Sean Murphy

Comic for Monday December 10th, 2018 - "New carnivore" [ view ]

On this day in 1997, Kevin was hard at work printing huge stacks of documents until he was up to his shoulders. What could they be for?... [ view ]

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(He’s not.)

I could snark up the content of this strip a bit, but instead I’m going to hyperfocus on the three little shock-lines pulsating from Sal’s head in panel one which were nearly completely covered up by the word balloon.  This is why you plan your compositions ahead.  Or, if you’re lucky, you work digitally and can move stuff around to keep elements clear.

New comic!

So ends a goofy bit.

I'll try to think of a Christmas arc that probably will last until February.

I'm currently under the weather so everything sucks. It's moved from my throat into my nose/sinuses... I'm not thrilled.

I mean, we’re all going to die, Walky.

I really have no idea how I woke up one day and found myself writing a “the hero has scary visions of the future!!!!!” story.  I hate those!  I hated those at the time!  Optimus Prime has one of those stories every other hour.  And I really did wake up one morning in 2004 and think… waitasecond.  How did I get here, doing this thing?  I’ve become what I hate.

It happens sometimes, you know.

At least Sal’s here to dispel with any reverence for the trope.

meanwhile, ten years later in transformers comics:

Comic for Sunday December 9th, 2018 - "Tree selection" [ view ]

On this day in 1997, Kevin was making a call to technical support after purchasing a new modem. It apparently was supposed to be the 'fastest'... [ view ]

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November’s second Patreon bonus strip is up, and it’s about Sayid, Becky, and Galasso! All Patrons can go check it out here.

And, yo, you can also upgrade to seeing tomorrow’s strip a day early every day! That comes in handy sometimes.

Tumblr’s trying to go smutless (badly) this month, and as that ship sinks, Slipshine is trying to soften the blow by offering a pretty rare discount on memberships!  It used to be $25 for the introductory month, but this week it’s only $10!  That’s a pretty substantial savings, and I thought I’d remind you that I’ve got, like, ten stories on there.  All NSFW, all canon.  Here’s a list of ’em:

Walky Performs A Sex: The original!  Dorothy and Walky come in from the rain.

Mask Or No Mask: Amazi-Girl has a very good day with Danny.

Finally: Billie and Ruth relieve that building sexual tension like a volcano from Hell.

Head of the Class: Sal and Jason, probably!

Tales of Sinterest: An anthology!  Includes Roz, Sayid, and more.

To the End of the Line: Originally titled “Upside-Down on a Grappling Hook.”  You fill in the rest.

Keep It Clean: Whoops it’s Billie and Ruth again, but in the shower?????

Goddammit, Malaya: It’s Malaya and Joe, which seems like a bad idea.

A Slipshine membership gets you access to all of them, plus all my other stand-alone pages!  And this week only, an incredible discount!

Hairless dog found in the Utah desert makes a total transformation. She looks like a completely different dog now!

The post Hairless Dog Found In Desert Rehabilitated Completely Back to Health appeared first on DogPerDay ~ Cute puppy pictures, dog photos, cute videos, holistic pet care.

Shadow, who was known as Pongo at the rescue shelter, is growing like a weed and has fit into our family perfectly. He earned his name by always following us around, like a little Shadow. He makes us laugh at his antics all the time, he is such a joy. Thank you SO much! Submitted by the adopting family from the Humane Society Morgan County Georgia.

Picking Shadow up at the shelter…

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Up until about a third of the way through the film, Ralph Breaks the Internet had me worried. It wasn’t doing anything new, and the conflict was a pretty soft one, and I was afraid the film wasn’t going to give us anything like the joy¹ we got from Wreck-It Ralph.

And then it got better. Lots better. We’ve known for years that Princess Vanellope is technically (and literally, and actually) a Disney princess. Disney owned this, and went on to own (and give themselves a good roasting for) all the associated princess tropes they’ve built during the last eighty years.

Snippets of the “princesses” scene have appeared in trailers, but the full scene takes it further. And then Disney doubled-down on it, and gave Vanellope a very, VERY Disney Princess moment of her own.

