http://savedbyatowel.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:00:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Check it out, folks, it's some new Excellent.  Next week we'll get a glimpse of the whole Blue Guard.  I'm excited.  ARE YOU EXCITED?  Yes you are. [caption id="attachment_1195" align="aligncenter" width="150" caption="Who can name all the costumes? Is it you?"][/caption] http://savedbyatowel.com/2009/01/04/major-excellent-an-excellent-way-to-start-your-year/ Yes.  No matter what anyone tells you, there ARE stupid questions.  I learned this weekend they exist in a cute little product called "The Chat Pack".  The Chat Pack is a tiny deck of cards with hypothetical questions that are designed to encourage discussion and help people get to know ... http://savedbyatowel.com/2009/01/03/stupid-questions/ So here's a fun fact.  I used to do Mediocre! for the college paper as a small thrice-weekly strip.  I've been redrawing and coloring those thus far in my involvement in the Towel.  But those days are over.  This is new material.  I guess that doesn't mean it'll be any ... http://savedbyatowel.com/2009/01/02/a-wild-mediocre-appears/ So here's the lowdown on the magical shiny wristbands.  Yeah, it'll make more sense a little later.  For next week, we find out how they work and who exactly the Blue Guard is.  Stay tuned gentle reader! http://savedbyatowel.com/2008/12/28/major-excellent-see-its-like-captain-marvel-but-less-copyrighted/   All the social networking sites are spewing hatred at 20th Century Fox because they just won a ruling against the release of "Watchmen".  And I understand hating Fox.  How many franchises have they driven into the ground?   Hell, what's the last good genre movie that company even produced?  Fucking X2?  ... http://savedbyatowel.com/2008/12/27/who-wants-the-watchmen/ I wish I could drop an angry anthropomorphic Jack-o-lantern on the small children from downstairs that wake me up at eight o' clock on Saturday mornings.  That's really all the insight I can put into this one. http://savedbyatowel.com/2008/12/26/mediocre-jimmy-revisited/ I'm coasting. Didn't nab my pull yesterday (Chirstmas Eve), don't have my web comics made and together.  This is one of those things that occassionally happens when your hits lurk below four digits all too often.  It's not your fault.  You didn't do this.  Cartoonist Max Rinkel and resident scientist IgNobel have been ... http://savedbyatowel.com/2008/12/25/not-dead-yet/ http://savedbyatowel.com/2008/12/24/celebrate-the-holidays-with-animals-that-touch-themselves/ http://savedbyatowel.com/2008/12/21/drinking-is-a-way-of-ending-the-day-ernest-hemingway/ Yep, time again for Major Excellent.  This week, we see the first bits of the planet Cobalt, home of the Blue Guard and Democratic Order of Star Systems.  We also learn a bit more about what's going on and what Hank's here to do.  Next week: what the heck are ... http://savedbyatowel.com/2008/12/21/major-excellent-were-getting-closer-to-violence-now/