AXE SMASH!

Things are rather calm in the Haunted Mansion right now... NOT!

This is such a weird page.  I'm glad I'm not worried about trying to make every strip funny, because today's strip is honestly just kind of creepy.  It's weird to be doing what I consider to be an All Ages strip, but that a lot of people nowadays wouldn't consider even remotely All Ages.  I'm playing by Old School Rules, though.

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life...er...Death?

It's a Good Thing I don't really torture myself trying to maintain a schedule anymore.  Last week was a bit on the light side.  As I've said before, I don't have the endurance I used to have, and last week was a rough one.  If you've never worked outside in a snowstorm, it's not something I'd recommend.  Here's hoping this week is a little easier.  Anyway, here's a new Quixote Coyote:

The Haunted House's moods are almost as Mercurial as my own.  One minute it's trying to kill Quixote, then it's just messing with him, then it's almost being friendly.  Now it's back to trying to kill him.  Pft.  Crazy days.

I miss the TORCverse.

Mr. Skullface Man 2.0

Rut-Roh Raggy!

I never really intended for Quixote and Mr. Skullface Man to ever really develop any sort of relationship.  In fact, I never really intended to do anything with Mr. Skullface Man, period.  But like most things, it all just kind of happened, and here we are, at the absolute apex of the duo's bizarre friendship/antagonism. 

Also, I'm very happy I got to use the line "Big Honkin' Axe".

Night Three Begins

It is time for Night Three, ladies and gentlemen.  Let's Roll:

Oooooh this is gonna be crazy.

Speaking of crazy, man, my head lately.  I'm in one of those modes I get in where I am constantly shifting and moving ideas and characters around, over and over again in a continual pattern of chaos.  Build.  Destroy.  Rebuild.  Repeat.  Every time I think I've got a good idea, it's almost immediately replaced by another idea.  Crazy.

Sigh.  I live in fear of the day when I have Writer's Block.  But, man, Inverted Writer's Block is almost worse. 

Lawyers... Boooo!!!

Welp, got pinned down with some stuff.  Anyway, let's wrap up the week as we wrap up getting ready to wrap up the freakin longest Haunted House story in the history of what was I talking about again? 

As mentioned earlier in the week, I have very little control over my comics.  I just comic.  For today's example, I give you the subjects of today's strip:  The Weasel/Shyster Brothers.  I was done with these guys.  Done.  Never gonna use them again.  And yet, here they are, trying to find some way to scam Quixote Coyote out of inheritance, again.  And they've hired a Fox Mercenary to do their dirty work.  Franko Fox didn't exist right before I ran this strip.  He just popped into existence.  Why?  I dunno.

Sancho & Panda Return

Hey-ho, let's go:

Anyone who knows me, knows that I have trouble sticking to a plan.  For example, when I first conceived of this series, I had no intention of introducing any of the characters on this page until after the "Haunted Mansion" story arc concluded.  In fact, Sancho wasn't even supposed to show up until the 3rd or 4th Story Arc.  But, the Haunted Mansion arc has been going on for quite some time (what can I say, I'm enjoying it), and I wanted to go ahead and introduce these guys, so I did.  They were all introduced during the break between the First Two Nights.  And Sancho and Panda somehow stumbled into the Mansion during Night Two, which I didn't have planned at all. 

Anyway, after they left the Mansion, I was planning on not using them again until after the story arc was over (actually, after the Mansion arc, I plan on having a short arc that doesn't involve either of them).  And yet, here they are.  I truly have no control over any of this, do I?

Also, today's strip cracks me up quite a lot.  Heh.  Birdnapping.

Quixote Returns

Hey everybody!  Quixote Coyote's back!

I honestly think I love drawing Quixote snoring more than I have loved drawing just about anything else.  Actually, I take that back... Here's my Top 10 Things I Love to draw:

10.  Kirby Crackle
9.  Big Punches
8.  People Launching Themselves into Battle.
7.  Octopus Jones when he's surprised.
6.  OMNICHRONUS.
5.  Quixote Coyote Snoring (guess it was No. 5)
4.  When the Clown does virtually anything.
3.  Pengy Dancing.
2.  The Clown eating Tacos.
1.  Monsters.  Always Monsters.