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I enjoy Spectacle's boundless enthusiasm, especially in the face of serious property damage. No smoking roof will get in the way of her happy fun buddy movie!

If you are lucky enough to live in the Canadian Maritimes, I'm a guest at Animaritime, which is this coming weekend (yes, the July 1st weekend. No fireworks for me) in Moncton, New Brunswick. I'll be there to talk about making comics and sell my books (Zombies Calling, Ellsmere, Brain Camp and my self-published Superhero Girl book) as well as some really pretty prints and buttons and other stuff. So come and visit me and talk to me about comics. I'm hoping to find fellow Fullmetal Alchemist nerds (the manga, not the anime) with which to be super geeky and fangirly. I don't get to do this often, so am looking forward to it. :D

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So Tuesday updates it is! Tuesdays really work best for me, as Monday nights are pretty much the only weeknight I don't have something going on.

And see? Spectacle's not so stupid after all, attacking someone because they wore a hoodie with the hood up, what nonsense. There's actual photographic proof that Superhero Girl is evil! How will our hero explain her way out of this one? (Spectacle's disappearing/reappearing arm socks also cameo in this comic. I'm amazingly bad at keeping track of fashion details.)

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Hee hee! That whole 'holding someone at arm's length while they flail frantically at you' is kind of my favourite thing ever. I like how both Superhero Girl and Spectacle are surprised SHG can actually do that. Long arms, FTW! But don't worry about that crappy TV being smashed, Superhero Girl. Now you have an excuse to by an expensive flatscreen with all the money you don't have!

And with this comic, we are pretty much caught up with the current strips, so next week The Adventures of Superhero Girl will be going weekly instead of twice-weekly. I've been blown away by the support everyone's shown for the comic, and I hope the change in update schedule won't dissuade you from continuing to pass the SHG link around. It's been great fun to have a comic that updates more than once a week (a new thing for me!), but now the buffer's pretty much gone, so the SHG schedule must now reflect the rate at which I draw these comics ... which is one a week. :)

As for what day SHG will update, well, does anyone prefer a particular day? I really have no opinion... if there is a definite preference, I'll update that day. If not ... uh, I'll let my cat choose. :D

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Oh crap! I sense possible fisticuffs in the future! Have at thee!

Well, I liked Spectacle enough that I wanted to bring her back and make her do stuff. Not quite sure what yet since I finished drawing this storyline, but I'm sure it'll be SPECTACULAR. (Or not.)

We're actually getting very close to the current comics, and when we do, Superhero Girl will be going once a week instead of twice a week. It's been awesomely fun to do twice a week updates for these past 7 months or so, but I only draw one SHG comic a week so can't go any faster than that. O wells!

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My boyfriend Tim (he also draws comics) deserves a co-writing credit on this one, since he came up with the idea. Once upon a time we were both Lost nerds (I hated the ending to the show, so am no longer a Lost nerd. He still is. We fight about that ending constantly), and we thought it was pretty funny that whenever Charlie The Bloody Rock God (played by the dude who also played Merry in Lord of the Rings) put the hood to his hoodie up, he turned evil. All the island trembled at the wrath of Evil Charlie. It was a very consistent character trait. Thus it's become shorthand that whenever a character walks around with the hood to their hoodie up, they are automatically Evil.

Anyway, this begins the Saga of Mistaken for Evil Superhero Girl!

Oh yeah, and thanks for all the amazing villain names for Tuesday's comic. I had kind of a disastrous work week, so I need to go through them and pick out my favourites another time, but some of them are really awesome. Nicely done, readers! Y'all the best.

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Let's think of names for all these villains! ... um ... you guys, go! I got nothing. (Evil Mime? The last guy is my favourite. I've no idea who he is or what he does, but I enjoy his snazzy mask and necklace.)

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Yeah, and that was pretty much my experience with knitting. I picked it up for about a year, because I really wanted an artsy hobby that wasn't drawing. When drawing changes from being The Thing You Do For Fun to Your Job your relationship with it really changes. Basically, sitting and drawing, which I used to do to relax, became work and I didn't want to do it in the evenings and weekends, 'cause, y'know, I'd spent 60 hours during the work week drawing. So I took up knitting. I made a hat. It took me eight months to make the hat, and I never made anything else. Knitting proved to be too much work. I wanted to do something light and easy, but like any skill, knitting needed to be studied and practiced in order to be good at it. And I didn't want to do the work.

Maybe I'll take up tennis...