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As The Caffeine Wore Off…

by keith on November 14, 2018 at 8:08 pm

Chapter: Saga

At one point or another I think all of us at 9to5 (dot cc) worked in a call center. Except maybe Walter. He worked at the newspaper.

Sitting in a cubicle, answering one call after another from an automated queue. Helping customers with… whatever the hell it is that customers want help with.

There are times where it almost seems like you’re doing something worthwhile. Where knowing that your handle time is way above average, knowing that there are no calls waiting on hold for more than 5 minutes.

It almost seems meaningful.

And then the caffeine wears off.

As always, please tell your friends about this comic and this website. Every time you share a post, Sophie gets another set of wings. Soon she will transcend into her final form. Which I presume is kind of a heavy-metal dark Seraph of some kind.

Keith does all sorts of things here on 9to5.cc, he works with the other founders on 9to5 (illustrated), co-hosts our two podcasts: The 9to5 Entertainment System and Go Plug Yourself and blogs here as The Perspicacious Geek.

Jon is a Master of Dungeons of the highest caliber. He podcasts with me over on 9to5 Entertainment System and occasionally blogs here in Jon’s Junk.

Sophie does all of the arts on 9to5 illustrated and blogs weekly about her adventures with beer in The Ignorant Beer Review.

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Dozens

by keith on July 4, 2018 at 7:34 am

Chapter: Saga

Characters: jon, the board

Would you stop booing? There’s nothing wrong with being an urban wizard. There are dozens of them. Dozens.

(With reverence to Arrested Development).

I’m not even 100% how we got around to writing this one. I wish I had better recollection of our process because I do not remember how this strip came to be. I think it started off as Jon dipping back into the well of his DM experience in a workplace setting and then sort of evolved into being about Jon wearing wizard robes to work. Which, as we know, he wears under his clothes anyways.

Wait a minute, is Jon a dowser? Aren’t they the real urban wizards?

You know you’ve been blogging, podcasting and writing comics for a long time when you can find previous references to DM’ing at work, wearing wizard robes all the time and dowsing for water all on your website. That stuff is just there, kicking around. For you.

Jon is a Master of Dungeons of the highest caliber. He podcasts with me over on 9to5 Entertainment System and occasionally blogs here in Jon’s Junk.

Sophie does all of the arts on 9to5 illustrated and blogs weekly about her adventures with beer in The Ignorant Beer Review.

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Gross

by keith on June 13, 2018 at 10:09 am

Chapter: Saga

Characters: keith, sophie

This comic is fully a result of tumbling down a clickhole about old expressions.

Though it is apparently up for debate as to whether or not this is actually the origin of the term “piss poor”, it seems pretty certifiable that at points in history pee-pee was sold for tanning.

In terms of flooding the market? Gross. But I do drink a lot of water in a day.

Jon sums it up best:

we’re pretty fucking weird

Jon is a Master of Dungeons of the highest caliber. He podcasts with me over on 9to5 Entertainment System and occasionally blogs here in Jon’s Junk.

Sophie does all of the arts on 9to5 illustrated and blogs weekly about her adventures with beer in The Ignorant Beer Review.

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Comic Title

by keith on June 6, 2018 at 11:38 am

Chapter: Saga

Characters: sophie

This is a conundrum. Where do I, Keith the blog writer, exist in the meta-context of this comic?

Am I mad at the incomplete by-product of Sophie’s proclivity for living dangerously in the world of PhotoShop? Or do I acknowledge my own part in the design of the strip as intentionally hilarious?

By blurring the lines here between ourselves as characters in the strips, real people in the actual world, and controlled versions of ourselves within the website these things are often ambiguous. Which I like.

Jon is a Master of Dungeons of the highest caliber. He podcasts with me over on 9to5 Entertainment System and occasionally blogs here in Jon’s Junk.

Sophie does all of the arts on 9to5 illustrated and blogs weekly about her adventures with beer in The Ignorant Beer Review.

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Blood Tests

by keith on May 23, 2018 at 7:54 pm

Chapter: Saga

Characters: keith

So if you’ve been following along at home, we’ve only missed a week or two’s worth of comics since February.

Damn that feels good.

The comic is sort of what kicked off this crazy little thing we call 9to5.cc and I’m glad that we’re getting our legs back underneath us in terms of output of it.

I think I’ve written before that getting my head around this new format is kind of tricky. The setup and pacing of a single panel + caption joke is a whole new writing exercise. Plus, we’ve taken to kind of coming up with an additional laugh within the title of the comic.

Anyways, there aren’t many one-panel strips out there and honestly outside of Bizarro and Farside there are even fewer funny one-panel strips.

What I’m trying to say is I read a lot of Family Circus comics to try and get the timing.

And this is what I came up with.

Sophie has been sneaking in kind of famous backgrounds into the last two strips. Did you catch the source of last week’s gaming table? How about this particular bathroom?

Jon is a Master of Dungeons of the highest caliber. He podcasts with me over on 9to5 Entertainment System and occasionally blogs here in Jon’s Junk.

