I love stories like these....

My 19 year-old (former foster) son, who has never been interested in politics, sat down with me and began silently watching about 10 minutes into it.About half an hour later he turned to me and said, "Dad, am I able to vote?". I told him he
would have to register but that yes, he could vote. I asked who he wanted to vote for, and he said "Kerry's the tall dude, right?". I said yes, and he said, "I'd vote for Kerry".

I asked him why, and he replied, "Because, I can tell if they were both captured by terrorists Kerry would keep telling them to go f*** themselves, and Bush would cry like a baby and tell them anything they wanted to know".

Today we registered him to vote. -- Proud Dad

You can read more about this from the Proud Dad, KOS, here.

All Apologies

Wow! Did I drop the ball or what.

it's going on week 3 of this Arcane Times production slump. Still no comic. Almost a month without even a news update. I am really sorry. I will now give you my reasons (not excuses) for such an apalling lack of content provision.

1 - The Gen-Con trip really put me off my game.
2 - I have been working very hard on my first comic story. A six page back-up story for the next Girl Genius trade paperback!
3 - I got pulled out of town for my birthday.
4- I'm a dork

All of the above are true... May one or all of them aswade your disgruntled mind.

Gen-Con and Back Again

Hi there boys and girls. I'm back from Gen-Con and finally rested enough to
look back at it with some sort of objective opinion. First of all I had a
great time hanging out with folks I normally only know by their screen
names.

The con as always felt HUGE on day one and tiny the rest of the week. I
think it has something to do with relativity. The more time you have to goof
off the larger the main hall appears to be. And I had very little time to
goof off.

In the course of Thursday, Friday, and Saturday... I ran an Introductory
adventure for Necessary Evil called "Fighting the Good Fight" seven times. I
was only SUPPOSED to do it six times, but I through one more in for good
luck. The feedback I got from the folks that played was positive. Of course
by the last session I was in "the zone" and kinda wished I could have had
the chance to re-do the original days games. Ah well -- the wayback machine
is still on the fritz so maybe next year.

I did get to PLAY in one session, Joe Unger's "Red Rising" which promises to
be one hellva "Hard-Sci-Fi-Alternate-History-Cold-War-Espionage" game if I
ever saw one...

Indianapolis stinks.

To be clear... I don't mean that it has a lack of culture or fine after-hour
establishments for the traveler looking to drink and be merry... I mean it
smells... rEEEaly bad. Even to I, a veteran of gamers cons, this town made
my eyes water. Like some sort of fermenting manure was leeching up from
beneath the city. It stank like one pictures New Jersey is supposed to. Had
an animated rotting corpse clawed it's way from a manhole cover to feast on
the flesh of the living I would at least be able to point and say "AH!
that's where that smell came from". A friend tells me that this is common
not only to Indianapolis but to all of Indiana itself. Good god, those poor
people... the STENCH!

No wonder the setters kept moving west.

Best game to play drunk -- F*CK THIS

Best line of the Week -- "now if we can only find a place that smells this
bad with even fatter residents... we will be like GODS!"

Best Epiphany -- "Dude that's not the skipper... that's Gill Gerard!"

What Happened?

Ok... First off a I'd like to apologize to the readers of ArcaneTimes. Yes I know the comic just stopped without any kind of warning. I should have at least said something about it when I realized it was not going to get done. So to those people that depended on my timely strip every Monday, Wednesday and Friday -- I send out a heartfelt "I'm Sorry" ... To both of you.

As for why there was no strip this week, I am working furiously to finish an art order for Cheapass Games before I leave for Gen-Con on the 18th. The strip will be back next week and I may even post some previews of the art I did as well to make up in some small way for the delays.

Thanks again for your patience... both of you

My Princess Diary

This Wednesday's strip is a fairly accurate event. It was a Saturday night. I was online at an ungodly hour playing 'City of Heroes' when I spotted Shane's character come up. I sent out a "howdy" message and he said "hi" back -- then he invited me to join his team on a mission in 'Steel Canyon'.
 
He also said "I tried to get a hold of you via IM -- but you weren't on all day".
 
"nope" I replied "the IM on my home computer is all wonky, it hasn't worked for weeks".
 
"Well I got something I want to talk to you about..." He said "can I call you?"
 
"ok" I said and made sure he had my new phone number.
 
We talked for a bit, while our superhero avatars stood twiddling their thumbs. When we were done, I had a 3 book deal and strange mixture of elation and dread churning in my stomach. "This was the big time" I told myself "you do this right and you could be up there with the likes of Elmore and Brom in 2 or 3 years -- Screw it up and you are over..."
 
Then Shane's avatar piped back up. "Hey wanna go do a mission? I got one in the sewers in Boomtown."
 
"Sure" I said
 
And off we rode into the sunset -- killing zombies as we went.