologist and Issue 277 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These two comics were produced together with
all the comics for the site for the previous two weeks. That is because I was using some PTO last week. I picked healthcare as a topic for
Rick this week because it is another issue which is not going anywhere. All three issues of Rick ended up being performances the characters
are giving on stage. I was unsure about doing this, because I like mixing up the settings, but these were the comics I liked of all the ones
I had written. I rendered it all in one go, and switching the characters on and off stage reminded me of scene changes from when I did plays
in high school. (I was involved in the backstage crews) It also reminded me of the hell week before a the opening weekend of a play since I
lost my crunch day and getting these comics done involved some long hours. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 7th 2019:
Issue 386 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 276 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These two comics were produced together with
the comics from last week and the comics from next week. This is due to the fact that I am using some PTO this week. As this comic is being
released, this will be my second to last day before having to return to work. I should have mentioned this last week, but I omitted it
because that post ran long: Mr. Bach is a character I am particularly pleased with. Of all my recent characters, he is my favorite. Hopefully
readers will find him as interesting as I do. The issue of Rick this week deals with Climate Change. Climate Change is my go to for vacation
comics, because I while I might not know what the news cycle is going to be like when I am making comics so far in advance, Climate Change
will always be a pertinent issue. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 31st 2019:
Issue 385 of Rick, the Crytozoologist and Issue 275 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These two comics were produced together with
all the comics I will be releasing on the site for the next two weeks. That is because I am using some PTO this week from work. Now that Come
to Life has been released, I can admit that on my previous staycation, I spent a lot of time working on it to finish it. That may have been a
mistake. I feel exhausted and this time I intend to do nothing. I got these issues of my Webcomics done and finished a side project I was
working on, so I have nothing on my plate. I can recharge and come back to work on comics at 100% afterwards. (Also, I can come back to my
actual job at 100%, I guess.) Production on these issues of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Con Nachzehrer were rather difficult. I was slated
to be off on Saturday, but I learned on Friday I was working all weekend and would be doing a six day run. Saturday was to be my crunch day,
that day where I spent all day working on comics. Losing that made it hard for me to finish everything. I made it through though. I got much
less sleep than I wanted, but I made it nonetheless. This issue of Rick is about abortion. My own state of Missouri passed one of those
extreme abortion laws, and Missouri might about to be the first state to have no abortion clinic. This issue focuses on the fact that these
laws do not make exceptions for rape or incest. This strikes me as particularly extreme. It used to be that the extreme position on abortion
was that there were to be no abortions except in the case of rape or incest. How far to the right does the Republican Party intend to go?
Stay tuned, more to come.
May 29th 2019:
My comic one shot Come to Life is now available for purchase on Comixology.
May 24th 2019:
I am pleased to announce that I have completed work on a one shot entitled Come to Life, which I am releasing under the pseudonym Logan
Peregrinus.(This is my new handle, my advice to everyone is to never attempt to come up with a pseudonym in your teens, it will be
ridiculous.) The one shot will be released on Comixology on Wednesday May 29th, 2019. I will post an update to the site when Come to Life
officially releases. This comic is my stab at writing a zombie/thriller story. It picks up 20 years after the zombie apocalypse featuring a
community attempting to rebuild after the calamity, but soon a new threat emerges to challenge their way of life.
May 17th 2019:
Issue 383 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 273 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This was another rough week of production for
me. This is primarily due to a side project I am working on, and a project I am writing on the side. Writing is the part of making comics I
enjoy the most, so I have a fair amount of unpublished material lying around. I am always writing something. I also discovered how to change
interpolation in Blenders dope sheet mode this week. That excites me because it changes the keyframes retroactively. It is something I wish I
had discovered ages ago. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 10th 2019:
Issue 382 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 272 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. The production on this weeks comics was much
easier than the two weeks before that, which were hell. Also, this issue of Rick is primarily about the disregard Trump is showing for our
constitution which in my opinion is reaching the levels of constitutional crisis. We cannot have a president who flagrantly violates the
principle of separation of powers, nor can we have a president who openly obstructs justice. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 3rd 2019:
Issue 381 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 271 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 26th 2019:
Issue 380 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 270 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This will be a long post, because both of
these comics are milestones for various reasons. It makes me wish I had set up this little blurb post to allow for indentations. First, I
will say that I was reticent to do a comic defending Julian Assange. I went back and forth on whether or not to put out this comic. I think
Wikileaks is problematic and Julian Assange is a prick. I do not see Assange as being a man of high moral character. Ultimately, it comes
down to the implications for press freedom and the fact that freedom has often been advanced by defending the scum of the Earth. John Adams
defended the perpetrators of the Boston Massacre in court. Miranda was a rapist. A tenant of rule of law that we have allowed ourselves to
stray from is that everyone, every single one of us, regardless of how horrible we are as human beings is entitled to due process. Everyone
has the same basic rights and should be defended if those rights are violated. The one thing I decided against doing was making this a
special issue. Special issues are often things I really care about, and I did not want to grant that status to this issue. That might have
been a mistake though, because it prevented me from exploring the nuances of my opinions on this topic. Moving on to production notes, this
is the first issue of Con Nachzehrer and Rick, the Cryptozoologist which were produced in Blender 2.8. I also decided to change the lettering
on both comics. The new version of Blender requires me to reconfigure both the characters and the sets because the way compositing works in
Blender 2.8 makes my old node setup obsolete. My old setup relied heavily on render passes. Instead, now I have to use render layers each
with their own different render settings and composite with that. Additionally, since there is no Freestyle pass, I had to switch from doing
a pass with just Freestyle and transparency to doing a black and white pass and using the mix node with subtract to get my lines. This was
all much more complicated for me than it should have been. I also worked hard to get my file to the point where I could just press a couple
of buttons and set my file to render rather than hand keying each setting every time. The big advantage of passes was that I could just have
my settings done and hit render when I was ready. I basically have my new settings where I just have to link the objects to all render layers
and then hit render. Now, I have a working file with all the characters and the sets. I then append the objects from that file into an empty
one with all the settings. Blender 2.8 also changes the interface a bit, but I have pretty well already adjusted to that. The silver lining of
all of this is that I have a side project I am working on which is the first thing I rendered in 2.8. Thanks to that, I was able to get
through most of the growing pains before this week. That is fortunate because it is Easter week, which means I went and visited my family on
Sunday. That is difficult because that would be the day that I spend all day doing comic activities. I like seeing my family, but work life
hobby balance is difficult for me, and I had so much to do that day. The day off I have later in the week(my days are almost always split),
is one where I try not to do any comic related activities. I will probably have to forgo it this week. I try not to do that because I tend to
burn myself out with all my balance issues. I have reached a point where I really like getting away both work and my comic hobby to just
relax for one day. I had a day this week where I just came home and crashed because I was so tired. I let myself get sleep deprived. I have
had a little insomnia lately so I am already running a bit short on sleep. I have not particularly enjoyed this last year in terms of my
job, I got moved into a position I liked less than my old one, with a worse schedule, and it has not gone that well. So, I am not entirely
happy about missing my free day for those reasons. I digress, another change from Blender 2.69, to Blender 2.8 is that the interpolation mode
is controlled via each individual object rather than globally. I use constant interpolation for my comics. That means I have to tweak each
character a little bit to work in the new version. In the case of Kolman, Thormond, Rabanus, and Corbin, I had to completely remake their
Blender models for this issue(I still have their DAZ models, which were unchanged). This is because they were old models. At first, I
keyframed my models by object rather than by their armatures when I would move them across the set. I would only use armatures for local
movements. When I switched to doing all the movement by armature so I could use pose libraries, I realized I had rigged them so that half of
their face would come apart if you tried to move them across the set with the armature. I never fixed the old models, but I decided it I
needed to with the way interpolation works now. I also decided to tweak the characters a bit, I made Rabanuss wings less obstructive and so
that they can move, Kolmans shirt is no longer transparent, and Thormonds eyes are different. That is another change to the characters, the
way the models are, they have a cornea, the transparency is a bit different now, so I had to modify it. The upshot is that in Blender 2.8, I
can actually see the irises before I render, which means I can hopefully avoid the issue where the characters squint so much you cannot see
their irises. In Blender 2.69 I could never know whether or not you could see them until after I rendered the finished product. Another
advantage of the new way is that 2.8 is wicked fast. Hopefully if there are lighting or eye issues I will be more inclined to fix them, since
it will not take as long to render. I also see an upside to interpolation being controlled by individual objects: I may be able to use
particle systems for things like water, smoke, or fire now. This was a somewhat hectic week of production(I am way behind on all my projects
which are not to be released this week on th site), yet it was worth it, and I am excited for the things I might be able to do with Blender
2.8. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 19th 2019:
Issue 379 of Rick, the Cryptologist and Issue 269 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This is the end of a story arc for Con
Nachzehrer. These two issues are also the last issues of Rick the Cryptozoologist and Con Nachzehrer which will be rendered in Blender 2.69.
Starting next week, I will be using Blender 2.8. I have resisted upgrading from2.69 because I knew Blender internal was going away. Cycles is
a good rendering engine, but it does not work for my style of comics. Luckily, Blender now has the Workbench and Eevee renderers. I am using
Workbench because it is faster than Eevee, although Eevee is wonderful. The comics should mostly look the same, but I always try to save
stylistic changes for a change in story arcs. On that note, I am also switching the comics to professional lettering fonts and centering the
lettering as opposed to having it left justified. I have had to use proper lettering for another project I have been working on and I have
come to see how far superior it is to the way I have always lettered my comics. It seems like my experience in making comics has been one of
stubbornly doing things my way and then eventually realizing why no one else does these things and switching to doing things the correct
way. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 12th 2019:
Issue 378 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 268 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 5th 2019:
Issue 377 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 267 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 29th 2019:
Issue 376 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 366 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 22nd 2019:
Issue 375 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 365 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 15th 2019:
Issue 374 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 364 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This issue of Rick was considerably easier
for me to write, despite the fact that I traditionally have had trouble writing issues on Network Neutrality. A bit of Con Nachzehrer news,
I finished writing the next story arc this week. Stay tuned, more to come. (These comics were uploaded late, sorry there was a power outage
in my neighborhood at update time.)
March 8th 2019:
Issue 373 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 363 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. The issue of Rick this week is about
abortion. I found it extremely difficult to write, I think it was my third attempt at a concept about abortion, and I nearly changed the
subject. The reason I wanted to do a pro choice issue is because I eventually came to regret not doing more pro LBGT issues of Rick during
its first iteration. With one issue a week, there are a lot of issues that fall through the cracks. In fact, there are tons of more fringe
issues I would like to explore. With abortion rights under attack nation wide, I wanted to be sure to state where I stand on the issue. I find
abortion hard to do comics on because my reasons for supporting it are simple. I have stated my opinion before, and it is hard to come up with
multiple ways to express one opinion. When I was in my teens, I was talking with my stepmother about abortion and I told her that the issue
does not really apply to me as a male, but I am pro choice because it seems like the best thing for women. My stepmother liked that I said it
was not my issue and multiple women I have expressed that view towards afterwards have also approved of that sentiment. That informs my entire
take on the issue. I think abortion is a fundamental right for women to control their own bodies. I also, as is clear in this issue, do not
care one bit for Republican dishonesty and scare mongering on this topic. (Or any topic for that matter.) Stay tuned, more to come.
March 1st 2019:
Issue 372 of Rick the Cryptozoologist and Issue 262 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 22nd 2019:
Issue 371 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 261 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 17th 2019:
Issue 370 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This is an extra issue and a special issue to protest the fact that Donald Trump
declared a national emergency to fund his border wall. I see this as a serious violation of constitutional norms and an egregious abuse of
power. The constitution explicitly states that congress has the authority to appropriate money and Trump cannot circumvent that just because
he did not get his way. There will be a normal issue released on Friday. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 15th 2019:
Issue 368 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 260 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These two issues were also a bit on the late
side as far as production goes. They were released on time, though. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 8th 2019:
Issue 368 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 259 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These two issues were completed a bit on the
late side. This is because I had a weird work schedule this week, and because I was finishing another project I have been working on. They
were both released on time, though. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 1st 2019:
Issue 267 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 258 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 25th 2019:
Issue 266 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 257 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These issues were produced together with the
comics I posted last week and the week before. This is due to the fact the I took some time off from work last week. The issue of Rick this
week was about Climate Change, one of my classic standbys if I need a topic that will not date itself. Hopefully now I can go back to
covering topics more relevant to the terrible political situation in the United States. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 18th 2019:
Issue 265 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 256 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These issues were produced together with the
comics I posted last week and the ones I will post next week. This is due to me taking some time off work this week. As a note on the issue
of Rick released this week, I consider it a weak issue. I considered changing the issue I intended to release, but I have been wanting to do
presenteeism for a long time. It bothers me how standard the practice is given how self defeating it is. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 11th 2019:
Issue 364 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 255 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These issues were produced together with the
comics I will post next week and the week after. It seems weird to do this, especially after I just did the same thing three weeks ago. I am
taking some time off work this week though. I need it after the holidays. Incidentally, I am taking a rare vacation where I am partially
working on a creative project. It is not for the site though. Anyway, it feels a bit weird to not do anything about the shut down, but at
least criticizing the border wall Trump intends to create is marginally related. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 4th 2019:
Issue 363 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 254 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These issues were produced together with the
comics I posted on the site for the past two weeks due to the holidays. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 28th 2018:
Issue 362 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 253 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These issues were produced together with the
comics I posted last week and the ones I will post next week. This is due to the holidays, both because it is a busy time at work for me,
and also a time in which I spend time with family members and slack off. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 21st 2018:
Issue 361 of Ric, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 252 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These issues were produced along with the
comics I will post next week and the week after. Working retail and it being the holidays I may be too busy to work on the comics this next
week, so I did them in advance. I felt a desire to do this issue of Rick because I really detest the song Its Cold Outside. It plays where I
work and I invariably find myself ripping on it every year. It is rapey and stupid, but I would never go so far as to ban it. I set a high
threshold for what works of art or what opinions should be censored. In some ways, I think the tendency of young adults to support censorship
has been overblown, on the other I am still against that sort of thing. I also feel like freedom is under attack right now worldwide, so it
is good to stand up for basic rights. A production note about Con Nachzehrer, the mine set was actually supposed to be for another comic I
was working on that I never finished. I was intending to make a graphic novel. It has been a goal of mine for some time to put out a e comic
and try my luck on Comixology. Unfortunately, I find it easier to make Webcomics with a firm weekly deadline than I do to work on a longer
work with a deadline which is farther away. I also write much faster than I can do the graphical component of comics. Stay tuned, more to
come.
December 14th 2018:
Issue 360 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 251 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. A production note on both of these comics is
that neither was finished until about an hour before release. I did the posing in Blender last Saturday, but the lettering I have just been
putting off all week for this or that reason. A note specific to Con Nachzehrer. Con is in a worker outfit that is supposed to be his costume
for this story arc. As a running gag, Con is always wearing a different outfit. I had him be an astronaut earlier in this arc because I
figured the worker outfit did not work until Con went to the mines. I thought it would be a fun little joke for people to guess what Con might
have been doing that he was dressed like an astronaut, but I am not sure it works. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 7th 2018:
Issue 359 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 250 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These issues were made occurring to my regular
release schedule, and they were both finished entirely on time. The issue of Rick this week deals with Yemen. I found this issue hard to write
because in my mind the reasons the War in Yemen are wrong are self evident. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 30th 2018:
Issue 358 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 249 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Both of these issues were made concurrently
with the previous two issues of their respective comics. I usually do this on weeks I am on vacation or I expect to be busy. Given that I work
retail, I decided to make a bunch of comics in advance. It turned out to be a good move. I did not end up working a ton of overtime, but I
was extremely tired and lethargic after work each day. It is good I did not have to make comics. Then, over the previous week, I have spent a
lot of time with my family. Last week, I barely made the update time. This was not because of the comics themselves, but because I put off
updating the actual HTML code for the site that exists on my computer until the last minute. The reason the news blurb last week was so short
is because I wrote it about ten minutes before posting time. This week I updated the site on my hardrive on the Sunday before release day.
Therefore I am back on schedule. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 23rd 2018:
Issue 357 of Rick, the Crytozoologist and Issue 248 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 16th 2018:
Issue 356 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 247 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These issues Rick and Con were produced
together with the next few issues of those respective comics to be released. That is because I work retail and the holidays are a difficult
time. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 15th 2018:
Issue 355 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This is an extra issue to celebrate the second anniversary of the return of Rick,
the Cryptozoologist. Per tradition, this issue is apolitical. As an interesting production note, this issue was produced along with four
others. One is an extra issue related to the Trump administration that I hope never to release. The other three are the next few weeks worth
of comics, seeing as I work retail and these next few weeks are typically rough for me. This is the most issues of Rick I have ever worked on
in a week. Though, two of the issues are not yet lettered. I consider the lettering to be the easiest part of the comic and it, if anything,
is what I will procrastinate on. I can do the lettering in about twenty minutes. I count lettering as doing the text and bubbles, plus
putting all the panels together. There will be a normal issue posted tomorrow. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 9th 2018:
Issue 354 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 246 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This is a special issue prompted by the
closing arguments Donald Trump made during the midterm elections. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 7th 2018:
Issue 353 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This is an extra issue I made in the case that Trump fired Jeff Sessions. I
debated whether or not to actually post it, but I opted to do it because it seems clear that the primary motivation Trump has for firing
Sessions is the way Sessions handled the Mueller investigation. I have other extra issues prepared in the event Trump fires Rosenstein or
Mueller. I will be posting a new issue on Friday as usual. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 2nd 2018:
Issue 352 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 245 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 31st 2018:
Issue 351 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This is the annual(when the comic has been releasing.) Halloween Issue. I tried to
think of why Halloween is the only holiday that we do a special issue for, and I cannot think of any. The best I can figure it is because it
is the first major holiday that came after we released the comic. Dustin and I were probably going to do specials for every holiday, until we
realized how much extra work it would be. I also work retail, so doing extra work for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years Eve would be
difficult. Anyway, merely doing Halloween fits both the counterculture spirit of the comic and the spirit of the main characters. Happy
Halloween, everyone.
October 26th 2018:
Issue 350 of Rick,the Cryptozoologist and Issue 244 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. As you can see with Rick, I could not decide
on what to satirize this week, so I just went with a bunch of different things that Trump does which are abhorrent. The worst thing is that
it barely scratches the surface. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 19th 2018:
Issue 349 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 243 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. I was on vacation from work, so these comics were finished a
couple of weeks ago, and made at the same time as the comics from the previous two weeks. I picked Climate Change for Rick because I always try and chose an
issue which will always be relevant when I make issues of Rick so far in advance. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 12th 2018:
Issue 348 of Rick, the Cryptologist and Issue 242 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. I am on vacation this week from work, and
therefore these issues were completed early and at the same time as both the comics from next week and from last week. As far as notes go,
this weeks issue of Rick is another topic I would cover more if conservatives were not so crazy. It bothers me when people misrepresent
science and sham diets are a perfect example of such behavior. As for production notes on Con Nachzehrer goes, this set is a redressed
version of the bookstore from Story 2. I used it primarily because it was a cheap option. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 5th 2018:
Issue 347 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 241 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. I am on vacation from work this week, which
means I did three issues of each comic all in one week. Both of these issues were finished only the night before release. I did the lettering
at the last minute. As far as notes go for Rick, the primary one is that this issue was tough to write. I struggled with it and I still do
not think the end result is my best work. Criticizing Google falls under the list of issues I would cover in the comic much more if I did not
feel the craziness of Trump and the Republican Party were more important. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 28th 2018:
Issue 346 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 240 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These two issues were released slightly early
because I am getting a new washing machine today. My old one broke in a spectacular fashion last Sunday. Without thinking about it, I
scheduled delivery around the same time I post the comic, and I want to be available when the washing machine is delivered. Stay tuned, more
to come.
September 20th 2018:
Issue 345 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 239 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. I released these two issues early because
President Trump is visiting the city that I live in tomorrow. I am planning to exercise my constitutional rights to peacefully protest his
visit. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 14th 2018:
Issue 344 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 238 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 7th 2018:
Issue 343 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 237 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. I would like to apologize for last week. I
posted the comics fifteen minutes late. I had a rough day at work and forgot it was update day when I got home. Anyway, this issue of Rick
was written to be released during the confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh. As far as notes for Con Nachzehrer go, this issue introduces
Silas, the father of Corbin. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 31st 2018:
Issue 342 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 236 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. As for this issue of Rick, it is the second
to feature the comics newest member of the secondary cast. This issue was also very difficult for me to write. I wanted to do an issue on
coal, but it took me forever to come up with something for it. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 24th 2018:
Issue 341 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 235 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released.
August 17th 2018:
Issue 340 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 234 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released.
August 10th 2018:
Issue 339 of Rick, the Cryptologist and Issue 233 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. The unamed female in this issue of Rick, the
Cryptozoologist may possibly be a recurring character. I have plans for her. As per my custom, I have not revealed her name in the comic. Stay
tuned, more to come.
August 3rd 2018:
Issue 338 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 232 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 29th 2018:
Issue 337 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This is to commemorate the ninth anniversary of the debut of Rick the
Cryptozoologist. Additionally, I have remastered and posted all of the 213 original issues of Rick, the Cryptozoologist which ran from 2009
to 2012 to the site. I have also posted updates to the Rick, the Cryptozoologist portion of the site so you can view comics by topic or
character. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 27th 2018:
Issues 335 and 336 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist, as well as Issue 231 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These two issues(Issue 335
of Rick. The Cryptozoologist and Issue 231 of Con Nachzehrer) were both produced concurrently with the previous two issues of their
respective comics. That is because I have had a major schedule change at work. I wanted to give myself some time to adjust. Issue 336 was
started on July 15th and finished yesterday. I have two extra issues of Rick, the Cryptozoologist that are finished but unreleased. They deal
with the firing by President Trump of Robert Mueller or Rod Rosenstein. I hope that Trump never fires either man, but my goal is to release
the issues immediately should Trump ever do so. This issue was to be in place should congress ever impeach Rosenstein. I tweaked it a bit to
be about the introduction of articles of impeachment against Rosenstein. I did not feel like this issue merited immediate release, because
Rosenstein has not been impeached. I did however, think it merited an extra issue. I will probably prepare another comic for immediate release
in case Rosenstein does somehow get impeached. In other news, updates roll out this Sunday to the Rick, the Cryptozoologist portion of the
site. This is in honor of the ninth anniversary of the debut of Rick, the Cryptozoologist. I will be releasing all of the issues of the
original iteration of Rick, the Cryptozoologist, and there will be a bonus issue released that day as well. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 20th 2018:
Issue 334 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 229 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This is the first release day on the new schedule which is being
released on a day that I am working. I used to release on Friday after getting off work, but it has been over two and a half years since I have done this. I had
forgotten how cumbersome it is. I also almost forgot to post this. Also, in production notes, I produced both this weeks issue of Rick and this weeks issue of
Con concurrently with next weeks issues. I did this to clear out this week for my schedule change and for my new position at my job. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 13th 2018:
Issue 333 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 228 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This issue of Rick is a sequel to Issue 326.
I do attempt to have continuity between issues. This is also a special issue about President Trumps asinine trade war with China. Like
practically everything else Trump has done, I think the trade war is an utterly terrible idea. In other news, on July 29th, I will be
rolling out new features to Ricks page as well as releasing remastered editions of all 213 issues of Rick from its first run. Stay tuned,
more to come.
July 6th 2018:
Issue 332 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 228 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Production notes on this issue of Con
Nachzehrer: I had to redo the monster. I lost the monster the first time I made it. If I had to change anything, I would make the monsters
skin color different. The monster is a less scary monster wearing a monster suit. It looks like a human, but it is a monster underneath its
costume. Some exciting site news: beginning next week, our update time will be changing to 4 GMT-5. The reason for this is that my work
schedule is changing. The update day for both comics will remain on Fridays. There is also news regarding Rick, the Cryptozoologist. I will
be rolling out new features for the Rick portion of the site on July 29th, which is the ninth anniversary of when Rick, the Cryptozoologist
was first released. There will be an extra issue of Rick released that day at 4 GMT-5, and additionally, I have remastered all 213 issues of
Ricks original run. These remastered issues will be made available on July 29th as well, stay tuned, more to come.
June 29th 2018:
Issue 331 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 227 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Production notes on this issue of Con
Nachzehrer: the 3D model for the farmer originally had more hair. Unfortunately my computer could not handle rendering it the first time, so
I had to get rid of it. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 22nd 2018:
Issue 330 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 225 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This issue of Con Nachzehrer was a difficult
one for me. It was my first week back from vacation, and I always have a difficult time getting back into the swing of things. On top of that,
it was a difficult issue. I had to make a new set, and five characters. I have made all of the Nachzehrer brothers as adults, but I had to
age them down. Then I made Cons dad. I also made Cons dad as the age he is in this flashback, I made him as he is during the current day,
and I made him as he was when he was a young man. An additional bit of trivia, Cons father was meant to briefly appear in Story 2, but I got
lazy and so Cons dad was cut. Cons father has a significant role in this story arc, though. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 15th 2018:
Issue 329 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 224 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These two issues were produced concurrently
with the two issues of their respective comics that proceeded them. That is because I was on vacation last week. This issue of Rick
criticizes the US immigration policy of separating kids form their parents. I think that whatever your views on immigration, this policy is
cruel and inhumane. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 8th 2018:
Issue 328 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 223 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These two issues were produced concurrently
with the previous and next issues of their respective comics. That is because I have been on vacation this week, which is ending tonight as
this is posted. This issue of Rick covers both the FBIs instance on tech companies creating backdoors in software, and the recent reveal
that the FBI has been inflating the numbers. I felt weird doing this one because of Trumps partisan attacks on the FBI. I decided however, to
do the comic, and then to address my concerns in the comic itself. I do not support partisan attacks on our institutions. I do however,
believe that the FBI is both flawed, and has political power which we know people are prone to abuse. I believe the FBI is wrong on this
issue, but I do not question their patriotism or their dedication to protecting the United States. I just think that people in power need a
check on them, and that check should be as unburdened by political alignment as much as is possible. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 1st 2018:
Issue 327 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 222 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These two issues were produced concurrently
with the next two issues of their respective comics. This is due to the fact that I am on vacation from work this week. It was difficult,
with all that has been going on, to pick topics for Rick in advance. I picked this issue, which was actually written some time ago, because
of Trumps decision to bring the global gag rule to US borders. I also meant to do more comics about womens issues, but it has not panned
out. I have limited space and so I do not always get to cover the topics I would like to. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 25th 2018:
Issue 326 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 221 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This issue of Rick returns the comic to being
more left leaning. It is a rather hard turn back left after criticizing the left last week. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 18th 2018:
Issue 325 if Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 220 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This issue of Rick is special in that it
criticizes the left side of the political spectrum. My own side does bother me, but I generally see the right as doing more harm. The debate
referenced in this issue is so dumb, almost every article I read about it was dissing the idea or wondering why it was controversial. No
politicians support this nonsense. Contrast that with the extreme ideas of the right, which are currently being rammed down the countrys
throat. The US government is separating families, ignoring the ongoing climate crisis, seniors could be evicted from their nursing homes
because of cuts to Medicaid, and protesters are being mowed down in Gaza. These things strike me as being more important. I wish I could do
more of the comics such as I released tonight, and about other more obscure issues, because it would mean our country returned to some
semblance of decency. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 11th 2018:
Issue 324 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 220 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This weeks issue of Rick, the Cryptozoologist
was intended to be released before Donald Trump made his decision on the Iran Nuclear Deal. I thought he was going to pull out of it on May
12th. I had to tweak the script a little to make up for this change. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 4th 2018:
Issue 323 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 219 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This week marks the return of Dustin to Rick,
the Cryptozoologist after a short hiatus. This weeks issue of Con Nachzehrer also corrects an issue from last week. I made the lines more
thick. It is still a higher resolution though. The higher resolution is supposed to be more subtle. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 27th 2018:
Issue 322 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 218 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This is the beginning of a new story arc for
Con Nachzehrer and this is the first issue of Con Nachzehrer to be rendered at a higher resolution. I waited until the start of a new story
arc so the artistic style would be consistent. An additional production note on this issue, Con is dressed like an astronaut solely because he
has to be wearing something weird. Con will have a different costume later more relevant to the story arc, but for now, he is dressed like an
astronaut due to some offscreen adventure. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 20th 2018:
Issue 321 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 217 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. As you can see, the issue number of Rick, the
Cryptozoologist has changed again. I hope this time I got it right. As far as Con Nachzehrer goes, this is the final issue of this story arc.
A new arc, Con Nachzehrers fifth, begins next week. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 15th 2018:
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the founding of this website. Technically it went online on April 12th, I believe, but I posted my first
comic on April 15th, 2008. I have uploaded a complete overhaul of the website to mark this occasion. The primary purpose of this overhaul is
to, at long last, make this site truly mobile friendly. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 13th 2018:
Issue 321 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 216 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. As mentioned above, the site will be down on
April 15th so that I can roll out the newest iteration of this website. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 6th 2018:
Issue 320 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 215 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This is our first update back on the Friday
schedule. This Petropus issue of Rick, the Cryptozoologist is actually one I wrote a while back, probably last fall. In other news, as stated
above, the site will be down for maintenance on April 15th between 1am and 2am GMT-5. This is to roll out the sites latest remodel. Stay
tuned, more to come.
April 3rd 2018:
Issue 319 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 214 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This update is an early update because I have
to work today. The release schedule is also changing to Fridays starting April 6th because my work schedule has changed. Stay tuned, more to
come.
March 27th 2018:
Issue 318 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 213 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This weeks issue of Rick is about the CLOUD
ACT. Uninformatively it has already passed. Rick has a long history of not having a good lead time. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 20th 2018:
Issue 317 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 212 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This weeks issue of Rick is about the House
Intelligence Committees conclusions on the Russia investigation. I have up to this point avoided mentioning the Russia investigation because
I think it is a serious investigation that should not be fodder for jokes. Still, if the Republicans are gong to politicize it, I oppose
that. This weeks issue of Con goes back to the a-story of this story arc. The current story arc is getting ready to come to an end. Stay
tuned, more to come.
March 13th 2018:
Issue 316 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 211 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. As you may note above, 316 was the same
issue number as last week. I have realized that I have had the issue numbers wrong since Ricks return. I also updated all of the old issues
of Con Nachzehrer and Vociferations to a vertical format. The new site redesign is vertical as inspired by Line Webtoon and Tapastic. I
think that the vertical format is much better for Webcomics. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 6th 2018:
Issue 316 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 210 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Issue 316 of Rick outlines some of my thoughts
on the gun control debate. I consider myself a moderate on gun control. I have what was the conservative position before the conservative
movement went off the deep end. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 27th 2018:
Issue 315 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 209 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. I am going to try to get back in the habit
of placing production notes here. This is in part because when the new site redesign rolls out in April, these posts will be far more visibly
placed. The site redesign is going well, I am excited about it. I have spent all afternoon writing a Javascript which will automatically
change the notice of when the comic updates in GMT format based on whether not it is daylight savings time. I realized that I am never good
at updating that. Now it will be accurate, although I feel like the script should not have been so difficult to make for me. Anyway,
production notes, first on Rick: I came up with this script two weeks ago. Gun control might have been a better topic this week, but I wanted
to do this comic, so gun control comes next week in a special issue. This is also the first issue of Rick to be produced in a higher
resolution to make the longer distance shots of characters look better. Con Nachzehrer notes: the show the ghost mentions that was canceled,
Ecdysis, is the name of a comic I considered making, but ultimately decided against. It was to be pornographic in nature. I considered making
it because I thought it might be a path to making money at making comics. It embarrasses me slightly to admit that. I would still like to
make money at this, though. Even though I both acknowledge it is unlikely, and I also accept that I am ok with it never happening. It would
help me pay for this website and to devote more of my time to my creative pursuits. We are also nearing the end of this story arc. The next
one was just completed last week. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 20th 2018:
Issue 314 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 208 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Both of these issues were produced with the
previous two issues of their respective series. This was due to me being on vacation, which will be over for almost a week by the time this
posts. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 13th 2018:
Issue 312 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 206 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Both of these issues were produced
concurrently with two the next two issues of their comics. This is due to the fact that I am on vacation from work this week. Stay tuned,
more to come.
