Sean Murphy

anyway now that we’ve established that we place no trust in each other, let’s get back to our dangerous undercover teamwork

Just a short sketch process. =)

Don’t worry, people who hoard billions of dollars will solve all our problems! When they feel like it! In whatever way gets the most attention!

I’m on vacation for the next week and change, watch this space for more.

Comic for Saturday July 14th, 2018 - "Ringbearer Tyler" [ view ]

On this day in 1997, Kevin was making a routine visit to the refilling station. But this station doesn't supply gasoline... [ view ]

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“Does YOUR parent lead some strange paramilitary organization?”
“…yes…?”
“Are your parents DEAD?”
“…i mean technically at this point of the story i’m not aware that both of them were dead, but…”
“Did a supervillain kill them?”
“Again, not currently aware, but yes”
“NOTHING LIKE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE”

Don’t worry, people who hoard billions of dollars will solve all our problems! When they feel like it! In whatever way gets the most attention!

I’m on vacation for the next week and change, watch this space for more.

Note: The astute reader may have noticed the similarity in the names of Commodore Thlumira and Greatmother Kathlumira. Those names have their roots in the base-12 numerology threaded throughout the original Fobott'r language. "Kathlumira" is comprised of the numbers "kath," "lum," and "mira," which are 5, 4, and 11 respectively. Lum (4) is the number of arms a Fobott'r has. Kath (5) represents the "fifth limb," which would be the head. "Mira" (11 base 10) is the last numeral before 12 (or 10 in base 12), and represents beauty or magic. "Kathlumira", then, can literally be read as "head, arms, beauty" but is more correctly interpreted to mean "Contemplating the beauty of familial embrace." 

"Thlumira" might be read as a short form for this, but the "Th" at the beginning is ambiguous. It might have come from "kath," but it might also have come from "peth", which is the number of legs a Fobott'r has, and which implies movement; maybe running, maybe running away. Context is everything.

Most Fobott'r speak Galstandard West, though, so while names like "Magala" and "Pethmatoko" might have originally meant "The power of secrets" and "stride with power into battle," to the modern, cosmopolitan Fobott'r they're just collections of syllables which sound nice and traditional.

Except for the name "Kathlumira." A Fobott'r like Peri will hear that name in much the same way that a 20th-century Italian grandmother would hear the phrase "The Pope is coming to dinner." 

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Aaaaand… /issue.

As anxious as I am to continue this story right this second, I need to take a break and do some other stuff. I promise though, I will try to not let this be the only issue of Starcaster we do this year.

I ran a poll, and based on the results I do believe we have the support to move Starcaster to a Patreon campaign and get the issues out faster, but I’m not going to rush into that just yet. I’m currently working on the first Starcaster book collecting issues #1-5, and I would kind of like to see how that does before making a decision.

I mentioned this last week, but we are on last call for Australians/New Zealanders to grab one of the CAD 1.0 Box Sets from the Australian warehouse. Next week I’m going to see about possibly moving those books to somewhere in Europe to offer to UK/European customers a better shipping rate.

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Comic for Friday July 13th, 2018 - "Pit stop wedding" [ view ]

On this day in 1998, the Dewclaws received a letter from their insurance company stating that they are being denied coverage... [ view ]

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