Servants of the Imperium

Once more into Calixis

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Ok, to make up for the lack of comic last week, there's a double update this week!I've not played any 40k since New Year, which I hope to remedy soon, but one thing I am getting back into is Dark Heresy. I GM'd a 2 year campaign a few years back, which spawned SotI, but it left me a little frazzled so it's taken a while for me to get the inclination back to run some more DH.But today I'll be starting a new campaign for my friends. This time I'm doing things slightly differently as I'm planning to run a game based a lot more on the character's backgrounds, rather than the emphasis being on the central plot. Hopefully I'll be able to post some anecdotes once we get going!

#154: Caught Short

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

#155: Inquisitorial Report

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Delay!

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Ok, the comic's a little late.The weekend before last, my first forway into running a LARP event, went fantastically. I've never had so much fun and the event went so much better than I could have ever imagined; I'm sure I'm going to end up doing that again!Since then I've been relaxing, enjoying not running around organising things and spending some time with my wife. I had hoped to get the comic up on Sunday, but failed, and then hoped to get it up tonight, but failed again.I hope to finish it and post it tomorrow, but don't hold your breath!I'm also currently working on some character designs for the SotI prequel comic, which I might share soon!

Here, then gone

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Yup, eldar are mysterious.Don't worry, they're not completely gone just yet, although don't expect to see them in many more strips. It's been nice having them in the comic, but the cast is already large enough that I don't want to add too many more permenant characters. Plus I'm a big believer that eldar and Imperials can barely tolerate each other.There won't be a strip next week as I'm running my first LARP game! I must be completely mad.Wish me luck!

#153: The weave of fate

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Looking ahead

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Happy New Year to you all!To celebrate (and make up for the lack of pre-Christmas strips) have a double update. I had been hoping to make it a triple update, but frankly I've been enjoying time off work and having lie-ins!So this year sees me running my first LARP event (in a few weeks no less) and I'll also be setting myself the goal of starting the 'How Severus met Krin' prequal strip. I've already roughed out the plot, now I just need to work up some designs for characters both new and old.One thing about the constantly-evolving artwork of SotI is I often look back at very early strips and think "Yikes, that does NOT look good". So, rather than just using the old character artwork for Severus, Krin and co, I'll be creating new artwork for all of the characters. This does mean I get to have some fun creating Severus, Krin and Lyle's new outfits, which I'm going to try and vary a little from their 'modern day' looks enough so that the strip stands out against regular SotI stuff.More news soon!

#151: Those inscrutable Eldar

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

#152: Bi the way

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Happy Holidays

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

There's no strip this week because of crazy Christmas running around and other such stuff. Obviously next sunday is Christmas, so rather than post a strip next week I might try to get a strip up during the week, or do a double post the week after.In any case, I hope you all have a great Christmas, and thanks so much for all the support over the last year.

150!

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Wow, 150 strips! Not too bad if I do say so myself! To celebrate have an extra-long strip!Thanks for all the questions guys; there were loads sent but I couldn't answer them all in one strip. I might do another Q&A strip some time in the future.One question asked by a lot of you was how Severus and Krin initially met. Rather than have the characters answer that question I thought it might actually be worth showing that in a short series of stand-alone strips, which I think I'll run after the genestealer storyline is finished.Sadly I didn't get to play my Chaos Space Marines against the Spacewolves as I'd hoped last week due to a bout of flu, but hopefully I'll be playing them this week! May the powers of Chaos grant me victory!

#150 Q&A Special!

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Spacewoofs

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

So what's new this week?I've got a 2000 point game coming up on Tuesday verses some Space Wolves, which should be fun. Hopefully it won't be anywhere nearly as disastrous as my Necromunda game I mentioned last week. Even though it's against the same opponent. Eek!I've had loads of questions for the cast for next week's strip, which is great. I've already selected the ones the guys will be answering, but if you want to send in any more questions I might pick a few more.

#149: Psychic backlash

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

End of the Angels

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

There's no comic this week as I've been a bit busy this week and haven't had time to work on one. That and I've been playing waaaay too much Arkham City and Minecraft.I've also had to retire my Necromunda gang, the Sumptown Angels, this week after a disastrous battle that saw my leader, my heavy and one of my veteran gangers all killed. The Angels have been on a bit of a loosing streak recently and also have the dubious honour of being one of the most banged-up gangs in the campaign, so retirement seemed like the best option. I've created a new gang, however, the House Orlock 'Dragonetti Boys'. Hopefully they'll do better than their Escher comrades.I'm still open to ideas for strip #150. At the moment It's looking like the cast answering reader's questions, so if you have anything you want to ask Severus, Krin, Bri, Lyle or Aki (or even Bob or Magos Einklatch) then send your questions to me and I'll pass them on!

Psyker duel

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Yeah, psyker battle! As I've said previously, I really enjoy Dan Abnett's description of psyker battles in the Eisenhorn and Ravenor series; it's just a shame I can't draw Lyle and the Magus projecting duelling ectoplasmic monsters! Well, I could, but I couldn't be bothered to.

#148: Headache?

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Goddamn Batman

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

This week's strip continues the belief that Eldar are deus ex machina badasses.Much of my time this week has been spent hanging from gargoyles, swooping through darkened streets and beating the Joker and Penguin's thugs to within an inch of their life. Yes, Arkham City.Thus far I've managed to resist the lure of Skyrim, but from the sudden silence from a lot of my friends I'm gathering it's rather good. Must. Resist.

#147: Don't mess with a Farseer

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Knife-ears, boo

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Yup, eldar. The 40k version of the guardian angel, apparently.I've had these guys designed and sat waiting since around strip #120, so it's nice to finally bring them out and show them off!So I've had a bit of a look at the new Necron codex and, apart from becoming the newest source of trollfuel on the internets, it's got some interesting stuff in it. There seem to be some fantastically cheesy lists you can build, what with various characters and units allowing you to enforce nightfighting, difficult and hazardous terrain on your opponent. They seem to have been designed (if you can use that word with anything Matt Ward has influenced) to be an anti-melee army, what with the number of slowing powers and such.I'll be buying the codex sometime soon, just to round out my collection, so I'll be able to make more informed comments then.Anyhoo, off to draw some more eldar!

#146: Suddenly...

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Genestealers, Gangers and Necrons

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Phew, that one took some effort to finish! I'm not sure it it's because I haven't had to do a comic for a while, or if it's because I accidentally deleted the patriarch's character file while making it, but this comic seemed to take forever to do!So what have I been up to recently? Well, last weekend I went to the 40K LARP I attend, Death Unto Darkness, the theme of which this time was... genestealer cults! Had a great time, and the patriarch final boss was suitably awesome.I've also been playing a lot of Necromunda, which is great gun although my poor Escher girls keep getting their asses handed to them. Which is less fun.Also got a look at the new Necron stuff before GW pulled the pictures from the web. I'm not sure about the new fluff, although I can kind of understand where GW are coming from by changing it, but the new models do look pretty gorgeous. I might have to try and convince Rhi to get back into collecting Necrons...

#145: Things look grim

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Back up and running

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

So the site is back up and running once more.I've removed the old blog entries as the backup I had only ran until April this year and it seemed a bit silly to go back to then and then have a gap until now. So here it is, a new begining, as it were.I'm going to finish uploading the comics that had been posted up until recently, but there won't be a new comic this weekend as I'm going to be away.Hopefully things will return to normal the week after!

#130: Unseen allies

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT