http://www.geekforcehq.com/news.xml Check out this RSS feed for all the latest news about the site www.geekforcehq.com and Geek Force, the Webcomic, the comic that calls the site home. redphantom@geekforcehq.com 2012 Redphantom Xenpyschous. Some Rights Reserved. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#194 Rick Issue 157 has been released. Come back Wednesday for another exciting issue. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#193 Rick Issue 156 has been released. Tomorrow if the groundhog sees his shadow and retreats to his hole, there will be two issues of Rick, the Cryptozoologist next week. If the groundhog doesn't see his shadow, Rick is going to punch him in the face and throw him back to his hole anyway. Come back next Monday for another issue of Rick, and as always, next Wednesday. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#192 Rick Issue 155 has been released. Come back Wednesday at eleven for a second helping. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#191 Rick Issue 154 has been released, per the new status quo, we will be back on Monday, January 30th, with another new issue. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#190 Rick Issue 153 has been released. Geek Force decided to post our previously planned issue on SOPA tonight because, as many have pointed out, the bill will return in some fashion. It is always important to oppose censorship, and to make sure that our elected officials do not merely wait for us to go back to sleep and then carry out an unpopular action. This issue, of course, also just pokes fun at congress in general. Come back on Wednesday January 25th for another exciting issue. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#189 After a planned delay, Rick Issue 152 has been released. For those who might not already know, we are now a twice weekly strip, and will be posting another comic on January 23rd. http://www.geekforcehq.com/default.html#188 Geek Force is going on strike for the duration of January 18th to protest SOPA and PIPA. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#187 Rick Issue 151 has been released, and Rick, the Cryptozoologist has made it's debut as a twice weekly strip. We will be back Wednesday with another comic. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#186 Rick Issue 150 has been released. In other news, next Monday, January 16th, we will be making our transition to a twice weekly strip. Come back at Monday at 11 for another comic. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#185 Rick Issue 149 has been released, as has our quarterly list of most satirized topics, and Redphantom's annual list of his ten personal favorite comics of the year. In other news, Rick will be making the transition to a twice weekly strip beginning January 16th. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#184 Rick Issue 148 has been released. Additionally, Redphantom has posted his annual list of his favorite comics of the year. Complimenting that, Geek Force posted our list of most satirized topics of 2011. Geek Force has also posted cryptid bios for Oilrah and for the Baramanu. We wish everyone a Happy New Year. http://rick.geekforcehq.com/cryptids.htm Rick Issue 148 has been released. Geek Force has also posted cryptid bios for Oilrah and for the Baramanu. In other news, we will be posting Redphantom's top ten favorite comics of 2011 at 11 GMT-6 on New Year's Eve. In addition, we will be releasing our list of most satirized topics in 2011 that night. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#183 Rick Issue 148 has been released. In other news, beginning January 16th, Rick the Cryptozoologist will be a twice weekly strip, updating Mondays and Wednesdays at 11 gmt-6. Additionally, Redphantom will be selecting his ten favorite comics of the year and posting his choices online at 11 gmt-6 this Saturday for New Year's Eve, and Geek Force will be posting a list of the top five most satirized topics of the year 2011. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#182 Rick Issue 147 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#181 Rick Issue 146 has been released. In other news, as posted above, beginning Monday January 16th, 2012, Geek Force will be posting updates for Rick, the Cryptozoologist bi-weekly. New issues will still be uploaded every Wednesday at 11 gmt-6 just as they always have been for the entire existence of the strip. In addition to this, a second update will now also be posted on Monday nights at 11 gmt-6. We have made this decision for several reasons, first and foremost because we believe we can handle doubling our workload. Primarily we are making this change because doing just one comic a week makes us feel claustrophobic. If we have any sort of recurring plot, it dominates the strip. If we do character development, it must be minuscule to avoid overload. We are hoping that doubling our number of issues will allow us time to do so much more with the characters and the plot. Rick, the Cryptozoologist will remain the same it has always been, humor wise, art wise, but starting January 16th, there will be much more of it. We sincerely hope that this is a good thing. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#180 Rick Issue 145 has been released. In other news, Geek Force will be making a special announcement next week about a change coming to Rick, the Cryptozoologist to go with our new issue. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#179 Rick Issue 144 has been released, and it is a special issue. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#178 Rick Issues 142 and 143 have been released. Tonight we bring you two issues. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#177 Rick Issue 141 has been released, and it is part of a protest against the E-PARASITES ACT. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#176 Rick Issue 140 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#175 Rick Issue 139 has been released, and Geek Force also has released our third annual Halloween Special. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#174 Here it is, the 2011 Halloween Special. This year Geek Force tried a little trick and treat. We hope everyone had a good one. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#173 A little trick and meta humor for our fans, the real Halloween Issue coming in a few hours. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#172 Rick Issue 137 has been released. In other news, come back this Monday for a special Halloween issue of Rick. