Guest Week 2013 – Mike Ellis!
HAWM, Guildies! Guest Week 2013 begins today and runs all through next week! Our first entry comes from Philly local, fellow fantasy comic creator, and returning guest strip provider, Mike Ellis of Pieces of Eight!
We love the Hell out of this one, and frankly: I’m completely flummoxed that this is somehow the only guest submission we received this year that involved Cyclops in any way, shape, or form. So he automatically gets a million billions for that right there. Thanks, Mike!
It’s truly testament to your skill as an artist that you’re able to realize such a wide range of moods and expressions!
Ya know, from the nose up, he does look like Bowie!
Do the Sceagal with me!
You forgot Solid Scorpion.
Sometime, I do wonder if Scorpio isn’t in fact a parasitic cigar that is using some human as host.
Would explain so much
So the “relapsing” expression isn’t him smoking a ton of cigars, it’s a parasitic cigar orgy?
I’ve been meaning to ask this for a while: what the hell does HAWM mean?
Hammering Attention Whores Month ? :p
Or maybe Have a Wonderful Morning, maybe ? Would fit. But really, don’t know myself. ^^;
That would be, most likely, “Hail, And Well Met”. Just a guess :)
Eh… we’ve been at this four years now. I’ll finally come out and say it. It’s sort of an inside joke with me and a few others, but if I’m going to keep using it, I should explain it.
Wild Gryphon is correct.
HAWM was an acronym I coined back in my WoW days that obviously has not seen a lot of traction.
Maybe it’s just me, but “HAWM!” also sounds like “wham!” or “da[y]mn!”. Like some enthusiastic way of greeting one’s favorite homies.
Using a single syllable, that is. Maybe my imagination is being too colorful but I imagine Phil throwing up an arm for a high-five and shouting “HAWM!” whenever he bumps into a friend. It only occured to me vaguely once that it might be an acronym a greeting he uses. So Phil, do you actually greet people by jumping up and shouting “HAWM!” the way it sounds in my head?
Thanks for the explanation! It was driving me crazy.
Probably you mean us HAWM.
It seems you’re not so short on… charm.
Eh, I’m no Fezzik
Ahh, yes. I’ve been binge rereading to refresh myself on the story before catching up on stuff I’ve missed and was wondering about HAWM myself.
I don’t remember if I ever knew, but yesterday my brain said “Hail, and well met!”
I’m glad brain greeted me correctly.
HAWM
Help another weathered minion.
Still more emotional range than Kirsten Stewart…
More colour as well
I was very glad to see this wasn’t one of the typical Copy & Paste versions of this gag. Kudos on the original jokes!
I don’t know why, but the exhausted cigar was my favorite.
… Batman needs to start smoking cigars now. It just looks so RIGHT.
And Sciggy plaaaaayed… Guiiiitaaar!!!!!
Damn it, let me try that again:
And Sciggy plaaaaayed… Ciiiigaaaar!!!!!
This is the best thing ever.
Scippy the Pinhead. Insciption. Escipade. Scipendous.
I think you really captured Scipio’s moods, but who in the heck is that guy on the third row, first column?