8/28/10- So... funny story... I'm typing this from the hospital. I'm back there for the exact same reason as last year. To refresh people's memories, I had Pericarditis. Look it up, tell your friends and neighbors. So it happened again, only this time worse. It basically came back right after they took it out. So... I have to have a couple surgeries on Monday and I'm, honestly scared *&%&less. Point is, if anyone has any good wishes they could spare I'd really appreciate it. Assuming I make it out of this ok, I swear I'll get back on the comic as soon as I'm able. Thanks guys. 8/9/10- Quick heads up, I went on a vacation and took a little time off from the comic for a couple weeks so I'm a little behind schedule this month. But sit tight, the next chapter's preview should be up in a couple weeks. 7/05/10- New profiles have been added to the Profiles section for the NBC Team and an extra image for Stephanos and Yonatan's powered up forms have been added to their profile as well. 7/2/10- Updates! Chapter Eight is up in the Comic section. New characters show up and plenty of super nerdy gaming references abound. Have I mentioned that I play 'World of Warcraft'... a lot. *sigh* Anyhoo, there's also a shiny new piece of fan art is in the Extras section. I'll be adding in new profiles for the new additions to the roster later this week. 6/08/10- As seen on last night's TCR, they started a 'Stephen Colbert Gulf of America Fund' to help save what's left of the wildlife in the Gulf. Please donate whatever you can. 6/07/10- Update time! A new six page preview of Chapter Eight is up in the Comic section. There's a new piece of super awesome fan art in the Extras section as well. Again, I also have a Facebook page set up for the comic that I update as well. So become a "fan"... or "like" it... or whatever they're calling it this month! 5/04/10- As promised, a new Taping Report from last night's TCR is up on the site in the Extras Section. Now, I'm going to try and get my voice back from laughing to so hard over the last 24 hours. 4/30/10- The rest of Chapter Seven is up in the Comics section. Also, I'm attending another taping of TCR on Monday so I should have a short taping report from that out later this week. 4/04/10- EDIT: Also, it appears that I won first prize in that fan art contest I mentioned entering 'ColTarot' into a while ago. Check out all the entries to the contest here and thanks to the judges who thought my work was good enough to win! Whew, alright, lots going on lately. Sorry for the delay on the comic, but completing the ColTarot set took a lot of time over the last couple of months. An EIGHT page preview for Chapter Seven is up on the site finally. I've also started another web comic side project called 'Suggestion Box' over at caffeinatedcritics.com . Check it out, give their facebook and twitter pages some love and while you're at it, become of a fan of THIS comic over at my Fake News Rumble Facebook page. More updates coming in a few weeks. 3/07/10- No comic update yet, BUT the delay is because for the last month I've worked on a side project for a contest I'm entering through the Colbert Nation web boards. My submission is an entire tarot deck based around Stephen Colbert and 'The Colbert Report', called 'ColTarot'. Give it a look. So sometime early next month expect an update on the comic of some sort. 2/03/10- Real quick update. I just made a Facebook page for the comic. Stop on by, become a fan and spread the word! 01/17/10- Alright ladies and gents. Super huge update this time around. Chapter Six is up in the Comic section, a new Soundtrack has been added to the Extras, new profiles are up for the new characters and there are a couple of new animated gifs in the Gallery section. Enjoy! Also, if you have the time I'd really appreciate it if people could donate whatever you're able to the Red Cross. Mobile donors can text "Haiti" to 90999 to make a $10 contribution or you can head over to their website and donate there. Thanks! 12/20/09- Chapter Six's five page preview is up, I'll hopefully have the rest of it up around late January. Also, I'll be putting together another fan soundtrack thingy, more profile pages for the new characters and possibly other new artwork too. 11/09/09- Chapter Five is finally up on in the Comics page. Also, Stephen and Oliver's profiles have been updated slightly with important info. There's also a new piece of Fan Art added to the Extras page. Enjoy! 11/2/09- Whew! Alright, there's a write up for the Stephen Colbert Count Basie Q&A added to the site. And let me just say a huge thank you to the Count Basie Theatre and the Two River Theatre Company for making a night like last night happen. Just fantastic. Also, I should have Chapter Five fully posted at the end of the week or so. 10/15/09- A five page preview for Chapter Five is up now in the Comics section. Also, here's a new batch of submitted Fan Art for your viewing pleasure. In other news, I've got two things I'm headed to coming up; the Colbert Q&A thing in Red Bank, NJ and a couple days later, a Kevin Smith Q&A in Philly. Expect Chapter Five and reports from those two events to be up sometime in mid November. 9/08/09- The Profiles section has been updated as well as the Extras section. The Gallery section will hopefully finally get some additions tomorrow. 8/31/09- Hey all! I'm back with the rest of Chapter Four finally. I'm just starting to get back to normal after my brief medical ordeal, so I should return to a more regular schedule soon. A new fan mix has been added to the Extras section, special thanks to Resada_Ptah for it. New fan art and profiles will be added sometime this week. In other news, two cool things coming up. If you're in the Baltimore/DC area, Rob Riggle is doing stand up at Rams Head Live in October. Grab up some tickets. Also, tickets might still be left for the Stephen Colbert Q&A in Red Bank, NJ . If you like Colbert AND you're a Kevin Smith fan, really, how could you not go? Head to the Secret Stash and Quickstop during the day, hit the Q&A at night. Easy peasy. And finally, a couple months back the Colbert Nation website held a photoshop contest entitled, Stephen's Fantasy Namesake Photo Challenge . Well, I was one of the winning entries! Heaven only knows when they'll update the website to officially announce all the winners so I can find out exactly which one of my entries won, but there you go. Go me. 8/02/09- Alright, So I'm finally out of the hospital. Here are a few phrases you don't want to hear in the hospital from the people taking care of you: "Whoops" "Jesus, where did your vein go?!" "Fever of unknown origin" ::wide eyed, confused then slightly freaked out expressions of three doctors as they look into a screen showing your heart:: I should be able to get back to work on art stuffs in about a week hopefully. So expect Chapter Four to get finished sometime mid August. And thanks a lot to the people that have wished me well over the last few weeks. 