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…
March 10th, 2017 Cartoonist’s Commentary: Yeah it’s fashionable to poke fun at Zima and I’m obviously not above that. But at the risk of confirming my total lack of cool to the public, to tell the truth I was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
March 6th, 2017 (Hat Tip to ‘Doctor X’!) Cartoonist’s Commentary: Cam’s complaint about new versions of D&D are taken almost word for word from one of my friends who goes by the handle of “Doctor X”. Personally I thought he[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
March 3rd, 2017 Cartoonist’s Commentary: This is the very first NBNW strip that I drew back in early 2016, at a time and a job where I could feel my creativity and soul withering away. I was stuck spending[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…