Thank you for the Thanksgiving Gift!
Just love this webcomic; got hooked on it from Nodwick, & IMO, this is the best one, of the ones you’re currently doing.
(It’s an even tie between PS238 & Nodwick.)
As mentioned below, a porta potty doesn’t require connections to the outside world.
Ok, technically, a toilet doesn’t either. For several years while I was growing up, at least one of the toilets in the house lacked such connections at any point in time, though which toilet(s) were so configured changed over the course of that time. That said, normal toilets without external connections do not perform their function particularly well.
Then why does the door have a window.
A Tardis would have been in the vehicle’s room so I’m not sure what this is.
Might be an emergency exit, who knows where it leads.
I guess for the same reason here are crates. Beyond the necessary basics like the door the safe room is improvised, not properly set up (at least, not yet). They are still new in this town.
Huh. Right now both ffm nodwick com and www useswordonmonster com show
Forbidden – Users from your country are not permitted to browse this site.
while comic nodwick com shows a blank page.
Do they have a webmaster more focused on LARP of Ⓦith Ⓗer™ or Ⓢupport Ⓒurrent Ⓣhing™ than silly things like site visits or having the job done in general?
That be DNS blocking; try using VPN to go around it, generally safest picks to bypass block is american vpn server; 2nd most stable is any european VPN server
DNS Blocking that… mysteriously appears only for a few associated hosts, yet is done by NS in different countries exactly alike?
Also, that somehow produces different results with HTTPS and HTTP on the same host (while it’s cached, at that) even with scripts blocked globally?
Occam’s trusty razor suggests the obvious.
If this story is abandoned, fine, but please post a note to let all of us that have been waiting for this to end since 2016 know about it. You’re down to 2-3 pages a year if that. Honestly I’d prefer going back to the old Black and White pages if it meant actual updates as those were the best parts of this story. I miss 84 and others at the school.
It’s been six months since you looked at this
Cocked your head to the side and said, “it ain’t paying”
Five weeks since we commented
Saying, “Get that together, come back and see me”
Three days since we checked back in
I realized it’s all same, but couldn’t tell you
Yesterday, you’d ignored us
But it’ll still be two months till you update the story….
Chickity Nodwick the Nodwick chicken
You have a frontal nerdity and your brain stops tickin’
Watchin’ 238 with no lights on
We’re sans an update
I hope Von Fogg’s in this one
Like Suzi I’m getting frantic
Like I’m tantric
Like a ween chip, guaranteed to mollify
Like Morpheus, I make mad films
‘Kay, I don’t make films
But if I did they’d have an Alien
Gonna get a set a’ better powers
Gonna find the kind that can go on for hours
Just so my plots aren’t always falling off the back-swing
Gotta get in tune with the Shadow Moon
‘Cause this cartoon has got the boom and the gamma rays
That make me stick around for the long term
It’s been six months since you looked at this
Cocked your head to the side and said, “it ain’t paying”
Five weeks since we commented
Saying, “Get that together, come back and see me”
Three days since we checked back in
I realized it’s all same, but couldn’t tell you
Yesterday, you’d ignored us
But it’ll still be two months till you update the story….
I was just thinking he should update the front page. PS238 hasn’t updated in six months and Nodwick hasn’t updated in 10 years, but both are listed on the front as updating Mon-Wed-Fri. I don’t mind the wait (ok, I do, but Aaron doesn’t owe me anything), but at least make the front page accurate.
Well, I appreciate the SOMETHING’S getting updated. And I think the “nerd gamer possessed by REAL cursed object” is kind of metal. I just wish he’d alternate the updates between FFN and here.
I took a look at Aaron’s Patreon page. Turns out he has an online store at drivethrucomics.com where paperback collections of PS238 and Nodwick are available, and the “About” page in his Patreon says this:
“The basics, however, are just to keep this cartoonist and his household afloat. I want to return to the halcyon days of regular publication, and I’m on my way to my next Ps238 trade (with a little eventual help from Kickstarter), but in the meantime, I’m hoping the current and future readers of my work will help to give me a boost. If not, I still hope you enjoy the comics and come back by every so often to see what else I’ve got in store.”
