This comic ended up being a rather curious echo of the Guilded Age installment that ran before it. Variation on our usual defeat-the-rich theme, and it also explains why E-Merl is so inclined to think of himself as still impoverished even despite his high-profile […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Um, happy new year? Quick announcement: I’ve written my annual Year In Crosswords feature for the wordplay-obsessed. As others pointed out, this was a bit of a counterpoint to Goblaurence’s actual “war is life” speech from what would’ve been about […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I knew that this feature was answering questions entirely submitted from real readers (with one or two loopholes), but I wasn’t sure at first that Frigg was really getting as much horny-on-main mail as the last couple of strips have […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Frigg is the second character I’ve written who had this weapon of choice: the first, Katherine of Fans, was a far more conflicted character, prone to second-guessing herself after some early moral lapses. But her time with the Society for Creative Anachronism […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This has got to be at or near the top of the ranked list of “pages Phil was more qualified to write about than T.” In the intervening years, I’ve learned a few things about marijuana strains, just enough to appreciate how […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