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#171 Rick Issue 136 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#170 Rick Issue 135 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#169 Rick Issue 134 has been released. In other news, Geek Force has also posted the list of most satirized topics up through the third quarter of 2011. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#168 Rick Issue 133 has been released. This issue seems a bit dated, however, it is directed a people who really will not let the Birthers issue die. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#167 Rick Issue 132 has been released. As promised three weeks ago, this is Redphantom's question to Liberals: what would happen if past progressives used our current tactics? Why can we not stand up for what we believe? Why can we not fight for our principles? Why must we be so politically correct and "act like adults", to such a degree that we cannot say the other side is wrong? That we must always bend? Liberals need to push harder. We need a Liberal Richard Nixon, someone ruthless and shrewd, to be our Democratic President. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#166 Rick Issue 131 has been released. Geek Force apologizes for the fact that the comic did not update on the main site. Redphantom's auto update did not work as it normally does. This was a one week absence. Redphantom will be here next week to update the site in a proper manner. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#165 Rick Issue 131 will be released at 11 GMT-5. Redphantom has set the site to auto update at this time since he will be unable to update the site in person. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#164 Rick Issue 130 has been released, and our hosting plan has been updated; the site it back at 100%. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#163 Rick Issue 129 has been released. This comic comes with comment from Redphantom, which is simply this: to all my conservative friends, why do you continue to vote for Republicans who run on values and then betray you once in office? I do have several conservative friends, with whom I get along with well, aside from their belief that I "think too much", and "read too much". Many of them are terrified that Obama is a Socialist bent on destroying their values, and yet, they are dissatisfied with Republicans that they elect. Why do they continue this practice? The Tea Party was no suitable answer to this problem. Why is it that the GOP can find no suitable primary challengers that are sane? Redphantom's question to his fellow Liberals and analysis of their problem will come in three weeks time. As far as site news, as stated above, we will be upgrading our hosting plan on September 5th to boast site performance and expand our storage space. The site may be down for a few hours on September 5th and 6th. In other news, Geek Force has posted the bio page for the Yowie http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#162 Rick Issue 128 has been released. Also, as posted above, Geek Force is upgrading it's hosting plan to improve site performance and so that we can have unlimited storage. Redphantom has been thinking about it lately, and he would hate to have to delete old comics if we ever ran out of space. This should prevent such a thing from happening, and it should boast the site's performance. The upgrade will take place on Monday September 6th, and should take about 24 hours to complete, which means the upgrade will go until September 7th. The site should be down for a few hours during this time, but it will be up and operating at optimum efficiency in time for next week's comic. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#161 Rick Issue 127 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#160 Rick Issue 126 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#159 Rick Issue 125 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#158 Geek Force released Rick Issue 122 Wednesday, and two extra comics, Issues 123 and 124 todoay to mark two years running. Plus, Redphantom has updated the site. Much work went into this, and so we hope you enjoy it. Rick the Cryptozoologist does not by any measure have a massive fanbase, but we appreciate everyone who reads it. We hope to still be kicking it next year. In other news, dig around on Rick's portion of the site for the bios for the Kracken and the Owlman. http://rick.geekforcehq.com/bios/cryptids/om.xml Owlman's Bio has been posted. http://rick.geekforcehq.com/bios/cryptids/kracken.xml Kracken's Bio has been posted. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#157 Rick Issue 123 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/ss/rejected_2.htm Read the scripts that were rejected for year two. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#156 Rick Issue 122 was released on Wednesday, as usual, today, July 29th, is Rick's second anniversary of being on the Internet. Two years ago today at eleven o clock, the first issue of Rick went up, and thus, Geek Force will be releasing two extra comics, and a couple of other pieces of content to mark this occasion. Geek Force, is, in fact done with all the required work. Still, this year's release will differ from the last in that Redphantom will not be up at midnight to mark to the anniversary, and will not be able to update the site during the day because of work. Still, Redphantom is much more prepared for this event than he was last year, and has thankfully avoided an all nighter, which is what he was doing at this time last year. With those two factors combined, Redphantom will release the content in this order, at these times: Rejected Rick Strips from Year Two will be released at 5:00PM GMT-6, Issue 123 will be released at 7:00PM GMT-6, The Bios for Kracken and Owlman will be released at 9:00PM GMT-6, And the grand finale, Issue 124, a fully fledged Special Issue, along with the site updates will be posted online at 11:00PM GMT-6. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#155 Rick Issue 122 has been released, in other news, Friday will mark the release of two comics marking Rick's second anniversary, and one of them is written by Dustin. Plus, it is a special issue. Redphantom has already collected his unused scripts, of which there are 20, and is prepared to release them on that day. There will be two new cryptid bios, and of course, the site revamps. Geek Force is very pleased to have made it to two years, and hopes to celebrate again around this time of year for many years yet to come. Many thanks to all of our readers who make this happen. