It’s so funny because I bet no one anywhere sold out of bluray players or PS3’s (I should also note that I love my PS3, have a PSP, and buy all my new movies on bluray… so don’t flame me Sony Fanboys. I’m one of you). Anyway… there are some guests in this comic! So lets get to talkin about that:

In the first two panels we have Chris from The Ego & The Squid. In the second set of panels, we have “Noob” from Failed Objective. And in the third set of panels we have Dave from Happy Hour. All of these comics are part of the comic collective I started (you can find us by clicking the OffTheWall-Comics dropdown on the right side of the site) and they were nice enough to let me use their characters instead of  having to design my own guests for the store. Their comics kick some serious ass, so you’d better check out their stuff asap.

Thanks for sticking around, it’s been a rough year for me and the comic’s update schedule, but 2010 will hopefully be better on both.

It all started as a way to use the weird and unpublishable ideas I had for comics while putting off the ones I was doing for my school’s weekly newspaper (it was a small college). Every Thursday night I had to turn in a comic, something fairly small and simple, for the school paper to put in their Friday paper. I would usually start working on it the day it was due, if not as late as within a few hours of when it was due to go out to print… but I would be looking for material all week. The one catch was that it had to be related to the school, so, of course, the best ideas I had each week had nothing to do with the school (or at least nothing that was publishable). My friends at the time enjoyed the off-topic ones I’d done while procrastinating and so I thought, “why not try the wonderful world of webcomics again?” And from December 24th, 2007 until September 1st, 2008, I used the comicgenesis site and simple, gag-a-day format to pump out regular comics.

Those comics aren’t hosted here because, in September 2008, I moved to the story/character based comic style you see now and even wandered on over to my own server so I could use WordPress/ComicPress and have full domain integration… but I’ve been working on the old site some, to make it into an archive of that 9 month period I like to refer to as B4B’s incubation period (and what would end up being the true pre-cursor to Gleeful Nihilism). It’s not fully revamped yet, but it’s at least navigatable again… so feel free to check it out at the above “comicgenesis site” links in this blog… or via the link below:

http://boozeathon4billion.comicgenesis.com

And, as always, thanks for reading!

After a two week writing/rest hiatus, the comic should be back in gear again. Sorry for the gap between storylines but I needed some time to work through how I want to do some of the next stuff before just jumping into it head first. Hopefully that extra time/planning pays off and I don’t just throw it out the window and wing it like I usually do when I have pre-written plotlines.

Sorry this is a day late but it took way longer to get this done than I originally gave myself time for. Maybe its just me, but anyone else find it funny that I started the xmas storyline late last January and finished it in early November? No?!

Whatever… you’re obviously just not as funny as me then. Yeah. That’s it.

I’ve basically jammed out a new working schedule that will give me a bit more freetime to play videogames, sleep, and maybe socialize a bit, and I think all of those things will be good for not just myself, but for the comics as well. The new schedule will basically take what I’ve been frantically doing in two or three days, and spreading it out over 5 or 6. This way I can write and sketch the next comic Tuesday. Resketch elements and start inking Wednesday. Spend my sweet time getting the linework the way I want it… and then color, shade, and drop in the text and bubbles late in the week, or even over the weekend.

This should mean a few really awesome things for you: first, that Gleeful Nihilism is up earlier in the morning. Second, that B4B will actually update on time. Third, that I’ll have some time to work on some secret projects I’ve been writing for a while now. And fourth, maybe I’ll finally have time to work on some decent merch and stuff to sell at conventions I have my eye on for 2010.

Thought I’d give you the heads up on all this while it was fresh in my brains, and I’ll add it to the header later this week. Thanks for reading, and hopefully I’ll have the comic up tonight or early tomorrow.

Sorry for missing a week, but my parents visited the weekend of Halloween which threw off Monday’s update. And then my brother attempted suicide again Wednesday around 1am and so my Wed/Thurs/Fri was consumed by that. Then the Anime NebrasKon was this past weekend and I hit that with a few friends. So I’ve been busy.

I’ll blog about this later today prolly, but I’m gonna go back to once a week updates I think. I’ll explain more there. To put it quickly: it’ll give me more time to focus on the story and art, will mean I shouldn’t miss or be late for deadlines, and can hopefully push out this other comic I’m writing sometime in early 2010. More in the blog… once I write it…

(It didn’t help that my one-off comic idea for Monday’s Gleeful Nihilism snowballed into a weeklong story arc either… when the inspiration bug bites,  you just go with it. So most of my Sunday was spent writing and sketching a weeks worth of comics for that.)

So, I’ve decided to skip the Monday, November 2nd update for the sake of my sanity. I’ll have it posted on Thursday instead, which works better actually, because it will give me time to start on next week’s comics before the Anime Nebraskon this Fri/Sat/Sun in Omaha. I’m not gonna have a table at it (because I have nothing to sell anyway), but I will be there and will have some business cards for the comics. It’s more of a meet and greet sorta thing for me… and no, I’m not gonna be targeting the main group of attendees, cause if I wanted to do that, I shoulda got merch ready and gotten a table. Instead, my focus will be on meeting and hopefully networking with the other artist/webcomic types in attendance.

I apologize for the skipped update, I’ve been trying to be timely and not skip stuff for whatever reason, but hopefully you understand and don’t hate me. I’ll see ya Thursday. And I’ll bring a comic with me. Promise.

UPDATE (11/5/09): my little brother is in the hospital again. He started to make cyanide in the apartment on the 4th, around 1am while I was at work, stopped and checked into the local mental ward place. He’s doing alright but the parents came back up that night, I was back and forth between the hospital all Wednesday, and didn’t get any real good sleep until Thursday afternoon. So, Thursdays comic was delayed too. Both should be up next week, since I’m already shading the one that shoulda been up Thursday. Hopefully in my downtime at the con this weekend I can sketch/ink next Thursdays and stay on track. Anyway, sorry but once again, its all sorta out of my control.

Slowly, but surely, you will figure out what that apartment looks like. And after that has happened, I’ll finish the schematic and post it. I’m not just gonna hand out everything… that’d make you look stupid. And I know you aren’t that… are you?

…what? Don’t act like you wouldn’t. You know it sounds delicious!

Sorry this is a day late, but the original posters and shading job I’d done didn’t pass my QA inspection (ie: i hated it). So I redid those and ended up spicing up the dialogue a bit. Then I hated the font so I’m trying a different font. Depending on when you’re reading it, it could have changed a few times as I test a few I like on different sized screens and resolutions.

Anyway, I’m off to do whatever now. See  ya, monday.