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Carrying the Torch I have decided that it's time to put away the torch that I once carried for you. / Well, at least until this whole arson thing blows over. / {{Also, hey, do you need a place to stay now?}}
Stupid I was with Stupid, but then Stupid wanted time to think, and now Stupid's tired of lame-ass slogans and casual abuse, and now I'm not with anyone, now I sniff the sheets for the lingering scent of Stupid, and pray for the final sleep to come and reap my weary frame. / {{Stupid could wear a shirt that...
Freedom of Speech Freedom of Speech makes assholes of us all. / [[Comment fight on YouTube]] / {{Feel free to link the culpable to this image.}}
Break Up I know that you think this is the coward's way, but it's not. / I could hide behind an email or a phone call, / but wouldn't you rather be the first / to get the Rube Goldberg break up? / [[Complex Rube Goldberg device which releases a balloon saying "I AM LEAVING YOU."]] / {{Hmmm... you aren't enjoying...
Natural I hear people saying that what we're doing to the planet isn't "natural", / And yet we're one stage in millions of years of natural process, / So it's a little proud to think of us as anything more sinister than cellphone-weilding monkeys with delusions of apocalyptic importance. / The world will not...
 
Fairy Tale Ending Somewhere in the halls of fiction, / Two unwanted children / incinerate an old lady. / Somewhere a woken beauty / marries the king who / raped her while she slept. / Somewhere the queen is / dancing in hot iron shoes / until she drops down dead. / Somewhere someone is wishing / for a "fairy tale ending," / but...
Day [[two sunset-silhouetted stick figures on a hillside underneath a tree, vaguely reminiscent of Vladimir and Estragon from Waiting for Godot]] / Stickman on Left: What day is it? / Stickman on Right: It's Today. / Isn't that Enough? / {{Thursday. It's Thursday.}}
Agnosticism [[gravestones in a graveyard; patches of snow]] / Some days it seems like agnosticism just means not knowing who to blame. / {{Have a happy weekend everyone!}}
Little Worlds - Part I [[man in black trenchcoat at night]] / Chapter One: The night does funny things inside a man. / {{This is page one of a sneak preview of my new group comic project, Little Worlds. The comic will be free online, but all merch/ad proceeds will be going to Free the Children, a charity for international...
Little Worlds - Part II <> / [[the face of an analogue clock with roman numerals, at 11:59]] / DO YOU HEAR THAT? THAT'S THE ALARM CLOCK... THAT'S THE END OF THE WORLD... / [[a person looks down, in silhouette]] / DON'T LOOK AT ME, IT'S NOT MINE. / <> / [[the red 12:00 of a standard digital alarm clock]] / I MEAN,...
 
Little Worlds - Part III Got to be careful, you spend too much time swinging from that jungle gym inside your skull and you'll slip right off the bars / [[ blurred jungle gym bars ]] / <> ... / [[ base beam, bolted down ]] / Your whole damn playground falls apart and you're giggling in a rusty sandbox / [[ more blurred bars...
Little Worlds - Part IV I hate thinking in my sleep. / I mean, we all have voices up there. But mine are jabbering, self-important pricks. / They sound too much like the world. / Me, I'm just a charming insomniac who clutches a golf club while he feigns sleep. / I'm the picture of health. / Or at least the sketch of it. / But...
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Philosophy 1000 [[university or college classroom]] / Ok, students of Philosophy 1000, you can all thank Bradley for showing us the difference between the terms "free thinker" and "pretentious douchebag." / {{Professors need to do this.}}
 
Sexuality (NSFW) The following comic deals frankly, compassionately, and (somewhat) visually with human sexuality. It's not safe for work unless you have an awesome job. / Mom, Dad, please don't read this. Please. / I am told to be embarrassed by my sexuality. / I am told that my genitals are an organ of disgrace. / But...
Days Like This [[In the foreground, a group of people stand in a cluster under a picnic shelter, and a few other people are seated at picnic tables. Farther away is a playground area, and behind that a red shed inside a white picket fence enclosure.]] / IT'S DAYS LIKE THIS, SITTING NEAR THE PARK AND LISTENING TO...
Swans [[green hills with angry looking bird]] / I want to love you and live / as swans do. / I want to walk through the / park and terrorize children. / I want to steal break / from lonely / people. / I want to poop / on lawns and attack / grandmothers. / And all the while, I want / people to watch up and say, / "They...
Vegetarians [[a cracked eggshell and spilled egg on a white background]] / When people ask me if dedicated vegetarians should eat eggs, I always say, "Yes." / I mean, how else do you cut off the meat-eaters' food supply? / {{Well, besides devouring meat-eaters.}}
Corn Maze [[man in cornfield]] / "What kind of man poops in a family corn maze?" / This line of questioning is fruitless, Your Honour. / What I would be wondering is, "What kind of family makes a corn maze so big that a man had to poop in it?" / {{A cornundrum, indeed!}}
 
Romance [[Drawing of a necklace with a heart-shaped jewel]] / I'm starting to worry that I'm living in a world that cares more about romance than it does about love. / {{RPC's one year anniversary is coming up in two-and-some weeks. Should I buy it something?}}
Skeletons [[a twenty-sided die on a D&D 3.5 Player's Handbook.]] / The skeletons in my closet take half damage from piercing weapons. / {{Gamer for life (and beyond)!}}
Good News Well, there's good news and bad news. / The good news is that a small woodland creature is lodged in your intestines. / The bad news is that I lied about the "good news." / And about the "small." / [[intestines]] / {{What we have learned from this is that I am not a good doctor and that you are not a...
Necromancy [[A pale yellow hand, spotted with some unknowable funk. The wrist is half-coated in blood, and there's a large dot of it on the back of the hand. The fingertips come to claw points and are uniformly covered in blood as well.]] / Necromancy: putting the "fun" back in "funeral." / {{The dark arts...
The End The prophets have it wrong. / The end is past and we didn't even fucking blink. / {{This, like much of the comic, isn't something I believe so much as something I believe is worth thinking about.}}
 
Font [[On an index card]] / FONT HAS RUINED CRIME / FOR THOSE RANDOM ARTISTS / WHO WERE ONLY IN IT / FOR THE CUT AND PASTE. / {{I feel sorry for the surviving old-school criminals, with their limp dollar-sign bags and their dusty craft kits.}}
Pirate's Heart [[background: mast and sail]] / Yes, the sea is wide and a pirate's heart is fearless, but this morning I will stay in bed because I am cold and wet, and your mouth is a bay full of things I know. / {{I feel arrrdently for you.}}
Heraclitus [[a hand sticks out of dung, throwing devil-horns]] / The story goes that the pre-Socratic philosopher named Heraclitus came down with a fever later in his life, and thought that the only way to cure himself was to climb into cow-dung and evaporate the damp fever from his soul. They say that's how...
Where I Come From... So where you come from it's okay to abuse people for their sexuality, and where i come from everybody celebrates / Punch A Bigot Day! / [[Rainbow fist with rainbow action lines radiating from it]] / {{The day after is "Feel Bad For Doing That, But Mostly Feel Like He/She Had It Coming" Day.}}
It's Not You, It's... I know it's sad that we're breaking up, but I want you to know... / It's not you, / It's everybody who's better looking than you. / [[Man sits on a couch with his head in his hands]] / {{It's not you, it's me not caring about you. / Happy 250 comics everybody! (Don't forget to check in on Saturday to...
 

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