anyway.

I miss them too.

Me too.  In a fantasy world where I get things done which I think would be cool to do, I do some of my own (with a different trollbabe).

I like that fantasy world.

Hey guys,

Unfortunately, I realized I'd finished the whole story after the two rounds of 52 strips.

It was not a pleasant realization. Oh, I *wanted* to write more, whether about Gwyneth, or Vanth, or Oskar - maybe Mooram-Ah, too. I liked the idea of branching out from the 'babes and writing stories about the other characters, then eventually ending up in a Kurosawa-like showdown between Tha (pregnant) and Retta (who'd be in the moral right).

But you know? The story really was finished. The rest would have been fanboy extension, the different between Stan Lee's run on Spider-Man and anything that came after it. The feeling of "this must be written" was gone, replaced only with enjoyment of what *had* been written and illustrated and wanting to recapture it.

Which is a bummer. I loved doing the strip even if most people reading it busted me constantly for the style and approach I liked so much. I really, really loved working with the artists. It was a dream come true, my very own underground comix.

Gott wake up some time, I guess.

I greatly appreciate you guys remembering them and bringin' em up once in a while, though.

Best,
Ron

So there's only one Trollbabe story?

I can't beleive that's true.

Sorry Fred, your comment is unfathomable to me. Can't tell what you're saying, asking, implying, or anything.

Have you thought at all about collecting the strips in a book? I'd buy it.

Never mind.

I know better than to even try.

Being able to re-read the entire "Tea and Sympathy" would make me happy.  Is that squirreled away somewhere?

When the very last strip came out, I was like, that's not the end of Tea and Sympathy, is it? Is it? I even pretended at the Forge that I was confused about the publication schedule to protect myself.

And then I was like, oh SHIT, it is the end.

And I was like, but that's not the end of Tha and Retta, is it? Is it?

And then I was like, oh SHIT.

Hey Ron, is Tea and Sympathy available in whole? It doesn't appear on the table of contents on the Trollbabe Comics page.

Um, Clinton oughta be the point man on that one, but what with Katrina and all, I'm not bugging him about it.

Best,
Ron

Dude, bug me. Is there a strip not available, because I can get on that.

Yay Clinton!