And thus wraps up the crossover with Alexandria Archives. I hope you enjoyed it; I have to admit that I did, for two reasons.

First, I wanted to get Molly out of the damn house. Giving her an interest in wargaming seemed to be a logical thing to do, as she is an obsessively detail oriented person who lives to solve logic puzzles. I imagine, as I endeavored to depict, that she would tackle squad leader with the fervor she exhibits in designing a clustered enterprise system.  Maybe this newfound ability/desire to socialize will open the door to new groups of friends and events.  Let’s find out!

Second, drawing the BOBs again was a treat. It’s been a while.

Anyway, if you want more Kilt and Blue, as well as some nifty horror anthologies, check out Alexandria Archives.  Hit up their Patreon too for bonus content, the first of which was just released.

I’m out.  Be back next Wednesday, with Molly’s everyday life resuming.

:Dan

Necronomicomics and games is an establishment that is well prepared for the regular patronage of Kilt and friends from Alexandria Archives, as we see today.   One more comic, this Friday, and we’re back to Molly’s decidedly less supernatural world. Much fun was had by me, and I hope, by you during this crossover sequence, but our girl’s real life beckons and won’t be ignored.  If you want more of Kilt, Alexandra just dropped a new episode.  Go listen.  Also, if you want more more of Kilt, from what I understand they’re producing Patreon exclusive content focusing on the BOB’s misadventures, so, drop a buck in their jar and buckle up!

With that, I’ve got work to do, so I’ll return as I’ve managed to do for a while now, this Friday.

:Dan

With that, the match is officially concluded, with Molly being crowned victor.

Thank you to everyone for your kind comments and feedback over the course of this little foray into a slightly different direction with Molly Beans, as she met with with the characters from Alexandria Archives.  Kilt, Recursive, Jone, et al, check out their ongoing adventures over at that podcast.

With that again, I’d like to take a moment to talk a bit about those characters.  I’ve received many notes and comments regarding Jone in particular when she made her appearance, and I won’t lie, that put a little smile on my face.  Reason being, Jone (and the characters the others are based on) once appeared in a comic that ran for five years back in the days of the primordial Internet (circa 2000-2005), and the fact that there were still folks who remembered and remembered fondly was gratifying.  I was always hesitant to mention that old comic, however, for two reasons.

First, it belonged to a different time and a different Internet.  Long before mainstream social media, youtube and all the rest, and in my opinion, with a far stronger sense of community.  There really wasn’t a monolithic place for everyone to meet; there were many multitudes of far more intimate places.  The community built around that comic was, for its time, a sizable example of one of those places, and it almost felt wrong to try and drag that into this modern day, where there have been literally three brands that have dominated the online community and drained it of all of its prior organic sense of belonging.

Second, I kind of wanted Molly to stand on her own feet.  I think she’s done that admirably, but I also couldn’t resist a bit of self indulgence and throw in a couple of references to the old comic here and there.  Molly’s hair, her Dad’s appearance, the occasional Vampire emoticon, and so forth.

Now that Molly has officially interacted with characters derived from the old comic, and I have blatantly referenced a long running storyline from it,  I suppose I ought to talk a little bit more openly about it.

For those who don’t know, Pyrocam.com has hosted an archive and tribute to the old comic, called Life Of Riley, for years now.  I can’t even begin to thank them enough for doing so.  Honestly, to say the least, it’s a privilege; If there’s anything I can do for you, within reasonable limits of my mortal flesh, message me.

If you haven’t yet, have a look through those old archives.  Have a look at the work of a much younger me who, along with a group of other much younger people, were wildly winging it in uncharted territory.  There’s something to be said about having affection for the war years, and I can reflect on those old days, warts and all, with a fondness I honestly didn’t expect.  Jeff Lofvers from Don’t Hit Save and his friend Michael Buonauro were contemporaries of mine during those days, and it was an odd bit of serendipity that he launched his new comic around the same time as I was preparing to launch one of my own.  It was sheer coincidence, but a good one.

With all of that said, I enjoyed having Jone and the others visit, it was like a mini reunion of sorts, and I hope any readers of Life of Riley felt the same.  I’ll be back next week with more stuff.

:Dan

Kilt from Alexandria Archives busts out his ultimate technique for ending an engagement when all else fails.

I hope you all have enjoyed this crossover storyline, and have taken the time to check out the podcast linked above.  I think there’s a lot to like over there if you are a fan of Lovecraftian eldritch gibbous stuff, humorous character moments, and a pretty friendly community.  Not to mention a steadily rotating cadre of highly talented voice actors.

Molly’s little foray into this world will be concluding by next Friday, after which I have a Patreon cameo coming up, and a return to our girl dealing with hardware failures at her grandparent’s trailer, a new group of like minded friends, and of course, her as of yet inability to seal the deal with Chuck, who is still on another continent.

Thanks for reading!  I’ll be back to finish up this three comic week this Friday.

:Dan

You do NOT violate the sanctity of “The Session”, for any reason whatever. It…ruins the mood. I figured if any store would treat “The Session” as sacrosanct, it would be Necronomicomics and Games.

Next week is a THREE comic week, thanks to all of the support received on the Patreon page, so I will have my hands full for a few days.  I absolutely am NOT complaining about this.  THIS is the kind of busy I LIKE.  But it still takes up time.

So I need to split for now as a result.  See you all this Monday!

:Dan

In today’s comic Jone tries to wrap her head around the concept of a war game, with varying levels of success.

Thanks to everyone who comments, send notes, hits up the Patreon, and so on so on so forth.

I’ll be back with more Molly Monday, and other alliterative stuff.

:Dan

In today’s comic Jone and Kilt reminisce a bit over the bonny bygone days where stuff happened and things went down. By the last panel I apparently remembered who the main character was, also.

Thanks to everyone who comments, send notes, hits up the Patreon, and so on so on so forth.

I’ll be back with more Molly Friday, as I’ve been known to do in the past.

:Dan