Antics: unwelcome guests 7/11

melting_doll

haha, I love the matching expressions in the last panel. Angry puppy!

farbekrieg

the dogs face in the last 2 panels make me giggle as well

earthwormadam

but where does the poop gooooo

Visti

That puppy is all kinds of great.

Fletcher

Okay, so my site has been hacked again! It was redirecting to one of those "fake antivirus" sites.

I did the same thing I did the other couple of times it has happened, and restored a previous backup of the wordpress installation.

But this time instead of working, it decided to make the entire site inaccessible to me and any visitors.

It could be anywhere from a few hours to a few weeks until I can either get the site back up, or start from scratch on a new site.

I'm gonna spend my usual "comic time" tonight trying to make it work again and waiting for responses from tech support staff, so no comic tonight at least!

After that... brief unintentional hiatus, I guess?

JLM-AWP

Fletcher wrote: »

Okay, so my site has been hacked again! It was redirecting to one of those "fake antivirus" sites.

I did the same thing I did the other couple of times it has happened, and restored a previous backup of the wordpress installation.

But this time instead of working, it decided to make the entire site inaccessible to me and any visitors.

It could be anywhere from a few hours to a few weeks until I can either get the site back up, or start from scratch on a new site.

I'm gonna spend my usual "comic time" tonight trying to make it work again and waiting for responses from tech support staff, so no comic tonight at least!

After that... brief unintentional hiatus, I guess?

I will bring vengeance upon them.

Nobody does this to Copernicus. NOBODY.

bwanie

fuck em right in the ear fletcher, that's some bullshit.

i mean if they had just asked you would be infecting people on your own free will right?

Fletcher

site is recovered! thank you for the well-wishing and threats of vengeance, gel mop and bwanie

here is the new strip:

everything I know about hackers, I learned from bad 90s movies

"Quickly, holojack into the central mainframe!"

"I’m TRYING to, but the security wall is eighty megabits thick!"

"If you don't hack faster, we'll NEVER rescue your girlfriend from the cyber mafia!"

gonna try to draw something other than torsos on yellow for the next one!

NibCrom

Haha. That's a nicely rendered neck beard.

JLM-AWP

I realized that their arms are longer and skinnier than before. Fletcher and Copernicus should work out.

HINT HINT THAT IS A STRIP IDEA

Iruka

Wow this is one of my favorites. Thats sotra what I would imagine an antics fred durst to look like.

farbekrieg

the lack of the patented fletcher action arms in the last panel hurt me...

also those hackers are so buuuuurned

2 Marcus 2 Ravens

Haha so good. Glad you got your site back!

squidbunny

See, the 8-bit Fletcher tie T-shirt should be an actual T-shirt.

Wassermelone

squidbunny wrote: »

See, the 8-bit Fletcher tie T-shirt should be an actual T-shirt.

Its an actual tie:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/hats-ties/9352/

squidbunny

So does this make me more or less out of touch?

In any case, Fletch, that was my favoritest comic of late.

Fletcher

Thanks guys, I was super happy with that one!

Aw dang it, of course the 8-bit tie idea has been done before. Still gonna work on it though (green tie on white, and red tie on brown?)

I'm still (very slowly) working on a bunch of new/reworked shirt ideas, with the eventual aim of rebooting the store with designs I am more proud of

I just want to make sure that they are ideas I really like, as opposed to just putting up whatever in an effort to make quick money

Visti

Green tie on black, console hacker style, goddammit.

Wimble

Fletcher wrote: »

I just want to make sure that they are ideas I really like, as opposed to just putting up whatever in an effort to make quick money

you hippie!

bwanie

look at my indie cred people

marvel at it's throbbing girth and spectacular length

Fletcher

I can't tell if this is funny, I am very tired!

who knows man

I still can't believe the stupid fast food place fired me

you accidentally drop slime-coated needles and razors into twelve burgers, and suddenly you're a "safety hazard"

political correctness gone mad, I tell you

Brainiac 8

Awww, I was hoping this comic would take place outside their house.

Lalilulelo

Fletcher wrote: »

thanks tam!

i don't know why it feels right to add a nose/chin at certain times, but I'm glad it seems to work

by the way, i have always loved yooooooouuuuu-

-r taste in shirtssss

it was fun to do a comic without trying to add a twist at the end or anything

i mean i am always going to rely on twists/reveals as my bread and butter

but hopefully it is not TOO stale without one

(also that last panel was fun to draw!)

Why does that button even exist?

farbekrieg

has grimace fallen on hard times?

bwanie

read the alt text

fletcher, rest assured. i feel the funny in this one.

Fletcher

see, this guy is trying to KILL us

I usually just end up breaking some of your teeth and unimportant face-bones

maybe next time you can THANK me, instead of bleeding all over me with your ungrateful blood

had fun drawing this one! woo, angled perspective-y plane

Brainiac 8

You're redeemed, I loved this one!

Yay, we need more outside comics...give the yellow house a break.

Flay

Okay that last panel got a good laugh out of me.

Fletcher

Thanks flay! that was my favorite one in ages, it was fun drawing other stuff

no I couldn't just wade into the river and pick them up

it was made of LAVA, weren't you listening?

I'm beginning to think you don't trust the accuracy of my stories

but that can't be right, because that would make you a total jerk

Wimble

yay fletcher keep drawing backgrounds and settings and other characters and so on it is fresh air directly applied to my throat!

Fletcher

no backgrounds this time, wimble! just a computer screen

things were so much easier in the good old days

none of this "moral gray area" stuff, just steal a ship and sail away as fast as you can

I didn't really think about it until afterwards, but I disabled comments for this strip on my site to avoid piracy discussion. I suppose it also needs to be avoided here too!

Yay for not thinking ahead far enough.

Nanaki

Poor poor Flether. That movie looks so fun too!

Also, pirates are better than ninjas!

Fletcher

okay JEEZ stop pressuring me, I made a new comic already!!

Can you believe they pay me a hundred thousand dollars a season for this?

Well they don't, and this magical jet pack was very expensive

What I'm trying to say is "give me your wallet, I have a knife"

Enc

That's no tree.

It's a mega-goalie.

Brainiac 8

Haha, I love this one. It reminds me of "Calvin Ball" where the rules and points are made up on the spot to suit whatever you wanted to do at the moment.

Rankenphile

ahahahaha

that first panel

we've had a running joke among my buddies that no matter what you do, it isn't gay if you high-five and talk about sports afterward

which has basically turned into doing stupid shit and yelling "SPORTS" frequently

which makes that first panel a great little comic in its own right

Fletcher

Ha, awesome Rank! My friends and I grunt SPORTS in mockery all the time, but asspats/crotchgrabs/mouthdicks would probably be a good addition to the mix.

I value our friendship, I really do

so listen carefully: I need you to punch me in the brain until I forget what you just said

there is no other way this can work

Paradise

In that last panel, Copernicus's facial expression is so appropriate it hurts.

... you know... from the painful laughter it causes.

Dr Sanchez

Lose the last panel maybe? It's much funnier to me that way.

Always been a fan Fletch. :^:

Paradise

Lose the last panel, are you kidding? No!

Last panel is best panel!