Happy Birthday...

...Schlock Mercenary.

Which, if you've never read it -- and why not? -- is a webcomic Comic Space Opera by Howard Tayler.

Which actually launched 16 hears ago yesterday.  As Howard says

Commentary: Today's strip is the 5,845th daily installment of Schlock Mercenary. The strip has been running for 835 weeks, Monday through Sunday, which means that today it has been online for sixteen years and one day.
When Schlock Mercenary first aired on June 12th of 2000 the #1 song on the Pop charts was Santana's "Maria, Maria" and the #10 song was Britney Spears' "Oops!.. I Did It Again." Tony Blair was the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Bill Clinton was the President of the United States, and Americans had yet to be introduced to the term "dimpled chad."
There was no Facebook, no Twitter, and LiveJournal was just 14 months old. MySpace hadn't been born yet, nor had two of the kids living at Chez Tayler with Sandra and Howard. Beginning with today's Schlock Mercenary strip, Americans born after Schlock Mercenary launched will start being able to drive...

 He left out "SFC D.W. Drang was still in Korea, waiting for his retirement leave to start", but one cannot expect artists to keep track of these things.

Illigitimati Nil Carborundum...

Takes on a whole new meaning in light of recent events in the City of Light...

23 Heartbreaking Cartoons From Artists Responding To The Charlie Hebdo Shooting - BuzzFeed News
A couple of my favorites:

"Died For The Freedom of Expression"

What is Truth? What is Wisdom?

I dunno, but there's all too much of it in yesterday's Prickly City comic...

Okay, I confess, I'm wierd

But I LOL'd:

Source: The Chopping Block, "an endearingly offensive webcomic", following the (mis)adventures of Butch the serial killer...

Kinda like profits from all the Green Jobs subsidys...

Wondermark: #875; The Passion Project, Year 10

Webcomic of the day

09/19/2012
I mean, Day by Day is pretty much the Comic of the Day every day, but today it is especially so.

Excuse of the day 08/06/12

Courtesy XKCD:

I have no excuse for the fact that the friggin' thing doesn't want to display. Fail.

They would, too

US Army Sergeant Hancock is first-ever two-time Olympic Gold Medal winner in Skeet. So how's he going to celebrate?

Still haven't gotten the nerve...

...but here's Howard Taylor's Chupaqueso recipe.   Mmmm, cheese. 

Bacon optional. 

Or, not.

Inevitable

Happy Birthday...

...Sergeant Schlock. To save you time, here's the beginning.  Sort of.  Well, not really.* That's OK, no need to thank me.

***

*"Not really" saving you time, that is. 

A Meta sort of day...

Day by Day meets the View From The Porch.

And PowerPoint Ranger meets Schlock Mercenary.

Update in comments.

If D Day Were Today

@PowerPoint Ranger.

Another

Classics

Continuing my review of Day By Day cartoons, I just ran across a few that should be weekly, if not daily, reading for anyone in a government policy-making position.
Day by Day Cartoon by Chris Muir :: September 5, 2010 Archives
Day by Day Cartoon by Chris Muir :: September 6, 2010 Archives
Day by Day Cartoon by Chris Muir :: September 9, 2010 Archives
Day by Day Cartoon by Chris Muir :: September 10, 2010 Archives

Another blast from "DBD's" past

Hard to imagine Nancy Pelosi coming out against pork-barrel politics today...

Exactly

Whaddaya think?

Does this remind you of Bill Mauldin?

I'd begun to think it'd failed...

...like so many cool sounding projects.

I speak, of course, of the movie Iron Sky, of which I blogged last December in "Space Nazi Flick Iron Sky Goose-Steps Into Production".

Now Wired magazine reveals that, not only is the movie about to be released, but there's an online comic prequel: Iron Sky Comic Explains How Nazis Got to the Moon | Underwire | Wired.com

As Iron Sky’s filmmakers put the final touches on their crowd-funded sci-fi black comedy, they’ve published a prequel comic book explaining how Third Reich refugees found their way to the moon.
The three-part comic book series, by writer Mikko Rautalahti (Alan Wake) and illustrator Gerry Kissell (Code Word: Geronimo), drills into the fiendish mind of Wolfgang Kortzfleisch, who becomes Führer of the moon Nazis.

I had, literally, intended to do an online search today to see what the status was...

Online page is here:  Issue #1: Bad Moon Rising : Iron Sky Sneak Peek.  Subscribe and you can download the comics.  Prices are in some weird furrin' currency...

Just as we suspected...