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HAPPY JESUS HOLIDAY
December 23, 2005

From Your Pal, me.

BACK AND SHIVERING
December 1, 2005

Don't know how long power will be on so I am uploading B&W strips right now until my hands stop shivering enough to color them properly. If you have been concerned about me and missed my comics, I appreciate it dearly. I will say more when I can type without the threat of my fingers snapping off... TTYL!

CROSBY SNOWED IN!
November 29, 2005
This is Darren "Gav" Bleuel, co-owner of Keenspot, reporting that a major blizzard has cut power to the little South Dakotan town in which he and his mom reside, leaving him without power or heat, and consequently, without internet access. They are reporting that they will be without power for at least three more days, if not longer. Superosity will resume when power is restored, with comics for every missed day. Send him your warmest thoughts!

IT'S MY 28TH BIRTHDAY, BUT I'M GIVING *YOU* THE GIFTS! NOT 28 OF THEM, THOUGH. JUST TWO.
September 15, 2005
I have been been busy making CROSSOVER COMICS for TELETHONS with partner-in-crime Owen Gieni. They are HERE and HERE. Read them if you'd like, and then if you'd also like, donate some money to the Red Cross to help out the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

YOU'RE A JERK IF YOU DON'T BUY MY NEW T-SHIRT
August 4, 2005
Okay, okay, you're NOT a jerk... but that's what people will THINK! Buy my "I'm Glad I'M Not A Jerk" T-Shirt (it's based on the punchline of this strip) and instantly show everyone you know how pleased you are that you're not a jerk. This is the first SUPEROSITY T-Shirt I've done in like 4+ years, and it's the first-ever non-Cafe Press SUPEROSITY shirt (this baby's high-quality screenprinted-on-Hanes-Beefy-Tee goodness, not that crappy heat transfer crap), so I will feel like kind of like a jerk if you don't buy this beautiful black apparel I am offering you today. Especially since I've got a lot of other T-Shirt ideas I'd like to do after this one if it's popular. Consider it, won't you? It's only $15.95! Cheap! Thank you for your time, and good day to you, sir or madam.

Scumgore is waiting to take your order.

POWER OUTAGES ARE NOT ALWAYS FUN
June 9, 2005
On the night of June 7th, a massive storm hit Cresbard, South Dakota. It sent grain elevators flying through the air, it pulled trees out of the ground, and it left the haunted school building I call my home in perfectly fine shape (it's a sturdy building)... EXCEPT FOR THE LACK OF POWER. That's why there was no new SUPEROSITY strip for most of June 8th. Thankfully, the power went on just in time (a near-miracle in my book), I uploaded the strip, and I did not have to deprive my loyal Superositites of daily fun with Chris and Boardy nor walk away from the Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge in idiotic, buffer-less disgrace. And I will strive more than ever to get the strip done far in advance from now on. Thank you, and good night.

YEAR SIX ENDS, YEAR SEVEN BEGINS
March 1, 2005
Today SUPEROSITY is six years old. For some illogical reason, that seems less impressive than when it turned five. Whatever the case, it was exactly six years ago when this comic began, and it was exactly one year ago when I announced a 5th anniversary Trivia Challenge Contest thing where I told you guys to read through the archives and E-Mail me for a random trivia question, and those who got it correct would have a random chance of winning...something. Hundreds of you participated, and a surprisingly large percentage of you answered my very difficult questions correctly.

SUPEROSITY is a webcomic that rewards patience. For those of you who entered the contest, that patience will be rewarded.

But NOT TODAY. The winners of this trivia contest will be announced on MARCH 1, 2009. That will be the 10th Anniversary of SUPEROSITY, and the 5th anniversary of the 5th anniversary trivia contest.

Why am I doing this?

1.) I am the world's finest procrastinator.

2.) All of your contest entries are on my old computer and it would be slightly difficult to retrieve them.

3.) I have accepted the DAILY GRIND IRON MAN CHALLENGE, and I need all the extra incentive I can get to keep going for at least four more years so I can steal that pot of comic updating consistency gold from those lesser cartooning mortals who would dare take it from me.

4.) By delaying the results another four years, I give hundreds of potential contest winners a reason to keep on living and breathing until March 1, 2009. And who knows what the prize could be by that point? It could be ANYTHING! I could be a real bigshot by then and it could be a MILLION DOLLARS. I could give a million friggin' dollars away to YOU, live on Spike TV. Anything could happen! Stay tuned. (Happily, one of my favorite comics of all time has returned to help keep you entertained while you wait.)

HAPPY 2005, DONALD TRUMP!
January 1, 2005
Welcome to 2005, Superositites. Onward to Year Seven in two months!

Two Items of Note:

1.) I plan to pick the trivia contest winners later today. The long delay in doing such was a test of your patience with me, and you passed with flying colors. Unless you are not reading this right now. If so, I'm very disappointed in you. Whatever the case, many prizes will be awarded and much fun will be had.

2.) I will attempt to re-start my diet today, because I am unoriginal. I don't have a scale that can weigh me anymore (an expensive doctor's office-style scale) because it was damaged in the move to the haunted schoolhouse, but maybe that damned scale was what was holding me back all along. I'm flying blind this time! At least until I hit 450 and the lesser scale I have access to can weigh me. That could be a long while. Wish me luck! (Or not. You guys have wished me enough luck to last at least 450 years already.)