Hard to believe, but today’s page marks the 500th installment of Badnix!! Granted, the number’s a bit arbitrary – the early strip format comics count the same as full pages, I counted some bits of filler and not others, etc. – but it’s still kinda cool.

It’s also the last page of Destroy All Badnix. Who is Number? What will become of Rog and his minions? What the heck is going on, like, in general? You’ll have to wait ’til the next story for the answers! Should be coming soon, I hope.

Also! IF YOU TRIED LEAVING COMMENTS RECENTLY, you were probably getting locked out due to a broken spam filter. That should be fixed now! So please bombard me with feedback. (Big thanks to the reader who notified me about this earlier today!)

…at the second panel of today’s comic –

Hopefully that gives you a bit more of a clue to what Rog is so puzzled by.

This is one of those cases where I feel like a background detail, a hidden joke, etc. gets lost a bit once I shrink the page down to a web-resolution. I’d really like to be able to offer the comics at higher quality in some form or other – hopefully that’s something I’ll get figure out in the near future!

Remember that flashback at the start of this chapter? Notice anything interesting about the posters on the wall? FORESHADOWING!!

The title of this chapter, DESTROY ALL BADNIX, was also a bit of an oblique nod towards where this was going.

Godzilla is kind of the ultimate power fantasy for kids. When you’re 6 years old you don’t watch a kaiju movie to identify with the fleeing civilians, you do it to imagine being the giant monsters throwing their awesome power around, smashing building and breathing lasers.

How much more would those movies mean if you were a monster – a very small monster – with no power to speak of?

(Come to think of it, why do characters in the Badnixverse have access to the same movies we do? Why would all these enemies who are terrified of humans consume so much human-centric pop culture? All excellent questions… which I plan to never answer. HA!)

We’re back! Sorry about the wait, pals. It was longer than I wanted it to be, but I think it’s going to be more than worth it. This next story – which is titled DESTROY ALL BADNIX, incidentally – is going to be “one for the books”, I think.

This first page is kind of a prologue. I originally wrote this one as part of a mini-story that was going to appear before the actual prologue… but I think it belongs here instead, for reasons that will probably become clear soon.

TWO OTHER THINGS! I’ve added Arrow Key Navigation to the site, which means you can tap your left or right arrow key to quickly skip through the comic’s archives. Apparently it’s what all the cool kids are doing. I don’t know how many of you guys are cool kids, but those of you who are? I’m doing you a solid!

I’ve also finally unlocked one of those greyed-out navigation buttons by debuting the Games section! Currently it only hosts the Badnix Christmas special, but I – wait, you have played the Badnix Christmas special, right? Go and do that! No, I don’t care what month it is. Every day is Christmas at Badnix Dot Com.

More cool stuff to come. Stay tuned!