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New Comic: What Dreams May Gun

One more outing for our good buddy Decker Decker.

All in all, things are going pretty good here in the labs.  We've been playing with the site layout a bit.  We've also updated our contact form to help keep the massive throngs of spammers at bay.  You could do the good doctor (and us) a favor by testing our contact form out and letting us know what you think of our recent site changes.

If we don't hear from anyone, we'll just have to assume that everyone simply loves our site update because the form, of course, wouldn't be broken...

Also, on another note, it seems we've been able to put our summer hiatus on hiatus.  You should be seeing more regular content from the folks back in the lab.  It won't be weekly just yet, but we are trying hard for an update every other week at least.

New story starting soon.  Hope you enjoy. Thanks again for the visit!

Oh - one last favor request.  Our comic rankings have took a serious hit from our summer vacation, so we'd greatly appreciate it if anyone could for vote for us over on the voting links page. If you feel like it, vote more than once.  Visit the graveyard; grab some names, along with any friends or relatives you can bully into trekking down to the voting booth.   It may not lower taxes, or give us universal health coverage, but you'll feel warm inside for doing your comic duty...

Again, thanks for dropping by our little universe.

-BA

 

 

 


New Comic: Decker Days: What's In A Name

 
And here we are, out with Decker again - pondering the mysteries of life and the universe, in it's Better Days...

Ok, mebbe not.

So what goes in a name? Not all need a baby naming book. A good goof and set one for life!  Distant relatives with a wonky moniker can be good too.  Money sometimes. Or some other curious fact... mebbe the name of a certain bit of geography, or say what certain people call a running stream?... (ok, bit of an inside joke there)

On another note, we've made some updates to our site layout.  Take a look around, and let know what you think!  More changes may be on the way!

And more Insano too!

-BA


Randomness

Hi folks!

Rest assure, there is more Insano goodness in the works.  We have a followup strip coming up, and a whole new story arc after that!  Woo hoo.

In the meantime, the writer's computer died.  Yay.  Well, it died a few a weeks ago, but a motherboard replacement fixed it.  Now it has had a bad case of filesysem corruption.  Double yay.  Thank you Mr. Uncorruptable NTFS.

Thank goodness for the backup laptop!

I had this idea a while back for doing "Sticky Note Theater" - but it seems someone else has snagged that idea.  Oh well, I don't care.

To kill some time, I thought I'd talk about our ideas, and how we brainstorm, but there really is no method to it.  Just randomness.  Well, with a little madness thrown in to.  It might be a lot of madness actually; I don't think anyone here has ever actually tried to quantify it.  One way we come up with ideas though, is to randomly jot things down on whatever paper is available.  Doodles.  Lotsa people doodle.  Do you realize that a doodle is an idea that is trying to slip away from you?  Like, back in highschool, when you'd doodle and draw random images in the margins of your paper, those were escaping doodles!  Did you ever keep any of those papers?  Any of those doodles? No? Then they've excaped into the wild!

I've lost a lot of doodles too.  Who knows how many the artist have.  Every now then though, we catch a doodle before it escapes for good.  Take yellow sticky notes for example: they are just the right size and medium for catching doodles, just like Poké Ball's for Pokémon.

Here below we have a captured doodle:

 

 

 

He's here, and not going anywhere now.  Whose knows where he might end up?  Just mebbe a Doctor Insano NPT?

Some doodle undergo massive transformations and become beatiful expressions of thought.  Take this REALLY ROUGH doodle below: 

Pretty rough, eh? You can barely make out some humanoid figures, right?
And what's up with that rectangle and spiked ball thingy?

Could you ever believe...

 

  Amazing... if I do say so myself.
That's more along the lines of evolution, than brainstorming!

Still, raw nuggets of ideas like those sticky notes can turn into marvelous works of art if they are treated right.  Yep, every doodle is potential swan, you just have to find the right fairy tale for it to fit into!

Now excuse me, gotta go slap my computer around, and who knows... mebbe knock another doodle loose...

[B.A.]

 


New Comic: Decker Days: Whittle Me This


 And so the Good Doctor returns!

Well, sorta.  At least the kids are out having a good time while the Doctor is whiling away his time working on who knows what in the lab.

Sorry for the comic delay.  Hopefully, this will be it for our annual summer hiatus.  So many things to do! And such little precious time to do them all.  Like the Good Doctor, we’ve been whiling away time in our own personal labs.  Yep, summertime is burning away like a candle.  Gotta get things done!

The next strip is already in process, and should be up much sooner than the last.

Thank you for hanging on with us!

