Hi folks,
As you can see, the comics not up yet. The holiday craziness has come down on the potboiler gang so hold your proverbial horses and keep one eye on the horizon this tuesday for the new comic’s arrival. Until then let me sprinkle some wisdom down on you last minute shoppers out there. Buttery ribbons make a delicious holiday gift for young and old, mmm delectable!

As Greg and I discussed the comic for this week we had some trouble communicating our ideas for the general layout. Greg tried to use an alternative, “visual” route instead of a more detailed explanation and then this happened. Now we know why Greg draws with word and leaves the picture making to well, others.

I was minding my own business this morning, working hard on work, you know… nose to the grindstone and all, when Joe, a fellow worker, sends me this YouTube deal in one of those instant e-mailers. I’m still catching on to this YouTube business, but it’s quite a deal. Man this internet… it has everything you’d want.

CSI: Miami is a modern potboiler, or at least that’s how we see it. While it’s not the best example (see Walker: Texas Ranger) of a potboilin’ television series, this little diddy brings it all home with a patented one-liner-pre-intro-sequence formula. That’s the kind of gold we’re mining for over here on our comic, hopefully we can strike it rich!

“Looks like we struck more than just gold…” ::puts sunglasses on::

We’re Greg’n'Dave, a couple of guys who like writing and drawing (respectively). You can find out more about us by clicking that baby-blue link… if you want. If you’re hard-core, you won’t click the link, [only click blood-red links] you’ll just continue on, in fact, you’ve probably stopped reading by now if you’re true-blue-hard-core. Now the rest of us can breathe easy and relax in the comments section below.

Tough room.

Anyway… Welcome to another web-comic, come on in and stay awhile, or maybe just 5 minutes every week. We update weekly with a new comic about our exciting [dull] daily life or the ongoing potboiler. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, check out that ol’ bullshitter Wikipedia. He’s always good for a story or two, even though it’s only half true, at least it’s entertaining. [thepotboilers.com does not condone the dissing of any dictionaries or -pedias, in fact, we use them all the time and find them unusually reliable.]

Potboiler or pot-boiler is a term used to describe a poor quality novel, play, opera, or film, or other creative work that was created quickly to make money to pay for the creator’s daily expenses (thus the imagery of “boil the pot”[1], which means “to provide one’s livelihood”[2]). Authors who create potboiler novels or screenplays are sometimes called hack writers. Novels deemed to be potboilers may also be called pulp fiction or “page-turners”, and potboiler films may be called “popcorn movies” or, in film industry slang, “tentpoles” (large-budget films typically based on well-known characters or prior works, which, due to their immense popularity, support the studio economically, like tent poles hold up a tent).

~Wikipedia

Basically the shtick with this comic is based on those terrible [read: terribly awesome] novels/movies that we all love to laugh at [not with]. Here and there we’ll be peppering the weekly musings of our daily life with extended dramas/comedies and other such story-arc nonsense in hopes of entertaining the masses [you]. Sorry. You are part of the masses, I know it’s a tough pill to swallow… take your time. Good. Now that we have you medicated, drool your way to our rss feed and subscribe to this bad boy.

We also have your token donation option in the upper part of the sidebar just over there on the right. Greg is perpetually dancing a one-legged jig for you all, in hopes of making a buck or two to keep the dream alive. Please keep the dream alive, because nearly all dreams have terrible immune systems, even a sneeze can kill a dream. Don’t do it for our sake, do it for the warm snuggly fuzzy puppy-faced dreams. They’d do it for you…[/guiltTrip]