If you’ve already been to ianjay.net today, you’d already know that my brand-new groundbreaking webcomic series Epiphany is up! But for those who don’t (oh, woe is them! Those ignorant, misguided wastes of air!), I’m telling you right now: My brand-new groundbreaking webcomic series Epiphany is up! It’s a long-form story, to be updated Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, about a high school student named Eli who’s going through sort of a crisis of faith. It’s not like much of anything I’ve written before, but I’m really keen on it, and I hope you will be too.

Come on over and give it a look! And keep checking back for more updates, as well as news and other fun stuff from ianjay.net! (I even redesigned the look of the site, sort of. The burning dumpster was starting to wear out its welcome. Anyways, check it out!)

Okay, it’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of Troy Smith’s comic, Scandal Sheet. So I’m delighted to report the news that after a hiatus of a few months, he’s back and better than ever!

For those of you new to the scene, the comic documents the trials of Foster Hearst, reporter for the Comet what is thought to be the sleaziest rag on the market. Let’s just say that it’s so bad makes the Weekly World News look PLAUSIBLE.

What most people don’t know is that the tabloid is a front for a secret organization sworn to protect the world’s mysteries by writing about them … because if it’s in the tabloids, it can’t be true, right?

With a zany cast of characters and a great story, this four-panel comic may be simply drawn, but it has a lot of heart. And for me, the story is where it’s at.

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Monday’s featured comic is Guts!

Military and psychic rescue teams arrive too late to save Lancelot unit, who are found gruesomely dead in a mansion infested with paranormal dangers. It doesn’t take long for them to realize they’re in way over their heads…. Compelling storyline and amazingly detailed art will remind you of Hellboy and Guy Davis’s BPRD work. The black-and-white style is a treat to look at, and you should see the color pages!

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Milestones!

Nepath (sounds kind of Egyptian doesn’t it?) has a superhero community project named Heroes Unite, and on Thursday it’s reaching 50 pages! 50 pages is pretty awesome for a community comic so go have a look!

At 100 pages we have mlai’s FIGHT, which I strongly reccommend everyone check out! I’d have featured it a long time ago if we could feature fan works…

Also at 100 pages we have Times Like This by PyThomas, which will be posted on Tuesday! Congrats! Man if I had a hundred ANYthing I’d be happy…

ANOTHER comic at 100 pages (so many industrious comic-makers!) is newgirlcomic’s New Girl! These guys have made a big achievement with 100 comics, I think they deserve some people stopping by to see what they’ve got!

And one last publishing-related announcement from houseofmuses (creator of House of the Muses, among other projects)!
houseofmuses wrote:

Pride Festival 2008 Inventory Already Sold Out!

I’m making lemonade out of lemons re: the Pride Festival book selling nix. A local comic shop is selling some of my books for me AND he wants to sell for me any Prism Comics 2008 Guides I have left over from Pride, plus I’m sending out complimentary copies to the local LGBT youth groups and PFLAG in our area.
I’m at an awkward age in my book publishing process at this time. My series is growing in popularity but not hugely—I had 60 books of issues #1 and #2 to sell at Pride Festival this year but was informed on Thursday that I could not, I’d need to pay for a commercial booth. I thought, nuts to them, I need to move these books.

As of now, Saturday, I am almost sold out.

I WILL be appearing at Kentuckiana Pride Festival this year, tho, representing Prism Comics. If any of you are in the area and mention seeing this bulletin on DrunkDuck.com, I’ll have some autographed copies of House of the Muses #1 and #2 tucked under the table.

In the meantime, the fastest way to buy installments of my graphic novel miniseries is here:
House of the Muses #1
House of the Muses #2

Pam Harrison
houseofthemuses.com

I’m back from my week off, and I have some news to put up!

First off, we missed a lot of Mocca news, hopefully our resident-Mocca attendee (Hey there Wiggly!) will be filling us in on the experience.

In other news of interest, Websnark is doing a series of posts on different webcomics/authors, and they’re pretty good reads, give them a look!

Next, in Zuda news, Pray For Death has updated! In fact, it’s 4 new pages! Check it out!

Lastly, friend of the Scienteers, Nick Nitro is in a movie! I’ll just copy/paste his message here!

