Weird Crime Theater

Well, an ALL NEW Weird Crime Theater story is beginning next week! For real? Really? Yes, definitely probably! At 28 pages, it will also be the longest WCT so far as well.

It’s definitely new anyway — REALLY new. I began writing it in October, as I recall, and only finished it a few weeks ago. There was a spell there, though, in which I read LOVE AND ROCKETS: NEWS STORIES #4 — an atomic bomb of a comic book — and became creatively incapacitated, wondering what the hell I was doing and if WCT would be stuck spinning its wheels in a kind of Maggie the Mechanic phase for all time. Not that there’s anything wrong with those early Maggie stories, but if you’ve been reading L&R for the long haul, you know what I mean. Finally, I realized Xaime was telling me to move it forward. Suddenly I was galvanized and wrote a story that was tonally unlike any of the ones that came before.

Don’t worry though: I guarantee you this is the only comic story you will read this year in which Amelia Earhart rubs her tits in a dude’s face.

KS

1) We had a large back inventory of scripts. I never thought the day would come, but Mulele has now exhausted all but one (which needs a major reupholstering). As a result, some time ago Mulele requested a new script: he wanted a mystery and he wanted it long. I sent him a 24-pager, and I’m working on some revisions. So, there will be a really fresh, long, new WCT story hitting the site hopefully in the next 2-3 weeks…?

2) In the meantime Mulele is working on some changes and additions for the print edition. Hey, wasn’t he doing that six months ago? you may ask. Uh, whatever. We’re really almost across the finish line now. So there will be no new pages up for a couple of weeks. Except…

3) There is a 1-page ad parody which I had intended only for the print edition, but that may go up on the site this week to keep you sated.

4) In site news, as of today, I am pulling down Blog Entry #305 “Old Darrin / New Darrin.”

Back when the site started up, this was my first attempt at internet snark: basically just pictures of all the John Connor actors from the Terminator franchise, and all the Rusty Griswolds from the Vacation movies.

Mulele once (jokingly?) said this was the only thing that I’d written for the site that he’d actually read (Note: There are only about 10 words total). Now it is the most visited page on the site.

We get about 20 hits a day for the comic, and 100-150 for that page. This is not an exaggeration (sadly, neither of those figures are). I would say that 90% of those “false positives” as I call them are image searches for “Rusty Griswold Christmas Vacation” because of the popularity of Big Bang Theory — a show I do not watch — and people looking for pictures of a young Johnny Galecki. In fact, I myself just ripped the pictures off someone else’s site and dumped them here. If I were to do it again, I would at least make all the pictures the same size.

Anyway, I don’t particularly care for that show, and I really don’t care for the odd traffic. None of those visitors click through to the comic. So farewell to the most popular thing I’ve ever written.

5) Did you know I’ve been writing reviews for Deconstructing Comics every week? Why don’t you head on over there and check them out! http://deconstructingcomics.com/?cat=647

KS