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Jetpacks and Time Machines (JP&TM) is a semi-sci fi comic featuring a partially robotic boy, a boy-genius with a penchant for villainy, a violent monkey, a retired supervillain, a nature hating nature show host, and anything else I can think of. Update Schedule Pending.

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Panel One: [Serial, Adam, and Fred sit in front of the television]
Noise from the Television: “no, NO, NO, NNNOOO!!!”
Fred: “oh COME ON!!”


Panel Two: [Close up of Fred]
Fred: “Horror movies...”
Fred: “HA!”
Fred: “the only frightening thing about horror movies...”


Panel Three: [Narrated by Fred – shows to guys in the woods at night]
Narration: “...is the fact that the general populous seem to be able to identify with such ridiculously incapable and inept protagonists.”
Dude#1: “I heard nobody has ever left this place alive”
Dude#2: “Sweet! Let's set up camp!”


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Oh The Horror!

March 11th, 2010 | by jim (JP&TM creator)
Posted In: comic

This isn’t always true.  Sometimes there are very well done horror movies with intricate plots and likeable characters.  This comic is about the other type of horror movie.  I guess I’ll never be a genre fan.

Creation Notes: Can anyone tell I’ve decided to try and work on my wordbubbles?  I really think that word bubble placement and design is one of the most often overlooked element of comics.  When I first started making comics, I remember thinking “I’ll make word bubbles however I want!  It’ll be my style!” Little did I realize that there are in fact rules involved, and breaking the rules on purpose can be a matter of stylistic choice, but breaking them out of ignorance isn’t.  Lately I’ve been using the blambot article on comic lettering grammar and tradition as a reference.

On the art side, too much drawing in that last panel probably.

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Spam-pocalypse!

September 2nd, 2009 | by jim (JP&TM creator)
Posted In: News

I got an email a couple days ago from my comic compatriot Jarrett Osborne of The Pursuit of Mandy and Some Day Hero.com.  He was asking me how to get rid of an infestation of spam comments on a site.  I explained that he’d have to activate a spam blocker then manually delete the aforementioned spam.  What I didn’t realize at this point, was just what he meant by infestation.  Luckily, I have admin access to his site, so while I had some down time, I went to check it out… and I realized just what a problem he had… ALMOST 200,000 SPAM COMMENTS!

Now, wordpress lets you mark these suckers as spam manually, but only about 20 at a time, and it takes like 20 seconds or so to do each page…  OUCH.

Luckily, Jarrett isn’t the first person to ignore his website for a while.  After a quick google search, I found a solution that involves using phpMyAdmin and a simple SQL query (in jarrett’s case, two actually) that really helped out a lot, so I thought I’d better post it. Here’s the link: How to Mass Delete Unapproved WordPress Comments

Hopefully, in the future Jarrett will keep a better eye on his websites, but at least there is hope for anyone who hadn’t realized the importance of activation AKISMET and managing spam when administrating their sites.

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I’m Still Alive.

September 1st, 2009 | by jim (JP&TM creator)
Posted In: News

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything.  It’s been a while since I’ve drawn a JPTM comic too.  I’m fixing the former now, and hopefully, the latter will eventually change. I’m not going to give any dramatic announcements or bold promises of content any time soon, but I will say that I have recently been thinking a lot about my comic, and I’ve been starting to draw the characters again, as well as working on a few new ones. I’m just posting now to let the few RSS subscribers and other random comic reading wanderers know that JPTM is not dead, and neither am I.

In the mean time though, let me give you all some updates regarding what I’ve been up to. First off, as some of my more dedicated readers and fellow cartoonists know, I work as a graphic and web designer.  It’s been a cause of some embarassment that the company that I work for, Smart Marketing, and advertising, marketing, and web and print design firm operating out of Chandler Arizona, has gone website-less for the majority of the 3+ years I’ve been working there. What can I say though… It’s like a mechanic who drives a broken car… We were building other websites and marketing other companies too much to have time for our own stuff.

As you might have guessed by the link about, we’ve finally changed that.  We also set up a website for a client of our who offers auto repair and maintenance out of Gilbert, Mesa, and Tempe, AZ, amongst a number of other sites I don’t feel like linking to right now.

Basically, I’ve been doing a lot of logo design, SEO, programming, and graphic design for quite a while now… and making a living doing it.  You know what all this work made me realize?  I really miss cartooning.  Not just drawing, not doing freelance illustrations or comics for corporate clients, but I miss doing my own work.  I miss weekly (if sometimes late) postings, I miss interacting with readers, and I even miss the mental effort of constantly combing through my life and experiences (sometimes desperately) for any material I can use.

I’m not giving a date, but I will say, I’m coming back.

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