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In VERY EXCITING BIRTHDAY NEWS, I woke up next to a smokin’ hot redhead this morning! As it turns out, she is my wife. But I didn’t recognize her because yesterday she was thirty-florbli*cough cough*, and this morning she is one whole year older!

They grow up so fast. It seems like just yesterday I was telling Marge down at the salon that little Dee was turning fourteen hundred and fifty-six weeks old. And now here we are celebrating the anniversary of that special day yet again.

As usual I made her a card, but she snagged it away from me before I could scan it. Maybe I’ll get to share it with you later.

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No, this is not a follow up to my health insurance rant. Though that would be ironic.

Sorry that this is going up two days late. Things have been batshit insane around here this week. I officially got the first page of Atomic Robo 4.1 finished. I’ve been involved in a series of phone calls and emails from the other side of the Earth that have me both terrified and hysterically excited, which I won’t be able to talk about in detail for several weeks to come. And I worked out our health care disaster in a way that looks like it will work out for everyone involved. . .at least until next year when I get to do it all over again. But the doctor tells me that life with only one kidney is not so bad, and I should be back on my feet again no later than Christmas. God, what a broken system we have. Continue reading

Hey, Robo needs fan mail! letters@red5comics.com

In a move that appears to be shaking the foundations of the Free World in ways that the Cuban Missile Crisis and the fall of the Berlin Wall only wish they could have, nerds everywhere are on the verge of revolution over IKEA’s font change. As usual, I am left standing here scratching my head. In the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, with Birthers and Tea Baggers roaming the countryside spreading lies and unfounded fears, *this* is the cause that these people have deemed worth taking up? Continue reading