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Beeserker
TJ Cordes
This comic is about a robot powered by bees, but it's also about the kind of people who think filling a robot with bees is a good idea, and why they're wrong.
Paint the Town Red
Windy, Winter Jay Kiakas
Winona runs a werewolf shelter with partner in crime, Odile in the Gothic city of Merlot. One day they take in an injured vampire, and soon unravels many of the dark secrets of Merlot.
Mac Hall
Matt Boyd
The legendary early-aughts webcomic that inspired a wave of webcomic creators.
Blindsprings
Kadi Fedoruk
Tamaura, wrested into a world 300 years in the future, must find a way to save the magic fading from her country.
Dumbing of Age
David M Willis
Joyce has been homeschooled her entire life until now, when she's suddenly a freshman in college! Things don't go well.
Countdown to Countdown
Velinxi
Iris Black is a self-proclaimed inventor with the curious ability to bring his drawings to life, and yearns to find a space where he can use his powers freely.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
The Otherknown
Lorian Merriman
Chandra is a 12-year-old accidental time traveler with a reluctant new dad, who happens to be a member of a feared galactic crime syndicate.
2 Slices
RJ Morel
After a case of mistaken identity, will awkward Daisuke find help from excitable Mamo, or will his love life be thrown completely off track?
Fantomestein
Beka Duke
Desperate for companionship, Frankenstein's Monster pretends to be the Opera Ghost. A grave mistake.
Slightly Damned
Chu
Rhea Snaketail returns from the dead, befriending a Demon who falls in love with an Angel. The afterlife ain't what it used to be!
See? A rut. First Octopunch, then SG Prime, and now these guys. I left them all for last, and now this feels like a big hate parade.
I feel about the Shattered Glass Junkions the same way I did about Shattered Glass on its debut year. I wanted to add to my existing armies and not start new ones. I was really excited when we found out about Hasbro making Junkions. Junkions with three heads, even! That was guaranteed a souvenir set of some sort. And it meant I could double the number of Junkions from three to six. Maybe we'd even get a new head or something, who knows.
But naw dawg, have some mirrorverse Junkions.
Mirrorverse Junkions who borged a bunch of guys I like into more mirrorverse Junkions.
It just wasn't what I wanted from these molds at BotCon.
Slaughter and Guy-With-Dog not included. Not seen: Some losers I don't care about.
I bought the BBTS-exclusive Slaughter's Marauders box set months and months ago. It feels like decades. They've just been sitting unopened next to my desk in a pile of other stuff. The problem was I couldn't find my goddamned Sergeant Slaughter. And I refused to let myself open up the box and take the dudes out until I found him.
I hadn't seen Slaughter since we moved to this new place. And I knew he was one of the last things to get packed, which meant that he probably wasn't with my G.I. Joes, but in a separate, unique spot all his own. And, indeed, I had torn apart all of my toy bins, one by one, several times just to look for him, to no success. And I have a loooooooooot of toy bins, and they are laaaaaaaarge. And so my Marauders went unopened.
Until I was digging through my photos and found an image from the middle of the move of just my Masterpiece King Grimlock and Sergeant Slaughter sharing an otherwise empty spot on a shelving cube unit near our television! Aha! This was his last location! This might be a clue! I checked my MP Grimlock box, no dice, but ultimately found Slaughter in the bottom of one of those canvas storage cubes, under a bunch of Wii crap. Huzzah! Opening time, at last!
Look, I don't know who most of the guys in this set are, but I am pretty sure they weren't all Marauders. Sure, there's Lowlight, Spirit, Barbecue... but who's this football guy? Was Falcon in the team and I'd forgotten? And some other folks. Naw. According to the Internet, these are just guys who hang out with Sergeant Slaughter in the animated film, retroactively considered Marauders, and taking up spaces that REAL Marauders could have had! I coulda had a Footloose and Mutt! Instead, I borrow my normal Mutt. I have no Footloose. (There's apparently only a movie-style one, but he came in another box set.)
So screw those non-Marauders. They can stay in the box. ...maybe I'll keep the football guy. For the football. We'll see. The rest need to stop taking up space in my house. This is a hollow threat, because I'm pretty damn sure I have a pile of other Joe box sets I've bought and taken one or two figures from and then abandoned.
But seriously! Slaughter's Marauders! These were THE EFFIN' GUYS when I was a kid. I realize I am probably fairly alone on this. But I latched onto these guys pretty strongly. I was already a fan of Sergeant Slaughter, and these were his dudes! And they were older dudes who I hadn't owned, so I built up this personal mythology about how they were so awesome just based on the strength that they were older toys who were so awesome that they got to be rereleased as Slaughter's posse.
Anyway, I'm happy, because I am the biggest fan of these guys. I was such a big fan I had to look up to see if Falcon really was on their team and who these other dudes were and who I was missing. ...yeah. Okay.