C2E2 in 8 days!

by David Willis on April 8, 2010 at 5:49 am
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Shortpacked!: Signifying nothing.

Still working on the site overhaul.  I have over 1100 comics, all of which gotta be assorted by chapter and subchapter.  You can imagine how much fun that is. 

But it’s gonna be beautiful.  It’s going to be beautiful and user friendly and it will be amazing.  So many thanks to ComicPress Overlord Frumph, who’s been walking me through this hand-in-hand.  (But not in a gay way.)

I must have something for your eyeballs in the meantime!  I’m gonna be in motherfuckin’ Chicago the weekend after this one!  That’s right, C2E2 is April 16-18, and it promises to be a huge thing of bigness.  I’ll be exhibiting with Chris Hallbeck of The Book Of Biff.  

Let’s talk the merch.  Look, it’s a poster!  Remember that really awesome Book 1 reprint cover I did?  Well, you can have an 11×17" full-color poster of it if you come to my table and buy a high-five.  (The poster comes free with the purchase of a high-five.)   But you can only have the poster if you come see me at the convention!  These posters are gonna be convention exclusive.  

(Why?  Well, I don’t wanna take away one of the few draws to funding the Book 1 reprint.  But I also don’t want to not make a poster of it.  So, compromise.)  

At the moment, I only have 25 of these.  Just 25!  There’s a good chance that’ll get depleted C2E2 weekend and I’ll have to order more for subsequent conventions.  Regardless, make sure you get to me early at C2E2 if you want to guarantee a poster.  We’ll be at booth WC E!  (WebComic area, table E)  If you see Erika Moen, we’re the ones right next door shooting rubber bands at her.


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Nyeh! Baldness!

by David Willis on March 28, 2010 at 11:00 pm
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Shortpacked!@TNI: Comparing notes
Shortpacked!: I’m a few weeks ahead, and so I kinda forget which one today’s is.

Hey, you folks who are in the Transformers Collectors’ Club.  On Friday, they finally put Punch/Counterpunch and Shattered Glass Cyclonus up for preorder, and they’ve already sold through 80% of P/CP and half of Cyclonus.  So if you want either of those guys, hop to it!  They’ll probably be gone by tomorrow.  And I hope you like paying a lot for shipping.

EDIT: Aaaaaaaaand now he’s gone.  FP is looking into whether they can increase their order last-minute. Still some Cyclonus, though.

(I get asked this a lot, and, yeah, I do believe they charge you right up front instead of in a few months when they arrive.)

Also, after some prodding from a few of you, I put up preorders for a Butt-Taco shirt.  But so far I’ve gotten… *drumroll* … one preorder!  Yeah.  If I don’t get a handful more by Tuesday, I’m gonna refund that dude his money and consider this a lesson in putting cartoon butts and/or tacos on shirts.

This Saturday is my birthday and Thursday is my roommate Steve-o’s birthday, and due to scheduling conflicts, we ended up celebrating it last Friday!  And, woo, presents!   My buddy Ron got me a knockoff Hot Shot in awesome rally deco, Maggie, Steve-o, and Maggie’s parents conspired to get me a new bike to replace the one that was stolen last year, and Graham got me the Toys”R”Us-exclusive Skeletor vs Lex Luthor two-pack.

Skeletor is my first MOTU ”Classics” toy.  I have the old 2002 Skeletor, which I thought had more fun with the design than this guy, so I didn’t throw $30-including-shipping at the new one.  But, dude, this one comes with Lex Luthor in Power Armor, a personal love of mine.  And I don’t have him.  And it comes with a friggin’ comic book.  And it’s at a normal retail price.  So I was planning on picking these guys up when I saw them.  And in a rare moment of lack-of-toy-clairvoyance, I didn’t even realize these dudes were out in Toys”R”Uses yet.  So, woo, great present.
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by David Willis on August 3, 2007 at 12:00 am
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by David Willis on February 18, 2006 at 1:03 am
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This week’s Joyce & Walky! teaches us that “papoose” is a fun word to say.

Dynamic Studios was a dear and linked our awesome new shirt! They rule. If you guys love me, you’ll spread the word, too! If you loved me. That’s right. A mother-esque guilt trip. I went there.

XXL IS NOW AVAILABLE

Cheezus, I never realized how freakin’ SHARP Little Debbie Zebra Cakes were. I thought they’d be all soft and moist, but they have these CORNERS, man. Corners that jam themselves right into the tender, not-quite-healed-yet roof of the mouth. I’ll never look at them the same way again. Ever.

Man, I used to be able to write the world every night in this blog, but then Toy Fair happened and afterwards I completely forgot how. How did I fill the space without NEWS?

LAST-MINUTE ADDITION/EDIT: Okay, fine, have some IRC loggin’


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by David Willis on February 7, 2006 at 11:11 pm
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Predaking is adorable.

Today we had an interesting incident. I heard Steve’s cellphone ringing, and he went to go answer it. He was too late, but suddenly my cellphone went off. I answer, and some kid asks for Steve-o. A little bewildered, I hand it over to him. I don’t recognize the number, and so that rules out pretty much anybody Steve and I know in common. Steve talks with the kid, and the conversation is over shortly.

“He thought I was Steve-o from Jackass.”

Wha?

Immediately, our apartment phone rings. Steve picks it up, and, of course, it’s the same kid. Steve interrogates him a little. Apparently this kids’ friend had these three numbers, thought they belonged to Jackass Steve-o, but was too afraid to call and find out.

We boggle. Who the Hell could have gotten our cellphone numbers that we hadn’t given them out to? Especially in a format in which someone could have confused Steve-o for Jackass Steve-o?

The answer we decided on did not paint the kids’ brains in a very flattering light. At some point before our New Years party, Steve put up our various phone numbers on his online journal for our attending friends. The thing is, being a Steve-o for forever, he has giant words all over his online journal that tell people he’s not That Steve-o. He’s a Physicist. He likes to watch Gilmore Girls. He lives in Columbus, Ohio.

These kids apparently can’t read.

I weep for our educational system.


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