Just a quick bit of news because I can’t seem to delete my double post of my review below, but I can replace it with something else (Yay Internet!).

Maniac Graffiti, one of my favorite comics that I’ve never mentioned hear because only World of Warcraft players  would enjoy it has come to an end. Creator Anya has decided to quit the game and with it the comic. The strip however, is still excellent and I urge everyone who does or has played WoW to check out the archive. The strip had a lot of great in-world jokes and a really fun and intricate style about it. You should also take a look at the commissions of other people’s characters that are included with a lot of the later strips. All in all a great look at the world’s most popular MMORPG.

In other, yet similar new, VGCats creator Scott Ramsoomair has started a new comic based entirely on the PokeSaga called “Super Effective.” I don’t know how long a strip all about Pokemon can last, but I’m happy to see him try.

Did your grade school have a big toy? A big piece of play ground equipment for the kinds the climb all over to burn off extra energy and possibly hurt themselves. My school had a great big toy. It came with all the essential big toy parts, ladders, slides, monkey bars but ours also have a castle, complete with turrets and a draw bridge, a space ship with lasers, a view screen and a helpful robot and a superhero/supervillian lair full of all kinds of super equipment.

While all the “cool kids” (no one is really cool in fourth grade) were playing football and trying to kiss girls, my friends and I were having the time of our lives pretending to be all the cartoon heroes of the time: Ninja Turtles, He-man, Darkwing Duck, the Thundercats. I don’t know who kids these days are pretending to be, but they should be imaging that they are in the World of Quest.

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The first time was sad, but kind of exciting. The next time, you had had enough of the bullying and it was time to fight those the gothic geek chic crowd to a standstill. This time? It’s just sad, and very tired.

Comic book superstar and sometimes webcomic (or is that digital comic?) creator, Stuart Immonen has come to the aid of a friend who has fallen victim to the online art plagiarism scare, or OAPS (pronounce it and it’s pretty close to being funny) that is sweeping the Intertubes. Before, it was studio art, then came the T-shirt phase, and now the problem has hunkered down in the realm of possibly-fraudulent, definitely-stolen, Hong Kong-produced books.

At his request, you can find the link to the full post on Immonen’s site here and below are some choice soundbites from the whole debacle straight from the latest victim, Darren Di Lieto, complete with editorialized notes:

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Seriously, Boxcar contains the highest ratio of comic I read to comics I don’t in any collective, ever! Why the hurt, you lovely piece of train, you?

Broken hearts aside, it is true that the Boxcar gang is starting up a podcast. Titled, The Boxcar Comics Hobo Jamboree, it’s sure to be full of fun, mischief, and lots of dudes talking over each other.

Full press release in the cut (not out of bitterness, but for sake of keeping our front page nice and tidy):

As part of the revitialization of Boxcar Comics and the group’s continuing effort to promote themselves publicly in a cross-functional manner, we have created a brand new podcast at TalkShoe called the Boxcar Comics Hobo Jamboree!

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