11-27-2022
Posted on 2022-11-28 by Aaron

91 thoughts on “11-27-2022”

  1. Some Ed

    This safe room feels a little less safe than it’s supposed to be. Also rather larger than I expected.

    1. Seabear70

      I’m starting to wonder if this is all brought to you by Dr Who.

      1. Edward Rhodes

        I feel more like The Master, or The Rani!

  2. Opus the Poet

    They figured out how to make it go!

    1. Opus the Poet

      And I think it’s safe to say they’re out of the basement now.

  3. Stephen Bierce

    And we’ll ride on down/In through this Tunnel of Love!

  4. Crone Mayhem

    Thank you for the Thanksgiving Gift!
    Just love this webcomic; got hooked on it from Nodwick, & IMO, this is the best one, of the ones you’re currently doing.
    (It’s an even tie between PS238 & Nodwick.)

  5. Edward Rhodes

    Thank you. This was great. I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving.

  6. jhpace1

    That’s an Orange Lantern she’s holding, but not the Lantern of Avarice.

    1. ronrab

      I think it’s the original, Golden Age Green Lantern’s brass lantern! The store likes its references really old school…

      1. Tolrick

        Since that was also green, I suspect that’s some other magical type of lantern. Possibly one that makes light.

  7. TBeholder

    Ahaha. Perfect.
    But now our intrepid terranauts face the real challenge: resist making a silly joke upon emerging from this contraption.

  8. James Collier

    Why does it have a Porta Potty? Couldn’ they have fitted the place out with a real toilet?

    1. Some Ed

      As mentioned below, a porta potty doesn’t require connections to the outside world.

      Ok, technically, a toilet doesn’t either. For several years while I was growing up, at least one of the toilets in the house lacked such connections at any point in time, though which toilet(s) were so configured changed over the course of that time. That said, normal toilets without external connections do not perform their function particularly well.

  9. Hinochi

    This safe room was brought to you by Vault-Tec.

    1. Ed Rhodes

      OOOh, I get that now. (I hadn’t played any of the “Fallout” games until I found “Fallout 76” on the Xbox.

  10. raven0ak

    Has this gone hiatsu or something, mon-wed-fri schedule does not seem to hold

  11. raven0ak

    I wish this comics schedule would up from “random once a month” to more stable

    1. Ed Rhodes

      Be careful what you wish for. No update in over a year is certainly “more stable.”

  12. Opus the Poet

    Why is there a porta-potty in the safe room? I just noticed that.

    1. Opus the Poet

      Never mind, I figured it out, the porta-potty doesn’t need connections with the outside world and can be pumped out after the emergency is over.

      1. Faust

        Then why does the door have a window.
        A Tardis would have been in the vehicle’s room so I’m not sure what this is.
        Might be an emergency exit, who knows where it leads.

        1. Opus the Poet

          It’s the service sign for the people who pump it out, but blanked out for the cartoon.

    2. TBeholder

      I guess for the same reason here are crates. Beyond the necessary basics like the door the safe room is improvised, not properly set up (at least, not yet). They are still new in this town.

  13. HardWearJunkie

    Frame 2 and 3: Is it just me, or does the “bottom” of her nose look like a second mouth?

    1. Lexarius

      Now that you mention it… I see a Mario moustache instead…

    2. Ie Yamof Ool

      she has a slightly pug nose, with a shadow at the end. The bend looks a little like an end, the shadowed end looks like a mouth/ mustache.

  14. snek

    Gotta be gnomes.

  15. dracone

    Finally caught up, I dropped off reading a while back

  16. TBeholder

    Huh. Right now both ffm nodwick com and www useswordonmonster com show

    Forbidden – Users from your country are not permitted to browse this site.

    while comic nodwick com shows a blank page.
    Do they have a webmaster more focused on LARP of Ⓦith Ⓗer™ or Ⓢupport Ⓒurrent Ⓣhing™ than silly things like site visits or having the job done in general?

    1. Stephen Bierce

      Are you using an ad blocker on your web browser? I know that whoever does the pop-up ads here tends to play rough on visitors.

      1. TBeholder

        That’s not what it says…
        The result is the same with adblock turned off completely, anyway.

    2. raven0ak

      That be DNS blocking; try using VPN to go around it, generally safest picks to bypass block is american vpn server; 2nd most stable is any european VPN server

      1. TBeholder

        DNS Blocking that… mysteriously appears only for a few associated hosts, yet is done by NS in different countries exactly alike?
        Also, that somehow produces different results with HTTPS and HTTP on the same host (while it’s cached, at that) even with scripts blocked globally?
        Occam’s trusty razor suggests the obvious.