Speaking of trailers, there’s a trailer for the film which features a mobile game called “Pancake Milkshake.” I felt just a little robbed when that scene didn’t appear in the film, but then I sat through the credits and let’s just say that if you feel robbed about that kind of thing you should sit through all the credits too.

Ralph Breaks the Internet clears my Threshold of Awesome, and is going to be on my must-buy list when the Blu-Ray is available.

¹ Wreck-It Ralph also gives us a master class in how to unflinchingly bottom out the protagonist during that moment when they do the wrong thing by trying to do the right thing. I still cry when Ralph smashes that car.
² The comparison between this sequel and the sequel to The Incredibles is a stark³ one. With Ralph I felt like there was serious risk of Disney letting us down, but they knocked it out of the park. I felt like Disney/Pixar had an easy win with The Incredibles II, but they managed to foul out.
³ If I were the sort of person to make pop culture puns I’d say the comparison goes beyond being merely stark, and heads into the territory of Eddard Stark, but I’m not that sort of person⁴.
⁴ Because footnotes don’t count. 

2082: Mercator Projection

http://www.explainxkcd.com/2082

I don’t know about other parents, but I have found one of the most challenging aspects of having kids is not letting them know how amusing I find some of their bullshit.

Take this with a grain of salt, because my kids are young; I haven’t gotten to the part where I have to worry about them doing drugs, or dating or whatever. I guess in the grand scheme of things my challenges are pretty quaint at the moment.

But you can not laugh when they’re doing something they’re not supposed to. No matter how cute, no matter how funny, if they see you smile, that’s it. You’re done. Pack it up and go home, you’ve lost the high ground, Anakin.

My wife is better at this than I am. My maturity level is about that of our five-year-old anyway, so I laugh at the dumbest shit. And then I’ve gotten the kids going, and I’m getting the “get your shit together” look from her.

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Patreon — What they’re saying

Here are some recent comments from my Patreon backers. For a slideshow of some of the best of what I’m posting for my backers, check out this (cruelly cropped) slideshow.

“The caption is so crude.
And that’s funny!
The seasonal CDs have always been
favorites of mine.”

— M., commenting on a Christmas-themed Courting Disaster

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“This might be my
favorite commission to date!”

— M.Z., commenting on the holiday commission cruelly cropped above.

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“There are a lot of comments
that come to mind with that scene,
but “Poor Mystic Apprentice”
is nowhere on the list.
By my count, the guy deserves
a minimum of nineteen
high-fives.”

— C.D., discussing EiAD #27

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“I really hope Gadget Girl
is here to stay, she’s my new favorite.
Definitely want to see more of her.”

— S., commenting on EiAD #27

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“That one Galactus eyebrow
conveys so much emotion…
Brilliant!”

— C.R., discussing a Cape Carnival cartoon

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“She always goes for the drumstick.”

— K.Q., commenting on a Thanksgiving-themed Courting Disaster

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Alternate ways to read Evil Inc

There are as many ways to read Evil Inc as there are places to read it. Of course, you can always catch the comic in half-page installments here on the main site. And that’s the only place to find the complete archive.

PHONE-FRIENDLY

• If you read Evil Inc on a smartphone, check out my mirror site on Webtoons where my comic is formatted especially for thumbscrolling!
• I also post the comic in a panel-by-panel sweep on my Instagram page.
• And I’ve started posting it under the #evilinc tag on Imgur.
• I’ll even post it sporadically on Reddit.
• And Evil Inc is always available on the Comic Chameleon app.

SOCIAL MEDIA

I usually post the half-page updates on my Twitter and on the Facebook Fan Page for Evil Inc. (Be sure to “like” the FB page, otherwise, you may not see the updates when I post them.)

FULL-PAGE VERSION

Of course, if you want to read Evil Inc in the full-page format that it will eventually become when it’s printed, you can subscribe to my Patreon for as little as $1/month and get access to that before anyone else.

eBOOKS and eCOMICS

The Evil Inc stories are collected into eBooks and eComics on ComiXology, DriveThruComics and Gumroad.

BOOKS

And the print collections are all available through Amazon.

And all of this stuff is available through my own store.