What’s your biggest life accomplishment?

More Shirts Soon

Keep your eyes peeled to the site because I’m going to be reordering a bunch of shirts that I am now out of over in the HilariAwesome.com store. If you want a women’s shirt in any size, I don’t keep them in stock but am happy to order them for you. Just email me at systemcomic at gmail dotcom with which one you would like and what size and we’ll take it from there.

It’s not often I can fit guns, knives, and coffee in the same comic.

If you like Jimmy the Murderdog (who doesn’t?), limited quantities of the Jimmy The Murderdog shirts are still available here.

Super Art Fight in LA! This coming weekend! Meltdown / Nerdmelt Comics! Be there! Tickets here!

Life. She is a mad bitch.

Thanks to Helen (who does awesome design) and Boum (Samantha? who does awesome comics) for the help translating this into french! Merci!

Btw if you like this one, be sure to check out the other existentialism and coffee posts using those big yellow buttons below.

UPDATE: Changed the name. I don’t want to be too close to the existential cat.

I guess I should put a psot here. Fine.

Like numbers 500, 400, 300, 200 and 100, another recap of what we’ve learned in the last 100 comics. I enjoy putting these together, but they do take quite a while. All the panels are from comics from the last 100 comics. Can you name where all of them are from?

Also, we have something else to celebrate! We also recently passed the four-year anniversary of the comic as well. 400 comics! That’s pretty good, right? That officially makes The System my longest-held job / relationship.

<I’ll insert more words about what it’s like to do 600 comics here soon.>

Anyway, if you want to help me celebrate, there’s a few things you can do:

• Share your favorite comics from the archive with friends.
• Comment on posts.
• Buy prints of any comics you like from HilariAwesome.com, our online store.
• Buy shirts from HilariAwesome.com, our online store.
• GET READY to give me more money, because I’m going to be launching a Kickstarter for The System Book 1 in a few weeks. As soon as the book is mostly built and I have a quote for the number of books, it’ll all come together. Stay tuned!

Somewhat related, The System’s Order of Magnitude and of course my Pile System.

Here it is, comic number 599, which means the next one is the big 600! Technically we are past 600, as there’s one I accidently screwed up the number and a few in the archive that don’t really have numbers or don’t fit into the number scheme. Still, exciting to see round numbers.

For those of you that came out to Connecticon this past weekend and said hello at the table OR came to Super Art Fight, thank you so much. It was great to see Rick, ParasitePaladin, Allison, Ray, and all the rest of you who came by to say hi or bought something. And to you newbies, hello. This is my website, hope you like.

To say Connecticon was a success would be an understatement. It was huge. I did the 2nd best sales I’ve ever done at a con and had $0 in costs for the trip, as they were all covered since I was a guest. Not to mention, lots of people came by and said they read the comic which always makes me feel better. No crazy lines or anything, but it’s a wonderful reminder that people actually read this thing I put time into and post on the Internet. The numbers in analytics and the comments I see are written by people who wonder why I didn’t update on Monday, who share it with friends and coworkers, etc. It’s an amazing human connection that I absolutely love, and rejuvenates me until the next show.

Now excuse me while I work on The System Book 1….

They’re like Time Lords, only they can travel through coffee. And similar to Time Lords, their french presses are bigger on the inside.

By the way! Back in stock in all the sizes is the “My Body Is Just a Filter” coffee shirts in the HilariAwesome store! Check it, yo:

Another chart, and on one of my favorite topics, coffee. It was actually inspired by this Reddit thread on the coffee subreddit, which quickly devolved into the pretentiousness of good coffee. Specifically from vornan19:

I can’t be more of a coffee snob unless I start roasting my own beans!

I figured I’d take it as far as I could, though I did leave out a few details / possiblities along the way. Feel free to fill them in, and share your own methods in the comments!

As for me, most of my coffee is made by the following:

• Beans bought whole from wherever I can get them. Sometimes it’s Trader Joes, but normally one of my friends gets it for me as a gift from somewhere since they all know I like coffee. Coffee for me is like stamps for Jeremy on Sports Night. “I always seem to find one when I need one.”
• A Cuisenart burr grinder that normally goes for around $70, but I got for $30 through Amazon. Worst thing I can say about the thing is that it takes up a fair amount of room in my kitchen.
• Most cups of coffee are made with a Bodium french press, but I also have a cone dripper when I’m feeling adventurous.

Oh, and one more thing! Tomorrow (Sunday) is my birthday! If you want to buy me a present, share my comic (this one or otherwise) with all your friends, maybe buy a print of this comic or something else from the online store, and maybe, just maybe, buy me a cup of coffee (I accept PayPal through systemcomic@gmail.com).

Oh, and if you’re looking for a great cup of coffee in the DC area, check out Filter in Dupont Circle. See my artwork on the wall and tell them Ross sent ya.

You can order this on a poster here. You probably should, it’s obviously pretty great. And if you agree with the sentiment, you probably would like this shirt too:

Apologies for the sporadic schedule of late. Life happens sometime, but I’m striving to get back on track. Hang in there, Systemics.

There are lots of coffee-related drinks with funny names. There’s the Poor Man’s Latte, the Red Eye, the Red Chai, and plenty more. What ones can you name? Or, even better, make up?