May 19th, 2017 (This strip is dedicated to all the potentially productive hours that were sacrificed in the name of ridiculous WoW quests…) Cartoonist’s Commentary: I played World of Warcraft (or ‘WoW’ for you non-gamers) for short periods[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
May 12th, 2017 Cartoonist’s Commentary: Sometimes the unlikeliest characters resisted the Sectoids’ psi-attacks; just thought it would be fun to speculate as to why.
May 5th, 2017 (Hat Tip to ‘Doctor X’!) Cartoonist’s Commentary: This is yet another idea I can attribute to my friend ‘Doctor X’. This was based on his XCOM credo that dated back to the original XCOM games of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
April 28th, 2017 Cartoonist’s Commentary: The first appearance of Heinlein, Cam’s dog. Although I grew up with Basset Hounds and am better at drawing them than most other dogs, certain other cartoonists feature Bassets so prominently (a pox[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
April 21st, 2017 Cartoonist’s Commentary: Enter the rest of the group. Like some gamers I would sometimes name new rookies with names of friends or other people I know, and often having the strangest choice in combat classes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
April 14th, 2017 Cartoonist’s Commentary: The idea of Ving Rhames joining XCOM gives me goosebumps. Even though he’d be in his 70’s in 2035, I bet he’d STILL be a bad-ass.
April 7th, 2017 Cartoonist’s Commentary: This is based on an actual event and coworker during my short stint in Geek Squad. The clip-on ties were standard issue at the time, and to my knowledge I was one of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
March 31st, 2017 Cartoonist’s Commentary: Some may wonder how Ash would have become the Commander. Basically the timeline diverged about a year or so back from the point of the start of the Nerd By Northwest comic strips, where[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
March 24th, 2017 Cartoonist’s Commentary: Some might wonder why I chose Ash as the Commander. To be honest, it’s because for the other four characters I already had a rough idea of what combat classes they’d be put[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
March 17th, 2017 Cartoonist’s Commentary: This is a not-so veiled reference to a recent scandal where the head of a defense contracting company (going by the name of “Fat Leonard” of all things) was found to not only[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…