3614 Sneakers
on August 19, 2026
Chapter: 087-The Woman
Characters: Cap'n Fang, Charles Hunter, Katherine Louise Steward, pirate Yirk, Princess Glonda Bloodhand, Socks the Monkey, The Three Fingered Man
Location: A Small Island
August 19, 2026
Collective of Worlds
0025 – Gen Has a Plan
CAST: Cole Bland, Gen Android
LOCATION: Dr.Lumen’s lab in abandoned zeite mining facility Z13 in the Arine Belt
Sept.13, 2026
ELFGUY IS NO LONGER WELCOME ON THIS SITE.
He’s a climate denying AI using ignorant empathy-deficient dumbass, and I want nothing more to do with him.
If any of you are in agreement with his specific views as read in the comments below, I invite you to go fuck yourselves, and leave.
-Rich “BK” Morris
Aw, nuts! Cole, you just gave the Gen's android the codes to your ship. This can't be good.
Cole's just walking into every trap with eyes wide open, isn't she? I'm really hoping Glide is more than a shiny shell at this point.
Cole is not wearing her Glases. Of course she would Fall in every trap.
Unless… Cole gave a code that activates a trap.
Yeah, I don't buy it either.
Unless she knew Gen knew the code, so gave her a fake one
I hope you're right. I really hope you're right.
05149367
I see what you did there.
t!
What? What is it?
It's the part number for a 2020-2022 Ram 1500 PCM Engine Control Computer. SO apparently their ship is built by Dodge?
It is? I had no idea!
I just picked what sounded like a nice string of numbers.
With apologies to Nikary Flare, I was just trolling to see how many people would think there was more to it than what I could *actually* see, which was nothing.
t!
Heck, I just did a web search for the number and that's what popped up at the top so, complete coincidence that it's control-computer-part related?
Hey, sometimes coincidences can be fun.
Nice fakeout with Safana & Omar, Rich. Very nice.
t!
Cole, for goodness' sake, just how gullible can you be???
This Cole isn't wearing her glasses, so did Replicant Gen just trick Replicant Cole into giving her a fake code?
No, Dr. Lumen never returned Cole her glasses 🙁
CAST: Cole Bland, Gen Android
So it's the real Cole and the fake Gen. Word of god.
I hear she's royalty.
Why I'm feeling that Cole has just given the defensive code activation of the robot they have in the ship?
If Cole isn't a complete airhead, she just gave the android the lockdown code. I know that's a thing I would have already set up with my co-owner "If I ever ask you for the code to control the ship, I'm an imposter. Give me the code that shuts down the reactor and locks all the controls instead."
Then again, maybe Cole IS a complete airhead.
I think it's less 'complete airhead' and more 'in so far over her head she's looking up at fish with flashlights glued on'.
Gen probably was counting on Cole being this much of a complete sucker, though.
I'm pretty sure we all feel that Cole has to be a descendant of Glon, our favorite Half-orc.
I wonder if they're going to run across a certain statue in a museum entitled "Gorgon Lovers?"
Rich confirmed that she is a distant descendant of the Bloodhand family. Her family name was simplified/shortened over many generations to become Bland, loosing the "oodh" in the process.
Also, Rich does this really cool thing with their hair, simple but brilliant.
Panel 6:
https://www.yafgc.net/comic/3422-a-great-alliance/
Note that all three generations have the same two-strand cowlick.
Just like Cole.
t!
That ain't Gen.
Yup.
Seeing Glonda right beside Cap'n Fang, it is hard not to see a strong resemblance. Perhaps her parentage is not as claimed.
That is an unfortunately coincidence. There is NO Kobold blood in Gaggia's noble Orc line.
So…are we ever going to find out who killed Maula's friend at the Abby of the Gambling Monks? I think that plotline just went poof at one point and never really got resolved?
Maybe have a one shot page with Cap'n Fang in a Columbo overcoat solving the case with his usual witty repartee?
It didn't go poof, it got paused with a full explanation in the description box. Things got busy and complicated and we needed to step away from it for a bit. We both fully intend to get back to it and soon, but I'm not able to give a date or anything.
Of course not. We're in the middle of our Pirate Treasure Hunt serial. Releasing Murder Abbey part 2 would take away from the box office.
