Force Multiplication Pre-orders are Open Monday May 23, 2016

You may now begin preordering Force Multiplication: Schlock Mercenary Book 12. Here are some links for clicking! $20.00: Force Multiplication, signed $30.00: Force Multiplication sketch edition, signed and numbered Do you need more than just one Schlock Mercenary book? We have a bundle for you that shaves $50 off the… Read more

Minimus The Four-Page RPG Saturday December 13, 2008

Just over eleven months ago I blogged about Ken Burnside's Minimus, the one-page RPG. Ken has since made it four times longer, and he's submitted it for consideration for an Origins Award, where it will be up against the eight-hundred-pound gorilla of the industry, D&D 4.0. I play D&D 4.0,… Read more

Find Me at Gen Con Indy Thursday August 14, 2014

I will be at GenCon Indy this weekend. I arrive on Tuesday for setup, and won't fly home until Monday the 18th, and yes, this means the convention is eating a week of buffer. Like a voracious monster with 70,000 mouths... Find me in Booth 1437 with Jim Zub and… Read more

GenCon Indy 2014 Wednesday August 20, 2014

This was probably my best-ever year at GenCon Indy. With bullets: The Wallrike scooped me up at the airport, saving me cab fare, helping me sort out a housing snafu, and basically being excellent company. The Kokomo Irregulars had the booth completely loaded and assembled by Wednesday at noon. I… Read more

Forty Looks Just Like Thirty-Nine, Only Rounder Saturday March 1, 2008

Thanks for all the kind Birthday wishes, everybody. I've gotten tons of email and postcards, and had a fine birthday. I don't have time to put up an updated postcard-wall picture. I need to get back to work today. This Bonus Story isn't writing itself. I posted my thoughts on… Read more

Jersey Area Schlockers, Represent! Saturday August 12, 2006

Brad Guigar and I are going to be hanging out together for a lecture series at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania on the 22nd and 23rd of September, and we are thinking about having a meet-and-greet for our fans. I've heard that the Hall of Heroes comic shop in Cherry Hill… Read more

Blog Posts I Owe You Tuesday May 27, 2008

I owe you some blog posts. I still haven't written up my LepreCon adventures, and here it's been almost three weeks. CONduit was this weekend, and I skipped most of it, but got to meet (and converse at length, and record a podcast with) Michael Stackpole. Oh, and speaking of… Read more

My Plate Is Piled High Tuesday November 30, 2010

My plate is piled high. I'm not complaining. The work I need to do is work I love, work I have chosen, and work that keeps me and mine warm and well-fed in these tough times. If anything, I should be as grateful as anybody else doing honest work for… Read more

RMS Cover Inks: No Way Is This Canonical Wednesday March 17, 2010

In this strip the narrator declares that perhaps the book "had a really shiny cover, and you bought it, and after reading it you looked back at the cover and thought hey... that wasn't even in there." Ever since writing that bit of narrative I've known that the cover for… Read more

This Just In! Howard in Boise This Saturday! Wednesday November 2, 2005

Oh No! New Site Design! entry, Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005 Hey, lookit that. You can read the subject line of today's blog without having to scroll down. I know, I know, most of you are just here for the comic, but every so often I announce things that you might… Read more

... aaand pre-orders are CLOSED Saturday May 6, 2006

Pre-orders for "Under New Management" are now closed. If you haven't pre-ordered your book yet, well... you can place a regular order when we open the store back up on June 1st. We'd love to keep the pre-order page up a little longer, but in order to handle the mass-mailing,… Read more

The Plan for August Tuesday July 31, 2012

GenCon Indy is just two weeks away, and WorldCon 70 is just four weeks away. August promises to be busy. I shed a lot of buffer over the summer, but managed to regain a week just last week. I need to gain at least two more -- one this week,… Read more

Schlock Mercenary Communities

There are several places online for people to discuss Schlock Mercenary: r/schlockmercenary on Reddit Schlock Mercenary Facebook Group Circvs Maximvs  Got one we don't know about? Email schlockmercenary@gmail.com and we'll get it onto this page! Read more

Thursday June 22, 2017

Extremely Belated Linkage: Sandra has a story out! Saturday September 27, 2008

Today's score: Stamina Fail. Parenting Win. Husband Fail. Sandra told me WEEKS ago that her short called "Stories That Bind" was up at The Lorelei Signal, an online magazine. I was supposed to link you to it BEFORE it vanished into the archives. That happens on October 1st. See, honey?… Read more

This Just In! Howard in Boise This Saturday! Thursday November 3, 2005

This Just In! Howard in Boise This Saturday! entry, November 3rd, 2005 On Sunday I found out I need to be in Boise this weekend on some family business. In the spirit of mixing business and pleasure, I'll be putting in an appearance at Twilight Games from Noon to 6pm… Read more

Tron Legacy Soundtrack: Made of Awesome Thursday December 9, 2010

I picked up the Tron Legacy soundtrack on iTunes yesterday, and it is wonderful. Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, AKA "Daft Punk" deliver some of their signature grooves, but also brilliantly mimic some of the best recent film scores from Hans Zimmer, Harry Gregson Williams, John Powell, Christophe Beck,… Read more

Hide From The Predators Saturday July 10, 2010

My brother Randy and I ducked out to see Predators Friday morning. Randy pointed at the great Rotten Tomatoes rating the movie was garnering and insisted that we could not possibly go wrong. As it turns out, we went wrong. Predators was not nearly as much fun as we hoped.… Read more

From the Department of Finally He Gets Around To It Thursday January 7, 2016

Last year I commissioned a bonus story for Force Multiplication. The story was written by Sandra Tayler, and illustrated by Natalie Barahona, and it was supposed to be lettered by me. Well, now it’s finally getting lettered by me. This is a story from Bristlecone’s past. You’re looking at about… Read more

November 20, 2002 Wednesday November 20, 2002

So... checking out CNN.com this evening I learned that the U.S. Senate approved the Homeland Security bill. Now ordinarily I try to remain fairly apolitical in this entry (insofar as it's possible for me to apoliticize my tone in spite of my rabidly 'free-thought, liberally-conservatively-independent, pro-nuke-just-not-on-whales-or-on-me' leanings) but in reading… Read more