Merry Christmas everyone! I hope however you celebrate it or how you are taking a holiday break that you are doing so with friends and family. 2025 was a crazy year and, at least for me, it showed the importance of pursuing friendships, in all its forms, and being with family as much as possible. I do think a lot of the craziness that we experience in the world today is that people do feel disconnected and isolated. Whether it’s (ironically) through social media or living continuously in one’s own political bubble, we do need to surround ourselves with people, of all types, and actually talk to each other in meaningful ways. This is what I wish for in 2026.
This week I also released the last episode of my comic Solicitations for 2025, or what I’m deeming Season One. I started this projected in 2024 and got the balls to actually start releasing and developing it in January of this year. I had this idea of what I wanted it to be; a four-panel comedy comic, much in the vein of Penny Arcade and PvP, two webcomics I read religiously when I was in college. I also wanted to release it weekly, which meant at some point I would need to write, draw, ink, balloon, and letter many more; going way outside of the initial batch that I released in the beginning of the year.
And I actually did it. It turned into forty-six comic posts, a few blog posts that delivered comic book recommendations, and then actually changing its direction to focus on Quiver, who was a liger and belonged to a Guild of Space Pirates. And I decided to do it in color. It was quite an undertaking and the earlier episodes aren’t really well drawn at all, but I at least can see a progression. Plus, as you can see from the final episode, the comic book store expatNERD is now a prisoner of the space pirates and is currently somewhere in space. So there’s a lot to work on in 2026 and I am very excited to see where this is go and what I will see come this time in 2026.
And that’s it for 2025 folks. Wherever you are, I hope you are happy and doing what you love.
See you in 2026.
-Chris
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