War Games - Part 6

Alternate Title:  Now Stop, Then Wiggle Wiggle Wit It

You can always expect satire from Super U. that stimulates you intellecutally, such as the gem above.

Super U. can't go on without your support, so please take a moment to check out the book I have for sale, and the merch as well.  The merch is dirt-cheap, guys.  As always, if there's some merch you'd consider purchasing but isn't available, let me know and I can probably whip it up for you.

When Chapter 4 wraps up, I'll be compiling a new book for sale.

To be honest, it's been awful quiet 'round these parts lately.  I have to seriously consider whether or not I should continue the comic after this chapter.  That's not, like, a threat, that's real talk.  I love making comics.  I want to do it all the time.  But there's only so much I can do to promote the comic on my end.  I need your help!  I need you guys to tweet it, share it on Facebook... whatever helps.

Ideas for how I can improve the comic or my online presence?  I'm listening.  I'm not looking to get rich from drawing webcomics, guys.  I just want your eyeballs.

War Games - Part 5

Shit's gettin' real now, son.  And by real, I mean fictional, illustrated characters participating in a holographic simulation.  So, the opposite of real, I guess.

I'm trying out a new site design (again).  I hope you like it.  It was feeling a little "loud."  Still terrible navigation, though... possibly even worse than before.  Any of my friends want to take a peak at my HTML and tell me how to move that "HOME / OLDER POSTS" text from the bottom of the page up to the top?  I can't even find it in the code.  It's entirely possible Blogspot won' t let me.

The Walters Files: Doorway

I'm still on hiatus, but I was reorganizing the site yesterday (I separated the students and the staff Walters Files into their own sections), I remembered that I still had one more to do.  Doorway is a minor character, but I still think she's pretty cool.  In a different sort of comic, I feel like she could really hold her own as a character.

But that's it, though!  There's a character bio for every student now, except Bobby Rocket, but (SPOILERS) he was meant to be a thug in the employ of Rex Ruthless from the beginning, and he's already in supervillain jail, so I don't even think it'd be appropriate to do one for him at this point.  All the staff's done, too.  Well, except for King Hrölf, but I haven't even used him yet!

As for a hiatus update, I'm thinking it's going to be over pretty soon.  I've gotten some things down on paper and I've found a bit of inspiration to continue on.  At the very least, I'd like to complete Chapter 4, so I can compile Chapters 3 and 4 into a book.

Thanks for your patience, and for your support.  And do me a solid and leave comments!  It reminds me that people are reading my stuff, and I could use the ego boost / constructive criticism.

Spiritorum Awayos

It occurred to me I have characters I haven't used since Chapter 1, Conjuressa, the magic teacher, being one of them.  Even then, at the time, she was just a sight gag.  I'll have to do a Walters File for her pretty soon.  Of course, if you're interested in her background, or any teacher's for that matter, you can always head over to the SSS and look up their name in the tag cloud.  And if there's ever a character you'd like to see all the strips he or she is present in here at Super U., just click on their label below any post they're in (or go to their Walters File and find their label there).

I doubt I need to prove how much of a geek I am, but here's another example: not only have I created fictional elective classes for my fictional students, but I put some thought into which students would take Comprehension of the Arcane Arts, which students would take Archery and Marksmanship and which students didn't give a crap about either one of those classes and elected to take nothing at all during their 7th period.

At least once per chapter, I like to take you through a typical day at Super U., class by class.  The last several strips have reflected the students' classes, in order.  That said, the next class should be World History with The Commander, but I'm gonna have to skip that one this time around because I've been chomping at the bit to get to 9th period, which is Combat Education with Mr. Walters.  

Now that Birdo and E.P.I.C. are dead, and Bobby Rocket's in jail, Mr. Walters is going to have to make further adjustments to the Combat Education teams.  SPOILER: It still won't go well for Aiden.

There's another reason I need to skip it, too.  See, this strip here is #98, which means I've almost hit my 100th strip.  And there's something special I want to do.

All Up In It

Busy as hell over here with the move, a few sicknesses, and all sorts of other situations that keep me from doing really important things like sharing my feelings and profound insights with you on a blog.  So instead, I'll just give you the funny, and you like /share / join, and together we'll agree that, today, it is good enough.

Click It or Stick It

Initiative

Hey hey, managed to get the strip done!  Things will be crazy around here next week too, so I make no promises, but I will try my best.


Don't forget this weekend, in a celebration of sorts of the 25th strip, we'll be starting the Saturday Super Stories.  If you're interested in learning more about the Super U-niverse, check it out.  Jason's got some really great ideas, and you might enjoy to learn that the Super U-niverse is more than just a satirical look at a world that contains superheroes.  


As I've said before, beyond the funny, there's a story being told.  My challenge is to tell it in a world where punchlines are mandatory and your window into the world must be summed up in three or four rectangular panels each week.


If you have a moment today, please take the time to send some good thoughts my nephew's way.  Today, more than ever, he and his family really need it.


Please continue to help me keep the comic going.  I'm still struggling with the fact that Facebook has done pretty much jack-squat to help me get this thing off the ground (so much for "networking"), and Google + is... well, whatever.  Just today I gave in to the all-devouring creature that is Google's demands and linked up my Blogger with my Google + page, so that way the five guys on my Google + page who don't read the comic will have a more ample opportunity to not read the comic. 


It pains me to consider the next step is going to be making fliers and business cards and trying to figure out how to make online ads and all that stuff.  Guh, marketing.


Share / Like / Join, and thanks.
-Matt

Keep it gutter.  Keep it grimey.

Happenstance

Just a fair warning... I'll be picking up a lot of actual work in the next couple weeks.  I'll also be relocating to a new apartment, and there is much packing and sorting and throwing away of things to be done.  I'll do my best not to let the strip suffer, but I thought I had better state this now in the event that a strip or two ends up late, or looks a bit rushed.  I did manage to pencil next week's strip already in anticipation of how hectic things will be around here in the near future.


Next week will be the 25th strip, and to mark the event, the following Saturday we will be starting Super Saturday Stories, which Jason has dubbed the SATURDAY SUPER STORIES.  I like that name better.
These stories will focus on the blogs of Black Sapphire, a secret protege of Mr. Walters, the former Dark Avenger, outside of Super U.  Through these stories we will learn along with Black Sapphire about the past of the Super U-niverse, when the washed-up faculty of today were the Earth's protectors, and maybe some behind-the-scenes and side events as well.  Jason will be writing these stories, and I will be editing them and adding commas and shit (because I have a thing for commas) and we'll be putting one up every Saturday. 


I've gone back on the South Beach diet again, so I can lose 40 lbs. that I can immediately gain back when I go off the South Beach diet.  It's day two, and I could already murder someone over a potato.


Commentary on the current set of strips:  I'm having too much fun raiding Google images for jungle backgrounds during this Dangerous Room segment.  I like the realism of the hologram environments juxtaposed with the sad, simple backgrounds that I draw when they're in the "real world."  The fact that the holograms looks so much better amuses me. 
You may have seen on previous strips that I occasionally just insert a real image like a poster on a wall or a lunch tray.  I actually do this because I'm still experimenting to find ways to make Super U. unique among the veritable plethora of webcomics available on the web.  I can't tell if it's working yet, but I've had fun with it, and in the end that's what it's all about, right?


Share / like / join, and thanks!
-Matt

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