So it’s no secret that I’m a Star Wars fan. In fact, I’m attending Star Wars in Concert tomorrow! I also came across a fun little thingie pertaining to the 30th anniversary of Empire Strikes Back (did you forget to celebrate last week?) and thought I’d share it here. It features me and the 3 other oldest siblings in my family. Enjoy!
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe…
…has nothing to do with our comic. But I recently read ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’, so it was on my mind.
Which is where everything is these days. And noticeably, when everything’s in my mind, it’s not on paper, let alone a website, let alone this website.
Needless to say, our intrepid adventurers have encountered some unexpected delays. I won’t bore you with the details, but I’m pretty sure that our non-comic efforts in recent days have at least saved thousands of lives, if not the world.
No, go along with me here. You see, Cannon and I have been spending considerable time on what we call our families and careers. If you take our work of improving our posterity and project it out several hundred years, you’ll quickly reach thousands of lives. And voila! Thousands of lives saved.
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I’m exhausted. I’m going to bed. Cannon’s on vacation, I’m going on vacation next week; we haven’t given up, though! Look for comics in the near future!!
Thoroughly thrashed,
Dave Omer
So I keep an eye on Google Analytics. I’m an Engineer. I do that. Numbers are interesting to me.
And those numbers tell me that a good number of you are new! And my intuition tells me that a good number of you are lost.
Well, don’t rely on the Cast page. That’s out of date (update coming soon, people! I’m excited about the new design…)
Maybe you’re looking for a storyline guide on the left? Well, no such luck. Really, we’ve been in and out of the same storyline for over a year now.
Which reminds me: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!! WOOOOHOOOOO!!
Back to the point: let me sum up.
The bear you see is Matilda. She’s not form around here, and some say she’s not so likeable. BP Bear and Pacsil Penguin are best buds and have been around the zoo for a long time. They’re nerds, but not always of the same flavor. Buc is our paranoid-delusional French Duck with bad timing, and Peter Panther rarely misses a chance to antagonize.
And if you survived those links, you deserve a bonus! Click here for the bonus!
Finally, some of my favorite strips are here, here, here, here, here and here (there’s a nice wallpaper version of that last one, if you ask nicely).
So sit back, read our archives, and enjoy! We hope to see you around the zoo.
-Dave
Dearest Reader,
We feel that the comic we have posted for Wednesday the 24th of February requires some slight explanation. For some time now we have been advertising a change coming to Animal Ward. The original plan was to post small single panel strips, in the tradition of Far Side, twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We were going to call them T-shorts. These strips are drawn, without scripts, by Cannon, with the words filled in later by either of us. While this would be fun, due to some major life changes, we can’t commit to this course of action. What Cannon will commit to is putting them up randomly, whenever he feels like it, which may or may not be very often. Consider them random extras for showing up.
So why is this one posted on Wednesday? Well, we really wanted to share them with you. And the perfect time came up. Truth be told, things have been shaken up in both the writer’s and the artist’s world. Dave just got a new assignment in his church. Which I think is awesome, he gets to work with the young men, and who better to do that than Dave? The initial setup for his assignment is taking a lot of extra work and thought. Keep chugging Dave.
Cannon has a couple things going on. For one, he has another comic which is has a much larger time footprint than does this one. Check it out here. It updates once a week. Also, well, lets just say there is more going on than that. More on that subject later.
We love bringing this comic to you, and we’re excited about the upcoming story line, including a very secretive and exciting new character reveal.
No, it’s not a unicorn.
Later,
Cannon
So props to Cannon for the comic today. I personally have been both swamped at work and stymied when trying to write the next few scripts. Cannon waited patiently for me, but 10:30 PM last night was just too late for me to hand off a script.
Props also must go to my wife who helped me break through my writing block. I’m excited again about where this is going!
So while you all wait in anticipation, I’d like to share a recent comic: Wondermark by Malki. I’ve never linked him before because some of his stuff is a bit odd or betimes offensive, but this one make me absolutely crack up. Enjoy!
