“Untold Tales of Tachelock: The Drum Kit Years” coming to a website near you soon. Also: 50th strip! Woooooo! Also Also! Check out this post for news of my contribution to the recently published book, Key Terms in Comic Studies.
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Key Terms in Comic Studies
Happy 2022 everybody! This is just a quick February update to point everyone in the direction of the recently published Key Terms in Comic Studies from Palgrave Macmillan. The book aims to provide “a glossary of over 300 terms and critical concepts currently used in the Anglophone academic study of comics.” And four of those terms have entries written by yours truly. So if you want to learn the (comic academic-related) meaning of the terms “architecture,” “game,” “hybrid” and “sound” then now you know exactly the place to look.
Not much else to report at present, although I’m currently slowly working away on some new print comic projects that will hopefully see the light of day eventually. And in the meantime, Solid Metal Override continues it’s weird robotic journey at E-merl and Webtoon. This week will even be the 50th episode! How time flies when you’re a bunch of robotic rejects stuck in a bar on a run-down intergalactic space station…
7.5. Dark and Mysterious
Yeah… but… I mean… you actually kind of do…
7.4. Separate Configurations
I look forward to the day I can get installed in a new chassis. Preferably something with laser guns and a built in jacuzzi.
7.3. All Squeamish
Tachelock apparently speaks from unfortunate experience on this topic.
7.2. Nightmare Fuel
To be honest, even the upkeep on non-retractable epidermis layers can be pretty annoying sometimes.
7.1. Consider The Alternatives
Happy New Year everyone! And look, events have conspired to arrange the start of a new chapter to ring in the new year. Neat!
6.9. A Bold New Day
And as a new day dawns, chapter six concludes. Join us next week for what I’m boldly predicting to be both a new chapter (likely number seven) and a new year (I’m thinking probably 2022).
6.8. The Spirit Of Compromise
Yay compromise! It’s a Christmas Miracle!
6.7. Flawed Assumptions
Disclaimer: opinions expressed by members of the cast as to the relative badassness of the word “pentad” are not necessarily those held by the author.