😛
OK, OK…I just get invested in the story arcs…I do hope at some point we'll get to see Fang in a Columbo trench coat. Even if he doesn't actually solve the murder, having him say "One More thing…Someone put scrambled eggs in my britches!" would be hilarious.
Writing on Blood Hand is resuming this month.
t!
YAY!
WOOHOO!
Huzzah!
Thank you for the support.
Also, I feel the same way.
t!
I used evil AI to make a picture of what it might look if Fang was hanging around. The AI missed fang's fang, though.
https://www.deviantart.com/redwoodtheelf/art/Fang-is-on-the-Case-(YAFGC-Fan-Art)-1379081941
A bad hand-drawn doodle would've been better.
You haven't seen me try to draw anything. I do much better with AI.
https://www.deviantart.com/redwoodtheelf/art/Arachne-Disciplines-Fang-1379183932
Let me preface this by saying: Thank you for the fanart and the ideas. I love getting other peoples' perspectives, ideas, gags, and takes on my characters. Great stuff.
HOWEVER. Your use of AI is…. upsetting to me.
You say 'you do much better with AI'. This is untrue. You crapped out and put no effort into it at all. A bit of fanart is a little love from the reader. It's a sharing of ideas. If you didn't want to do the drawing yourself (and drawing isn't everyone's thing, I get it) you could have gotten a more artistically inclined friend to draw it. Or even requested it from me! It doesn't have to be a paid commission, honest, sometimes I draw for fun.
Alternately, you could have written a description of the scene you imagined. In any case the idea was to create an amusing scenario using my characters in a situation. AI has no such passion or interest. It shits out a disinterested, half-assed approximation of what you asked it to do. They look nothing like my characters or locations or art style. So in effect: You produced nothing, you simply asked a useless, talentless hack to do a drawing you could have asked me to do.
AI doesn’t care what my characters are or what they look like. It doesn’t look at them and try to replicate the spirit or the feel of my design. It just shits crap. Crap that it stole from other people’s art, other peope’s passion, and assembles it emotionlessly into something that is vaguely, not entirely NOT what you envisioned. What it ALSO does is scrape my artwork and passion and stores it in its greedy, water guzzling memory pail to dredge up and wholeheartedly plaigiarize it to assemble vague unsatisfying shit for someone else.
Then there's the environmental impact. That shit is EATING our planet by the hour. Look into it.
Finally there's the fact that AI is one of the principle reasons I don't have a career anymore. I used to do storyboards for television. Now I'm lucky to do cash at a university bookstore for a week or a month at a time.
AI makes a nice, pretty, glossy image that makes people think they maked a gud thing.
But if you put a coat of paint on a piece of shit, it’s still a piece of shit.
So please. PLEASE please stop using AI.
You did see where I called the AI Evil, right? I know a lot of people have a visceral hatred of any new tool that frightens them. A lot of buggywhip manufacturers went out of business thanks to Ford.
It sucks that some corporate beancounter decided he could make his spreadsheets look better by firing artists in favor of AI storyboards probably run by someone overseas. What shows were you working at so I can make sure not to patronize their greedy asses?
Out of respect for your talents, I will refrain from making any more YAFGC Fan posts over on DA, since I have plenty of OCs to work with, like Queen Shirley (She's the one wearing the Dryad-made leaf dress) and her husband, the curse-polymorphed "Make Dryad" who has no name but has occasionally been referred to as "Mister Green Genes" in the image commentary.
I am pretty close to destitute myself, so I can't hire artists, my drawing skills are decidedly sub-par and I can't, in good conscience, waste the time of someone who can draw who could be earning money for themselves to indulge my desire to get my stories out there in a format that a modern audience (Read: the screenslaved masses who wouldn't pick up a book with no pictures) could actually make sense of.
Kind of like when Groucho Marx said "I would never join any club that would have ME as a member." I doubt very much that Any of the AIs out there are using webcomics for their training, and I wouldn't suggest that they do, because each artist's style is their own (Which is why I told the AI to base Fang's appearance on classic AD&D Kobolds, not "YAFGC Kobolds" which have a lot shorter tails and a lack of Draconic features, and are frankly a lot "Cuter")
As for "Environmental Impact" of Data centers, that's mainly because idiots keep building them in places that are HOT and Short on WATER. I mean come one…Texas? Want a low impact data center, build it on a remote mountain in Alaska near a Glacier. Trust me, when cooling your entire computer center can be handled 9 months out of the year by just opening a window, and there's plenty of meltwater in the other 3 months, that's the place to do it.
