Always Google your Super-Villains. I bet that’s sound advice that Brad would have given me had I asked.

This morning I woke up to a couple emails lauding me for putting a Kevin Smith reference in today’s comic. My initial response was “What Kevin Smith reference?” followed up by a Google search and an immediate “Oh CRAP!”

Originally, this strip had a villain named Onomatopoeia in it. A man in a skin-tight black suit with a big “O” on his face that spouted out comic book words like “BAM! POW! BIFF!” Turns out this is a brilliant idea. Kevin Smith came up with it years ago on his Green Arrow run. Even had the same big “O” on his face. Blerg!

That’s a bit embarrassing, isn’t it? If I had known about the character, I could properly and legally made a fanboyish reference to him in some dialogue instead of stealing him outright (albeit unintentionally). Maybe I could have had Monsieur Rongeur say something like “He’s already defeated The Onomatopoeia” or something. Stupid.

Anyway, that’s why the strip was altered. I replaced the Onomatopoeia with The Palindrome. If there turns out to be a villain called the Palindrome with two big “Ps” on his face let me know and I’ll change the strip again and replace him with “The Evilliteration. Kris helped me brainstorm the other day to come up with a bunch of throw away villains. Surely ONE of our ideas is original.

I guess we need to pick up those Green Arrow trades.


New Stuff
— November 20th, 2009

First I want to thank everyone for their very kind and humbling words regarding the last week of strips. It’s so exciting to discover that after 11 years, I can still create something that surprises my readers. And I can’t tell you how exciting it is to still have new things to discover about my work, and these characters, after over a decade of working with them.

Many of you have asked if I would be willing to offer “The Incident” as a print, containing the entire story. I talked to my partners at Amplifier earlier in the week and they’ve already set things up for me. A beautiful, high-quality print of “The Incident” is available in thePvPstuff.com store. The print measures 11×17, is printed in full, vibrant color, is suitable for framing and mailed flat.

It also behooves me to bring to your attention that we’ve added some new laptop skins to the store. In fact we have a brand new SKINS section featuring laptop skins that you can apply, remove and reapply with ease for both the Mac and the PC. Two of these feature the amazing artwork of the official PvP intern (only known by the mysterious name CubeWatermelon). Take a look.



We’ve also added a new laptop skins for all you Brent-Sienna-like-mac-snobs who want the entire coffee shop to know you’ve got more important things to worry about than them. Available in both white and black to suit your macbook needs.





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