I always thought 258 was too good for 257, but what do I know?
Posts authored by Merlin
8.5. The Shunt
So somehow I accidentally ended up giving last week’s strip the title “A Good Purging” even though that’s actually a line of dialogue from this week. Oops!
8.4. A Good Purging
I’m really trying to hit my “making up space names” quota with this chapter.
8.3. Cow Catches Hare
A big thank you to my wife for introducing me to this enjoyably odd dutch saying.
8.2. Worst By Default
But evil doppelgangers have to have little evil mustaches, right? Otherwise things could get really confusing.
8.1. Worst Jobs
Chapter 8 begins! And it looks like X-2 needs to have a little word with… X-2? Hmmz!
7.8. An Excellent Pachyderm
Hmm… that giant robotic elephants sure looks a little familiar…
7.7. The Unknown Answer
Can you spot the three differences in the ship design between panel 2 and 4? (I drew it, and still have difficulty spotting the most subtle one).
7.6. Potentially Also Dark
“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.
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…