If I was any kind of artist, I would have drawn a four-foot tall cockroach with mandibles of death, rather than a little black smudge on a table. Unfortunately for you, dear reader, I am no kind of artist.

I’m on Twitter – @danielmclark

Happy Mother’s Day! What? It was yesterday? And this comic has nothing to do with Mother’s Day?

Well, you got me there.

When I decided to kick off Mediocre Web Comic with a talking animal story arc, the first thing I thought of was Pearls Before Swine. It’s primarily talking animals, and no other comic makes me actually laugh out loud (no meaningless abbreviations here) as much as that strip does.

The MWC talking animal character will be revealed next week! Stay tuned!

There are a lot of web comics that I keep up with that have very odd publishing schedules. Some publish one day a week, some publish Tuesdays and Thursdays, some publish Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Some publish completely randomly. I use Firefox to manage it all.

Internet Explorer probably does this too, but a.) I’m on a Mac and b.) even if I wasn’t, there aren’t enough Wild Berry Skittles on the planet to bribe me to use Internet Explorer.

Yeah, I like Wild Berry Skittles. A lot.

In Firefox, I have a folder of bookmarks for each day of the week plus one called Daily. Each morning, I open the day’s folder and check the comics, news and other items that interest me. The folder goes up on the Bookmarks toolbar for easy access, thusly:

1. Click Bookmarks -> Organize Bookmarks or press Shift-Cmd-B (Shift-Ctrl-B on PC). Yeah, I write instructions from a Mac perspective. After 15 years of the other way around, it’s payback time.
2. Click the Bookmarks Toolbar entry on the left to select it. That’s where the folders are going.
3. Right click and choose New Folder or go up to the gear icon, click it and choose New Folder.
4. Create a folder called Days – or whatever suits you – that will contain the folders for each day of the week.
5. Click that new folder to select, then repeat step three for each day of the week and one called Daily.
6. Start populating each folder with bookmarks.

That’s all there is to it. Organization, FTW.

It’s the dawn of a new era… the beginning of the dawning… the start of a new…

Aw, hell. It’s just a comic strip. It’s new. I like it, so far. I’m publishing on Mondays until I build up a library of strips, then I’ll start publishing twice a week, then three times a week. Who knows? Maybe I’ll go daily someday.

I’m on Twitter, if you’re interested. If you’re anything like me, and I know I am, you’ll want to read my very mediocre tweets. In the past day, I’ve tweeted about Wolverine, Swine Flu and writing. It’s fascinating, if you accept “fascinating” to mean “really boring”.

Long live mediocrity.

I thought this would be better than the boring “Coming Soon… Srsly.” placeholder strip that I had up yesterday and today. Still working on new strips; I want to have several ready to go before I begin posting. Ask any Jim Lee or Kevin Smith fan – late comics suck.

So, now I have to learn ComicPress. While I’m doing that (and marveling at how bad the code is compared to Thesis – sorry, but it’s true), I’m also working on the strip itself and the design of the site. Add that to my work on The Big Book of Spam, my own blog, Kids and Comics and my Hectic Studios relaunch… it’s a lot to do. Since Mediocre Web Comic is the newest thing, it gets lowest priority.

Still, I’m excited about it, so that’s motivation enough to get those other projects finished or caught up so I can do more here. I’m not going to give the standard “check back soon for updates!” line because let’s be honest, nobody is going to check back for updates. Instead, follow me on Twitter, and I’ll tell you when there’s updates – along with news related to the aforementioned projects and my own inane ramblings.