Brian and John

Dear readers, we are happy to announce that one of our favorite games
has now reached the iPhone. James Ernest’s award-winning dice game,
Button Men.

Full disclosure: one of us is James Ernest.

Button Men is an awesome little dice game, and won the 1999 Origins
Award for Best Abstract Board Game. (Apparently “Abstract” modified
“Board” and not “Game.”)

Now, obviously, it’s time for you to buy an iPhone. If you already
have an iPhone, you’re in luck, because now adding Button Men will
cost you only $2.99.

If you don’t know what Button Men is, look for details (and keep
checking back) at www.buttonmen.com, or visit the old fan site at
www.cheapass.com/bpu.

If you do know what Button Men is, then go buy it right now and then
tell all your friends.

Self-promotingly yours,

Brian and John.

It’s time for more captions!

Check out the bar across the top of the page!

We now have a “Contact Us” link, so you can, well, contact us. And there’s an “About Us” page, featuring bios of most of the main characters. Remember, you can get these on coffee mugs!

I wish I could say that Brian and I were playing Rock Band instead of
working on the Beatles comic (that would have been poetic) but
instead, I was sick with the Consars (Also known as PAX Pox, PAX1N1,
etc) and Brian was asleep at his computer. Seriously, he mails me on
Wednesday morning with:

“Hi, uh, fell asleep on my computer, lost all the work on today’s
strip, starting over this afternoon.”

Perfect timing, since of course last week I went to PAX and handed out
flyers for this comic to everyone I met, then got into discussion
after discussion about how Web comics fail because they aren’t
regularly updated. Haw, haw, haw.

So, welcome new readers, and witness our chagrin at posting
Wednesday’s strip on Thursday morning. We will never let you down
again. (Right Brian? Wake up Brian?)

I now return to coughing, wheezing, bouncing checks, and attempting to
five-star the Ed Sullivan show.

-John