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A Note On Mature Content

These comics are intended for mature audiences. It is really neither more violent than your usual TV fare nor has more sex nor has much more bad language, but ya know, I want to be able to show a breast from time to time without ruffling parental feathers. Some of the images show frontal nudity, not to increase my readership but because it is appropriate to the stories. So, viewer discretion is advised. If you are immature, however old you are, don't read em. :)



Where is Exodus?

Exodus had been on vacation due to technical problems which have been resolved. Essentially the original starship I designed was too difficult to render, it took hours or all day to render it finally because 1. it was terrifically complex and 2. I didn't think rendering optimization when I designed it. Also, as it happens, after I created the first starship I discovered "design flaws", things which would not work out very well in real life, in it, so I got the opportunity to address some of those changes in the new one. I retrofitted the new Concourse into the limited scenes thus far which had featured the old one.

The new starship Concourse has been designed, and I probably like it better than the old one really, so episodes will resume on a schedule of, I do Kindly one day, I do Exodus the next day or the next two days, depending on how long an episode takes to make. Exodus is at http://exodus.g3z.com/ at the moment, but this is not going to be it's long-term home since g3z has lamentable bandwidth limitations which Exodus has been hitting daily these days..



The Future of Exodus and Kindly Undead

Doing two comics at once is not a long-term tenable proposition, I happen to have some free time at the moment but this could change at any time, so I am planning on having Kindly be a fairly limited series with a fairly definite end point somewhere. At first I had considered not working on Exodus at all until I finished Kindly, but that was easier said than done.

Who is this guy?

My name is Robert Dodd, all my graphics and web design are copyright me. I am a web and graphic designer. I think that if you are a very strange, hyper-creative, very intelligent sort of person, which undoubtably I am (no false modesty I), your alternatives are to hide that or go splash your strangeness on the broadest canvas available to you and dare anybody to dis you. I am taking that road, as you can see. :)

Politically I am mostly an anarchist, meaning that I think that the rights of the State against the individual (not corporations) should be very slim. I am however semi-active in the Democratic party because, you know, there ain't gonna be any successful anarchist party anytime soon and the Democrats can at least keep those Republican morons from ruining the country and abolishing all civil rights in the meantime. :) The Democrats are at least populists; the Republicans are only interested in maintaining their cheap labor source (us).

I also bake some mean sourdough bread and have an interest in promulgating the use of open-source software wherever possible, which is a freedom issue. If there is only one OS and only one browser, then whoever owns those basically gets to dictate the digital world to you, which I would not like. I don't use Linux much, unfortunately, but I do use the Firefox opensource browser and the Thunderbird mail client (and you should too if you want a secure internet experience).

I am not however a goth, despite doing a comic about a vampire and despite the fact that I usually dress in black. I'll dress in another color when something darker comes along. :) However, to me vampires are interesting for reasons totally other than their usual horror associations. I don't find a Bela Lugosi Dracula particularly interesting. I find Mendez interesting, I find the films and other media which emphasize the alienness of the undead interesting, because it is not as the thing itself that they are interesting but it is as a window on ourselves. The ultimate monsters, as always, are ourselves.

 

Glitch Alert

Occasionally because of a glitch, you will see an advertisement in the places where the episode or the blog should be, in which case just hit "reload" on your browser. The blog and the episodes are in iframes, which Tripod surprisingly handles pretty well, but there are sometimes errors.





Contribute!

You don't have to pay to read Kindly Undead on the web, it is free and always will be, although I might do for-pay spinoffs. However, if you do contribute, it might discourage me from, like, getting a life or something, and hence ceasing to spend as much time creating comics for your enjoyment. :) If you look at the price of comics on the newsstand, they are easily a couple bucks a pop, so if you send me a buck a month, you're ahead of the game. Plus, you know, comics have standards to maintain the moral decency of the community, and you know you'll never be bothered with any of that here. :)

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Links

Here's some banners if anyone wants to link to me. Yes pretty please do:

Unfortunately, Tripod won't allow you to link directly to the image, so you'd have to right-click on the image (on a PC) and select, "Save Image As" Set the link to the Kindly Undead banner as "http://doddblog.tripod.com/" and the link to the Exodus banner as "http://exodus.g3z.com/". Then upload it to your web space and set up the link and you're all set.

If you want me to link to you, email me with your preferred banner (no larger than the banners above), and put my banners on your index page with a link to this site. I will then review your site and if it is relevent to SF/Fantasy/Horror & I like it, I will link to you.

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Images and Downloads For best results, click on the image or the size and wait for the desktop image to load in a new window. Once loaded, right-click on it and select "Save As". Then right-click on a blank area of your desktop, select "Properties", click the "browse" button on your background tab and navigate to the image on your hard drive. Kindly Undead Desktop Images 1024x768 Exodus Desktop Images Yes, I realize that as of the time I am posting them here, many of these scenes have not taken place. The Spacers have been only mentioned in passing, and Samia hasn't been anywhere near Mobaris. However, unfortunately, my capacity to create episodes is not nearly as fast as my capacity to think up episodes, so I tend to play with art that is 4 episodes ahead of where I am. And once created I want to do something with them, so.... Be sure to select "Center" in the display box on the Exodus background images. Samia on Mobaris 900x675 Exodus Desktop 714x500 Concourse Desktop 900x675