I grew up in Alaska, so I know whereof I speak on this. Alaska is more than twice the size of Texas, with almost zero population by comparison to states like Texas. (Come on, Alaskans, split your state in half and make Texas the THIRD largest state!)
Rich, serious Elfguy here, You are a good enough artist that you could make some serious money with a bit more advertising for your Merch. The link never seems to work for me. I mean not just print books, but I know I'd get T-shirts, mugs, and things with YAFGC characters on them if I could actually find any.
Okay, I'm addressing this as I go.
<<You did see where I called the AI Evil, right?
I know a lot of people have a visceral hatred
of any new tool that frightens them.>>
AI art isn't the fucking printing press.
There are entire studios opening up that created
completely AI films. They've done away with
scriptwriters, art departments, storyboard artists,
actors, cleanup artists, colourists, camerapeople,
FX artists… everything.
https://curiousrefuge.com/blog//the-9-best-ai-animated-films-of-2025
That's a whole lot of people who they don't need
to hire. That's a whole lot of people who can't get
work in the industry. That's a whole lot of utter
vapid shit being produced in a glossy AI way so that
people who don't know much about art can say how
beautiful it is and get nothing more out of it.
It SHOULD be frightening. You're helping to normalize
the slop and make people accept it.
<<A lot of buggywhip manufacturers went out of business
thanks to Ford.>>
Oh, that nazi asshole, yeah, I remember that. Huge
fuel guzzling pollution machines. That really was
progress wasn't it. Yes, I drive a car, can't really
get along in the world without it these days.
Incidentally, is that your comforting message to all
the people who lost their jobs and careers when the car
came out? Cars are better, fuck you? You're all heart.
<<It sucks that some corporate beancounter decided he
could make his spreadsheets look better by firing
artists in favor of AI storyboards probably run by
someone overseas. What shows were you working at so
I can make sure not to patronize their greedy asses?>>
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/03/dreams-of-violets-ash-koosha-iran-tribeca-film-festival
https://www.creatorwood.tv/homepage
https://studiolist.co/#studios
<<Out of respect for your talents, I will refrain from making
any more YAFGC Fan posts over on DA, since I have plenty of OCs
to work with, like Queen Shirley (She's the one wearing the
Dryad-made leaf dress) and her husband, the curse-polymorphed
"Make Dryad" who has no name but has occasionally been referred
to as "Mister Green Genes" in the image commentary.>>
Yeah, if you had any respect for talented artists at all, you'd
stop doing it entirely. Your sympathy-imitating noises are falling
on my deaf ears.
<<I am pretty close to destitute myself, so I can't hire artists,>>
My heart bleeds for you.
<<my drawing skills are decidedly sub-par and I can't, in good conscience,
waste the time of someone who can draw who could be earning money for
themselves to indulge my desire to get my stories out there in a format
that a modern audience (Read: the screenslaved masses who wouldn't pick up
a book with no pictures) could actually make sense of.>>
Back in my day, when people decided they really wanted to produce art, they'd
try it. Practice it. They might take classes, buy or borrow books about how to
make art. I wasn't very good when I was a kid, I learned through doing. I was
passionate about it. You have the easy way out. You produce something that
looks like art that'll fool the general masses who don't know better.
So you refuse to write stories because you're so desperate for the uneducated
idiots of the world to look at the pictures you requested instead? You know
there are still LOTS of literate people who write out there, right? Don't add
to the problem. Are you incapable of writing? Do you suck at that too? Or do
you just not give a shit.
Oh, I know what it is. They're they only ones dumb enough to hit the "SUPPORT
MY WORK" button on your DA page, because they're oblivious to the fact that
you're not actually doing any work, despite the fact that you're simply one
of billions of DeviantArt denizens producing exactly the same fetid shit over
and over and over.
<<Kind of like when Groucho Marx said "I would never join any club that would
have ME as a member." I doubt very much that Any of the AIs out there are
using webcomics for their training, and I wouldn't suggest that they do,
because each artist's style is their own>>
You're super overestimating the ethics of AI training. They're using EVERYTHING.