February 6th 2018:
Issue 311 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 206 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Both of these issues were produced
concurrently with two the next two issues of their comics. This is due to the fact that I am on vacation from work this week. Stay tuned,
more to come.
Jnauary 31st 2018:
Issues 309 and 310 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist have both been released. Both of these issues were produced in response to Donald Trumps
State of the Union Address earlier this evening. Needless to say I was not impressed with Donald Trumps speech. I find particularly
disgusting that Donald Trump endorsed indefinite detention tonight, because overreach in the aftermath of September 11th is one of the
biggest things that shaped my politics. I was also disgusted by the rhetoric that Trump used about immigrants in which he equivocated
undocumented immigrants with MS-13 and terrorists. Both of these issues were addressed in the issues I have released tonight. These issues
are special from the perspective that they were both written, produced, and released within the span of five hours. They are also unique in
that they were produced after the three issues which are to proceed them. I am taking a vacation from my job next week and thus I have
actually produced every issue of Rick and Con Nachzehrer to be released up until February 19th. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 30th 2018:
Issue 308 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 205 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 26th 2018:
Issue 307 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 204 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. In other news, there are two big
announcements for the site this week. First, our release day will be switching to Tuesdays starting on January 31st. The other big
announcement is that the site will be redesigned for its tenth anniversary. This redesign will go live on April 15th, which is the actual
anniversary of the site. The biggest objective of the site redesign is to make it mobile friendly. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 19th 2018:
Issue 307 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 203 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 12th 2018:
Issue 306 of Rick the Cryptozoologist and Issue 202 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This week, Dustin joins the site again to draw
another issue of Rick. Hopefully he will be able to submit many more issues of Rick this year, since, as I stated before, to me the character
will always exist as Dustin drew him. This weeks issue of Con Nachzehrer was produced concurrently with the two issues which preceded it.
Stay tuned, more to come.
January 5th 2018:
Issue 305 of Rick the Cryptozoologist and Issue 201 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Unfortunately, Dustin could not join us again
this week, so I did the comic. This comic was produced concurrently with my version of last weeks comic(unreleased), and my version of next
weeks comic(which I hope will be unreleased.) This weeks issue of Con Nachzehrer was also produced concurrently with next weeks issue of Con
Nachzehrer and last weeks. I hope this is the start of a strong year for the site.
December 30th 2017:
Issue 304 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 200 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These are the last issues of both comics for
the year and were released early because I had to work on the night they were posted. Also, tonights issue of Rick features the return of
the original artist for Rick, Dustin. I am proud of what I have been able to do with DAZ Studio and Blender. I leave the quality of my work
for others to decide. Despite my satisfaction in my work, I will always think of Rick as being drawn in Dustins style. All of the issues of
Rick and Con were made concurrently with the issues of those comics to be released next week and the week after. Having survived a hellish
holiday season in retail, I am planning on taking a couple of weeks off of Webcomicing. Say tuned, more to come.
December 23rd 2017:
Issue 302 of Rick, the Crytozoologist and Issue 199 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Both of the issues this week were delayed
(production wise, not release wise.) on account of my having Christmas with my family. We had it ahead of time as I work in retail and I am
therefore unavailable on the actual holiday. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 15th 2017:
Issue 301 of Rick, the Cryptologist and Issue 198 of Con Nachzehrer have both been been released. This weeks issue of Rick was delayed
slightly because I went and saw Star Wars the Last Jedi on opening night. It was, however, released on time, nonetheless. Stay tuned, more
to come.
December 8th 2017:
Issue 300 of Rick, the Cryptologist and Issue 197 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 1st 2017:
Issue 299 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 196 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These two issues were made concurrently with
the issues I posted last week. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 24th 2017:
Issue 298 of Rick,the Cryptologist and Issue 195 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Given the nature of the holiday season while
working retail, I made both of these issues concurrently with the issues to be posted next week. Additionally, I posted these two issues
early because I may not be available at my regular time. I have decided that an early release is preferable to an auto update, because
auto update has sometimes failed when I have tired it. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 17th 2017:
Issue 297 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 195 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 15th 2017:
A surprise Issue of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released, Issue 296. This issue was released to celebrate the one year anniversary of
Ricks return. I debated whether or not to put out an extra issue for this occasion and ultimately decided to do it. A one year string of
webcomics is always something to celebrate to me. Additionally, with the change in art style and new cast members, Ricks second run almost
feels like a sequel rather than a continuation. For those reasons, I did the anniversary comic. Continuing the tradition from Ricks first
run, this comic is not political and makes fun of the comic itself. In this case, Rick and John always fighting is a metaphor for the fact
that the comic has been around for eight years, but only actively posting for half of that time. I hope Ricks second run lasts much longer
than its first. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 10th 2017:
Issue 294 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 193 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These two issues were released early because
I unexpectedly had to work tonight whereas I usually am off on Fridays. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 3rd 2017:
Issue 293 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist, and Issue 191 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 31st 2017:
Issue 292 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This is the special Halloween issue of Rick for 2017. This continues the tradition
in the first run of the comic where there was always a Halloween issue of Rick. The production of this issue was spread over two weeks due to
the complexity of it. I wanted to be sure to work all of the main and supporting cast members into this comic since it is the first Rick
Halloween issue in six years. I also wrote it sometime in August or September, I think. I intended to make a new character costume each week,
but it turned into doing all the work over the course of two weeks. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 27th 2017:
Issue 291 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 190 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. I have an announcement to make on the site
tonight: I will be posting a special issue of Rick the Cryptozoologist to the site on Tuesday for Halloween. During Ricks first run, it was
a tradition that we would post of special issue each year for Halloween. I dropped the ball for the anniversary of Ricks original premiere
(July 29th My store inventoried around that time. I had a script written, but I did not wish to write it) , but, I am glad I managed to do
this Halloween Issue. I am hoping to make an anniversary issue next year and revive that tradition as well. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 20th 2017:
Issue 291 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 190 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 13th 2017:
Issue 290 of Rick, the Cryptologist and Issue 189 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 6th 2017:
Issue 289 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 188 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These two issues were made concurrently with
the previous two issues of their respective comics. The reason for that is that I was on vacation when I would have produced them. For Rick,
this issue introduces a new cryptid. I chose to talk about this issue because it is about to come up in the Supreme Court, and I figured it
would still be relevant at the start of October. For Con Nachzehrer, this issue not only introduces a new setting and character, but gave me
a chance to do something technically challenging. I wish I had not done it on the week when I was making so many comics, but I do like the
challenge. I have already thought of how to do it better next time. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 29th 2017:
Issue 288 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 187 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. I will be on my last day of vacation as this
is released, so these two issues were produced concurrently with two other issues of their respective comic series. For Rick, the
Cryptozoologist, this issue introduces a new monster. I tried to make it different from the Sialia Bird. I actually have a stash of scripts.
I chose this issue to make because a Supreme Court issue is upcoming for partisan gerrymandering. I figured this one would be good regardless
of what the news is this week. For Con Nachzehrer, this was the easy issue of the bunch I did, seeing as I did not have to make any new
settings or characters for it. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 22nd 2017:
Issue 287 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 186 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. I am on vacation this week, so Issue 287 was
made concurrently with Issues 288 and 289 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist, and Issue 186 of Con Nachzehrer was made concurrently with Issues
187 and 188 of Con Nachzehrer. These issues were challenging. To my knowledge, I have never had to make so many new settings and characters
when going on vacation. The build up to a vacation creates more work for me already, but I generally try and avoid issues where I have to
make new things. Making new settings and characters is always more work. This issue of Con Nachzehrer introduces a new setting. Meanwhile
this issue of Rick was not very technically challenging, but it is the only one of the three which was easier. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 15th 2017:
Issue 286 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 185 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This issue of Rick is about the DACA.
Obviously I hope that the compromise between Donald Trump and the Democrats holds. I am skeptical of the entire thing, though. I do not see
Donald Trump as trustworthy. It seems he is already looking for a way to exit the deal with the chain migration issue. Stay tuned, more to
come.
September 8th 2017:
Issue 285 of Rick the Cryptozoologist and Issue 184 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. For Con Nachzehrer, this introduces a new
setting. At least I did a better job with lighting it than I have in the past. Also, as noted above, Dustin Carter, who formerly drew the art
for Rick, the Cryptozoologist, has animated several scripts I wrote. I am fairly certain that most of the scripts have not been released
before. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 1st 2017:
Issue 284 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 183 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. These issues were released early because I
unexpectedly had to work tonight. I figured rather than attempt to auto update, which has failed on me in the past, I would just upload the
comics early. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 25th 2017:
Issue 283 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 182 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This weeks issue of Rick is about White
Supremacists. On another note, this issue of Con Nachzehrer introduces some new characters. One of the swamp monsters will become a major
supporting character. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 18th 2017:
Issue 282 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 181 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. This weeks issue of Rick is a clear jab at
our dear leaders asinine attempts to resolve the tensions with North Korea. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 11th 2017:
Issue 281 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 180 of Con Nachzehrer has both been released. In the past weeks I have mentioned production
being behind. It is back on track now, however, and we will see how long that lasts. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 4th 2017:
Issue 280 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 179 have both been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 28th 2017:
Issue 278 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 178 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. The production was a little less troubled
this time. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 21st 2017:
Issue 277 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 177 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. Again, the production of both were troubled.
I am trying to get back on track with it. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 14th 2017:
Issue 277 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 176 of Con Nachzehrer have both been released. The production on both of these issues were
troubled. I have, for the past several weeks, been struggling to get the swamp set to render in Freestyle. I finally managed to isolate the
offending model and get rid of it. Still, that delayed production on Issue 176. As for Rick, I just did this issue this morning. I had
trouble coming up with a metaphor for Network Neutrality, as the issue itself alludes to. I have also been remaking the original Con
Nachzehrer story arc and releasing it on Line Webtoon. I have gotten to a part where the rendering is slowed, which further pushes back
production on the current arc of Con Nachzehrer and Rick. This may push back production further and make the next few weeks rough. I am not
expecting any release delays, however. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 7th 2017:
Issue 276 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. Issue 175 of Con Nachzehrer has also been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 30th 2017:
Issue 275 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This one deals with the disastrous Healthcare plan put forward by the Republicans.
Issue 174 of Con Nachzehrer has also been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 23rd 2017:
Issue 274 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This issue was originally intended for release last week, but I decided to
interrupt the schedule in favor of doing an issue on political violence in light of last weeks shooting. The 173rd Issue of Con Nachzehrer
has been released. This issue was so intensive to render that I had to render it in pieces and then composite it together in GIMP. Stay
tuned, more to come.
June 16th 2017:
Issue 273 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This issue was to be about Climate Change. I produced a new issue at the last minute,
however, to discuss the issue of political violence. I am vehemently opposed to political violence. Issue 172 of Con Nachzehrer has also been
released. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 9th 2017:
Issue 272 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This issue is about Climate Change. I am very much opposed to the US pulling out of
the Paris Climate Change Agreement. Con issue 171 has also been released. These comics were made on my first week back from vacation. Stay
tuned, more to come.
June 2nd 2017:
Issue 271 of Rick and Issue 170 of Con Nachzehrer have been released. As mentioned before, these comics were made together with several others
so I could take a break from making Webcomics for a week. This issue of Rick is actually one I wrote a couple of weeks ago. I have heard it
several places that Civics is no longer taught in schools. I dont know when that started, because I needed to Civics to graduate High School
and when I looked into college, it seemed that was a requirement there as well. I know it is State law in Missouri that students must be
instructed in Civics. I also find it ironic the hypocrisy of such sentiment. Not necessarily of conservatives themselves. I can respect an
Originalist interpretation of the constitution even though I personally disagree with it. No, the hypocrisy comes from the bumbling idiots in
the Trump Administration who display a profound lack of knowledge or respect for our constitution. Maybe Presidential candidates and
candidates for congress should be required to take a Civics class. On another production note. I had a really crazy set of days off when I was
doing these episodes I was afraid I would not be able to finish them. This has happened on several vacations I took, and I had to finish the
comics on my first day of vacation. As I write this blurb, I have just finished and well before the first day of my vacation. When this posts,
my vacation will be well over with, and I hope it went well. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 26th 2017:
Issue 270 of Rick and Issue 169 of Con Nachzehrer have been released. As I mentioned last week, these comics were made at the same time as
several others to cover my vacation from my job. This weeks issue of Rick actually references my vacation. I got the idea for this issue
because several people have mentioned I take a lot of vacations. I have been at my current job a while, and this is a perk of doing that. As I
stated last week, I also enjoy taking a break from the comic from time to time. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 19th 2017:
Issue 269 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist and Issue 168 of Con Nachzehrer have been released. Both of these issues were made concurrently with two
other issues of their respective comic series. The reason being is that I am on vacation from work this week. I try to take a break from the
site as well when I take a break from work, and hence, I made several weeks of comics. During my last vacation, I was still doing the Trump
filibuster and so I could not take a break as I wanted. Or rather, I chose not to. I am glad this vacation I will get to fully relax. As for
notes on this issue of Rick, the Cryptozoologist, it is about Donald Trumps firing of James Comey. I find Comeys firing both disturbing and
disgusting. It is deeply troubling. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 12th 2017:
The 268th Issue of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This one, due to my terrible lead time, mocks the GOP healthcare plan. The
167th Issue of Con Nachzehrer has also been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 5th 2017:
The 267th Issue of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This one pokes fun at some of Trumps militarist moves. The 166th Issue of Con
Nachzehrer has been released. This issue is the beginning of the fourth story arc. This is actually the biggest set I have ever featured on
the comic. It is a set put together via various sets. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 28th 2017:
The 266th Issue of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This one is a jibe at the Republican healthcare plan. The 165th Issue of Con
Nachzehrer has also been released. This issue marks the end of the third story arc. Come back next week for beginning of a new story.
April 21st 2017:
The 265th Issue of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This is, of course, a strip about Climate Change just in time for Earth Day.
The 164th Issue of Con Nachzehrer has also been released. A fun fact about this storyline, it was originally a back door pilot. Oarlock was
meant to be the character who took over Vociferations. Ever since Vociferations started, I have always wanted to supersede them with a comic of
its own. I am glad that turned out to be Rick. I like Rick better than any of my replacement ideas. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 14th 2017:
The 264th Issue of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This is a special issue I have had in my head for over a year. In fact, Ive
had it in my head so long, it was originally just going to be a Vociferation with actual Jesus in it. When it became a Rick Strip, I changed it
so it was a production Rick was putting on. I turned the idea into a special issue because its the one thing I have not done yet since Rick
returned, a special issue. I figured it was time. Con Nachzehrer Issue 163 has also been released. With the release of these two issues I have
basically gotten back on schedule with my comics. I wonder if I can keep it that way. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 7th 2017:
The 263rd Issue of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This is an issue I have been wanting to do for a while, but just now got
around to. It pokes fun at the left a little bit. I would like to poke fun at liberals more often, but conservatives partake in actions that
really disgust me. This also marks the first appearance of Alan in the new comics. Con Nachzehrer Issue 162 has also been released. I had to
composite this one again because I did it last minute, but, I am now current with the next issue, it is done. I am not current with Rick, the
Cryptozoologist yet, but we will see if I manage it. The next issue of Rick is a special issue for Easter. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 31st 2017:
The 262nd Issue of Rick, the Crytozoologist has been released. This one mocks certain aspects of the Internet with a new cryptid. I am
somewhat happy that I did this one last minute and yet still managed to introduce a new Cryptid. A new Issue of Con Nachzehrer has also been
released. This one was also done last minute. To speed up render time, and to compensate for doing it last minute, I rendered certain elements
of the scene separately then composited them in GIMP. I am hoping to get back on track next week. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 24th 2017:
The 261st Issue of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This one is about the Republican Partys healthcare debacle. I had something
else planned, but I did this issue at the last minute, so this is what I went with. The 160th Issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. It
was also done somewhat last minute. Hopefully next week Ill get back on track. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 17th 2017:
The 260th Issue of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This one is about marijuana, and Trumps plans to crack down on it. The 159th
Issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This is a rough cut of the issue because I missed it up and didnt post it in time. The final cut
will be released by next week. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 10th 2017:
The 259th Issue of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This one pokes fun at both Donald Trumps Muslim ban, and at the way his
administration distorts the truth. Tune back in next week for more political commentary, and for the return of Con Nachzehrer. Finally the
site will have some non political content again.
March 3rd 2017:
The 258th Issue of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This one is actually about the transgender bathroom scare. I just realized that I wrote a blurb
about the wrong comic last week. I am just glad that I didn’t post the wrong comic. Rick is actually made a week from the release date. This is similar to the
process I use in Con Nachzehrer, but different from Rick’s original run where it was made at the last minute. Sometimes right before release time. Stay tuned,
more to come.
February 24th 2017:
The 257th Issue of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. This one is about the transgender bathroom scare. On a side note, I actually
posted the issue which was supposed to be tonights last week. Thus, I had to do two issues this week. One for tonights post and the other
for next week. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 17th 2017:
Despite my previous update several months ago, I am updating the site this evening. I am posting all of the comics I have done in the previous
few months, of which there are many. I have brought Rick the Cryptozoologist back. I originally wanted to post exclusively on other websites,
but I have gone back on that. Site traffic dropped considerably in 2016, but I may as well post here so my content has another mirror. I also
did not shut down the site because I kept forgetting to do it. That might have been out of some unconscious desire to not shut down the site.
For now, I will continue to post to the site. For the time being, the Rick comics will be posted to the Vociferations page every Friday. At
some point, I will be remodeling the site. In other news, Con Nachzehrer will be returning on March 17th, 2017. One month from today. Stay
tuned, more to come.
September 6th 2016:
The 158th Issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This is the final update to this website. The site may be going offline a few days
earlier than I had planned. As early as September 9th. Thank you once again to everyone who has read my comics or supported my artistic
endeavors over the years.
August 30th 2016:
The 157th Issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was produced concurrently with Issues 156 and 158. It is the penultimate
issue of Con Nachzehrer, at least for its original run. As I prepare to shut down the site, I find myself feeling ambivalent about it. This
site has been a part of my life for a long time. Eight years and four years longer than that if you count all the time I spent working
towards it. I am at a point where I am tempted to continue Con Nachzehrer as I am Vociferations. Con Nachzehrer will be back in some form.
I also just today had another Webcomic idea. I do intend to keep making comics just in a different way. A new Vociferation has been
released tonight. Stay tuned one more week for the finale.
August 23rd 2016:
The 156th Issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. As a reminder Con Nachzehrer will be ending it's run with Issue 158. I have set a
date for the site's end, September 12th, 2016. In production notes, this issue was made concurrently with Issues 157 and 158. The reason
for this is that I am preparing to move from the current residence. My move partially influenced my decision to shut the site. My new place
is more expensive. Still, my primary motivation is the dip in site hits. I have thought about doing this for a while now, since February
or March, my move only provided the final trigger. Con Nachzehrer will return in some way in the future. Either as an E-book or on a
another Comics site(I can justify continuing the comic if it is free to me.), I am unsure as to which as of yet. I also have another
project I am developing, but I am unsure yet as to whether or not it will pan out. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 16th 2016:
The 155th Issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. A new Vociferation has also been released. On another note tonight, this website will
be shutting down in September. Due to this fact, Con Nachzehrer will be ending its run on September 6th. Site traffic has been down lately
and I am ready to move on from the site. I still plan to pursue other endeavors and Vociferations will continue. I would like to extend my
deepest thanks to Dustin and Stephen for contributing to the content of this website over the years. I would also like to give my thanks to
all my friends and family who have been very supportive of this hobby of mine. And of course, I'd like to thank all those who have read my
comics over the years. This site has been an important part of my life. I will never forget the lessons I have learned while running it.
Check back these next three weeks for the final issues of Con Nachzehrer.
August 9th 2016:
The 154th Issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. As mentioned last week, this issue was produced concurrently with Issue 153 and 155.
A production note I did not mention last week is that I had to re-render some panels. This was once again due to not be satisfied with the
lighting. One of my big struggles with lighting is that I test the lights on the environment and it is satisfactory to me. Then I put
characters into it and the characters look awful. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 2nd 2016:
The 153rd Issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was produced a bit late due to last week being inventory week at my work
and because I opted against planning ahead. This issue was produced concurrently with issues 154 and 155 to get back on track. Another
Vociferation has also been released. This one about Donald Trump. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 26th 2016:
The 152nd Issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. On the production side, this one was tricky, though it didn't have to be. The first
challenge was that this issue introduces a new set. It was an easy set, but I always have trouble with the lighting. I decided I was ok
with the lighting when I tested it and so proceeded to make the comic. Looking at the finished panels, I changed my mind and set about
deleting some lights. After that I re-rendered the thing. Once I pulled up the panels in GIMP to letter them, I realized that I didn't set
Blender to render an alpha channel. This was needed for the sky background. So, I had to render the panels again. After lettering two of
the newly rendered panels in Blender, I realized that I didn't save the Blender file in which I deleted the lights, so the lighting was off
again. I saved the panels with the altered lights separately, so I was able to use the new panels as a reference to delete the areas of
black that should have been transparent.(I couldn't do this with the raw panels because it would have caught the lines of some of the
characters.) Then I re-rendered the first two panels with transparency again. After that everything went smoothly. This is the first time
in a long time I've had to re-render a comic so many times. From a writing perspective, this comic contains probably my favorite joke in
this entire story arc. I also originally intended this Cop to just be a bit character for Story One that never returns, but each Story thus
far has needed a cop, and I just find this character too amusing. I always reuse characters when possible due to laziness. Stay tuned,
more to come.
July 19th 2016:
The 151th Issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue shows both that I can't resist the urge to be political and how far in
advance that these things are written. A new Vociferation has also been released tonight. This one is one I have had in my mind for a while
now. I used it because I also did the extra Vociferation last week as well, so I needed an easy idea to run with. I acknowledge that
Millennials have their flaws, but I do think some criticisms laid against us are unreasonable. I don't entirely agree that we're just
whiny and want things for free, especially as a liberal. This is my response to that accusation. I think the truth about Millennials is
somewhere in between the people who think we're the worst generation ever and those who think we're going to reinvent the world. To be
fair, I have also come around to thinking I have been too harsh on my parents' generation at times. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 12th 2016:
The 150th Issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. On most of my days off last week I was celebrating the Fourth of July in the time
honored geek tradition of watching the Twilight Zone. I don't watch on Syfy as I don't have cable, but I have the DVD box set. I managed to
get this issue done on time despite my celebrations Oarlock is sort of a version of Rick and the obnoxious preachy insane character I take
on. Oarlock and Romeo Rose sort of represent the two facets I see in myself. The insane starving artist versus the mildly successful middle
manager. In this issue I decided to acknowledge that while I don't like my job much and would prefer to make art full time, my life is
pretty nice. I can buy things I like and don't have to worry too much about money and I'd never want to ruin that. It is the two
contradictory and opposing pieces of my personality. I also released a special Vociferation about the police shootings in Dallas. Back when
I was doing Rick, the Cryptozoologist, we used to do extra issues and special ones all the time. There have been many times with
Vociferations that I have been tempted, but this is the first time I've actually done it. The comic was completed earlier today. I have
strong objections to the use of violence to attain political goals and with the political climate in this country I felt compelled to share
them. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 5th 2016:
The 149th issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. A new Vociferation has also been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 28th 2016:
The 148th Issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. After nearly a month of doing multiple comics one week so I could do none the next, I
found it hard to get back into the grind. I did it though, this comic did not go late production wise. Also, with this comic, we conclude
the story of how Oarlock got his powers. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 21st 2016:
The 147th Issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was produced concurrently with Issues 145 and 146. That is due to the fact
that I was on vacation while the last two issues were released. As this one was released I will be back from vacation, but as I make the
comic a week in advance, I produced this one early. The forest character is new. For once I did not reuse on old character. I wanted
something specific for this character. It is supposed to be a bear, although it's hair came out a little light. I like it though, because
it gives the bear a Winnie the Pooh vibe. It's just funny to me. I actually had to make the bear character twice, because the first time
DAZ crashed halfway through. Still, that wasn't too bad. The bear character was one of the easiest to create because I used a shape I
purchased on content paradise and hardly modified it at all. Likewise, I barely modified the bear's costume. The bear's costume is one I
used for a character from Ostraka. I reuse costumes a lot because it is easy to make them look different. A new Vociferation has been
released. This one made three weeks ago, again, due to my vacation. It forgot I would need to make it to avoid working on it during my time
off and it was actually made before I went to work on June 1st. I don't like working on things before I go to my job, because I don't want
to get caught up and be late, but I still had a weird sleep schedule due to working overnights for two weeks prior to that. I also used a
script I had previously written. For Rick, I always had tons of scripts on hand. I thought about doing this for Vociferations, but it
didn't pan out. It just seems like that with a biweekly update schedule, it is better to write the comics closer to update time. Sometimes
I don't really have any ideas though, which can become a problem. The hardest part of being an artist is forcing yourself to create on
command. This time I didn't do that however, and I am lucky I had some scripts on hand, otherwise I would have had to work a little while
on vacation. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 14th 2016:
The 146th Issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was produced concurrently with Issues 145 and 147. That is due to me being
on vacation this week. When this is posted, my vacation will actually almost be over. This issue uses a set from the failed Ostraka comic.
It also uses a rabbit model. In the script I initially used a squirrel. I decided to go with a rabbit, as I had a rabbit model on hand
because of a Geek Force script I had written. I had first planned to make comics out of the Geek Force scripts before I decided to scratch
Geek Force and make it Ostraka. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 7th 2016:
The 145th Issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was produced concurrently with Issues 146 and 147. Technically with these
three issues produced together, combined with the fact that Issues 143 and 144 were also made together, it means that I have made the most
issues in advance I have ever made for the comic. I made these issues on May 31st before release time, which means I had four issues ready.
I don't think I've ever been that far ahead before. Due to my vacation, I also made this Vociferation concurrently with the last one. This
is not actually the farthest in advance I have made a Vociferation however. I made a climate change comic once and decided to shelve it
for a few updates to focus more on current events. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 31st 2016:
The 144th Issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was produced concurrently with Issue 143. This is also a return to
releasing Con at it's usual time. For the past two weeks I have been releasing it early due to working overnights. I am still not back on
my normal sleep schedule and so the next week or so will suck for me. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 24th 2016:
The 143rd Issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was made concurrently with Issue 144. That is because I have been working
overnight the past week and will be working it this week as well. With all the schedule changes, I wanted to get ahead. A new Vociferation
has also been released. This Vociferation was made concurrently with the next one as well. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 17th 2016:
The 142nd issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This one was released early due to the fact that I am working today. I am ordinarily
off on Tuesdays, but I agreed to work overnight at my job for two weeks and to work different days. The hours don't work for updating and
the last time I tried to auto update, it did not go well, hence I just decided to update early. Next week's issue will be early as well,
though I won't specify a time. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 10th 2016:
The 141st issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. A new Vociferation has been released as well. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 3rd 2016:
The 140th Issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. In production notes, this issue was almost a major challenge. This is due to the fact
that I accidentally formated the hardrive which contains all my Con Nachzehrer files. After a few nights of low sleep I was finally able to
recover my files and back them up. I've lost drives before and this lesson of making back ups is one I have had to relearn many times. I
got away from doing back ups because in the early days Con Nachzehrer took up way too much disk space for me to perform back ups in a cost
effective manner. Had I not been able to recover my files, I would have lost the actor for Oarlock and Romeo Rose, plus the sets for his
apartment. I was unsure of my ability to perfectly replicate Oarlock(The set seemed pretty straightforward.). Anyway, that crisis was
averted. Tonight's issue also introduces Romeo Rose's wife. I put her in only to make the situation even more weird. I didn't want her to
look very attractive, but the dress I picked out somewhat nullified that desire. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 26th 2016:
The 139th Issue has been released. On time occurring to my production schedule, although I foresee Issue 140 being a problem again. Another
Vociferation has also been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 19th 2016:
The 138th Issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. As mentioned last week, this issue was produced concurrently with Issue 137 in order
for me to get back onto schedule with production. I feel a bit lost since I decided to end Ostraka. Ostraka was an all consuming project
for a long portion of my life and it's abject failure has been difficult for me. I wasn't surprised that the comic wasn't huge, but it
didn't even do as well as my other comics. Con Nachzehrer has lost a lot of readership in the past year. I'm still working on Ostraka
without the intention to publish though, I am redoing the first book, and I am working on a new project. This new project probably won't be
released on this website, however. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 12th 2016:
The 137th Issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was produced a little late. It was also produced concurrently with Issue
138 in order for me to get caught up. A new Vociferation has also been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 5th 2016:
The 136th Issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This one was produced mostly on time. I realized shortly before typing this news
update that I didn't catch the continuity error in time. Oh well. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 29th 2016:
The 135th Issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue went late production wise because I was up partying last Tuesday due to the
fact that it was my birthday. It was finished about seven hours from release time. Likewise for this week's Vociferation. Last week's issue
was also the first one that I released from my phone. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 22nd 2016:
The 134th Issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. As of this issue, Thormond has surpassed Con in terms on the number of comics he has
appeared in. This is a pretty Thormond heavy arc, so it may stay that way for a while. It is somewhat odd and not entirely planned out that
while Con is the title character of the comic, Kolman is the main focus. I came up with Con first, creating his adventures throughout most
of his life and then I invented Kolman and the focus shifted to him. Of course, by the time I released the strip, I had already made this
change. I guess in a way a big part of the comic is exploring the dynamic between Kolman and Con. Family is a big part of Con Nachzehrer.
In other news, somewhat sad news, I am ending Ostraka as of tonight. The site's traffic is way down and I have decided to end the strip to
focus on my other comics. I hope that with some extra time, I can focus a little more on promoting my comics and overhauling the site to
make it more mobile friendly. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 15th 2016:
The 133rd Issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. Again, this part of the arc is one I am nervous about. I also dropped a new
Vociferation, my second criticizing Donald Trump. A new page of Ostraka has also been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 8th 2016:
The 132nd issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This one went a little late production wise. This is owing to the fact that I had to
make a new set for this issue and that I volunteered against my better judgment to work an extra half day this week. Another page of
Ostraka has been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 1st 2016:
The 131st issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. In production notes, I feel like this issue was a bit off. The reason being is that I
forgot to save the previous week's issue in Blender. I simply rendered it. I like to build on the poses, expressions, and camera angles
from the previous issue. Especially since I consider a year's worth of Con Nachzehrer, 52 strips, to be analogous to one episode. In story
notes, this particular subplot is one which makes me kind of nervous. This is one of those times I think I might have crossed a line. The
idea of Romeo Rose being a sexual predator is, and this is a spoiler, a complete fake out. Still, I feel somewhat ambivalent as to whether
or not I should have ran with the joke. I even prepared alternate dialogue wherein Romeo Rose is teased as a serial killer instead. A new
Vociferation and new page of Ostraka have also been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 23rd 2016:
The 130th Issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue introduces how the main characters originally met Oarlock. A new page of
Ostraka has also been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 16th 2016:
The 129th issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. Issue 129 was produced concurrently with Issues 128 and 129. I will no longer be on
vacation when this posts, but I made this issue with the previous two to avoid having to work on it while I was off, as I typically make
the comics a week in advance. I accidentally created a plot hole in the original version of the script for this comic. I had Thormond say
he met Romeo Rose the previous Summer. I had forgotten that an earlier issue of this comic establishes that Thormond went on vacation with
his family during the Summer. Thus, I hastily changed the line. I thought it would be clever to give the comic an excuse to flash back
because I have established that Rabanus was gone the whole Summer, but I just ended up creating a plot hole. The flash back is necessary to
explain how Oarlock became Oarlock. I incorporated the flash back into this issue when I decided to merge this story with the backstory of
Oarlock. A new Vociferation has also been released, which was produced concurrently with the previous Vociferation. A new page of Ostraka
has also been released. Writing on Book Two of Ostraka should begin this week. I am a bit nervous because I usually break the comic way in
advance of writing it. This helps me catch plot holes. A big test of the release schedule is whether or not the writing schedule can
coexist with the schedule for the comic. One of the big mistakes I made last year was thinking I could do six pages of comic a year and
still crank out an entire book's worth of writing. Last year was the first time since 2011 that I didn't write at least that much in a
year. I reached a point where I could do a book's worth of comic, and a book's worth of writing but not both at once. The writing is much
more important to me than the comic. I tend to be more autotellic when it comes to writing, and I strive for that with my art in general.
