The saga of MeatShield begins as Dhur and Jaine venture to the Duchy of Nitsu'a and begin their adventuring careers.
Welcome to the inaugural episode of MeatShield. Hope you guys like it! Here’s the update schedule! Ultimately, I plan to have this comic updating Monday-Wednesday-Friday, but I’m going to build up to that. From now until 10/9/09, this strip will be updated weekly, on Wednesdays. After 10/09/09, it will be twice weekly, on Mondays and […]
First off, thanks for all the cool comments on the first strip, it means a lot to me. I have been deleting the email addresses associated with the comments so as to protect y’alls (is that a word?) privacy. If this bothers anyone, let me know. Thanks. Hasta! ~Rob
Hey! You’re back! Awesome! Look at you, you webcomic reader, you! Like a lot of people in the Los Angeles area, I’ll be going to the Long Beach Comic Con for its debut outing – hopefully, this will create a San Diego Comic Con-caliber level convention in the LA area. I’ll just be attending – […]
This comic is eerily similar to the manner in which I drive. 🙂 New scheduling note: Next week, Meatshield will be posting twice a week, on Mondays and Wednesdays, as we ramp up, bit by bit, to putting this sucker out three times a week for you. See you next Monday! ~Rob
Got back from the Long Beach Comic Con yesterday and was overall very impressed with the con, given that it was its very first outing. Saw lots of people who really shouldn’t have been in costume and a few who looked pretty good. Heard Berke Breathed talk, whch was awesome, as the man was a […]
Welcome to the first Wednesday strip! I’ve taken my first step into a larger world… This strip contains my wife’s least favorite joke, which I didn’t really understand until I realized that the reader might think that Dhur is… doing something off screen. He’s not. He could be, but he’s not. See you next Monday! […]
Someone was asking me this past weekend what I do for a living and I answered with “I’m a cartoonist.” It felt good to say that. It felt even better when I didn’t get the usual follow-up question to that which is, “and you make a living doing that?” Instead, I was asked, “So, who […]
Here’s a little glimpse into how my brain works. When I was planning the start of this webcomic, I approached the creation of my buffer of strips in a very assembly line kind of way. First came the writing of 40 or so strips, then back to strip #1 for the rough sketches, then back […]
Goblins and beer, what a winning combination. And now, in a continuing service, an entry from the Encyclopedia Ardrisia. Goblins Goblins are crafty, vicious little runts (that seem to speak with a variety of British accents for some reason) that like to think that they are the movers and shakers of the world below. Sometimes […]
In a continuing public service, we now present a brief entry from the Encyclopedia Ardrisia: Half-Elves The Elves and Humans have been on good terms (for the most part) for the past 200 years or so. Given that, half-elves come about “when a human and an elf mommy or daddy love each other very much.” […]
Good Monday to you! This is the last week of only posting the cartoon on Mondays and Wednesdays. After this week, we go to 3 days a week, Monday-Wednesday-Friday, just like a grown-up webcomic! Thanks for reading everyone! See you on Wednesday! ~Rob
Dhur’s many things, but a coiner of catchphrases ain’t one of them. My metamorphosis into a webcartoonist is drawing closer to completion, as I’ve been staying up later and later each night, working on the strip. Right now, I’m caught up until early December and I’ve been getting to bed each night at roughly 1:00 […]
The frustrating thing about doing a webcomic is that (if you’re lucky) you’re working at least a few weeks ahead, which means you can’t talk a whole lot about what you’re working on NOW. That being said, may I now present Duke Leonid the 17th, or Leo to his friends. This week marks the start […]
I was checking the Google Analytics for this site and since I started tracking the site on 9/26/09, I’ve had exactly 400 visits to MeatShield! Yay! I know a lot of other sites have a lot higher numbers than that, but I don’t care! I’m kind of like Mike Wyzowski in Monsters Inc. when he’s […]
Whoops! Sorry, folks, I forgot to get Friday’s strip posted at midnight, like I usually do – still not used to posting on Fridays yet 🙂 Nothing else of note for now, so hope you enjoy having Leo talk at you and I’ll see you on Monday! Rob P.S. Yes, his eyes are on fire. […]
