By way of apology for the long wait, here is a two-page epic!

Action! Adventure! Mysterious voyeuristic women in luxury cars! We’ve got it all!

…Admit it. You all just come round for the boobies.

This is what happens when a Science Villain makes a miscalculation.

I looked up a real Tesla gun to try to find more sciencey words to use, and found out the real words aren’t much different. but the are pretty cool!

And we’re back! Betcha thought that, what with all the stuff that went on, we weren’t gonna be prepared for January! Hell, it’s not every December that your artist loses part of her vision. (At least I sure hope it isn’t!) Our regularly scheduled updates will now resume. I’m sorry we didn’t have time to do any of the bonus materials we promised, although I did start a blog. It’s very pretty. I’m sorry, but you need a capital “J” in the URL because I created it stupidly and cannot fix it now.

Anyone who read Narbonic will be familiar with the concepts I’m introducing here. Narbonic is my all-time favorite Mad Science comic, one which I am trying hard to lovingly tribute to and not directly steal from, but Science Fiction is such a collective-consciousness field ever since Asimov introduced the Three Laws of Robotics and recognized that other artists would of necessity have to include them in their works. His rule was that you could freely use the concept but you had to paraphrase the wording. I feel that “Mad Science in the Real World” settings suffer the same necessity – if the “common” people lack a Perception Filter, the world swiftly becomes something dissimilar to our own.

Shaenon, if you’re reading this, please feel flattered and not angry!

Mila has a secret: She’s not very relaxed.

This ends chapter one. CttC returns 1 January 2010.

In case you haven’t noticed, Diedre is sort of a spiritual person. The enlightened mundane scientific community does not ascribe to her theory.

The enlightened mundane scientific community also frowns upon any experiment involving scattering herbs from a cauldron.

Diedre has powers.
Taylor was unavailable to film this week, so we replaced him with a life-like dummy crafted entirely of cheese. His voice-over was done by Richard Gere. Bet you didn’t know the difference!

Alright you two, break it up.

Why do I punish myself by cramming in so many words, causing myself to have to painstakingly trim and re-arrange to lead the reader’s eye across the page? Because if I didn’t, this exposition would take FOREVER. I do it for YOU.

For the record, yes the author was diagnosed with TS as a child, and no he does not randomly swear like in those “funny” movies, and neither will Jim. Both Jim and the author swear in meticulous, pointed, f#&%ing hilarious ways.

My mother has been asking me when she would show up just about since the comic first began. All things in time. I think it was worth the wait. Mila seems to agree.

An ASAP Sunday post for our loyal fans. Deepest apologies; we had to take a week off. For those of you who do not follow Holly’s blog, there was a death in her family after a long illness. Thank you all for your patience and understanding.

Yeah, incomplete maybe, but I doubt we’ll hear complaints. The best thing about writing a comic with beautiful women in it is being able to dictate when their clothing comes off.

Waaiiiiit… don’t cats hate showers? EVIL CLONE!