If it's an image, it'll get scraped. I'm not flattering myself that I'm going
to see Bob the Beholder showing up as someone's 'masterpiece', but I seriously
DO expect that mine and a million other webcomics have contributed to how AI
creates sequential images, poses, expressions, and timing.
<<(Which is why I told the AI to base Fang's appearance on classic AD&D Kobolds,
not "YAFGC Kobolds" which have a lot shorter tails and a lack of Draconic
features, and are frankly a lot "Cuter")>>
Small mercies.
<<As for "Environmental Impact" of Data centers, that's mainly because idiots
keep building them in places that are HOT and Short on WATER. I mean come on…
Texas? Want a low impact data center, build it on a remote mountain in Alaska
near a Glacier. Trust me, when cooling your entire computer center can be
handled 9 months out of the year by just opening a window, and there's plenty
of meltwater in the other 3 months, that's the place to do it.
I grew up in Alaska, so I know whereof I speak on this. Alaska is more than
twice the size of Texas, with almost zero population by comparison to states
like Texas. (Come on, Alaskans, split your state in half and make Texas the
THIRD largest state!)>>
Here's a little article about the environmental impact of Data Centers.
sftp://[email protected]/home/shenlo/yafgc.net/specialimages/Climate%20and%20Energy%20-%202026%20-%20Cartwright%20-%20The%20Environmental%20Justice%20and%20Community%20Impacts%20of%20Data%20Centers.pdf
They produce a lot of NOISE. They produce a lot of pollution. They use a lot of
resources, (they waste 30% of the energy they consume, and use the water and
electricity of thousands of households), they use a lot of land. They produce
a lot of HEAT. Not something you want perched near the rapidly melting polar
caps, is it? And the demand from GENERATIVE AI alone is increasing at an
incredible rate… thanks to 'artists' like you.
My son has a friend whose father works for the power company out here. They
barely have enough infrastructure to provide power for the people and companies
they're currently supporting. If we were to get a datacenter out here (and
it's not currently on the table, but it's not impossible considering how
excited Canada seems to be on the ground floor of this disaster), they'd be
unbelievably overwhelmed.
Oh, and guess who's always the ones getting such a monstrosity in their
backyard? Black communities. Aboriginal communities. Not the white elite.
<<Rich, serious Elfguy here, You are a good enough artist that you could make
some serious money with a bit more advertising for your Merch.>>
I tried that. It wasn't worth the effort. Of course, I had a career back then…
Might be time to start scraping the bottom of the barrel. I love that it's come
to that at this time of my life.
<<The link never seems to work for me.>>
Because I deactivated it. My store app thing didn't work properly and I'm
researching new ways to sell the books.
<<I mean not just print books, but I know I'd get T-shirts, mugs, and things
with YAFGC characters on them if I could actually find any.>>
Yeah I had t-shirts, notebooks, mugs, towels, underwear, the whole catalogue.
I think I sold about ten. And four of those were to family members. If I wanted
to alienate the readership I've got left I could put it all behind a paywall.
But YAFGC wasn't ever meant to be that kind of thing. I wanted people to enjoy
it for free.
Look, this whole subject has me riled up. I hate the AI world with a burning
hate, I haven't been this angry on this community since the fucking sock puppet
was saying stupid shit all over the place.
It's not YOU so much as what you're doing. Elfguy, please…. look into it more
carefully. I know you're totally invested in it, I've seen your DA page and it's
full, absolutely FULL of this AI bullshit. Because you can produce tons and tons
of it in a short time with no effort. I actually DRAW. I write. I think. I make
notes. I went to school and LEARNED this. Please don't make my life's work a
joke. A joke that will burn us all.
Elfguy… you're not going to put your reply here? No one's obligated to read your disclaimer all the way over on DA.
Nick, I did. It's right there above your comment. It just took a while to get Moderated. And yeah, I really DO wanna get some YAFGC mugs, shirts, or whatever Rich would want to put out. The "Shopping" link never worked for me though, maybe a Firefox thing? Does the store actually work if you use a different browser or something?
//Going to Comment this one right through and this will be it.//
That's right, Rich.
Not bad enough basically calling me a "Lazy bum" because I dare to use AI to translate my writing into a visual medium on a budget.
