Scenes From A Multiverse: Encore Edition | May 24, 2010 (Patreon)

Hello friends! This is the first of the Scenes From A Multiverse reruns! Like the Goats rerun I just published, I'm rerunning these comics to give them a place to live online after the server was hacked. I'm a cartoonist, not a technician, and I think this is a more fun way to put them back up than just throwing them on another box in another data center somewhere. Unlike Goats, these SFAM reruns are a special treat for paid Patreon supporters ONLY. Come back here Monday through Friday for the next few years for more! Let's get started.

I like to think of SFAM as my "newer" comic but this one is sixteen years old now. It's getting drunk at high school parties and scrolling TikTok endlessly on the couch.

The first weekly batch of five SFAM comics were written and drawn at the same time; I wanted to launch the site with a handful of comics already published so people had more than a single sample to go on when they visited for the first time. First impressions are important!

When I wrote this I was a new parent with a three year old daughter and zero twin sons. Write what you know, right? When you're raising your first kid and you're not sure yourself how you feel about the influence of religion on the children you're raising, how do you deal with questions on the nature of the universe? It'd be nice if we had some concrete evidence to go on.

SFAM was intentionally designed to be the opposite of what Goats was: quick to write, quick to draw, quick to read and enjoy and share. It didn't stay that way forever, but you can see the minimalist approach at work here. Star fields are fast and easy.

That's enough for today! Join me back here tomorrow and every day M-F for more SFAM reruns. Thanks for your support as always!

-Jon