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Not that they need me to encourage you to pile on...

filed under , 29 October 2009, 17:22; byline — Matt Blind

But I’m going to enthusiastically encourage you to participate anyway.

That link over in the left sidebar — yeah, the second one — has been sitting there for like a year now.

Go ahead, click it.

Even better, click this link to Book One, and then this link to the (illustrated, but not comic) text interstitials that have been at least as engaging as the original comic.

Are you hooked yet?

And now, Rob Balder and Co. (there is an artist change, from book one to book two — Jamie Noguchi is being replaced by Xin Ye — Jamie is moving on [moving back?] to other projects; though Xin Ye was identified and selected [I’m assuming] because she was also a fan and an active member on their forums — and so yes, it’s a change but not a revolution) after a short hiatus, are storming back into another volume of Erfworld comics. Book Two, Page One just posted on their homepage

I’m tempted to post an image on the main page to further encourage folks to go, and read, but I’ll hide it as a comment to this post for those of you who might want to read the original without the (minor) spoiler.



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- Goodyear Rocket Airship concept, posted in a 1958 Popular Mechanics article; ganked from online archives of the rec.aviation.military usenet group, found via GIS.
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