WEDNESDAY AUGUST 8... CB will be late.  Most likely Thursday.  Thanks for understanding, you wonderful yous, you.

Not sure why, but as of 8:45AM today the site hasn't updated, although there's definitely a comic in the queue ready to go.  Particularly disappointing for me, as July 25 2012 marks the TWELFTH ANNIVERSARY of Chopping Block!

First comic appeared July 25, 2000.  In fact, why don't you just click <FIRST up there, and check it out, while we wait?!

I'll be TWEETING today's comic later on if the site doesn't update, so if you don't already follow me on Twitter, you better go do that, y'think?

THANK YOU ALL so very very much for reading CB and sticking with me through the years.  If nobody liked it or cared about Butch, I wouldn't have been drawn to keep coming back every time I thought I'd quit.  I can't tell you how much I appreciate you.

Further delay

Sick kid + shitty job, which I guess is preferable to the inverse of the two. Sorry, but I'll make it right. Or die trying. Say, that does sound restful...

Busy busy busy...

So obviously I shot the buffer I was building straight to hell. Today's CB is written & pencilled, but I ran out of time to ink it. Should be up for tomorrow. Thanks for your patience!

I love you all!

Except for that guy. No, the other one. Yes, him. I know, right?

CB is late...

Fear not! Chopping Block is late but it WILL update tomorrow! All is well. What's that? No one noticed? Oh. Well, carry on then.

what? did you say TWO comics this week?

That's right. Check back here for another CB on Friday the 13th! Because, well, it's Friday the 13th, after all!

revelation

So here's what I'm thinking.  At just one CB per week, I've already got almost a month's worth of updates in the buffer.  I've probably got half-a-year's worth of gags written.  I'll keep shoveling 'em into the buffer, and once I've got enough in there to guarantee YOU a full 2012 of CB updates at the Wednesday-only pace, I'll start filling in here and there.  Maybe an extra CB on a random Friday, perhaps a Monday and a Thursday will slip in there somewhere.  Who knows?  Maybe I'll be able to get Butch up to two kills a week... more?  Time will tell.

If that sounds like a cheap way to just get you checking back in every day to see if there's an update, well...  All I can tell you is that I am OVERWHELMED and HUMBLED by how many of you have let me know that, during my most recent year-long unannounced absence, you've been checking the site regularly, hoping for more.  I appreciate all of you dear, sick, twisted souls more than I can tell you.  I don't want to pull the vanishing trick on you ever again.  What I want is to give you MORE Butch.  I shall endeavor to do so.

Also, if you haven't already done so, feel free to follow my extremely lame twitter feed.  I try to be hilarious over there, but it mostly comes out boring.  Still, there's stuff there to read and look at occasionally.  I don't say much about CB over there, but I try to say or post something most days.  And if you're following me there, at least I know you know I'm still out here somewhere.  And if I can feel your eyes on me then... well... the tics get harder to suppress and the longer you stare, the more likely you are to see something awkward and uncomfortable.  And in the end that's what we all really want, isn't it?

still not dead yet

"You've got to be kidding me," right?  That's what you're saying, I know.  "This guy again?  How many times is he going to pull this crap?  Why won't he just die?!"  I know, I know.  I'm wondering the same things.  Yet here we are again.

If you're patient enough to put up with my disappearances and reappearances and you keep coming back when I do, and you keep reading and enjoying, and you don't hate me too too much because of it all, then Yog-Sothoth bless your delicious little morsel of a soul.  If you're not so patient or forgiving, and you think I stopped being funny about five comebacks ago (assuming you ever thought I was in the first place), I completely understand.  I'm sick of me, too.  I'm an asshole.  Undisputed.  Yet here we are again.

Like the movie psychos he's patterned after, Butch just keeps crawling out of the lake or the fire or the grave or what have you and back into my life, and what choice do I have but to hop on his sturdy back and come along for the ride?  ...Looking over his shoulder at you, watching the knife plunge in, hearing your short, sharp exhale, watching the blade slide out, your blood's hot sticky spray, the coppery smell, watching the divine spark snuff out behind dilating pupils as your knees buckle as you are reduced to a twitching, cooling sack of meat and organs... hilariously.  I'm taking it slow this time, though.  Easing back in.  One kill a week.  Portion control.  Feed the demon slowly, in the hopes that it won't grow corpulent and ponderous and be forced to crumple and hibernate under its own weight as it has so many times past.  So here we are again.

For the time being, we're going to be updating WEDNESDAY (Addams) only.  Once a week, until I get my feet under me and we see how it's going.  Additionally I may or may not update this blog more or less frequently, and from time to time may add pieces to the creative vomitings page when the whim smites me.  So.  Thanks for coming back.  Here we go again...

another test

Ooh looky.  Another test.  How thrilling.

Test post.

This post is a test.  A TEST, I SAY!