And we are back! the y3cl story line will start with a quick re-cap of what happened previously so you can easily jump into the new story line!

I know this has taken me a long time to get this next one up…but there’s good reason for that. I forgot about it. Well not so much forgot but dreaded it for some reason. I didn’t want to draw the last panel out of sheer laziness. If you look closely you can see all the places I cut corners and ‘cheated’. I know, you envy mah’ skillz.

If you would like to buy a limited edition poster of the y2cl 1,000 comic above, it is $5 plus $3 shipping. You can use the paypal buy it now button here to do so! Each will come SIGNED by Jon Anderson and myself! Do it, it’s on the right sidebar there.

ONE THOUSAND COMICS!
Here are some stats that cover the last 1,000 comics.

• over 450 y2cl comics.
  • First joined on November 1st, 2003 on y2cl#1 – Introduction
  • 223 z2c comics, starting on June 16th, 2008 on y2cl#300 – z2c#0
• 212 A Very Good Segue comics.
  • First joined on November 14th, 2003 on y2cl#7 – Cock Fight
• 113 Inanimate comics.
  • First joined on October 31st, 2008 on y2cl#383 – Inanimate#1 MoFo Monkey Nelly Sings A Halloween Song
• 16 Fuzzy Memory comics.
  • First joined on November 4th, 2008 on y2cl#388/Fuzzy Memory#000 – Election Day
  • co-created with Josh Devor
• 14 The Skit and Skat Show! comics.
  • First joined on December 4th, 2008 on y2cl#416/Skit and Skat#1 – Brotherly Love
  • co-created with JP Manzanares from Giraffe on Stilts
• 53 Sergeant Blinky and his Brigade of Fantastic comics.
  • First joined on March 15th, 2009 on y2cl#469/Sergeant Blinky#1
• 49 Furry Animal Magic comics.
  • First joined on April 25th 2009 on y2cl#534 – FAM#1 Fun At The Bowling Alley
  • co-created with Mike Gordon of MRG Studios and Old Town curious
• 25 y2cl radio episodes.
  • First joined on May 29th, 2009 with y2cl radio episode zero!
• 4 Animal House comics.
  • First joined on June 27th, 2009 on y2cl#598/FAM Animal House#001 Briannas Introduction
  • co-created with Keith W. of Mysteries of the Arcana
• 70 For The Reels comics.
  • First joined on Septemper 28th, 2009 on y2cl#704/FTR#1: The Wholly Departed (The Departed, 2006)
  • Created by Joe Garcia and Jon Garcia, I came in when FTR joined the y2cl family.
• 10 For The Reels: Behind the Scenes comics.
  • First joined on November 27th, 2009 on y2cl#833/FTR Behind The Scenes #01
  • Created by Joe Garcia and Jon Garcia, I came in when FTR joined the y2cl family.

That’s A LOT of flippin’ comics.

Jon Anderson had THIS to say about the poster, z2c and his time on y2cl:

… and I said to the bartender “that’s not a duck, that’s my boyfriend.” But seriously, comics are more than just punch lines; web-comics doubly so.

It was about two and half years ago now when I found the ad on craigslist looking for a contributing artist for a zombie apocalypse. I had gone to school for media arts and animation, and while I enjoyed drawing cartoonish figures, I had not really thought of illustration as a career or serious hobby direction. But it’s a zombie apocalypse. What’s cooler than that?

So I sketched up some serious cartoony and graphic novel style zombies, sent them over and effectively stepped onto the expanding road that was to be Z2C – Zombie 2 Christ.

My initial worked SUUUUCKED, but without any actual text to work with, I unwittingly wrote my own thinking that Mister Horsley could simple re-write if he didn’t like. However, it worked. And my sucky art skills didn’t matter so much, because I was a less sucky writer.

Over the next two years, my art got less sucky. Actually I’d say it got down right awesome-ish. I learned a lot about Adobe Illustrator, I learned a lot about the web comic process (both experimentally and from some of the big & talls of the industry), and I learned, most importantly, how to finish what I started.

Interestingly enough, because it isn’t really amazing or funny, but John and I didn’t actually meet in person until the Spring of 2010, a full 2 years after we had started. We’d talked on the phone, texted, and even spoken via podcast. It wasn’t actually until mid 2009 when we became Facebook friends that he realized that all my remarks about butt sex and offers to show my oral talents weren’t just jokes. That is, they weren’t just jokes about me being gay. I really am a big flaming homo. Well.. I am big.. and I am a homo. John says I’m only gay because I like dick. I’m not sure what other types of male gay there are, but I’m just glad he didn’t tie me up and kill me when I came to visit.