Though, the graphic element is only there because I think my ideas work out best in a visual medium. I think I could live with writing the
entire saga of Ostraka and never releasing it. I write stories because it gives me fulfillment in some strange way. My new goal is eight
chapters a year, and I can just live with the reduced output. We'll see if I can manage even that. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 9th 2016:
The 128th issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. Issue 128 was produced concurrently with Issues 127 and 129. This is due to me being
on vacation from work this week. Issue 128 is a new setting, but is made entirely from the school set and props from it, as makes sense.
Stay tuned, more to come.
February 3rd 2016:
The 127th issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was posted late due to my bungling of setting up the auto update script.
That's why I prefer not to use auto update, too error prone. This is one of the few times I have used it I decided not to check after I got
home to ensure it worked. My apologies for the late release of all my comics. Issue 127 was produced concurrently with Issues 128 and 129.
The reason being is that I am on vacation from my job this week. Production notes for this issue: I rendered the panels for this issue
after the ones for Issues 128 and 129. I did the posing on this one first, but because I knew the panels on this one would take longer to
render, I rendered them last. I then did the lettering in chronological order. This week's Vociferation has also been released. A fun note
on the Vociferation: this is the first time I have done a Vociferation concurrently with another issue. With the production schedule I
would have had to make the next Vociferation while I was still on vacation. This is also the first time I have been on vacation in my new
position. It changes things somewhat, because while I will still have to do two updates while I am on vacation, the first will not take
place on the last evening before my first day off. Meaning it won't take place after work. Before, when I went on vacation, it was just
like my vacation hadn't started yet. On the other hand, with my new position, I get an extra day of vacation. This will also be the first
vacation I've taken since 2013 where I will be working on the site while I am off. I will be breaking the plot of Book Two of Ostraka(I
break the books like TV shows do their seasons.) In September 2013, I took time off right before Con Nachzehrer debuted. This was to get
Con Nachzehrer ready for released and to experiment with Ostraka. Hopefully this vacation is similar in getting Ostraka closer to a more
rapid release schedule, one which is more sustainable. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 26th 2016:
The 126th issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was hard to produce. My computer would not render it as a full scene. I had
to render the scene in pieces and then paste them together in GIMP. This is the first time I have had to do this. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 19th 2016:
The 125th issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue, along with this Vociferation, introduce Oarlock. Oarlock was the character
I originally devised to carry Vociferations. This story arc of Con Nachzehrer is a back door pilot of sorts. I went through several
concepts of what a new politically themed satirical comic would look like. I was going to go for it basically being Rick, the
Cryptozoologist with the names changed, but I decided that wouldn't be fair to Dustin. I won't do Rick without him. Then I came up with
Oarlock. My idea was to do a big comic about his backstory then to start doing weekly satirical strips. My plan at one time called for
Ostraka to be released, then for Oarlock's comic to be released later on, once I gauged whether or not I could handle it. I wanted Oarlock
to be weekly. I decided back in November 2014 though, to jump the gun on doing a political strip. I opted for Biweekly, and that is why I
just made it about side characters in Con Nachzehrer. That, and it would prevent me from having to make new characters and sets. With
Vociferations in place, I wanted to add Oarlock in, so I figured I would work his backstory into the next Con Nachzehrer story arc. I am
not sure whether or not I will make Vociferations more Oarlock centric now, I like it as it is. Still Oarlock will feature in
Vociferations. Another page of Ostraka has been released. I think I am making some progress where Ostraka is concerned, but I wouldn't
expect any changes to the schedule until 2017 at the earliest. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 12th 2016:
The 124th issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was produced concurrently with Issues 122 and 123, to enable my New Year's
festivities. Now it is the second week of January and I am back to work as far as the site goes. A note on this issue: this is Ted's first
speaking appearance in the comic proper. I realized as I was typing this that Ted began as a stock character, so he technically first
appeared in Issue 9. It is nice to see Ted rendered in the full settings for Con Nachzehrer at last, though. The teacher character is also
new. I might utilize her in the future. A new page of Ostraka has also been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 5th 2016:
The 123rd issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was made concurrently with Issues 122 and 124. This week's Vociferation was
also released. It was written at 2am last night(my local time), posed at one in the afternoon and lettered at the same time. A new page of
Ostraka has also been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 29th 2015:
The 122nd issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was made concurrently with Issues 123 and 124. This is mostly because I
don't want to make a comic next week. I will be watching Twilight Zone. I am also behind, because this week I should have been making next
week's issue and not this week's. These three issues were very difficult to produce. That is because I had to make new settings and because
it had so many characters. Issue 124 also adds a new minor character. These issues also took a long time to render. That is mostly because
I forgot to turn on culling for Freestyle. I keep forgetting to do this, and it makes a big difference in rendering. I was nervous that
this comic would not render on time. I had to begin trying to prepare a backup and reuse one of the panels, but I fortunately did not have
to do this. As I write this, it is about three hours from update time. Another page of Ostraka has been released. In Ostraka news, while I
can't make any announcements yet, I have finally been working on what the new release schedule will look like. It will take a while because
I want to test it, but I am now working on it. I was trying to aim for a book a year, but I think I am going to abandon this. It just
doesn't seem feasible. I think my main error was taking into account what I could handle in terms of production without taking into account
the time for writing or site work. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 22nd 2015:
The 121th issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was all done last minute due to Christmas stuff, and because my grandfather
passed away recently. It threw my schedule off. This issue was also released late due to me procrastinating because I thought it involved
some new set pieces and characters. I was mistaken. That is next week's issue which may also go down to the wire. Another interesting note
is that this issue is also one set to auto update. This is due to the fact that my family is having our Christmas tonight because I have to
work Christmas Eve. This is the first time I have used auto update for this news blurb. Now the whole site is set up with built in auto
update functionality. Except for the RSS feeds which is for security reasons. Tonight's Vociferation has also been released. This one is
about Daesh. In the wake of San Bernardino, Paris, and the Russian plane crash in the Sinai Peninsula, I wanted to do a comic explicitly
and unabashedly condemning Daesh. Another page of Ostraka has also been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 15th 2015:
The 120th Issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue saw a new set made for the comic. It was also originally just going to be
Ran, but I decided to add the manager in. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 8th 2015:
The 119th issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was made concurrently with Issues 117 and 118. Although, the lettering was
not completed until a few days ago. The reason for this is that my computer could not render the frames quickly enough. A new Vociferation
has been released, this one about Climate Change. A new page of Ostraka has also been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 1st 2015:
The 118th issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. In production notes, this issue was produced concurrently with issues 117 and 119.
This turns out to have been the right decision, as I was so distracted by a belated Thanksgiving Sunday I forgot to post Ostraka on
Tapastic. I actually forgot it until earlier today. This last week had me beat. Another interesting note, not from this week but from last
week is that it was the first time I did an auto update for either Ostraka or Con Nachzehrer. I had to do auto updates for Rick several
times. I prefer not to do it that way, but I had to be gone from where I could update the site. I decided doing it on my phone would be
undesirable from a security perspective. Unlike with Rick, the auto update functionality is now built into the Javascript for the site,
which is handy. All I have to do is switch it on. The new page of Ostraka has also been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 24th 2015:
The 117th issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was produced concurrently with Issues 118 and 119. This is due to
Thanksgiving. Despite the fact that I no longer work with food, there is still an unease I feel towards the holiday. I am still involved
with Black Friday stuff. I should not have to work so many days in a row, but it may be stressful. Not to mention the fact that in two
weeks time I will be spending some time with family members. I have therefore done a multiple comic week to avoid extra hassle. I did not
however, produce an extra Vociferation. Tonight's issue of Con shows Con's brother Ran for the first time. Ran is my one of my favorites
in Con Nachzehrer. When I was a kid I called him Ron. Ran is kind of a proto Rick. He is a homeless vagabond with hidden wisdom and has
trickster traits. I seem to dig that character archetype. The primary difference between Rick and Ran is that Ran is a believer in, not a
perpetrator of conspiracy theories. Ran was, when I first made him as a child, not very political. It seems like things have come full
circle because there are some parts of Ran's story and character that take inspiration from Rick. I really miss being able to write Rick,
but I feel it would be unfair to write him without Dustin's involvement. I have also tweaked Ran's backstory somewhat. When I was a kid I
had Ran become insane after some trauma. The idea now is that Ran already had some mental problems which we exacerbated by trauma. I won't
get into all that for this current story arc, but hopefully I will get to it eventually. Page two of Issue 22 has also been released
tonight, along with a new Vociferation. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 17th 2015:
The 116th issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This one returns to being made on time. I have started my new position and I am
adhering to the new schedule. I am a bit concerned about how well I will do during the Thanksgiving week, it will be interesting. The
first page of Ostraka Issue 22 has been released.
November 10th 2015:
The 115th issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. In production notes, I said last week that this week's issue would be done by the time
I had made that post. That did not pan out. As I am typing this, it is Saturday and I have a little over two hours before starting my first
shift in my new position. I have been tired all week. I've gone to bed early each night and have been rather lethargic when I've gotten off
work. I'd like to blame the end of daylight savings time, but to be honest, it probably has a lot to do with me anticipating the big
changes coming in my life. I have more or less been on my current schedule for three and a half years. I do also have a tinge of
nervousness about starting my new position, though I don't like to admit it. Things like this also tend to exacerbate problems like my
recent troubles with the site. I enjoy Webcomicsing, but it is hard to keep up the passion sometimes. The past few months have been a low
time as far as passion goes. Anyway, I am on my new schedule, so there should not be any more issues I have to post on a night preceding a
day in which I work. The next few weeks should bring changes, but I am sure I will adapt and after that hopefully it will be smooth
sailing. The new Vociferation and a new page of Ostraka have been released as well. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 3rd 2015:
The 114th issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This one was a tricky one, because of the close proximity to the release of Issue 113.
Due to the funk I am in, and the fact that this one required new objects to be modeled, I did not make this issue concurrently with Issue
113. Tonight's issue was made in the wee hours of the morning this morning. It is 2:35 local time. I fell asleep after work because I abuse
my body and never get enough sleep, causing my body to periodically rebel. This issue was made concurrently with Issue 115, however. Issue
115 is not lettered yet, but it will be by the time this is posted, and the art portion of the work is done. This marks the start of a new
story arc. I am always excited when a new arc begins and I seem to get tired of the old one. There are some interesting production notes
here. I had to redo the models for both Miriam and Con. Miriam I had to redo because she first appeared before I had perfected my
production methods. There wasn't a model for her that could be posed in Blender. This was also the first issue in which Miriam appeared
with the current shading settings for the comic. Con had to be redone because his old model could not close his eyes, and there was no way
for me to amend that. I do the facial gestures with shape keys. When I upgraded from DAZ Studio 4.5 to 4.6, it changed the way the geometry
is exported, so I can't make any new characters or gestures which are compatible with my old figure because the shape keys won't transfer
with the geometry difference. I might have mentioned this before, but all of my characters are based upon one single figure. This figure is
in Blender, perfectly rigged, with a pose library, and shape keys for all the facial gestures. I then import a shape key onto this figure
for the new character(which works because all of my figures are Genesis, which is very versatile and customizable.), then I color the
character. After that I move the clothing onto the character, parent it to the armature, and then transfer the vertex weighs from the
Genesis figure to the clothing. Doing the characters this way saves me from having to re-rig to the bones, and re-input the gestures and
movements into each character. It cuts down this phase of character creation from forty minutes plus to a process that takes about ten
minutes total, if that. This update also kind of sucks because I haven't started my new position yet. I wasn't expecting this. What that
means is that I have to do an update on a night which precedes a day in which I have to work. I am not a fan of doing that. The other
production note is that I took some advice from my brother for this one. He told me back when I was updating Geek Force that I should
change the camera more often. Stephen also mentioned this to me. One of the big advantages to using the DAZ/Blender method is the ease with
which I can create any camera angle I desire. Since there is no movement in this issue, I tried to move the camera to make it a bit more
dynamic. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 30th 2015:
The 113th issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This is the final issue in this story arc. This issue brings us to the moral of the
story and the resolution to Corbin's problem. Corbin is making too much of things and just needs to chill. This story arc was meant to be
about adolescent male woes regarding sexuality, and that is the resolution. Next week a new story arc begins on a new update day. The
reason for the day switch is that I got promoted at work. My new schedule would make it difficult to continue updating on Fridays. In fact,
I would be unable to update except via an automated system. I don't want to do that, so I switched the update day to Tuesday, which works
better with my new schedule. In my new schedule I will work four ten hour days and then have three days off each week. I am hoping that
this will help me shake the funk I have had lately. I have held the same position for over three years and thus things have become dull. It
seems my new schedule might help me to get more sleep, which is something I lack on a constant basis. In production notes on Issue 113,
this issue went a bit late. I had some things happen on Sunday which prevented me from working on the comic, and I had to make a new
character for this issue. The comic went two days late. Additionally, the girl who Corbin is talking to is possibly going to become a
member of the main cast. I have been trying to increase diversity in my other comic, Ostraka, and I have decided to do the same for Con
Nachzehrer as well. I am not as concerned with minority characters, because the ethnicity of my characters is ambiguous due to them being
monsters. I am however, going to add two females as main cast. I planned for this new character to become Corbin's girlfriend. She was only
going to be recurring however, and I wanted her and Corbin to break up after a short time. Truth be told, I don't even have a name for this
new character yet, and I haven't fleshed out her personality. I am thinking a science nerd, but I haven't committed to that just yet. The
next arc is already locked in, so look for those changes during the arc which will begin in November 2016. Maybe the addition of women to
Con's main cast will coincide with the election of our first female president, or perhaps a rebuke to the Republicans for their war on
women. A new Vociferation has been released. This one brings back a set from the early days of Con Nachzehrer. This is noteworthy because I
first did this set before I had finalized the shading effects. It is kind of neat to see the set lit up like a regular issue. Although, the
lighting on it sucks. It is amazing for me to look back and remember just how long I had to tinker with Con Nachzehrer to get the process
down. Much longer than I wanted. The fourth page of Issue 21 of Ostraka has also been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 23rd 2015:
The 112th issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. I have an announcement to make, a change for this website: the update date for all of my comics will be shifting from Friday to Tuesday. I
will explain the reason next week. This change is effective for Con Nachzehrer and Ostraka starting November 3rd. It will go into effect for Vociferations starting November 10th. I timed it so
that one week there will only be three days between updates. I figured this would be better than making it ten days. As I said, I will explain the circumstances which lead to this decision next
week, which will be the last Friday update. As for Con Nachzehrer production notes: at this point this story arc is just wrapping up. Also, I didn't originally intend for
this corrupt cop to
be a recurring character. He appears in the next arc as well. The third page of Ostraka Issue 21 has also been
released. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 16th 2015:
The 111th issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. Only two issues to go before the end of this arc. I think this arc was somewhat
lackluster and I am excited for the new one. This week's Vociferation is just a general one about politics. I wanted to throw one in that
is less partisan staying true to the fact that I am an registered Independent(albeit with strong liberal leanings). This issue also
continues the trend of including other characters than just Rabanus and Ted. Some characters from the next arc of Con Nachzehrer will be
spun off to be mostly Vociferation characters. As it is now, Vociferations seem sort of like an extension of Con Nachzehrer. The new page
of Ostraka has also been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 9th 2015:
The 110th issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was not Ricked. This is also the first week of the one page per week
release schedule for Ostraka. It is a painful thing for me. Hopefully when Ostraka ramps back up I will never have to scale it back again.
October 2nd 2015:
The 109th issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. Production on this one was a little rough. I started out strong on Sunday, getting the
art done, but the lettering did not get done until Wednesday. Monday didn't happen, and I paid the price for sleep deprivation on Tuesday.
I also had to stay late two times this week. That is rare. I am still trying to shake the funk. Issue 20 of Ostraka has been released as
well as a new Vociferation.
September 25th 2015:
The 108th issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. The issue was made more or less on time, only going one day late. The 19th issue of
Ostraka has also been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 18th 2015:
There is big site news tonight, and not necessarily happy news: Ostraka will be moving to a one page a week release schedule starting on
October 9th. The reason for this change is that the six page a week release schedule was more daunting than I expected. This change will
not effect Con Nachzehrer or Vociferations. For those two comics I have picked a release schedule that allows me to have a happy balance
between doing comics and living my life. Now that I've put out my dream webcomic, now that I've gotten to the point where I can make that
comic, I am hoping to find that kind of same balance for Ostraka. I apologize to everyone who has read the comic. I wanted to get this
period of adjustment over with before releasing the comic, but sometimes things just don't work out that way. On a lighter note, Con
Nachzehrer Issue 107, Ostraka Issue 18, and a new Vociferation have all been released. In production notes, I sort of Ricked it this week.
The Vociferation wasn't done until Wednesday, and Con Nachzehrer wasn't fully finished until earlier this evening. The marshmallow joke has
special significance. It hearkens back to the original Con Nachzehrer stories. Back when Con Nachzehrer was Con Dracula, I was too foolish
to write the stories down, and I was a little kid, six or seven. That was when I first came up with Con, and the fact that Con loved
marshmallows was a big recurring joke in those days. I think it was my way of imagining a harmless addiction. My stepfather was an
alcoholic who would get violent and beat my mother. Con was like a harmless version of that. He liked a benign substance and would never
get violent with anyone undeserving. I also remember a Con Dracula story where Con considered divorcing his wife after his son was born.
Much like my own father, who divorced my mother six weeks after I was born. The difference being of course, that Con decides against it,
and his family became my ideal of what a family should be at the time. I made many characters in my youth, but Con is the one that sticks
with me, and I think that is why. I tapped into something deeper, something painful I was feeling at the time. If you count me putting on
impromptu plays with Knex figures made up like the characters, Con and Kolman are the characters I've been making stories for the longest.
I kept thinking up stories for them until High School. At that point, I invented Geek Force and it supplanted Con Nachzehrer. Con came
back though. I'd come up with story ideas from time to time. I decided one day I would make Con Nachzehrer. Maybe as a post Geek Force
story. As time went on, I found myself making stories for these characters again, and then I needed some ongoing material for the site. I
decided Con Nachzehrer's time had come at last, and the rest is history. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 11th 2015:
The 106th issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was made together with issues 104 and 105 because I was on vacation last
week. I did absolutely no site work. In fact, even though the comic was finished two weeks ago, I am just now typing this and updating the
pages for the site four hours before release time. This blurb and a few tweaks to the site's HTML aren't a big deal in terms of
procrastination though. Issue 17 of Ostraka has also been released.
September 4th 2015:
The 105th issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This marks the end of all the sex jokes and I think we can all agree that is a good
thing. I did this arc to parody how males in their earl adolescence see women, as a parody of harem Anime, and to tie in with Geek Force
back when Geek Force was still Geek Force and not Ostraka. This is a lot like Geek Force Issue 28. I don't think I'll be doing a comic
issue full of sex jokes ever again. As I mentioned before, I think this arc just comes off as sexist. Also, as I mentioned last week, this
issue was made together with issues 104 and 106 because I am on vacation this week. As I type this it is Saturday, my first full day off. I
am finishing up all site work so I can truly begin the festivities. The other site work I have just finished is this week's Vociferation. I
tend to do both Con Nachzehrer and Vociferations on Mondays currently, so it is not that early to produce it. In a move that is arrogant
and lazy though, I usually write the Vociferation on the same day I make it without doing a draft. I wrote this issue on Thursday, so that
was a bit early. Back when it was Rick, I used to just write eight comics once every eight weeks. I'd send them all to Dustin and let him
pick which ones he would do. This is the second week in a row that Rabanus does not appear in the Vociferation. I like that, because I
never intended Rabanus to be the main character. Arguments between Rabanus and Ted are just an easy formula to fall back on. Interestingly,
I also had the same idea for Rick. With Rick, I only ever intended for Rick and John to keep appearing. Dustin would draw the same people
over and over again, though. This worked to the strip's advantage, however, because we began to flesh the characters out and it gave us an
interesting supporting cast to draw upon. This issue establishes what happened to one of the cops who appeared in Con Nachzehrer. It is
fun for me. One of the things I like about the Vociferations is that they allow me to give characterization to minor characters from Con
Nachzehrer. The 16th issue of Ostraka has also been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 28th 2015:
The 104th issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was produced concurrently with Issues 105 and 106. The reason for this is
that I am going on vacation next week. I have been in a funk all summer with the comic, just barely meeting deadlines, but I've recently
defaulted back to doing things well on time. Nothing like the motivation of not wanting to do any site work next week to keep that trend
going. I also did next week's Vociferation early as well to avoid working on the site while I am on vacation. As for Issue 104
specifically, Con's sausage was a rare prop I made on my own. This was one issue of my favorite comic ideas, and basically what I built
the entire scene to lead up to. In retrospect though, I wonder if it wasn't as good as I thought. I often feel that way about my work.
Issue 15 of Ostraka has also been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 21st 2015:
The one hundred and third issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue continues my streak of not Ricking the issues. This is not
one of my favorite issues. This also starts the issues I had to rewrite because I lost the original scripts for the strips. There is also
a new Vociferation this week, it is about Climate Change. Due to the coming elections I have to hit all my liberal issues. The fourteenth
issue of Ostraka has been released as well. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 14th 2015:
The one hundred and second issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. Unlike most of the issues lately, this one was not done at the last
minute. I am hoping to go back to this method of production for the foreseeable future. Also, due to my recent laziness, Kolman's
grandfather does not appear in this issue. The thirteenth issue of Ostraka has been released as well. Ostraka's production is back in
swing, too. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 7th 2015:
The one hundred and first issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. I wrote this issue some time ago and changed the joke to be more
topical. Originally Tucker Carlson was the conservative I ripped on. This issue was also Ricked. The twelfth issue of Ostraka has been
released. This week's Vociferation is about the Iranian Nuclear Deal. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 31st 2015:
The one hundredth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. I still kind of Ricked it. The eleventh issue of Ostraka has also been
released. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 24th 2015:
The ninety ninth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. Despite my best intentions, this issue was also produced via the Rick method,
though I did a little better over last week. I have been in a funk lately. This week's postponement was due to me having a tension
headache yesterday, so I decided to just finish this issue today. The only Ibuprofen I have is out of date, so I just had to live with my
headache and go to sleep early last night. I don't use Ibuprofen often, but it is handy when I do. I get stressed out and give myself
tension headaches, I can't sleep. That's part of why I feel compelled to do my comics. I always find something to stress over, the writing
helps me to cope and vent over it. My stress is also why I was reluctant to write about the production like this. My issues with stress
strike me as lame, and I figure everyone who reads this will agree. Anyway, this comic is done and brings back the elves. I always had a
plan for them. All in all, I think the story arcs should be read as one episode. I write them as such. I also found out this week that I
have lost the scripts for the last fifth of this story arc, so I have to rewrite them. The tenth issue of Ostraka has also been released.
This week's Vociferation is about Greece. I don't think Greece is being treated very fairly by the rest of the Eurozone. I think the
Eurozone is a good idea, it just needs to be reformed to be more equal and it needs to ditch entirely the ideas of Neoliberalism. Stay
tuned, more to come.
July 17th 2015:
The ninety eighth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This is another issue that went down to the wire. This one did not go as late
as last week's, however. I did the posing last night because this digital set takes some time to render. It is also four and a half hours
until release time. Next week I am shooting to be back on schedule. I am finished with inventory at work, so now things can go back to
normal. Issue nine of Ostraka has also been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 10th 2015:
The ninety seventh issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This one along with this week's Vociferation was made in the Rick the
Cryptozoologist style. By that I mean, I just completed it two and a half hours ago. I did both of the entire issues today. I have
inventory next week at work and I feel awful. I am on an eleven day run. I have always prided myself on not really caring about how the
site is doing in terms of hits, but I am disappointed that the hits have been down for five straight months. It is a rough time for the
site. This rough time will pass though, Stay tuned, more to come.
July 3rd 2015:
The ninety sixth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This one went down to the wire. The seventh issue of Ostraka has been released.
Stay tuned, more to come.
June 26th 2015:
The ninety fifth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This week's issue sees the return of the title character. This is one of my
favorite bits in this arc, mostly because it doesn't have any sex jokes. Also, when I wrote the script for this one, I wasn't sure at first
I was going to reuse the store from an earlier issue. I just wrote it as a store. I often do this in my stories. I will plan for a
character or place and realize it fits some setting or character I've created before. The sixth issue of Ostraka has also been released.
As for this week's Vociferation, it is about abortion. I think this is the first comic I've ever done dealing with abortion. I was
inspired to write about this topic because it seems like Republicans have just about overturned Roe V. Wade. Every other time I have talked
about abortion on this website, it has been in a juvenile manner. I regret that. In many ways I regret the obnoxious, insane persona I
tried to craft when I was eighteen. I've come around to thinking that abortion should not be trivialized in such a way. I think it is an
important right for women to have. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 19th 2015:
The ninety fourth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. The fifth issue of Ostraka has also been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 12th 2015:
The ninety third issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. The production on this issue went well and was completed on time. This issue
reminds me of how much I have grown tired of this arc. I really don't think this is me at my best. In the future, I am not doing comics
full of sex jokes. This week's vociferation is just a generalized romp on conservatism. The fourth issue of Ostraka has also been released.
This issue brings to a close the first chapter, the second chapter beginning next week is entitled Primitive Means. Stay tuned, more to
come.
June 5th 2015:
The ninety second issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. The production on this issue went smoothly and was finished on time. The third
issue of Ostraka has also been released. Ostraka now updates on Tapastic on Wednesdays before it updates on the site. Stay tuned, more to
come.
May 29th 2015:
The ninety first issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue went late again. Not because of the set. The set is actually an
Ostraka set, but just because I am exhausted this week after the big debut. Not only that, but I've had to eat a big helping of humble pie
in a lot of ways this week. Anyway, this issue shares a set with Ostraka and the cop is same character as Rishian. The second issue of
Ostraka has been released. Also tonight, a new Vociferation has been released, which is about the Patriot Act. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 22nd 2015:
The ninetieth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. Next week we go back to Kolman, Rabanus, Corbin, and Zenon. The first issue of
Ostraka has also been released. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 15th 2015:
The eighty ninth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This has been a crazy week of production. I am racing towards the finish line
of Ostraka, so there is all kinds of extra stuff to do there. I also had to work overnight this week at my job and, of course, I got to
spend some quality time with my mother last weekend. I did enjoy that, I went with my mother, brother, and step father to see the
Avengers: Age of Ultron. This comic also brought some challenges because I had to make the building and the two women. Ostraka was also
challenging this week with five new characters to make and three sets. I've got it done though. Also, I considered making those girls
teenaged, I changed my mind however, because I don't think Thormond's fantasy picks would be teenaged girls. Not that I ever got to act on
it, but as I teen I always was attracted to women in their mid to late twenties and early thirties. For Ostraka news, I have uploaded the
last of the promo images. Just one more week and I will be posting comic images. I am so stoked. To shift into gear, I posted twelve promo
images tonight. There is the big battle image, ten panels from various issues, and of course, Gunman's promo. Gunman's new name is Helwan.
Then there is this week's Vociferation. It is all about violence in the name of religion or ideology. I do not see why some people think
that to be devout in their belief they have to inflict pain upon those who do not share their views. I do not see why being devout means
one must force the entire world to adopt one's views. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 8th 2015:
The eight eighth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This one was pretty much done on time. It was tough though, with Ostraka on the
way. Two weeks to go and I am in full on crisis mode. The fifth promo has been released. This one features Pimp Wizard who is now named
Maithunus. The villain Maithunus is facing there is the Degenerator. This promo also shows off a little preview of the magic effects for
the comic. Also next week, there might be a little something extra in addition to the Gunman themed promo as the clock ticks down to one
week until release. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 1st 2015:
The eighty seventh issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. On this one, I cheated a bit. The current setting for the road does not have
any buildings along the side. It is just the road and some grass. I chose an angle where I could hide this fact instead of inserting some
buildings in there. I did this because of production on Ostraka. I concede that on this one, Ostraka hurt Con Nachzehrer. Although, with
Ostraka I have learned to edit better so that I don't have to make as much or spend as much on settings for the comic. It doesn't hurt the
comic to do so. Speaking of Ostraka, tonight's promo introduces Jew Avenger, now renamed as Chazaq Nokem. Jew Avenger was obviously going
to have to change quite a bit to make the transition from comedy to drama. Chazaq Nokem is still Jewish though, I am just toning it down a
little. The other character in the promo is Rishian, an antagonist in the comic. The Vociferation is also Ostraka themed. I would like to
point out that while this Vociferation is similar to the early Geek Force issues, Ostraka will not be politically themed. There is some
politics in there, but it isn't every episodes and I at least attempted to make it less overt. Anyway, this Vociferation is about the
national security state and how it is out of control. I was inspired to do a comic on it because none of the credible presidential
candidates are talking about it. I have a feeling none of these issues will have a prominent place in the 2016 election. Stay tuned, more
to come.
April 24th 2015:
The eighty sixth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. In production notes, this one was rough. Twenty eight days and counting until
the debut of Ostraka, I'm feeling worn out. I'm not sure if it is the work load or just the fact that I have so much left to do combined
with the fact that every spare minute is dedicated the the launch of Ostraka. I set this issue to render and accidentally hit render as
opposed to animation in Blender. That of course means that it only rendered one panel and it took me two days to realize I had none of my
panels for this strip. That would be why this issue is delayed, but also why I don't like doing the comic at the last minute. There will be
more movement in the next issue of Con Nachzehrer. The ones where characters are in vehicles are always tricky due to the limited camera
angles. In Ostraka news, the third promo image is up. This one reintroduces Virus, now named Valis. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 17th 2015:
The eighty fifth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. The biggest production note on this issue which I can now report is that it
shares the car with Ostraka. For those who might have missed the announcement, I am launching a new comic, Ostraka. It will be six pages a
week of comic and tonight I have posted the second promo image. Along with the promo image, I am ready to reveal that the character
Redphantom's new name is Revinon. Come back next week to learn the new name for Virus. I also want to make clear that Con Nachzehrer is in
no way slated to end. I have always wanted the site to have multiple comics. It's just that only now can I produce enough comic to fulfill
that desire. Ostraka has been in full production since early February and this has not effected Con Nachzehrer in any way. Due to my early
experiences with the site, I am always careful to make sure I can commit to a production schedule before releasing a comic. Tonight I have
also posted a new Vociferation about Same Sex marriage. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 15th 2015:
Tonight I am pleased to announce that this site's flagship project will be returning May 22nd. After languishing in development hell for so
long, I have finally come up with a production schedule that is efficient enough to bring back my first comic. After briefly mentioning it
here and there on this site for so long, after saying every single year since 2009 when the first Geek Force when on hiatus that this will
be the year the comic returns, the wait is over. Geek Force is being rebooted completely as a new comic, Ostraka. The reason for the name
change is a shift in tone. The series is now an action drama series. Each Friday from now until May 22nd, I will be revealing one of the
new names of the main cast. Each comic update will consist of six pages. Further, four updates make a chapter, which is one self contained
story. Much like the 'episodes' of a television show. The updates would be like the acts inbetween commercials. I originally wanted to post
twenty four pages to an update and have 'seasons'. I decided that hiatuses don't mesh with Webcomics however, and thus the six page a week
update. Stay tuned, more to come, much more. Things are about to get really exciting.
April 10th 2015:
The eighty fourth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. In production notes, this issue went on the late side. In fact, as I type this
it is 5:11 am local time on production day. I am just about to start getting ready for work, and the lettering on the comic has just been
finished. I have had a hell of a week. There was Easter, which meant visiting my family. Then more issues with my new computer. I finished
building it but now it overheats, so I put my old one back together. There was an election on repealing a non discrimination ordinance (I
voted against repeal) which my side narrowly lost, and some other general life bullshit. Still, I made the update on time, so all is well.
