Okay, you know how I said the comments system was working again? Apparently what I meant by that was “still extra-broken, in entirely new and exciting ways”. They should be fixed now, though! I hope! Please leave a comment or two if you get the chance so I’ll know I can rest easy.

(Yes, there is probably some cosmic irony in the fact that, in the middle of a storyline about glitches, the Badnix website is repeatedly breaking down. It has been noted!)

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!)