Muskrat Ramblings
“Free Holiday Comic Book,” you say?…
posted by John

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

I wanted to give you all a Christmas present! So here’s a free copy of Dork Tower #7: the Holiday Special! It even contains a free game inside, as well, “Dealer’s Room”!

HOW MUCH FREE CAN YOU STAND?

Just go to Drive Thru Comics, and from now until January 1, you can get the PDF for free! (You may even test out some of the free iPad (etc) comic book readers out there.

BUT WAIT – THERE’S MORE!

We’ve got to make room for new electrons in 2012, so from now until January 1, we’re having a 25% off sale on all Drive Thru Comics PDFs of:

Dork Tower

SnapDragons

This included the foreign translations up there! Learn Spanish with Dork Tower!

Next week, I’ll try and run through some of the things I hope to accomplish in 2012 – Dork Tower’s 15th anniversary. But until then, THANK YOU all so much for reading my stuff these last few years. I deeply, truly appreciate it!

And have yourself a Dorky Little Christmas!

John

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Dork Tower * Out of the Box * Munchkin
Dr. Blink: Superhero Shrink * My Little Cthulhu
Also: Much Stuff I’m Probably Forgetting

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A NOTE TO NEW READERS ABOUT THE CURRENT DORKTOWER.COM ARCHIVES:

I hate those click-thru full-page ads more than you can possibly know. Read all about it here: http://www.dorktower.com/2011/11/22/muskrat-ramblings-november-22-2011/

Also: the archives are broken. VERY broken. We’re working on it. In the meantime, I hope this helps out at least a little:

The entire archives, with links, earliest to latest – https://serialist.net/archive/1159

The first strip itself can be found here: http://www.dorktower.com/2001/01/01/comics-archive-1/

Changes coming as soon as possible. Honest.

A NOTE TO NEW READERS ABOUT THE CURRENT DORKTOWER.COM ARCHIVES:

I hate those click-thru full-page ads more than you can possibly know. Read all about it here: http://www.dorktower.com/2011/11/22/muskrat-ramblings-november-22-2011/

Also: the archives are broken. VERY broken. We’re working on it. In the meantime, I hope this helps out at least a little:

The entire archives, with links, earliest to latest – https://serialist.net/archive/1159

The first strip itself can be found here: http://www.dorktower.com/2001/01/01/comics-archive-1/

Changes coming as soon as possible. Honest.

During December, 2010, Dork Tower is switching to a Tuesday-Thursday updates, due to the holidays, and that I’ve an extremely cute two-year old daughter WHO MUST BE TAUGHT THE VALUE OF “A MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL.”

We shall be returning to Monday-Wednesday-Friday updates in the first week in January, 2011.

We apologize for the cartoonist trying to get a life.

Just time for a couple of quick updates, in a desperate attempt to make sure there’s SOME blog-like material. I’m on a conference call now (DON’T TELL! DON’T TELL), and I think we all realize today’s entry won’t be up for a Webby award anytime soon, so, in brief:

Dr. Blink: Superhero Shrink is now available for download at DriveThruComics.com, lovingly written by yours truly, drawn by the inestimable Christopher Jones, and inked and lettered by the inexplicable Melissa Kaercher! WOOOOOOT!

The Onion said, “Dr. Blink is a witty, fast-paced, intelligent spoof that pokes eruditely into superhero psyches.” The ONION, people! The ever-lovin’ ONION!

If you like Dork Tower, I sure hope you give Dr. Blink a try. I’m tremendously proud of it (indeed, I think the “Wonder Boy” story is the best thing I’ve ever written), and, noted here a few weeks before, TEAM BLINK IS WORKING ON ALL-NEW DR. BLINK MATERIAL NOW! (And I, of course, am busy as a beaver working on all-new Dork Tower comic books, too).

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Also: a little hint as to something coming in October, from the great folks at Gaming Paper. (I love their stuff, by the way)

What? You want MORE of a hint? OK:

Last hint: the words “Wrapping” and “Paper” will be included in the product description.

OH, IT’S DORK TOWER WRAPPING PAPER, PEOPLE! IT’S FRAKING DORK TOWER WRAPPING PAPER!

Grin.

Coming soon to a gaming store near you. Details as they become detailed.

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By the way, several folks following me on Facebook and Twitter have asked for high-res images of the characters in their Christmas garb. So, if you want to make your own Christmas tags or cards. just click on the Muskrat below for a high-res jpg image.

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Phew. I don’t think the folks I’m on the conference call with have heard me typing yet.

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Disappointing news: I won’t be making it to Essen this year, for Spiel. I’ll miss my many German friends, and I’ll also miss hanging out with my pulblishers Feder & Schwert and Pegasus Spiele. HOWEVER, Steve Jackson and I have discussed evil plans to go tyere together, next year, as part of Munchkin’s 10th anniversary celebrations.

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On the plus side, this means I will be at Rock-Con, and Dorkstock VIII, October 22nd-24th.

Rock-Con 2010 Game Fair is the Midwest’s premier regional gaming convention. This year we welcome you to celebrate Rock-Con’s 37th anniversary! The convention features historical and fantasy miniature gaming, collectible miniatures, role playing, collectible card and board gaming events covering the entire spectrum of adventure gaming!

Hope to see you there!

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CRUD! They heard me typing!

OK…will do better next time.

Yer bestest pal forever,

====== John