Category: terrifying!

maybe someday I will understand

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When I asked him about the hook-for-a-hand he got all distant and muttered something about the Eugenics Wars and I said 'like on Star Trek?' but he wouldn't say any more

Okay so it wasn’t exactly a comic about the site but whatever. Welcome to the new Interesting Times and let me quickly highlight some of the features!

  • Obviously I got an actual domain name and website hosting. Plus, a new email address (Seen under “contact me” in upper right.) Awesome. No more unwieldy website URL!
  • Using the “Share/Save” button on each post you can now more easily bookmark or share comics on your favorite social networking services and what-have-you. Besides the obviously popular ones there are roughly one million other sites in there that I have never heard of but hey, the more the merrier.
  • I signed up for Oh No Robot, a service created by the Dinosaur Comics guy. Here’s how that works:
  1. On each individual comic page there is a “TRANSCRIBE THIS COMIC” button in the upper right. (if there isn’t one, it’s been done already)
  2. Me and you and everyone we know are free to press that button and fill in a transcription of the comic’s text. It’s really easy and helps create a searchable comic database PLUS each one adds to “RANDOM COMIC” button which at present is not very random. Yes, I am essentially asking you to volunteer your time to help me out, but if you don’t want to then I am very okay with that too.
  • I have added a Paypal donations button as you see on your right. Do with that information what you will. (Here I will point to my eye, indicating that you should watch closely, and then wink once or twice in an exaggerated fashion.)

    All in all, things are poised to continue as they have done. I am pretty excited about getting this going and I hope you wonderful, intelligent readers will come along with me as things go forward. Thanks again!

    witch! turn off that flashlight!

    Posted on by Nathan

    I don't even really want to scare anybody, I just want to draw something, look at it, and say 'that's pretty creepy, why did I draw such a creepy thing'

    This comic is true. (Well, except that I ever stayed up at night trying to draw a spooky thing). Occasionally I get the impulse to try and draw something scary. I have a hard time saying where exactly the impulse comes from; it may just be because it’s entirely unlike what I usually draw. But the thing is, just like in real life, if I ever actually scared anybody I’d feel terrible. I have played one Scary Prank in my memory and I apologized almost immediately afterward.

    This is a bunny trail, because you’re possibly curious about what that one prank was — when I worked at the theatre, I went upstairs to the projection area to get something while the shows were running. Those projectors were old and noisy, and with all five on you really couldn’t hear much outside of your immediate vicinity. Steve was cleaning one of them and didn’t notice me up there, so I walked closer to him, pointed and made a face like Donald Sutherland at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Then I waited a few seconds for him to stand up, turn, and see me standing there. It startled him pretty badly, but even though he laughed about it right away I still felt bad and really had to question why I did it in the first place.

    So…Interesting Times won’t be turning into a horror comic any time soon, is what I’m trying to say. [June 12, 2012]