Meet the Geeks

Someone needs to school Alanis Morissette on irony, but there was a certain irony going on with this comic as well. Aside from the Mystery Science Theater reference, behind the scenes I was falling behind on my duties as writer and artist of the comic and Clay found himself having to scramble to fill in, thus the Geekstery Science Theater was born. Four heads in silhouette taking the piss out of a movie. Honestly, I wish I had thought of it. Meanwhile I was still un-medicated and my depression was getting the better of me so nothing new was getting done on the comic from my end. I recall giving Sean and Clay some concern for my well being at the time. It was around this time that the original comic started to really fall apart. But, it's a new year and a new beginning! I want to thank everyone who's come back to check out the blog following the holiday break (because it was totally planned - yeah, right) and to assure you that the blog and the comic will continue i...

I don't really remember how this strip came to fruition other than it's one of those strange ideas that come to you from time to time. The idea of Patrick Stewart being haunted by Star Trek loving ghosts sounds like an actors nightmare. The original comic was done in pen and ink and then coloured with copic markers. I'm actually quite proud of how this one turned out. I had thought about doing this as a triptych painting but that never came about. ~Brother K'Bob

We've already covered the true and terrible saga of Clay meeting his idol David Prowse  so I won't be going too much into it here. Spoiler alert: David Prowse was a total dick. So this comic, as we imagined it, never came to fruition. Clayton and I had hoped that we would meet a jovial and accommodating David Prowse and he would say I'm a pretty, pretty princess which we would videotape and send to Jennie Breeden of the Devils Panties  who would give us mad props and we would hopefully get some traffic on our site out of it. Alas, it was not to be. The Devils Panties strip that started it all was one where Jennie shared her birthday gifts that year. It always makes me laugh. There was a slight screw-up with the comic. In the last panel David Prowse was supposed to be saying "ach" not "ack". I know, he's Scottish, not Bill the cat.  Blame Clay. It's all his fault.  Yeah. That's the ticket.  The guy in the seco...

Here we continue with the Manitoba Comic Con 2007 strips where we find that our little "prank" had greater consequences on poor matt than suspected. And that Bloodwine is indeed a harsh mistress. The 2007 con was almost perfect for the Geeks to attend because there were guests from each of our fandoms. There was David Finch, whom we'll meet later, David Prowse, whom we've already seen, the Duras sisters (who were absolute dolls) and there was supposed to be a Tolkien scholar who, unfortunately, was unable to make it. The strip was done a long time before we found out that bit of information though. The strip also shows that I was still uncomfortable with hands. Look at that first panel. Yeesh! ~Brother K'Bob

Oops. Little late getting the Blog up. Today we start getting into the original Comic Con run. At this time we were going to be attending the Manitoba Comic Con and Expo, later known as the Central Canada Comic Con or C4 so we did a series of strips based on imagined shenanigans that we might get up to. In my younger years at various Con's I would usually use my trusty one litre slurpee cup as my drinking vessel. The idea of filling it up with bloodwine, at least as imagined by the Starfleet Marine Corps, would be dangerous. Their recipe, from K'Tesh's recipe's page , and listed below, mixes Tequila and Everclear. Nothing good could come of that. 8 oz Firewater 6 oz Everclear (the full strength stuff) 6 oz triple sec 6 oz white tequila 3 drops green food coloring 6 drops red food coloring It's noted that you might have to adjust the food coloring to get it right. The title of the comic comes from a Klingon take on What do you do With a Drunke...

The Very Secret Diaries were a series of Fan Fiction written around the time that the Lord of the Rings trilogies were coming out. The now deleted Wikipedia article stated: " The Very Secret Diaries  are a series of satirical slash fiction stories written by Cassandra Claire in the form of diary entries by various characters in New Line Cinema's  The Lord of the Rings  film trilogy following the release of  The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring . Claire wrote a handful more stories with the release of  The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers , but then abandoned the series. " I'm sure there was more than one porn parody made featuring the LOTR characters but we, that is Clay and I, wondered what a Hobbit focused porn would be like and thus this comic was born. As revealed later this showing would break the character of Matt. Now, we haven't talked about Matt yet. At the time that we had met him as a young man Matt was very much a sheltered ...