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#154 Rick Issue 121 has been released. In other news, Redphantom has not updated this to the site yet, but he has gone back and streamlined the code for the current archives, which will be the HTML4 archives once the site updates are done. Redphantom did want to increase the efficiency of these, and have them as an option. It is not nearly as efficient as the HTML5 code, but it should be an improvement over the current code. Eventually, the HTML5 version will become standard. When this happens depends on how fast HTML5 is embraced and used throughout the Internet. Redphantom will also be adding bios for Owlman and the Kracken to site on July 29th. The artwork is done, but Redphantom is holding off on it seeing as at the moment, there are two versions of the site on his computer, the current one, and the new one. He does not wish to add the bios twice. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#153 Rick Issue 120 has been released. In other news, there is not much to report on the site updates. Redphantom has done most of the graphics, and progress is being made. There will now be alternate logos for Rick, the current one will remain official, but new ones have been made which feature Rick's supporting cast, and some of Rick original cryptids. These logos will randomly display each time the page for the expanded Rick site loads. There is also a logo with current versions of Rick and John to denote our second year in business. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#152 Rick Issue 119 has been released. In other news, Redphantom, and it is excellent news, Redphantom has finally perfected his new archives code. He has removed thousands of lines of code, and achieved his original goal of only adding one line of code per new archive page. Since HTML5 is not a standard, it will be optional for the time being. There will also be a Low Bandwidth and a High Bandwidth option. Redphantom feels strongly about providing these options because he himself prefers Low key options, and dislikes the lack of options. In regards to the new archives script, Redphantom's sole regret is that it ate up so much development time that he was unable to try and develop new features. Still, this new script provides a platform to build upon. The script has been completed since July 1st, 2011. Redphantom's next phase of redesigns is a more light one: making new graphics. Logos will need to be created for the new archives page, of course, and he is going to add some new graphics without making major changes to the site, mostly to try and feature more of our supporting cast. Additionally, tonight Redphantom has updated the Rick page for our most satirized topics. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#151 Rick Issue 118 has been released. In other news, Redphantom has finally made needed progress on the web development. These changes are set to debut July 29th, as part of the second anniversary of Rick celebrations. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#150 Rick Issue 117 has been released. In other news, web development continues, and Redphantom has hit another snag, but, the script will be made more efficient for sure. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#149 Rick Issue 115 has been released, and so has an extra issue, Rick Issue 116, about Barack Obama's defense of his blatant violation of the War Powers Act. And yes, Redphantom understands that every recent president, including Bill Clinton, has made a joke of the War Powers Act, but President Obama was the one who promised change, not the same old politics in Washington. In other news, Redphantom is continuing web development and will be able to increase the efficiency of his Javascript, but not as much as he originally wanted. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#148 Rick Issue 115 has been released. Redphantom has no new updates on site upgrades, except that it is a frustrating process. He is working increasing the efficiency of the script on the archives. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#147 Rick Issue 114 has been released. In other news, Redphantom will be updating the site for Rick's second anniversary, as he previously posted. One thing he did not mention before, but wishes to make clear, is that there will not be any major aesthetic changes to the site. Last year there were major changes, but that was only because when Redphantom originally designed the site, he had a week, and only the artwork for the first two comics. The site had to be basic and text oriented due to the fact that there was no artwork. The purpose of Rick was, at that time, a side project to keep the site going until Geek Force could come off of hiatus. Redphantom is pondering throwing in some art from Year Two, but most graphics should remain the same. Now then, news on changes Redphantom is working on, and things that will definitely come to fruition: improvements to the archives. Last year, Redphantom wrote a script to manage our archives pages so that he would not end up having to edit dozens of pages each Wednesday. It has worked perfectly. Updating is much less labor intensive now, and the only problem is how bloated the script is. Redphantom seems to have this problem, where it is version 2 or 3 of his script before he can get the job and have it not be bloated. The new archives script will be the same on the surface, but, under the hood will be much more lean. And flexible. Redphantom will no longer have to add lines for a new month, and will only have to add one line or less for a new category. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#146 Redphantom has added two new categories to the archives for satirical topics. One is the War in Libya. Which is one Redphantom would have done sooner if any of our Libya strips had no reused artwork. Now we have released a comic which has met this standard, and so now there is a Libya archive page. The other new category is an American Imperialism. The U.S. government has for the most part stopped using the words War on Terrorism, so, now we're branding it as something else. In other news, Redphantom will be doing some site updates for the second anniversary of Rick, and hopes to make this a tradition. The updates will be rolled out on July 29th. As with last year, Redphantom will remain mum about it until he has them done so as not to disappoint. Although, last year, Redphantom got all the updates done he wanted to. Redphantom will announce now that there will be a strip released that day, and it will be non satirical. Also, we will, as with last year, post the unused strips from the year. We have many this year. Redphantom will also announce now that there will be no Rick ranting this year. Last year's almost killed him, and he is not proud of it. