Playing Dead Comic

The Zombie's Blog

I didn't even advertise that I had written a comic last week because I was rather ashamed of it. It wasn't funny, it wasn't interesting, it just...was. It was the opening to a small plot segment that I hope will be amusing even if not funny.

Today's comic I am more happy with, hopefully it draws you in with a "ooh, what's going to happen next? I hope someone gets bitten in the face." Yes, my viewers, <spoilers> Someone may or may not get bitten in the FACE. </spoilers>

As I am taking tomorrow off from work, I wanted to upload the comic today, so that I can wallow in the narcissism produced when I submit it to your approval. My wife and I are driving down to PA (with the baby of course!) to spend the weekend with my parents in our annual trip to the Jersey shore. Which Jersey shore, you may ask yourself. Oh yes, THAT Jersey shore.

Lately I've gotten back into Magic the Gathering. I've been playing frequently for the past 2 years or so, and it felt like after 2 years playing I could afford to spend a few dollars upgrading my collection, since clearly I was using them this time. I regret giving away all of my old cards but at the time I had less money and less living space and less play time. Now I have more of all of those and, just like when I threw out some old first edition Playing Dead Webcomic originals, I regret my mistakes.
Anyway, an invaluable resource for MTG players would be Gatherer, a website which allows you to search pretty stringently for cards you might want to add to your deck. At which point a quick trip to Ebay will satisfy your dark urges, or so I am told.

When the first of several packages began arriving at our home, I received a text message from my beloved. "Exactly how many magic cards did you buy?" My response was in-accurate, as I had sortof forgotten how many I purchased "Two hundred and fifty, give or take." To my wife, this was shelves and shelves of cardboard that we had no room for, but the reality is that I can hold two hundred cards easily between my fingers and think nothing less.

Unfortunately for me, I forgot that I had ordered about...oh... two hundred more cards. give or take...