Hey, Your Nose is on Fire!

The Terebinth Story Archive      OK, now, when I said "dueling soliloquies" last week, I did not mean "interlocking sonnets." Let's get it together here, people!

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      It's been close to 20 years since I was regularly drawing the Nulla Lucis - she made her first appearance during our 18th storyline, " Administrative Oversight ," and made her final appearance during our 54th storyline, " Totenfeier " - so I hope folks'll forgive me if she looks a little different. We'll find out, I guess, if she's still just as monstrous, though. Maybe next week!

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Let's see: big brown spider with a bouffant hairdo... Where have we seen someone like that in the comic before?

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Once again, the siren call of simplicity blows its fragrant raspberry.      And did I miss April Fools' Day last week? Well, here's one today, then: the text describes Malvolio as "peering over the back of her chair," but the picture shows her standing next to Tamar. Oh, what jocularity!

The Terebinth Story Archive      Is it time for dueling soliloquies yet? 'Cause I think it might be time for dueling soliloquies...

Because you can never have:      Too many poems about ants, here's one of mine called " All Work and No Play " that's up now on the Abyss & Apex website as part of their issue #98 for the second quarter of 2026.      Taking the link in the preceeding paragraph or clicking on the picture at the start of this post will let you read the poem, or you can click the little widget below the full-size illustration on their website to hear me read the poem in a silly, ant-like voice. Then, at the bottom of the page after the printed poem, you can read the couple paragraphs where I lay out how I came to write the dang thing. So much going on!                                                   ...