Today’s comic courtesy of Wiz Rollins of course, with art by Brandon J. Pennyweather III. I have to thank these clowns for helping me keep the ship afloat with content. I really appreciate their efforts.

Man. It’s been a weird week. Yin and Yang. I’m very excited and happy with the new house, even though there are TONS of small projects popping up and filling up days of my time.

The Hero By Night Daily comic is going strong– great feedback from the duckers, and also awesome e-mails. Unfortunately, an old friend of mine popped in out of the blue and privately accused me of plagerism or stealing his pirate character— you see, he had a “time traveling” pirate guy in well, no published books, just his sketchbooks and own personal stories. I drew a pretty stereotypical pirate bad guy in a recent HBN. Eye patch, bandanna, raggity clothes? CHECK, CHECK, CHECK! But my guy was just envisioned from being a modern day pirate– maybe even half crazy thinking he WAS a real pirate, and his gang of merry maruaders. This old friend then went on to accuse me of other similar things…. and well, it was just downright depressing. He dropped it— then followed up with a sort of “hey! If you ever want to do a crossover with my guys….” — Yeah right. You just accused me of plagerism, and now you want me to do a crossover with me?. That will work out FANTASTIC! On top of that, I mean, I’ve helped this guy out any time he needed it. Computer help.. business help… ANYTHING. So, yeah, it just felt like a weird rusty knife stuck in my back a little. I’m not mad about it– it just, saddens me. — For the record, I was warned about this sort of thing happening, and now, sure enough, it did.

And of course, you now have the usual suspects trying to tear me down online. Twist me into some crazy bigot or something? Ugh. It’s tiring. So tiring I indeed called the local legal bar association to look into what I could do about that. It’s damaging, and I don’t like it. Luckily it seems like some people are defending me there, but not before the guy can close the thread to comments (no balls) — I mean, you wouldn’t want anyone to actually rebut or defend me. I’ll gladly not go there, and I hope more people stay away from his network of sites, or see what a tool the guy is who’s running it all. I mean, they talk trash about reputable companies, but THAT GUY is who you have representing you all? I’d say it might be time to look for a new and better host for your webcomics, then be lumped in with losers like that. He so defensive and proud to defend a so called “journalist” who doesn’t even ASK QUESTIONS. That’s not a journalist. That’s a muckraker. Who knows, maybe he WILL– but I doubt it. They never want to continue the conversations when it starts to make THEM look like giant asshats. (to clarify before it’s twisted, when I say asshat, I totally mean an ass that is placed upon your head as crown.)

Do I win a prize for being called a racist, a homophobe AND a plagiarist in one week??? Survey says…….. If so, please forward it to my awesome new address.

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