  17. Jim

    So the last update was 11/2022, is everything okay, or is this now a discontinued webcomic?

  18. Tolrick

    We seem to be at an end here.
    Hiatus?

  19. Ed Rhodes

    I am beginning to despair of the ever being resolved!

  20. McBobby

    Has something happened to Aaron?

  21. Cory

    If this story is abandoned, fine, but please post a note to let all of us that have been waiting for this to end since 2016 know about it. You’re down to 2-3 pages a year if that. Honestly I’d prefer going back to the old Black and White pages if it meant actual updates as those were the best parts of this story. I miss 84 and others at the school.

  22. Dick

    Man, over six months since the last page for this. Not going to live to see this storyline finish, much less the kids reach high school.

  23. Ed Rhodes

    I’m hoping he’s storing up pages, but I don’t think so.

    1. Opus the Poet

      No I don’t think he’s building a buffer, either

  24. Seabear70

    It’s been six months since you looked at this
    Cocked your head to the side and said, “it ain’t paying”
    Five weeks since we commented
    Saying, “Get that together, come back and see me”
    Three days since we checked back in
    I realized it’s all same, but couldn’t tell you
    Yesterday, you’d ignored us
    But it’ll still be two months till you update the story….

    1. Jenora Feuer

      Whoo, nice reference there.

  25. Seabear70

    Chickity Nodwick the Nodwick chicken
    You have a frontal nerdity and your brain stops tickin’
    Watchin’ 238 with no lights on
    We’re sans an update
    I hope Von Fogg’s in this one
    Like Suzi I’m getting frantic
    Like I’m tantric
    Like a ween chip, guaranteed to mollify
    Like Morpheus, I make mad films
    ‘Kay, I don’t make films
    But if I did they’d have an Alien
    Gonna get a set a’ better powers
    Gonna find the kind that can go on for hours
    Just so my plots aren’t always falling off the back-swing
    Gotta get in tune with the Shadow Moon
    ‘Cause this cartoon has got the boom and the gamma rays
    That make me stick around for the long term

    It’s been six months since you looked at this
    Cocked your head to the side and said, “it ain’t paying”
    Five weeks since we commented
    Saying, “Get that together, come back and see me”
    Three days since we checked back in
    I realized it’s all same, but couldn’t tell you
    Yesterday, you’d ignored us
    But it’ll still be two months till you update the story….

  26. Steev

    I was just thinking he should update the front page. PS238 hasn’t updated in six months and Nodwick hasn’t updated in 10 years, but both are listed on the front as updating Mon-Wed-Fri. I don’t mind the wait (ok, I do, but Aaron doesn’t owe me anything), but at least make the front page accurate.

    1. Seabear70

      At least Nodwick had an end.

  27. David Carlson

    Is Aaron Williams OK?
    Does anyone know how\what he is doing these days??

    1. Opus the Poet

      Click on Full Frontal Nerdity and you can see a comic of his that gets updated regularly.

      1. Ed Rhodes

        Well, I appreciate the SOMETHING’S getting updated. And I think the “nerd gamer possessed by REAL cursed object” is kind of metal. I just wish he’d alternate the updates between FFN and here.

    2. Kar-El

      Hey Aaron – our mutual friends Nick Post and Bob Brynildson would be disappointed in your output this year…

    3. Storel

      I took a look at Aaron’s Patreon page. Turns out he has an online store at drivethrucomics.com where paperback collections of PS238 and Nodwick are available, and the “About” page in his Patreon says this:

      “The basics, however, are just to keep this cartoonist and his household afloat. I want to return to the halcyon days of regular publication, and I’m on my way to my next Ps238 trade (with a little eventual help from Kickstarter), but in the meantime, I’m hoping the current and future readers of my work will help to give me a boost. If not, I still hope you enjoy the comics and come back by every so often to see what else I’ve got in store.”

      It also notes that the monthly Patreon pledges are for a total of $634.80 per month…

      So it appears that Aaron’s having to spend too much time at a day job to keep updating the comics here, and probably the best way to get more updates is to support him by (a) joining his Patreon, and/or (b) purchasing some of the collections from his store. Sadly, I don’t have enough income myself to buy any books right now, but I can pledge a dollar or two a month to his Patreon and I’ll go do that now.

      1. Dick

        I already own every physical book he ever produced, and I don’t do Patreon (or any other online money-shuffling, for that matter). Less than a month before I finally give up and delete my bookmarks and that’s the end of ever visiting this site again.

        1. Ed Rhodes

          I’ll never delete the bookmark. If nothing else, I’ll go back to the beginning and start reading all over again.

        2. Dick

          I own all the physical books, some in multiple formats. I even have the Champions RPG supplement. Three days to the end.

