The Gods of ArrKelaan

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This Guy Walks Into A Tavern... Cover

Ronson

on Sept. 24, 2009

Okay, here's the story about this comic. I was sort of wrong in Tuesday's description, because it was so long ago.

"This Guy Walks Into a Tavern…" is a 10 page story telling the tale of Brindle and Aanlonar many years into the future. These were the mortal followers of Ronson during the "Going Home" story, and I wanted to revisit them. I always thought it would be fun to spin the Brindle/Aanlonar story into it's own series … something like the fantasy version of "Cheers" (Elf Only Inn did this, kind of, but that was more about chat rooms). But I don't have any time for it.

Anyway, I wrote this original story for the Drunk Duck anthology "Drunk on Laughter" … which was put on hiatus when Drunk Duck was sold to Platinum. Somehow, when I plotted the whole thing out, I ended up with only 9 pages. This is bad when you think all new stories should start on a right hand page and end on a left hand page. So I added a 10th page at the last minute … just a little added ending to the original story … no big deal.

Well, the Drunk Duck Anthology was held up a full year after it was supposed to, and I decided to put this short story into "The Gods of Arr-Kelaan: Short Stories Volume One" instead of waiting for the anthology.

But there was a problem. This short story sort of breaks my rule that short stories should be self-supporting. I WANTED the reader to have some understanding about Brindle and Aanlonar before starting it. So I threw away the 10th page and wrote a little introduction for it after the cover for the printed work in "Short Stories Volume One".

Anyway when the actual anthology was actually going to print, this story was more than a year old, and so I decided to write a new story called "The Point of Some Return" … which will be printed after this story ends.

Some time later, I built my store system and learned how to sell PDFs, which allowed me to add that 10th page.

So here it is, officially the last black and white short story I ever plan on doing (We'll do it in color and grayscale it for print if we have to, but we won't color using shades of gray) presented in it's entirety for you.

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I now have enough to print 100 books, and any of them bought at this point will actually make money for Rubber Mallet Comics! Yay!

There are a few 7-book bundles left, if they aren't bought before 9-28-09, I'm breaking them up and will put them back in normal circulation.

The PDFs for the Consequences Trilogy will be available on 9-28-09, and will cost $5 each.