I really wasn't happy with Conrad's exclamation in Monday's strip -- the bold type today nails it a lot better I think. 

Today's strip is based on me, last week, pouring through old notebooks looking for ideas for strips. Occasionally something will happen in life and I'll say "dag, I gotta write that down. That's going into the comic someday." This happens quite a lot, and dates back a year now. So please believe me when I say I have no idea what happened to cause me to write down the words "Newton has a client who is a stalker..." but we're going there anyway.

I hope everyone enjoyed the tribute to the spookiest of holidays, and my selfish homage to The Spooky Old Tree. The Halloween Spectacular started off as a Clue-like murder mystery, and at another point (during the plotting stage) everyone was going to start getting murdered with various supporting characters from the strip popping up. In the end, I'm really happy with the way it went down, and the last panel of this eight-parter is one of my favorites I've ever drawn.

1PT.Rule will be back to it's regular, non-Halloween schedule on Wednesday. I need a little time off after this endeavor to refresh (and wrap up a children's book).

Looks like we're going to get a Saturday, proper Halloween episode after all! Be sure to tune in tomorrow -- SATURDAY -- for the exciting conclusion!

Boo!

The Meat Puppets poster by the good fellows at Aesthetic Apparatus has long been a source of the feelings of both love and hate within my peer group. Basically it's a poster-child (no pun intended!) for meaningless, clip-art driven design, and yet you can't deny the thing is a beauty, and it kinda looks like the mask is made out of hamburger. So that's hot. So for me I have days that go one way and days that go another, but I'll bet you never knew what he looked like beneath that mask. As the piece that I can most directly tie to the resurgence of the gig poster as an art form, I have no trouble putting it along side the other works in this story, that's for sure.