The Penguin

Guess what?!! Blind Alley Comics is going to a convention. Yes, your favorite hermit-comickers are currently hitching up our big-boy pants and getting ready to brave the great Outside. Thankfully we have support from our great friend Joe Rodgers of 12-Gauge Gore, who will be bringing some bangin' t-shirts and horror merch to add class to our grungy display. I've got all the deets on Facebook, but here's the info again, just in case you haven't been bombarded enough already: Birch Run Expo Center 11600 N Beyer Rd, Birch Run, MI 48415 (989) 624-4665 October 8-9 Saturday: 10-6 Sunday: 10-5 Wait, you have plans for that weekend? A hot date? A wedding? Too bad! Drop everything, grab the camping equipment, and pitch a tent right now outside the location! That's right, once word gets out, the millions-strong Blind Alleyans (totally a thing) will flood the event like a tidal wave of marginally-acceptable humanity. Seriously, secure your place in line. Bring a m...

Greetings, Fiendish Readers. Yessir, we just got back up from Columbus after two days of debauchery in that decadent southern paradise we call Ohio...okay, maybe there was only one  orgy, and only five people showed up, and nobody was really into it...but still! Hedonism! The Downfall of Midwestern Civilization! The drive down was pretty harrowing, firstly because of the ice on the freeway (like driving over a glacier, damndest thing I've ever seen) and secondly because the Ohio freeway system is proudly, defiantly, exasperatingly committed to labeling every highway with three or four numbers, and interrupting their ostensibly free ways with traffic lights. We got turned around somewhere south of Findlay and ended up driving through cornfields for an hour before finally picking up 75 again. Honestly I don't think I've ever driven through Ohio without getting lost once; the state likes to suck in outsiders and funnel them into its empty interior, there to circle endlessl...