It also notes that the monthly Patreon pledges are for a total of $634.80 per month…
So it appears that Aaron’s having to spend too much time at a day job to keep updating the comics here, and probably the best way to get more updates is to support him by (a) joining his Patreon, and/or (b) purchasing some of the collections from his store. Sadly, I don’t have enough income myself to buy any books right now, but I can pledge a dollar or two a month to his Patreon and I’ll go do that now.
I already own every physical book he ever produced, and I don’t do Patreon (or any other online money-shuffling, for that matter). Less than a month before I finally give up and delete my bookmarks and that’s the end of ever visiting this site again.
Ed Rhodes
I’ll never delete the bookmark. If nothing else, I’ll go back to the beginning and start reading all over again.
Dick
I own all the physical books, some in multiple formats. I even have the Champions RPG supplement. Three days to the end.
I’m giving till the one year mark before I delete my bookmarks and try to forget this comic ever existed. Less than a month to go now and I see no reason to be hopeful about it any more.
To think I used to subscribe to it when it was still physical. At least Nodwick got an actual conclusion instead of this sad eternal hiatus.
It doesn’t the blender full of marbles was the machine going through whatever was under the floor, the “Krakaboooommmm” was the sound of breaking through the floor. Two different media, two different sounds.
Three days to go before I give up on the series. C’mon Aaron! I’ve bought all the graphic novels, I check the site every day, Just give me a page and I’ll stick around for another year.
greetings fellow ps238 fan. at least it’ll end midstory and not like wordgirl did(season ender had her crying alone on roof and then animation studio bankruptcy meant series ended that way)
Dick
Ending in mid-story is not a Good Thing in my book. One more day now and the bookmark’s getting deleted.
91 thoughts on “11-27-2022”
Some Ed
This safe room feels a little less safe than it’s supposed to be. Also rather larger than I expected.
Seabear70
I’m starting to wonder if this is all brought to you by Dr Who.
Edward Rhodes
I feel more like The Master, or The Rani!
Opus the Poet
They figured out how to make it go!
Opus the Poet
And I think it’s safe to say they’re out of the basement now.
Stephen Bierce
And we’ll ride on down/In through this Tunnel of Love!
Crone Mayhem
Thank you for the Thanksgiving Gift!
Just love this webcomic; got hooked on it from Nodwick, & IMO, this is the best one, of the ones you’re currently doing.
(It’s an even tie between PS238 & Nodwick.)
Edward Rhodes
Thank you. This was great. I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving.
jhpace1
That’s an Orange Lantern she’s holding, but not the Lantern of Avarice.
ronrab
I think it’s the original, Golden Age Green Lantern’s brass lantern! The store likes its references really old school…
Tolrick
Since that was also green, I suspect that’s some other magical type of lantern. Possibly one that makes light.
TBeholder
Ahaha. Perfect.
But now our intrepid terranauts face the real challenge: resist making a silly joke upon emerging from this contraption.
James Collier
Why does it have a Porta Potty? Couldn’ they have fitted the place out with a real toilet?
Some Ed
As mentioned below, a porta potty doesn’t require connections to the outside world.
Ok, technically, a toilet doesn’t either. For several years while I was growing up, at least one of the toilets in the house lacked such connections at any point in time, though which toilet(s) were so configured changed over the course of that time. That said, normal toilets without external connections do not perform their function particularly well.
Hinochi
This safe room was brought to you by Vault-Tec.
Ed Rhodes
OOOh, I get that now. (I hadn’t played any of the “Fallout” games until I found “Fallout 76” on the Xbox.
raven0ak
Has this gone hiatsu or something, mon-wed-fri schedule does not seem to hold
raven0ak
I wish this comics schedule would up from “random once a month” to more stable
Ed Rhodes
Be careful what you wish for. No update in over a year is certainly “more stable.”
Opus the Poet
Why is there a porta-potty in the safe room? I just noticed that.
