A Modest Start-Up Venture
Where we meet our heroes as they prepare to make names for themselves
in the highly-competitive treasure-acquisition industry.
Now Open: The Maze of Terror
Where our intrepid band makes its first attempt to garner fame and
fortune and winds up hanging around in a sticky situation.
Gratuitous Cameo Week
Where the author, celebrating the move from two to three strips per
week, appropriates characters from other comic strips to appear in his
own.
Personnel Issues
Where Portia confronts bits of her hidden past and Yerzle realizes that
while politics may make strange bedfellows, work should not.
Shameless Guest Strip Week
Where the author, recovering from time lost during the holidays,
appropriates other cartoonists to draw his characters.
Marches Madness
Where Dozer is introduced to the Grand Tournament of the Middle
Kingdoms, and he and Yerzle attempt to improve their financial status
in the Tournament Pool.
The Fellowship of the Thing
Where Yerzle, Portia and Stillwell cross
dimensions to recover an object of power, lest it fall into the
hands of those who would turn it to evil.
Digging for Wyrms
Where our heroes, attempting to make the big score, instead wind up
learning a few things they probably weren't taught in biology or social
studies class.
Book Two: Jazz
Is Dead, And I'm Not Feeling Well Myself
Domestic Blisters
Where our heroes are forced to trade the thrill and danger of the
treasure-acquisition business for the more mundane, though no less
challenging, activities of everyday life.
Obits and Pieces (Or, Jazz Is Dead, And I'm Not Feeling Well Myself)
Where our heroes set out to loot the estate of Fennurf the Collector,
Under-Mage of Gorlok, but wind up uncovering enmity rather than
treasure.
Son of Shameless Guest Strip Week
Where guest artists are once again brought in to cover for the author's
laziness, and including the long-form story "The
Shapes of Things That Run"
Oh Deer!
Where Yerzle's past collides with his present, with contentious and
potentially incindiary results.
Squid Pro Quo
Where Portia decides to assume some of the trappings of more successful
sorcerers, but winds up getting both less and more than she bargained
for.
Pigs on the Lam
Where the unrest in Dozer's homeland comes to Pervis Gap, and the old
soldier is forced to make decisions regarding his own future as well as
that of his Emperor.
Book Three: Sturm
& Drang
Incense & Powertrains
Where Fawn's new job gets away from her, forcing the skies above Pervis
Gap to become filled with flying sorcerers and other unidentified
flying objects.
Guest Strips Gone Wild!
Where the acceptable boundaries of guest strippage are pushed, and
pushed hard, long, fast, and repeatedly. Including the long-form
stories "Yerzlemania!" and "People of the Sewer."
The Levers of History
Where our heroes are recruited to escort an pair of ancient artifacts
to a sanctuary and attempt to resist the pressure put on them both from
the sinister forces pursuing them and from themselves.
Revenge
of the Shameless Guest Strips Where, after a
twenty-five month storyline, the author takes a much-needed break and
once again lets his adoring fans fill in for him for two weeks.
Book Four: Any Port Fennic In A Storm
Spears of a Clown Where Yerzle
encounters the Order of St. Farceur, and realizes that clowning around
is serious business. Hiatus Where
the author takes a much-needed month off to recharge his creative
batteries and rebuild his strip buffer. Portia's Dream Where
Portia takes a trip through her subconcious, trying to come to terms
with some issues, and emerges on the other side with a new perspective. The
Voyage of the Sea Cow Where
our heroes set out on the wide, wide sea, working their passage to
Aurac.