[B.A.] 


New NPT Comic: The Etiquette of Public Privacy

 

 

I'm afraid today
we have nothing
overly special to say.

A rising tide of Flood
is helping keep
the artist at bay.

A mad horde of friends
is keeping the writer
bound and away.

So we here we offer
an ever so slight slight penance.
An NPT comic,
your patronage remittance.

[B.A.]

I'm told the next comic is coming soon.
Serious. Really is.
Being colored with high quality imported crayons from Japan.
Serious. Really is.


Our Confused State

While we wait, here is a simple musing on our confused
state and the obfuscation brought by high definition

compelled to embrace
a mangled media menagerie
we are living in state
of confused high definition

the cables are too short
with connectors bent
smells run touch blurs
and light feels gritty

now all is bared
as a visual hum

we find ourselves
fed an image so clear
that profound errors
strangely just disappear

could it be true
we never knew truth?
yesterday's vision impaired?
nothing but obsolete understandings?

not at all!
silly thoughts all!

loud, big, pretty, with no focus,
to better hide imperfections
that's our high definition
nothing really but a better deception.

[B.A.]


Still here!

Doctor Insano is still around.

Sorry for the delay, everyone keeps getting busy!

The Artist partially blames the Writer for getting him  an XBox for his b-day.  Hmm... hard to argue that point.

Next strip is in production and will hopefully be up soon!

See you around!

[B.A.] 


New Comic: The Mapping of Misdirection: Part 7: Reward


The twisted lens of forlorn hope makes even simple prizes seem ever so dear...
Beware the forlorn prize holder lest any hope bared may morph into shaky fear.

And so ends our trip to the mall of campy councils, hidden histories, and sinister somethings. Decker is due up for a return, and the rest of the Insano crew is getting ready for something big. Less melodrama, lots more boom, and we promise, quite soon.

Do come back soon, and be prepared to explore a world that is Insano!

[B.A.]
 
P.S. Oh yeah - forgot to mention - Doctor Insano has gone completely digital as of this strip.  Woo hoo! 


New Comic: Mapping Part 6: Aftershock: Reflections

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And in those times of doubt and fear, we find we need our friends ever near. Not always to listen to what they say, but to let their presence help guide our way. For he who determinedly walks alone, will find things dark and that all of his help is forever gone. There is much more hope to be found in a friendly ear that what one could ever squeeze from some stale beer. No one’s troubles can ever stop the birth of a new day, but a friend in hand can break open cloudy skies like a mighty sun ray!

Sorry for the delay.
Thanks for hanging around for us!

[B.A.]


Slight delay, again

The good doctor would like to offer his thanks to his loyal readers.  He hasn't gone anywhere but he's been awfully busy at the moment and the lab is running behind.  Never fear though, the pencils are down and the ink has been poured.  More Insano goodness should be heading your way soon! (barring any more mishaps in the lab that is)

Much thanks for hanging around!

 

[B.A.] 


New Comic: Mapping Part 5: Aftershock: Recollection

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Behind every great hero there is a past, a mystery, triumphs, and memories. Buried in those memories are the things that turn the average Joe into a Super Hero. But while one may rise, another may fall, and thus not all trips down memory lane are pleasant for all.

There are many trials one may face in their lifetime, but few are as difficult as those where you find yourself forced to question a loved one. Such trials and tribulations have been known to wreck some, strengthen others, and make a few either entirely crazed or wholly bitter. The endurance of such situations though, can not only bring one new insight, but also form needed bonds that one might not ever thought possible, or ever saw the need for before…

[B.A.]


Hot Water: Journal Entry #1


The Journal

A new section we will be adding soon is the "Journal".  It will be a place where we drop various types of writings, concerning various types of topics.  You can click here to see what we have posted so far.

Hope you find something to amusing yourself with, or at least, think about.

Thanks for  stopping by!

[B.A.]


Slight delay

Hey everyone.  Sorry.  It's been a busy few weeks.  The next comic has been delayed, but never fear: its’ production is underway!  It should be posted at our normal time next Sunday.  Hope to see everyone then!

[B.A.]


Sage Comics launches

We are pleased to announce the launch of Sage Comics.
(We're actually running a bit behind on that too.  It was launched three days ago!)

The good Doctor was invited to join several months ago, and it is our honor to announce his acceptance of said invitation.  You can visit Sage Comics here and find a wide variety of comics that cover a vast range styles, genres, and art forms: from comedy to drama, from fantasy  to science fiction, and from manga style to those of the good 'ol American comic book school of design.

We hope enjoy.

[B.A.] 


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