So here’s the annual kraken, this time celebrating the site’s fifth birthday.

Obviously this marks a break from previous birthday kraken illustrations, which usually depict actual birthday shenanigans, but who knows—maybe invading desolate moonscapes is a cephalopod space-birthday tradition in its own right.

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So J Sherer and I just launched a new comics section at Timeslingers.com, and the above is just the first of this new breed of stories. There will be more to follow sooner or later, depending on how much time we have to spare between putting the first season’s ebook together and getting ready for season two.

But in the meantime, feel free to marinate in the lessons learned from this cautionary tale of time travel and avian lasers.

Yes I know, I just used Mr. Stay Puft two weeks ago, but I’m sure a bunch of people were thinking the same thing…

Blatantly springboarding off Josiah’s post because it’s such an awesome concept.

This is a concept I was playing around with last year, though I’m still not sure if I have any official plans for it. So, I guess it seems fairly appropriate today to just drop it into the blog for fun.

Since this week has been pretty crazy, I’m just going to be lazy and give you a panel from the comic book I’m (slowly) working on with Jay Sherer.

This topic’s sparse contributors:

• Caleb: Lady in the Closet
• Josiah: Narrative Glass

Special thanks to Kevin Cornell and his indispensable guide to drawing your own thrilling space adventure, without which you would have been spared this arbitrary tangent.