STORE NEWS: The “Riker?” Shirt will be available for a limited time (until Feb 20th) and 5 other HE shirts are being retired for the foreseeable future and are on sale now for $18. More info in THIS BLOG POST.

Every year at Super Bowl time (they do have one every year, right?), I get this feeling like I could go on a looting rampage and no one would notice because the entire country is engrossed in a shared experience that I just dont comprehend. I’m not going to rail against football or sports in general here, because I’m sure most of you have at least a passing interest in an organized sportsmanship match… game, and I have no interest in alienating you all at once with my crotchety ramblin’s. (more…)

• Twas The Night… (Guest Comic by Tindómiel Muinamir)
• Pride and BRAAAINS!
• Jonathan Coulton: Zombie Fighting Troubadour pt. 2 (Extinction)

Riker? I Hardly Know Her! T-Shirt

Also I’m cleaning house in the HE Store, so until Feb 20th these 5 shirt designs will be on sale for $18 then retired for the foreseeable future. You can probably find a 15% discount code if you check out my Twitterfeed. (more…)

• Team Edward [James Olmos] Shirts Are Now In The HE Store
• New T-Shirts + 1 Year Experimentversary
• T-Shirt Presale Ends 11/30/07

… and the law won.

HEY! How about buying a HijiNKS ENSUE book? Check my Twitter Feed for 15% discount coupons to the HE Store.

If a book ain’t your style but you want to support the comic, maybe make a small donation why not?

Fringe (who’s midseason finale last night inspired this comic) is the best scifi television program being produced on TV right now (unless you count that show about the super religious people with cloning facility). From writing to casting to FX this show is nearly perfect… other than the fact that is has one of the most compelling main plot lines of the last decade which it almost NEVER explores in any fashion. (more…)

• A Severe Case Of Scullyosis
• A Phenomenon Known As “J.J. Vu”
• Why a Wiimote cousin? Why not an axe?

Alternate Titles:
A Parliaments Song, A Arsenal Stomping, A Palates Mornings, A Granola Misspent, A Plasma Nitrogens, As Pinata Mongrels, A Genial Sportsman, Again Smelts A Porn, Lasagna Smite Porn

If you want to buy a HijiNKS ENSUE book, now would be a great time… because I haven’t really sold any since Xmas… and it’s starting to get worrisome over here. HAPPY STUFF! PONIES! ICE CREAMS! YAY!

If you don’t want to buy a book or make a small donation to help support the continuation of the comic, how about following me on Twitter? That’s all kinds of free and super satisfying. (more…)

• Somebody Set Up Us The Bomb
• No place I’d rather be
• Hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home

“Farewell concession stand nachos, for in my belly, you will find a new definition of pain and suffering as you are slowly digested over a thousand years.”

Dallas Comic Con was a blast! I met a bunch of local Fancy Bastards and hopefully brought a few more into the fold. Josh, Eli and Alex stopped buy on Saturday to help man the booth and make fun of people in poorly constructed costumes.

When the average geek sees a really well crafted comic-con costume, like a Hawkgirl with a hand stitched leather mask and real feathers in her fully articulated wings, they will usually respond with reverence and appreciation for the fine craftsmanship. Perhaps in the same way normal people would regard a hand made credenza or a stupid boat or something. The person wearing the quality costume gets a free pass to play dress up in public and not only get away with it, but get respect for it.

However when the average geeks sees a shitty costume (I’m talking duct tape, kitchen gloves, rough cut, poorly stitched fabric, off the shelf plastic Darth Vader helmets with built in voice changers, etc), the admiration plummets to complete revulsion. All of a sudden you aren’t just critiquing the poor handy work, but you’re making snap judgments as to whether or not the offending cosplayer really deserves to be sucking down as much oxygen as he is. I mean that’s perfectly good air that us decent, functional people could be enjoying.

I think it’s a bit of a double standard but the geek world is laden with hypocrisy. I say of the gentle cosplayer, never ever pity them. For they are the bravest geeks of us all.

