The last page of the Ultimate Battle is here!

No, this is not the end of Axe Cop.  This is the end of THIS story.  As I mentioned a few blogs back, I am stopping here for a bit.  I will be switching gears to start working on that Dark Horse exclusive-to-print mini-series.  Remember when I went and spent a month with Malachai and we were writing some new story?  Well, that's what I am going to draw next.  The bad news for you poor people is it will not be online for free, it will be in stores in a book, and in color, for money.  As a man who has always preferred print comics to web comics it was a deal I couldn't resist, and since I actually get paid something for the print comics it made even more irresistable.

Is this the end of Axe Cop online?!??!  No way Jose.  But Axe Cop online will not be a 5-updates a week web comic for a while.  Ask Axe Cop will remain an exclusively online thing.  It is my goal to do at least 100 Ask Axe Cops, so you still have over 50 left of that.  I also want to explore doing some short stories with Malachai on line, a little more similar to the first five episodes of Axe Cop.  Maybe try to do some side-stories based on supporting characters like Sockarang and Ralph Wrinkles.  There is still a lot of explorng to do in the Axe Cop world.

I am going to take a break for a week or two then I will be diving into the new book and I will try to do at least one update a week here on the site.  I want to do two updates, but we'll just have to see how much I can do while I am still working on the miniseries and trying to meet deadlines.  The miniseries will be a 3-part story that will be another unique adventure in the Axe Cop universe.  It is something Malachai and I did a full month of work brainstorming and playing guns and goofing off to create.  I think I will probably have to go spend another couple weeks with him to refine it a bit, but in general it's the most epic thing we have come up with.  I can't wait to put it to paper for you guys.  

So, please stick around, join the forum, visit the Facebook page and I will keep things coming as soon as I can.  Thanks for faithfully reading Axe Cop and for sharing it with your friends and making all this possible.

Ethan

James, John and Ethan talk about Episodes 29, 30, 31 and Ask Axe Cop 18 and 19. Great stuff!

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Second to last page everybody!

I don't really have a whole lot to say except I thought you guys would have more plot holes for me to fill then you did in the comments in the blog post I put up recently.  There has to be more loose ends than that!  See you tomorrow on the last page!

Ethan

Not a lot of panels, but a lot happening in today's page...

Now I have a little public apology here.  Last week in the comments on one of the blogs, an Axe Cop reader named Keisha brought up some PC issued she had with the movie Scott Pilgrim and I kind of went off on her.  It's a subject I am a little bit passionate about and it had been kind of building up in me, and I sort of took it out on her.  I do need to be more sensitive to people when they are sensitive about things that I am not sensitive about.  Keisha, I apologize because I know you didn't come to AxeCop.com to get lectured by me.  Anyway, Keisha was saying she feels under-reresented in modern culture because she is bi-south asian and female.  Now, I am not going to lie and say that she should keep her chin up and expect a bunch of movies with heroes that fit that description... but I did do my part.  Among the zombie world heroes I have included... Keisha:

Tomorrow, watch as she punches off some doody soldier's head.  Of course, now people are going to think that if they can get me to go off on them I will draw them into the comic.  This is the last one.  You have to be more creative than that.

Ethan

I have been working on the final pages for the Axe Cop book all weekend and just turned them in at 5am this morning.  I was so relieved I almost forgot to post today's page:

You can consider this finale week.  Thursday will be the last episode, then I'll take a bit of a break, then we'll start posting intermittent new Ask Axe Cop episodes and start a new story.  I was thinking it might be kind of fun to do a special "fill in the gaps" series where I take the top ten biggest questions Axe Cop fans have about plot holes in Axe Cop, and I can go over them with Malachai and fill them in.  If you have ideas for plot holes you would like to see filled (like, when did Axe Cop really get his axe?) let me know.

Ethan