Apologies for the late post. I got called into work on the Axe Cop TV show this week for a couple days and that really threw me off. Those are full days taken up at a time when I am already pretty behind. Oh well, only a day late and now I’m on break until after May. Sorry, I know one page a week is bad enough, but it’s time to start clearing my plate. My wedding is less than a month away and things are getting crazy!
Well, the idea to draw a group bear battle print was met with overwhelming support, so I am going to do it. The price was almost unanimously $50, so I am going to do it for that amount. Unfortunately, Mike (aka TechnoBear) is too busy right now to set up a payment page to start taking orders. So for now, if you want to reserve your print, and your spot on the print, you can do it this way:
1. Go to www.AxeCopWedding.com/registry
2. Keep it set to “Send Axe Cop a Congratulatory Card”
3. click “show/hide” custom order
4. enter $50.00 for Custom package cost if you are domestic. If you are international enter $60.00 (an extra $5 will be added on, that will be part of shipping and handling fees)
5. In Additional Information say BEAR BATTLE PRINT.
6. email me your photo and your requested weapon (hand held only please), mutant bear and if you are winning or losing the fight to info@bearmageddon.com
If you want to pay for a group (your family or you and your spouse for instance) email me about doing a package deal. If you want to spend extra to include a vehicle, a more complicated weapon, or something else, email me and we will work it out. I will only be taking 60-75 orders. The print will be 18×24, it will be a giant battle scene between humans and mutant bears. Joel, Dickinson and the gang will be centrally featured, and surrounding them will be each person who pays to be on the print fighting a bear. It will most likely be one or two colors because at this price coloring it will be way too much work for me. If anyone offers to color it then maybe it will be in color. By ordering you agree to let me use your visual likeness on this print. You also agree that the final drawing is my choice (I’m not going to make a bunch of edits at this rate of pay). Please do not make any sexual or drug-related requests. If you have ordered a bearicature, but it has not made it into the comic yet, you can put that money towards this if you want to. Just let me know.
We will put up an order page for this next week, but I will only take a limited amount of orders for this, so if you want to make sure to reserve a spot, this is the best way to do so now through the Axe Cop site.
To be clear, I am doing this to raise money to pay for my wedding/honeymoon. I will not be able to actually start it until I get back. Once the comic starts back up in June, I will post regular updates of the print in progress on the blog with each page update. It will probably take some time to complete because it will be very detailed, but once it is done I will have the prints made up and sent out to everyone who ordered them. Patience will be required, but you will get your prints! I will also send everyone a large JPG of the image so you can pick out yourself at a good resolution to show off to friends etc., or use it as a desktop background.
Huge thanks to everyone who buys a spot! I definitely need the extra financial help with wedding and honeymoon costs.
Also, the “What Happened to Nigel” contest starts next week! I have already received a couple submissions. Please send them to me by mid-May if you can. The sooner the better. Just come up with some funny crazy alternate-universe ending for what happens to Nigel now that he has taken off in a truck. Winner gets to be featured on the Bear Battle Print, gets a copy of the print signed, along with some other art and posters I have here, all signed. It will be a cool package, trust me.
Ethan
im just anxious to see what happens next. Congrats on your wedding ^^
Congrats and go make some cubs. ;P
What a good cliff hanger! Congrats on 100 pages! Also congrats on the marriage!!!
Keep up the awesome work!!!
Man, Dickinson is so freakin’ awesome.
Happy honeymoon you delightful little artist
Congrats on the wedding and making it to 100 pages! I can’t wait for more sweet, sweet Bearmageddon action, but this was a great place for your hiatus. I love the Webelos neckerchief slide Dickinson is wearing. A clue to his past perhaps?
What this needs? 80’s montage!
You’re the best! Around! Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down!
I have to say that this “being a real man” stuff, protecting and providing for wives, is something I don’t relate to. I hope it’s just his opinion, and that Andrea and Keller demands proper training too rather than needing to rely on people who happen to be have an Y-chromosome to defend them. I’m really hoping to see some less typical gender roles in Bearmageddon than… well, pretty much any story there is. On the other hand, maybe that’s where you’re secretly going with this (and that’d be amazing).
Well, one of the main problems is that while women can take up many roles that men can, there is one very important survival role in a post-apocalyptic setting that men are simply not capable of: carrying children.
My thought is that Dickenson is taking the long haul view. Things aren’t going to get better and if the human race has any hope of survival, men need to be able to provide because while women can do so as well, losing a woman who can potentially bring another life into the world is more of a loss than losing a man who is only necessary for two minutes of that.
It still adds to the very stereotypical gender roles that’s so common in films and comics. Besides, that explanation doesn’t work. As a group, five people who can fight is better than three, and if either Andrea or Keller ends up in a scenario where they have to face a bear, training could only increase the odds.
There is a montage coming, I don’t care if this is an audioless comic, the next scene is a montage I know it.
I hope the girls get to learn survival skills too or are they already much better at it than the boys?
The Cub Scout is to be cut some slack on his PC skills.
He has been alone for most of his life and doesn’t know the social skills of today’s culture.
The women just have to step up and remind him that they need to be given the same opportunity to get tough. I’m sure he will be willing to teach if the student is willing to learn, unlike Nigel The Moral Superior in All Things.
It seems likely to me that the women will assert themselves and actively participate in defining what role they play in the group. Andrea has proven herself to be brave and assertive–for example, she was the first to jump off of the bridge in an earlier scene.
I think that we cannot ignore the fact that, at this particular moment, Dickinson is addressing Joel and Nigel as men, and is questioning whether they are doing their duty as men. It is possible that Dickinson will shift in the way he defines gender roles. Nevertheless, elements in the story suggest that there is some legitimacy to what Dickinson is saying here. Joel and Gogs both have a kind of aimless aggression that only finds its fulfillment in fantasy (Gogs can pretends to be tough by punching a dead bear head, while Joel formerly escaped with rowdy video games). Dickinson’s worldview suggests that Joel and Gogs’ aggression will find its proper fulfillment in protecting and providing for others. Joel and Gogs secretly yearn for this.
As this story’s critique of modern society unfolds, it has remained unclear what the women in the group are lacking and yearning for. We may find that they desire and experience yearnings similar to those of the men in the group. It may be that their experience is subtly different. As it stands, we do not yet know the female characters well enough to predict what they will do.
I hope you’re right and that it’s where this is going 🙂
The top right panel of Dickinson is one of the best panels in the comic. Says it all really doesn’t it?
Awww…it just got to the good part. Also grats on getting married 🙂
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