I did a fill-in guest strip for Dresden Codak! Read it! Wait, no, read my damn blog first. 🙂
All is fine in the world. I am getting into the final stretch of packaging the Kickstarter orders, and books have been shipped to TopatoCo so that they should be available their soon too.
I must be feeling a bit more on top of things, because I’ve begun Twittering again after hardly doing so since about November. Feel free to follow my insightful pithy commentary on cookies and the like over there, I’m chris_j_baldwin (that’s a double-underscore)
Oh, and have I mentioned that I have a show hanging in Fuel Coffee in Wallingford? Because I do. it’s this show.
So, I did a guest strip for the brilliant Aaron Diaz for his comic DRESDEN CODAK! It was lots of fun, and I very unabashedly wore my love for Mary Shelley on my sleeve.
Well … at least hr joined …
So when he’s in the ship, it’s not like the eebs can see it as a GDL ship and chase it, like they’re doing with your own ship, right?
@Coyoty, not sure whose “your” you mean, but I think the answer is “no.” Mostly because if Krep is in it, theoretically he can outrun them. 🙂
I think it’s interesting thing here that the King remembers Krep’s behavior–attempting to kill the King’s lover–from when the King had Krep and Pierrot captured before.
“Why are you telling me all this?”
“It’s plot exposition. It has to go *somewhere*.”
— “The Great Muppet Caper”
😉
BTW, with all due respect, Krep didn’t ATTEMPT to kill the King’s lover, he THREATENED to kill the King’s lover. There’s a difference.
Tell the king (politely, I don’t want to be sat on by a Mihrrgoot, even if they are friendly) that “ahold” is not a word.
i love the series of expressions on the king’s face in the last few panels.
@ronald: I love that you can quote “The Great Muppet Caper.”
@pastordan: “ahold” is a word. It’s in the dictionary and everything.
And Krep’s ship sounds pretty awesome.
@Angel “Ahold” is the bastard spawn of “hold” and the meaningless prefix “a-” I use it all the time. It’s bad grammar, unsuitable for a king.
Well, I had to check the IMDB for the EXACT quotations, but I remembered the gist. 😉
Regarding Krep as a “drunken hooligan who created chaos,” well, I don’t think we’ve ever seen Krep get drunk since joining IA (of course, that’s the only period of his life that we the readers have seen at all), so there’s THAT that might not be a factor, anyway.
Actually, we have seen Krep drunk – in this strip.
He looks like an angry drunk.
Well, it just says he DRANK, not that he got DRUNK. 😉 Besides, Krep’s basically going to be an angry anything, because he’s pretty much angry almost all the time.
On another note, you gotta hand it to the Mihrrgoots, I’d imagine not many cultures achieve that level of technology while at the same time advancing no further than the “hat” level of fashion evolution.
I wonder how far the Narklons, who don’t even have hats, have gotten. Revisiting the Pierrot-meets-a-Narklon strip reminded me of the rich supply of Darkhuenium technically owned by Earth. I’m guessing that’ll prove crucial at some point. Or not.
Krep looks like he’d make a very mean drunk. Sort of a cross between Frank Sinatra, Mel Gibson, and a Scottish soccer hooligan sort of drunk.