The ThreeOneFive Presents

Fight for the rights of every man.

Only two pages left in our Cajun Caper short story!  The next page is bonkers, then the last page will blow your socks completely off your feet and they will fly into space, orbit around the moon and come back to your feet.  That is how good it is.

In but three short week, your DAREDEVILS experience will be forever changed.  We’ve still got a bunch of work to do, but I’m confidant that we’ll be able to get it done and when we do it will be awesome.  We’re finalizing the mechanics and the art for our little project as we speak, but I’m going to reveal something amazing right now!

The week after the Cajun Caper finishes, you will have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the first page of Pitch Black Day an amazing two weeks early!  How you ask?  Well, you’ll  have to use the top secret feature we’re adding to the DAREDVEILS experience!   It’s too early to drop the bomb and reveal the secret of just what the feature is quite yet, but rest assured you’ll want to be on the site in three weeks!

On this week’s page I really wanted Joe to say “…there ain’t even any cannons or nuthin!”  and then McGinty would say “I wouldn’t say that boy-o”  It would have been hilarious.  But Matt put the kabosh on my titty joke.  Jerk.  Regardless, the page turned out pretty good without my hilarity.  Smilton really did a great job with the characters on this page.  Mona looks great, like a brash little old lady who just happens to be a whorehouse operator.    He totally sells it, and in comics, just like in wrstling – if you don’t sell your moves then you suck.  That analogy doesn’t really come together very well, but I wanted to tie something it to the banner, so live with it.

In other news, we did a guest spot for the incredible Pop Culture Hound blog.  It is crazy and I can’t believe he’s Chris Thompson is considering running it.  That being said, it is super funny, to us at least, and if and when he puts it up I’ll put a link to it here.  It’s more in the BABY GIRL vein than the DAREDEVILS one, so we won’t be putting in in the media section of the DAREDEVILS page.  Previous guest bloggers were mostly artists, and they showed their creative process, so since we don’t have any art to show because we’re writers and not artists, we instead put some of our more outlandish Gmail chat sessions that showcased our unique writing process.  There are lots of bad words in it, and most of it is probably only funny to us, but hey – it was a great chance to be part of a big time blog, and Chris Thompson is a ThreeOneFive favorite.

For the Lunch this week, mystery!

What are these symbols?  What do they mean?  Stay tuned Loyal DAREDEVILERS!

That’s the Lunch for 3/3

To the Future,

Evin
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DAREDEVILERS, I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.

Joe is displeased.  The owls were not as they seemed and 126 Conti is a whorehouse house of ill repute bawdyhouse bordello brothel cathouse den of vice house of ill fame joy house not a place for a 10 year old kid.  This place has more cannons than he would know what to do with, but alas – they are of the wrong sort!  What a hideout for the Grand Pirate Willows!  As you can see, the rest of the DAREDEVILS are taking a break from their immanent execution at the hands of a bloodthirsty group of murderous Cajuns to enjoy the view.  Why not?  Enjoy it while you can guys, because on Tuesday things might be a whole lot different.

126 Conti is based off of real life 1026 Conti, famously the last whorehouse in Storyville.  Which was a place in New Orleans that had legalized prostitution until 1917.  Somebody didn’t tell our fictional Conti house just like they didn’t tell the real one, as we’re 20 years after the closing of Storyville.  The real house also looks a bit different than house, and it wasn’t located in the same part of town as we put it, but we’re allowed to take liberties, bro.  So back off.

Doc’s look on this page is priceless.  He popped his collar.  Even the world’s greatest man of science took the time to pop his collar when confronted with 4 hot prostitutes.  That is what we call character development people!  McGinty, being a proper Scottish gentleman, is sniffing his pits – somewhere we’ve all been.  When I sneak a pit-sniff, I like to pretend I’m scratching an itch on my chin with my shoulder, because I’m super discreet.  No one has ever caught me.  Out of everyone, Deveraux is the most excited dude in the bunch, and is in the midst of some sort of joy seizure.  Have some decorum, sir!

I talked a little bit about some new features we’re working on last week.  You’ll be happy to know that we’re on track to getting the new stuff up and running by the time Pitch Black Day hits.  One thing we’ll have is a Secret Clubhouse area where you can do fun stuff.  We’re calling the club The Loyal Order of DAREDEVILERS, because we’ve been calling you Daredevilers for almost a year now, so why not make it official.  We’re building the system from the ground up, so it is all custom made.  You know we don’t like cookie cutter nonsense on the page, you’re better than that.  I hope I’ll have some images for your eyes next week.

