those politicians that you carry around in your pocket, like so many nickels and dimes

Not much to talk about here today. Split roughly into 4 blog chunks.

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Brian Jaques died.
One of my most favorite childhood authors and one the few authors where I sought out and read each book he ever wrote. He is prominently known as the author of the Redwall books. A very long series of stories taking place in an imaginary medieval land where animals have huge violent battles with each other, and the good ones live in an area called Mossflower. There's an Abbey there called Redwall which is basically a massive fortress church that is a sanctuary for the sick, poor, injured, and defenseless. To the north of the land was deserts full of warlords. To the south was the ocean where Salamandastron stood. A hollowed out Volcano where badger warriors lived. Badgers would FUCK SHIT UP in these books. Like the Hulk. You did not fuck with the Badgers or their army of rabbits called The Long Patrol.
In the ocean itself is where the badguys lived. Vermin: rats, weasels, lizards, bats, snakes, stoats, etc you get the idea.
The books were such fun. Full of large eventful stories, funny lines, memorable characters, and often packed with alot of great little poems and limericks.

Give him a name and leave him a while
Veil may grow to be evil and vile
Although I hope my prediction will fail
And evil so vile will not live in Veil
- poem describing Veil, the asshole who would later save his only friend but only when it became an act of desperation to do so.

The only other thing I can think of these days that compares to the Redwall series are the fantastic Mouseguard comics.

Anyway, I'm very sad he's dead.
Especially since I'm sure that now he's dead, someone somewhere is going to produce some big expensive animated film based on one of his stories and completely remove the violence. They already did it once. And it sucked. They'll do it again.
It's a shame the director of Watership Down and Plague Dogs fell off the face of the earth. He'd be perfect for that sort of job.

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Next order of business

I've been selling alot of stuff from my store in the last couple of weeks. Every couple of days I'm selling 3+ shirts. Usually customized using zazzle's store tools.
So I can only assume they are all being bought the same person, as I usually sell like 1 shirt a months.

Sir or Madame, whoever you are, thank you! If possible, please contact me and let me know how the shirts age over time. Or send pictures of yourself wearing them!

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Third order of business, Weebl put up the next episode of the Cadbury Creme Egg ads I've been doing for this year.
It's a parody of Back to the Future. Next one is Tron. Anyway, this one was alot of work so enjoy:


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And finally, in the best news of all, Valve has updated the beta for TF2. Amongst a lot of small changes there were some BIG ones.
New Medic gun that charges 50% faster uber and heals 50% faster and also allows the medic to run as fast as people who run faster than him. The detriment being that the Uber does not make you invincible or shoot crits. It just makes your healing rate go 3 times as fast.
A STRANGE GUN.


The best part of the update however was they finally fixed the Pyro class. For almost forever now Pyros have been the underdog class. Not really good at anything and probably the easiest class to kill unless you were previously injured when facing one. A short range class with no way of getting into close range without being shot to death first.
Valve fixed him hard.
New flaregun that explodes and can launch the pyro into the air. The flaregun also crits on burning people no matter the range. In short the Pyro is now beastly and an actual threat. The best part is how far you can fly.



Since this has been something I've been wanting ever since this game was released, you can imagine I am very happy with the results. And in my glee I decided to make a comic about it, inspired by the affable webcomic The Sweet Brother and his friend Infernal Jeffrey