October 31st, 2017 (From left to right the costumes are: Cam as Malcolm Reynolds from ‘Firefly’, Dan as Bill Foster/’D-Fens’ from ‘Falling Down’, Ash as Gordon Freeman from the ‘Half-Life’ games, Pete as Jon Snow from ‘Game of Thrones’, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nerd By Northwest
October 27th, 2017 This strip is dedicated to all the hours of my life forever lost playing ‘Kerbal Space Program’ Cartoonist’s Commentary: I have a handful of friends that are pretty serious gamers, but generally speaking they have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
October 20th, 2017 Cartoonist’s Commentary: As someone with a degree in aerospace engineering but whose “engineering” jobs after college involved more IT work and paperwork and not enough engineering, Kerbal Space Program was a godsend. Even though it’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
October 13th, 2017 Cartoonist’s Commentary: Jen’s attitude and response here is patterned after an old girlfriend of mine who, as wonderful as she was, never missed a chance to complain when my friends and I had a LAN[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
October 6th, 2017 Cartoonist’s Commentary: This is actually one of my first webcomics where I used my paint program to do the shading on the furniture and the characters’ hair and clothes instead of using pencil. While there is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
September 29th, 2017
September 22nd, 2017 (This comic is dedicated to the American public school system… stifling independent thought and creativity since… err… um… I don’t remember. Is this going to be on the test? 😉 ) Cartoonist’s Commentary: I happen[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
September 15th, 2017 Cartoonist’s Commentary: Yet another reference to the Iceland-UK “Cod Wars” by Ash’s father. I’ve been fascinated for a long time about how Iceland has such a minimal military presence… just a small Coast Guard and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
September 8th, 2017 Cartoonist’s Commentary: The reference to the British frigate by Ash’s father refers to the third “Cod War” back in the mid-1970’s, the last in a series of sort-of-militarized disputes over fishing territory near Iceland. They[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
September 1st, 2017 Cartoonist’s Commentary: This strip contains the first appearance of Ash’s father, Einar Magnusson. He’s a hard-drinking, skirt-chasing fisherman who emigrated from Iceland. He also, for better or worse, happens to be Cam’s idol. When I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…