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#145 Issue 113 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#144 Issue 112 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#143 Issue 111 has been released. This one plugs nuclear power as a viable alternative to oil. Disagreeing with his fellow Liberals, and with all due respect to the victims of the horrible accident at Fukushima's nuclear power plant, Redphantom is still a proponent of nuclear power. Redphantom agrees, steps must be taken to make it safer, and to get profit out of it. There is also an issue of waste. Albert Einstein was quoted as saying, "Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water." True, but the sad thing is, solar cannot generate more energy right now, or enough. The same goes for wind power. And burning water is a hell of a lot safer than burning oil. Fukushima made parts of Japan, and perhaps even China unsafe, Chernobyl made Europe and Russia unsafe, Three Mile Island made parts of the United States unsafe. These accidents causes thousands of diseases, but so does petroleum. Petroleum makes the entire world unsafe and covers it in a thick haze. We should use nuclear as a bridge, and then, once wind and solar are honed, phase it out. Then we must clean our waste, and beforehand, make all of our reactors safe. They must not be built in hazardous areas, in much the same way we must be careful, until we can abandon it, where we drill for oil. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#142 Issue 110 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#141 Issue 109 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#140 Issue 108 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#139 Issue 107 has been released. Geek Force would like to clarify that this issue is not intended to encourage the usage of illegal drugs. We would never encourage the usage of substances we ourselves do not use. Nor would we encourage the usage of a substance the usage of which could risk a person their employment, or result in jail time. It is merely intended to argue that drugs should be legal. Additionally, this issue is in no way intended to glamorize drug usage, quite the contrary, it is meant to portray drug usage as something banal. Something which, in a world with murder, theft, rape, and violence seems a petty thing to crusade against. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#138 Issue 106 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#137 Issue 105 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#136 Issue 104 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#135 Issue 103 has been released. This concludes Odyssey Week, we hope you enjoyed it, and now for some sleep. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#134 Issue 102 has been released. A fun fact about this one is that Redphantom rewrote most of it, feeling the script sucked. Also, Issue 99 was saved over, but Redphantom had it up in the browser, so he reconstructed it from screenshots. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#133 Issue 101 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#132 Issues 99 and 100 were released today, enjoy. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#131 Odyssey Week continues with two comics today. The one just released, and of course, our standard comic at eleven. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#130 Rick Issue 98 has been released, a little later in the day than Redphantom would have liked, but, it was released on March 22nd, and that was the time set. Redphantom offers his apologies, he had a long day at work yesterday and today is his 21st birthday. Besides, as small as these strips are, much work does go into them. http://rick.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#129 Rick Issue 97 has been released, on a Monday. This week is a special event, Odyssey Week in honor of the recent military action in Libya. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#128 Rick Issue 96 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#127 Rick Issue 95 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#126 Rick Issue 94 has been released. http://rick.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#125 Rick Issue 93 has been released. http://rick.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#124 Rick Issue 92 has been released. Geek Force apologizes for the slight lateness, but it has been a rough week. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#123 Rick Issue 91 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#122 Rick Issue 90 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#121 Rick Issue 89 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#120 Rick Issue 88 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#119 Rick Issue 87 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#118 Rick Issue 86 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#118 Geek Force has posted a list of the Top Ten Rick comics of 2010, and has now added a page to the rick site detailing the topics we satirize the most. Redphantom will be posting details soon about some projects he has been working on, and apologizes for not posting more material, but he has been adjusting to work. Also, many of the projects he has been working on besides Rick have a much longer production cycle. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#117 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 85. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#116 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 84. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#115 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 83 http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#114 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 82. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#113 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 81. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#112 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 80. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#111 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 79. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#110 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 78. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#109 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 77. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#108 Geek Force has released the Rick the Cryptozoologist 2010 Halloween Special. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#107 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 75. Geek Force will also be releasing a Rick, the Cryptozoologist Halloween Special, written and drawn by Dustin Carter, so be sure to return to the site on Sunday night. