Author: Matty Boy

A bilious and vitriolic cartoonist living in Atlanta, who pines for the days of great fantasy comics. You know, before everything was a corporate icon, and before cartoons looked like advertising for breakfast cereals.
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#101

August 7, 2011

NOTES

  • Curdelbludd returns
  • Insanus’ island is just visible in panel 3
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#100

July 31, 2011

NOTES

  • With page 100, the strip moves from 6 panels a page (approximately) to 9
  • Refusaleth takes center stage (panel)
  • Refusaleth has hearing so acute, he can even hear things that sound like his name
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#99

July 24, 2011

NOTES

  • Reappearance of Corny’s step-sister Daizee (with “Heartbreaker” shirt), in the ordinary world
  • If no one knew that Corny had disappeared, wouldn’t his family believe he was still there?
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#98

July 17, 2011

NOTES

  • Where could a cordless telephone possibly have come from? Maybe someone was holding it when they opened the Lost Book?
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#97

July 10, 2011

NOTES

  • When someone communicates through a yellow resinate, which then crumbles, what does that mean?
  • Is the Empire actually spying on Corny, and who could be a “Glowborg sympathizer”?
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#96

July 3, 2011

NOTES

  • The painting is of the current Midirian Empress (Narrative Timeline)
  • Bromance is looking at the part of the painting that’s been torn out, in panel 3
  • There are yellow crystals at the base of the painting
  • Radish-Hoof is the only one of the group who has actually met the Empress
  • Scrawled on the painting and then crossed out: “D.R.I.N.K.”
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#95

June 26, 2011

NOTES

  • First appearance of the last of the Subborgs; would you even know about them, if Refusaleth hadn’t killed all but one?
  • Refusaleth recognizes that the monstrances beneath the ground once belonged to Nefaria
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#94

June 19, 2011

NOTES

  • Did the mirror change Corny’s clothes, or did he, without realizing it?
  • Why would lampstones crumble?
  • Why is a section of the painting missing, and what is scrawled above the Empress?
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#93

June 12, 2011

NOTES

  • Nefaria’s atrocities are written and well-known; Refusaleth’s are not
  • “Brewed… under a pair of full moons” (Yotaton)
  • Moon mead fermentation is affected depending on the moon and its phase; two full moons (or more) result in a strong and sweet mead
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#92

June 5, 2011

NOTES

  • First appearance of the Imperial Inspectorate
  • Secret factories were established in New Bordorea following massive pillaging by air pirates
  • The New Bordorean foreman is based on the vintage Fisher-Price “Little People” dog