This issue gets to the heart of what this arc is meant to be about, which is teenage male sexuality. I was inspired to write it in regards
to the seeming moral panic about teenagers and sex. It seems like my peers have forgotten what it is truly like to be a teenager and want
to fuck everything in sight. There's also the inadequacy you feel as a teen that everyone is more experienced than you. Then as you age you
realize how much teenagers are just full of hot air in that regard. One from listening to them, and second by the statistics. I remember at
that age, masturbation was just a matter of practicality if I had to stand up in front of the class and give a presentation the next day.
I heard some states consider it indecent exposure if you have a visible erection in your pants. Ouch, no wonder kids these days like baggy
pants. Anyway, I feel like I botched this one, and it just comes across stupid and sexist. Still, my goal was to give an honest portrayal
of how teenaged boys actually think about sex. In other news, check back to the site April 15th, 2015 for a big announcement. Stay tuned,
more to come.
April 3rd 2015:
The eighty third issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue brings back the title character and Thormond. The set for this issue
is also shared with the Geek Force reboot. Unfortunately, I had to render this issue twice. The first time I set up the Freestyle layer
wrong. The layer is supposed to be set up so that it only shows the lines, I accidentally left the rest of the layer on. I am probably
going to adopt a Geek Force production practice for Con Nachzehrer and just save the node settings then append the set and lights to that
file. Tonight's Vociferation is in response to a local ballot initiative which is to repeal Springfield, MO's nondiscrimination ordinance.
I am frankly disgusted by my home city for trying so hard to repeal a very good measure our city council passed. I decided it was relevant
to the national conversation in light of Indiana's equally stupid and bigoted religious freedom law. I have expressed remorse for not being
more vocal in my support for gay marriage, let me rectify that now, insomuch as that is possible, by speaking out against the backlash
against the great gains Homosexuals have made in attaining equality. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 27th 2015:
The eighty second issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. Next week the title character returns to the comic. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 20th 2015:
The eighty first issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. Production on this comic went much better than the one from last week.
Unfortunately my new motherboard is broken so I still do not have my new computer. Worse, most likely I broke it myself. This week's
Vociferation is about corporate personhood. As an aside, I did not originally mean for Rabanus to be the main character of the
Vociferations. He has kind of become the main character because he is the embodiment of adolescent rage. There is some autobiographical
content here. I was that kid who was opinionated and smart but not invested in school. Rabanus is exaggerated, of course. I was not in
trouble as much as him, but I gave him some of my traits. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 13th 2015:
The eightieth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was a hard one for me. Primarily because of the laziness that can hit
comic artists from time to time. I found it hard to work on Con Nachzehrer and on the Geek Force reboot this week. Regardless, I met my
deadlines for both. In some ways this was the more important week for the Geek Force reboot. I am more interested in how my production
schedules hold up under pressure than how they work when things are ideal. Part of why I am taking my time in releasing the reboot is
because of my experience with the first Geek Force comic. I released perhaps two issues of that comic on time and tried to commit to a
schedule which was impossible for me. I have so far avoided this with both Con Nachzehrer and I only had one issue go late with Rick, the
Cryptozoologist. Still, the Geek Force comic is a lot more work and a bigger commitment. I am trying a combination of a release buffer and
producing so many pages a week I can go on production hiatus(never a release hiatus) and miss some weeks without disrupting the comic. I
am starting to feel confident that the comic will happen this summer though. I had also hoped to have my new computer, the Xenojira, built
this week. The parts got delayed. I have pushed my computer as far as I can go with smart rendering and my new computer should make
production easier. Tonight's comic was finished last night. It was a rough week as they happen sometimes. Next week will be better. Stay
tuned, more to come.
March 6th 2015:
The seventy ninth of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This week's Vociferation is about ISIL. I decided to do a comic bashing them first
because they are disgusting. Second, to go on record that while I am critical of the War on Terrorism, I absolutely detest the people we
are fighting against. I criticize the US government more frequently not because I rank as a greater evil. They are not and it would be
absurd to suggest such. They are not even an equivalent evil. I criticize the US government because it isn't as popular as a position.
While virtually everyone agrees ISIL threatens world peace, and the world is taking action on this issue, you can't say the same about an
issue like Climate Change. That is why I would do a comic about it first. That is is issue I care about for which there is more debate
about what to do and less world action on it. This Vociferation is also a tease. It has characters from my first comic, Geek Force, which I
am hoping to reboot this summer. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 27th 2015:
The seventy eighth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was produced concurrently with issues 76 and 77. This was due to
my vacation. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 20th 2015:
The seventy seventh issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was produced concurrently with issues 76 and 78 due to my
vacation. As I type this, I have one and a half days left to go. I have been having a Godzilla movie marathon and thoroughly enjoying
myself. This week also brings a new Vociferation. This time about Climate Change. This one was made into a sequel to the last Vociferation
for laziness reasons. I did not want to make a whole new set for this comic. Vociferations are supposed to be compromised of leftovers
anyway. I have decided I like the idea of it being a sequel though, because anti vaxxers and climate change deniers have a lot in common
to my mind. It is proof that idiocy exists on all ends of the political spectrum considering that a lot anti vaxxers share my views on
other topics. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 13th 2015:
The seventy sixth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue introduces the character Zenon, who is important to this story arc. In other production notes, this
issue was produced concurrently with issue 77 and 78. The reason for this is that I have nine paid days off from work and wish to enjoy them. I am having a Godzilla movie
marathon. I recently completed my collection of all the DVDs. I had collected them on VHS as a kid and wanted the DVDs because some of my old tapes are worn out. Godzilla
was the first thing I was ever a fan of. To date, the only movie premiere I've ever attended in costume was last year's American Godzilla movie. Technically as I type this,
I am on my first day off. Due to the Geek Force reboot, I couldn't abstain from site related activities for my entire vacation. It will be fun nonetheless I am sure. Stay
tuned, more to come.
February 6th 2015:
The seventy fifth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. In production notes, I had to render this one twice. I forgot to set the panels to render to the proper size and
only realized this after I lettered the entire damn thing, frustrated that I didn't leave enough space for the dialogue. I also turned off auto keying in Blender, so the
characters are in the same pose for the entire comic. This week's Vociferation is about anti vaxers. I feel strongly about this topic and have a strong dislike for that
movement. I would be the first to admit that modern technology has brought with it some major downsides. However, our eradication of certain childhood diseases and advances
in medical technology to care for the sick is one of the things that redeems our modern technology to me. Eradicating Smallpox has to rank up there among the top ten
achievements in human history. In my mind, these anit vaxers through their ignorance are causing undue suffering. I don't see how people can justify other children dying or
being permanently disabled against the rare cases of kids being a little sick from getting a vaccine. I also had some trouble with the Vociferation. I did not save the figure
I was planning to use for the teacher, so I changed it to be the teacher from an earlier issue of Con Nachzehrer. I did not make the teacher posable in Blender, because back
when I did that issue of Con, I had not started using Blender for posing just yet. That is why she is in such an odd pose. I blame the resumption of production on the Geek
Force reboot for this. It is going well, but it is a big step. I hope it never goes back out of production and has a Summer release. I will post news here on it if there
is any to post. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 30th 2015:
The seventy fourth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This marks the 1/4 point in this particular story arc. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 23rd 2015:
The seventy third issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. No exciting notes on this issue. This week's vociferation is about transsexual individuals. Specifically how they
do not find accommodation from others in being identified as the gender they choose. It just boggles my mind as to why that would be. Never mind that science backs up
transsexuals and how they do not identify with their biological gender, other people can change their names all the time. Our society is tolerant when people change their
names for religious reasons, cultural reasons, business reasons, or just because people straight up dislike their name. It just seems to me that people could make the lives
of transsexuals much easier by just not being a douche and calling them by the names and pronouns they prefer. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 16th 2015:
The seventy second issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. As a production note, I messed up on Con and made it so that part of his leg was rigged to the bones in his
arm. This caused part of his leg to jet out and that is the reason for some of the weird camera angles. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 9th 2015:
The seventy first issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This week marks the return of the title character. Con's appearance is also supposed to be a homage to Walter
White. I'm not sure I quite pulled it off with his appearance though. In other news, this week's vociferation is about the incoming congress. This was originally to be
the second vociferation, but I decided to save it until around the time the new congress took power. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 2nd 2015:
The seventh issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was produced concurrently with issue 69. Also, I forgot to update this front page with issue 69 last week,
sorry. Happy New Year everyone, and stay tuned, more to come.
December 26th 2014:
The sixty ninth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was made concurrently with Issue 70. That is so that I can relax a little after Christmas coming off
of a rough holiday system at work. If I had been thinking, I would have done a triple production last week. I also posted a Vociferation about North Korea because I feel
free speech is important to me, and I oppose censorship. It feels important to stand for those things. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 19th 2014:
The sixty eighth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. I am happy to have Kolman, Thormond, and Rabanus back to the strip. This also brings back an old set from one of
the promos for the comic last year. I had to tweak it a bit and I decided to change the color scheme. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 12th 2014:
The sixty seventh issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. In production notes, I think I may have made the female character's shirt a little too tight. In the previous
issue the female employee's shirt did not show her curves that well. I felt it made her look fat so I tried to change this female's shirt, and I did do better with the
curves, but I think I took it too far. This story arc is also about the adolescent sex drive and I am bit concerned about it because there are a lot of sex jokes. Also,
this week I posted the fourth vociferation. This one is about Eric Garner. Stay tuned, more to come.
December 5th 2014:
The sixty sixth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was one of the hardest I have done. It involved making a background, a massive one, and five separate
characters. It also took place on Thanksgiving weekend, which meant some of the time I work on the site was given to family members(Which is cool by me, even if it did
delay the making of this comic.). The characters introduced in this issue will recur in a big way. In other news, big news, Geek Force's second Webcomic Rick, the
Cryptozoologist has returned tonight after a two and a half year hiatus. The comic will be releasing sporadically as part of our Vociferations page and on the Rick portion
of the site. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 28th 2014:
The sixty fifth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was produced concurrently with Issue 64. Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate. I made what was to be
this week's Vociferation last week as well. I decided however, to do an entirely different comic about the Michael Brown shooting. I live in Missouri and I feel strongly
about this issue.
November 21st 2014:
The sixty fourth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. A small aside, the elf seems random, but will come back into play later. A production note, this issue was made
concurrently with Issue 65 and the second Vociferation. This is due to the fact that it is the week of Thanksgiving and working in retail, my work week will be extremely
busy. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 14th 2014:
The sixty third issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This one I also had to render twice because I set up the nodes wrong the first time around. Also this week, we are
launching a new portion of the site: Vociferations. Vociferations are our political comic strips. They will update biweekly. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 7th 2014:
The sixty second issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This is the first issue in a new story. For this issue I had to render this issue twice because the first time
I did not properly set up the nodes. This is also a new setting. I bought some bookcase props and not to toot my own horn, but I think it looks nice. I also used Corbin of
course, and a minor character. I had to remake them for this issue due to the fact that now I use a different production method. This issue is also the first issue to be
rendered in high res and downsized to our format. It is a slightly different size from the previous size I used. The reason for this is so that in the future I would be
able to put Con in print. This is not a certain thing, but I like keeping my options open. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 31st 2014:
The sixty first issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. I had to render this issue twice because I forgot to turn the layer with all the lamps on in the first rendering
of these panels. This is also the finale of the first story. Next week starts a whole new story. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 24th 2014:
The sixtieth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. A fun fact related to this issue is that I just recently joined the smartphone world. I use Android, and my main
hesitancy in getting one was the data plan. That and I also was afraid I would break it. I have broken three mp3 players in the past year and a half. That's why I ended up
getting a smartphone that supposedly can take being thrown at concrete from five feet away. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 17th 2014:
The fifty ninth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. No story or production notes for this issue. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 10th 2014:
The fifty eighth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. I am not entirely pleased with the look on Marshall's face in the final panel. Also, notes on Rabanus: I
struggled with the design for this character. I originally wanted Rabanus to be a traditional grim reaper that is a walking skeleton. I changed the design so that he is more
of a humanoid. There is a story reason for this I will reveal later. I also wonder if I didn't make Rabanus too much of a pretty boy for what his personality is supposed to
be. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 3rd 2014:
The fifty seventh issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue marks the introduction of the character Rabanus, another one of Kolman's friends. Rabanus, Thormond,
and Corbin will all be main characters in the comic. In production notes, there are several goofs on this comic. I forgot to set the leading on the font for the text.
Additionally, the top border is one pixel too thick. You may also be able to spot that Rabanus's wings go past the wall. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 26th 2014:
The fifty sixth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. In production notes, this is the first issue to be done using a new tweak to my production methods. Basically, I
can now do all poses in Blender via the magic of shape keys. Also, in panel three, Pierce Marshall's phone was originally hovering in the background. I forgot to delete it
from the scene and had to edit it out in GIMP. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 19th 2014:
The fifty fifth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was produced with issues 53 and 54 because of my vacation last week. I usually make the comic on the
weekend before the release date in case there are any problems or delays with the comic. Last weekend I was still on vacation. In productions notes, this is a comic I am
proud of, perhaps excessively so. What gives me pride is the image of Con on Marshall's phone in panel three. I am proud of it because this is the kind of panel that for
most of the site's history, we would have scrapped or done half assed. For our first comic, I was doing the art and doing a terrible job. I would write a comic like that and
then change it as I was drawing the panel for being too hard. With Rick, it was just sort of a laziness thing. I was not doing the art for Rick, but Dustin had a life and so
could not always dedicate the time to do tricky panels. Part of the reason I quit Rick is because I did not find it challenging enough. Now that the art is done in DAZ it
is of a quality I can at least be pleased with. I don't have to scrap panels because I don't have the artistic ability to create it. I feel like if my comics fail now, they
can fail on their merits rather than because I copped out on the art. I can be happy with the site whether it stays small or gets more successful because I know now I am
making comics to the best of my ability. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 12th 2014:
The fifty fourth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was produced together with last week's issue and next week's. The reason for this is that I have been
on vacation from work this week. I have been binge watching the anime series Yu Yu Hakusho and it has been quite nice to have a break from work. As for the weird look on
Kolman's face in panel 4, I have no idea what it is about. Stay tuned, more to come.
September 5th 2014:
The fifty third issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue is fun for me because it features Con vs. Pierce Marshall. This is the moment the entire story has been
building towards. In production notes, this issue was made concurrently with Issues 54 and 55. This is the first time I have made three issues at the same time. The reason
for this is that I am going on vacation next week at work. This way I have this week's issue made, next week's, which would be made on Sunday, and the week after next which
would be made the following Sunday, the last day of my vacation. This way the only site related work I have to do while on vacation is to upload an issue on Friday September
12th to the site. This set of issues had thirteen images I had to make for a total of thirty five hours of rendering. With smart rendering I had at one time gotten the render
times down to a reasonable level, that seems to have been changing. On the other hand, now I don't have to sit at my computer for the rendering, so it does not bother me as
much. Now I can just let the comic render as I go to work or sleep. Tomorrow September 6th marks one year of Con Nachzehrer. It will also be the first full day of my vacation.
Come to think of it, by the time this goes live, I will be on vacation. If you want to celebrate one year of Con Nachzehrer, eat a bag of marshmallows. Stay tuned, more to
come.
August 29th 2014:
The fifty second issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was produced concurrently with Issue 51. That was due to me expecting a long week at work. I did in
fact have a long week, and I acquired quite a bit of overtime out of it. In production notes, I am pleased with how the art on this one turned out. When I got a first look
at it after rendering, I was very pleased. Now I am still pleased, but somewhat less so. Regardless, I am happy with this issue. I like Kolman's facial expressions in this
one. I also tried to light and color the school as a dark and gloomy place as I deemed appropriate for the story. While doing the last couple of issues, I wonder if I took
it too far. Kolman and Con don't stand out at all. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 22nd 2014:
The fifty first issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue finally sees Kolman and Con appearing in the same comic with one another again. As I said before, we
are nearing the end of this particular story. In production notes, this issue and issue 52 were produced concurrently with one another. This is due to the fact that I have a
big week ahead at work and I am anticipating that next week I will have limited time for the site. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 15th 2014:
The fiftieth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. The first and third panels in this issue were difficult to render. I could not figure out why, and I actually changed
the angle on the two panels to try and fix the issue. This did not help the situation and I liked the previous two camera angles better. Then I realized that with border
select, Blender had selected a bunch of items that were behind the wall in those panels. (I move the items which need to be rendered onto a different layer from the rest
of the scene so that Freestyle rendering does not take as long. My computer is not that powerful and thus this is the only way I am able to use Freestyle.). It turns out that
with the extra items removed, the scene rendered in just a few minutes as opposed to crashing Blender. It is a valuable lesson in rendering for me. Also, the items which I
accidentally selected are the set for the hallway scene in earlier issues of the comic. The school set is one big set. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 8th 2014:
The forty ninth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. I have always avoided injecting my political views into Con Nachzehrer. This despite my roots as a political
cartoonist and my strongly held political views. Still, every once and a while my views seep through. This issue and the previous one, plus some others in this arc express
my views about the American public education system. I think in many ways it has become just a way to control the American youth. Which it has to be to some extent. What I
find troubling is that it seems to have become the primary focus of the education system. You have the school to prison pipeline and of course, the government uses schools
as a tool for disseminating propaganda and military recruitment. The curriculum of schools has been politicized. We ban critical thinking because it causes "youth rebellion".
Schools are not allowed to teach proper science because evolution is wrongly considered to be a religious theory running contrary to the teachings of Christianity. I
personally believe that science and religion can coexist. It also feels weird to be railing on schools given that I have been out of school for some time. Still, it seems
school has the problems most institutions do, and that it is a starter level suck. On a smaller scale, it gives kids a taste of the bureaucratic bullshit they are soon to
experience full tilt. Politicians, because people care so much for the safety of kids, love to experiment with schools. This issue also outlines my beliefs on kids leaving
home. People in their twenties are just as stupid and perhaps more reckless than teenagers. They're just tough enough to take it, and though I am still going through my
twenties, it seems their main purpose in life is to kick your ass a little and teach you the hard lessons. No more orientation, no more tutorial levels. You get to play the
real game and learn from hard experience how to manage money and be responsible. In production notes, this issue was much easier to produce than they have been lately. It did
not pioneer any new methods or have any panels which took forever to render. Stay tuned, more to come.
August 1st 2014:
The forty eighth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. In production notes, the third panel of this issue was a bitch. It took five hours to render and then I realized
that I had forgotten to turn on the lighting. So, I had to isolate the freestyle image, then rerender the image without the lines. I wasn't happy with the way the line
turned out, so I rendered the characters on their own. Then I pasted the images on top of each other. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 25th 2014:
The forty seventh issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This scene brings us back to Kolman and Thormond. As implied by issue 46, this is also the scene where the two
subplots of this story intersect. It will also be the final scene of this story and when it concludes another story will begin. One of my reasons for deicing not to do Rick
anymore is that I prefer longer stories. Scripts of twenty to twenty six pages as opposed to a page. When the Geek Force the Webcomic reboot comes out, it will be along
these lines. For Con Nachzehrer I decided on a compromise. I would write strips that when added up over around sixty or so would make one single story or episode. If Con were
a sitcom, this episode would be the pilot. It's not really a new idea, a lot of webcomics update in this manner. Anyway, the fact that I can only do an episode a year drives
home just how labor intensive a webcomic is. Hopefully I can get production to be feasible enough where I can do the Geek Force reboot. The goal there is eight episodes a
year for Geek Force.
July 18th 2014:
The forty sixth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released.
July 12th 2014:
I made a minor site overhaul to the Con Nachzehrer portion of this website today. This is mainly on the suggestion of a friend who said that the comic was hard to read
because you have to scroll sideways. Looking at other comics, I realized no other webcomic requires this and resolved to fix it. There may be some other minor site
changes and updates in the next week or so. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 11th 2014:
The forty fifth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. I have slight concerns that these last couple of issues are where this current story drags a little. In production
notes, this issue and issue 46 were produced at the same time. With the new production method, it still took less time to do this issue than issue 43, which was the last
produced under the old production method. That being said, I am still experiencing growing pains with this new production method. I had to redo panels 1-3 of this comic.
The issue is how 3D animation programs animate. I rely on auto keying because it makes things easier, but it tends to do it's job and modify previous panels. My workaround
is to do the panels in reverse. I don't know why I haven't already made it standard practice, but that is what I'm going to do starting with issue 47. On a positive note,
with the new production method it only took a few minutes to fix the flawed panels. Stay tuned, more to come.
July 4th 2014:
The forty fourth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. Nothing particularly remarkable about this issue other than it was made in thirty minutes. The previous record was
two hours. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 27th 2014:
The forty third issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. In production notes, this is the first issue to be produced under a new production method. Basically, I have
learned how to get the figures from DAZ to be posable in Blender. That saves me some time. I still do the expressions and hand gestures in DAZ and then get them to my
characters with shape keys, but majority of posing is done in Blender now. This brings the added advantage that I can do the comics as animation now and automate the
rendering process. I am hoping that with this new animation method I can get the Geek Force reboot back on track. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 20th 2014:
The forty second issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was made on time. A funny production fact about this issue is that the first shot I attempted for the
first panel crashed my computer. Freestyle is good but it has trouble with loads and loads of characters. This issue also reveals Con's full name. When I was a kid, Con was
just Con. I had to decide last year what his full name would be. Khan was a consideration. I decided after picking the surname Nachzehrer that Con had to be Germanic. Upon
browsing a list of Germanic names I picked Conrad. Con's brothers when they are introduced will also have Germanic names shortened to three letter English words. Stay tuned,
more to come.
June 13th 2014:
The forty first issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue goes back to being made on time, and hopefully the next issue will continue this trend. I am wrapping
up my writing project this week. In production notes, the cop in this issue is once again a Geek Force character. However, he is a Geek Force character I copied from the bus
driver in an earlier issue and then copied back to Con Nachzehrer as a cop. A writing note, I considered cutting this issue. Not due to it being offensive. I do not believe
in cutting things which will offend others, and sometimes, my goal is to offend. Still, I have some concern this issue might go over the edge from being funny to just being
warped. I also hope no one draws any messages from this issue. There are none, other than that the cops are bigger douchebags than Con. That way the audience can still
root for the protagonist. Anyway, I do have standards, and that are a handful of scripts I wrote for Rick I decided to never release. Stay tuned, more to come.
June 6th 2014:
The fortieth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This is another issue completed on the late side due to my writing project. I'm wrapping up my project next week
however, so I should go back to producing on time. Not that producing late ever impacted the release date. In other production notes, I placed the speech bubbles in panels
1 and 2 to cover up the fact that the girl in those panels has a bald spot due to me not fixing the mesh smoothing. The cop character is also a villain from the new Geek
Force, the Webcomic named Rishian. I still don't have an official release date for the reboot and it seems that my unofficial one will be pushed back. I'm in the process of
finding a better production method. I want to release the Geek Force reboot, it is my dream project. However, this time I want to release it right. I want to make sure the
art is top notch and that I pick a release schedule I can meet this time. Like what I've done with Con Nachzehrer and Rick, the Cryptozoologist. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 30th 2014:
The thirty ninth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. In production notes, this issue saw me model the most new characters for an issue. Twenty two. I hope it stays
that way. It was exhausting. Due to this and the fact I'm currently writing, this issue was done on the late side. The day before release. Also, the first panel took the
most time to render. Originally the panel was to feature more kids, but my computer is unable to render that many characters. My computer actually shut down when I tried it.
Stay tuned, more to come.
May 23rd 2014:
The thirty eighth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue goes back to being done on time, which makes me happy. Not that the production went off without a
hitch, however. I had to render the first and third panels twice. The first panel I had to re-render because I needed to go back and tweak some rough mesh smoothing. The
third panel I had to redo because I forgot to make active the layer with the lights. In the first panel, I also chose an odd angel to obscure Corbin's hand gesture. I meant
to have Corbin raising his hand but the more I looked at it, the more it looked like a Nazi salute, so I obscured it. This issue is also supposed to basically be Corbin's
establishing character moment. Corbin is the third wheel, the kid with good intentions but without a single ounce of cool. Corbin is awkward and unrefined. Stay tuned, more
to come.
May 16th 2014:
The thirty seventh issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. In production notes, this issue has gone the furthest past deadline of any other issue I've done. As I type
this, It is 5:38 local time which is just over four hours until release. The reason for this is that I unexpectedly had to work Wednesday, which was supposed to be the day
I finished this issue. Another complication with this one is that the first panel took two hours and the second took four to render. When you are reducing your render times
strictly through smart rendering, you will eventually have some panels that take extra long. I prefer getting things done early in case, well, weeks like this happen where
you hit delays. Rick, the Cryptozoologist was always done last minute. It was a source of contention between me and Dustin. If we ran too late, I'd just have to reuse
artwork. As snobby as this is, that's why I like doing this one solo. I know I can do it on my schedule and don't feel weird about bossing someone else around without paying
them anything. Also, the nurse is supposed to be ugly. I hope I accomplished this. In other, unrelated news, I saw the new Godzilla movie last night. I went to the seven o
clock premiere showing at the local theater. I am a long time Godzilla fan who has every single Japanese entry into the franchise. I am enough of a fan I felt compelled to
dress up as Godzilla. I enjoyed myself quite a bit. The movie has flaws, but I enjoyed it. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 9th 2014:
The thirty sixth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. My computer actually crashed right in the middle of production of this comic. This comic was also produced a few
days after the comic generally is. This is due to the fact that I'm filling in for my boss at work as he fills in for his boss. I don't get the pay, but I'm glad to get the
experience for the chance to get a promotion. I hope it does not interfere with the comic and I do not think it will . I am very careful what I commit myself to ever since
my terrible experience with the first Geek Force. That's part of the reason I have not launched the reboot yet. Stay tuned, more to come.
May 2nd 2014:
The thirty fifth issue has been released. In production notes, I forgot to fix the clothing on Corbin in a couple of panels. I also added a joke as I was making the comic
in the third panel. That panel was just originally supposed to be Corbin talking. I thought rehashing the floor buffer racing joke would cut it, but I ended up changing my
mind. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 25th 2014:
The thirty fourth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. In production notes, the dialogue in the final panel is reversed from the way it was in the script. The layout
on this one was tough because of how I positioned the characters in the scene. Not my best work. On a happier note, I like doing a more political joke. I miss doing satire.
If I ever have free time, I might start up another comic on the site which is for satire. That is not an announcement or promise of this, however. Stay tuned, more to come.
April 18th 2014:
The thirty third issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue brings us back to Kolman and his friends. In production notes, this issue marks another unfortunate
issue where the comic's growing pains are visible. In the first panel, the shading on Thormond and Corbin is terrible. I had to adjust it. The settings I had been using were
working alright, but for Thormond, they failed. Thormond tends to be a good indicator of whether or not I have turned up to the saturation too high. Being completely white,
he shows the maximum end of how high the saturation can go. The comic is a little bit darker, but I like the shading. Another fun tidbit is that all of the students in
detention other than Kolman, Thormond, and Corbin are the members of Geek Force. They have slight variations on their appearances and some color changes because they are
not meant to actually be the same characters. It's just an easter egg with a dash of laziness. I guess just in time for Good Friday. Speaking of Geek Force and growing pains,
my new production method is coming along and shows promise. Still, it looks like Geek Force is going to be delayed from its planned release date. This would be part of the
reason why I only mention it vaguely. The problem with Geek Force is that while Con needs four panels a week, Geek Force needs in excess of fifty. Stay tuned, more to come.
Happy Easter to those who celebrate.
April 11th 2014:
The thirty second issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. In production notes, I actually modeled Con's stack of cash myself. Not that I'm bragging. It looks awful, but
this is an example of a rare item I modeled, and also of why I use Daz Studio. In other unrelated news, I'm starting the writing on another chunk of Geek Force this week.
Production still has problems. At this rate I'll have the whole damn thing written before the first issue even comes out.
April 4th 2014:
The thirty first issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue featured a variety of technical issues throughout production. I accidentally left textures on and I
crashed my computer once while rendering panel 4. This marks the first use in Con Nachzehrer of Blender effects. Specifically a water effect. I had used this before in
Geek Force, but never in Con. Speaking of Geek Force, Geek Force is set to return to production this week. I have been taking a break from it and trying to refine my
production methods to make production less stressful. This is so production does not give me a heart attack or nervous breakdown. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 28th 2014:
The thirtieth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. As mentioned last week, this issue was meant to be issue 29. This also marks the halfway point of the first story
arc. In production notes, the girl character is reused from Kolman's bus, albeit she has been made younger. The father character is a bit character from the as of yet
unreleased Geek Force. A random production note: this issue marks the first produced since I purchased a hardrive exclusively for the backing up of issues of Con Nachzehrer.
Stay tuned, more to come.
March 21st 2014:
The twenty ninth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue was actually supposed to be Issue 30. I read the wrong issue however, and ended up doing it instead.
Therefore, Issues 29 and 30 will be switched in position from where they were originally supposed to fall. Luckily at this point in the story, Con is just performing random
acts and this should not impact the story. In production notes, the comic is continuing to experience growing pains. I started compositing in Blender last week and only
days later did I realize how bad the colors are off in last week's comic. This week they are better, though I did not fix the shading until the last panel. Next week should
be more consistent. (Of course, I am planning on trying to make another change to shading...) A production note from last week I forgot: I had saved over the Con figure where
he is wearing his thug costume. Last week I had to recreate it. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 14th 2014:
The twenty eighth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue features the return of Con Nachzehrer to the strip and another run of strips following his story.
There are many different production notes. First, this issue was completed a few days later than the average for strips. Primarily due to my laziness. Second, one of the
characters in this strip is a character which features in what I have completed in Geek Force. Third, I used a different method of compositing for this issue. I have been
using GIMP to composite. Now I am compositing in Blender. This is vastly superior and the only reason I did not do it this way from the beginning was due to me being in no
way a master of Blender. My experimenting with compositing in Blender is part of my bid to make the production times for Geek Force viable for the release schedule I desire.
I have halted production for the time being to this end. With the compositing in Blender, it opens up all kinds of new possibilities. Stay tuned, more to come.
March 7th 2014:
The twenty seventh issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. There are no significant production notes on this issue. In other news, production on Geek Force has stalled.
I am taking a break to refine my methods to make production faster. Stay tuned, more to come.
February 28th 2014:
The twenty sixth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. In production notes, this issue was produced back to back with Issue 25. The second panel of this issue took two hours
and 15 minutes to render. That is the freestyle pass. Last week I alluded to problems with Geek Force. Render times are not one of them. They are reasonable and since Geek Force
is produced over a week as opposed to a day, it isn't an issue anyway. There is plenty of time to let my computer sit and render. The issue is process and how I can speed it up.
It makes me nervous because I think I might have hit the limits of how fast I can do things. In story notes, Con's newest character finally has a name: Pierce Marshall. If you
look on the archives page of Con Nachzehrer, the name of the first arc is also, "The Monsters are Due on Marshall Street". I struggled more than I should have for that name, and
yes, I love the Twilight Zone. Anyway, I didn't name the character for three weeks because I have become a big proponent of letting the audience sit and wait. This could partially
be due to my weakness at starting a story and exposition. I also feel, however, that it ensnares the audience. I remember many years ago, I was showing Stephen a script. As he
read, he kept asking me questions. I got ticked off, as I tend to be a megalomaniac with my scripts. I wanted him to just read it. All the answers he was asking for were in the
script further on. I felt like Mark Twain, imploring my audience to quick picking apart my work and just read it. I was not until years later that I realized the truth. His
questions had been a good thing. It meant he was engaged in my story. That is the point of a story, to raise a question and answer it. Beyond answering it, to build anticipation
and to give clues, to tease the audience. In the shame I felt in my anger towards a dear friend, I determined that I would never be in haste to answer any dramatic question
again. (Though I am a firm believer in answering narrative questions.) Stay tuned, more to come.
