Hi, everybody, and SO very sorry for the long delay getting the site back up. Fact is, I did as I often do, and failed to look before I leaped, and was compelled to make a very long and laborious upgrade, which as you can probably see, is still underway. The site is going to look a little bit garbled until I can get it all sorted. The smart money would probably fix it all offline and upgrade it all at once, but I’m afraid I’m not really smart enough to do that, so I’m just doing my best. Extra special thanks to Robert, for getting me squared away with the backup system that has saved this site, and Shelby, who saved the database that might otherwise have ruined the whole show. And, also, after a fashion, to Philip “Frumph” Hofer, whose tough love has gotten me to move to the newer and more stable system I’ll be running for comics from now on, and whose patience with all the irritable cartoonists out there has been worthy of high praise, in my book. I complain, like we all do, Phil, but in the end, we couldn’t do it without you, so thank you.
Anyway, as I promised, there’s a page to be had! O yes. Besides this, my task for the moment is, in the words of a former coworker of mine, to “make-a nice.” I’ll be getting the thing back to show condition as the week goes on. Thanks again for everyone’s forbearance and patience. It’s been a rough patch, the past few weeks, but it’s coming together.
Be well, everyone.
Oh, I really love this page. Something about it just makes me feel really tense and terrified for both sides.
I like it too. I’m just glad that the site crisis was confined to a single 24-hour period, since it’s already been so long in coming! It’s a lot of work to manage even a simple site like this one. I see now why sophisticated sites like Amazon have whole staffs of full-time web management experts. I mean, when things go wrong, they go WRONG.
Anyway, I’m glad you like it! It was a fun bit to draw, but complicated.
–M
Well, things just got exciting.
The first shot had been fired, Mr. Officer…
I would duck. Now. Or pray to Mike for deliverance.
Save us, O Mighty Ra!
–M
Tense. Really tense. And not a lot of trust between the parties.
About the site, thankfully all the comments seems to be there. Hopefully everything will work as you expect. Fingers crossed.
Yes, I think I only lost a handful of those. I backup pretty regularly these days.
–M
*Puts down a folding chair and gets out a bucket of popcorn, ‘cos Dis ‘gon be goood*
Seriously, this is just about the worst possible thing that could happen at this point… Barring a sudden outbreak of a flesh eating zombie plague, but I guess one appocolypse is enough for one day, since its only been a few hours since the neuclear extermination of most of the human race.
I can think of a oarticular line from South Park that you may be referencing, but I’ll leave it at that for the sake of propriety. 😉
And it is the worst thing, because there are no made up things in this story like zombies, vampires, elves and Eskimos. Only thousand ton robotic supertanks.
–M
Actually, the reference is to an internet meme, but beyound that I don’t know its origins. Also, vampires are not made up, blood sucking monstrous fiends are very much real. We call them politicians
It’s from the last thirty seconds of “Jared Has Aides.”
–M
Just create a hyped up rabies would give you that “zombie” plague and it would be real enough to be terrifying. Think World War Z the movie. They never died but they still want to bite you.
In a comic strip series called “Endtown” a mysterious virus outbreak just as World War III was finishing with Aimsworth radiation (turns all living things to dust) and Zero Bombs raining down. If you were awake you became a mindless horror, asleep you turned into a human acting animal. So sometimes more than one huge thing can happen at once.
But then you get tired out when on is big enough like World War III all by itself!
Intercontinental atomic warfare is awful enough, for now.
–M
Turrican vs. Boba Fett.
This will be good.
Hah! 😀
–M
Note that the officer is the only guy in the room not wearing armor.
He may come to briefly regret that.
Still, I bet he has an easier time going to the bathroom. Which is pretty much what I’d be doing in his place.
–M
Holy crap! Things are gonna go nuclear (or in this case, thermo-nuclear).
Glad the site’s back up quickly, can’t wait for the climax!
Yeah, it took a little quick acting and a lot of combing through backups to get the data I needed. Then the DNS folks in California had to do a special upload for me. But let this be the object-lesson: $150 and a little effort spent is a small price paid on backup equipment when things go cross-eyed.
–M
well it seem like people gonna end there life first before even any monster or radioactive cloud get into the base . how are you i have to say this week i am quite healthy and well do my usually thing “drawing”
question is mister officer standing in the middle or it just a frame metaphor for something hot that is about to happen?
Question number 2 : why is the green suit stand so close to shotgun range that the brown yellow suit have , do they know they are standing in point plank range of shotgun?
IS there gonna be any grenade in action?
oh oh spotted some thing the second sodier from above to below count is actually higher rank than the first guy, ha no body spotted that
Mathieu, I love the composition of the bottom panel. Tons of depth! I had a painting teacher once who said the trick of painting, whether you are painting realism or abstraction, is to take a 2D canvas and make it appear to have depth and volume. I think you did that here. Kirby was a master at that and I think that’s why people respond to his work so well.