When John brought up the idea of a poster for comic 1000 I was both thrilled and intimidated. I knew that the size of the piece, there sheer importance of the number, and of course my ever expanding sense of pride demanded that I surpass anything I had done before.

Previous mile markers for John had all included many of the characters that had appeared previously. I was not super familiar with all the different comic characters, and neither did I really care to. That’s just how I roll. So, I knew I wanted at least the zombies I had created, I wanted to include some of the celebrities, and of course “the guys”.

The Heaven, Earth, and Hell imagery was actually inspired by my trip to Italy in the fall. I got to see the works of some of the masters’ works in person, and they just loved Heaven and Hell. With a couple of demons in the cast (and the fact that I was in love with my rendition of the Demon-Calvin), and 4 Jesuses (would that me Jesae?) and God, I knew I had an environment to work from. Everything else just started falling together after that. I started with a master sketch and then re-sketched in better detail the specific characters, and brought them all into the main scene. [A hint for Illustrator users when building a complex scene…. Turn off the compression option when you save. Memory is cheap. Sitting for an hour while your computer sweats and smokes to reduce a 150 MB file down to 10 MB is simply not worth it.] The 1000th comic poster is a piece of pride and glory for me. While there were more things I wanted to do, at a point I knew I’d just have to kick it out of the nest and let it fly. You can help it fly by ordering one today. The 1st hundred I will personally sign with a love note to you or a handsome single man between 30 to 40 years old in the Greater Pacific Northwest region that you may know or be related to.

And now, we pack up our pencils, laptops and +5 Personal Ion Cannons and make a leap forward into the future both story wise and technology wise as I attempt a new style of art that will hopefully maintain Y2CL Comics continue brand of eclecticism. Stay tuned.

This one is a two parter…not because I wrote it that way but because I did not get the final panel drawn out before it was time to post this. I know, sadness. BUT this means I will re-tool the last panel into a new comic for next Wednesday! Are you no excited? I am! Feel these nipples!

Also, I should talk about the fact that my wife and I got free tickets to an exclusive pre-screening of Hot Tub Time Machine tonight. I went into it just thinking ‘well, free movie’. In fact, I thought that so much that before the movie the wife and I have 12 minutes before it started. We used that 12 minutes to run next door to Chips Casino to get a drink. Kaylie had a jolly rancher and I had a Jager Bomb (which had a generous THREE SHOTS of Jager in it). Then we about 5 minutes left so we each had a Jolly Rancher. This way, we would ensure the movie was good!

And it WAS good! Even without the alcohol it would have been good. This movie is on par with The Hangover for quality of funny. Oh, and for the guys there where tits in the movie. For the ladies, man on man genitalia. I want to see it again, and I want to somehow find a way to make a drinking game out of it. Maybe take a shot everything the black guy talks. Or drink every time Rob Corddry get’s punched in the damn face.

I only regret I was unable to drink more after words.

Keep this in mind anyone with access to give free stuff for review/preview/test, whether it’s a movie, game, food, toy or anything else, you can send it to me or my wife and we will gladly give it an honest review. Click that contact button above if you need to.

Love and PEACE!

I love the Janitor. Neil Flynn did an amazing job at this character. I sort of wish Neil’s new show was a Janitor sitcom spin-off. Or Legal Custodians with Ted.

And here comes the Janitor, played amazingly by Neil Flynn on the TV show.

I’m very sad the show is no more. It makes me cry. This little dream storyline is my homage to the wonderful show.

This one took me forever. And no, I didn’t just take screen caps and run them through filters. All this was done in Illustrator…with a mouse (because I forget how to use a tablet.(ok not forget how, but have been to lazy to set one up))

Can you guess where JN is? Can you? I bet next week you will be able to. I’ll give you a hint, it’s a popular TV Show.

And you thought there wouldn’t be an update on this site until MAY when y3cl starts! HA! I fooled you!

the z2c/y3cl interlude will run probably every Wednesday and will only be about 15 pages. maybe. I hope. Who knows, could end up being 100 knowing me and the crew.

Here it is..The LAST PAGE of z2c! Are you EXCITED! I am!

It all started back on June 11th, 2008.
But did you know the back story ACTUALLY started here, on January 14th, 2008?

What is next for y2cl? Well I’m glad you asked! Jon and I will take a break from updating y2clcomic.com (all the rest of the y2cl.net comics will update and keep the one a day status up) while we work out the finishing for the next story arc, which is y3cl! There will be BIG changes in y3cl, but trust me, they are worth the wait.

I don’t want to give you a date for he launch of y3cl, but we are looking for April BUT I guarantee nothing.

Expect by the launch of y3cl for the Official z2c book to be out! it will have behind the scenes eclusives as well as back story comics for the zombies.