Last week I told you that I would be dropping some Pitch Black Day art on you, and I’m a man of my word (when it comes to this kind of thing).  As you know, the Custer was bashed up real bad by the Werewhale in Secret of the Beaufort Sea, our first DAREDEVILS adventure.  In Cajun Caper, our current story, the DAREDEVILS are in port, getting their stuff fixed.  Well DAREDEVILERS, for the Lunch this week, take a look at the refit Custer!

Behold the Custer refit!

The backend of the Custer has been modified significantly.  The bomb in the belly of the sub forced the relocation of the shuttlebay, and the engines were moved back and overhauled in a profound way.  Also, it looks like the tail section itself has been worked on.  What a piece of Lunch this week!

Next week’s page is a doozy DAREDEVILERS!  The story takes another turn you’ll have to see to believe!

That’s the Lunch for 2/24

To the Future,

Evin
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Blog time!

Gather ’round DAREDEVILERS, I’ve got some new Lunch for you this week.  We’re working on making the DAREDEVILS even cooler than it is now by making your weekly experience on our site more interactive.  We appreciate the time you spend on our website every week, even if it is for only the 5 minutes it takes to read the page.  We want you to have fun while you’re with us too, so we’re cooking up a golden-age way to do that.  We’re not the biggest webcomic out there, but damned if we won’t try to be the best.  We’re hoping to get get something on the site by the time Pitch Black Day launches.  Wish us luck.

This week’s page was a fun one to work on.  We had a spirited debate as to the sound effects that twin machine guns would make.  RAT TAT TAT TAT was an early favorite, but we thought it was old hat.  Lots of gangsters guns went RAT TAT TAT.  BRRRRRAPPP was brought up, but it doesn’t look that great spelled out, even if it is very accurate.  Plus, looking at the guns that Sal has, we thought they would make a more significant noise.  CHOPPA CHOPPA sounds too much like Meat Choppers, which is what he called his guns.  BOOM BOOM is too generic, BANG BANG too.  BRACKA CHACKA CHACKA sounded interesting, and we decided upon after many minutes of exhausting discussion.  Did we make the right call?  The truth is that no matter what we picked, Fonografiks was going to make it look good.  I’ve said it before and I’ll always say it.  The DAREDEVILS wouldn’t be the same without the lettering work we get.  It is spectacular.

We have a lot of great collaborators.  Comic Rocket has been there for us almost since we started, in fact we almost started at the same time.  They do a great job of organizing webcomics and bookmarking pages you’ve been to.  You can also create a pull list there to organize the comics you read without browsing.  I recommend it.  We can always count on them to retweet our stuff on twitter.  They are good peeps for sure.

www.comic-rocket.com

Speaking of twitter, Matt just got to 200 followers!  Only like 2/3 are weird sex bots, so it’s legit.  He’s worked really hard to get @thethreeonefive on the map, and he has conversations with people way more famous than we are all the time.  But he could have a conversation pretty much anyone and still have that statement be true.

Seriously though on the Twitter-tip, the connections that we have made through them have been great, and really make us feel like we’re in a community of people wasting their lives on silly picture books.

Another of our internet homeboyz is Challenger comics.  They currently are the home of BABY GIRL, and it is run by the super handsome Ryan Ferrier.  I’ve actually never seen him, but Matt and Dan told me he was handsome, so I’ll take their word for it.  He rolled out the red carpet for us and promoted BABY GIRL as if it was his own.  Well it’s got a great home on Challenger, and every person on the planet should go there and read it.  Unless you are offended by sex violence swearing dismemberment nazis explict sexual flashbacks domestic terrorism the c word agism assbombs anything, then don’t read it.

www.readchallenger.com

We're one big happy family!

There isn’t much else to report on our end.  But rest assured DAREDEVILERS we’ll have some brand new art from Pitch Black Day next week.   Not just promo art this time, real page art!

That’s the Lunch for 2/17

To the Future,

Evin
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And the Lunch is back!

We took the day off last week to celebrate the Super Bowl in Las Vegas!  Finally sober, we have some fun stuff to discuss.  First of all, what a game!  Right?  Unless you were a 49ers fan, then booooooo.  Second, we got reviewed by not one, but TWO sites since we’ve been back!  Both were very positive, and we thank the reviewers very much for taking the time to read the greatest comicbook stories ever committed to web or paper anywhere in this or any other world or galaxy in the universe our humble little stories.

You can check out Robert Patey’s blog reviewing us.  It will appear on Ain’t It Cool News sometimes soon as well, which is a pretty big deal.  I’ll link to that next week.  I need to get as much mileage out of the press as I can!

Then, check out Multiversity’s review of Secret of the Beaufort Sea – Spoiler alert We got an 8/10!  Pretty good.  I’d give us a 128/10, but that’s me.