February 21st 2014:
The twenty fifth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. In production notes, and I should have mentioned this last week, the new human character is also a minor character
in the yet to he produced Geek Force Issue 5. Further production notes: this issue was produced back to back with Issue 26. The reason is simple: I am taking time off this
week and I would prefer not to do an issue of Con this Friday. While I enjoy Geek Force, it is good to get away from it for a while. Panel 2 also took an hour and forty
minutes to render. This is the first time in months I have had a panel take so long to render in Freestyle. I have been using border select to select just what is in the
camera view for rendering. This has reduced render time to just a fifteen seconds average. All in all, I don't mind the render times. Combined, these issues took six hours
to make. Given that just a few months ago I was struggling to make a single issue in under seven hours, I feel quite proud of what I have accomplished. I once dreamed of
doing multiple issues of Con in a single sitting and now that is possible. (Though I will probably not do this.) Geek Force is going over it's production time on a
consistent basis right now. I am hoping I can replicate what I've done for Con with Geek Force. Until I do, I will continue to be vague about Geek Force, as it's release date
is questionable at this point. Now, I have to go and watch some TV and bust out my unopened Pokemon X. Yep, I'm a nerd through and through, stay tuned, more to come.
February 14 2014:
The twenty fourth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. The character introduced in this issue will become a source of antagonism for Kolman and his friends. In
production notes, I tried a new method of shading in this issue. I also attempted, and failed, to introduce a new lighting method to the first panel of the comic. Stay tuned,
more to come.
February 7th 2014:
The twenty third issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This one harps on investment bankers. As far as production goes, this issue was pretty standard and
undistinguished. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 31st 2014:
The twenty second issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue continues my soap box about not glorifying the past. As a supervisor, I see it as the difference
between being new and just being muscle, or working at a place long enough to have skills. Some people don't care for the responsibility that goes with it, and I understand
that. As for myself, I enjoy bringing more to the team. Also, having extra money helps. In production notes, this issue uses a difference process for the shading. It looks
exactly the same, however. I am in the process of tinkering with the shading because on some issues, like this one, it seems underwhelming. I am also going to start testing
a variety of techniques on Con to try and speed up the process for Geek Force, the Webomic, which is back in production this week. It has been a long week, Geek Force is a
lot of work. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 24th 2014:
The twenty first issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. A side note: Geek Force now solely consists of Xenpsychous, and has for some time. Starting with this update, I
am going to begin writing this posts in first person. It is less creepy that way, and clarifies I am the sole creator of the comic. This issue is the first to feature Corbin.
Corbin is a major character in the comic comprising a part of Kolman's core group of friends. When I originally came up with Corbin, his name was Frank, and he was basically
a young Frankenstein wearing a purple jumpsuit who enjoyed singing. I decided to tweak Corbin a bit for the comic. He is still supposed to be awkward and a bit of wuss. I
wanted a look for Corbin that was a bit more humanoid to contrast with Kolman and Thormond's bestial guises. In production notes, this issue introduces a new setting: the
school. I had fun making the set, despite the fact that it added a few hours to the production time. The school will also feature in the Geek Force, the Webcomic Reboot. Stay
tuned, more to come.
January 17th 2014:
The twentieth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This issue continues Xenpsychous making fun of people who glamorize high school. In his mind, the only way someone
could count high school as the best years of their life would be if they never experienced anything beyond it. This issue is also more generally about how Xenpsychous clashes
with conservatives(Defining conservatism as an ideology rooted in tradition and an idealized version of the past.). Xenpsychous doesn't see much point in romanticizing the
past. People remember the good and forget the bad. It is good to forget the bad things, it keeps people sane. The problem lies when we remember the good to such an extent we
forget to count the blessings of the present or be hopeful for the future. Things Xenpsychous misses from high school are the friends he's let slip away mostly. The trouble
with romanticizing the past is that oftentimes the past we remember is not the one which happened. People always lament the past as a less violent era, one with more
innocence and less crime. That is not true from an empirical standpoint. Crime rates are steadily down. People pay more attention to such things as they age, however, and
therefore think crime rates are up because they are actively looking at it. When people are younger, they are more ignorant and carefree, taking risks without understanding
what they are betting on. In production notes, Xenpsychous did not mess up any panels this week. In other news, production on the Geek Force the Webcomic reboot is going
well. Xenpsychous has made two issues in as many weeks. He is optimistic for a Fall 2014 release. That said, however, Xenpsychous still has quite a learning curve. There
are many more challenges Xenpsychous needs to complete. Comics with tons of extras, fight scenes, and lots of effects like magic, fire, and explosions. Xenpsychous has done
none of these and thus is not sure how it will impact production time. Each issue should be about six pages of comic. Issues 2 and 3 were 58 and 59 panels respectively.
(Issue 1 has not been produced yet. Issues 1, 4, and 5 are undergoing complete rewrites.) Stay tuned, more to come.
January 10th 2014:
The nineteenth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This makes fun of the speech Xenpsychous heard from a student at his high school orientation. More generally it
pokes fun at people who romanticize about their high school years. Personally Xenpsychous did not find much fun in high school or adolescence. It was not the worst time of
his life, but he wouldn't classify it as the most fun either. There isn't much responsibility in high school, but there's no perks either. Like a salary, or voting, or
being able to buy r-rated movies or games. There are no curfews once you are 18. In production notes, Xenpsychous messed up two panels this time and had to redo them. He
will try better next week. Stay tuned, more to come.
January 3rd 2014:
The Eighteenth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This marks the first issue of 2014 and the return of Kolman and Thormond to the strip. In production notes,
Xenpsychous messed up panel 1 and had to redo it. Basically, with this issue, Xenpsychous started doing a Freestyle pass as opposed to doing a monochrome image that the color
would then be edited out of with GIMP. This process just creates a drawing of the scene with a transparent background. Or, at least it does when you turn transparency on.
Xenpsychous has messed up on two issues in a row, and hopes this does not become a habit. Xenpsychous is also happily enjoying a little extra time of work after the holidays
and looks forward to things being a little less hectic. This will allow more Geek Force time, of course. Stay tuned, great things to come in 2014.
December 27th 2013:
The seventeenth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. In production notes, Xenpsychous almost ruined the final panel. All of the modelling and posing is done in Daz
Studio. So, four different Con Nachzehrer poses are imported into the digital set and then rendered. On the final panel, Xenpsychous accidentally overwrote the fourth Con
model rather than importing it. Xenpsychous had to remake it. Luckily he saves all poses for the models. Production on this issue was also started early, as Xenpsychous has
to work extra in the next week and production on Geek Force, the Webcomic is set to resume. Xenpsychous has pretty much passed all technical hurdles at this point and the
only remaining obstacle is whether or not he can make a comic in enough time. It's a massive obstacle, however. Happy New Year to all who observe. Coincidentally, New Year's
is Xenpsychous's favorite holiday. A perfect time for eating black eyed peas and watching The Twilight Zone.
December 20th 2013:
The sixteenth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. In production notes, Xenpsychous has switched to a new process for the lines which makes them appear smoother.
Xenpsychous also has an idea in mind to shave off a further 30-45 minutes of production time, but it shouldn't have any impact on the final image. Stay tuned, more to come,
and Merry Christmas to all who celebrate.
December 13th 2013:
The fifteenth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. Appearing in this issue, Con Nachzehrer has now surpassed Kolman as the character with the most appearances. Also,
Xenpsychous is a little nervous about how slow the comic seems, still being in an opening scene despite being out for three months. In production notes, after complaining
about slow render times last week for Freestyle, Xenpsychous figured out this week how to reduce the render times from two hours to less than ten seconds. Xenpsychous is
glad, as he likes Freestyle. Xenpsychous accomplished this by moving the items in the shot to another layer and only rendering that layer. Xenpsychous is not sure how
practical this will be for Geek Force, but it is nice to have a breakthrough. Xenpsychous did not like his alternatives for speeding up the process for Geek Force. Also,
Xenpsychous would like to state that he is taking his time with Geek Force because he does not want to commit to a schedule which is impractical. This was his mistake with
the first Geek Force Webcomic, that, and the fact that Xenpsychous did not know what he was doing. Tonight's issue of Con Nachzehrer was made on time, and stay tuned, there
will be more to come.
December 6th 2013:
The fourteenth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. For this issue, Xenpsychous actually has a lot to say here. Firstly, from the writing side of things, this issue
introduces a new character: Diana, Con Nachzehrer's daughter. She will not be a major character, but is a fairly important recurring face rounding out Con's immediate family.
Diana was originally named Connie, and actually, Kolman was originally named Con Jr. The way Kolman was first written, he was basically the same character as Con. An
unintended child, Con at first felt jealous that there would be another version of him in the world. Eventually though, he learns to accept his son, even though they remain
competitive with one another. That was one of the earlier stories, and as a tribute to it, this first arc is very much about Con Nachzehrer as a father. Anyway, when it came
time to add another family member, Xenpsychous decided that Con would just name his other child after himself as well, making the name feminine. After Xenpsychous changed the
name of Con Jr. to Kolman, he decided to keep Connie's name the same and have Con tell Kolman that if he accepted the ride, Kolman could change his name to Con, like his
sister. Xenpsychous changed this when he realized that King of the Hill already did the Khan-Connie joke. Then he renamed Connie Diana, intending to retool the joke as saying
if Kolman accepted the ride he could change his name to that of royalty, but ultimately the joke got scrapped altogether. In production notes, this issue was the hardest to
make to date. The goal is to have an issue done a week before release day, and generally they are made no later than the Saturday before the release day, six days out. This
issue was not done until two days before it was released. This is mostly due to the joys of being a webcomics creator and having a hobby that is fun, fulfilling,
tedious, and draining all at once. Thanksgiving delayed the beginning of production and this week has been very sleep deprived. In fact, by the time this issue was done,
Xenpsychous was fueled only by Ibuprofin, Mountain Dew, and stubbornness. This issue also took a long time to render. Xenpsychous loves freestyle to death, but he finds the
render times to be lengthy. This is one of the main hurtles for the Geek Force Webcomic reboot, which would require more art on a weekly basis than Con Nachzehrer.
Xenpsychous is trying to streamline and automate the process so that Geek Force can be released monthly in issues of 20-30 pages. He has decided that Nachzehrer will not
use this process, as he is pleased with the quality and can tolerate two hours rendering a single panel if there are three. Phew. That was a mouthful. Stay tuned, more to
come.
November 29th 2013:
The thirteenth issue of Con Nachzeher has been released. In production notes, this issue was much easier to render and therefore produce than Issue 12. The big challenge
with this issue is that Xenpsychous works, as has been stated many times before, retail. He is currently working plenty overtime. Next week's issue will probably present a
challenge as well. In addition to Black Friday and Thanksgiving being hectic, Xenpsychous will also have to enjoy also balancing family with the site. Not that he minds.
It's the fun of running a weekly gag strip and having various other products. Stay tuned, and Geek Force hopes everyone had a happy Thanksgiving.
November 22nd 2013:
The twelfth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. In production notes for this issue, it took the longest time to render out of any of the comics in Con Nachzehrer
proper thus far. The first panel took thirty minutes, and the last three took an hour each.
November 15th 2013:
The eleventh issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. This is also the first issue to not feature Kolman. Originally, years and years ago, when Xenpsychous first came up
with Con Nachzehrer, it was just Con Nachzehrer and his friends. Then, later Miriam and Kolman got introduced, and Kolman became more and more promenient. Xenpsychous has
never thought about who the true protagonist of the comic is, Kolman or Con. Xenpsychous tends not to think of stories in a technical sense. (Critics of his work will say
this is obvious) To Xenpsychous, technical analysis is good for, well, analyzing and studying works of art, not necessarily creating them. Most stories feature the hero's
journey, but not by deliberate design. Of course, artists must be able to analyze works of art as well. Production notes: the first and second panels were to have been the
same shot, like in Issue 7. However, Xenpsychous got tired while doing this strip and decided to do the second panel and then finish the rest in the morning. Xenpyschous
forgot to save, and rather than have a panel that didn't quite match up, Xenpsychous changed the camera angle. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 8th 2013:
The tenth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. Production notes: it's claustrophobic staging the comic in the bus. It's not exactly hard, but it's different. Also,
a fun note on Thormond, last week when Xenpsychous was making him presented a challenge. Xenpsychous made Thormond and was happy, then Xenpsychous went to put Thormond in
his costume and it did not fit. Xenpsychous had to get online and buy the proper shapes for his costume. Stay tuned, more to come.
November 1st 2013:
The ninth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. Tonight's issue introduces Thormond, one of Kolman's close friends. Thormond is actually imported from another character
of Xenpsychous's, the Couch Monster. Xenpsychous never had an official name for him and it was an artifact from when Xenpsychous was ten. Xenpsychous and his friend would
sit at a couch at a community center where kids who go to day camp would wait for their parents to pick them up and they would crack jokes. Xenpsychous does not remember
much about it, except that he once made a joke about Bill Clinton that made his friend point out there were younger kids around. Later, as Xenpsychous was coming up with
ideas for Con Nachzehrer, he decided to import the Couch Monster character. Both Geek Force and Con Nachzeher end up importing many characters that Xenpsychous thinks of as
being stand alone. Geek Force and Con Nachzehrer also tend to cannibalize story ideas from other concepts Xenpsychous thinks up. Production notes: the really tricky thing
about this comic was all the extras, and the small set. The lighting was somewhat tricky and not done terribly well. Stay tuned, more to come.
October 25th 2013:
The eighth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. Production notes: this issue shows off more of the massive background from last issue. Also, the bus will also be
featured in Issue 3 of the Geek Force Reboot. Issue 3 is a remake of the original Issue 8. It is a loose remake, however, and actually features Geek Force fighting Mr.
Society. Since Mr. Society operates out of a high school, many sets from that issue will be used in Con Nachzehrer. Also, an update on the Geek Force reboot's production.
Technically it is not currently in production. Xenpsychous is writing at the moment. Geek Force has gone out of production because Xenpsychous is trying to work a shorter
production schedule only lasting a couple of weeks for each comic. Also, another note, the bus driver is a Geek Force character. The driver can barely be seen. Stay tuned,
more to come.
October 18th 2013:
The seventh issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. As for production notes, this is a new setting for the comic. What is shown in the comic is actually only a tiny
portion of the set. The set itself goes on for about a city block. More will be shown next week and in proceeding comics. Also, a fun Geek Force note: Con Nachzehrer's house
is Vincentious's house. In Geek Force, the house will have a different color scheme, but it will be Vincentious's, and it has a scene. Also, that building in the background
will feature as buildings in the background of Greenefield. Geek Force has many outdoor scenes, like in Issue 27 of the old comic. Stay tuned, more comics to come.
October 11th 2013:
The sixth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. Today also marks the debut of Geek Force's third major site design, and of our new logo. Xenpsychous's main goal with
the redesign was to make the site easier to read. With the logo, Xenpsychous originally planned to do only a minor revision. He wanted to fix the circle of energy and the
shockwave. Then Xenpsychous decided to change the font and after that, the color scheme. Hopefully it is a logo which is well received. Notes on the comic, only one, and a
boring one. The inspiriation for Con offering Kolman cotton candy comes from the fact that where Xenpsychous works they sell it now, and the employees get the old,
disgusting batches. Xenpsychous has remembered that cotton candy is the shit. In other news, Con Nachzehrer has made it's debut on Google Currents, where on the first Saturday
of each month at midnight GMT-5, an edition of Con Nachzehrer will appear on Currents with all the comics from the previous month. Additionally, there will be no updates or
revisions to the site next week. However, there will be, as all Fridays, a new issue of Con Nachzehrer, so stay tuned.
October 4th 2013:
The fifth issue of Con Nachzehrer has been released. Also tonight, Geek Force has updated the Rick archives with the remaining comics that were not contained within, and,
the Rick portion of the site has been set to display a random comic from Rick's run each time the page is visited or refreshed. Additionally, the Con Nachzehrer site has
been upgraded so that when you link to the front page, the link goes to the comic you were viewing instead of the newest comic. This is standard on most webcomics, but took
Geek Force over five years to implement. A note about last week's comic: Xenpsychous noticed that he made a mistake in the art which made it look like Kolman's penis was
hanging out. It was not even blue, and was not Xenpsychous's intention. The mistake was been fixed in the comic, and for future comics. In other news, a week from today, on
October 11th, Geek Force will be rolling out it's new logo and site design.
September 27th 2013:
Here is the fourth issue of Con Nachzehrer. Production notes and random musings on this comic: the second panel took Blender one hour and twenty five minutes to render on
the freestyle run. Xenpsychous does two renders, a normal one with a color pass, and then one with Freestyle. Render times are one of the roadblocks for Geek Force. Of
course, with culling, the render times generally drop to one and a half minutes, unless there are a lot of objects in panel. Another note, Xenpsychous tried, with Con, to
apply the dramatic principle of "Do nothing effectively." You can't really see it. For anyone who would like to script write, or make comics, Xenpsychous would recommend
drama. Drama was painful for him(until Drama Tech), due to Xenpsychous being painfully shy, however, acting class is good because it teaches about characterization and body
language. In other news, Con Nachzehrer's mobile site has launched. Click here, to visit the new site. One week ffrom today, on
Friday October 4th, we will be adding the final Rick comics to the Rick archives, and then, on October 11th, the site will be getting a general redesign with a new logo
for Geek Force. Stay tuned.
September 20th 2013:
Here is the second issue of Con Nachzehrer. This also marks the first appearance of the title character. Con Nachzehrer is less the protagonist of the strip than the
chief of an ensemble cast. The comic also focuses on Kolman and other characters. On a technical note, the color palette from the first issue is back. Xenpsychous changed
his methods with the second issue making it so that now the coloring is done in DAZ Studio on the 3D models instead of in the GIMP afterwards. This saved time, however, a
consequence was that the colors got lost from DAZ Studio to Blender. Xenpsychous fixed this with a color curve in GIMP. Xenpsychous has also fixed the black eyes effect from
Freestyle in Blender. That was easy, however, all Xenpsychous had to do was erase the eyes. Now that there are eyes, due to the coloring being done in Blender, this is
possible. Also, Xenpsychous now does a line trace in GIMP to compliment Freestyle and combines the layers. You can see in the previous comic how Freestyle can miss details
critical to a 2D drawing. In other news, the site will be rolling out some changes in the coming weeks, they are as follows: next week, on September 27th, we will be debuting
the mobile site for Con Nachzehrer. A week after that, two weeks from today on October 4th, Xenpsychous will finally be updating the Rick archives with all the missing
comics. Finally, on October 11th, in three weeks, Geek Force will be rolling out a new logo and site redesign. That's a lot going on, stay tuned.
September 13th 2013:
Here is the second issue of Con Nachzehrer. In this comic, Xenpsychous utilized a different method of coloring which makes the process of making the comic faster.
Xenpsychous believes that the comic has an overall more smooth look, as well. The only downside is that the color palette is off. Xenpsychous is working to fix this. In
other news, the site has some exciting new features coming up. Firstly, we will be debuting a mobile site for Con Nachzehrer on Friday September 27th. Then, a week later,
on October 4th, we will be updating the Rick site. There are currently eight or more issues of Rick which cannot be read. Xenpsychous will be remedying this by placing them
in their rightful home in the archives. Plus, Xenpsychous will be making the Rick homepage so it displays a random comic. Finally, on October 11th, Xenpsychous will be
debuting a redesign of the site, plus Geek Force's new logo. Stay tuned, and keep reading Con Nachzehrer.
September 6th 2013:
Here we are, it is September 6th, and this is the premiere of Con Nachzehrer. Kolman is 14 in this strip, and in case you didn't read it, it is his first day of high school.
Xenpsychous very much had this attitude towards school as a child(though he never dressed up as a prisoner).
August 30th 2013:
This is the fifth and final promo comic. It is another comic featuring Con and a younger Kolman. Next week, on September 6th, the comic begins for real. The primary
difference between the comic proper and the promo comics is that the comic will be set in one time period, and will tell a linear story. Much like what we tried to do in
Rick for the last half year of it's run. Each week, there will be a self contained gag strip, but, over the course of a year, they will tell a self contained story. The
very first story will be about Kolman adjusting to his first day of high school(with some education satire, just a dash, thrown in), meanwhile, elsewhere, Con tries to prove
that he is still hip. Xenpsychous does not have a myth arc planned out for Con Nachzehrer like he does for Geek Force, but Con Nachzehrer will have continuity and an
overall arc which arises from that. Xenpsychous counts himself primarily as a storyteller, and it bugs him, for the most part, when series skimp out of continuity. Artistic
reasons are excused, but for the most part, it seems like laziness causes the continuity deficit. Also, Xenpsychous hopes the bright, saturated color scheme is not too much.
Xenpsychous feels the saturation befits Con Nachzehrer, and he likes the idea of Con wearing crazy, oddball, seventies clothes. Anyway, tune in next week on Friday,
September 6th at 10 GMT-5 for the premiere of Con Nachzehrer.
August 23rd 2013:
This is the fourth promo comic. Introduced above is Con's lovely wife Miriam. This comic is set when they are newly married and before Kolman came about.
August 16th 2013:
Here is the third promo comic. The new character introduced this week is Con Nachzehrer, Kolman. Kolman is almost the star of the comic as much as Con is, and the first
story arc is very much about their father-son dynamic. Kolman is teenaged in the comic proper, however.
August 9th 2013:
Here is the second promo comic, released on time. A little note about the red monster in the strip, his name is Ran Nachzehrer, and he is to be a recurring character in the
strip. Though, he will not appear for some time. He is not part of the first story arc, and the first arc runs for a year. He may not be part of the second, either. The
second will also likely run a year. Additionally, this comic serves as Ran's backstory. Con Nachzehrer has existed for 16 years and Xenpsychous has as many years of stories
about him. Xenpsychous has decided, however, that these stories will form the backstory for the strip and not the main content. All of the promo comics are set before the
comic proper, and they are all cannon.
August 4th 2013:
A Minor site update, Xenpsychous has officially uploaded the favicon for the Con Nachzehrer portion of the site. In other news, Xenpsychous officially changed in the
copyright portions of the site his pseudonym from Redphantom Xenpsychous to merely Xenpsychous. The reason for this is to avoid confusion between the character Redphantom
and the author of the comic. Geek Force has become more of a drama than Xenpsychous originally intended and being an author avatar no longer suits the character
Redphantom.
August 3rd 2013:
The first promo webcomic for Con Nachzehrer has been released, and the ad campaign kicks off today. Xenpsychous actually had meant for this to take place yesterday, but
he is still developing the method used to create the strip. This should not be an issue for the comic, because it will be created at least a week in advance. It is
being mentioned here as to explain the major hurtle in the production of the Geek Force, the Webcomic reboot. Xenpsychous is working to make the process faster and more
efficient. The above promo comic took around five hours to make. Plus, in all honesty, Xenpsychous is not pleased with it. The comic will have backgrounds starting
with promo comic 3. Stay tuned.
July 29th 2013:
As mentioned above, Geek Force will begin posting a new weekly gag strip entitlted Con Nachzehrer. Besides that,
Xenpsychous would like to report that production on the Geek Force, the Webcomic reboot chugs along slowly but at a steady pace. Con Nachzehrer and Geek Force
will be sharing artwork. Stay tuned, the site is about to spring to life again.
April 15th 2013:
Today marks five years of Geek Force.
February 3rd 2013:
Six months of radio silence. Here's some news, and here's a ranting. Hopefully there is more to come.
August 15th 2012:
Rick Issue 213. This is the final issue of Rick, thanks for reading, everyone.
August 13th 2012:
Rick Issue 212 has been released. In other news, Rick, the Cryptozoologist will be completing it's run on August 15th. Stay tuned for news of plans for the site
post Rick.
August 8th 2012:
Rick Issue 211 has been released.
August 6th 2012:
Rick Issue 210 has been released
August 1st 2012:
Rick Issue 209 has been released. This is a personal comic for Redphantom, as it is his response to criticism he has recieved for making jokes about The Dark Knight
Rises shooting.
July 30th 2012:
Rick Issue 208 has been released.
July 29th 2012:
Rick Issue 207 has been released in honor of Rick's third anniversary. Redphantom will not be posting rejected scripts as he normally does, but he may well post them on
August 15th, when Rick finishes it's run. In other news, Redphantom will be appearing on a Podcast, the S&MM Show soon, and will post a link once the Podcast is finished.
July 25th 2012:
Rick Issue 206. In other news, Redphantom will be appearing on a Podcast, the S &M Show soon, and will post a link once the Podcast is finished.
July 23rd 2012:
Rick Issue 205 has been released. As posted above, a note about this comic: I would like to express my deepest sympathy for the victims of the shooting in Aurora. The above
joke referencing this terrible tragedy is not meant to seem cold or uncaring. I attended a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises myself, albeit one in Missouri, and one
where no gunshots were fired. I made this joke simply because laughter is my defense against a world where a shooting like this could happen. I have a foolish hope that if
there were more laughter in the world, there would be less acts of violence like this. Also, I enjoyed The Dark Knight Rises and would recommend it to anyone. Though, at
the same time, I found it flawed and did a critique of it. I tend to be the hardest on things I like most, though. A little behind the scenes on this comic, it is a
little personal. I was promoted in March, and this comic is a reflection on how that might have changed me. I know that had I known I was getting promoted, I would
not have gone twice weekly. I would consider my new job one factor in the fact the comic is ending.
July 18th 2012:
Rick Issue 204 has been released.
July 16th 2012:
Rick Issue 203 has been released. Ten more issues until Rick ends. In other news, as stated above: Surely there has been some speculation since the announcement was made
that Rick would be ending it's run that this website would also end. We would like to take the chance now to clear this up. The short answer is: no, this website will not
be coming to an end. First and foremost, we will continue to host the archives of Rick, the Cryptozoologist. Secondly, Redphantom is working on other projects, the primary
being a reboot of our flagship project, Geek Force, the Webcomic. This reboot of Geek Force, the Webcomic has been in development hell since before Rick, the
Cryptozoologist even made it's debut. It will be much like the original Geek Force, the Webcomic, only longer, and closer to the standard comic book format. The issues
would be around 20 pages long and be on a weekly update for a "season ". This is in no way a confirmation that this project will happen, but Redphantom is looking into it.
He is looking at using DAZ Studio, Poser, Blender, GIMP, and Inkscape to try and create art which is up to par. It would be at least Summer 2013 before this project would
materialize however. We are hesitant to announce this project, as all other attempts to advance it have fallen through. Still, Redphantom has written an entire season of it.
What to expect from it would be the same thing that was in the original comic. Same tone, same humor, but longer stories. The remakes of earlier issues have also been
expanded upon, so that they are mostly new content. Redphantom has also written the conclusion to the Erebus arc, and is currently penning the next one. He hopes some day
to finish the story. Redphantom will post updates on this as they come.
July 11th 2012:
Rick Issue 202 has been released.
July 9th 2012:
Rick Issue 201 has been released.
July 4th 2012:
Rick Issue 200 has been released.
July 2nd 2012:
Rick Issue 199 has been released. In other news, as stated above: Rick, the Cryptozoologist will be ending it's run on August 15th, 2012. This decision is a decision that Redphantom has made due to the fact
that he would rather pursue other projects in a longer form. This is in no way an announcement of the end of Geek Force, the Webcomic's hiatus, but Redphantom will
be looking into ways to bring it back. Redphantom is gratefull to anyone who has followed this strip, and will dedicate the next few months to giving it a proper and
dignified conclusion. This is by no means the end of this website, as Redphantom is developing other media to be featured here. Stay tuned for details on any new
projects to come.
June 27th 2012:
Rick Issue 198 has been released. In other news, as stated above: Rick, the Cryptozoologist will be ending it's run on August 15th, 2012. This decision is a decision that Redphantom has made due to the fact
that he would rather pursue other projects in a longer form. This is in no way an announcement of the end of Geek Force, the Webcomic's hiatus, but Redphantom will
be looking into ways to bring it back. Redphantom is gratefull to anyone who has followed this strip, and will dedicate the next few months to giving it a proper and
dignified conclusion. This is by no means the end of this website, as Redphantom is developing other media to be featured here. Stay tuned for details on any new
projects to come.
June 25th 2012:
Rick Issue 197 has been released. In other news, as stated above: Rick, the Cryptozoologist will be ending it's run on August 15th, 2012. This decision is a decision that Redphantom has made due to the fact
that he would rather pursue other projects in a longer form. This is in no way an announcement of the end of Geek Force, the Webcomic's hiatus, but Redphantom will
be looking into ways to bring it back. Redphantom is gratefull to anyone who has followed this strip, and will dedicate the next few months to giving it a proper and
dignified conclusion. This is by no means the end of this website, as Redphantom is developing other media to be featured here. Stay tuned for details on any new
projects to come.
June 20th 2012:
Rick Issue 196 has been released. In other news, as stated above: Rick, the Cryptozoologist will be ending it's run on August 15th, 2012. This decision is a decision that Redphantom has made due to the fact
that he would rather pursue other projects in a longer form. This is in no way an announcement of the end of Geek Force, the Webcomic's hiatus, but Redphantom will
be looking into ways to bring it back. Redphantom is gratefull to anyone who has followed this strip, and will dedicate the next few months to giving it a proper and
dignified conclusion. This is by no means the end of this website, as Redphantom is developing other media to be featured here. Stay tuned for details on any new
projects to come.
June 18th 2012:
Rick Issue 195 has been releaed.
June 13th 2012:
Rick Issue 194 has been released.
June 11th 2012:
Rick Issue 193 has been released.
June 6th 2012:
Rick Issue 192 has been released.
June 4th 2012:
Rick Issue 191 has been released.
May 30th 2012:
Rick Issue 190 has been released.
May 28th 2012:
Rick Issue 189 has been released.
May 23rd 2012:
Rick Issue 188 has been released. In other news, starting next Monday, May 28th, Rick, the Cryptozoologist will be updating at 9 gmt-6. It will still be up at eleven, but
for those who like peeking at their gifts early, it will be here at nine as well.
May 21st 2012:
Rick Issue 187 has been released.
May 16th 2012:
Rick Issue 186 has been released. In other news, beginning May 28th, the release time for Rick, the Cryptozoologist will be moving forward two hours to 9pm gmt-5. The main reason for this, if Geek Force
is to be honest is because Redphantom got promoted at his job not too long ago. He now works day shifts and gets up early in the morning, which makes releasing at eleven torturous for him. For
those of you accustomed to an 11 gmt-5 release, have no fear, the comic will still be here at 11, but for those who want to view the comic early, it will be here two hours earlier as well.
May 14th 2012:
Rick Issue 185 has been released.
May 9th 2012:
Rick Issue 184 has been released.
May 7th 2012:
Rick Issue 183 has been released.
May 2nd 2012:
Rick Issue 182 has been released.
April 30th 2012:
Rick Issue 181 has been released. Last Wednesday's comic was a special issue, and, as stated above, it was inspired by a concept created not by Redphantom or Dustin, but by
Redphantom's friends Ryan and Danny. Danny plays in the local band White Atalantic. White Atlantic will be playing at The Outland in Springfield, MO on May 31st.
April 25th 2012:
Rick Issue 180 has been released. This issue is a special issue, and, as stated above, it was inspired by a concept created not by Redphantom or Dustin, but by Redphantom's
friends Ryan and Danny. Danny plays in the local band White Atalantic.White Atlantic will be playing at The Outland in Springfield, MO on May 31st.
April 23rd 2012:
Rick Issue 179 has been released.
April 18th 2012:
Rick Issue 178 has been released.
April 16th 2012:
Rick Issue 177 has been released. In other news, as of yesterday, April 15th, the site has been in operation for four whole years.
April 11th 2012:
Rick Issue 176 has been released.
April 9th 2012:
Rick Issue 175 has been released.
April 4th 2012:
Rick Issue 174 has been released.
April 2nd 2012:
Rick Issue 173 has been released.
March 28th 2012:
Rick Issue 172 has been released. This issue marks Cedric's first appearance since his death. Cedric will continue to appear in flashbacks and in issues like this one.
March 26th 2012:
Rick Issue 171 has been released.
March 21st 2012:
Rick Issue 170 has been released.
March 19th 2012:
Rick Issue 169 has been released.
March 14th 2012:
Rick Issue 168 has been released.
March 12th 2012:
Rick Issue 167 has been released. We rebound on Wednesday with another exciting strip.
March 7th 2012:
Rick Issue 166 has been released. We'll be back again on Monday to present an all new comic.
March 5th 2012:
Rick Issue 165 has been released. Return Wednesday as March continues to come in like a lion with another issue of Rick, the Cryptozoologist.
February 29th 2012:
Rick Issue 164 has been released. The crew returns Monday to deliver another issue.
