It's Episode One of a two parter, devoted to the new Child's Play Hire.  Which I could easily name.

It won't be terribly hard for you to find the video, if you haven't already seen it; the strip contains all the pertinent details.

Eitan Glinert from Fire Hose Games came by the office right before PAX, and it was nice to see him. We were overjoyed to have Slam Bolt Scrappers in our Boston Indie Showcase last year, and it clearly turned a few heads, including a head or two over at Sony. Also, Eitan is a Hebrew name, meaning “strong.” I was curious about that too.

Brian Crecente sends word of their noble mission, and having experience running multiple Rock Band events for Child's Play he's got the chops to pull it off. Hop over there, and see what you can do.

Here is today's strip, or strip shell at any rate, a comic Boboli, which can be filled with marinated chunks of history.

I neglected to mention it, but as is usual at the create a strip panel, audience suggestions are taken into account.  Gabriel will draw anything that is requested, and often solicits feedback about particular poses or gestures.  So it was on Saturday, when a young man flush with ponylove did request that such a beast be appended to the strip in the final panel.  Maybe it's his patronus or something; I didn't ask.  Brenna suggested that the pony was skulking around down there, as what she called a "sinister accomplice of evil," but I'm not certain that a pony can skulk.  I mean, physically.

I have been lying in bed feeling desolated in an essential way and powerless, as my ill-used larynx throbbed with the wages of a weekend spent in fervent communication, with a catalogue of odd metallic tastes making themselves known to me in a kind of perpetual rotation. I assume that is my esophagus collapsing, which is too bad, because I've found having an esophagus tremendously useful.

It's true. Here's a new 4th Panel, which is a little broader than usual, because it's got Sqoort and Krasp onboard talking about their own strips and upcoming projects.  

I was never taught any particular rule about using the restroom, I just know in my hidden bones that you

I really want to know what another ten years of increasingly ubiquitous Internet will do to a person. I've got two kids, and it's not too late. I'm seriously considering making one of them the control.

The drawing of Gabe in the second panel today really makes me laugh. I think it’s the best Gabe I’ve ever drawn. So I went ahead and made a nice high res version suitable for desktop wallpapers.

I don't think it's too bad a spoiler to say that the new Pokemon game - the new Pokemon game, for God's sake - asks questions about the franchise itself at a fundamental level. Yeah, it does it in way which tracks with the continuum of Pokemania, and as robust as its core mechanism is, these games must make themselves available to the young. Even so, it's rare. It's a rare game that has the pluck to question its own thesis even while it is actively enslaving you with same.

When I was writing it, this is what I kept thinking about:  all the times in DA where you pull back out of a combat to some kind of dialogue sequence, often one that had some humor in it, and everybody is joking, even though they are covered from head to toe in fucking blood.