So what happened this week in the blotter?  Well Mezmorizmo showed up!  Wuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwu – That is the noise we decided that it made.  You’d be surprised with how often we discuss the noises that things make.  This isn’t one of those times, mind you.  It is pretty obvious that a gun that shoots hypnosis at you would make a wuwuwuwuwuwuwu noise.  C’mon.  Be serious.

Later in this chapter Matt, Dan, and I actually got into an hour long fight about how a sound effect should be spelled out.  Stay tuned!  This is stuff you can’t get anywhere else other than the Sunday Bonus Lunch.

Speaking of that, I promised some good stuff, so I’ve got some sketches from Pitch Black Day that will melt your monitors.
We thought the Custer could use some beautifying, so now it is my please to introduce Abigail.
 What’s her deal?  Well you’re going to have to wait a couple more weeks for that DAREDEVILERS.  I’ll tell you this much though, she’s British.  *gasp*

But why stop there with the bonuses?  Check out the cover to Pitch Black Day.  It’s like Christmas!

This isn’t the final version of it, mind you.  That will have little peeks of Page 1 coming out of the top where the cover is ripped.  But even that small glimpse would be too much for the mind of mere mortal men to m… mm.. matriculate?  Whatever.  It isn’t colored yet, so it’s not in there.

Next week on the DAREDEVILS, get ready for the most dangerous page yet!  Wooden Nickel Sal is not happy with Doc.  Who can blame him?  Breaking into someone’s seedy hangout through the wall like some crazed kid’s drink mascot is a bunk thing to do.  But Doc doesn’t have time to care about trivial things like that.
He’s the World’s Greatest Man of Science, not the World’s Most Politest Man.

That’s the Lunch for 2/10

To the Future

Evin
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It’s Sunday dudes!

I sang karaoke tonight, something I swore I was retired from, but a few 32oz Miller Lites talked me into it.  I have a pretty storied career in the ‘raoke game, and the cold steel of the mic felt good tonight.  Still, the thought of riding the blue masticore is one that I cannot bear.  Karaoke is a terrible way to spend your night.  I have to keep telling myself that.

Another terrible way to spend the night is tied up in a Cajun mob boss’s hidehout while they play cards and discuss your ransom.  And that is exactly what happened this week on the DAREDEVILS!  The discussion between McGinty and Deveraux was hotly debated between the writers.  I wanted Deveraux to call McGinty a “Big Ginger Baby” but it was vetoed for a more compassionate interaction between the two.  We’re trying to show their bond together because they are super best friend, so playful ribbing or brotherly support were our two options.

I really like the gangster in just the vest, I’ll call him Carl.  (Despite his Asian heritage he was raised by American parents)  I’d like to think he was getting dressed at his home that morning and took a look in the mirror and was like “You look great, Carl.  Today’s the day we do it.  Just the Vest.”  He would take a deep breath and finish his affirmation, “Today is the first day of the New Us.”  That’s the story I see anyway.  It’s not cannon so go on ahead and make up your own story for him.

In other awesome news, Baby Girl has found new life over at readchallenger.com!  Go to that link I just posted and then click on Baby Girl for some totally awesome awesomeness.  We have some cool stuff planned for the First Lady of Vulgarity soon.  Stay tuned!

In other news, ABC cancelled one of my favorite new shows “Last Resort.”  This was was fun, and it had a submarine in it, and it had Taylor Townsend from The OC in it.  I’m very bummed out about the loss of this show, but that opens up the TV market for another submarine driven show.  I think I might know a story featuring a cool sub with a sharkface on it.  Do it ABC.  Now is the time!

It’s The Rock again!  He’s here to tell you that Matt and I are going to the Royal Rumble PPV in Phoenix tonight!  We’ve been huge fans of the WWE pretty much our whole lives, and tonight will be pure geeked out radicalness for us.  Here’s a fun story:  One time back in 2002 I broke up with my then girlfriend, just so I could watch Monday Night Raw.  Sure there are other reasons, but I remember clearly thinking to myself – I can either get into a huge argument right now and fight to save this relationship, or I can watch the Rock and Mankind fight on RAW.  I know that I made the right call.  It was the attitude era.  Raws were really good back then.

Also, if I hadn’t done that then I wouldn’t be engaged right now!  That’s right, over the holiday I asked my girlfriend of 4 years to marry me by carving her likeness into my chest and then pouring ballpoint pen ink in the cuts just like Marky Mark did in that movie Fear by surprising her while she was cooking dinner for once for us.  It was very romantic.

