This site's been getting a ton of hits lately...

For some reason a lot of people have been coming here lately. Whoever you are, thanks for visiting. The comic strip is finished (you can read it all here: Part 1 and Part 2) but I have some plans in the works for new comics soon. I live in South Korea now and still don't own a computer or scanner, but I'll find a way.

Also, go USA basketball in Beijing. The US could fail at every other event and I'd be fine as long as we win the gold in basketball.

What did I do last night? I went to Kanye West's Glow in the Dark tour! I went with my sister Megan and we had pretty great seats. Lupe Fiasco was there and I love him. NERD was good and Rihanna was OK I guess. Kanye of course was stupendous.

New comics coming tomorrow. In the meantime I hope everyone liked my guest comics. Other than comics I've spent the last few weeks on school junk.

-I loved this New York Times Magazine feature on Chris Matthews. The part about Matthews' obsession with Tim Russert is hilarious and reveals a lot about both men.

-I'm making my way through a few books, to varying degrees of success. I picked up "Clockers" because it's by Richard Price, who wrote for the Wire, which I believe to be the best television show of all time. "Clockers" is, unsurprisingly, a lot like the Wire, but in a good way. I'm also reading "Can't Stop, Won't Stop" by Jeff Chang. It's the best book I've ever read about the history of rap music. And finally, I'm trying to finish "Negro with a Hat" about Marcus Garvey, but it's slow and long so I'm not sure if I'll finish it before school ends.

-And of course I'm constantly watching the NBA Playoffs. I'm rooting for the Mavs, Hornets, Spurs and Celtics and rooting against the Suns, Pistons and Lakers.

I think that was my longest blog entry ever.

The last couple days of comics were done by my friend and budding zine mogul Dave Gilbert. His zine Wolf Boy is awesome, and is at www.wolfboy.org

That's it

The end of the story. It feels good to be done with it. I have some neat comic stuff planned for the rest of the semester, but this story line is done forever, unless I decide to do a short epilogue at the end of the semester.

And here's the extra story...

Just a week or two left

Lobster Avenue is almost done. After two years I'm nearly done with this story. After that I have a couple cool surprises, but for now I'm focused on finishing the comic for good.

Remember:

More Michelle Obama

I know I linked to a Newsweek story about Michelle Obama last week, but this New Yorker profile is even better. I just like how real a person she is. First ladies during my lifetime have been horribly awful people, from Nancy Reagan's soulless corpse, Barbara Bush's aristocratic vileness, Hillary's cut-throat ambition and Laura Bush's Stepford Wife routine, they're all just bad. I'm as excited for Michelle Obama as I am for her husband.

I like today's comic...

I think it came out real nice. Hopefully other people like it too

Today's comic sucks...

I've been getting my comics up really early lately. I'm the best around, nothin's ever gonna keep me down...

Two things:

1. The comics for the next month or two won't have a ton of jokes, so please don't be disappointed in me. It's just how the story goes.

2. I really enjoyed this Newsweek story on Michelle Obama. I like Michelle Obama a lot, sometimes more than Barack, and I'm hoping she'll be First Lady.

And I updated the comics from this year so go read all those if you want to have a fun fifteen minutes.

I love this new Kanye West video, directed by Spike Jonze.