Tyler Martin is updating his comic strip Wally and Osborne again. It’s been on hiatus for a while as Tyler adjusted his schedule to fit in having a baby and moving his family up to the mountains. Both are noble endeavors and worthy of trumping webcomics work. But Tyler is back and at the drawing tablet again, so check out his wonderful comic.

Wally and Osborne resides over at Lunchboxfunnies.com. Be sure to check out all the other wonderful all-ages webcomics over at that website. It’s all well worth your time.

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.

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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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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.