Nightmarish puns, wanton violence upon infected flesh, repeated aggressive pointing; today’s comic is everything Fredric Wertham railed against in ‘The Seduction Of The Innocent”. I can only apologise and hope to weather the storm I have brought upon myself.
Rounding out the collection, you can now get the 3rd and 4th New Bobbins books on my Gumroad page. They’re £1 each. Both feature new essays. My work here is, for the time being, done.
$3-and-up Patreon subscribers can download them here at no additional charge.
You can get it here on my Gumroad page for £1. The next one should be up by this time next week.
Or, if you’re a $3 or higher tier Patreon subscriber, it’s available to download now as part of your membership.
The old Scary Go Round site has been running a near 20-year old CMS that can go no further. Getting thousands of legacy comics onto a new one won’t be easy. An attempt to move it to WordPress/ComicEasel collapsed under the weight of my three-headed archive. The success story continues.
You can read the Bad Machinery archive on GoComics (the enhanced version with all the extra book pages) and I’ll organise a page where you can sort all the chapters easily. In the meantime, I’m assembling PDF collections of the “New Bobbins” stories. $3 and up Patreon subscribers will get these as part of their subscription, just keep an eye on my Patreon page.
Otherwise, you can pay what you want for them on my Gumroad. I’ll try to put a PDF up every week – the first is up now. There are four collections – A Magical Pink Being (Amy is pregnant), Out Of The Woods (Shelley and Tim cause a great local disaster), End Of The Road (wrapping up the Erin Winters/Eustace Boyce comics) and Hard Yards (the epic wrap-up).
They each feature a new essay and notes.
Steeple returns on Monday with a new 2-part story, “AUTHOR UNKNOWN?”, a crossover with Charlotte Grote of BAD MACHINERY and WICKED THINGS. Patreon subscribers (at the $3 and up tiers) will be able to read part 1 in full then, or you can enjoy it at webcomic pace on the website for the next 14 weeks. Following that, I have a four-part story in the works, a third “season” if you like with a complete arc that should take us into 2022.
In related news, Dark Horse have collected last year’s two stories, The Silvery Moon and Secret Sentai, into a new book. It’s out on August 4th in comic shops (Previews code APR210425) and August 17th in bookshops – get it any way you like! It features new artwork, a few new pages, a sketchbook section, and a beautiful cover by Giant Days artist Max Sarin.
Steeple is taking a break for a bit, but in the meantime you can read a new, two-part Charlotte Grote story, Circus Windows, at badmachinery.com – it starts here.
I’m currently working on a new Steeple arc, hopefully it will begin in the summer (around the time that volume 2 emerges – more news on that soon).
But there will be more business to take care of in Tredregyn before then — keep your eyes peeled in April for a one-off, very special crossover event that I haven’t written yet. If I have been taken by the angels (or COVID or an assassin’s bullet) between now and then, it will not appear. So keep those fingers crossed. Or adjust your expectations appropriately.
