Apologies for the tardiness of today’s comic. We were having some server issues that prevented me from uploading it. Something about the disk quota being exceeded. I had to delete a few non-essentials off the server to allow me upload access again. I’m working with my web master to see that we don’t bump our heads against the ceiling like that in the future.

Now that we have that out of the way, I want to remind everyone to pre-order a copy of "Theater Hopper: Year One" before the day is out!

Today is Friday and I know that means payday for a lot of you. I understand that everyone has bills to pay, but if you could set aside a little something-something for us and this book, I would be eternally grateful. Orders took a little bit of a dip on Wednesday and Thursday, so let’s end the week strong!

As always, don’t forget to take advantage of our excellent street team offer! Pre-order a copy of the book for yourself and get five of your friends to do the same and I’ll send you a $20 gift certificate to Fandango.com! It’s like getting your copy of the book for free!

So today is the last day of the Benbots storyline. I hope you guys liked it. I had a lot of fun putting it together. Man, especially Wednesday’s comic. What a blast!

I wish I could have shown a little bit more robot carange because that would have been a lot of fun. But at the same time, I’m a real slave to the concept of ending storylines on a Friday. I can’t end them in the middle of the week or on a Monday. It just feels… wrong.

So if I ended up stretching out this arc to next Friday, I think it would have worn out it’s welcome. I really didn’t have much more to say beyond Jared walking home with Ben Affleck’s head in a bag.

I had a cool experience yesterday that I want to share with you guys.

You’re all familiar with the web comics newspaper Zoinks, right? Well, if not, you should really get a subscription. Because these guys do a bang-up job of promoting a really wide variety of comics. I got the first few issues and they make all of it interesting. The interviews, the articles… they even publish individual comics from all over. Great stuff.

Anyway, I had the opportunity go to one of my favorite local comic book shops and sit down with Nathaniel Payne – who, incidentally run a great web comics commentary site called The Evil Network – for a two hour interview appearing in the June edition of Zoinks. Nathaniel happens to work in the Des Moines area, so the opportunity was there to meet face-to-face and we went for it.

It’s really nice to do an interview with someone in person rather than through e-mail because when I answer questions through e-mail, the answers always feel a little bit canned. I think Nathaniel got some really good answers last night because he asked really good questions that extrapolated into other subjects. It doesn’t hurt that he did his homework a little bit. It was really a good time.

I should probably mention that Chris Cantrell from Please Rewind is also being interviewed in the upcoming issue. Basically it’s Zoinks "BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE EXTRAVAGANZA!" issue. So it should hold a lot of interest to everyone here. Be sure to reserve a copy before it goes to print!

To get you guys excited about it, I’m posting the cover to the issue that Chris and I collaborated on. It was a lot of fun. The whole Zoinks experience was aces all around.

That about does it for me. Remember to pre-order a copy of the book and have a great weekend!