…or, in layman’s terms, Dhur can’t takes it no more.:) As you can see on the left, I finally figured out how to put my Twitter feed on this page. I am slowly but surely staggering my way into this whole Interwebs thing that’s so popular with all the younger people today. 😉 Now all […]
As I said in my Twitter feed yesterday, I am only one year older than Sesame Street, and I only realized the other day how much that show, and by way of it, Jim Henson, influenced both the way I write and the way I think. I think a great deal of my sense of […]
I’m taking a page out of my buddy Tom Beland’s book and am offering sketches for the holidays! Have your friends, family or your favorite comic book or D&D characters immortalized in art, or something like that. Here are the particulars: • Sketches are $25 per character in the sketch, plus s&h. • Sketches are […]
When I sit down to write my characters, I often hear a specific voice for their dialogue. While Jaine is not the comic strip representation of my wife, I often hear my wife’s voice when Jaine speaks in my head. Dhur? I have yet to get a handle on him. Sometimes Dhur’s Keanu Reeves (only […]
If I could change the tone of the site for just a moment, I’d like to ask everyone reading this a favor. My best friend’s father is in dire straits. He’s suffering from liver cancer and is in Indianapolis right now, as they were told that the waiting list for a transplant was shorter there. […]
In a continuing public service, we now present a brief entry from the Encyclopedia Ardrisia: Lich The Lich (pronounced LITCH) is the most feared, most dangerous of all the undead. Whereas a vampire comes about by being bitten by another vampire (which begs the question, which came first, the vampire or the bite?) and zombies […]
Not much with this post, just a quick question: how do I go about starting a Facebook fan page for MeatShield? I have no clue – do I need a new account specifically for MeatShield, or will my private one work? I swear, sometimes I feel like I ride the short bus in life, especially […]
I got the MeatShield Facebook Fan page up and running! I’m now taking suggestions as to what to put on it, such as wallpapers, avatars, bios of the characters, pages from my sketchbook, etc. You can reach the MeatShield Fan page by clicking the graphic to the left or by clicking here. Hasta! ~Rob
I write this to you from the past… about two days ago, on Tuesday night. I hope that you and yours had a great Thanksgiving if you celebrate Thanksgiving where you live – to my Canadian friends, I’ll catch you on October 11, 2010. On Thanksgiving, you’re supposed to be thankful for the good things […]
The “Codpiece of Prowess” is a nod to someone I used to play D&D with, a woman named Karen who played a male fighter called The Masked Marvel. The Masked Marvel had a Charisma of 3, which on a scale from 3 to 18 meant he was not just ugly, he brought the word “ugly” […]
Today, my inner critic decided to have a little conversation with me. It went something like this: Inner Critic (IC): “Her hair doesn’t work.” Me: What? IC: “Jaine’s hair. That hairdo can’t possibly exist in the real world.” Me: Ummmm…. IC: “I mean, did you even LOOK at any women’s hairstyles before you drew her? […]
This was one of the first jokes I came up with when MeatShield was first rumbling around my noggin. I just had this vision of this fighter saying “Blood will be spilled today! I shall join you momentarily!” then he goes back to his room and finished work on that doily or whatever that he’s […]
You know how sometimes your plans don’t quite work out as well as you hoped? That’s what happened to me with the Facebook Fan Page extra that I posted on Friday. I had hoped to post a file a week there, fleshing out the world of MeatShield, only to find that Facebook displays their graphic […]
Man, don’t tick off Jaine – she’ll go off on you when you least expect it. The funny thing is, here I am trying to come up with things that’d make you throw up if you have a hangover (i.e. squid sliders) and I’ve never been drunk. Not once. I’ve had a very slight buzz, […]
This gives the old name for Monster.com, “The Monster Board” a whole new meaning… “Adventurers needed to kill assorted monsters in old crypt – Business casual.” By the way, for the D&D-impaired, Draconic is the language of dragons and is the language most often used in casting spells. It is also unique in that it […]
It’s not that Dhur doesn’t want to be all heroic… it just never really occurs to him. Less than a week from now, my family and I will be trekking across the Great American Southwest en route to spend the holidays with my wife’s family, some of whom we haven’t seen in quite some time. […]