This trip has been intense. It started with some strong bonding between myself and my brother from another mother, Strauby, followed quickly by the most prosperous Emerald City Comicon I’ve ever attended. That show was nuts. We had so much fun it seemed wrong. Then I wrapped the trip up with a couple of intense work-days in my soon to be new home-base, the Penny-Arcade offices.

Looking ahead at the next month and a half is terrifying. Pax East, C2E2, packing, working on a million things professionally and the prospect of moving away not just from my home of the last 25 years, but my wife and family. I’m moving up ahead of Angela by a couple months. I suspect there will be many weekend fly-ups, but it’s still one of those things. Being an adult means making sacrifices to get what you want or need. It’s not always easy, but nothing worth having is I guess.

I’m glad you guys are along for the ride, and I’m also grateful for your support. It used to be that if the strip was late by even an hour I was pelted by angry emails of entitlement. These days most of you are demanding I take days off on my birthday and patting me on the back even when the strip is hours late. It’s not gone unnoticed.

Thanks for another great visit, Seattle. You’re always so kind to me. I’m looking forward to calling you home.

Anddd…thanks to modern technology and 24 hour print shops, I can do it. So I whipped up a Seattle, based moment with Skull for MY special print. You can pick one up at my booth this weekend. YAY!

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You’ll be able to find me in booth #102 with the rest of my peeps from Webcomics Weekly. Dave, Brad and Kris and I will be forming the webcomics quad-squad. So come by and see us.

In addition to all six PvP collections, the PvP Awesomology and hopefully enough plushes to meet demands on both days, I’ll be doing sketches for a small fee. I’m bringing colored pencils and bristol board. We’re going old-school with the sketches.

I’ll also be debuting the latest PvP collection AT THE SHOW. Yes, the ECCC will be the first place you can buy PvP book 7. So those of you attending get to see it first. That’s how much I love my Seattle bound fans.

Please come to the show. It’s one of the best all year, and the guest line-up is insane for 2010. Essentially, all of comics is coming. If a meteor struck the Seattle Convention Center this weekend, comics would end. That’s how many people are going to be there.

So come out…and…die with us….if a meteor hits.

(nobody will die this weekend)

The iTunes transaction log ain’t no walk in the park neither.

Can you believe that E.W. Scripps is actually looking at the possibility of selling off the licensing branch of the United Media Syndicate? That includes the licensing rights to Peanuts, Dilbert and their entire stable of syndicated features.

End times my friends. End times. And you helped by reading this.

Shame on you.