Archive for the ‘News’ Category

PART 2: I set the newsies up with a Blog and added the more recent ones to it. Should make life easier for me, now that I have to post more of them. I’ll work on a new archive over the course of this week if I get the time.

I’m also gonna add something to the newsies: the cliched ol’ CURRENT MOOD indicator. Ever notice how so many people end their blog posts with CURRENT MOOD: Something emo and annoying? Well, I wanna make fun of it from now on, ’cause I’m funny like that, and ’cause emos kinda amuse me. Naturally, I mean no offense to some of my more emoey friends. I just think taking life seriously is stupid.

Anyway, as a bonus, I’ll even stick one on each of the older newsies in the blog. Enjoy. Vote.

CURRENT MOOD: Salami (see how this works?)

Frig. Remember the nameserver problem we had a few weeks ago? It happened again. In the confusion of getting it fixed, I wasn’t able to get a comic done for Friday. Saturday’s bonus strip should happen just fine, but I think we’re just going to have to write Friday off as another casualty.

Y’know what it is, don’t you? You’re not voting enough. Really.

CURRENT MOOD: Igneous

The new bonus comic is up, and it’s three hours early! Vote vote vote!

CURRENT MOOD: Faucet

Taco Man and Burrito Boy will not be seen Wednesday or Friday. We’ll be back on Monday, both with the regular comic and the final edition of Paul’s Big Adventure. Have a happy X’Giving! Be safe when trick-or-treating. Don’t forget to vote.

CURRENT MOOD: Gaffi Stick

To all the people coming in from Ctrl+Alt+Del, welcome welcome! As goes without saying, take a good look around. Taco Man and Burrito Boy has never been very new-reader friendly, purposefully so, of course. But just take a quick trip back to the first comic, with its grimy artwork goodness, and I promise if you work your way through the archives, you’ll be happy you came. We’re one of those epic kinda comics, you know?

And then when you’re all done, or whether you’re done or not, even if you don’t like it, shoot us a vote over at buzzComix, where you’ll be rewarded with the first four episodes in the bonus mini-series Paul’s Big Adventure! And then come back next Tuesday to see the final chapter!

You might be wondering what I was thinking when I decided to advertise on a Saturday, during the X’Giving break no less, when I knew I wouldn’t be doing any comics. Well, for one thing, we’re at a good cliffhanger right now, which helps. And for another thing, I’ve farked my bandwidth once before, and had to pay DeRose a wee bit extra that month. Today is basically a stress test to make sure it won’t happen again when I advertise on CAD for a week in January. I know, I know, I won’t get a very representative read on the Saturday of X’Giving break, but he didn’t have any other openings.

Anyhoosage, glad to see ya. Hope you stick around, ’cause I wuv you so vewy much! *snuggles*

CURRENT MOOD: Book Bag

AUGH!! Okay, I hate skipping updates, seriously, but I’m swamped with schoolwork right now. College is like that. No comic Monday, probably not Wednesday, either, but we’ll see. And I’ll try and get the final bonus comic done soon, too.

While we’re on the subject, I want to warn everyone in advance about this: There will be no updates from December 15th to January 2nd. I’ll be home for the X’Mas break and won’t have access to my comicry stuff until I get back. The good news is that this will allow me to concentrate on redesigning the site, which I’d like to relaunch on New Year’s like last time, when the version of Hindrances you see here was born. Even better news is that after this semester, things should be quite a bit easier for me, school-wise. I’m only taking 2 credits during the winter session here at UDel, and only 12 in the spring semester. With any luck, I’ll be able to stick nice and close to the update schedule, which I know I’ve been a little iffy about lately.

CURRENT MOOD: Spade

HOLY CROTCH!!! I almost forgot! It’s a new month! Help us get high (on cannabis, not the list) by voting now! Go go go!

CURRENT MOOD: Australopithecus

Yeah, all right, this is ridiculous. I’ve got an exam and three big assignments due this week, and I’m taking the GRE on Thursday. I’m doing everything I can to find time to get a comic in, but mact of the fatter is, it’s not looking good. I might might might be able to do a comic for Friday, but it will definitely not be up until Friday afternoon. And then Saturday, with any luck, I’ll be able to get the final installment of Paul’s Big Adventure up. No promises on either front, but Saturday’s goal is at least a realistic one, while Friday’s embodies more fantasy than Disney, Tolkien, and Vivid combined.

CURRENT MOOD: Towel

Meh, all right, see, this is why we can’t have nice things, kids.

Schoolwork didn’t let up like I thought it would. Figures. At this rate, I’ll only be able to crank out one comic before the X’Mas hiatus, so tell ya what, let’s just call December one big break, and upgrade it from a hiatus to a sabatical, because that sounds more artsy.

If you’ve been reading the more recent comics but haven’t gone through the whole archive, now might be a good time to catch up. Tee-mab’s got itself a pretty intricate storyline, one that you don’t just read, but understand, live, sleep with, berth children of.

So mark your calendars: January 5th, 2004, Taco Man and Burrito Boy returns with new vigor, new adventures, and with any luck a brandy fresh newly dewly website design!

CURRENT MOOD: Blastocyst

Since we’re taking a break this month, if anyone wants to make a guest comic, go for it. I have some ground rules, however:

1. Image size must be 515×700.

2. No Mexican food jokes.

3. No cursing, nudity, or graphic violence, but I’m mildly lenient about this. Basically, nothing worse than Ren and Stimpy.

4. No self-aware jokes.

5. No video game jokes.

6. The comic cannot play into the continuity, but feel free to explore alternate universe ideas where Taco Man is a girl or the comic is self-aware or something.

Send it to the e-mail addy listed in the Contact Us page. Do iiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

[EDIT] Almost forgot: I reserve the right to modify all submissions however I want, but you have my word that I won’t be a big, stupid dingaling about it. Creators retain copyrights to their original work, and may have final say on all editorial decisions if they ask nicely. Keep in mind that rejecting one of my changes may result in my not accepting your comic. Chances are, this will not be an issue. I just wanna put that out there. I’m overprotective about my intellectual property, I know.

[EDIT 2] Leave about 20 – 30 px at the bottom so I can add some copyright info.

CURRENT MOOD: Gormbala