Remember Yuri’s remote control. (Also here)

Well, I was planning on making Yuri blue, mixing Flineous (she she recently killed) and Kali the Hindu goddess of power. I was even going to post a venn diagram of Kali, Flineous, and a housecat with Yuri being where they all overlap. BUT, I couldn’t make it work without her looking like Neytiri the blue Pandorian from the movie “Avatar” (or Zhaan from “Farscape” if you’d rather). After much fussing and fidgeting and playing with various hues I decided on her new color scheme. Not what I had planned, but I am very pleased with it nonetheless.

Oh, and Dustin is back. You’d be amazed how many times I count the humans in each strip as I draw them (I know there’s SIX! SIX humas!) and then make sure I know where each character is. So easy to forget.

Let’s see… a few links. Tom Walker posted a new SS Myra, of course. And I received the amazing collection of Dicebox in the mail this week (with my own short comic of the charcaters in it), and am champing the bit to read it. Erika Moen and Jeff Parker finished their 102 page webcomic “Bucko” which is a very fun read (and they’re having a store sale to celebrate).

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Hey, by request: a new wallpaper! Just donate any amount (even a penny) with that yellow button right there, and it will send you to chosen wallpaper (more are HERE).

A few bloggy things. Over at MAD Magazine’s blog “The Idiotical” they’ve posted another “It Only Hurts When I Laugh” strip by me. Tom Walker has, as ever, asked me to again let you know a new strip has been posted (NSFW) of SS Myra.

And in webcomic news, Jeff Zugale has joined the team with artwork for “Not Invented Here,” looks great!

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Been really busy here. Been doing lots of freelance, and am fighting to not fall behind while trying to get extra done, mostly involving Spacetrawler book#2, but some regarding writig other comics and novels. But, here we are, 10 minutes before Spacetrawler’s update time, and I’m done. Dammit. Eat that, self-doubting self.

And of course it’s worth it when you get Pierrot, Defender of Awesome riding in on his lone horse. Good times. And nicely timed to post one of Pierrrot’s big strips on Martin Luther King Day (happy Martin Luther King Day, btw).

Been a fun week too. Started playing racquetball with a friend, which I’ve wanted to play for years. And I survived! No injuries even! Whoot!

A couple of links: If you speak Portuguese, some nice things were said about Spacetrawler over at pinkvader.com. Tom Walker, the lucky bastard, had some nice things said about his comic SS Myra over at io9.

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Well, I’ve name-dropped “Qwahntoo” several times now. I mentioned that it he was who enslaved the Eebs, and showed here the creature who enslaved the eebs. So, I think several of you pieced together. I wasn’t really keeping it a mystery for dramatic tension or anything, as much as I wanted book #2 to keep focused on Kuu-Drahc as the figurehead of the evil empire. Expect much more of Qwahntoo in book #3.

If you wish to re-read everything on him, click on the Qwahntoo “tag” or click here for the tag page. I have gone back in and added his name to (hopefully) all the times he appeared or was mentioned.

And if you wanted any merchandise before Christmas, the shipping deadlines are coming fast and furious. At the top of MY STORE, you’ll see a shipping deadline (noon today/Wednesday is the last day for UPS ground).

I’m going to a reading book group today. We’ve read “Slaughterhouse 5.” Kinda excited as I’ve never gone to a reading group before. Yay! :)

Oh, and ol’ Tom Walker posted his weekly SS MYRA (NSFW).

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Hey, there’s a new strip in town. And it’s Not-Safe-For-Work (NSFW) SS Myra. By Tom Walker, the same jerk who wrote and drew “Bad Mile.” I might also note, that Tom Walker is NOT ME, so just stop even suggesting it. I don’t even like him.

Ah, another week. Spent some time at Occupy Seattle. Made cranberry-orange granola. Had a freewrite session over bagels with Matt. A nice walk with my friend Kim around Greenlake.

Been thinking a lot about the plot of Spacetrawler. There are so many little threads to make sure I tie back in, and it’s mostly all mapped out in my head. And then I keep adding things, and adjusting, which adjusts everything else like dominoes. And I have to say i love doing this MORE THAN ANYTHING.

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I have to start in on con reports, although 4 in a row kinda is daunting. And so… not today.

But huge. HUGE! I mean, they are asking other labs to double-check first, but the finding: neutrinos can travel faster than light. Amazing. Even breathtaking. I mean, it’s no greased dark light speed, but what is?

Of course, I’ve read some articles saying that it shows we can travel back in time, and I’m just not yet buying that. I mean, already we’ve found that on the atomic level things don’t confirm to normal physics in other ways. but whatever, who knows. It’s still frikkin’ amazing.

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Ah! This week has been such a relief from last week. Most everything that went wrong resolved itself, and I just made a blackberry pie which was not only filled with blackberries — but was also filled with awesome!

So, for those of you clamoring for action from the Spacetrawler characters, today we begin the storm I will be raining down upon them. And you get a kissy! Bonus!

Thanks to Joanna for the nice blog about Spacetrawler. :)

Oh, and I have another piece in MAD this month. Here’s a glimpse at the piece (and cover) if you wish to find it!

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Okay, I have my con schedule figured out. Thanks to Onezumi for making last-minute room for me at InterventionCon, (Shaenon Garrity, Peter Abraams, Bill Holbrook, and Jennie Breeden will all be there too, yay!) Thanks to Holly and Jefferey for making space for me at at the TopatoCo tables at SPX and MICE.

Sep 10-11, Bethesda, MD
SPX Small Press Expo

Sep 16-18, Rockville, MD
InterventionCon (Pre-reg discount rate of $40 ends on September 1st)

Sep 24, Cambridge, MA
MICE Comic Expo

Oct 1-2, San Francisco
APE Comic Con?

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Congratulations again to Studio Foglio for winning this year’s “Best Graphic Story” for Girl Genius. io9 sums up the Hugo Awards for you.

Been a good week. I’ve been reading “Swann’s Way” by Proust, which my brother gave me… maybe… 6 years ago? Slow and sleep-inducing, but with such adoringly lovely imagery, I think it’s colored my whole week (luckily I’d written this weeks scripts ahead of time). Summer finally arrived, I bought a muffin tin, had sorbet with Matt, and beth and I began harvesting the summer’s lettuce. yum!

I shipped the Purfin M-32 shirts, so expect those soon.

Oh, and I bought a ticket for my east coast travels, so, if you’re in Bethesda, Boston, or NYC — I’ll be attending comic conventions in your city in September (and San Francisco the first weekend of October). Look in the column on your right for more info!

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So, I have removed the “Purfin M-32″ shirt. It was available for sale for 27 hours and there were zero sales. I know that some of you simply planned to buy it later in the week, but I feel that if an entire day has passed with no sales, it must not be a good enough design. I’ll try to have a new one soon.

In the exciting news of copyright (as brought to my attention by the amazing Dylan Horrocks), some macaque monkeys took pictures of themselves. For starters, they are adorable! And for finishers, it brings up the question of who owns the copyright? The company who represents the person who owned the camera are claiming, if nothing else: YOU don’t. Ah, it’s a funny world.

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