[[Previously, on Wagner! Jim and Koko are captured and submitted to will-breaking interrogation techniques for a series of crimes they are not competent enough to have committed.]]

[[Jim Wagner sits tied to the blue chair with his eyes closed and his face in a grimace.]]

Jim Wagner (Thinking): What’s happening?!? I’m reliving every significant moment from my life…

[[Age 5. 5 year old Jim Wagner sits in front of the TV set in a dark room.]]

Television: Iwl get ywoo wascawy wabbit!

[[Age 12. 12 year old Jim Wagner has been knocked to the ground by a mime that is threatening him with its fist. Another mime stands behind that mime.]]

Second Mime: Don’t come back to this city or we’ll kill you!

Jim Wagner: You’re not supposed to talk!

Ah yes, Thompkins was back in the hilarious state of Minnesota over the holidays and, through techniques previously mentioned was able to pin me down to write down the thoughts and random conversations we’ve had about this story arc for Wagner. You’ll notice over the coming pages the most significant moments in Jim’s life!

All recent comics have been done by inking the comics before scanning. I felt that inking the comics in Gimp tends to make the lines look more uniform, even if I am conscientious about varying the brush size and shape. Using better pens and drawing things larger seems to have made the scanning process less error prone, so for the time being this will continue.

As the current chapter of Vagrond’s Space Adventures has come to a close, it’s time for a change.  Now that the Supreme Court has allowed waterboarding I’ve been able to get Chaerb to write the continuation to Jim Wagner in Planetoid of the Simians.  Wagner comics will return starting January 3rd.  To celebrate, here’s a crude drawing of the characters from my sketchbook:

I have just written the sixth chapter of Rob Kestler in “The Saga of the Three Kings”.  (Warning: Semi-gratuitous f-bombage.)  The exciting action that’s been present so far in this series was all ignored to instead tell a little story about men, women, and the kinds of relationships they have.