So I was IM’ing with my friend in the land down under, and I’m totally freaked out by the fact that he is like 18 hours ahead of me.
At first I was jealous, cuz he gets to see tomorrow before I do. But then I realized, I get to do everything else before he does.
Think about it, if we were just talking on the phone, and we were to randomly discover some strange international conspiracy, and the government were to send an electric shock through the phone and kill us simultaneously, I would actually die almost a full day before he would. If he died on a Wednesday, I would die on Tuesday.
Which means I would have discovered the conspiracy before him.
Truth IS stranger than fiction.
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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!
Things you ought to know.
Cannon (me) has been posting the comics lately, which is why you get less of the witty post coolness from Dave. The problem is, that he usually does so early in the morning.
Cannon is not a morning person. In fact, he is not allowed to talk to people before 11 a.m. , in fact, he probably shouldn’t be typing this. (I.M. is fine, don’t expect a response though.) Expect all communication before 11 a.m. to be short, concise, and don’t be offended if it is slightly abrasive.
After 11 a.m. , Cannon is a happy cheery person who is pleasant and wonderful to be with (if I do say so myself.)
that said.
You may have noticed the completed slackerism on the part of your comic creators since the post-thanksgiving technical difficulties. I blame Turkey, the animal, not the country. It seems that Dave and me have both been affected by the post holiday slur. That strange inability to find drive and desire to do any kind of work, even the kind we enjoy, after a lengthy bit of time off.
We have, however, met recently, together, face to face, I think we even shook hands, which means there was actual human contact, in an actual physical location. And we decided to fight the turkey, and redouble our efforts. But since four times blah is really only blah.193 (we have decided to irratioimaginumerals to represent intangible feelings(F), motivations(m3h), wishes(p0nee), etc.) We’ve come to the conclusion that we’d be better off dividing by less than zero.
Therefore, I would like to announce, that the thing you’ve all been waiting for is close at hand. I’m thinking soon. No like, soon. Really soon. As in, we just need to schedule the launch party soon.
Different announcement! Cannon’s “other” project is scheduled to be up and running at Starmada Comics on or about the time of Valentines Day. But we’ve been running some exciting pre-launch content, so go check it out. Or Else.
Laterz.
-Cannon
The other night my 1-yr-old son wasn’t feeling well. My wife, busy with Christmas project, asked me to hold him for a while. I decided to take advantage of the situation and treat myself to some well-deserved Star Wars. I fully expected to be frustrated in my attempt by a cantankerous kiddie. But what to my great surprise, my son settled right down and enjoyed him some Return of the Jedi. Within minutes, he was smiling, leaning back into me and waving a remote and a ruler around in his hands.
Merry Christmas to me: my son’s a born nerd!
Seeing as I had no real good news to pass along, I thought I’d send a reminder of your Christmas duties. Get that shopping done!
Now that that’s out of the way, I’m here to tell you that we DO still exist. I’ve been busy trying to figure out how I messed up our new hosting while Cannon’s been asking me what he can do to fix it. The solution is this:
I WILL BE RE-WORKING THE SITE THIS WEEKEND.
I had hoped that there would be a way to smoothly transition from one host to the other, but seeing as I’ve already messed that up, I’m just going to declare that the site will pretty much be non-functional Friday / Saturday / Hopefully Not Longer. With any luck, we’ll be found at www.AnimalWardComic.com again without having to forward you to CannonHamakerStudios.com/AW (not that there’s anything wrong with Cannon OR his studios – go check them out!).
In the mean time, enjoy this video by Steve Troop of Melonpool.
-Dave