Finally after many months & much deliberation, the first Dark Nebula graphic novel in 15 years is finally available in print through www.ka-blam.com &  www.indyplanet.com.

Now you can enjoy your very own prestige edition copy of The Dark Nebula in full colour.

Round one of The Chaos War has gone to the living embodiment of Chaos, with Mark Medula trapped powerless in the past, as is Cerellus in the distant future.

Having long-yearned for separation it seems that the only way to overcome Chaos is to somehow reunite to become The Dark Nebula once again - or will our hapless heroes find themselves locked in combat with one another if they do somehow come face to face?

Chapter 3 of the Vanguard concludes with page 24, were the team now faces a threat that may be even greater than the Warbot....to be continued in approximately 2 weeks.

I'm doing a brand-new Saturday-only storyline in full color that I hope gets a good turnout from the sci-fi webcomics crowd. It takes place in the year 3438, before the events of Starslip Crisis. Vanderbeam has been captain of the Fuseli for a few years, and has recently taken on Cutter Edgewise, a former pirate, as the navigator of the finest starship art museum in the galaxy.

Okay, who cares about the setup. It's going to feature interwebcomic space battles. It's one huge fanboy crossover in the vein of "who would win -- the Enterprise or a Star Destroyer?"

If you have a sci-fi webcomic with a spaceship in it, you can submit your ship and crew to be involved! The form to fill out is on the guide page here. Read the terms, and join in! And check back every Saturday to see the plot developments!

All good things come to an end, they say. And, fortunately enough, most not very good things do, too. Which brings us to Don't Spok the Afflicted, the Star Trek spoof I made back when I were just knee-high to a tribble.

Now, you can make up your own mind which of those categories it falls into, as today the final three pages of this ancient curiosity are posted online at Broken Voice Comics. Made back in the days before PCs ruled the Earth, it still gives Galaxy Quest a run for its money, even today. Okay, so that last bit was a lie. It looks like it was made using "borrowed" school exercise books and ballpoint pens. Which it was ... hey, that was state-of-the-art back then!

As it moves into it's final four installments, the alien invasion adventure G.A.A.K: Groovy Ass Alien Kreatures by writer/creator Darryl Hughes and artist Monique MacNaughton proves that not even death (or in this case being reduced to a steaming puddle of ooze) can keep a good bad guy down. Where would a space oddity of the extraterrestrial variety find it easy to hide out and blend in then at a convention full of space oddieties of the earthly variety, of course. And with some of these Star Trek fans? Who'd notice?

These days Star Trek fans are spoiled with more po-faced spin-offs than you can shake a phaser at. Back in the days when the original series was all we had, however, I penned Don't Spok the Afflicted, a spoof made with nothing more sophisticated than ballpoint pens, an illicitly obtained school exercise book and some incredibly juvenile humour.

I had no shortage of the latter but, as you'll see from the latest two pages to be posted online, it seems ballpoint pens were very short-lived in those days!

Well, not so much a frontier as a comic. We've had fun (and not a little embarrassment!) over at Broken Voice Comics, revisiting the comics I made back when I still needed both hands to hold a ball-point pen but, sadly or otherwise, those visits will soon be at an end.

Don't Spok the Afflicted is the last of the comics I made in my mis-spent youth which we'll be subjecting to the glare of public scrutiny on the worldwide wonder-web. As the title suggests, it's a spoof of Star Trek proving that, even in its heyday, we fans were not exactly blind to the show's shortcomings. In fact, we might even have loved it because of its shortcomings!

You can see the first few pages of this comic at BVC today and we'll be posting additional pages every Friday. If you can't wait that long to extend your trip down our Memory Lane, however, you can always visit these other comics from this dark but formative period of my youth:

Issue #1 of the sci-fi superhero action comic The Vanguard is now available in print. This 36-page, full color action-packed volume is now available for order right here at IndyPlanet.

Starslip Crisis turned two years old last week, May 23. This is the strip that ran. It's a mid-storyline strip; it's more setup than punchline. I think Starslip has evolved beyond whatever I thought it was going to be in 2005. I thought I'd give myself a little sci-fi playground to have fun with the genre -- not to do parody, but play with the usual mechanics of how science fiction works. I guess that's why I gave it such an odd setting. I figured there were enough "ship explores unknown worlds" stories out there. What does a ship like the Enterprise do after all the wars have been won? And what if the war came back?