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A Wild Nidd Appears!

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Charlotte Nidd – Arika’s mother, and the boss of Ghost World – has returned to the pages of Badnix for the first time in, like, a year! And she comes bearing callbacks to some older strips. Let’s take a walk down memory lane, shall we?

  • When Rog’s team was just getting off the ground, Charlotte used her influence to help stifle dissent from the other bosses.
  • She then twisted Rog’s (proverbial) arm to get him to hire Arika, explaining in vague terms that the Badnix would be under her protection.
  • Not too long after that, some previously unexplained mysterious lights bailed out Rog and Arika when the latter was rappin’ on death’s door. Bet you thought that was just a random sight gag, huh? NOPE! Each and every punchline and one-off joke from a year ago might yet turn out to be a plot point! REMAIN EVER VIGILANT!

…in all seriousness, it might seem like that reference is coming out of left field, but I did know exactly what those lights were when I threw them in the strip! I’ve been waiting for ages to make that connection. Originally, ethereal lights and other ghostly aid were supposed to bail Arika & co. out of trouble in the Cave World & Bug Mafia story arcs, but those bits felt distracting and I wound up cutting them. And then World 2 ended up running, like, twice as long as expected, so this callback ended up being way more obscure than intended. Oops.

Well, hey, at least I’m not a DC/Marvel comics writer. Those guys whip out references to stuff that happened ~50 years ago without breaking a sweat.

Excelsior!

– CC

Happy Halloween!

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Or should I say… SCARY HOWLSPOOKMEAN?! MUA HA HA! No, of course I shouldn’t.

Anyway, I wanted to mention We Don’t Go There At Night – it’s a vaguely Halloween-themed comic anthology, featuring some work from myself, and it just went live! Everybody involved got assigned one of two blocks of text, and were set loose to interpret that text pretty much however they wanted. You can read the whole thing online for free over here, or you can download the very lovely PDF edition.

My weird little vignette starts around here, but please poke around the rest of it too! It’s pretty cool to see all the crazy creative rivulets branching out from the same starting point.

Welp, that’s all I’ve got. Have a good night everybody! I’m gonna spend my Halloween like I always do: watching some scary flicks and eating an irresponsible amount of candy! (READ: a single fun-size Milky Way Bar, three minutes of a Treehouse of Horror segment on Youtube)

– CC

MEGA FILLER

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BAD NEWS: no new comic today. Sorry, I hate doing this, but I’ve been way too busy with moving / day job shenanigans / other stuff as of late and the only way I’ve been able to get comics done has been to pull massive all-nighters. Which is nice because, hey, more comics, but it’s starting to negatively impact the quality of work. (Also probably my health.) I’ll try to re-rail things by Wednesday, Friday at the latest, but in any case I’ll keep you posted.

GOOD NEWS: close analysis of key demographics reveals that my entire readership is probably too engrossed in the new Pokemon game to notice whether an update was posted!

FUN NEWS: as a consolation prize, enjoy a rendering of ROG and ARIKA’s NON-CANON POKEMON MEGA EVOLUTIONFORMS:

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WOO FUN PRETEND THERE ARE SPEECH BUBBLES UP THERE AND IT WILL BE JUST LIKE A REAL COMIC.

But yeah. Sorry again!!

– CC

Enemy Atlas #2: Sky World

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Welcome back to the ENEMY ATLAS, a survey of LEVELS for the prospective STAGE ENEMY. This week, WORLD 2 – SKY WORLD!

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AT A GLANCE….

Though SKY WORLD is something of a low-tier World of the FOBLIN EMPIRE, it’s a region with more than its share of fans. The enormous, whirling blades of these fans generate gusts of wind that can easily push a hapless intruder off of this World’s scaffolding, sending them tumbling into the fluffy clouds below. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves.

Before Sky World was annexed by the Empire, it was ruled by the ONI, a race of horned imps that held court in the clouds. They mostly just left their World’s surface alone, and early Foblin settlers found the land beneath the clouds a rich, unspoiled paradise. Centuries of wholesale exploitation later, Sky World is a booming industrial center, hosting the third largest civilian population in the Empire. Its surface also rates just below Poison World on the Imperial TOXICITY RANKINGS, which is a matter of some local pride.

Enemies and residents have joined the Oni above the cloudscape, making homes for themselves atop towering metallic highrises, slick steel catwalks, and fan-propelled platforms with giant LED counters that count down when you step on them and then explode. Needless to say, it is very easy to lose your footing and fall to a horrible death – but if it’s not quite enough, this world’s top-shelf LASER CANNONS, flying mechanized DEATH DRONES, and LITTLE FLOATING SPIKE BALLS will help finish the job. That’s the spirit, SKY WORLD!

A GENEALOGICAL ASIDE

For reasons yet unknown, new variants of enemies have been emerging from Sky World over the past 3 centuries. These races – incl. PARA-FOBLINS, PARA-TOMATONS, and PARA-FLYING MECHANIZED DEATH DRONES – are characterized by being exactly the same as an existing type of Enemy, but with a pair of wings attached. Theories include a RECESSIVE GENE inherited from early intermingling with some long-extinct Sky World race; or, more likely, the wings could be a result of a population living for generations above a RADIATION-SOAKED TOXIC DEATH TRAP.

Turn the page to learn about Sky World’s bosses & other fun facts.

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