//I call it like it is, asshole.//
Yeah, actually, I've written lots of stuff in the last 40 years, just have ADHD or something very similar because I can never seem to be able to stick with one story long enough to make something publishable. I get an idea, write a few chapters, get writers block, get another idea for something completely different, write a few chapters of that, rinse and repeat.
//I too have ADD, but I put in the effort.//
The only stuff I ever "finished" was a few fanfictions like, 40 years ago, and being fanfictions they're not really salable.
//You really really need to find yourself a paying job.//
I write because I like to.
//Then why are you so obsessed with monetizing it? Art for art’s sake. But you don’t know what art is.//
But God Forbid I should try to actually get some of my work out there using a tool YOU hate. I thought that, just maybe, if I could create something people liked an got enough feedback, it could help me focus and actually finish something.
//That’s what I did. But I actually MADE the art.//
But No, Rich, the arbiter of all that is good in the world, decrees that I am forbidden to use that particular tool because one jerkwad got him fired in favor of some overseas digital chop shop.
//Nobody fired me. The fucking studio’s shut down and there’s no easy work. I’m not the arbiter, just the messenger. I know swatting a mosquito with a machete is BAD. I know that AI produces SHIT. Just trying to help you see the world.//
Not my fault. Not my circus, not my monkeys.
//Your empathy is astounding.//
A lot of Your information on data centers sounds fishy to me. Noise? It's a room full of computers, not a quarry setting off dynamite. Pollution? How? I have yet to see an Internal Combustion CPU. A remote Data Center in the wilderness of Alaska without another human being within a thousand miles is in literally nobody's back yard, so you can forget the whole "N.I.M.B.Y." thing.
And seriously, you actually BELIEVE that AGW BS? It was debunked the year after Al Gore's Sci Fi movie came out, for crying out loud. Channel 4 in Britain (Hardly a bastion of right wing thought, state run liberal TV) was going to try to prove the case for it, but got so much contradictory evidence, they produced "The Great Global Warming Swindle" instead. The Climate is a Chaotic System and always has been.
The Climate Changes, and has for the last 4.5 BILLION YEARS, so don't fall back on pointing at me an shouting "Climate Change Denier!" because I literally just SAID the Climate changes. It's just not controlled by the activities of stupid hairless apes, however much it might help your particular political party if it was.
//And that is the end. You are a fucking self-deluding climate denying ignorant dumbfuck. And I wash my hands of you. Get the fuck away from me.//
Get the fuck off my website you ignorant piece of shit.
Since we're doing this:
It's not even accurate to call it AI.
t!
I wonder if the Dr himself is an android, and this is his revenge on humans for a life of servitude. I wait for the big reveal.😶
I'm sure Gen would've noticed.
Sensei. I remembered your comic again, after a long absence.
Because I am finally creative again. I will now abuse your awesome work to teach me.
Oooh!!! Awesome!! Welcome back and show me your stuff!!!
I can't believe I didn't notice it said "Cast: Gen Android". That kind of gives it away!
Off-topic: Gen has freckles all over her body. YOU have to draw them every time. You have no one but yourself to blame for that.
He does a spot check every time. 😋
D'ooooooohhhhh!!!
Hehe…. she does. But I don't have to draw them all. Face, shoulders, elbows, knees, buttcheeks. That's it to suggest full coverage.
Gen is a character (with a few very insignificant design alterations) I've had with me since the early 1990's when I created her as a protagonist for a series of comic adventures. Her full name is Generica and the comic was about her popping in and out of all different universes and scenarios. Actually, thinking back on it, in her very first comic she had brown hair, dark eyes and no freckles and regenerated like a Time Lord into the freckly redhead she is today.
Anyway, back in those days I had stylized her freckle count so there were exactly 3 on each cheek (on her face) three on her shoulders three on each elbow and each knee. There were three on each buttcheek too, I think. I didn't often draw her nude, I think there was a bathing suit shot and maybe an underwear shot when she was changing once.
"Actually, thinking back on it, in her very first comic she had brown hair, dark eyes and no freckles and regenerated like a Time Lord into the freckly redhead she is today."
I can hear the conversation between Gen and Cole, now.
Gen: "Tell me again why we can't use my blue telephone box?"
Cole: "We've got enough problems as it is without facing the BBC lawyers!"
Gen: "…Oh, yeah."