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#106 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 74. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#105 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 73. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#104 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 72. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#103 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 71. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#102 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 70. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#101 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 69. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#100 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 68. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#99 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 67. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#98 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 66. http://www.geekforcehq.com#97 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 65. http://www.geekforcehq.com#96 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 64. http://www.geekforcehq.com#95 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 63. http://www.geekforcehq.com#94 Geek Force has released a new issue of Rick, the Cryptozoologist! And Redphantom posted two rants today! One of dicarded Rick Strips Scripts, and one, Inane Jokes, a short story about Rick. There will be more Rick products in the coming weeks. http://www.geekforcehq.com/ss/rejected.htm Redphantom has posted 11 Rick strips we never used, nor will we ever use, and he is going to post his short story featuring Rick tonight which is currently 17,729 words but is going to go through a draft between now and then so may be shorter or longer, and, Geek Force is all set to release another issue of Rick tonight to celebrate his first birthday. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#94 Geek Force has released the 61st issue of Rick the Cryptozoologist, tomorrow it will release the 62nd in honor of Rick's first birthday, it will introduce redesigns to the Rick portion of the site, it will introduce a Rick store, and Redphantom will post a short story staring Rick. Come back tomorrow and check it out. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#93 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 60. In other news, the updates to the Rick portion of the site, set to go online July 29th, 2010, the one year anniversary of Rick's debut, are chugging along. Redphantom has now done all of our cryptids and recurring characters in colors. There are bios for all of our original cryptids and non-original ones, as well as for all of our characters, which Redphantom is working on getting done at the moment. There will be some other updates to the site as well, which Redphantom will be mum on for now, and also a rick strip that day. So, come to the site July 29th to see all of our new content. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#92 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 59. In other news, the updates to the Rick portion of the site are coming along nicely. The new archive pages are done, and now Redphantom is working on bio pages for all our original cryptids, non-original crytpids, and all our characters. This was an idea originally proposed by Stephen the Grand, but one we have just now moved to implement. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#91 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 58. Also, as a minor update, Redphantom would like to announce two things. One, the Rick, the Cryptozoologist portion of this site is being redesigned and the changes are set to be debuted on July 29th, the anniversary of Rick's premiere. Redphantom has already done a part of it. It will be basically the same, with more graphics given the fact that we have more now, and with images of Rick and John as they are now, seeing as they have evolved in the past year from the first drawings. The second announcement is that there will be a Rick strip released on Thursday July 29th to celebrate Rick's first year. It will not be a special issue, however, there will be a strip released that day. There is more content being developed for Rick's birthday, however, in the spirit of not letting our readers down, we are keeping that secret for the time being. We also still have stuff relating to Geek Force the Webtoon in the works. Unfortunately, that project is going slowly. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#90 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 57. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#89 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 56. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#88 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 55. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#87 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 54. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#86 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 53. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#85 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 52. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#84 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 51. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#83 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 50. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#82 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 49, and, it's been exactly one year since Redphantom released My True Calling is Killing Babies, to be found in the Rantings section of the site. That began the longer, short story style rantings. One, in part because Redphantom just started thinking of them that way, and two, because for a few months, with Geek Force, the Webcomic on hiatus, it was the only material on the site. By the way, Geek Force should be making it's return later this year. Likely we'll have to rebuild our fanbase for it from scratch... http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#81 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 48. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#80 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 47. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#79 Geek Force has posted Rick Issue 46, and Redphantom posted a new rant, at novella length, which is entitled The Etherist. For those of you who saw it before this morning, Redphantom apologizes for it not being very friendly formatted for reading. Redphantom was tired as he posted, and had a very difficult time with what seems like a simple task. It was very hard to get The Etherist posted, a lot of technical and personal issues arose for Redphantom to delay it. And it was a hard rant, warranting three drafts. Redphantom has also packaged The Etherist into a pdf file due to it's length. http://www.geekforcehq.com/ss/e.htm Redphantom has posted a new rant, entitled The Etherist. It stands at novella length, so wait to read it until you have some free time. It is designed to be read all in one sitting. Redphantom has another epic rant that he is breaking into parts, much like Come Hither. This is not one of those rants. This is meant to be read in one sitting. It is very violent and intense in places. It is also interesting for anyone who likes Geek Force, the Webcomic. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#78 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 45. In other news, Redphantom will be posting a new rant no later than April 14th. It is another dark story, much like the Nightmare Machine. And it is intense in places, though in a different manner than the Nightmare Machine. The story focuses on two characters which will become important in Geek Force later on, Virus I, Virus from Geek Force's father, and Freak, the international terrorist. It also contains a few other characters which appear in varying degrees. And yes, Geek Force the Webtoon, is still being worked on, Geek Force has just hit some setbacks. The working title for the upcoming rant is The Etherist. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#77 Geek Force has released Rick Issue 44. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#76 Geek Force has released Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 43. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#75 Geek Force has released Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 42. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#74 Geek Force has released Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 41. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#73 The Apocalypse continues, and so, Issue 40 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#72 IT'S APOCOLAPSE WEEK! THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTIVES PASSED HEALTH CARE REFORM AND THEREFORE THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END. There will be five comics this week, with health care issues on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, and a regular update on Wednesday. Issue 39 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#71 Geek Force has released Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 38. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#70 Geek Force has released Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 37. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#69 Geek Force has released Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 36. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#68 Geek Force has released Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 35. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#67 Geek Force has released Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 34. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#66 Geek Force has released Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 33. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#65 Geek Force has released Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 32. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#64 Geek Force has released Rick, the Cryptozooloigst Issue 31. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#63 Redphantom has released his latest rating, Come Hither Part II, and last week he released Crucify Me. Rick Issue 30 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#62 Redphantom has released his latest rating, Come Hither Part II, and last week he released Crucify Me. New issue of Rick today, ripping on Jay Leno. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#61 Redphantom has released his latest ranting, Crucify Me, which is a return to comedy for him. He plans to finish and release Come Hither Part II very soon. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#60 Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 29 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#59 Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 28 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#58 Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 27 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#57 Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 26 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#56 Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 24 and Issue 25 have been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#55 Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 23 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#54 Rick, the Crpytozoologist Issue 22 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#53 Rick, the Crpytozoologist Issue 21 has been released, sorry it was a little late. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#52 Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 20 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#51 Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 19 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#50 Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 18 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#49 Geek Force has released a special issue of Rick, the Cryptozoologist for Halloween. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#48 Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 16 has been released. In other news, Stephen the Grand has left Geek Force. He will be missed. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#47 Rick, the Cryptozoologist Issue 15 has been released. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#46 Redphantom finally posted some new information about Geek Force, the Webtoon. The main reason he did not post it on Thursday as planned was because his hands were tied with working on the show. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#45 Issue 14 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. Redphantom will also be posting another update on the production of Geek Force the Webtoon tomorrow. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#44 Redphantom posted a special issue of Rick, the Cryptozoologist to celebrate Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize. He also posted a picture of the new design for the Dope Lord, and he released a short story, the Nightmare Machine. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#43 Redphantom posted a new picture of the Dope Lord on the page about Geek Force. He also created an RSS feed for Geek Force, the Webtoon. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#42 Issue 12 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. In other news, work on Geek Force, the Webtoon continues. Redphantom will post some things on the portion of the site dedicated to it tomorrow, in addition to creating a news RSS feed for it. Also, Redphantom has released a new rant entitled The Nightmare Machine. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#41 Redphantom posted a new ranting, a short story entitled The Nightmare Machine. Redphantom came up with it after artwalk and had to do it. It's about nineteen pages. The unreleased portions of Come Hither will be released after Redphantom finishes writing the current block of episodes of Geek Force, the Webtoon. Right now, Redphantom is channeling all his comedy ideas into Geek Force. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#40 Redphantom uploaded a bunch of pictures from Geek Force at Artwalk. Thanks to eveyone for the warm response. In other news, Geek Force would like to officially announce that we are working on an internet cartoon, Geek Force, the Webtoon. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#39 A big announcement and more pictures from Artwalk are coming later today. We got a very good reception at Artwalk this year. http://geekforcehq.com/index.htm#38 Issue 11 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released, and Geek Force apologizes for it being 45 minutes late. We kind of had a crazy day. In other news...Geek Force will be going dressed as their characters from Geek Force, the Webcomic to Springfield, Missouri's First Friday Artwalk on Firday, October 2nd. Our good friend and fellow superhero, Low Budget Man will be joining us. We will be at the town square at around 8 pm if anyone wishes to see us in our ridiculous costumes. http://geekforcehq.com/index.htm#37 Geek Force will be going dressed as their characters from Geek Force, the Webcomic to Springfield, Missouri's First Friday Artwalk on Firday, October 2nd. Our good friend and fellow superhero, Low Budget Man will be joining us. We will be at the town square at around 8 pm if anyone wishes to see us in our ridiculous costumes. http://geekforcehq.com/index.htm#36 Issue 10 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. http://geekforcehq.com/index.htm#35 http://geekforcehq.com/index.htm#34 The Special 9/11 Issue of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. Redphantom's 9/11 rant will come tomorrow, it is more to criticize the politicization of 9/11 and what America did in response to 9/11: destroy it's own soul. May all the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, at the world trade center, at the pentagon, and on flight 93 rest in peace. May all of the victims families and the nation to which they belonged have found the strength to keep on living without them, and may they continue to find that strength. http://geekforcehq.com/index.htm#33 Issue 7 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. The comics will likely be released later in the day, as Geek Force has been working on it during the day in addition to their other things, and Redphantom doesn't mix the art and the text and post it until everyone has gone home. It will be released on Wednesdays though. In other news, look for the special 9/11 issue of Rick, the Crptozoologist and Redphantom's 9/11 rant on Friday. http://geekforcehq.com/index.htm#32 Issue Six of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. http://geekforcehq.com/index.htm#31 Issue 5 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist has been released. http://geekforcehq.com/index.htm#30 Redphantom has released a new rant, entitled Come Hither Part I. http://geekforcehq.com/index.htm#29 Issue 4 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist is out. It was released a bit later in the day because Redphantom was working on splicing audio together for a project which isn't an animated version of our flagship project, Geek Force the Webcomic. But, if it was, it would be an extended version of Issue 3 on steroids. Redphantom is still working on his rant, but rants take a backseat to other stuff. He might have to release a smaller one while he works on the new Pekoe one, which may even have to be released in parts. http://geekforcehq.com/index.htm#28 Issue 3 of Rick, the Cryptoxoologist is out. Redphantom is also working on his next Pekoe rant, he actually wrote a plot outline and everything. It's just a feel good story, really. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#27 Issue 2 of Rick, the Cryptozoologist is out. Redphantom made a decent voting incentive for it. And he's still working on a couple of rants, and today is the day Geek Force works on it's top secret project. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#26 The first blog post for the Rick the Cryptozoologist's blog has been released. Along with the RSS feed to inform about updates to the blog. Redphantom has also added a privacy policy to the site because our lovely ads now collect enough information that we need it. In other news, Redphantom is working on a sequel to The Great Cannabinoilis Pekoe and another rant. He doesn't know when they will be released but he is working on them. They mostly deal with religion, and the abuse of religion and it's negative aspects. The second gag strip gets released tomorrow. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#25 The first issue of our new gag strip Rick, the Cryptozoologist, has been released. Rick also has a separate site where he has sightings of Cryptids, RSS feeds, and eventually comic archives and a blog. Redphantom also updated the copyright notices on the entire site and made small changes to almost every page. There will also be changes to Geek Force's hidden profile page. http://geekforcehq.com/index.htm#24 As you may have seen at the top of the page, Geek Force is launching a new weekly gag strip, seeing as Redphantom's rants aren't nearly as popular as the comic. The strip is Rick, the Cryptozoologist, a character we're had for about three years. We're had the Geek Force characters for about five. Speaking of Geek Force, the comic went on hiatus in a really inconvenient spot in the story, don't worry, we will finish Geek Force some day, but for now, it has to be put on hold. For several reasons, not the least of which is that it's an intensive project and Geek Force doesn't have too much