February 27th 2012:
Rick Issue 163 has been released. We'll be bouncing back Wednesday with another red hot issue.
February 22nd 2012:
Rick Issue 162 has been released. As always, we will be back Monday with another piping hot issue.
February 20th 2012:
Rick Issue 161 has been released. As listed above, we are featuring our latest story arc out of order. That way the comic is still a non linear gag strip without much
continuity that one can enjoy without having to follow the story. However, there will be another way to read for those who wish to invest in our characters. Redphantom has
devised a key system hoping that it makes it less confusing. This is to keep the storyline from dominating the strip, and to keep the strip as Rick, the Cryptozoologist.
What makes the strip is the random gag humor and satire. We'll shoot another strip Wednesday.
February 15th 2012:
Rick Issue 160 has been released. This one warrants special comment. For one thing, we want to assure you that this development won't simply be tossed aside. Cedric is dead,
he won't be coming back to life and there will be no retcons. It is possible we'll see him again, but not because his death has changed. We will also deal with the
consequences of Cedric's death, and let our characters change. We also hope to preserve the random gag humor that makes this comic what it is. Come back next week Monday to
see where we are taking this. Thank you for reading Rick, the Cryptozoologist.
February 13th 2012:
Rick Issue 159 has been released. Taking advantage of our recent format changes, Issue 160 will be a direct continuation of tonight's strip.
February 8th 2012:
Rick Issue 158 has been released. On the menu for next week is, once again, double the Rick. Plus, we have a special event planned to go on the side.
February 6th 2012:
Rick Issue 157 has been released. Come back Wednesday for another exciting issue.
February 1st 2012:
Rick Issue 156 has been released. Tomorrow if the groundhog sees his shadow and retreats to his hole, there will be two issues of Rick, the Cryptozoologist next week. If
the groundhog doesn't see his shadow, Rick is going to punch him in the face and throw him back to his hole anyway. Come back next Monday for another issue of Rick, and as
always, next Wednesday.
January 30th 2012:
Rick Issue 155 has been released. Come back Wednesday at eleven for a second helping.
January 25th 2012:
Rick Issue 154 has been released, per the new status quo, we will be back on Monday, January 30th, with another new issue.
January 23rd 2012:
Rick Issue 153 has been released. Geek Force decided to post our previously planned issue on SOPA tonight because, as many have pointed out, the bill will return in some
fashion. It is always important to oppose censorship, and to make sure that our elected officials do not merely wait for us to go back to sleep and then carry out an
unpopular action. This issue, of course, also just pokes fun at congress in general. Come back on Wednesday January 25th for another exciting issue.
January 19th 2012:
After a planned delay, Rick Issue 152 has been released. For those who might not already know, we are now a twice weekly strip, and will be posting another comic on January
23rd.
January 16th 2012:
Rick Issue 151 has been released, and Rick, the Cryptozoologist has made it's debut as a twice weekly strip. We will be back Wednesday with another comic.
January 11th 2012:
Rick Issue 150 has been released. In other news, next Monday, January 16th, we will be making our transition to a twice weekly strip. Come back at Monday at 11 for another
comic.
January 4th 2012:
Rick Issue 149 has been released, as has our quarterly list of most satirized topics, and Redphantom's annual list of his ten personal favorite comics of the year. In other
news, Rick will be making the transition to a twice weekly strip beginning January 16th
December 31st 2011:
Rick Issue 148 has been released. Additionally, Redphantom has posted his annual list of his favorite comics of the year. Complimenting that, Geek Force posted our list of
most satirized topics of 2011. Geek Force has also posted cryptid bios for Oilrah and for the Baramanu. We wish everyone a Happy New Year.
December 29th 2011:
Rick Issue 148 has been released. Geek Force has also posted cryptid bios for Oilrah and for the Baramanu. In other news, we will be posting Redphantom's top ten favorite
comics of 2011 at 11 GMT-6 on New Year's Eve. In addition, we will be releasing our list of most satirized topics in 2011 that night.
December 28th 2011:
Rick Issue 148 has been released. In other news, beginning January 16th, Rick the Cryptozoologist will be a twice weekly strip, updating Mondays and Wednesdays at 11 gmt-6.
Additionally, Redphantom will be selecting his ten favorite comics of the year and posting his choices online at 11 gmt-6 this Saturday for New Year's Eve, and Geek Force
will be posting a list of the top five most satirized topics of the year 2011.
December 21st 2011:
Rick Issue 147 has been released. Beginning January 16th, our comic will become a twice weekly strip, updating Mondays and Wednesdays at 11.
December 16th 2011:
Rick Issue 146 has been released. In other news, as posted above, beginning Monday January 16th, 2012, Geek Force will be posting updates for Rick, the Cryptozoologist
twice weekly. New issues will still be uploaded every Wednesday at 11 gmt-6 just as they always have been for the entire existence of the strip. In addition to this, a second
update will now also be posted on Monday nights at 11 gmt-6. We have made this decision for several reasons, first and foremost because we believe we can handle doubling
our workload. Primarily we are making this change because doing just one comic a week makes us feel claustrophobic. If we have any sort of recurring plot, it dominates the
strip. If we do character development, it must be minuscule to avoid overload. We are hoping that doubling our number of issues will allow us time to do so much more with
the characters and the plot. Rick, the Cryptozoologist will remain the same it has always been, humor wise, art wise, but starting January 16th, there will be much more of
it. We sincerely hope that this is a good thing. Also, Geek Force apologizes for using the word bi-weekly in the intial announcement where we meant twice weekly. A friend
of Redphantom's pointed out the difference.
December 14th 2011:
Rick Issue 146 has been released. In other news, as posted above, beginning Monday January 16th, 2012, Geek Force will be posting updates for Rick, the Cryptozoologist
bi-weekly. New issues will still be uploaded every Wednesday at 11 gmt-6 just as they always have been for the entire existence of the strip. In addition to this, a second
update will now also be posted on Monday nights at 11 gmt-6. We have made this decision for several reasons, first and foremost because we believe we can handle doubling
our workload. Primarily we are making this change because doing just one comic a week makes us feel claustrophobic. If we have any sort of recurring plot, it dominates the
strip. If we do character development, it must be minuscule to avoid overload. We are hoping that doubling our number of issues will allow us time to do so much more with
the characters and the plot. Rick, the Cryptozoologist will remain the same it has always been, humor wise, art wise, but starting January 16th, there will be much more of
it. We sincerely hope that this is a good thing.
December 7th 2011:
Rick Issue 145 has been released. In other news, Geek Force will be making a special announcement next week about a change coming to Rick, the Cryptozoologist to go with
our new issue.
November 30th 2011:
Rick Issue 144 has been released, and it is a special issue.
November 23rd 2011:
Rick Issues 142 and 143 have been released. Tonight we bring you two issues.
November 16th 2011:
Rick Issue 141 has been released, and it is part of a protest against the E-PARASITES ACT.
November 9th 2011:
Rick Issue 140 has been released.
November 2nd 2011:
Rick Issue 139 has been released, and Geek Force also has released our third annual Halloween Special.
November 1st 2011:
Here it is, the 2011 Halloween Special. This year Geek Force tried a little trick and treat. We hope everyone had a good one.
October 31st 2011:
A little trick and meta humor for our fans, the real Halloween Issue coming in a few hours.
October 26th 2011:
Rick Issue 137 has been released. In other news, come back this Monday for a special Halloween issue of Rick.
October 19th 2011:
Rick Issue 136 has been released. In other news, a reminder, there will, as always, be a Rick, the Cryptozoologist Halloween Special Issue released on Halloween.
October 12th 2011:
Rick Issue 135 has been released.
October 4th 2011:
Rick Issue 134 has been released. In other news, Geek Force has also posted the list of most satirized topics up through the third quarter of 2011.
September 28th 2011:
Rick Issue 133 has been released. This issue seems a bit dated, however, it is directed a people who really will not let the Birthers issue die.
September 21st 2011:
Rick Issue 132 has been released. As promised three weeks ago, this is Redphantom's question to Liberals: what would happen if past progressives used our current tactics?
Why can we not stand up for what we believe? Why can we not fight for our principles? Why must we be so politically correct and "act like adults", to such a degree that
we cannot say the other side is wrong? That we must always bend? Liberals need to push harder. We need a Liberal Richard Nixon, someone ruthless and shrewd, to be our
Democratic President.
September 16th 2011:
Rick Issue 131 has been released. Geek Force apologizes for the fact that the comic did not update on the main site. Redphantom's auto update did not work as it normally
does. This was a one week absence. Redphantom will be here next week to update the site in a proper manner.
September 14th 2011:
Rick Issue 131 will be released at 11 GMT-5. Redphantom has set the site to auto update at this time since he will be unable to update the site in person.
September 7th(2) 2011:
Rick Issue 130 has been released, and our hosting plan has been updated; the site it back at 100%.
September 7th 2011:
Rick Issue 129 has been released. In other news, Geek Force has upgraded their hosting plan, and Redphantom accidentally posted the wrong page to the site. Anyway, we are
now back at 100 percent and ready for tonight's update.
September 5th
Rick Issue 129 has been released. In other news, as posted above, Geek Force is having their hosting plan upgraded today.
August 31st 2011:
Rick Issue 129 has been released. This comic comes with comment from Redphantom, which is simply this: to all my conservative friends, why do you continue to vote for
Republicans who run on values and then betray you once in office? I do have several conservative friends, with whom I get along with well, aside from their belief that I
"think too much", and "read too much". Many of them are terrified that Obama is a Socialist bent on destroying their values, and yet, they are dissatisfied with Republicans
that they elect. Why do they continue this practice? The Tea Party was no suitable answer to this problem. Why is it that the GOP can find no suitable primary challengers
that are sane? Redphantom's question to his fellow Liberals and analysis of their problem will come in three weeks time. As far as site news, as stated above, we will be
upgrading our hosting plan on September 5th to boast site performance and expand our storage space. The site may be down for a few hours on September 5th and 6th. In other
news, Geek Force has posted the bio page for the Yowie
August 24th 2011:
Rick Issue 128 has been released. Also, as posted above, Geek Force is upgrading it's hosting plan to improve site performance and so that we can have unlimited storage.
Redphantom has been thinking about it lately, and he would hate to have to delete old comics if we ever ran out of space. This should prevent such a thing from happening,
and it should boast the site's performance. The upgrade will take place on Monday September 6th, and should take about 24 hours to complete, which means the upgrade will
go until September 7th. The site should be down for a few hours during this time, but it will be up and operating at optimum efficiency in time for next week's comic.
August 17th 2011:
Rick Issue 127 has been released.
August 10th 2011:
Rick Issue 126 has been released.
August 3rd 2011:
Rick Issue 125 has been released.
July 29th 2011:
Geek Force released Rick Issue 122 Wednesday, and two extra comics, Issues 123 and 124 todoay to mark two years running. Plus, Redphantom has updated the site. Much work
went into this, and so we hope you enjoy it. Rick the Cryptozoologist does not by any measure have a massive fanbase, but we appreciate everyone who reads it. We hope to
still be kicking it next year. In other news, dig around on Rick's portion of the site for the bios for the Kracken and the Owlman.
July 28th 2011:
Rick Issue 122 was released on Wednesday, as usual, today, July 29th, is Rick's second anniversary of being on the Internet. Two years ago today at eleven o clock, the
first issue of Rick went up, and thus, Geek Force will be releasing two extra comics, and a couple of other pieces of content to mark this occasion. Geek Force, is, in fact
done with all the required work. Still, this year's release will differ from the last in that Redphantom will not be up at midnight to mark to the anniversary, and will
not be able to update the site during the day because of work. Still, Redphantom is much more prepared for this event than he was last year, and has thankfully avoided an
all nighter, which is what he was doing at this time last year. With those two factors combined, Redphantom will release the content in this order, at these times: Rejected
Rick Strips from Year Two will be released at 5:00PM GMT-6, Issue 123 will be released at 7:00PM GMT-6, The Bios for Kracken and Owlman will be released at 9:00PM GMT-6,
And the grand finale, Issue 124, a fully fledged Special Issue, along with the site updates will be posted online at 11:00PM GMT-6.
July 27th 2011:
Rick Issue 122 has been released, in other news, Friday will mark the release of two comics marking Rick's second anniversary, and one of them is written by Dustin. Plus,
it is a special issue. Redphantom has already collected his unused scripts, of which there are 20, and is prepared to release them on that day. There will be two new
cryptid bios, and of course, the site revamps. Geek Force is very pleased to have made it to two years, and hopes to celebrate again around this time of year for many years
yet to come. Many thanks to all of our readers who make this happen.
July 20th 2011:
Rick Issue 121 has been released. In other news, Redphantom has not updated this to the site yet, but he has gone back and streamlined the code for the current archives,
which will be the HTML4 archives once the site updates are done. Redphantom did want to increase the efficiency of these, and have them as an option. It is not nearly as
efficient as the HTML5 code, but it should be an improvement over the current code. Eventually, the HTML5 version will become standard. When this happens depends on how
fast HTML5 is embraced and used throughout the Internet. Redphantom will also be adding bios for Owlman and the Kracken to site on July 29th. The artwork is done, but
Redphantom is holding off on it seeing as at the moment, there are two versions of the site on his computer, the current one, and the new one. He does not wish to add the
bios twice.
July 13th 2011:
Rick Issue 120 has been released. In other news, there is not much to report on the site updates. Redphantom has done most of the graphics, and progress is being made.
There will now be alternate logos for Rick, the current one will remain official, but new ones have been made which feature Rick's supporting cast, and some of Rick
original cryptids. These logos will randomly display each time the page for the expanded Rick site loads. There is also a logo with current versions of Rick and John to
denote our second year in business.
July 6th 2011:
Rick Issue 119 has been released. In other news, Redphantom, and it is excellent news, Redphantom has finally perfected his new archives code. He has removed thousands of
lines of code, and achieved his original goal of only adding one line of code per new archive page. Since HTML5 is not a standard, it will be optional for the time being.
There will also be a Low Bandwidth and a High Bandwidth option. Redphantom feels strongly about providing these options because he himself prefers Low key options, and
dislikes the lack of options. In regards to the new archives script, Redphantom's sole regret is that it ate up so much development time that he was unable to try and
develop new features. Still, this new script provides a platform to build upon. The script has been completed since July 1st, 2011. Redphantom's next phase of redesigns
is a more light one: making new graphics. Logos will need to be created for the new archives page, of course, and he is going to add some new graphics without making major
changes to the site, mostly to try and feature more of our supporting cast. Additionally, tonight Redphantom has updated the Rick page for our most satirized topics.
June 29th 2011:
Rick Issue 118 has been released. In other news, Redphantom has finally made needed progress on the web development. These changes are set to debut July 29th, as part of
the second anniversary of Rick celebrations.
June 22nd 2011:
Rick Issue 117 has been released. In other news, web development continues, and Redphantom has hit another snag, but, the script will be made more efficient for sure.
June 19th 2011:
Rick Issue 115 has been released, and so has an extra issue, Rick Issue 116, about Barack Obama's defense of his blatant violation of the War Powers Act. And yes,
Redphantom understands that every recent president, including Bill Clinton, has made a joke of the War Powers Act, but President Obama was the one who promised change, not
the same old politics in Washington. In other news, Redphantom is continuing web development and will be able to increase the efficiency of his Javascript, but not as much
as he originally wanted.
June 15th 2011:
Rick Issue 115 has been released. Redphantom has no new updates on site upgrades, except that it is a frustrating process. He is working increasing the efficiency of the
script on the archives.
June 8th 2011:
Rick Issue 114 has been released. In other news, Redphantom will be updating the site for Rick's second anniversary, as he previously posted. One thing he did not mention
before, but wishes to make clear, is that there will not be any major aesthetic changes to the site. Last year there were major changes, but that was only because when
Redphantom originally designed the site, he had a week, and only the artwork for the first two comics. The site had to be basic and text oriented due to the fact that there
was no artwork. The purpose of Rick was, at that time, a side project to keep the site going until Geek Force could come off of hiatus. Redphantom is pondering throwing
in some art from Year Two, but most graphics should remain the same. Now then, news on changes Redphantom is working on, and things that will definitely come to fruition:
improvements to the archives. Last year, Redphantom wrote a script to manage our archives pages so that he would not end up having to edit dozens of pages each Wednesday.
It has worked perfectly. Updating is much less labor intensive now, and the only problem is how bloated the script is. Redphantom seems to have this problem, where it is
version 2 or 3 of his script before he can get the job and have it not be bloated. The new archives script will be the same on the surface, but, under the hood will be
much more lean. And flexible. Redphantom will no longer have to add lines for a new month, and will only have to add one line or less for a new category.
June 2nd 2011:
Redphantom has added two new categories to the archives for satirical topics. One is the War in Libya. Which is one Redphantom would have done sooner if any of our Libya
strips had no reused artwork. Now we have released a comic which has met this standard, and so now there is a Libya archive page. The other new category is an American
Imperialism. The U.S. government has for the most part stopped using the words War on Terrorism, so, now we're branding it as something else. In other news, Redphantom will
be doing some site updates for the second anniversary of Rick, and hopes to make this a tradition. The updates will be rolled out on July 29th. As with last year, Redphantom
will remain mum about it until he has them done so as not to disappoint. Although, last year, Redphantom got all the updates done he wanted to. Redphantom will announce
now that there will be a strip released that day, and it will be non satirical. Also, we will, as with last year, post the unused strips from the year. We have many this
year. Redphantom will also announce now that there will be no Rick ranting this year. Last year's almost killed him, and he is not proud of it.
June 1st 2011:
Issue 113 has been released.
May 25th 2011:
Issue 112 has been released.
May 18th 2011:
Issue 111 has been released. This one plugs nuclear power as a viable alternative to oil. Disagreeing with his fellow Liberals, and with all due respect to the victims of
the horrible accident at Fukushima's nuclear power plant, Redphantom is still a proponent of nuclear power. Redphantom agrees, steps must be taken to make it safer, and to
get profit out of it. There is also an issue of waste. Albert Einstein was quoted as saying, "Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water." True, but the sad thing
is, solar cannot generate more energy right now, or enough. The same goes for wind power. And burning water is a hell of a lot safer than burning oil. Fukushima made parts
of Japan, and perhaps even China unsafe, Chernobyl made Europe and Russia unsafe, Three Mile Island made parts of the United States unsafe. These accidents causes thousands
of diseases, but so does petroleum. Petroleum makes the entire world unsafe and covers it in a thick haze. We should use nuclear as a bridge, and then, once wind and solar
are honed, phase it out. Then we must clean our waste, and beforehand, make all of our reactors safe. They must not be built in hazardous areas, in much the same way we
must be careful, until we can abandon it, where we drill for oil.
May 11th 2011:
Issue 110 has been released.
May 4th 2011:
Issue 109 has been released.
April 27th 2011:
Issue 108 has been released.
April 20th 2011:
Issue 107 has been released. Geek Force would like to clarify that this issue is not intended to encourage the usage of illegal drugs. We would never encourage the usage of
substances we ourselves do not use. Nor would we encourage the usage of a substance the usage of which could risk a person their employment, or result in jail time. It is
merely intended to argue that drugs should be legal. Additionally, this issue is in no way intended to glamorize drug usage, quite the contrary, it is meant to portray
drug usage as something banal. Something which, in a world with murder, theft, rape, and violence seems a petty thing to crusade against.
April 13th 2011:
Issue 106 has been released.
April 6th 2011:
Issue 105 has been released.
March 30th 2011:
Issue 104 has been released.
March 26th 2011:
Issue 103 has been released. This concludes Odyssey Week, we hope you enjoyed it, and now for some sleep.
March 25th 2011:
Issue 102 has been released. A fun fact about this one is that Redphantom rewrote most of it, feeling the script sucked. Also, Issue 99 was saved over, but Redphantom had it up in the browser, so
he reconstructed it from screenshots.
March 24th 2011:
Issue 101 has been released.
March 23rd(2) 2011:
Issues 99 and 100 were released today, enjoy.
March 23rd 2011:
Odyssey Week continues with two comics today. The one just released, and of course, our standard comic at eleven.
March 22nd 2011:
Rick Issue 98 has been released, a little later in the day than Redphantom would have liked, but, it was released on March 22nd, and that was the time set. Redphantom
offers his apologies, he had a long day at work yesterday and today is his 21st birthday. Besides, as small as these strips are, much work does go into them.
March 21st 2011:
Rick Issue 97 has been released, on a Monday. This week is a special event, Odyssey Week in honor of the recent military action in Libya.
March 16th 2011:
Rick Issue 96 has been released.
March 9th 2011:
Rick Issue 95 has been released.
March 2nd 2011:
Rick Issue 94 has been released.
February 23rd 2011:
Rick Issue 93 has been released.
February 16th 2011:
Rick Issue 92 has been released. Geek Force apologizes for the slight lateness, but it has been a rough week.
February 9th 2011:
Rick Issue 91 has been released.
February 2nd 2011:
Rick Issue 90 has been released.
January 26th 2011:
Rick Issue 89 has been released.
January 12th 2011:
Rick Issue 87 has been released.
January 5th 2011:
Rick Issue 86 has been released.
December 31st 2010:
Geek Force has posted a list of the Top Ten Rick comics of 2010, and has now added a page to the rick site detailing the topics we satirize the most. Redphantom
will be posting details soon about some projects he has been working on, and apologizes for not posting more material, but he has been adjusting to work. Also, many
of the projects he has been working on besides Rick have a much longer production cycle.
December 29th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 85.
December 22nd 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 84.
December 15th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 83.
December 8th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 82.
December 1st 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 81.
November 24th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 80.
November 17th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 79.
November 10th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 78.
November 3rd 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 77.
October 31st 2010:
Geek Force has released the Rick the Cryptozoologist 2010 Halloween Special.
October 27th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 75.Geek Force will also be releasing a Rick, the
Cryptozoologist Halloween Special, written and drawn by Dustin Carter, so be sure to
return to the site on Sunday night.
October 20th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 74.
October 13th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 73.
October 6th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 72.
September 29th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 71.
September 22nd 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 70.
September 15th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 69.
September 8th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 68.
September 1st 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 67.
August 25th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 66.
August 18th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 65.
August 11th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 64.
August 4th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 63.
July 29th(2) 2010:
Geek Force has released a new issue of Rick, the Cryptozoologist! And Redphantom posted
two rants today! One of dicarded Rick Strips Scripts, and one, Inane Jokes, a short
story about Rick. There will be more Rick products in the coming weeks.
July 29th 2010:
Redphantom has posted 11 Rick strips we never used, nor will we ever use, and he is going
to post his short story featuring Rick tonight which is currently 17,729 words but is
going to go through a draft between now and then so may be shorter or longer, and,
Geek Force is all set to release another issue of Rick tonight to celebrate his first
birthday.
July 28th 2010:
Geek Force has released the 61st issue of Rick the Cryptozoologist, tomorrow it will
release the 62nd in honor of Rick's first birthday, it will introduce redesigns to the
Rick portion of the site, it will introduce a Rick store, and Redphantom will post a
short story staring Rick. Come back tomorrow and check it out.
July 21st 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 60. In other news, the updates to the Rick portion of
the site, set to go online July 29th, 2010, the one year anniversary of Rick's debut, are
chugging along. Redphantom has now done all of our cryptids and recurring characters in
colors. There are bios for all of our original cryptids and non-original ones, as well
as for all of our characters, which Redphantom is working on getting done at the moment.
There will be some other updates to the site as well, which Redphantom will be mum on for
now, and also a rick strip that day. So, come to the site July 29th to see all of our new
content.
July 14th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 59. In other news, the updates to the Rick portion
of the site are coming along nicely. The new archive pages are done, and now Redphantom
is working on bio pages for all our original cryptids, non-original crytpids, and all
our characters. This was an idea originally proposed by Stephen the Grand, but one we
have just now moved to implement.
July 7th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 58. Also, as a minor update, Redphantom would like to
announce two things. One, the Rick, the Cryptozoologist portion of this site is being
redesigned and the changes are set to be debuted on July 29th, the anniversary of Rick's
premiere. Redphantom has already done a part of it. It will be basically the same, with
more graphics given the fact that we have more now, and with images of Rick and John as
they are now, seeing as they have evolved in the past year from the first drawings.
The second announcement is that there will be a Rick strip released on Thursday July 29th
to celebrate Rick's first year. It will not be a special issue, however, there will be
a strip released that day. There is more content being developed for Rick's birthday,
however, in the spirit of not letting our readers down, we are keeping that secret for
the time being. We also still have stuff relating to Geek Force the Webtoon in the works.
Unfortunately, that project is going slowly.
June 30th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 57.
June 23rd 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 56.
June 16th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 55.
June 9th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 54.
June 2nd 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 53.
May 26th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 52.
May 19th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 51.
May 12th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 50.
May 5th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 49, and, it's been exactly one year since Redphantom
released My True Calling is Killing Babies, to be found in the Rantings section of the
site. That began the longer, short story style rantings. One, in part because Redphantom
just started thinking of them that way, and two, because for a few months, with Geek
Force, the Webcomic on hiatus, it was the only material on the site. By the way, Geek
Force should be making it's return later this year. Likely we'll have to rebuild our
fanbase for it from scratch...
April 28th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 48.
April 21st 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 47.
April 14th 2010:
Geek Force has posted Rick Issue 46, and Redphantom posted a new rant, at novella
length, which is entitled The Etherist. For those of you who saw it before this morning,
Redphantom apologizes for it not being very friendly formatted for reading. Redphantom
was tired as he posted, and had a very difficult time with what seems like a simple task.
It was very hard to get The Etherist posted, a lot of technical and personal issues arose
for Redphantom to delay it. And it was a hard rant, warranting three drafts. Redphantom
has also packaged The Etherist into a pdf file due to it's length.
April 13th 2010:
Redphantom has posted a new rant, entitled The Etherist. It stands at novella length,
so wait to read it until you have some free time. It is designed to be read all in
one sitting. Redphantom has another epic rant that he is breaking into parts, much
like Come Hither. This is not one of those rants. This is meant to be read in one
sitting. It is very violent and intense in places. It is also interesting for anyone
who likes Geek Force, the Webcomic.
April 7th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 45. In other news, Redphantom will be posting a new
rant no later than April 14th. It is another dark story, much like the Nightmare Machine.
And it is intense in places, though in a different manner than the Nightmare Machine.
The story focuses on two characters which will become important in Geek Force later on,
Virus I, Virus from Geek Force's father, and Freak, the international terrorist. It also
contains a few other characters which appear in varying degrees. And yes, Geek Force
the Webtoon, is still being worked on, Geek Force has just hit some setbacks. The working
title for the upcoming rant is The Etherist.
March 31st 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick Issue 44.
March 26th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 43.
March 25th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 42.
March 24th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 41.
March 23rd 2010:
The Apocalypse continues, and so, Issue 40 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been
released.
March 22nd 2010:
IT'S APOCOLAPSE WEEK! THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTIVES PASSED HEALTH CARE REFORM AND THEREFORE
THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END. There will be five comics this week, with health care
issues on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, and a regular update on Wednesday. Issue
39 has been released.
March 17th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 38.
March 10th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 37.
March 3rd 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 36.
February 24th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 35.
February 17th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 34.
February 10th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 33.
February 3rd 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 32.
January 27th 2010:
Geek Force has released Rick, the Cryptozooloigst Issue 31.
January 20th(2) 2010:
Redphantom has within the last week released two rants, Crucify Me, and Come Hither Part
II. Geek Force has also put out the latest Rick strip.
January 20th 2010:
Redphantom has released his latest rating, Come Hither Part II, and last week he
released Crucify Me. New issue of Rick today, ripping on Jay Leno.
January 14th 2010:
Redphantom has released his latest ranting, Crucify Me, which is a return to comedy for
him. He plans to finish and release Come Hither Part II very soon.
January 13th 2010:
Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 29 has been released.
January 6th 2010:
Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 28 has been released.
December 30th 2009:
Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 27 has been released.
December 23rd 2009:
Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 26 has been released.
December 16th 2009:
Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 24 and Issue 25 have been released. Enjoy the double
issue.
December 9th 2009:
Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 23 has been released.
December 2nd 2009:
Rick, the Crpytozoologist Issue 22 has been released.
November 25th 2009:
Rick, the Crpytozoologist Issue 21 has been released, sorry it was a little late.
November 18th 2009:
Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 20 has been released.
November 11th 2009:
Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 19 has been released. Redphantom will post an update on
Geek Force, the Webtoon sometime within the next few days. Luckily, the reason updates
have been sparse is because Geek Force has been working on it.
November 4th 2009:
Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 18 has been released.
October 31st 2009:
Geek Force has released a special issue of Rick, the Cryptozoologist for Halloween.
October 28th 2009:
Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 16 has been released. In other news, Stephen the Grand
has left Geek Force. He will be missed.
October 21st 2009:
Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 15 has been released.
October 17th 2009:
Redphantom finally posted some new information about Geek Force, the Webtoon. The main
reason he did not post it on Thursday as planned was because his hands were tied with
working on the show.
October 14th 2009:
Issue 14 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. Redphantom will also be
posting another update on the production of Geek Force the Webtoon tomorrow.
October 9th 2009:
Redphantom posted a special issue of Rick, the Cryptozoologist to celebrate Obama
winning the Nobel Peace Prize. He also posted a picture of the new design for the
Dope Lord, and he released a short story, the Nightmare Machine.
October 8th 2009:
Redphantom posted a new picture of the Dope Lord on the page about Geek Force. He
also created an RSS feed for Geek Force, the Webtoon.
October 7th 2009:
Issue 12 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. In other news, work on Geek
Force, the Webtoon continues. Redphantom will post some things on the portion of the
site dedicated to it tomorrow, in addition to creating a news RSS feed for it. Also,
Redphantom has released a new rant entitled The Nightmare Machine.
October 6th 2009:
Redphantom posted a new ranting, a short story entitled The Nightmare Machine.
Redphantom came up with it after artwalk and had to do it. It's about nineteen pages.
The unreleased portions of Come Hither will be released after Redphantom finishes
writing the current block of episodes of Geek Force, the Webtoon. Right now, Redphantom
is channeling all his comedy ideas into Geek Force.
October 4th(2) 2009:
Redphantom uploaded a bunch of pictures from Geek Force at Artwalk. Thanks to eveyone for
the warm response. In other news, Geek Force would like to officially announce that we
are working on an internet cartoon, Geek Force, the Webtoon.
October 4th 2009:
A big announcement and more pictures from Artwalk are coming later today. We got a very
good reception at Artwalk this year.
October 1st
Issue 11 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released, and Geek Force apologizes for it
being 45 minutes late. We kind of had a crazy day. In other news...Geek Force will be
going dressed as their characters from Geek Force, the Webcomic to Springfield,
Missouri's First Friday Artwalk on Firday, October 2nd. Our good friend and fellow
superhero, Low Budget Man will be joining us. We will be at the town square at around 8
pm if anyone wishes to see us in our ridiculous costumes.
September 29th 2009:
Geek Force will be going dressed as their characters from Geek Force, the Webcomic to
Springfield, Missouri's First Friday Artwalk on Firday, October 2nd. Our good friend and
fellow superhero, Low Budget Man will be joining us. We will be at the town square at
around 8 pm if anyone wishes to see us in our ridiculous costumes.
September 23rd 2009:
Issue 10 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released.
September 16th 2009:
Issue 9 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. Geek Force has changed the font,
because Dustin pointed out to Redphantom that the old one was a little hard to read. In
other news, Redphantom never got around to his 9/11 rant, and probably won't. Sorry, we
put out a stellar Rick Issue and Redphantom was busy with that, and then he just had
other things.
September 11th 2009:
The Special 9/11 Issue of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. Redphantom's
9/11 rant will come tomorrow, it is more to criticize the politicization of 9/11 and
what America did in response to 9/11: destroy it's own soul. May all the victims of the
9/11 terrorist attacks, at the world trade center, at the pentagon, and on flight 93
rest in peace. May all of the victims families and the nation to which they belonged
have found the strength to keep on living without them, and may they continue to find that
strength.
September 9th 2009:
Issue 7 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. The comics will likely be
released later in the day, as Geek Force has been working on it during the day in
addition to their other things, and Redphantom doesn't mix the art and the text and post
it until everyone has gone home. It will be released on Wednesdays though. In other news,
look for the special 9/11 issue of Rick, the Crptozoologist and Redphantom's 9/11 rant on
Friday.
