“Lavinia, I’ve come home.” With those final words from my Sea Witch, Maelzerfrun “Maelstrom” Vanderboren, the four-year epic campaign of the Dungeon and Dragon adventure, The Savage Tide (inspired by the original Isle of Dread game), came to a close just before dawn on May 19th. This was the longest D&D game I’ve ever been …
Tag Archive: mark!
May 16 2013
Welcome New Readers…er, Reader
This goes out to all my prior students (all one of you over the years) that discovered I post to this blog! Hmm, having an old student reading my random rants on even more random topics, is that a good thing or a bad thing? Well, its a thing. Hope you like comics!
May 05 2012
Free Comic Book Day 2012
Just about ever year I forget to take advantage of FCBD get all bitter about it. And then when I do remember, like today, I wind up ever more bitter that I waited in line for 40 minutes only to get a handful of comics that I have no interest in. Go figure.
May 04 2012
First Year at Rutgers University
DONE. Honestly, there were times I didn’t think I would make it. Then again, once I see my grades….
Oct 04 2011
Conversations with Mark! #2: Andi and Her Boobs–Now in StrohmengerScope!
[click on image to enlarge, as if they aren't doing fine on their own] Conversations with Mark! #2 is now brought to you in vivid color with StrohmengerScope. Thanks to the talents of Stephen Strohmenger and his strong work ethic for this more visually attractive version of the original B&W comic from 2008. Shit, I’m …
Jul 04 2010
Good Birthday, Mark!
I’m so fucking tired of this Happy Birthday shit and someone getting paid every time it’s sung in a movie. Fuck that. Right, Mark!? So instead, I’m writing you a new song that hopefully will be used in movies and I’ll get paid like $75 each time. Good Birthday to you! Good Birthday to you! …
Feb 01 2010
365 Days of Imperfection: Day 8 (Really): Behold! Cock-Thulhu
Shit. It worked out in the end. My backlogging of blog entries had made it to 7, and I’d posted on time on day 9, and here is day 8, created on 8 January in Mark!’s swanky Uptown (Re: Almost Harlem) apartment overlooking Cloverfield. If Mark! hadn’t gone to some tropical island to swim with …
Aug 19 2008
Because we’re political. And because we have the greatest political power of them all: Mark!
My thanks to Valerie Robin for procuring these images. You’re a true beer guzzling patriot.
Mar 12 2008
How Mark! Ruined the Armzrace Blog
What the hell is wrong with Mark! He’s a f$*king computer retard. Do I go around messing up the blog, because I can’t post a friggin’ image? No. I swear. He’s like some awful Jinx released from Pandora’s box, which, I might add, he tried to f*$k once. The licentious bastard will take a poke …
Mar 01 2008
Video clip from Mark! v. The Tyra Banks Show
Click on the link for the video clip. No wonder he didn’t get picked.
Jun 25 2007
Why My Life Still Sucks – A MoCCA Art Fest 2007 Review
Why My Life Still Sucks, 2007, by our very own Mark! Alpert, following up his acclaimed Why My Life Sucks, premiered at this year’s MoCCA Art Festival in New York City. This minicomic collects another set of hilarious comics about how much Mark!’s life sucks (though it’s really not that bad, but don’t try to …












