Tadao on 11/10/2008 3:28 am

:boohoo

hisholiness on 11/10/2008 4:00 am

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

hisholiness on 11/10/2008 4:00 am

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

hisholiness on 11/10/2008 4:01 am

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

hisholiness on 11/10/2008 4:03 am

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Ok, you deserved the break. I envy your month long vacation, haven't had one of them since i was in the military. Charge them creative batteries and come back all badass n shit. Late.

Outcome on 11/10/2008 4:07 am

Given the amount of effort you put into bringing us entertainment I'd say you definitely deserve a break. However since I am a content mad consumer of the internet I feel that I am entirely in the right to demand that you continue working, you owe it to us, even though we don't pay you anything. If you don't then you can count on the fact that you will have very mean things written about you in some obscure blog that is read by millions, even if the counter only indicates that it's been hit 234 times since it's inception. You'll be sorry. Really. I mean it. Hey don't walk away. Awww man.

Doctor_Who on 11/10/2008 4:23 am

Go ahead and take a break. I know I would if I could. Looking forward to Goddamned Batman when you get back.

Silver on 11/10/2008 7:06 am

Hey guys, let Proto have this well-earned vacation... If you pester him I'm afraid that he'll go berserk and kill us all.

saturnknight on 11/10/2008 8:36 am

have a good Vacation Proto,

Tadao on 11/10/2008 9:44 am

I donated another trillion to the zombie fund. Get back to work.

King Credo on 11/10/2008 9:46 am

Enjoy your radical sabbatical. I'm in the last day of a four day vacation myself and I've been catching up on comics as well. I read Marvel Apes and it sucked. Don't expect something cool like Marvel Zombies. It's nothing but monkey puns and a weird plot that sounds like it was made by a four year old.

Tadao on 11/10/2008 10:46 am

Way too much butt kissing going on here.

JimmyJoeJoe (Guest) on 11/10/2008 11:27 am

I will hold in my tears. Read those comics boy. Read em for all of us who can only dream

Who wants to know? (Guest) on 11/10/2008 11:32 am

Fine, go. But I think you should know now that the first article you write when you come back had better be about the Goddamn batman.

Angryhydralisk on 11/10/2008 11:39 am

I think it will be worth the wait for that Longbox article. You well deserved a vacation.

captain516 on 11/10/2008 12:34 pm

Sorry, but what's so exhausting and time-consuming about typing? Sure, It takes thought and time to think of what to write, and I appreciate the effort, but taking time off just so you can play video games and read comics?

Demon Of Gray Street (Guest) on 11/10/2008 12:55 pm

Ways I see it, this web site brings most of us more entertainment per article then twelve combined episodes of some crappy HBO show like Entourage, and those go away for six or eight months at a time, so take all the breaks y'all be needing. We'll be here when you get back, since we ain't got nothing better out there.

Aries on 11/10/2008 4:29 pm

I completely understand, Proto. You have no idea how many CDs I have that are still in the plastic.

SPINAL on 11/10/2008 4:43 pm

Enjoy your Rest...in...Peace

El Sammo on 11/10/2008 4:54 pm

Have you cleared this with HR?

Kat (Guest) on 11/10/2008 5:31 pm

You need it, man.

More then anyone.

So have fun.

jo8136 on 11/10/2008 6:45 pm

You will be missed... Captain Skywarp Hypergay.

ColdFusion (Guest) on 11/10/2008 7:56 pm

Playing videogames for a month? Hell yeah! Wish I could do that.. but my fans would get all puddingy on me.. and since I have about 6 of them, that'd uh.. be bad.

Protoclown on 11/10/2008 10:45 pm

King Credo: I've not read Marvel Apes, but if it sucks as bad as I expect it does, you can look for a Longbox column about it next year.

captain516: Believe it or not, with the amount of research, picture editing, coming up with captions for the pictures, the writing, formatting, etc, it can take up to 7-8 hours for one Longbox column. Add scanning time if I can't find a bit torrent of the comic online. And the average Protocomic probably takes about five hours to do...the hardest part is actually FINDING just the right comic, plucking four or five pages from it and then thinking up a basic plot outline for them. After that the dialog pretty much writes itself.

jo8136: Woah, it's been a long time since I've heard that name! I'm amazed that anyone even remembers that. Bonus points to you.

Copper on 11/11/2008 12:48 am

Enjoy the vacation, Proto! Have fun getting your geek on!

Demon Of Gray Street (Guest) on 11/11/2008 11:40 am

Marvel Apes was actually pretty fun if you took it as serious as they intended. Each issue is bookended by some pretty funny commentary/mock-backstory about the Ape-Verse by the Monkey Watcher. No visual poop sight gags that I can recall, which is a plus in any comic dealing with simians.

Speaking of which, anyone else extremely disturbed by that "off" panel in Marvel Zombies 3 numbah 2?

Very yucky.

Tadao on 11/12/2008 12:53 pm

Bend over a little more please, my lips are almost there!

Arnold Schwazenegger (Guest) on 11/15/2008 5:39 am

You son of a bitch!

garybogwraith (Guest) on 11/15/2008 11:38 pm

why a vacation? this years halloween was kinda lacking in comparison. but still good. go ahead girl, do ya thang.

jo8136 on 11/23/2008 6:55 pm

why thank you proto I thought you would like that.

Zbu Manowar on 11/28/2008 9:06 pm

If the Marvel Apes are done, I must insist on that stupid DC Annual motif that happened around the turn of the century that mixed the DC Universe with Apes. It was such a disappointment since it ruined a lot of good DC Annual lines like 'Legends of a Dead Earth,' 'Pulp Heroes,' and 'Bloodlines.'