Jen must have known. She must have.  For so many pages she’s teased us with tidbits of these characters as they hurtle towards some shared fate. With this page our cast has finally all gathered not just within the panels of the same update but within the same room and we begin to see some idea of why six months ago you were introduced to young Martin the frustrated head librarian and then to Emilia an andventuous woman vexed at the lack of challenges the world offered her. All this is achieved in page 25 of our new story.

Today’s strip isn’t just important because of that, it’s also the strip that sees us hit the 150 comic mark. It’s the kind of synchonisity that would be a ponytail wearing marketer’s dream. I wish I were that marketer. I only realised today’s strip was important when I finished it late last night (read: this morning) and so i’ve only had a short while to cobble together this meager promotional thank you wallpaper. Thank you or following this story for 25 pages, hopefully it’s all coming together for you. Thank you for reading this strip for 150 pages. Thank you for letting Jen and I annoy you with our tale of two zombies.

And there’s another point of fate. All these major milestones in the life of two zombies take place on the week of Halloween.

Huzzah! -Trev

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This dismays me. apparently Seth Grahame-Smith has written a follow up to his Pride & Prejudice & Zombies that paints honest Abe as a axe wielding vampire killer. For some reason this makes me cringe.

I think what excited me about P&P&Z was the idea a new narrative was weaved into the existing one creating a whole new storyline. It’s why I think Wicked is such a great story. While Dorothy is going about dropping houses on people and scalding a lion for roaring there was a whole other drama. It’s also why people were excited about the Star Wars prequels (although the execution of that was just woeful).

This latest volume though feels like the work of a 7 year old, or the guy who wrote “From Dusk to Dawn”. Random ideas thrown together. Zombie Hawks, Unicorn Transformers, Dawrf Spacemen. All amusing momentarily but damned if I’d want to sit through 90 minutes of it. What the film does promise is stunning visuals if Burton is involved but I’ll pass thanks.

-Trev

Hey folks, I recently did an article for Webcomics.com about how I do cell style shading. It’s just gone online. Now webcomics.com IS a subscriber based site bit it’s also a fantastic tool for people interested in webcomics and comics in general and at only $30 a year (what some sites charge per month) it’s well worth the expense. I don’t get anything for promoting it, it’s just something that I think is worth it. At some point I might put it on this site but for the moment it’s only available over there.

-Trev

Hey folks. Just wanted to let you know that it’s been confirmed we’ll be at Melbourne Supanova. We’ll be sharing a booth with Guardian Comics Paul Spencer who does the great Ticket To Ride webcomic about a group of guys who run a superhero themed adventure park.  We should have books 1 & 2 as well as issue one of the current arc which due to it’s mammoth size we’ll be breaking into shorter comic book style publications.

I also plan on heading up to both Brisbane and Sydney’s Supanova this year (for the very least to meet Joe Kubert!) but i’ll give you more details as we get closer.

Huzzah
-Trev