time right now. We'll post updates on that as they become available. As for Rick, it's a good project, or at least, we hope it is. It has the same political humor, it's more like a short three panel weekly cartoon, but it is much less intensive. So, we should avoid the previous trouble we had with our deadlines with Geek Force, the Webcomic. Three issues are done, pretty much. The gags are written, the art is done, Redphantom just needs to put the art together and add text, with real word balloons. And this way, Geek Force still has time to work on their top secret project. The site will be going down for a few hours one day over the next few days when Redphantom adds the new section for Rick, the Cyptozoologist. Come by the site next Wednesday to check out the first comic. In other news, Redphantom put out a new rant earlier this week. http://geekforcehq.com/index.htm#23 Well, it isn't about Michael Jackson, but, it is a rant. Sorry, but it seems like Redphantom was a little slow to get a rant out, so too much time passed to make a decent rant about him and for it still to be relevant. Fortunately, Redphantom has replaced his original rant with one much better, one about, of course, The Great Cannabinoilis Pekoe. Redphantom will try and put rants out more often, though, his life is still a bit of a mess for the moment, so, no promises on when new rants will come. Redphantom will also post any other updates about Geek Force as they become available. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#22 Sorry for the lack of update, and for not posting any kind of content whatsoever. Geek Force the Webcomic is still on hiatus. Geek Force, now consisting of four members, only three of whom have characters in the comic are working very slowly on another project. Partly because we want to avoid the earlier works in this project from being as bad as the early comics, so, we're trying to learn before we release something publicly, and, we want to be sure it goes through. All Redphantom is doing for this project is the writing and the technical aspects of the art. Stephen the Grand and DC are doing the real artwork. We're also really behind, and Redphantom has rarely been behind on writing before, even in the worst of the comic delays, so, ultimately, the decision to put the comic on hiatus seems to be the correct one. Every member of Geek Force is busy trying to sort out other things, so, it would make it hard to do a Webcomic right now. We'll release more info on our top secret project when Redphantom is confident it will come to pass. Geek Force was actually working on this before the comic, and during a large part of it's production, and it fell through before, several times. So, Redphantom won't release info on it before he is sure it will be released. The comic was mainly designed to give us something to do until this came through. That's why it's more Redphantom and Stephen's thing. In other news, Redphantom made a rant which is called Michael Steele is Whiter than Mr. Rogers. Redphantom will also post another rant soon, which deals with the media obsession with Michael Jackson and celebrities in general. Plus, even though My True Calling is Killing Babies didn't do as well as even our lowest rated comics, he still wants to do a sequel to it. Redphantom will do his best to keep the site updated. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#21 Geek Force, the Webcomic has been placed on indefinite hiatus while Redphantom sorts out some personal things. Redphantom still plans to post rantings and things, his big 17 page rant was something of a test to see if he could use that for content for the site should Geek Force go into a hiatus. A fair am mount of people seemed to read it, so, Redphantom might use rants and short stories for content. It only took a weekend to do that entire rant, unlike most issues of Geek Force. With rants being less time consuming, he should still be able to do those. Redphantom could also create a page and RSS feed with news regarding to the hiatus and when it might end, assuming it does, if there is demand for that. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#20 Redphantom has posted a new rant, coming in at 17 pages called, "My True Calling Is Killing Babies(And the Story of the Best Few Days of My Life.)" In other news, Redphantom is still working on Issue 30, he hopes to have it out this week. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#19 Redphantom has finished the upgrades to the interface, they will be debuting shortly, once Redphantom has a chance to test them. In other news, Redphantom has posted a picture of Jew Avenger's laboratory. Keep in mind, this background is actually 1566x1200 pixels big, so in the comic we will never see as much of it as featured here. Also, this is the effect that will be used in Jew Avenger's flashbacks within Issue 30, as a parody of pulp comics. http://www.geekforcehq.com/index.htm#18 Redphantom has updated the interface to support captions, which means progress as far as Issue 30 is concerned. All comics after Issue 30 will support captions at the bottom of the screen. Redphantom will try to get Issue 30 Part 1 out this weekend. It's good. In other news, Redphantom is also adding another feature to the interface, which will be retroactive, and effect Issue 1 Remake, Issue 19, Arc 2 end, Issues 25 and up, it is the ability to bookmark your place in a comic. Primarily so that Redphantom can link back to a comic with the bookmarking feature because he's so damn subversive and important points are mentioned in passing. The captions should also tell when it would be good to look back. This is also so that there can still be two parters. Right now, it would be impossible to skip to a specific place within a comic. Redphantom is fixing that. http://geekforcehq.com/index.htm#17 Redphantom added the Issue 1 Remake as the latest comic, and created a section for special issues. Like the Halloween Issue. If you've never read it, it's Stephen the Grand's thing, and it's good. In other news, Redphantom is working on the interface so he can get Issue 30 out. Still working on it. Also, Redphantom is able to work on it again after getting the new Ubuntu/installing a new video card that was unsupported. Luckily, the high resolution makes up for all that pain and effort, one gig, bitches. http://geekforcehq.com/index.htm#16 The Issue 1 Remake: How Not to Make a Good First Impression...AGAIN, has been released. It is quite a bit different from the original, satirizing a different topic, and having many new jokes. In other news, Issue 30 is still delayed. Redphantom will post updates on it's progress as it becomes available.