This one hurt my heart. A lot. JB was one of my really special favorite Dinner Party Club lads - one of the only two I knighted on the patio (see Underground SSSaints comics, of which only a few are up now but the entire series has been created!) for dinner
13 turns out to be a very lucky episode!! The machine we were gifted is a SpaceTouch Cosmo - apparently you can't resell them for anything, but they retail for $120,000, so it still felt like a big win! Both the SpaceTouch machines (we also got a Solo)
What do you do when you find yourself stranded on a desert planet in a rusted out old ship with a homeless princess? Head for the nearest "wretched hive of scum and villainy", of course? Hadrian says "we totally had Jedi Master Fleeing Order 66 With Her
I did beat him (2 out of 3) at chess this time - it was the first time we had ever played against each other! Chess playing became a whole theme of our lives for a while and I bought us a little portable set at a gift shop in Arizona.
More tacos! Beaver Tacos in Beaver, UT is part of this huge rest area and gift shop experience that sells tons of swag with I ❤️ BEAVER and also a bunch of other stuff, good snacks, really cool knives I couldn't afford to blow money on, and a taco
My first Catholic specific Bible reference in a title panel! 🥳 Also, the first appearance of the "Tacos Together Theme"! While we packed food for the first week of the trip, we had been planning to restock clothing and food from our storage pod but were unable to due
The immediate prequel, Wildflower Seeds, hasn't published yet, but also touches on this issue. In the Mormon church last year, there was a church-wide study of the "Doctrine and Covenants" which is their other major scripture besides the Book of Mormon, and which contains some
Some of this newsletter stuff is fascinating - there's a callback to my original comic work of 2017-2020, and yet another big long digression into Catholic lore! Note that Hadrian's name was originally spelled Adrian - that, and changing the last name to my chosen one from
The pun here: this was both the beginning of my Library Life Era, and I have actually experimentally created a really cool medieval themed note taking app called Scriptorium (while I was playing around with AI learning that would eventually lead to the creation of WOSF as a graphic novel
My children and I (and technically their father as well), were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) from November 2023 to... That depends on the individual. We are definitely all "out" at this point, although only Hadrian and I are Catholics. My
Yes, that's kind of a pun. The whole title and indeed the whole series is based around wordplay, which I made liberal use of in the recipe newsletter I ran from March 2024 to April 2025, which I will be excerpting as the text of the comic posts.
Hadrian credits the discovery of his little secluded prayer clearing in the woods behind our house in Ohio, with literally saving his life from the depression and despair he often felt during this difficult year. Being able to get out of the house and away from its tensions and darkness,