Hey everyone.Just a heads up that I was recently in a movie about a year or two ago, with some old friends of mine. Tami (Tamara) has made this really really really funny movie, so much so that I had to use italics. It’s called Johnny Appleweed. Yeah, you heard right.

While I’d love to tell you the plot, the trailers and websites here do the job much, much better than I ever will. Thing is, my friend needs your help. Heck, I do too. Apparently they are in a contest over at “From Here To Awesome” which will choose a winner and distribute the film.

Now, that is VERY awesome. I mean, sure, the imdb-listing is sweet, but if you could help not only me, but my friends, I would think of you as a rather swell person, dude (or dudette).

Here’s how to help: Click Here To Go To From Here To Awesome and register and just comment and vote away Click Here To Go To The You-Tube Page and Register/Login and Click/rate away!

Anyway, sorry for the lack on updates from the inbox, things should be back up to speed now!

Today’s featured comic is Surfboards and Rayguns!
Intergalactic love and war on the beaches of Hawaii… as Wizer gives free surfing lessons to blonde bombshell Kona (who is interested in more than a ‘beach bum, to his dismay), spaceships battle in the stratosphere above them. Forgive the excitable punctuation early on, because this comic looks absolutely lovely- especially the water- and has a pretty interesting story developing.

Also I’ve received a completely valid criticism that all the featured comics in the past while have all been actiony guy type comics… so I will make an effort to find girlier stuff to feature.
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Today’s featured comic is Simply Sarah!

Meet Sarah, a girl who is constantly under pressure from her family to find a boy and fall in love with him. Just one problem- she fancies girls. What’s Sarah to do? Her new friend Janey invites her out for some fun, but Sarah can hardly enjoy it as the entire time she’s wondering whether she should tell Janey how much she really likes her… unfortunately romance isn’t the only thing in her life that is difficult for Sarah.

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The comic Leo by alexhatzia has just ended, which I find very sad as I featured it two weeks ago and I thought it would be going a bit longer! However, now that you know it’s a good comic and you know it’s a complete story, I think you should definitely check it out!

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From Anubis of Blood Bound, we are told that the print version of Blood Bound Vol.2 is now available, and also that Sassy (the comic’s succubus) will soon be getting her own clothing label!

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Man-Boys! by Brett at Ed Comics, which you may have thought was on hiatus, is back now and has posted its 75th page! They’ve also recently published their first 31st strips in an ash-can comic book size, and you can purchase it at their home site!

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ReincarnatedPotato (oops, I mean Parano) tells me that Serai has just reached 50 pages! Congrats!

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Stickman and Cube by Pieguy259 has reached a big 175 comics! He says that achievement was “against insuperable odds” so I guess we better congratulate him, huh?

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And lastly, smkinoshita of Super Temps decided he was gonna interview me, which was very nice of him, but I bet he’s sorry now because I talked a lot and didn’t give up any good admin dirt. However, please visit the interview and tell smkinoshita what great questions he asked (because he did) and that his snarky comments on my answers have improved the whole thing immensely! smkinoshita interviews skoolmunkee

Eh heh he… I haven’t updated this in a while yes? SorrieSORRIE I’ve had a lot of shifts at Nooks Cranny. And then I had computer problems, and there was an INCEDENT involving a pie tin and a half pound of bacon that I don’t want to go into… Anyway it’s Scienteer report time! Hopefully I’m not fired!
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Sorry this newspost is a day late, had some all-day work stuff yesterday and couldn’t bear the idea of being on the computer….

Thursday’s featured comic is Manifestations!

Like several other great pieces of media, Manifestations starts with an awesome plane crash. Things only get more interesting from there. The creator of Devoid Of Life brings us a terrifying story of ghosts, monsters, resurrected cats, and other wild and scary things crawling around behind the back of reality (although ‘reality’ is a questionable concept, here). Smart, spellbindng, and looks amazing!

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Story of a Robot (one of my favorites, and not just ‘cos the author is a Brit) has reached 125 pages! You guys should definitely check it out!

Rival Angels (you know, the one about hot babes rasslin’) has reached the big seven five! (That’s 75 for you non-spellers). And albone has told me a bit of info that ought to get a few of you rushing to read: “We’ve seen a lot of nastiness in the ring but we’re about to see some nastiness on the outside of the ring as well. Booze never helps in these situations.” DRUNKEN CATFIGHTS awesooooome!