September 2nd 2009:
Issue 6 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. Later in the day again, because
Geek Force is working on it's top secret project. The Stephen Issue of Rick is on the
way. Although, the one released today Redphantom is pleased with because it is one of
his favorites. Redphantom almost had to make another strip based upon previous artwork
which may be released before next Wednesday as a special issue. Anyway, he writes about
five to seven scripts and lets either Stephen or Dustin choose which they want to draw.
This week, Dustin chose the drug one, one of Redphantom's favorites. In other news, Geek
Force has decided they will do a Rick, the Cryptozoologist strip on September 11th. So,
there will be two strips next week. One for September 9th, and then a special issue
about 9/11. Possibly based on the use of the incident as a propaganda tool, Afghanistan,
the conspiracy theories(against, Islamic terrorists took down those buildings, not the
U.S. government.), or about how America sold its soul because of that incident. There
are many angles Geek Force can take it from. There will also likely be a Redphantom rant
next week. Especially since Dustin disagrees with some of Redphantom's views, so to
speak freely and be able to respect Dustin, Redphantom will publish a rant. Possibly
aimed at President Obama if he decides to use 9/11 to justify the failing war in
Afghanistan. Speaking of rants, Redphantom is about to enter a more intensive writing
period on Geek Force's top secret project, so rants may be scarce until the end of
October.
August 26th 2009:
Issue 5 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released.
August 24th 2009:
Redphantom has released a new rant, entitled Come Hither Part I.
August 19th 2009:
Issue 4 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist is out. It was released a bit later in the day
because Redphantom was working on splicing audio together for a project which isn't
an animated version of our flagship project, Geek Force the Webcomic. But, if it was, it
would be an extended version of Issue 3 on steroids. Redphantom is still working on his
rant, but rants take a backseat to other stuff. He might have to release a smaller one
while he works on the new Pekoe one, which may even have to be released in parts.
August 12th 2009:
Issue 3 of Rick, the Cryptoxoologist is out. Redphantom is also working on his next
Pekoe rant, he actually wrote a plot outline and everything. It's just a feel good story,
really.
August 5th 2009:
Issue 2 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist is out. Redphantom made a decent voting incentive
for it. And he's still working on a couple of rants, and today is the day Geek Force
works on it's top secret project.
August 4th 2009:
The first blog post for the Rick the Cryptozoologist's blog has been released. Along
with the RSS feed to inform about updates to the blog. Redphantom has also added a
privacy policy to the site because our lovely ads now collect enough information that we
need it. In other news, Redphantom is working on a sequel to The Great Cannabinoilis
Pekoe and another rant. He doesn't know when they will be released but he is working on
them. They mostly deal with religion, and the abuse of religion and it's negative
aspects. The second gag strip gets released tomorrow.
July 29th 2009:
The first issue of our new gag strip Rick, the Cryptozoologist, has been released. Rick
also has a separate site where he has sightings of Cryptids, RSS feeds, and eventually
comic archives and a blog. Redphantom also updated the copyright notices on the entire
site and made small changes to almost every page. There will also be changes to Geek
Force's hidden profile page.
July 24th 2009:
As you may have seen at the top of the page, Geek Force is launching a new weekly gag
strip, seeing as Redphantom's rants aren't nearly as popular as the comic. The strip is
Rick, the Cryptozoologist, a character we're had for about three years. We're had the
Geek Force characters for about five. Speaking of Geek Force, the comic went on hiatus
in a really inconvenient spot in the story, don't worry, we will finish Geek Force some
day, but for now, it has to be put on hold. For several reasons, not the least of which
is that it's an intensive project and Geek Force doesn't have too much time right now.
We'll post updates on that as they become available. As for Rick, it's a good project, or
at least, we hope it is. It has the same political humor, it's more like a short three
panel weekly cartoon, but it is much less intensive. So, we should avoid the previous
trouble we had with our deadlines with Geek Force, the Webcomic. Three issues are done,
pretty much. The gags are written, the art is done, Redphantom just needs to put the art
together and add text, with real word balloons. And this way, Geek Force still
has time to work on their top secret project. The site will be going down for a few
hours one day over the next few days when Redphantom adds the new section for Rick, the
Cyptozoologist. Come by the site next Wednesday to check out the first comic. In other
news, Redphantom put out a new rant earlier this week.
July 20th 2009:
Well, it isn't about Michael Jackson, but, it is a rant. Sorry, but it seems like
Redphantom was a little slow to get a rant out, so too much time passed to make a decent
rant about him and for it still to be relevant. Fortunately, Redphantom has replaced his
original rant with one much better, one about, of course, The Great Cannabinoilis Pekoe.
Redphantom will try and put rants out more often, though, his life is still a bit of a
mess for the moment, so, no promises on when new rants will come. Redphantom will also
post any other updates about Geek Force as they become available.
July 11th 2009:
Sorry for the lack of update, and for not posting any kind of content whatsoever. Geek
Force the Webcomic is still on hiatus. Geek Force, now consisting of four members, only
three of whom have characters in the comic are working very slowly on another project.
Partly because we want to avoid the earlier works in this project from being as bad as
the early comics, so, we're trying to learn before we release something publicly, and,
we want to be sure it goes through. All Redphantom is doing for this project is the
writing and the technical aspects of the art. Stephen the Grand and DC are doing the real
artwork. We're also really behind, and Redphantom has rarely been behind on writing
before, even in the worst of the comic delays, so, ultimately, the decision to put the
comic on hiatus seems to be the correct one. Every member of Geek Force is busy trying
to sort out other things, so, it would make it hard to do a Webcomic right now. We'll
release more info on our top secret project when Redphantom is confident it will come
to pass. Geek Force was actually working on this before the comic, and during a large
part of it's production, and it fell through before, several times. So, Redphantom won't
release info on it before he is sure it will be released. The comic was mainly designed
to give us something to do until this came through. That's why it's more Redphantom and
Stephen's thing. In other news, Redphantom made a rant which is called Michael Steele
is Whiter than Mr. Rogers. Redphantom will also post another rant soon, which deals with
the media obsession with Michael Jackson and celebrities in general. Plus, even though
My True Calling is Killing Babies didn't do as well as even our lowest rated comics, he
still wants to do a sequel to it. Redphantom will do his best to keep the site updated.
May 19th 2009:
Geek Force, the Webcomic has been placed on indefinite hiatus while Redphantom sorts out
some personal things. Redphantom still plans to post rantings and things, his big 17
page rant was something of a test to see if he could use that for content for the site
should Geek Force go into a hiatus. A fair am mount of people seemed to read it, so,
Redphantom might use rants and short stories for content. It only took a weekend to do
that entire rant, unlike most issues of Geek Force. With rants being less time consuming,
he should still be able to do those. Redphantom could also create a page and RSS feed
with news regarding to the hiatus and when it might end, assuming it does, if there is
demand for that.
May 5th 2009:
Redphantom has posted a new rant, coming in at 17 pages called, "My True Calling Is
Killing Babies(And the Story of the Best Few Days of My Life.)" In other news,
Redphantom is still working on Issue 30, he hopes to have it out this week.
May 1st 2009:
Redphantom has finished the upgrades to the interface, they will be debuting shortly,
once Redphantom has a chance to test them. In other news, Redphantom has posted a
picture of Jew Avenger's laboratory. Keep in mind, this background is actually
1566x1200 pixels big, so in the comic we will never see as much of it as featured here.
Also, this is the effect that will be used in Jew Avenger's flashbacks within Issue 30,
as a parody of pulp comics.
April 29th 2009:
Redphantom has updated the interface to support captions, which means progress as far as
Issue 30 is concerned. All comics after Issue 30 will support captions at the bottom of
the screen. Redphantom will try to get Issue 30 Part 1 out this weekend. It's good. In
other news, Redphantom is also adding another feature to the interface, which will be
retroactive, and effect Issue 1 Remake, Issue 19, Arc 2 end, Issues 25 and up, it is the
ability to bookmark your place in a comic. Primarily so that Redphantom can link back to
a comic with the bookmarking feature because he's so damn subversive and important
points are mentioned in passing. The captions should also tell when it would be good to
look back. This is also so that there can still be two parters. Right now, it would be
impossible to skip to a specific place within a comic. Redphantom is fixing that.
April 28th 2009:
Redphantom added the Issue 1 Remake as the latest comic, and created a section for
special issues. Like the Halloween Issue. If you've never read it, it's Stephen the
Grand's thing, and it's good. In other news, Redphantom is working on the interface so
he can get Issue 30 out. Still working on it. Also, Redphantom is able to work on it
again after getting the new Ubuntu/installing a new video card that was unsupported.
Luckily, the high resolution makes up for all that pain and effort, one gig, bitches.
April 24th 2009:
The Issue 1 Remake: How Not to Make a Good First Impression...AGAIN, has been released.
It is quite a bit different from the original, satirizing a different topic, and having
many new jokes. In other news, Issue 30 is still delayed. Redphantom will post updates
on it's progress as it becomes available.
April 18th 2009:
The remake of Issue 1 is at 43 panels. It's still basically the same comic only better
and Redphantom took it in a completely different direction from the original. In other
news, Issue 30 is actually delayed for the exact same reason Issue 1 was, the interface
is giving Redphantom trouble. Redphantom will update about both of these.
April 15th(2) 2009:
Redphantom released his boring rant about Geek Force. The remake of Issue 1 is coming
early tomorrow morning.
April 15th 2009:
Today marks one year of Geek Force, and to celebrate, Redphantom is remaking Issue 1.
Redphantom has fucked everything up in the past year that really matters to him, but if
there is one thing he can be proud of, it's that he didn't die, and now he can make
webcomics of a better quality than he did one year ago. Thus, Issue 1 gets remade. Look
for the Issue 1 remake and Redphantom's special rant, as himself, later today.
April 13th 2009:
Redphantom still doesn't have Issue 30 ready to go, but, he would like to announce that
on Wednesday, April 15th, he will be doing something on the site to celebrate a year
since the launch of Geek Force. Not like we're big or anything, but given what this year
has been like for Redphantom, he feels like he needs to celebrate somehow. He isn't
quite sure of all he will do yet, but there will be some things on the site to mark a
year of us. Most of it should be boring. Also, Redphantom has decided that the proper
way to celebrate one year of Geek Force would be poppy seed lemon muffins, as Redphantom
ate them as he set up the site and wrote Issues 1 and 2. Both written on April 13th, at
around noon, just before Redphantom went to go and watch his high school's production of
Steel Pier.
April 9th 2009:
Issue 30 is delayed. Above is the pulp comics style which Jew Avenger's flashbacks will
be done in for Issue 30. Developing this style is a bit of a task, so it caused delays.
Also, the interface will be upgraded to support captions below the panels. These factors
both contribute to the delays. There will also be a kickass fight scene which will
prolong production, so, Redphantom isn't going to post another release date, but, he
will try and keep updates about the comic on the site. He really missed that up for
Issue 29, partly because he didn't want people to know "Vernon" was Virus until they
read the comic.
April 2nd 2009:
Alright, Geek Force April Fools is over, hope those of you that saw it enjoyed it, those
of you that didn't, it's in the news archive. As for Issue 30, it is slated for release
next week. It will feature a flashback with Jew Avenger, and it will be a big one. For
starters, it's a two parter, secondly, it introduces the super humans who would destroy
the world of Geek Force. Much like Issue 23 was for AFTMOS and the Salvation of Humanity.
Speaking of, the Salvation of Humanity will make a brief appearance. Freak and Virus I
(Plus his super villain alter ego) will also get their proper introductions. Big issue
coming up.
April 1st 2009:
There's some big news for Geek Force today. Redphantom Xenpsychous has been born again
as a Christian! So, in order to accommodate his new faith, there are going to be some
changes to Geek Force. Firstly, no more dirty language. Redphantom is also going to do
some editing to the earlier comics to remove all vulgarity and profanity. Jew Avenger
will also no longer be appearing in Geek Force, and the other members will be given some
super awesome new powers and traits because they're Christians. It's going to be totally
rad. Geek Force is getting some new villains, too. Such as Mr. Charity, who goes around
giving improvised housing to the homeless of Greenefield. That's Socialism, and Jesus
would agree, those homeless people should work for their homes. They shouldn't just have
it given to them. They aren't victims of the housing market, bad debt, bad circumstances,
or any of that, they're just flipping lazy, and they got what they deserved. Born again
Geek Force will also be tackling all of the town's abortionists, that will actually be
the focus of the entire fourth story arc. What remains of the third will be spent dealing
with the master scientist behind human cloning: Erebus. Geek Force is going to be
tackling these foes because they believe in the sanctity of life. They will also be
rallying support in the comic for the death penalty, and for a renewal of The War on
Terror. Because those no good Muslim Americans have got to go. We will also get to see
Geek Force's arch nemesis in upcoming issues, who is the evil city manager who fixed
all the town's corruption and switched to alternative energy but is also a flaming
homosexual in an open relationship. Geek Force says, reform, resign, or be stoned, sir.
Because Geek Force doesn't believe that homosexuality is a choice. Also, get ready to
learn about Vincentius's gay lover, because a cross dresser has to be gay. Also, each
episode will be named with a quote from the bible, begin with an opening prayer, and end
with a miracle which resolves that issue's plot. (Redphantom isn't sure how two parters
will work yet.) Also, these changes will take effect for Issue 31, as Issue 30 is already
in the works. And Redphantom doesn't know when he'll get around to censoring the old
issues. Sorry guys, you'll have to deal with Redphantom's old hateful ways until he gets
around to fixing the comics, until that time, he suggests reading the old issues with
a bible nearby, just in case. Remember, Jesus saves.
March 29th 2009:
Issue 29: The Cruel Hand of Fate has been released....about time.
March 13th 2009:
Issue 29 at 102 panels, still on the way, but it probably won't be here until tomorrow
because Redphantom has something else he has to work on.
March 12th 2009:
Issue 29 is at 72 panels an is on the way, though Redphantom cannot resume work on it
until at least 3 GMT-5.
March 8th 2009:
Sorry, but Issue 29 has been pushed back to Thursday, Redphantom has some other things
to work on right now. New merchandise is still coming to the store, and Redphantom has
planned a few site upgrades as well, which will incorporate more XML and make updating
the site easier.
March 4th 2009:
Issue 29 is scheduled for this weekend, and new merchandise is coming soon.
February 22nd 2009:
Issue 29 delayed again...this has been a bad week for Redphantom, which is what caused
the delays.
February 20th 2009:
Issue 29 delayed until Saturday, sorry for the lack of update about it up until now.
February 17th 2009:
Redphantom updated the little panel at the top of the page to link to Stephen's favorite
issue, which is Issue 27: Uh isn't that what terrorists do? In other news, Issue 29
still planned for Thursday at this point.
February 15th 2009:
Issue 29 is delayed until next Thursday. Also, two new RSS feeds has been added to the
site. From now on, there will be three RSS feeds for the site. One for informing people
of updates to the comic, one for Redphantom's rantings, and one for general site
updates.
February 12th 2009:
It's Thursday, and Issue 29 is supposed to be released today, but, with the timing of
the release of Issue 28 it is not done yet. It's on the way, as are two new RSS feeds
for the site. Our current one will be dedicated solely to comic updates, whereas another
will be dedicated to site news, including news about delays in comics, and the third
will be for Redphantom's rantings. Also, since rantings are easier than comics,
Redphantom plans to release a few next Saturday.
February 7th(2) 2009:
Issue 28: Lets Get it On, has been released. This Issue is good as far as issues of
Geek Force go.
February 7th 2009:
Issue 28 is at 318 panels. Production on it slowed down considerably when it came to
the action sequence at the end because the panels in action sequences take a
ridiculously long time to make, and they have to be story boarded, and Redphantom has
to try and get around the fact that he has no sense of depth in his drawings. This comic
was also delayed by Redphantom needing to sleep, and by him sleeping way way too long,
and it wasn't even good sleep...anyway, Redphantom is almost done with the big fight
scene, so, with any luck it will be out soon.
February 6th 2009:
Issue 28 is at 264 panels. Still on the way, Redphantom is working on the action sequence
at the end. Yes, Geek Force will have more action now, because one of the great things
about the new interface is that it is designed to handle larger comics. The only problem
is that Redphantom keeps raising the bar for what comics should be...so, even though he
cut the comics back to one a week ideally, he still can't meet his deadlines. Redphantom
will get it figured out...
February 4th 2009:
Issue 28 is at 189 panels. Still on the way, though Redphantom has to run an errand.
February 3rd 2009:
Issue 28 at 124 panels, and Redphantom really likes it so far, which is rare for him.
February 2nd 2009:
Issue 28 is still on the way, and pushed back to tomorrow. It is at 84 panels currently.
Check above to see some preview panels from this comic.
February 1st 2009:
Redphantom posted his Super Bowl Rant, and Issue 28 is on the way, though it may be
tomorrow before it gets out.
January 31st 2009:
Issue 28 is now pushed back to tomorrow. Also, Redphantom will post a rant tomorrow, just
because the Super Bowl is too much of an easy target.
January 29th 2009:
As is customary for us, Issue 28 delayed until Saturday. Sorry that Redphantom forgot to
post updates about Issue 28 before now.
January 26th 2009:
Issue 28 planned for release this Thursday, of course it could be delayed for the normal
reasons, in which case Redphantom will post about it. It could also be delayed because
Geek Force's hometown, Springfield, MO, might be hit by an icestorm. One time that
happened, and Redphantom lost power for over a week. Not only would he not be able to
post a new comic if that happened, but he also wouldn't be able to post a message saying
he couldn't post. So, if you see this message past Thursday, January 29th, that is
likely the reason why.
January 22nd(2) 2009:
Issue 27: Uh...isn't that what terrorists do? has been released. Finally, after a
disastrous production cycle with almost every delay imaginable. It is finally here.
Redphantom hopes all our readers enjoy it, and that it was worth the wait. Redphantom
had his issues with this comic, but in the end, he is pleased with the end result.
Please look to the site for updates about when Issue 28 will be out. Redphantom might
have another issue to deal with, and he has a job search going on. All things that will
detract from time he can work on the comic, and then there is the fact that Geek Force
has a few other projects which aren't solid enough to preview on the site yet.
January 22nd 2009:
Issue 27 is at 261 panels, and it very nearly done. Again, this issue is mostly action,
so it's not as much reading as it would seem. This issue will be released today, and it
would have been released this morning, if it were not for a dillhole Redphantom lives
with.
January 21th 2009:
Issue 27 is now at 205 panels. Still coming along slowly, however, Redphantom is
hopeful, and is crossing his fingers when he says this, he is hopeful that the nightmare
of this comic's production will end tonight or tomorrow. He really hopes it does, because
this comic has left Redphantom feeling drained. 61% of the panels in this comic have no
dialogue. It's action packed, two fight scenes, one with sword fighting in it. Once
again, Redphantom will post updates on this comic as he finds the time.
January 20th 2009:
Issue 27 is now at 148 panels, and is coming along, however slowly it is doing so. It is
completely action packed. With 65% of the panels thus far having no dialogue. It also
has no big panels so far, and Redphantom expects it to stay that way. However, it has a
lot of closeups. Closeups are relatively new for Geek Force. In this issue, they are used
liberally. This issue is intense, and is done in a more serious tone than some of our
others. Redphantom will post updates on it's progress as he finds time. Oh yes, and the
era of Obama has come at last. As hard as things have been so far, now comes the hard
part. Real and lasting change.
January 19th 2009:
Issue 27 is now at 99 panels, 78% 0f which have no dialogue. This issue is action
packed. It has two fight scenes in it, one of which contains sword fighting, which is
always a challenge. Redphantom will post updates about Issue 27 as he gets the time to do
so.
January 18th(2) 2009:
Issue 27 is now at 70 panels, and is coming along. Redphantom is currently in the middle
of doing a fight sequence, so that is the cause of the hold up, that, and the amount of
stuff that needed to be drawn. Though it is little things that added up, and partly, it
is the fact Redphantom thought he had more artwork than he did. He always tries to reuse
things if he can. One thing Redphantom will say about this issue is that it's violent.
There will be two fight scenes by the time it is done, and both of them are rather
brutal. Brutal for the characters,(so brutal someone loses a cock.), and brutal to
create. Redphantom will keep posting updates about the comic as he has time. This one
will have an insane number of panels, but most of it will be action, along with the
average amount of dialogue.
January 18th 2009:
Issue 27 is at 31 panels. Not a lot got done yesterday, because Geek Force was working
on another project of theirs which involves cameras. Hopefully this project will see the
light of day sometime in February. Things like this may continue to cause delay for the
comic. Redphantom hopes to have the comic out today.
January 17th 2009:
Issue 27 at 20 panels. The backgrounds really gave Redphantom trouble, this issue is
going slow, but Redphantom is working on it.
January 16th(2) 2009:
Redphantom really wanted to get Issue 27 out today, but, it gave him more of a challenge
than he originally anticipated, so, look for it tomorrow. Sorry it couldn't have been out
today.
January 16th 2009:
Redphantom is still working on Issue 27 and he still hopes to get it out today.
January 15th 2009:
As is the custom, Issue 27 is on the way, however it is now set to be released tonight
or tomorrow morning. Redphantom will post updates on Issue 27's progress when he has
the chance to do so.
January 12th 2009:
As you might have noticed, Redphantom made some improvements to the main site today. He
also made improvements to the archives section, and especially in the sections
dedicated to the individual story arcs. Issue 27 slated for release this Thursday, now
viewable in IE7.
January 10th 2009:
Redphantom still has to work out some personal issues, so Issue 27 is still delayed,
however, Redphantom has discovered a major flaw in the new comic interface: that it
didn't work under many browsers in Windows. Redphantom has fixed this. Look for updates
about when Issue 27 is to be released early next week.
January 8th 2009:
Redphantom still has things that he has to take care of right now that are not Geek
Force, the Webcomic, so, Issue 27 is delayed once again. As for how long, Redphantom will
post about that early next week.
January 6th 2009:
Issue 27 has been delayed until at least Thursday due to Redphantom needing to take care
of some issues in his personal life. Also, from now on Geek Force is being moved to a
weekly schedule as opposed to a biweekly one. This move is long overdue, seeing as we
haven't released two comics in one week in a long time, but now it is official, Geek
Force is supposed to, and ideally will update only once a week now.
January 4th 2009:
Issue 27 is now slated for release on Tuesday.
December 28th 2008:
Redphantom created a new section of the site for his random rants. These will be an
archive of all of his postings on comicspace, and also, Issue 27 is scheduled for release
on Tuesday.
December 27th 2008:
Issue 27 is scheduled for release next Tuesday.
December 24th 2008:
Redphantom still doesn't know when Issue 27 is going to be released. This week he has
been working on another comic which will be made in print form which Geek Force plans to
release independently through a print on demand publisher. It will be available on the
site when Geek Force finishes it. Also, Redphantom has created a profile on the site
Comicspace in the hopes of having a method to connect to our fanbase/get new fans.
Anyway, Redphantom's latest post is about his father, and the post may or may not be
true. Oh yes, and happy holidays everyone.
December 21st(3) 2008:
Issue 26: Dreamcatcher? has been released. In other news, Redphantom has no idea what the
comic schedule for this week will be. He has another project which he is working on which
is going to have to take time away from Geek Force. Redphantom's goal is at least one
comic this week.
December 21st(2) 2008:
Issue 26 at 105 panels, Redphantom is working on the final scene now. Panels from the
upcoming comic posted above.
December 21st 2008:
Issue 26 is at 75 panels. Posted above are some panels from Issue 26.
December 20th 2008:
Issue 26 coming later today/early tomorrow.
December 19th(2) 2008:
It's looks like, following our trademark, Issue 26 will be released tonight or early
morning tomorrow. Redphantom will try to post updates about it.
December 19th 2008:
Issue 26 rescheduled for release today. The person Virus is based on arrived back in
town yesterday, which is the reason for the delay.
December 17th 2008:
Issue 26 is slated for release Thursday night.
December 15th(2) 2008:
Issue 25: From the Darkness, was released Saturday. Today, Redphantom went and added
more links to the comic. The links are basically just random bullshit Redphantom thinks
to link to as he reads through the comic. Also, this week, Springfield is supposed to
get some wintery weather, which means Redphantom might lose power, and that means that
Issue 26 will be delayed, and Redphantom wouldn't be able to update about it. Right now,
it seems more likely that Issue 26 will be released on Wednesday or Thursday rather than
on Tuesday.
December 15th 2008:
Issue 25: From the Darkness, was released on Saturday. It is the opening comic in Geek
Force's latest story arc. Redphantom is going to try and have Issue 26 out this week.
However, it is worth noting that Springfield, Missouri, where Geek Force lives, is about
to be hit by a major ice storm. A couple of years ago, we got hit by an ice storm and
Redphantom lost power for nine days. So, work on the webcomic might not be entirely
possible this week, and if it isn't, Redphantom won't be able to post about the delays,
which is why Redphantom is posting this message, if Issue 26 doesn't come out this week,
and Redphantom doesn't post updates about it, then that probably means Redphantom has
lost power. Just be aware.
December 13th(2) 2008:
Issue 25: From the Darkness has been released. This is the first in our new story arc,
and in it, Redphantom put a technique Stephen and him developed last week to it's first
field test.
December 13th 2008:
Issue 25 is not quite finished yet, but it is at 93 panels, so it's close. However,
Redphantom is unsure of whether he will be able to finish it before midnight today. So,
his new plan is to have it out late tonight, or more likely than not, early tomorrow
morning. It should be here by morning, that way people can read it just after church.
A few panels from Issue 25 have been posted above.
December 12th(2) 2008:
Issue 25 has been delayed once again, Redphantom is going to try to have it out today.
This issue has been bogged down by the large number of characters it has, the number of
backgrounds it has, the complexity of the backgrounds, Redphantom's previously mentioned
computer problems, and, Redphantom's natural drive to sleep. Posted above is a smaller
version of one of the backgrounds from the upcoming comic which gives away it's setting.
December 12th 2008:
Issue 25 is delayed until later today.
December 9th 2008:
For those of you that haven't been to the site in the past week, the ending to the
Gaming Tournament has been released. In other news, an update on Issue 25, it should be
coming around Thursday of this week. Redphantom was hoping to have it out by today, but
his motherboard and CPU died over the weekend, so that hindered his plans a bit. Luckily,
Redphantom has got a temporary computer set up for work on the comic for this week, and
parts for his new computer should be arriving tomorrow, so, this situation should not
have any more interference with work on the comic, and hopefully Redphantom will meet
his deadline(hopefully).
December 2nd 2008:
The ending to The Gaming Tournament Arc has been released. Geek Force is not calling this
issue Issue 24, because the original Issue 24 got nixed by Redphantom because he deemed
it a failure. The ending also contains a segment from the unreleased, unfinished, Issue
24 which did not suck so much. In other news, Redphantom has not completed Issue 25 yet,
but it is still on the way. Hopefully the ending to the Gaming Tournament Arc will hold
people over until it is released. With the deleted segment, it is 56 panels, so it should
give people something to read as Redphantom works on completing Issue 25. Also,
Redphantom has finally completed the new interface, and it can be seen in action on the
ending and Issue 19. Redphantom also went back and made some final adjustments to the old
interface in the hopes of making it run more smoothly.
December 1st 2008:
Ok, Redphantom is hoping to have the next issue up tomorrow, and he is sorry about
his output being so low in November. November was a rough month for Redphantom. Still,
he manged to complete the new interface, as displayed on Issue 19. The links are funny,
you should check them out. Redphantom also made one last upgrade to the old interface
to make it run more smoothly.
November 25th 2008:
Redphantom finally finished the new comic interface, and he redid Issue 19 with it. All
in all, Redphantom is very pleased with the new interface. In other news, new comics
should be released this week, with Issue 25 being released in the next two days or so,
and with Issue 24 staying unreleased.(Although an ending to the Gaming Tournament Arc
will be posted with Issue 25.)
November 12th 2008:
Issue 24 coming as soon as possible.
November 4th 2008:
Issue 24 should be coming on Wednesday. We won't try to release a comic today, instead,
we would like to encourage our small handful of readers to go out and vote. e.
October 31st 2008:
Redphantom added Stephen the Grand's Geek Force Halloween special to the main site
today. In other news, Issue 24 is in progress, and will hopefully be released this
weekend, but, it is worth noting that this weekend Issue 24 has to compete with Ubuntu
this weekend.
October 23rd 2008:
Holy hell! Issue 23 Part 2: Just Stupid has finally been released. In other news,
Issue 24 will hopefully be released before Tuesday, but at this point, Redphantom really
just wants it to be released in less than three weeks. Also in the news, there might
actually be hope now that Issue 25 will debut the new interface as planned, as Redphantom
has finally made progress on it.
October 14th 2008:
Issue 23 part 2 should be released today.
October 12th 2008:
Issue 23 Part 2 is still coming, and is now planned for release today or tomorrow
morning. Also, Redphantom wanted to say that there is a hidden link on this page that
links to pictures of Geek Force. It's not hidden very well, it should be easy to find.
October 11th 2008:
Issue 23 Part 2 is at 31 panels, and is coming ASAP. Hopefully on Sunday. Redphantom
will try to keep posting updates on the site about it.
October 10th 2008:
Issue 23 Part 2 is scheduled for release today.
October 7th 2008:
Issue 23 Part 2 is scheduled for release tomorrow. Redphantom also put up a page with
pictures of Geek Force dressed as their characters at Artwalk, plus one picture of each
of us out of costume. Also, as you probably saw above, the real Shadow has gone missing,
and has most likely died.
September 29th 2008:
Issue 23 Part 1: The Salvation of Humanity has been released. Part 2 is going into
production tonight, and is scheduled for release tomorrow. Of course, everyone knows how
reliable the Geek Force schedule is. Issue 24 is also slated for release this week. This
would be good, because then Redphantom would have from this Thursday to next Tuesday to
finish the new comic interface, which will debut, along with the next story arc with
Issue 25.
September 26th 2008:
Issue 23 has been pushed back once again to Friday morning. It is at 101 panels, mainly
because it has a lot of movement, and because what was supposed to be the opening scene
got away from Redphantom. This is also more of a "serious" comic, and contains
some things that will become important to the plot later.
September 25th(2) 2008:
Issue 23 slated for release later today.
September 25th 2008:
Issue 23 is at 81 panels, and is not finished yet, and it's release has been pushed back
to Thursday morning.
September 24th 2008:
As you can see, Redphantom has made a few changes to the site. These changes have been
planned for a while, but Redphantom did not have time to implement them until today.
To be honest, Redphantom didn't really have time to make the changes to the site today,
he only made the changes because he thought it would take him a lot less time than it
did. Redphantom does this underestimating time thing frequently, which is part of why
Geek Force is so bad with the delays in new webcomics. Speaking of that, Issue 23 is now
planned for release today.
September 19th 2008:
Issue 23 is at 55 panels.
September 18th 2008:
Issue 23 is at 19 panels.
September 17th 2008:
The constitution was signed 221 years ago today, so Redphantom put up an image of a
building under construction, because a true democracy is always under construction.
Issue 23 will be released today or tomorrow.
September 12th 2008:
Issue 23 is planned for release this weekend.
September 11th 2008:
Redphantom put up an image and text to recognize 911, and Issue 23 is still in the works.
September 9th 2008:
Just an update on Issue 23, it's still in progress and it will be released as soon as
possible. Also, congress will most likely vote on offshore drilling this week. Issue 21
satirized this topic.
September 6th 2008:
Issue 23 is to be released tonight or early tomorrow.
September 5th 2008:
Redphantom put up an image of protesters because 234 years ago today 55 delegates met in
Philadelphia at the First Continental Congress to organize a protest to the unfair
policies of Great Britain. In other news, Issue 23 Part 1 is scheduled for release either
today or tomorrow. Issue 23 Part 2 is scheduled to be released the day after Part 1 is
released.
September 3rd(3) 2008:
Issue 22: The Complex has been released. The entire issue actually had to be rewritten
yesterday morning, after Redphantom released that there were many jokes that were
irrelevant, as this issue was written over a month ago. In the end, this wound up being
good for the issue. In other news, Issue 23 will almost definitely not be released on
time. This is because it has many new characters and backdrops to be drawn.
September 3rd(2) 2008:
Issue 22 is at 64 panels.