Opus the Poet
Never mind, I figured it out, the porta-potty doesn’t need connections with the outside world and can be pumped out after the emergency is over.
Faust
Then why does the door have a window.
A Tardis would have been in the vehicle’s room so I’m not sure what this is.
Might be an emergency exit, who knows where it leads.
Opus the Poet
It’s the service sign for the people who pump it out, but blanked out for the cartoon.
TBeholder
I guess for the same reason here are crates. Beyond the necessary basics like the door the safe room is improvised, not properly set up (at least, not yet). They are still new in this town.
HardWearJunkie
Frame 2 and 3: Is it just me, or does the “bottom” of her nose look like a second mouth?
Lexarius
Now that you mention it… I see a Mario moustache instead…
Ie Yamof Ool
she has a slightly pug nose, with a shadow at the end. The bend looks a little like an end, the shadowed end looks like a mouth/ mustache.
snek
Gotta be gnomes.
dracone
Finally caught up, I dropped off reading a while back
TBeholder
Huh. Right now both ffm nodwick com and www useswordonmonster com show
while comic nodwick com shows a blank page.
Do they have a webmaster more focused on LARP of Ⓦith Ⓗer™ or Ⓢupport Ⓒurrent Ⓣhing™ than silly things like site visits or having the job done in general?
Stephen Bierce
Are you using an ad blocker on your web browser? I know that whoever does the pop-up ads here tends to play rough on visitors.
TBeholder
That’s not what it says…
The result is the same with adblock turned off completely, anyway.
raven0ak
That be DNS blocking; try using VPN to go around it, generally safest picks to bypass block is american vpn server; 2nd most stable is any european VPN server
TBeholder
DNS Blocking that… mysteriously appears only for a few associated hosts, yet is done by NS in different countries exactly alike?
Also, that somehow produces different results with HTTPS and HTTP on the same host (while it’s cached, at that) even with scripts blocked globally?
Occam’s trusty razor suggests the obvious.
Jim
So the last update was 11/2022, is everything okay, or is this now a discontinued webcomic?
Tolrick
We seem to be at an end here.
Hiatus?
Ed Rhodes
I am beginning to despair of the ever being resolved!
McBobby
Has something happened to Aaron?
Cory
If this story is abandoned, fine, but please post a note to let all of us that have been waiting for this to end since 2016 know about it. You’re down to 2-3 pages a year if that. Honestly I’d prefer going back to the old Black and White pages if it meant actual updates as those were the best parts of this story. I miss 84 and others at the school.
Dick
Man, over six months since the last page for this. Not going to live to see this storyline finish, much less the kids reach high school.
Ed Rhodes
I’m hoping he’s storing up pages, but I don’t think so.
Opus the Poet
No I don’t think he’s building a buffer, either
Seabear70
It’s been six months since you looked at this
Cocked your head to the side and said, “it ain’t paying”
Five weeks since we commented
Saying, “Get that together, come back and see me”
Three days since we checked back in
I realized it’s all same, but couldn’t tell you
Yesterday, you’d ignored us
But it’ll still be two months till you update the story….
Jenora Feuer
Whoo, nice reference there.
Seabear70
Chickity Nodwick the Nodwick chicken
You have a frontal nerdity and your brain stops tickin’
Watchin’ 238 with no lights on
We’re sans an update
I hope Von Fogg’s in this one
Like Suzi I’m getting frantic
Like I’m tantric
Like a ween chip, guaranteed to mollify
Like Morpheus, I make mad films
‘Kay, I don’t make films
But if I did they’d have an Alien
Gonna get a set a’ better powers
Gonna find the kind that can go on for hours
Just so my plots aren’t always falling off the back-swing
Gotta get in tune with the Shadow Moon
‘Cause this cartoon has got the boom and the gamma rays
That make me stick around for the long term
It’s been six months since you looked at this
Cocked your head to the side and said, “it ain’t paying”
Five weeks since we commented
Saying, “Get that together, come back and see me”
Three days since we checked back in
I realized it’s all same, but couldn’t tell you
Yesterday, you’d ignored us
But it’ll still be two months till you update the story….
