It’s time for another installment of the infotaining Webcomics Weekly. Our weekly shop talk about making comic strips. Join Myself, Kris Straub, Dave Kellett, and Brad Guigar for just under an hour of talkin’ comics.

The big announcement in this episode is that Webcomics Weekly has a new HOTLINE. That’s right, you can now call 214-717-5487 and leave your questions, comments or tips for the Webcomics Weekly crew. If you keep it short and clever, you might hear YOUR message on the show.

show notes:

• Muppets are rad
• * We elect Brad to deliver the bad news: We don’t want to critique your webcomic.
• * We have a new hotline. Leave your question, message or tip at: 214-717-5487
• * mailbag: when you started your strip, did you know who your characters were, or did that develop along the way?
• * Brad thinks good ideas are a dime-a-dozen.
• * Reinventing your strip: starting over as you go.
• * If you start your new strip by breaking the fourth-wall, Kris will murder you.
• * PANEL FIGHT! New Readers page: important or unimportant?
• * We reveal the entire podcast was just an intervention for Kris.

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• Super Duper – Backup software for the Mac from Shirt-pocket software.
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A couple years ago, during a 24 Hour Comic Book Day event, I doodled a little unfinished piece called “Batman: My Parents are Dead.” I’ve recently received quite a number of requests to repost this short story. I’ve created a page here on the site with a nice permalink for you to bookmark and pass along or Digg or whatever.

So here is an early free Christmas gift to you PvP readers. Maybe one day I’ll finish it. Or maybe it’s better left unfinished.

We now have a black version of our Scratch Fury shirts on sale in the PvPstuff.com store. These shirts are IN STOCK and shipping immediately. We burned through most of the shipping on the charcoal grey Scratch shirt pre-orders so if you haven’t gotten yours yet, expect it very soon.

If you want to get a PvP Christmas Pack before Christmas, we can still do it if you are shipping to a US domestic address. I’m not sure I can get an International order to you before the 25th at this point. I’ll be leaving them on sale for the remainder of the week then they’re coming down.

Don’t forget that any order I ship this week will have this year’s PvP Christmas card packed inside. What a keepsake. And any order of 40 bucks or more gets a free PvP funpack. So hey, spend a little and get free keychains, stickers and magnets.