September 3rd 2008:
Issue 22 is at 37 panels, and almost each one contains movement, more movement than
Redphantom originally thought they would. That is one of the reasons why it did not make
the 8:00 release. It will be released sometime this morning.
September 2nd 2008:
Labor Day is over, thus the two images that were posted on the site in recognition of both
Labor Day and the start of WWII 69 years ago today have been taken down. So far, there
have only been a few monthly occasions when Redphantom has put such images up on the
site, but he has decided that he will begin doing this more often, extending the practice
to cover "geeky" occasions and a few holidays. Redphantom has decided to do this because
he thinks it's kind of cool, and it's not time consuming enough to detract from work on
the comic, since most of the graphics posted on the site for a holiday are public domain
works Redphantom didn't create himself or simplistic. In other news, thus far, Issue 22
is on schedule for a rare 8:00 release tonight on the site. So, keep your fingers crossed
September 1st 2008:
Redphantom put up two images to mark two occasions today. The first is an image and a
quote marking the German Invasion of Poland in retaliation for the Gleiwitiz Incident and
the beginning of WWII. Of course, the Gleiwitz Incident, which was a "Polish" attack on
on the German radio station Sender Gleiwitz, was actually a staged attack by the Nazi
Government to justify a war with Poland in the eyes of the German people. The second
image recognizes Labor Day, which recognizes laborer's rights, an idea deeply rooted in
Socialism. In other news, Issue 23 has officially become a two parter.
August 30th:
Issue 21: What About Modding? has been released. This issue chronicles the continuation
of the final match between Virus and Shadow, as well as the return of Vincentius, and yes,
and that was "the continuation of the final match" that you just read. Continuity wise,
this issue takes place after Issue 22. This is because this issue is about offshore
drilling, which is a more current, although not more pressing than the issue that Issue 22
will cover. Plus, there was no problem with switching the two issues. Everything in Issue
22 will be self contained, and the only thing you will know from Issue 21 about Issue 22
is that the match between Virus and Shadow does not end during the course of that issue.
In other news, Issue 23 is likely going to turn into a two parter, and will serve as a
transition between this current story arc and the next, although, this story arc ends
with Issue 24. A new major character will also have an appearance in Issue 23. One last
thing, Redphantom earlier stated that the new comic interface was set to debut with Issue
24. That was a mistake, he wants the interface to debut with the new story arc, and,
contrary to what he thought at the time he made that statement, the new story arc begins
with Issue 25.
August 29th:
Issue 21 is at 18 panels.
August 28th:
Redphantom has made a correction to Issue 20. He added a panel giving credit to the
documentary "World at War" as the source of the World War II images and the one animated
panel in the comic. In other news, Issue 21 has been delayed until tonight or early
morning tomorrow.
August 27th:
Issue 20: Psychotic Cock has been released. It is an interesting issue, and contains a
lot of interesting graphical effects. In other news, Issue 21 is slated for a release
later today or early tomorrow.
August 26th:
Issue 20 at 97 panels, having turned into a lengthy issue.
August 24th:
Issue 20 is at 75 panels, and is going slower than expected because it contains a lot of
effects. So, Issue 20 will be released ASAP, and Issue 21 will be released within
twenty four hours of Issue 20. Possibly within hours, because it is an easy comic.
August 23rd 2008:
Issue 20 is at 59 panels and is planned to be released today. Issue 21 is planned to be
released sometime this weekend.
August 22nd 2008:
Issue 20 at 15 panels.
August 21th 2008:
Issue 20's release has been pushed back to Thursday morning.
August 20th 2008:
Issue 20 is coming in the morning or early afternoon hours of today.
August 17th 2008:
Issue 20 is delayed until Tuesday. This is due to Redphantom having to work on another
project this weekend, and because Issue 20 will have a lot of artwork, and some
interesting effects. Issue 20 only has one animated panel, because that one panel is over
five megabytes in size.
August 14th 2008:
Issue 20 is delayed until Friday.
August 13th 2008:
Issue 20 has had another delay. Now it is slated to be released some time on August 14th.
August 12th 2008:
The release of Issue 20 is delayed until tomorrow.
August 10th:
Issue 19: The Dope Lord was finally released on Saturday, it is 195 panels long.
August 9th(2):
Issue 19: The Dope Lord has finally been released. It is 195 panels long. In other news,
Redphantom is working on version 2 of the Geek Force interface, which will pretty much
be the same as version 1, only with some new features, like the option to read the comic
sans interface. Version 2 of the Geek Force interface will also be considerably different
under the hood, with leaner code that practically packages the comic itself. Version 2
of the interface is in it's early stages right now, and doesn't even have the
basic functionality of version 1. The Geek Force Interface Version 2 is slated to make
it's debut in Issue 24, the first issue of the new story arc. Although, Redphantom may
package an older comic in the interface and put it on the site as a beta test. Also,
Nagasaki had an atomic bomb dropped on it 63 years ago today.
August 9th:
Redphantom put up an image and quote for the 63rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of
Nagasaki. Issue 19 is at 143 panels, and Redphantom is in the home stretch as far as
finishing it. Expect Issue 19 by the end of the day.
August 7th(2):
Issue 19 is currently at 120 panels and still is not quite done yet, although Redphantom
has finally made it past all the heavy satire. Normally Redphantom would cut an issue that
gets this long, or at least split it into a two parter, but, to compensate for the
extremely long delay, this Issue is being left long. Besides, Redphantom really wants to
nail the War on Drugs. It's an issue so full of bullshit that one could do an entire comic
about it.
August 7th:
Issue 19 is currently at 62 panels and there is still quite a bit of work left to be done
for it. The good news is that Redphantom isn't stuck anymore. In other news, there will
be another image posted to the main site on August 9th to mark the atomic bombing
of Nagasaki. There will also be another quote, but Redphantom hasn't decided what it will
be yet, although he does have several canidates.
August 6th:
Redphantom put up a picture and a quote to commemorate the atomic bombing of Hiroshima,
which took place 63 years ago today, unleashing the constant spectre of nuclear war on
the world. Issue 19 is still on the way, and will be released as soon as possible.
August 5th:
Issue 19 is currently at Fifty panels. It is going to be a long issue, and it is Geek
Force's all out offensive against the drug war. The drug war has turned out to be a
difficult issue to satirize, because it is so ingrained in our culture that drugs are
inherently evil. Redphantom really wants to nail the drug war with this issue, and has
gotten stuck while making this issue several times. Redphantom attributes this to the
fact that there is nothing funny about the drug war. Issue 19 will be done as soon as
possible.
August 2nd:
Issue 19 is currently at Forty Three panels. Redphantom should have time to work on it
later today.
July 31st:
Issue 19 is currently at nine panels, and has pretty much been a textbook demonstration
of Murphy's Law. That, and Redphantom has been working on some other things for Geek
Force. Geek Force has some big things coming up that will continue to hinder production
of the webcomic.
July 29th:
Issue 19 has had another unexpected delay, but is still in progress.
July 27th:
Wow, it's been a while since Redphantom has updated the site, and, bad news, Issue 19 is
still not done. This is due to the fact that Redphantom unexpectedly had some other
things to work on this week. The good news is that Issue 19 will definitely be released
either late today or tomorrow morning. At least Issue 19 is a good issue, and will make
a strong return from Geek Force's unexpected hiatus. As far as Issues 20 and 21 go, the
plan at this point is that they will be released on Tuesday and Thursday, bringing Geek
Force back to it's normal schedule. So far, Issues 20 and 21 are on schedule. They are
written, which is usually where Redphantom is with the comic by Sunday. The thing is
that story is rarely the cause of a serious delay for a comic. It is almost always the
artwork that drags a comic down. The only issues that have been delayed due to writing
were Issue 11 and the upcoming Issue 19.
July 19th:
Redphantom has read a news article about nationwide protests against the U.S. and Israel
launching a war with Iran. As part of the protest, some protesters are having five minute
"freezes", where they will stand in place for five minutes. In the spirit of this protest,
Redphantom has frozen the site. A while back, Geek Force also did a protest comic, against
this subject, Issue 11 parts 1 and 2. Redphantom counts it as one of Geek Force's better
issues. Speaking of issues, Redphantom is starting to feel better after getting his wisdom
teeth taken out, but Issue 19 is no closer to release. Redphantom will try to get Geek
Force back on track this week.
July 17th:
Issue 19 still hasn't been released. This is partially because has Redphantom spent most
of this week sleeping. The times Redphantom has been awake have been spent doing his
other duties for Geek Force than the comic. Redphantom's new plan for the release of the
next two issues is as follows: Issue 19 will be released whenever it gets done. Issue 20
is scheduled to be released next Tuesday. Hopefully after this, Geek Force will be able
to get back on schedule.
July 15th:
Here is the release schedule for comics this week: Issue 19 is to be released tomorrow,
and Issue 20 is to be released on Friday.
July 13th:
Setting up to work on Geek Force from Kansas City did not go as well as Redphantom
planned. Issue 19 is delayed until at least Tuesday. Maybe more, since Redphantom is
getting his wisdom teeth out this week, and that will surely interfere with comic
production in some way. Of course, with Issue 19 being delayed, it reduces the ammount
of work Redphantom has to do from two comics, to about a comic and a half. So maybe
Issue 19's delay works out for the best.
July 10th 2008:
Geek Force Issue 19's release will be delayed. Redphantom isn't sure when it will be
released, because he's going on a weekend trip to Kansas City. Redphantom has got
everything set up so that he can work on Issue 19 once he gets to his hotel, but he's not
sure of how much work he'll get in before he has to do touristy things, so he can't set
a definite time for when the new comic will be released. Also, remember that the comics
released during the week of July 14th might be delayed. This is due to two things:
1.Redphantom gets his wisdom teeth taken out that week and 2. A certain superhero movie is
being released that week, and some members of Geek Force are going to an early Friday
showing of it.
July 9th 2008:
Geek Force Issue 18 has been released. It was released late, but that's because it got
sandwiched between Issues 17 and 19. Issue 17 needed more work because it was our big
action comic, and Issue 19 needed more work because it's going to be our all out
offensive against the war on drugs. The war on drugs is an issue that you need to get all
your facts straight on before you go out and satirize it. Anyway, the script for Issue
19 looks great so far. That doesn't always mean it will make a good comic, but so far
it looks good. The only other news is that the comics released during the week of
July 14th might be delayed. This is due to two things: 1.Redphantom gets his wisdom teeth
taken out that week and 2. A certain superhero movie is being released that week, and some
members of Geek Force are going to an early Friday showing of it.
July 8th 2008:
Due to the fact that Issue 17 was released late, and due to the fact that Issue 19 took
longer for Redphantom to research and write than expected, Issue 18 will be released
tomorrow morning sometime. Also, remember that the comics released during the week of
July 14th might be delayed. This is due to two things: 1.Redphantom gets his wisdom teeth
taken out that week and 2. A certain superhero movie is being released that week, and some
members of Geek Force are going to an early Friday showing of it.
July 5th(2) 2008:
Geek Force Issue 17: The Real Idiotic Dumb Act, has been released. It has 80 panels
total, making it the longest issue of Geek Force ever, but most of those panels are
action. The issue of Geek Force also features some pretty good animated panels, or at
least good compared to the panels featured in other issues. Of course, the other fight
scenes took place in Absurdity Wars, and complex fight scenes wouldn't fit in with a
game like that. In other news, the current story arc is set to end at Issue 24. Redphantom
is already plotting out the next story arc, which will feature Geek Force actually doing
superhero things, and more action comics. Not every issue of Geek Force will be an action
comic, and all issues of Geek Force will have it's dialogue driven humor, but there will
be more action in the Geek Force comics. As mentioned before, Geek Force the artists are
looking to mix the action and humorous elements of the comic more. Also, remember that the
comics released during the week of July 14th might be delayed. This is due to two things:
1.Redphantom gets his wisdom teeth taken out that week and 2. A certain superhero movie
is being released that week, and some members of Geek Force are going to an early Friday
showing of it.
July 5\\
Geek Force Issue 17 hasn't been finished yet. It is currently at 49 panels, 9 of which
are animated. All of this is just the opening fight sequence, which is no longer the
opening. The comic from panel 49 on has very little action, so it should go faster. Also,
remember that the comics released during the week of July 14th might be delayed. This is
due to two things: 1.Redphantom gets his wisdom teeth taken out that week and 2. A certain
superhero movie is being released that week, and some members of Geek Force are going to
an early Friday showing of it.
July 4th 2008:
Geek Force Issue 17 hasn't been released yet, but Redphantom is going to try again
tomorrow. The new Issue is currently at 28 panels, which are mostly action, because
Issue 17 starts out with a good action sequence and then goes into the normal dialogue
based humor. In Issues 18 and 19, Geek Force will try to mix the two together instead of
just starting with an action sequence and going to dialogue. Redphantom will admit that
it was hard to work today, because it's the 4th of July and all, plus at around nine, some
people in his neighborhood started shooting off enough fireworks to fight a war with.
Apparently they have also been moving from street to street doing this, and really pissing
off Redphantom's neighbors. Apparently Redphantom's neighbors are also ready to call the
police, so it might be a little bit before Redphantom gets back to work. Hopefully though,
the new comic will be released tomorrow. Also, remember that the comics released during
the week of July 14th might be delayed. This is due to two things: 1.Redphantom gets his
wisdom teeth taken out that week and 2. A certain superhero movie is being released that
week, and some members of Geek Force are going to an early Friday showing of it.
July 3rd 2008:
Geek Force Issue 17 will be released sometime tomorrow. Once again, this issue is delayed
due to action sequences, and Redphantom is working on it now. Also, Redphantom will take
a brief break from doing the comic at midnight, GMT-5, to put up an image and text
recognizing the American Independence Day. Also, remember that the comics released during
the week of July 14th might be delayed. This is due to two things: 1.Redphantom gets his
wisdom teeth taken out that week and 2. A certain superhero movie is being released that
week, and some members of Geek Force are going to an early Friday showing of it.
July 2nd 2008:
Geek Force Issue 16 has been released. While Redphantom knows this issue is not perfect,
he is very pleased with how it turned out. This Issue sees the debut of Geek Force's
signature weapons. Only three of them are given names in the comic, but they eventually
will all be given names. The reason that two don't have names is because each member of
Geek Force gets to name the signature weapon that corresponds to their character. Yes,
Geek Force is actually more than just Redphantom and Stephen, it's just that the comic
is kind of Redphantom and Stephen's thing. The rest of Geek Force is working on their
other project. The only member of Geek Force the characters that doesn't have a real
life counterpart is Virus. That's only because no one in Geek Force has heard from the
real Virus in almost two months.(Which sucks, because he would have been good for the
story aspect of the Webcomic.) Redphantom wound up naming Virus's signature weapon.
In other news: Issue 17 is already written, and all the character and backgrounds are
drawn. It's another action comic(the webcomic is headed in that direction), but we should
be able to use some of the stock drawings from Issue 16 in Issue 17. That's the good news,
the bad news is that the comics released during the week of July 14th might be delayed.
This is due to two things: 1.Redphantom gets his wisdom teeth taken out that week and 2.
A certain superhero movie is being released that week, and some members of Geek Force are
going to an early Friday showing of it.
July 1st 2008:
Geek Force Issue 16 will be released early morning tomorrow. Issue 16 is in the works,
with 13 panels so far, with four of those being animated. The reason for the delay is
beacause Geek Force actually fights the Evictibots in this Issue, so the comic actually
has characters in different poses. Plus it has all their signature weapons.
June 27th 2008:
Geek Force, the Webcomic Issue 15 has been released, and only 15 minutes outside the
eight to twelve window. In other news, Geek Force, Issue 8 retires from the eight latest
issues page tonight. Issue 8 is Redphantom's favorite issue of the comic.
June 24th 2008:
Geek Force, the Webcomic Issue 14 has been released, and on time. In other news,
Redphantom's new production schedule is working well. Hopefully this means that Issue
15 will be released on time, because it's about the FISA bill and needs to be released
this week. The only things that need to be done for Issue 15 are three backgrounds, two
of which should be relatively simple, one should be hard. They would be done by now, but
the background with Redphantom's house needed some revamping, and that turned into a
major undertaking.
June 23rd 2008:
Redphantom put up an image of George Carlin followed by his seven dirty words as a tribute
to him.
June 21st(2) 2008:
Geek Force, the Webcomic is now officially licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License, which is a type of copyright
where the arist only retains some of the rights to his work. Check out the link at the
bottom of the page for details. Also at the bottom of the page are links to contact
Redphantom or Geek Force. If you do want to contact us, it doesn't really matter which
e-mail address you use, Redphantom is the person that checks both of them.
June 21st 2008:
Geek Force, the Webcomic Issue 13 was finally released. The reason for all the delays
was partly because of other projects Geek Force is working on. Part of it was also that
the Webcomic was a little challenging to make. Part of it was also admittedly Redphantom
not wanting to work on the Webcomic this week. Anyway, Geek Force hopes it was worth the
wait. Hopefully this week there will be two Webcomics, and they will be on time. Issue 14
is actually already written, Redphantom wrote it last week on the same day as he wrote
Issue 13. The next comic is exciting because it introduces a villain that lasts more
than one issue, and it doesn't require more backgrounds to be drawn!
June 19th 2008:
Issue 13 should be coming later today. Most of the artwork is done, which just leaves
splicing it together and adding text. As of yet, Issue 14 has not been pushed back to
Tuesday, although it will be late.
June 17th 2008:
Issue 13 is coming in the early morning hours of tomorrow. In other news, Redphantom is
trying to come up with ways to eliminate all of the delays that the comic has been
experiencing. Right now, Redphantom is changing up the production schedule so that he's
not trying to make the entire Thursday comic between Tuesday and Thursday. Look to see
how this works next week, when Redphantom plans to put his new schedule to the test. Oh
yes, and one last piece of news: the news page has come back to the present. (We no longer
have news from the 12th, 13th, and 15th of July.)
June 15th 2008:
Today is Father's Day, so Redphantom put an image on the front page: empty space surrounded
by a border. It is meant to symbolize the fact that a lot of children today do not live
with their fathers.
June 13th 2008:
Geek Force, the Webcomic Issue 13 is delayed until Tuesday.
June 12th 2008:
Geek Force, the Webcomic Issue 13 will be released sometime tomorrow.
June 11th 2008:
Geek Force, the Webcomic Issue 12 has been released. Sorry to anyone who was disappointed
Redphantom didn't update the store last weekend. He got busy troubleshooting sound
problems.
June 10th 2008:
Issue 12 is coming today or early tomorrow. Redphantom pushed back the original script he
wrote for this comic in favor of a remake of Issue 2. The original idea Redphantom had for
the webcomic will be featured(slightly modified) as Issue 14. (Which is good, because Issue
11 Part 2 drained all Redphantom of all of his jokes for a few days.)
June 5th 2008:
The release of Geek Force Issue 12 has been postponed until next Tuesday. There will be
merchandise relating to Issue 11 Part 2 released in the store this weekend.
June 4th 2008:
Issue 11 part 2 was delivered four and a half hours after Tuesday ended. The reason for
the delay is because of two things: one: this is the longest comic Geek Force has ever
done. Issue 11 Part 2 is 55 panels long. The second reason is because this webcomic
contains 21 animated panels, so, sorry for the long load time. Geek Force hopes to make
up for the delay with the quality of the comic.
May 31st 2008:
One poster was added to the store today. It features all the members of Geek Force. Next
week, we will add new types of merchandise in addition to new merchandise of the same
kinds we already have.
May 29th 2008:
Geek Force Issue 11 part 1 has been released, and at 7:40. We're early for once. Partly
because this Issue turned into a two parter and almost became a disaster, prompting
Redphantom to stay up late finishing it. It is also early because Redphantom needs to
watch the season finale of Lost. This webcomic implements a new feature, which is having
600x400 panels while having the controls and webcomic interface disappear temporarily.
This is a feature that Redphantom has been looking to implement for a few weeks now, and
it has been well tested, however, if this issue of the comic is glitchy, please e-mail
Redphantom at redphantom@geekforcehq.com and let him know about the glitch. Redphantom
will work on fixing it ASAP. (But not until after 10:00 GMT-5). In other news: more
merchandise will be added to the store this weekend. Some of it will actually feature
Geek Force(The superheroes.).
May 27th(2) 2008:
Geek Force Issue 10 has been released, at 10:20, which is not bad considering some of our
delays recently, but not especially good.
May 27th 2008:
Memorial Day is over, so the image in recognition of the 4081 reported troop deaths in
Iraq has been taken off of the main page. Of course, that image is inaccurate now, and
was for most of Memorial Day. The number of reported troop deaths in Iraq has risen to
4083 over the course of twenty four hours. In other news: there are no major delays for
the webcomic, so expect it later today.(hopefully at Eight GMT-5). Also remember that
the comic is released via RSS feed first. This is because the comic is actually posted
right after Redphantom closes the site down. Most of the time that the site is closed
during upload is spent modifying pages and links, and then testing those pages and links.
May 26th 2008:
Today is Memorial Day, so Geek Force put up an image recognizing the 4081 reported U.S.
Military deaths in Iraq. Geek Force hopes that the image will remind you not only of the
fallen soldiers of the Iraq War, but also of the corrupt administration responsible for
their deaths, and also of the Democratic Congress that has not used all means possible
to bring the troops home.
May 24th 2008:
Redphantom added seven new things to the online store today. There is the "My attic is
haunted by orange trees" shirt. There are also two Linux shirts to coincide with Geek
Force, the Webcomic Issue 9. There is also just a straight up Geek Force T-shirt. Also
added were two Geek Force Coffee Mugs. Plus, last but not least, Redphantom added a
Mission Accomplished Poster. Other than that, Redphantom also made some upgrades to the
store site itself.
May 22nd 2008:
Issue 9 of Geek Force, the Webcomic has been released, and only thirty minutes late.
In other news, Redphantom is putting more merchandise in the store this Saturday. Plus
he's putting up a special image on the Geek Force main page for Memorial Day(Not a comic,
like Mother's Day. Mother's Day only had a comic instead of just an image because
Redphantom got an interesting idea for a comic.) The other piece of news is that
Redphantom posted a link to an article that filled him with joy today at the top of the
page.
May 20th(2) 2008:
Issue 8 of Geek Force, the Webcomic has been posted. This one features animated panels
and page that opens in a separate window. So, it has pretty much everything that Geek
Force has done in previous comics. Geek Force had many difficulties in making this comic,
but it's finally done. Geek Force hopes it was worth the wait.
May 20th 2008:
The eighth issue of Geek Force, the Webcomic will be released tonight. There might be
one final delay, and that is that the webcomic might released later than 8. It is on the
way though, Redphantom is working on it right now. Issue 8 will also be the first
Webcomic to be released via RSS feed. If you're tired of waiting on Geek Force's
seemingly endless delays, subscribe to the RSS feed. It will notify you of when a new
webcomic is released and tell you about the latest delays in webcomic production.
(Hopefully there will be less of them in the future.) To subscribe, just click the
orange RSS button and copy the URL of the page clicking the button opens to whatever
RSS reading program you use.
May 19th 2008:
There have been many delays in the production of the webcomic in the past few weeks.
Hopefully the delays should cease now that Geek Force is out of high school, but, just in
case they don't, Redphantom has set up a Geek Force, the Webcomic RSS feed. This feed
will be used to notify people of when a new comic comes out, and also about delays in
webcomic production.
May 16th 2008:
This week was a bad week to try to make a webcomic. Geek Force Issue 8 has been postponed
again until Tuesday May 20th.
May 14th 2008:
The 8th Issue of the Webcomic has yet to be released, however, Redphantom has set the
dates for when Issues 8 and 9 will be posted. Issue 8 will be posted on Friday, Issue
9 will be posted on Sunday, and then the Webcomic will get back on track Tuesday with
Issue 10.
May 13th 2008:
As expected, the 8th Issue of the Webcomic will be delayed in it's release. Maybe for a
few days. Geek Force does not know for sure when they'll be able to finish it, so they
will not give an exact date. This delay is mostly due to Redphantom needing to finish his
final essay for his English class. The good news is that after that essay gets done,
Redphantom is pretty much done with High School. He only has to take two finals and gets
to skip the classes in which he does not have to take finals. So, Redphantom should have
plenty of time to get caught up on Thursday and Friday of this week. Redphantom's goal
is to get Issues 8 and 9 released by the end of the week. Issue 8 is coming along nicely
so far, although there are still a few backgrounds and characters to be drawn. Issue 9
is looking good so far, but work hasn't really started on it yet.
May 12th(2) 2008:
Redphantom has made the updates to the site. Most of which are too small to notice.
Work continues on this week's webcomics, although they probably will be late this week.
This is due to the fact the Geek Force has finals and final projects, although, they get
to opt out of some finals for having As in some classes, and in those classes they don't
have to be there for finals. So, it will be interesting to see how those two factors play
out.
May 12th 2008:
This website will be down for a while at around 4:00 GMT-5 today for maintenance.
Redphantom is reorganizing the webcomics by story arc. This is due to the fact that, after
the 9th Issue is released, the webcomic achieve page will only list the eight most
recent webcomics. Below the links to the eight most recent webcomics will be a link to
separate pages containing links to all the webcomics in that story arc. This change is to
prevent the webcomic achieve page from becoming bloated due to having the title panels
of all the Geek Force Webcomics on it. In addition, the pages that have the links sorted
by story arc will not have the images of the title panels on them to avoid them from
becoming bloated. The other major change to the site will be the Online Store, Redphantom
has made it less confusing by removing the flash panel and just having the images of the
merchandise link to the page where you can buy it. All of these changes are done on
Redphantom's computer, and are working just fine, the only reason he needs to shut down
the site is to upload everything onto the server. The other major thing that is happening
is Geek Force's last week of High School. So, they have final projects and finals. This
may cause the webcomics to be late. Hopefully this will not be a repeat of two weeks ago,
and hopefully, Redphantom will not have to cancel any comic this time.
May 11th 2008:
Geek Force's short special Mother's Day comic is posted. There are also quite a few new
Geek Force items in the online store. Redphantom is going to post pictures of the items
below the flash panel, that way people can actually tell what they are. Also remember
that this site will be closed sometime during the day on May 12th while Redphantom makes
a tweak to the site. The site will not change much, Redphantom is just organizing the
Webcomics by story arc, but, because of that, he will need to change links on almost
every page of the site. Since so many pages will be modified, the site will be closed
during the update. The update should not take long, and a page will be put up similar to
the one used on Tuesdays and Thursdays to notify visitors of what is taking place.
May 8th(2) 2008:
There is a lot of news tonight. First and foremost is that Issue 7 has been posted. The
rest of the news is about things that will go on between now and Tuesday on the website.
On Saturday, Redphantom will be adding more merchandise to the Geek Force Online Store,
if anyone's interested. On Sunday, Redphantom is releasing a special two panel Mother's
Day comic. It will be posted on the main page. Thirdly, on Monday the site will be down
for maintenance for a while. Redphantom is not sure how long it will take, but he is
organizing the comics by story arc. Since this requires a change in a lot of the links
on the site, it will be down while this upgrade takes place.
May 8th 2008:
Tonight's webcomic may be released late. It will be released, Geek Force is just running
a little behind on production. Expect to see the webcomic tonight or in the early morning
hours tomorrow.
May 6th 2008:
The Sixth issue of Geek Force, the Webcomic has been released, and only thirty minutes
past Eight. Which to Geek Force, is acceptable(There's a reason that it's released *around*
eight instead of at eight. Redphantom plans to post more items in the Geek Force store
this Saturday. Redphantom made a mistake on Issue 6 of the Webcomic: On panel 24, Hurly
says a line, but it's supposed to be Shadow's line. This has been fixed.
May 5th 2008:
Redphantom added a new Navigation heading that is done in ASCII art. He also did some
work on the Online Store, which should allow people to actually view Geek Force related
merchandise. So far, there are three items: a shirt that says, "Save the rainforest,
kill an herbivore" in black, the same shirt in green, and a poster of the Fight Climate
Change flier as seen in Geek Force the Webcomic Issue #3. More comic and Geek Force
related merchandise is coming at the end of the week. Oh, and on a side note, the
webcomics this week involve a setting, characters, and mostly objects that have already
been drawn. So there should be no repeat of last week.
May 3rd 2008:
Work on the Webcomic that was to be Issue Six of the Webcomic has gotten too far behind,
so Redphantom is canceling it completely. Now Issue Six will be the beginning of
the character Redphantom's gaming tournament, which is to be the Comic's first true story
arc.
May 2nd 2008:
The release of Geek Force, the Webcomic Issue 6 has been pushed back to tomorrow. Geek
Force should hopefully be back on schedule for next week's webcomics.
April 30th 2008:
Redphantom is pushing back the release of Geek Force the Webcomic Issue 6 until Friday
afternoon due to delays in production that Geek Force has been experiencing this week.
April 29th(2) 2008:
The new Webcomic has been posted. The original title for it was "God Hates You", but the
name was changed to "Just a Tad". Geek Force hopes the comic was worth the wait.
(Although Geek Force is really two people at the moment.)
April 29th 2008:
Once again, tonight's Webcomic will be delivered late. Redphantom began work on the comic
late this week because he was upgrading his computer. In the future, he may cancel the
Tuesday comic of a week in which he is upgrading his computer. No comics will be canceled
this week, although they both may be delivered late. Issue Five will be released sometime
tonight or early morning tomorrow. It will definitely be released before Redphantom goes
to bed. Redphantom apologizes for the inconvenience. Hopefully in the future, when Geek
Force is more experienced, and we have more time(We're all seniors in High School, getting
ready to graduate, so right now is hectic for us.), then we will be able to deliver our
comics on time. Redphantom will post in the next few days when Issue Six of the Webcomic
will be released. It may be delayed a day or two, because it is supposed to be animation
intensive, and Redphantom does not want to sacrifice that just so that he can release it
sooner.
April 28th 2008:
Redphantom added a button that links to the Geek Force Online Store at zazzle.com. He
also installed the new Ubuntu on his machine this weekend, so, although he is hard at work
on Issues 5 and 6, they might be a little late this week. Redphantom also plans to redo
the Navigation header as ASCII art so that it matches the style set for the rest of the
site. (Look for the new header this weekend, because Redphantom will be busy on the
Webcomics the rest of the week.)
April 24th 2008:
The fourth webcomic has been released, although it was released late(sorry about that).
This webcomic was supposed to be collaborated on by another member of Geek Force, but that
did not work out. In other news, we got listed on Google.
April 22nd 2008:
The third webcomic has been posted. This is the first issue that has been worked on by
another member of Geek Force other than Redphantom. It is also the Webcomic that
introduces his character. We also tried to fix some weaknesses of the previous two comics
in this comic Redphantom has been informed that the Webcomic interface isn't working for
everyone. If this is the case, then e-mail him at redphantom@geekforcehq.com with a
description of the problem and he will fix it ASAP.
April 19th 2008:
Meta data has been added to the site. Hopefully this will help us get listed on the major
search engines.
April 17th 2008:
The second Webcomic has been posted. It shouldn't have any glitches, but if it does,
e-mail a description of the problem to redphantom@geekforcehq.com. Redphantom fixed the
webcomic interface so that it preloads animated gifs. Redphantom also updated the site in
various ways. Later he intends to add meta data to make the site searchable, since all the
bugs have been worked out.
April 16th 2008:
The webcomic interface and thus the webcomic itself now works on IE and Opera. Which means
it probably works on other mainstream browsers as well. If you have trouble with the
interface, please send a description of the problem to redphantom@geekforcehq.com. The
webcomic still has one glitch, and that is that animated panels don't display correctly.
So, if you get to a panel that seems to skip ahead of where the action is, press the prev.
page button and then press the next page button again. Upon doing this, the animated panels
should display correctly. This glitch will be fixed as soon as possible.
April 15th 2008:
The first issue of Geek Force, the Webcomic
has been posted two and a half hours late. This is due to various issues, like not getting
the javascript to work and slow upload times. New issues of Geek Force, the
Webcomic will be released every Tuesday and Thursday at about 8:00 P.M. U.S. Central Time.
The webcomic was designed to be displayed in a 1024x768 screen resolution. The webcomic and
the controls should display in a 800X600 screen resolution, if not please E-Mail me at
redphantom@geekforcehq.com and I will fix that.