The Adventures of Dr. McNews

Hey! Are you the happy owner of a Raptor Bandit Industries (formerly Dr. McNinja's Giftshop) brand t-shirt AND a CAMERA?! If so, you might want to show the internet how effin good you look in said t-shirt. Topatoco has a flickr stream set up to display what our shirts look like in real life, and I would greatly appreciate it if you contributed to this effort.

Please send in your t-shirt photos to help@topatoco.com! If you want to do wild and crazy things in your photo and get moderately more internet famous... well I can only encourage you.

The spam over at the Dayfree Press forums is out of control, so I have temporarily locked down the McNinja board. I can't update forum software or install spam blockers on the Dayfree Press site, so we're going to be moving our forums here, all nice and spam free soon. In the meantime, feel free to make use of the Dr. McNinja Facebook group.

As you can see in my enthusiastic grin and hearty "OK" hand signal, ROFLCon was alright with me.
Thanks to Jay "Tron Guy" Maynard for posing for the photo, and for being just a dang pleasure to listen to and chat with. Truly he was the king of MIT for a day. (Never mind that I thought it was going to be at Harvard. NEVER MIND IT)

Also big ups to Randal "XKCD" Munroe, for being an extraordinarily gracious host. Why so extraordinary? Because he let us play in the ball pit in his apartment.

In other news, I have a guest strip up over at The Guest Strip Project! The GSP is a webcomic made entirely of guest strips, and it's turned out pretty neat so far. Since my comic was the last one I saw, I'm eager to see where things go from here.

Finally, let's talk about the shading of Dr. McNinja. The votes are staying pretty consistently close to split down the middle. So here is what I'm going to do. For now, the comic will continue to go on unshaded, at least till the end of this storyline. With Kent and I adjusting to our new schedules, and still dealing with various things regarding our moves, I still don't really have time to do the shading. But I will get to it eventually, at least so that there is some consistency through the upcoming 3rd Dr. McNinja book. I'm going to try out a slightly simpler, more sparse method of shading that I think will mesh with our artwork a bit better. And once I've gotten through the whole story, we'll see how I feel about handling the next one. Thank you very much for all of your input! In the end, I think we all agree that we just want an entertaining doctor comic.

Hey, did you know I was in Overcompensating like... a month ago? WHOOPS.

Just as Jeffrey has said, you can do your own karaoke mashups of Together Forever and Never Gonna Give You Up, easy peasy. Try it next time! Just go with the rhythm.

Also, I liked Rick Astley after it was originally cool, and before it was cool again. Just FYI.

I did an interview with Wired, ya'all! They're running a series of profiles on ROFLCon attendees, and ole Crazy Chris the Nightmare Man is interview number one.

After living in the same dormitory for four years, and the same apartment for three, Kent and I are moving to separate residences in different states by the end of the month. I could tell you why, but you've seen me in a Robin costume, and I think that's the limit for personal information.

I should assure you that we are not leaving on anywhere near bad terms, and I wouldn't have even thought to bring it up, except that I know that people who don't know us would maybe have wondered without my saying so.

The second, obvious thing I should assure you is that this will not affect how you read the comic! It will actually ensure that the comic is more timely and regular. Instead of handing pages back and forth to each other on a daily basis, we're mailing them once a week, doing four or five pages a week till we can do it just once a month. And in fact, we've been doing this for the past two weeks while Kent was off looking for his new place. So I think the new system is working well.

Anyway, I'm not feeling particularly sappy about this, and I think we're both excited about the new homes we've found, especially since we get to move our drafting tables out of our bedrooms for the first time in our lives, and into separate studio rooms.

Enjoy your weekend! I'll let the shading poll go on till next week, and then announce my decision.