The first install­ment of a ground­break­ing new series!*

Chris Onstad, cre­ator of Achewood
MEETS
Vin­cent Connare, cre­ator of pop­u­lar font Comic Sans

REF­ER­ENCE

I wonder how many times Vince has been shown that comic. My guess: a lot of times.

*State­ment makes no guar­an­tee of future installments.

pundit: A master of puns

“Did you hear about the cler­gy­man who was a jerk to every­one he met?”
“No.”
“He was a real big apsehole.”
“Oh John, you’re such a pundit.”

You know what I need? Here’s what I need.

I need someone—preferably some­one hairy and short, don’t ask me why—to break into my room every morn­ing and bound about, shout­ing “IT’S A BEAU­TI­FUL DAY, YOU’RE GOING TO DIE!” until I run scream­ing into the street. I could use that.

I had read (and very much enjoyed) Kean Soo’s Jellaby in the past, and con­se­quently was pleas­antly sur­prised to run into a col­lab­o­ra­tion of his. Those hoping to inspire neti­quette, or lack thereof, in par­tic­u­larly young young­sters, take note! Looks like we’ve finally seen the day where web­surf­ing pro­fi­ciency rivals that of the terlet.

As you might have noticed, a few weeks ago we reached one of our first big mile­stones: we fin­ished ourt­first story-​arc!

Well, I’m excited to report to you that just today we’ve reached yet another big mile­stone: tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties! (Actu­ally, I’m not so much excited as I am per­turbed and frus­trated. But you get the idea.) Yes, accord­ing to Mr. John Chouinard him­self, his spankin’ new Mac is cur­rently refus­ing to boot up.

I’m a little unclear on the specifics of the sit­u­a­tion, so maybe John will chime in with his own words. At the moment, though, it looks like we’ll have to miss tomorrow’s update. Depend­ing on how quickly this gets resolved, you might also be seeing a filler strip or two coming up. Hope­fully it won’t be too big of a prob­lem! We’ll keep you posted.

John adds: Greg speaks the truth! I don’t think the prob­lem is ultra-​serious, and I still have a few tricks to try before giving up all hope. (Anyone here know Kenobi’s holo-​extension?) What’s cer­tain for now is that Friday’s strip will be unfinished—pencils only, lads! (Chronil­log­i­cal: Unplugged! Except not at all as sat­is­fy­ing.) What I do not know is how far this prob­lem will spill into the week­end slash week slash month slash Slash. So hope­fully this’ll blow over soon, but if not—well, we’ll be sure to say so, at least!