I’m going to skip commenting on this page and just announce that finally I have something you can buy… the Bearmageddon posters are now for sale!
These posters are 27″ wide by 13.5″ tall. This is the first piece of Bearmageddon merchandise ever, and any purchases are greatly appreciated because so far this web comic has only cost me money to produce. I’m not complaining, only saying that when you buy a poster you are not only getting a cool poster, your supporting the project. I hope to make more merch as time goes by, but that will largely depend on if this sells or not. I really want to get to the point where I am mass-producing octo-teddy bear popples.
The other big event of the day is that Axe Cop: Bad Guy Earth the collected edition is out in comic stores today!
This is my favorite published work of my own so far. It represents a massive undertaking in a real experiment in creating stories with my little brother. It is a full color epic tale created by playing with my brother, living with him for a full month and taking notes, brainstorming and just trying to find ways to get a full-sized story out of him. In this collected edition I have added 30+ pages of extra stuff, mostly a detailed look at the making of the book. I assume most of you who are here are Axe Cop readers, but if you are not and have been curious about it, this is a great place to start. You can read Bad Guy Earth on its own without reading previous Axe Cop material, but once you read it my hope is of course that you will want to go back and catch up on the web comics. Bad Guy Earth was print-exclusive and was never on the web, so if you have only read Axe Cop on the web, you have missed this, my favorite Axe Cop story ever told. Also, today is the release in comic shops, but it won’t be in book stores for a couple more weeks. So if you plan on getting it on Amazon or at Barnes and Noble or something, you will have to wait a while longer.
Well, I forgot to letter this page until I was going to post it at 3:45 am after re-watching 3 back to back old episodes of Breaking Bad with my room mate. So it is now 5:25 am and I will be fast asleep when this page posts. I hope you liked it. Thanks for reading, and big thanks to those who buy a poster.
Ethan
Your art, your writing, your build-up and pacing, your characters… inspiring man. Respect.
thanks so much!
This is getting good! Enjoying the build up.
I know it’s awfully winky-winky/on-the-nose, but I’m imagining if the TV character said something like “No parents. No Cops. No Axe. No tent.”… Heh.
yeah I just pulled the text from the script for Into the Wild. I thought it was weird he wanted to go with no axe. I didn’t know axes were corporate whore tools.
Presumably he means AXE Body Spray(R).
ha! Yes, that would be speaking Vince Vaughn’s language a bit more probably. He seems like he could be an Axe guy.
“No axe”? Blasphemer.
“mummy effers” 🙂
This is all kinds of awesome! Super writing and artwork!
thanks! This was one of my favorite pages and Noah did an awesome job on it.
You have an interesting sort of characters for a venture into the bear infested woods. It ought to be interesting.
Is that Dick Cheney in the background in the first panel?
I have a couple more to introduce… I’m very excited to throw a particular one into the mix that will really mix it up.
and no… not Dick Cheney. Just some old dude.
as an insecure, novice writer I thank you guys for the compliments on the pacing, the build up, the writing, etc.
Another compliment- not sure who is doing the lettering (Ethan or Noah) but it’s top notch as well. It’s always well laid out and easy to tell who is speaking. It’s amazing how many comics have poor lettering.
Thanks again. I do the lettering, though I use a font i bought from blambot, so i can’t take create for that. They make the best comic fonts.
haha. A page out of my own life. (this one and the previous) I still haven’t watched the movie but I have those friends.
Ethan! I went to two different comics shops today. Both shops said “Diamond” didn’t deliver Bad Guy Earth with their Darkhorse books. Thought you should know!
Hey – is there a chance to purchase the poster in Germany? (I’m sure i’ll get the book from amazon soon but…) I really want to reward your ambition, creativity and work with which you’re enriching our worlds with imagination and laughs… and again: awesome page-design and interface!
I seriously don’t think this is a good idea at all.
Octo-Teddy Bear Popples!!!! Let that comment please come true.
Octo-Teddy Bear Popples would be excellent, my wife is pregnant now and I just know that my first born would love one of these!
I wish you would have released this as a GN. Just because I’d like to read it all now >_>
That would be great if it was all done now. I’m excited for it to be a book. I prefer books to screens for sure.
I just wanted to repeat what basically everybody else here has said and give you kudos for the awesome comic! Out of all the webcomics i read (which is probably too many for my own good) I always look forward to a bearmageddon update! This is such a different comic from lots of others and the forums and comments are just amazing to read. Like i thought nice people on the internet was a urban legend 0.o. Anyway i cant wait to see some bears eat some people and create some mass hysteria!!
HAHAHA “i want to ride the adventure van”
best line by far
Is it too early for schadenfreude?
beer, bear, beer……….Pot. nice choices