Ladies and gentlemen, the finale begins today and continues through this week and ends next week.  Can you handle it?  Read:

Also, this is one of the most awesome things you will ever behold.  An amazing artist and up-and-coming cover artist in comics Michael Maher did this amazing Axe Cop painting.  Bask in it's glory, and know that in the coming weeks this will become available as a print in our store.  Thanks a ton to Michael for painting this, it is so beautiful.

It's the first ever Axe Cop cos-play sighting!  I don't know who this is, but he deserves a golden chainsaw award.

It's like Axe Cop is a real comic now!

If you have not ordered a sketch, there are still some characters available to be ordered who have never been drawn on paper before.  Because Axe Cop is all digital, many sketch orders are the first time these characters are drawn on paper, and if you get one I make a note of it on the sketch.  All you have to do it go into the store and order a non-digital sketch.  These characters are still up for grabs for first time on paper:

Pretzel Head

Evil Flying Book

Bad Santa

the Wrestler

Snow Man

Evil Singing Tree

Sockarang's Dad

Mr. Mutani Esu

all 10 of the Ben 10 Matanga

Tiny Robot who wants to bite people

Mr. Stocker

Electric Man

Rhino Man

Best Fairy Ever

Dr. Stinky Head

1st ever on paper sketches do not cost extra, they are smply 1st come, first serve.  So the sooner your order, the better your chances.

Ethan

The saga continues, and it's pure Gold:

Yes, that actually just happened.  Next week comes the big finale, so stay tuned!

Ethan

The new Ask Axe Cop is all about family bonding:

It would be interesting to hold a real Axe Cop learn out.  Penny Arcade has their big video game convention, we could do an annual Axe Cop learn out where we all learn awesome moves.  I really don't know how we would pull that off since Axe Cop is not a real person, and very few people would be willing to replace their arms with socks, but it is a nice dream.

If you haven't been in the store, well, you should because the best shirt in shirt history is now available (in my arrogant and self serving opinion).

Lastly, here is an updated image of that Wexter poster in the coloring process from my man Jamie:

Today's episode is now up.  The plot thickens!

(spoilers)  When Malachai started giving me all these plot twists to work in I knew people were going to think it was me trying to spice things up, but I swear to you this is all Malachai and it was all his idea to turn Sockarang into a villain only to reveal that he is actually Dr. Stinkyhead – te adult version of Stinko who went to school with Axe Cop as a kid.  Yes, the plot thickens!

This is a special message for GIRLS who want WEXTER SHIRTS.  Please READ:

Girls, we wanted to get you shirts so we are going this… for the next 4 days, order the Wexter girl shirt in the store and it will ship with all the others.  It will be available after that, but it could take months to get to you if you order after Sunday, March 21.  Basically, we have a lot of girls who say they want girl shirts, but they do not actually order much of them and they cost us extra so it is not worth it to order many of them because so far they don't sell well.  So every time we order a batch of shirts we will order a small amount, but basically only based on what has already been ordered.  In short… order your Wexter girl shirt by Sunday or wait a really long time. 

At the time this blog goes up the shirt will not be in the store, so keep your eyes open.  I will notify via Twitter, the blog and Facebook when they are available.

EDIT: Shirts are now available here.

Ethan

Today, Axe Cop says a prayer:

Now, to be totally honest, this was not originally an answer to an Ask Axe Cop question.  This was a genuine conversation Malachai had with me about how he would pray for the sharks, and that ending was really his ending to his prayer.  I have a truly awesome little brother.  The prayer was so awesome I decided to dig up the question from the question file and make it official.

Of course, that is not the only big news of the day.  Today we release the new WEXTER T-SHIRT DESIGN.  Check this out:

The new Wexter T is four colors (black, white, orange and brown) on a sand colored t-shirt .  It is now available to be ordered in the store.  As with most of our merch, patience is a virtue, though we are going to try to get this one out a little faster than others since we are a bit more caught up and the tidal wave has calmed a bit.  So please, go order your Wexter shirt!

And that is not all!  Here are some updated progress shots from the Wexter project, still in progress.  I got an awesome colorist, Jamie Noguchi,  to take over on coloring this piece and it is looking awesome.  This first image is a gray scale overpainting to work out the general
lighting.

this next image is just the beginnings of laying down the color, breaking the image into two pieces to conserve on file size, so starting with Axe Cop and Wexter.

And that is today's update.  Thanks for reading Axe Cop.  Tomorrow… why Sockarang, WHY?!

Ethan

Finally, after a day off (thanks for being so cool about it) Axe Cop returns!

Been working hard packing up these prints, and I have the paper cuts to prove it.  Here they are all ready to roll out.  Thanks to everyone who bought them, and sorry about the wait!

…and yeah that is a pair of underwear strewn on the floor on the bottom right, but I promise they are moderately clean.  I like to roll posters au naturale.

Also, Sketches!  Thanks to everyone who has bought sketches, I finally have taken the time to sit and draw  most of the ones we have had ordered so far.

There are still a LOT of “first time ever on paper” characters to claim.  Avocado soldier, Telescope Gun Cop, Baby Man to name a few.  If you want to know if a character has been claimed, just email and ask.  It doesn;t cost any extra, you just have to order the characters from our store.  The sample ink skecth of Sockarang (which is his first time ever on paper) has still not been claimed, all Sockarang orders so far have been full body.

Some of you who bought pencil sketches, in absence of mind I accidentally inked your image, so a few of you got hooked up. 

Onward we go!  Malachai and I had a great writing session on Friday so I have a lot of this story locked and we should be able to keep things on schedule for the next few weeks.  Thanks for reading Axe Cop!

P.S. Wexter T Shirt should go on sale this week!

Hey friends of Axe Cop,

I do intend to get you a new episode here, but today marks my first road block in the adventure of creating a comic with a 5 year old in control.  Basically, I just don't have enough info out of Malachai to really make today's episode solid, so I do not feel like I should finish it and post it until I can get him interested in talking about it again.  I think maybe him seeing that there is no new episode up will help, but as you can imagine, he has to want to do it, or it is no fun.  Last time I called him he was engrossed in a video game and did not want to talk.

So hold tight, if I can get it figured out today and get you a new episode I will, but it will probably be up later tonight.  If not, it will probably come out on Monday.  We'll see what happens here.  Sorry for the delay but them's the rules of Axe Cop.  Once Malachai stops writing, we stop reading.

Ethan