Welcome, weary travellers, to the rebirth of Hurricane Party. I won't bore you with the grisly details, since all that has a lot to do with Keenspace sucking, my internet firewall sucking even worse, work sucking, being unable to find steady employment, and robots. I'm sure robots have something to do with things. Because robots immediately make any story better, and it's not like you guys can verify my facts or anything. Yeah, robots came. And destroyed the comic. But now it's back!

It's taken me months to get this thing moved over to DHAK (my private domain), and even now I'm concerned that I might break the poor fella with this sort of treatment. But, onward and upward! Hurricane Party will rise from the ashes like a proverbial gay phoenix. I'm not using MySQL or PHP or anything that would make my life a helluva lot simpler, because I want to do Hurricane Party RIGHT. This comic has been a part of my life for over two years now (good god damn), and my expertise lies in HTML and CSS. So that's how the comic will be presented. One of the many stumbling blocks I faced in switching it over here was trying to write a proper PHP script. I really suck at PHP, let's get that out in the open now. It's far too abstract, even for me, someone who understands CSS for crying out loud. So as long as you guys understand that I'm fully aware of the irony in lauding uber-geekdom on one of the most prehistorically-designed sites out there, then we're cool.

HTML kicks ass.

Now that the caveat is out of the way, it's time for ANOTHER! Sometime last year I lost my drive to draw Hurricane Party as a continuing story. The continuity was there, but that was the problem. As a comicker I love spontaneity. I couldn't bring myself to get jazzed about sharing something that had been in my head for months already, and summarilly lost its edge. So, I angsted over that for a while, putzed around, and finally came up with a little something I call The End of Hurricane Party. Essentially it's a cap on the story. Because I really don't want to do that anymore. You're looking at a one-shot comic now.

We're probably going to talk about anime, games, and geek culture a lot. Like you weren't used to that. The romance (?) was really always a secondary issue to me where Hurricane Party was concerned. I mean, let me straighten one thing out with everyone here and now: I detest what yaoi fangirls have become. First of all, use of the word "yaoi" to describe these girls is a misnomer in and of itself. Yaoi is the dirtiest of the dirty (which, YES, makes the headline of this site a misnomer, too). They're shonen-ai fangirls. And they squeal. And they use obnoxious romanji. And they think Gravitation is OMGSOKAWAII!!eleven!1! I can't fucking stand that. Gravitation = okay. Maki Murakami = a genius of the genre. But watch some Kenshin or some Record of Lodoss War for chrissake. You're nice chicks, but know your shit and expand your horizons. Anyway, that was my rant. And I do have a point! My point is thus: Hurricane Party was made not to play up to the fangirls, but to jab at them a little. These aren't pretty boys. The girls next door are more sexual than they are. This is a comic about geekdom, pure and simple. The fact that two gay dudes are my main characters is a little beside the point the more I toil on the comic. But, sex is a part of every life. So it is a part of Hurricane Party as well.

All that said, I think we can start a new relationship on the right foot. Click on 'Latest Comic' up at the top to see the newest comic. Actually, you might want to check out the Archives, too - that's where I put all of The End of Hurricane Party. That'll bring you up to speed. And I do want you brought up to speed.

Tony probably won't be making a return appearance. He lives in...um...Houston. Yeah. Houston. He works for ADV I guess. Everyone who lives in Houston works for ADV.

--Shadow O