while we were getting this comic ready for a convention, my computer broke. see, ive got one of those massive homebrew things, because... i'm not sure. maybe peer pressure.

before the great breaking, i never had to, like, get inside it with... tools... to fix it. i was a poser. i just... pretended to understand what it all meant: the gpu, the graphics card, which might be what gpu stands for.

but, it happened. One day before the order cut off.

now, i live so deep in the country, id have to drive over two hours (roundtrip) just to get to a best buy geek force person to help. which meant it was up to me. There were times i didn't think it would ever come back. Times i dropped the reinforced glass onto something glass cannot be dropped onto. Times i lashed out at specter7. times i cried over the motherboard switch. ripping at that thing. stabbing it with metal. A pencil. Anything.

HOWEVER... it did come back. Same day, too.

Unfortunately, though, the wifi went out literally the next minute. i dont have service out here. when spectrum's gone, im off the grid. so... i couldnt submit the book to the printer. which meant i had to pay an additional $60 for shipping once my stuff came back, because i needed next day air. no. i cant think about it anymore. im getting nauseous.

anyway. sharing because this page was the last thing i saw before my graphics card went dark. it's taking a lot of confidence right now to look at it again.