The Tooth House

New Trek has its ups and downs. Statistically speaking, I think downs predominate. I absolutely loved the second season of Discovery, and either liked or couldn't understand why they had done the rest of it. Picard was… man. Lower Decks (Lower Decks!) is legit, and Strange New Worlds balls out of control. Out of control.

For whatever reason, Gabe simply has never been subject to TikTok. Whatever it's doing, however it's trying to do it, it simply doesn't plug into his dealio. I never got into Reddit really, whatever its charms, and that's the bifurcation. They could ban TikTok, or not ban it, or only make it available between the hours of Midnight and One O'Clock, and he literally wouldn't know. I have sent him three to four hundred TikToks over the last six years or so and he just says he doesn't have it and will never have it. I suspect it's like when your cat gives you an inside-out mouse, and you're supposed to appreciate it, but you want nothing to do with it in any way, shape, or form. For a variety of reasons. You won't suddenly be inspired to investigate mouse recipes. You know?

I feel like it's been a very long time since I've seen handles like I've seen in Rivals. You have the console players, clearly marked by their platform allegiance in the UI, and then you have the mutant and feral horde of Steam players for whom laws are suggestions and for whom literacy is a sworn enemy. Expertly commingling the Third Reich with Pedophilia, the name in the strip is a real name. Well, not a given name. I hope that's not a given name, but we did see it. That's the one we felt could be included in the strip. The list of those which could not is robust! It's a deep roster.

I think that it's okay to do things for money, especially if you're really good at them. For example, if you are A Russo Brother - either one - I would absolutely love it if they came back and made a cool Marvel movie. Disney certainly doesn't know how. Disney has been wandering in the fucking woods since Endgame, and the movie that called them out for doing exactly that made 1.3 billion dollars. I want these Russo gentlemen back because they made Captain America: Winter Soldier. That's why I wanted them to do the other stuff; because they make good things. I don't need some kind of substrate underneath it. It's a craft. They're the masters of it. That's plenty for me.

I have a migraine, so let's see how this goes. Like my youngest, if I try to speak it takes forever. It's like I've ordered the words from GrubHub and I must wait for them to arrive. I can watch the little dot with my words creep along the screen until they get to my mouth. But typing is mostly okay!

I'd had an inkling for a while, just a little itch in my brainstem, but now it's reached some kind of primal vibration that demands release. I'm feeling very confident , more confident than ever, that Nintendo is going to make another console. I know it rings harsh, like the echo of a mad prophecy. But we're closer than ever, and you can't disagree with that really, because that's just how time works. We've never been more near. I feel its cold shadow.

These skins are utterly out of control - they're unbridled eroticism, except for the range of tantalizing Equestrian themed outfits, where bridles are somehow worked into the twisted proceedings themselves. These perverts at NetEase would see every day devoted to humping if they could, stripping Wednesday of its traditional remit.

I feel like this gets all the ideas about a Helldivers movie together in once place.

Well, he did it:

After much deliberation and discussion with my family, I decided to purchase a finger skateboard.

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— Gabe (@cwgabriel.bsky.social) January 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM

Mork had told me about Facebook or Meta or Whoever The Fuck talking about generating AI users from whole cloth and stuffing their services with them. The quote in the strip is direct, but we have provided a lightly translated option also.

After taking a break for December I am back doing monthly commissions again. I have opened up my first four slots of 2025 this morning. If you would like to get a drawing from me now is your chance! Check out my Atristree page for all the details and to send a request. Please give me all the info you can and be sure to specify if you would like a background or no background. These pieces will be finished by the end of the month. I am happy to draw original characters or anything from games,movies or comics just give me the details! 

-Gabe Out

Happy New Year nerds! After taking a break for December I will be getting back to doing monthly commissions. I plan on opening up four slots on my Atristree page for January this coming Friday morning. Between PAX Unplugged and the holidays I just didn’t feel like I had time for commissions in December.  I really enjoy doing them though and I’m excited to get back to it this month. If you grab one of the four slots on Friday I’ll work with you to draw whatever character you like be it from comics,games, movies or something from D&D or any other RPG. I’ve drawn family pets, original characters, Marvel heroes and even redrew a classic Penny Arcade strip at someone's request. You’ll get the final piece around the end of the month including high res files suitable for printing. So if you’d like to get a custom piece from me, keep an eye on the site Friday morning or just watch my Atristree page for the slots to open up on the 3rd. Thanks!

-Gabe Out

It's not a hundred percent clear what ills Gabriel is looking to secure, or at least tamp down, but we do have to respect that he's willing to invest in unorthodox techniques to manage them. We are all subject to pique, maladies of the body and mind, terrors of all stripes. To find a panacea for that which Scourges Man is a noble effort - a boon to the finder, but a treasury to our extended human family as well. I wish him every success.

Marvel Rivals has taken over fully now as the Snack Game. For a while I was playing it exclusively with other people, it was a Hang Out Game, but Quick Matches just don't take very long and they can fit in anywhere. It's also an opportunity for others, our erstwhile allies, to learn remedial hero shooter skills at our expense!

James Gunn has made lots of movies that I like, and he even made a teevee show called Peacemaker that I like, and part of the reason I like it when he gets his filthy mitts all over this comic stuff is that he understands that comics are kind of dumb. If the hairs on your neck are standing up, let me gently pat them back down. I don't mean that they're not worthwhile. I mean that people get bit by spiders and get spider powers. Because anything can happen, some of the things that do happen are silly. But that flexibility means that anything can happen. He is somebody who will take swings.  He made Rocket Raccoon work! And now I gotta deal with that shit every day in Rivals.

Young women today don't have to choose, as their foremothers did. They don't have to be pigeonholed into the staid and static roles they've always had to select from, either candle maker or Hive Matriarch. They can be both. I think. I don't really know, I guess. Isn't a hive basically just a big candle you never light? That seems reasonable to me.