Steev
I was just thinking he should update the front page. PS238 hasn’t updated in six months and Nodwick hasn’t updated in 10 years, but both are listed on the front as updating Mon-Wed-Fri. I don’t mind the wait (ok, I do, but Aaron doesn’t owe me anything), but at least make the front page accurate.
Seabear70
At least Nodwick had an end.
David Carlson
Is Aaron Williams OK?
Does anyone know how\what he is doing these days??
Opus the Poet
Click on Full Frontal Nerdity and you can see a comic of his that gets updated regularly.
Ed Rhodes
Well, I appreciate the SOMETHING’S getting updated. And I think the “nerd gamer possessed by REAL cursed object” is kind of metal. I just wish he’d alternate the updates between FFN and here.
Kar-El
Hey Aaron – our mutual friends Nick Post and Bob Brynildson would be disappointed in your output this year…
Storel
I took a look at Aaron’s Patreon page. Turns out he has an online store at drivethrucomics.com where paperback collections of PS238 and Nodwick are available, and the “About” page in his Patreon says this:
“The basics, however, are just to keep this cartoonist and his household afloat. I want to return to the halcyon days of regular publication, and I’m on my way to my next Ps238 trade (with a little eventual help from Kickstarter), but in the meantime, I’m hoping the current and future readers of my work will help to give me a boost. If not, I still hope you enjoy the comics and come back by every so often to see what else I’ve got in store.”
It also notes that the monthly Patreon pledges are for a total of $634.80 per month…
So it appears that Aaron’s having to spend too much time at a day job to keep updating the comics here, and probably the best way to get more updates is to support him by (a) joining his Patreon, and/or (b) purchasing some of the collections from his store. Sadly, I don’t have enough income myself to buy any books right now, but I can pledge a dollar or two a month to his Patreon and I’ll go do that now.
Dick
I already own every physical book he ever produced, and I don’t do Patreon (or any other online money-shuffling, for that matter). Less than a month before I finally give up and delete my bookmarks and that’s the end of ever visiting this site again.
Ed Rhodes
I’ll never delete the bookmark. If nothing else, I’ll go back to the beginning and start reading all over again.
Dick
I own all the physical books, some in multiple formats. I even have the Champions RPG supplement. Three days to the end.
paathu
It’s been 84 years…
Josh S.
I think we should have a posting party on Anniversary Day, 11/28/2023!
Kytross
I have checked this page every single day since November 28th of last year. *sigh*
Opus the Poet
Don’t feel like the Lone Ranger.
Mike S
I gave up on every day, but probably still every other day.
Dick
I’m giving till the one year mark before I delete my bookmarks and try to forget this comic ever existed. Less than a month to go now and I see no reason to be hopeful about it any more.
To think I used to subscribe to it when it was still physical. At least Nodwick got an actual conclusion instead of this sad eternal hiatus.
Storel
So how does “Krakaboooommmm” sound like a blender full of marbles? Inquiring minds are inquiring.
Opus the Poet
It doesn’t the blender full of marbles was the machine going through whatever was under the floor, the “Krakaboooommmm” was the sound of breaking through the floor. Two different media, two different sounds.
Kytross
It’s been almost a year. Is the series over?
Kytross
Three days to go before I give up on the series. C’mon Aaron! I’ve bought all the graphic novels, I check the site every day, Just give me a page and I’ll stick around for another year.
russellmz
greetings fellow ps238 fan. at least it’ll end midstory and not like wordgirl did(season ender had her crying alone on roof and then animation studio bankruptcy meant series ended that way)
Dick
Ending in mid-story is not a Good Thing in my book. One more day now and the bookmark’s getting deleted.
Seanear70
My Cartonist! My Cartoonist! Why have you forsaken Us?
Ed Rhodes
That’s it. It’s been officially OVER a YEAR. I’m sorry to have to say this, but I think we’re done.
Kar-El
If I may quote one of my favorite movies – “Never give up. Never Surrender!”