Remember my good friend Jami Noguchi? He’s got a new project in store, and it may hurt your brain a bit. Or maybe you’ll love it. Honestly, I go both ways and it makes me make weird faces. This is puppy cow:

He needs your wuv—I mean, “love”. Jamie wants to make plush toys of this little monstrosity. If you want to support him, check out his Kickstarter info below. The way Kickstarter works if you pitch in 5, 10, 25$ or whatever increments you support the project, get free swag, and of course a puppy cow when all the money has been raised. If all the money doesn’t get raised in time (in this case a month) everyone gets their money back. It’s a pretty sweet system. For details on what you can get and more on the project, click down there. Oh and be sure to watch the Kickstarter intro video, watch out for me looking drunk (but actually just very very tired).

Wouldn’t you be if your presentation software was that great?

Venn F%*king Diagrams may be a shirt soon. Thoughts?

UPDATE: Venn F&*king Diagrams is now a shirt! Click below to learn more / purchase from our online store:

Welcome to comic #400, and the 2-year anniversary of The System! I know what you’re saying, comic #1 was posted July 1st. True, but it went live somewhere around July 8th and y’know what? Close enough.

Since then we’ve seen lots of changes to the site, from some recurring characters to comics that have been across the internet and back (with varying amounts of credit thrown my way). I could not have made it this far if not for the help of my many friends (both those with websites and without) and fans who have encouraged and supported this project along the way.

Over the next few weeks you will start seeing some improvements around here, as some new personal opportunities have come up that will allow for some more time and effort to be put on the comic and its various accoutrement. If you’re a fan of the site and would like to do your part, check out the online store and consider supporting the comic and taking something home while you’re at it. If you don’t see something you like don’t worry, preorder for BOOK 1 of The System will be going up soon along with other pieces of amazingness.

For those of you less monetarily inclined but with plenty of free time, it always helps when you share comics on StumbleUpon, Reddit, forums, blogs, BoingBoing or any other sites you frequent. Or for that matter just participating around here by commenting on posts and talking back as I use this site (and Twitter, and Tumblr) to talk at you. I know RossMom always appreciates it, and at this point I think we can pretty much call her a moderator. And yeah, that’s my mom.

Also upcoming, I’m going to start posting a bit of a retrospective on how The System is doing in an effort to show you guys what goes on behind the scenes and also get some thoughts out. Posts about how I’ve gotten this far (if you call this far) and what I’ve learned along the way. For those who like that kind of inside baseball I think you’ll appreciate them. For those that don’t, well, there’s always the comic.

Speaking of the comic, can you pick out where all the panels are from? The art is all from previous comics starting between comic #304 and #399. See what you can do and post it in the comments!

Apologies for the delays in comics on Friday and Monday. Not a trend, but some big things are in the works around here. If they go through, at the end of the day you’ll see more comics so STAY TUNED! Comic #400, along with our official 2-year anniversary, will be Thursday. It’s not too late to get a card!

What are all your daily rituals? Do you take breaks from your breaks? Sometimes, they can be a little much if they aren’t broken up.