The webcomic Kat-nap is now a card carrying member of the WAGON Gamma Deck. To celebrate this Kat-Nap and World Alliance of Geeks Online Network have teamed up to bring you the Spot the Differences Contest for your chance to get into the Webcomic Battle Card Game and win some other Kat-Nap swag as well.

Prizes:

First prize includes: 1 WAGON Webcomic battle Card Game Gamma Deck, 1 Captain SNES WAGON pre-order card, The 5 Original Kat-Nap sketch cards used in the making of the Gama Deck Kat-Nap cards, 1 “8 x 10” print of the contest image, and 1 Kat-Nap Promotional Bookmark.

Second prize includes: 1 WAGON Webcomic battle Card Game Gamma Deck, 1 Captain SNES WAGON pre-order card, 1 “8 x 10” print of the contest image, and 1 Kat-Nap Promotional Bookmark.

Third prize includes: 1 WAGON Webcomic battle Card Game Gamma Deck, 1 Captain SNES WAGON pre-order card, and 1 Kat-Nap Promotional Bookmark.

Rules:

All you have to do is find the differences between pictures A and B at the contest site and fill out the form below them along with your Name, Email, and Address below by 11:00 PM August 11th 2009. Get all five right and you’ll get entered into the draw for first prize, get 3-4 right and you’ll get entered into the draw for second prize, or get 1-2 right and you’ll get entered into the draw for third prize. Note: The differences are not an any particular order. If your entry is pulled you will receive an email on August 14th 2009 to let you know you’ve won and to confirm your shipping address. The information collected from this contest will not be stored after the contest or sold to any third parties.

So what are you waiting for? Head on over to Kap-Nap.com and win yourself some spiffy stuff!

The World Alliance of Geeks Online Network is happy to announce that the pre-sale of our Gamma Deck is officially under way! This brand new deck of WAGON cards brings together the creative forces of five new webcomics into our ranks: 67th Avenue, The Apple of Discord, Rune Master, Cartridge, and Kat-Nap.

As an extra bonus for everyone who pre-orders their copy of Gamma Deck you will also receive a copy of our newest rare card, a cameo apperance of the Game Masta himself from Captain SNES. So if you have yet to jump on the WAGON, this is would be a great place to start your collection!

W.A.G.O.N. will also be making an apperance at this year’s Penguicon in Romulus, Michigan with copies of all four of the decks that have been so far created, and will be participating in pannel discussions as well as giving demonstrations on how to play WAGON Webcomic Battle. All are welcome to come visit and get a little hand’s on training amoung fellow webcomickers and fans. Other apperances will include the likes of Fes, Tanya, and Mark of the podcast “The Webcomic Beacon”, and Adam Smithee of “The Apple of Discord”.

This will be interesting in how it plays out. I want to know though what the cost is to publish your comic to this media? Is it accessible to everyone (read: webcomics)?

This coming almost 8 months after this survey.

Read more about it over at Joystiq.

So yesterday I was puttering around the internet, looking for a way to make Elven Lacryment accessible for the majority of feeds and social bookmark sites. There are a lot of options out there for social bookmarking and getting feeds for your webcomic or blog and to beginners (like me) it can be a dizzying experience. Heck, I just figured out Wordpress.

After some Googleing, I found Add to Any (A2A). It had nice features, including the ability to customize your menu. So I used it.

However, I decided I wanted a simple Share/social bookmarking icon instead of the image A2A had. So off to Google once again!

In my searching I found this page. Apparently the ShareThis icon that looks like a “<” began as a free, standardized icon but was bought out. Now the company is threatening some people who use it. They also seem to collect data. (A2A apparently collects no personal data but “may” collect “browsing habits”. Make of that what you will.)

People found this troubling and founded the Open Share Icon Project (OSIP). They aim to make a new, completely free standardized sharing icon. It depicts a hand passing an object into another hand, but it also looks like an eye. It’s a good thing to adopt and many social bookmarking applets and things are using it.

One such service that uses it is iBegin Share, which is like A2A, but collects no personal data. You can also save the page as a .PDF or .DOC. It gives you stat tracking too. Really the only thing you cannot do is customize it.

So, there are some options for you, and some ethical questions to go along with them! You want your comic and blog out there, we all do. Now you know some of your options.

Share and share alike.

Getting ready for the quickly approaching Christmas holiday, we’ve tossed together a pretty spiffy WAGON Combo Pack to get the ball rolling for all of you guys who’d like to give the game a whirl. This combo will include both the Alpha and Beta Decks of the game, a copy of our Kitten of Chaos plot device, and a copy of the special rare version of our Jenny Everywhere card.

For the holiday season we’re also trying to do our part to make Christmas a little brighter for some kiddies out there, and so a portion of every Combo Pack purchase will be donated to Child’s Play Charity, which is an awesome organization made by gamers to help give something back to the community. An awesome present for the gamer in your life AND a bit of charity for the holidays? Oh yes indeed!

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has signed on as a special consultant to the defense of Chistopher Handley, an Iowa collector who faces up to 20 years in prison for possession of manga.

Read about it here.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

All the anticipation I have ever had boiled down to that final moment when I pushed play on my PS3 to watch the recorded first two episodes of the Legend of the Seeker (My area did not carry the show. I acquired it through other means). The sheer awesomeness I was about to witness ran through my head. I had just finished reading all the books and  everything is fresh on my mind. This will be epic.

Now, I’m going to take a time out here and state that yes, I am aware certain deviations were going to take place in the translation to an episodic TV formula. I did read the announcement letter.

Continuing, I watched with a twinkle in my eye as things familiar started happening. Then slowly, my mind started fumbling with pieces of a puzzle that should fit together but were now in the wrong shape. Things were familiar but different. It was like the show was rubbed on cheese grater and instead of using what was left of the block of cheese, they used the scraps. Filaments of the books exists, mostly in names of characters, but these aren’t the same characters. No, no - they are mere shadows of the characters in the book during an eclipse of the sun.

I found myself distracted during the show. Things that I knew held importance in the books were cast aside. I could not stop thinking about them and how the show could even follow the arcs in the books without them. My frame of mind was my prison. Having read the books barred me from watching the show. My fiancee got up and left at the end of the first episode. Her mind wouldn’t even let her get past the first fundamental flaw (all I’m going to say is: Book of Counted Shadows) and she is only on Blood of the Fold.

I really wish I could open my skull take out my knowledge of the books. If I was able, I’m pretty sure this could be one of those awesome shows that I rush home to see in time. Sadly, for me and I suspect many others, this might just be torture.