7/26/09- So... I've been in the hospital for the last few days. Found out the hard way that the reason I couldn't breathe correctly was because the space around my heart was filing up with fluid and had started collapsing things like Ventricle. You know, important things like those. So a couple of very painful procedures and a couple nights in the Intensive Care Unit, I'm finally in a normal room as of today. On... my birthday.... sigh... This is the first time I've been strong enough to get at my laptop for a while and I'll keep checking back when I can as the doctors still need to find out about my fevers/weakness problem. 7/21/09 IMPORTANT NOTICE- So, super crappy news. I'm extremely sick right now with some unknown illness. For the last eight days, I've been suffering from a recurring high fever, pain in my chest and torso and extreme weakness. I've been in and out of Maryland's Patient First, had a stay in Union Memorial Hospital's Emergency Room, and tomorrow I'm heading back to the hospital to see an internal medicine specialist. So far, no one's been able to diagnosis what's wrong with me. Point is, the comic is temporarily on hiatus until someone in the medical profession wants to tell me what's killing me very, very slowly and how we can make it stop killing me. And yeah, it means I have to miss comic con this year, but as I barely have the energy to type this message right now, I'd say getting my health figured out right now would be very good. 7/7/09- Update time. I decided to make it an Eight Page Preview this time since the full chapter might be up sometime early next month. It's vacation season and getting ready for San Diego Comic Con is eating up all of my time this month. Expect a ton of pictures and reports from the convention assuming I don't burst into flames in the presence of David Tennant or Noel Fielding. Fingers crossed on that one. Also added to the site, the promised TDS taping report from last month. And a quick reminder, an easy way to know by email when I update the comic is the handy dandy yahoo newsletter I set up. Join up if you get a chance. 6/19/09- Hey gang. I just got back from New York after seeing Kevin Smith at Carnegie Hall followed the next day by my first Daily Show taping. I'll have a taping report up as soon as I don't feel like I was run over by a dump truck. Also, possibly I might be breaking the next chapter into two halves next month as I'm hitting San Diego Comic Con and that'll cut into my work time on the comic by... a LOT. So expect SOMETHING to get posted in the next couple of weeks. 5/30/09- And more updates coming at you. New profiles have been added to the aptly named Profiles section. 5/25/09- Major updates today. Chapter Three is up in the comics section. Also, added to the Extras section is fan art submitted by Stewart Shea and a soundtrack/fan mix created for the comic. As always, to stay on top of when I update the comic and the site, I have a handy dandy Yahoo groups newsletter set up that will email updates to you. Also, if anyone else has any fan art they want up on the site, just email it along to the address below. 5/19/09- I've been getting a couple emails about when the next chapter is going up and it should be up in another week or so if I keep on schedule. Also, I might if I have the time, post a pseudo soundtrack to the comic; tracks that gave me the ideas for a lot of the scenes and characters so far. We shall see. Again, thanks to everyone who's been keeping up with the comic so far. 5/4/09- The Comics section has been updated with a Five Page Preview for Chapter Three. Enjoy. 5/2/09- Profiles has been updated with Sam and Jason's profile. The five page preview for Chapter Three should be up within a couple of days. 3/24/09- Chapter Two is up finally! As always, feedback is much appreciated. 3/12/09- A taping report for Tuesday's show is up in the Extras section. I'll probably revise it and add more pictures later, but as I've been running around NYC non stop for about two days straight, I think sleep might be a good thing to do finally. 3/7/09- A five page Chapter Two preview has been added to the Comic section and a couple of wallpapers have been added to theExtras section. Also I'm heading to a 'The Colbert Report' taping next week so expect a taping report soon after. 2/4/09- I just finished the script and thumbnails for Chapter Two. Expect the comic to be up sometime in March/Early April. 1/29/09- Updated the Profiles page, added one new banner to the Extras page and added a link on the side bar to a yahoo groups newsletter list for major updates to the site and the comic. 1/27/09- Updated the Extras page with two wallpapers. Check em' out. And thanks to everyone who's sent me messages on how much they enjoyed the comic so far. In other news, I finally reserved tickets to go to my second TCR taping in March. Thank goodness for Greyhound deals between Baltimore and New York. 1/25/09- Fixed a couple of technical issues with a couple of pages and uploaded a few icons and banners to the Extras section. 1/20/09- The first chapter of the Comic is up. The Profiles, Extras and Gallery sections will be up within the upcoming weeks. You might be asking yourself why would someone make a comic based on TDS and TCR? Excellent question. All I can is I was extremely bored during the writers strike of 07'/08' and came up with this idea. After toying around with exactly how I was going to make this happen, I finally settled on making it into a comic. So please help support this comic and spread the word about it. This comic is feedback driven, meaning please drop me a line letting me know you're reading it and it'll continue. Thanks! This comic is not affiliated in any way with Comedy Central, Viacom or anything else having to do officially with those parties. This is a work of parody and not meant to defame or infringe upon the people, places and characters depicted. In summary, Viacom, please don't vaporize me with one of your laser enhanced satellites. Page Branson 2009 saturnkitty@gmail.com