In lieu of flowers, donate to the DEEP DIVE DAREDEVILS by clicking our new Donate button!  It is super easy to find, just go to any comic page and check out the brand new awesome sidebar under the art.  The Donate button is the one with the happy family on it.  What?  You want me to post it right here?  Ok!

That’s the Lunch for 1/27

To the Future,

Evin
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Hmm, I’ve made better logos before.

Welcome again, my friends to the blog that never ends.  This week on the DAREDEVILS we met with Wooden Nickel Sal and his gang of hoodlums.  They didn’t seem too happy with the brazen disregard for tribute that the DAREDEVILSs offered.  But maybe they just didn’t know about it and didn’t like the way these guys approached them for it.  All we can really know is that Deveraux is doing a lobster claw style double punch.  What we don’t tell you is that the crew of the Custer spend 25 minutes a day honing their unorthodox fighting techniques in case they ever get jumped by goons.  Clearly McGinty and Deveraux have been slacking off during their daily exercises.  When they tell this story back in the mess hall someday, I bet they’ll leave out the part where one of the guys that beat them up was just wearing a vest with no shirt on underneath.  I would.  It would be too embarrassing.

We’ve been hammering the site into place this last week as well.  The side bars below the page now look like old comic book ads from the gold and silver age of comics.  We’re trying to create a more immersive experience on our site, and those ads totally do that.  Speaking of – You should click the DONATE button and give us money, that way you’ll get even more totally immersed.  And you’ll feel awesome about yourself too.

We should be announcing some stuff about BABY GIRL pretty soon.  We’re excited to get the old girl back in the saddle again.  The feedback about the run in Hell Yeah was so positive that we thought we’d better trot her out again.  SO keep your eyes out for an announcement on our Facebook coming up about the Future of the First Lady of Vulgarity.

Matt and I will be going to the Royal Rumble next weekend here in Phoenix.  We’ve been wrestling fans forever and this will be awesome.  I’m going to try to make a sign that says something about teh DAREDEVILS or the ThreeOneFive.  We’re way in the nosebleeds because we’re poor as hell because we like it there but maybe the camera will zoom in like the Hubble and see our sign.  Keep an eye out Wrestlemaniacs!

And that’s the Lunch for 1/20

To the Future,

Evin
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Happy anniversary, Mom and Dad!

Hey look, I bought a typewriter.  You’ll see it in action during the Pitch Black day Facebook  activity.  Like the Radiograms (now Telegrams).  It’ll be cool, shut up.

We’ve been on hiatus for a few weeks, so there are some things we need to catch up on.  First of all, check out all the cool stuff we did to the site!  The front page is more readable.  We started using something called CSS for the graphics on the website that need a mouseover.  This has resulted in the site loading like a zillion times faster.  That top header was a beast before, every single change in it was it’s own full graphic.  I also removed the tape from the photo on the front page.  That tape had been the bane of my existence for ever, man.  It made no sense!  Why would a picture be taped from the bottom onto a blotter?  You can’t answer it because there is no answer.

Check out the archive page while you’re poking around the site.  Now instead of the boring old text on yellow, I made a few comic books that you can select the adventure you want.  Clicking one of those will take you to a table of contents now.  This was a pretty huge update for us.  We’re doing what we can to make the site an experience that you DAREDEVILERS can enjoy to the farthest limits of human tolerance.

Up next we’re working on the side bars beside the blog part of the page.  Already there are some updates, and we’re working to get them all up as soon as possible.
This internet stuff is hard.

Other than the hundreds of thousands of man hours we put into the site, we also launched a new DAREDEVILS story!  Holy smokes!  The Cajun Caper started this week, and it’ll barrel along at a crazeballs pace for the next 9 weeks.  Page one is mostly a plot download but more importantly we get to see Deveraux ad McGinty in their preferred state.  Drunken.  We eased off the crazy written accents this time so people can tell what the what these guys are saying, but don’t worry – we literally searched the internet for MINUTES looking up authentic Cajun things the characters can say, Mon Cher.  It’ll be like you are really in 1930s Louisiana.

We also started a new feature called ATOMOVISION, where we transform especially awesome pages into a 3D stereoscopic anaglyph.  Once we fully implement the feature it will blow your mind into fun sized pieces, but until then we’re keeping it under wraps.

So until next time DAREDEVILERS, enjoy Smilton’s take on the DAREDEVILS.  It is really quite fun to see the gang in the hands of another artist.  Danilo is hard at work on the next major plot line, we’re just getting the art in now for the first chapter of it, and it is great.  Mark my words readers!  2013 will be the year of Evin Dempsey The DAREDEVILS!

That’s the Lunch for 1/13

To the Future,

Evin
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