  28. paathu

    It’s been 84 years…

  29. Josh S.

    I think we should have a posting party on Anniversary Day, 11/28/2023!

  30. Kytross

    I have checked this page every single day since November 28th of last year. *sigh*

    1. Opus the Poet

      Don’t feel like the Lone Ranger.

    2. Mike S

      I gave up on every day, but probably still every other day.

    3. Dick

      I’m giving till the one year mark before I delete my bookmarks and try to forget this comic ever existed. Less than a month to go now and I see no reason to be hopeful about it any more.

      To think I used to subscribe to it when it was still physical. At least Nodwick got an actual conclusion instead of this sad eternal hiatus.

  31. Storel

    So how does “Krakaboooommmm” sound like a blender full of marbles? Inquiring minds are inquiring.

    1. Opus the Poet

      It doesn’t the blender full of marbles was the machine going through whatever was under the floor, the “Krakaboooommmm” was the sound of breaking through the floor. Two different media, two different sounds.

  32. Kytross

    It’s been almost a year. Is the series over?

    1. Kytross

      Three days to go before I give up on the series. C’mon Aaron! I’ve bought all the graphic novels, I check the site every day, Just give me a page and I’ll stick around for another year.

      1. russellmz

        greetings fellow ps238 fan. at least it’ll end midstory and not like wordgirl did(season ender had her crying alone on roof and then animation studio bankruptcy meant series ended that way)

        1. Dick

          Ending in mid-story is not a Good Thing in my book. One more day now and the bookmark’s getting deleted.

  33. Seanear70

    My Cartonist! My Cartoonist! Why have you forsaken Us?

  34. Ed Rhodes

    That’s it. It’s been officially OVER a YEAR. I’m sorry to have to say this, but I think we’re done.

    1. Kar-El

      If I may quote one of my favorite movies – “Never give up. Never Surrender!”

      1. Ed Rhodes

        It’s not our decision to give up or surrender. We have nothing to do here but wait, and watch. I don’t know how much longer we’re supposed to wait. I’m not killing the bookmark, but I’m losing hope.

        1. Opus the Poet

          There is nobody to surrender to, but we can still give up checking for an update.

  35. Kytross

    Still love ya Aaron, Merry Christmas!

  36. Opus the Poet

    Well Happy New Year everybody!

  37. Opus the Poet

    For those keeping score it has been a month since FFN has updated, anyone know how to get a welfare check on Aaron?

    1. Steev

      Well, just did a search, and he made a post on Xitter on the 17th about failing computers, cars, and pipes. So hopefully he’ll be back to at least one strip soon.

      1. Opus the Poet

        I can’t help but pronounce that as “shitter” because of years of pronouncing “x” as either “z” or more often “sh”, and it comes out as either “shitter” or the same with a French accent.

        1. Steev

          Same. One of the reasons I write it that way.

  38. Mauman

    I can accept this comic is dead….I’d really like confirmation on it though 🙁

    1. skullthetroll

      Yeah, I think its time to stop with my monthly disappointment check. 🙁

  39. Kar-El

    But what if, one of these days, Aaron posts a new page and no one is around to see it? That would seriously bum him out.

    1. Opus the Poet

      Then he may be disappointed, and bummed out.

  40. Ed Rhodes

    Guys. Truth is, I’m TRYING to read Full Frontal Nerdity, but it’s just not moving me the way PS-238 or Nodwick did. I am very sad for what we have lost.

  41. Ed Rhodes

    I’m re-reading the “pizza party” sub plot and I’m rather sad to know it’s going to lead to this dead end.

  42. Kytross

    I reread the whole series. It’s still brilliant. Here’s hoping we get an ending to the series one day

    1. DougJoe

      “84 and the Ones Before” is one of my favorite stories ever and I go back and reread it all the time.

  43. Ed Rhodes

    I’m really trying to like “Full Frontal Nerdity,” the gamers in the haunted house thing was cool. But I miss my school.

  44. Josh

    Still coming here two years later, represent!

  45. Brainstorm

    Arrived on December 17th and found that the background has changed. Are updates coming? Do I dare hope?

    1. evileeyore

      I doubt it considering it’s been two years with no news at all and any questions asked on Patreon* about updates to PS238, Use Sword on Monster (also two years of no updates), or even the erratic and faulty update schedule to Full Frontal Nerditry (which is updating regularly and timely on his Patreon) are are simply erased.

    2. Prairie Son

      As noted on the main page, they are in the middle of significant tech upgrades, complicated by the number of years of files. I remember when YAFGC did the same some years ago there were no updates for over a year as the site was basically rebuilt from the ground up to clear out the old crap from WordPress and ComicPress.

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