Sophie does all of the arts on 9to5 illustrated and blogs weekly about her adventures with beer in The Ignorant Beer Review.

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House Always Wins

by keith on May 16, 2018 at 7:03 am

Chapter: Saga

Characters: jon, keith, sophie

That’s not necessarily true. I don’t think Dungeons & Dragons is rigged against the players the way Vegas might be, but it does seem like I’m much more likely to roll a 20 on a trivial Perception Check than I am on a death Saving Throw.

The dice are fickle.

Except, you know, they’re totally not.

The odds are always 1 in 20.

If you like yourself some D&D feel free to check out our ongoing Dungeons & Dragons blog: Big Fish.

Jon is a Master of Dungeons of the highest caliber. He podcasts with me over on 9to5 Entertainment System and occasionally blogs here in Jon’s Junk.

Sophie does all of the arts on 9to5 illustrated and blogs weekly about her adventures with beer in The Ignorant Beer Review.

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Fire Escape

by keith on April 11, 2018 at 9:30 am

Chapter: Saga

Characters: jon, keith

That’s what it’s there for. It’s there for the fire to escape. If you have fire that you want to get rid of, you send it there.

I also like that this is taking place in Sophie’s actual kitchen. Comic Jon and Keith burning down real-world Sophie’s kitchen amuses me greatly.

Man, I’ve been talking to Jon and Sophie about this a little, these one panel comics are still tricky to write, but we’re having a lot of fun with them. I really hope you’re enjoying them as much as we are making them.

If you want to have access to Sophie’s rough pencils of every strip, consider supporting our Patreon, you’ll get other stuff too.

Jon is a Master of Dungeons of the highest caliber. He podcasts with me over on 9to5 Entertainment System and occasionally blogs here in Jon’s Junk.

Sophie does all of the arts on 9to5 illustrated and blogs weekly about her adventures with beer in The Ignorant Beer Review.

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The Truth Is So Much Worse…

by keith on April 4, 2018 at 11:48 am

Chapter: Saga

Characters: Jom

Location: Comics

Sophie is back from the dead!

Wait a second, Sophie died last week and is back this week. With Easter in between? Guys, I think we’re on to something here.

We have had a hard time keeping up with the ideal of publishing at least one comic a week in the nearly 7 year run of the website, but still, we’ve managed to put out nearly 200 strips in that time.

Somehow, despite all of that output, people are not stopping us in the street to ask for our autographs. In fact, I haven’t ever even been offered a free drink due to my webcomic creator celebrity status.

One can only imagine what the result would be if any of us tried to use this comic as a pick up strategy.

If you like these comics and want to support us, feel free to drop as little as $1 a month into our Patreon fund. The amount we would love you would be staggering. You would be staggered.

See you next week!

Jon is a Master of Dungeons of the highest caliber. He podcasts with me over on 9to5 Entertainment System and occasionally blogs here in Jon’s Junk.

Sophie does all of the arts on 9to5 illustrated and blogs weekly about her adventures with beer in The Ignorant Beer Review.

The background image of the bar taken from “Back Bar Designs” at xdmagazine.net

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Budget?

by keith on March 21, 2018 at 3:53 pm

Chapter: Saga

Characters: sophie

Ever since Scott departed from his duties on the comic, our monthly expenditures have been through the roof. Scott used to be in charge of essentially “digitizing” Sophie’s traditional inks to get them inside the computer for editing in PhotoShop.

Something about Sophie’s process seems to be more expensive.

Can’t quite put my finger on it.

Anyways, if you haven’t already, maybe check out our Patreon Page. We’re working on ways to make it extra worthwhile for you to toss a few bucks every month so we can keep the lights on. And by keep the lights on I mean buying Sophie a lot of iPads. A lot of iPads. We had to go down to one panel comics so she would stop going through 3 iPads each comic.

Jon is a Master of Dungeons of the highest caliber. He podcasts with me over on 9to5 Entertainment System and occasionally blogs here in Jon’s Junk.

Sophie does all of the arts on 9to5 illustrated and blogs weekly about her adventures with beer in The Ignorant Beer Review.

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+3 to Budget

by keith on March 7, 2018 at 3:30 pm

Chapter: Saga

I don’t know why we decided that our “in canon” Lich King would be named “Ste’eve” but we did. And now it’s done.

I’ve often wondered how much of Jon’s brain energy goes into Dungeon Mastering in relation to how much goes into his day job. Is it almost safe to say that as a person, he is more defined as a Dungeon Master than anything else? Perhaps.

Kudos to Sophie for adding an actual map from Jon’s D&D game (Big Fish, if you’re interested) on the flip board. It’s an important part of the presentation.

I asked Jon for some comments about this strip and he said: “Haha please don’t fire me?” and “Chuckleworthy”.

Jon is a Master of Dungeons of the highest caliber. He podcasts with me over on 9to5 Entertainment System and occasionally blogs here in Jon’s Junk.

Sophie does all of the arts on 9to5 illustrated and blogs weekly about her adventures with beer in The Ignorant Beer Review.

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