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Another new comic coming on Friday!
Happy New Year!!! Yeah I’m still here. Aside from all the problems I told you about that were conspiring to keep me from making any comics, I enjoyed the hell out of the holidays. It was the first time in years where I just shut my brain off for 2 weeks. Spent a lot of time with family, and with Elaine, and with my brother. I’m back and gearin to go though… my computer’s still doing that blue-screen b.s. but I managed to get it to boot by just ripping out one of the memory chips so I could throw today’s strip together for you. Since it’s down 2gb now, the machine’s a bit sluggish but at least it works.
My resolution for 2010 is to not stress out so much all the time about everything. So I’m not gonna flip out that it’s January and I’m still doing comics about Christmas. I hope it’s not too weird but hey, fuck it.
It ain’t news that there’s Christian themes in LOTR (though the things I mentioned in the strip are all on the secular side of Xmas); I did want an excuse to wish a happy birthday, actually, to J.R.R. Tolkien himself (January 3). I was actually invited to a party to celebrate (yeah really), but I didn’t go, because I was afraid of having TOO MUCH FUN.
I think I’m starting to confuse some of you newer folks with this alternate reality / time travel storyline. If you haven’t been following along, you can start from back here to quickly get caught up. Or go further back to when Corinna first comes back into the picture. If you couldn’t tell, my style’s evolving, consciously or not, for better or not. Hope you’re enjoying, and sorry for the growing pains.
Lastly, to repeat: NEW COMIC FRIDAY. Today’s strip was originally part of another full-pager I was hacking away at, cuz I wanted to finish all the Christmas stuff asap, but then I remembered when someone once suggested that since my full-pagers usually had a lot of jokes I could split ‘em up into smaller, faster updates. Also see above about the not stressing about Christmas thing. So here you go. See ya back here Friday…
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Schedule Say Relax
Hey everyone… sorry but I gotta slow down a bit again, if only temporarily. A lot of things are ramping up for me right now and I gotta be able to focus, or else I’ll screw all of it up. This dance probably looks familiar to you, but the difference this time is I still got plenty of comics in me, not to mention a storyline I’m dying to complete. HONEST!
You can expect new episodes “every 1-2 weeks” now… so this ain’t a hiatus, or the end. When I took breaks in the past I had doubts about the future of aLp, but not this time. aLp is gonna live on for a lot of reasons. I just need to lift the stress that my once-a-week deadline was strangling me with. Hope you guys can understand. As I said, I’m hoping this is temporary and I’ll get back to at least weekly eventually.
As usual, the best ways to catch all updates are: follow me on Twitter, join the mailing list, or become a fan of - oh sorry, “like” - the aLp Facebook page.
So as always, thanks for being super great and reading my comics… and SEE YOU NEXT WEEK!!
About this super time-travelin’ storyline
Hey, I wanted to say this about the current storyline if you haven’t heard me say it before… I KNOW IT’S TAKING FOREVER AND I’M SORRY YOU GUYS. I’m glad that most of you are enjoying it but I also know that there’s at least some of you who aren’t - maybe cuz it’s taking so long or maybe you just plain don’t like it.
I just wanted to try something new, y’know, and I’m pretty much happy with it, but still I do hate that it’s taking forever. The first problem, of course, is that I only have enough energy to do (almost) one update a week. On top of that, I’m trying not to let the jokes slip, and it’s hard to be funny and keep the story hummin’ along at the same time, with that one update a week. So, yeah, it does get to me when weeks go by and the story hasn’t budged much. But I’m trying not to let go of why you came here in the first place, which is for the yuks. I know you like the yuks.
So I’m gonna keep doin’ my best to make you all laugh and if it takes me another forever to finish telling the story I set out to tell, then sorry. I’m not gonna half-ass it cuz that’d be unfair to me and anyone invested in it. I just hope you’re diggin’ it… if you are, let me know so I don’t feel like I’m just a raving lunatic. And if you ain’t, well thanks for stickin’ with me for so long. I’ll just be here pluggin away the best I can.
THX GUYS I LUV U
Casting Call!
With the couple of Speed Dating strips I did a month ago and the print I recently re-mastered, an idea came up that I’ve been tossing around for a while… How would YOU like to star in your favorite aLp episode?
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If You See Something… Buy It
Hey, that new print that I debuted at MoCCA is now available for you at TopatoCo!
Based on this fan favorite episode, completely re-shot in super high-res and starring a real girl human (the lovely/talented/extremely dangerous Carly Monardo), this beauty is a generous 11″x17″, printed on super high quality paper and guys, it is gorgeous.
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YOU LUCKY BASTARDS
Here’s the 5 randomly selected winners of the recent contest! All of you lucky bastards will receive a copy of the new Sega/Rebellion Aliens vs. Predator video game for either the PS3 or Xbox 360, compliments of Sega:
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WIN A COPY OF AVP!
Contest time! This one’s a biggie. Sega’s given me 5 copies of the Aliens vs. Predator video game to give away - your choice of console (PS3 or Xbox 360… sorry, PC gamers)! Yo that’s a $59.99 value each.
Note: only US/Canada addresses are eligible to win the game, BUT you can still win an A<3P t-shirt if you’re not eligible. Details below.
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Jurybreak
I did get dismissed from jury duty last week after they interviewed me for 30 seconds, but after I’d sat there doing absolutely nothing for 12 hours over 2 days. I learned a lot of interesting stuff about the process from watching and listening to everything go down, and from all the folks who emailed or twittered their jury duty stories to me - thanks…
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From the dark depths of my kids’ imaginations
The scariest movie I’ve ever watched with my kids is, seriously, Finding Nemo. Yet it’s like Elaine just pulls random things from my horror movie collection for them when I’m not looking, judging from the drawings that come out of their imaginations.
The 5th picture below looked to me like some sort of H.R. Giger inspired Alien; thanks to reader Wendy for pointing out it’s a dead ringer for Onyx from Pokemon.
Happy Halloween! And let’s hope you don’t see my kids on the news tonight.
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Achievement Unlocked: 10 Years
Today is my 10th wedding anniversary with Elaine. That’s crazy.
We’re on our way down to a gorgeous place near New Hope, PA for our first ever weekend without the kids! I’ll be live-blogging the whole thing, especially during our fireside massages*.
Today it’s incredible outside so when we get there we’ll be doing some lakeside biking. I’m happy to see Elaine’s wearing her aLp t-shirt that she looks totally hot in.
Happy anniversary baby, I love you.
* No I won’t.
Hey my buddy Noah and I are starting an official aLp Killzone 2 clan, just for fun, just to find some more cool folks to frag around with. If we get enough people we’ll make clan-only rooms where we’ll blow each other’s heads up. If you can’t/don’t wanna join the clan, that’s cool; we can just be friends. All skill levels welcome. If you’re interested, leave a comment here or email me with your PSN ID, your email address, and where you’re from and you’ll get an invite.