[I feel like we covered this subject in depth a while back on an HE Podcast but I can't remember which one]

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• Leeloo Dallas Multipass
• There Are FOUR Jack-O’-Lanterns!
• The Tigh’s That Blind

I’ll be at Dallas Comic Con this weekend [Saturday and Sunday]. Come say hi!

At least for now, if you click HERE you will see a video regarding the Apple iPad that begins with a quote of outstanding douchery [captured nearly verbatim in panel 1 above]. Apple loyalist though I may be, I admit they are not above criticism. And to suggest that “we don’t know how computers work so they must be magical” fails to impress me on two accounts. A) I know how computers work… EVERYONE except my mom knows how computers work, and 2) even people that don’t know exactly how computers work don’t think they are magical like phoenix tears.

I do not see a demonstration of “pinch to zoom” multitouch and immediately avert my eyes from the iPad as not to offend it’s heavenly gaze. I do not slaughter a goat as to make a sacrificial offering to the iPad that it may smile upon my crops in the coming season or bless my family with many strong sons and beautiful daughters (for selling to rich village land owners). Nor to a steal off into the night and paint myself with the goats blood, dance around a bonfire and chew the hallucinogenic leaves of an indigenous shrub in order to work myself up into a trance-like frenzy in hopes of better knowing the will of the iPad. Those are the actions of someone who looks at the unknown and interprets it as magic. C’Mon Apple. That was just dumb.

• Numfar! Do The Dance of Joy
• Think Different, but not Secret.
• The Macbook Air is pretty and dumb

I’ll be at Dallas Comic Con this weekend. Come say hi!

Alternate Title: The Slate of The Union Address
2nd Alternate Title: His Name Is Lancelot, He Like To Prance A Lot

Oh, Steve. You had me at “we are not currently developing a tablet.”

Seems like the new Apple iPad would be fun to travel with. Can’t see much use for it around the house when it really isn’t much smaller than my laptop, but I haven’t laid hands on it yet (which is typically when an Apple product grabs hold of your soul and doesn’t let go). I imagine the UI is crazy fun to play with and developers are going to have a blast coming up with new ways to utilize it. The entry level price point of $499 is also quite tasty, considering the first iPod cost that much. (more…)

• There’s The Flashing Magic Screen
• Think Different, but not Secret.
• The Macbook Air is pretty and dumb

“God damn it, Wesley.”

I’ll be at Dallas Comic Con this weekend. Come say hi!

I wrote this comic after viewing the Star Trek TNG episode “The Icarus Factor.” In it, Wesley Crusher throws Worf a surprise Klingon birthday party on the Holodeck, complete with a Painstick Pinnata. Also Riker worked out his daddy issues by beating the crap out of his old man American Gladiators style. What does this have to do with anything? Nothing. I just like making comics about Star Trek.

The actual comic inspiration came from the fact that Wesley clearly didn’t realize that everyone on the ship was punking him when they encouraged him to sneak around and try to plan Worf’s K’Plahmitzvah. (more…)

• Solid Gone
• Why a Wiimote cousin? Why not an axe?
• Who’s On Eleventh?

“I hope you fucking choke to death on it.”

I guess we can all shave off our strike-pompadours [you did grow yours right?] now that Conan has reached an agreement with NBC for an exit strategy. His final show is tonight and I urge you all to watch it live as it airs (no DVR’s) to make this the highest rated episode of The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien ever. It’s hard to feel bad for a guy that’s going to pocket almost $34 million for NOT working (he must have got that book about free government money from the guy in the question mark suit), but it isn’t hard to see that he wanted the show and not the payout. (more…)

• Punny Or Die
• K.I.T.T. stands for “Knight rider is reTurning unforTunately “
• In The Year 2000 In A Galaxy Far, Far Away

Two furries enter, one furry yiffs. Then the rest of the furries dry hump all over the Banquet Hall at the Ramada Inn.

I just can’t stop thinking about thunderous domes! There is a new Mad Max in the works and it is called FuRy Road, and it may or may not involve human actors which might possibly have been cast (or not cast at all) according to hearsay and rumors. Those are the facts. (more…)

• The Down Underdome
• You’re A Daybreaker, Dream Maker, Love Taker
• Why Do You Cry?