     Full disclosure time. This webcomic, the second in the series, earned us our first bit of hate mail. It originally ran on October 8th, 2007.  While I never did see the e-mail in question Clayton assured me it was quite virulent, quite angry. Coming at this from a more mature age I can see where it might be considered offensive. The emo kid was supposed to appear in several strips suffering abuse at Corey's hand, usually jokes about suicide well past the line of good taste. Truthfully past the line of even questionable taste. I had also planned for the kid to finally stand up to Corey and take him down a few pegs. Overall it's probably just as well that never happened. I've been dealing with depression, including suicidal depression, since a young age. I was that young, emotional, always angry kid who hid behind black clothes and angry music. Depression and anxiety is no joke. If not for medication to help regulate my moods I probably wo...

Published on October 15, 2007, The Missing Ingredient is the strip that first introduced the world to our webcomic Meet the Geeks. The comic involved Clayton and Sean watching as Corey dressed as Crazy Britney (Spears) for Keycon's Masquerade. Like many ideas in the comic this one was based off a real life experience. I had dressed as Crazy Britney for the 2007 Masquerade (while Sean followed dressed as WWII Captain America). It was a late night drinking idea that had seemed like a good one at the time. It elicited a lot of laughs but didn't earn any awards. As had been previously mentioned though, this was never meant to be published as a finished strip. I had been practicing trying to figure out the layout for the strip and drew a series of figures before scanning them in for Clay to practice colouring on. As you can see in the raw art there wasn't a coherent gag, just a series of drawings of a rough idea with loosely laid out voice bubbles.  In the e...

Yes, pushed back to October.  October 2016. It may be time to let the cat out of the bag, so to say.  I'm planning a soft launch of the Meet the Geeks comic this month on Comic Fury's free webcomic hosting service. Starting later this month we'll (hopefully) be launching the site with the original comics, updating weekly on Tuesdays.  And after that run is done - well, we'll see.  Check out the new page here:  http://mtgcomic.thecomicseries.com/ During this time there will be continuing updates here on Tuesdays and Thursdays as well as occasional blog posts in-between. ~Brother K'Bob

Some time ago I had been going through my old clothes and came across my white dress shirt. I figured I would see how I would look if I smartened myself up a bit and put on the shirt with a pair of dress pants, belt and my ever faithful flat cap.  There was no escaping it. It was right there in front of me, staring back at me.  There he was, celebrity chef extraordinaire; Dom Deluise. Like looking in a mirror ain't it fat boy? Ah well. When it comes to celebrities there are worse people to look like. But I'll never forget that feeling looking into that mirror.  Beer bread anyone? ~Brother K'Bob

Sometimes it's just too easy. Yeah there's sophisticated wit. Clean, sober humor. Family jokes that everyone can enjoy. How boring. If you want to find me and my sense of humor, look towards the horizon, past the border of good taste and that's where you'll find me. The idea for this comic came from a co-worker who in describing my sense of humor would say "Here's the line, and Corey's off somewhere waaayyy over there." I'd like to tell him he's wrong but I've been making mom jokes about his mom for the last eight or so years. That's a lot of mom jokes. It's hard. So if you find yourself offended, don't worry, it's all part of the Brother K'Bob experience.... ~Brother K'Bob

Poor Clayton. We, the Geeks, had attended our first joint convention as a group of comic creators. For Clayton there was even greater excitement as David Prowse, the towering Scotsman behind Vaders mask, was going to be in attendance and Clay couldn't wait to meet his idol. On the first day, while I held down the fort, Clay and Sean went over to David Prowse table to speak with him, take their picture and present him with one of our handouts. There was also a plan to try to get him to say "I'm a pretty, pretty, princess" a'la Jennie Breeden of The Devils Panties . As it turns out it was not to be. I don't know if it was simply an off day or if he had just gotten sick of his lot in life, living off the fleeting fame of being the man behind a mask, but he was anything but pleasant with Clayton and Sean. His manner was standoffish and when presented with our handout he told Clay "I have no use for this". Clayton was crushed. Now, in all ...