If you happened to watch the footage of our Meltdown event on Thursday you probably sort of already experienced this episode of Ask Axe Cop.  This is a special episode because my buddy Eric Branscum filmed the whole process and made a short documentary of it called “Asking Axe Cop”.  I think it may be more fun to watch the video before you read the actual episode, so I'll post the video here first:

And, not that you need it now, but here is the episode:

So we can add to the list of Axe Cop's questionable practices:  reanmation and slavery.  I like that he justifies the slavery by killing the bad guys first, sort of as if they are reborn into a new life of Axe Cop slavery.  I also like that he feeds them fruit and vitamins, but for some reason they shrink.  There is a lot to like in this episode.  The tiny robotic bugs, again, something normally bad guy would use, but Axe Cop remains the most thorough and relentless crime fighter in history and unleashes hordes of tiny robotic insects who seek out bad guys to poison. 
Why didn't Bat Man ever think of that?

Well, I have one more guest episode for tomorrow from my buddy Sean McGowan.  Thanks to everyone who contributed, it's been a fun couple of weeks.  See you tomorrow!

Ethan

One of the most commonly asked questions is will Axe Cop have any girls on his team.  The answer is now here…

I am pretty sure that this is the stance taken by 99% of 6 year old boys.  Sorry girls, you just aren't good fighters.  And with that, what little female fanbase Axe Cop had has now disappeared.  At least Axe Cop makes an exceptionfor the Best Fairy Ever.  He is ok with girls being on his team as long as they are tiny and live in a TV set.

I know I keep reminding you guys, but that Anniversary Screen Print is still for sale.  I only printed 300 of them, and only 200 are available in the online store.  They are signed and numbered and they feature every character to show up in the first year of Axe Cop.  I couldn't be happier with how they turned out.  They are a true must-have for any Axe Cop fan.

ETC was at the Axe Cop event last Thursday in Los Angeles at Meltdown Comics and they interviewed Malachai and I.  Malachai was about as hyper as he has ever been:

You can actually watch our entire live presentation on video as filmed by Axe Cop fan Paul Auerbach at the event on youtube!

Well, tomorrow I will be releasing a new Ask Axe Cop.  It will be the one in Eric Branscum's short documentary on the creative process of an Ask Axe Cop episode titled “Asking Axe Cop”.  Both the episode and the video will be released tomorrow.  See you then!!

Ethan

Hey, if you haven't got yours yet, there are only 300 of these, signed & numbered 2-color screen prints of every character in Axe Cop this year!:

I am having Topatoco handle the shipping on these this time, but they are all signed, so go buy one!! This is a slice of Axe History!!

Speaking of Axe History, today, another guest episode.  Probably the longest one ever made.  Nik Houser put some work into this thing and he calls it “the Origin of the Axe”!

He also did this… (click to enlarge)

Tomorrow I'll be posting a new episode of Bat Warthog Man Can't Find His Friend, and I promise it will be one episode we will never forget.  Can't wait to post it!

Ethan

200 of these prints will are now available for sale online, signed and numbered.   18″ x 24″  2 color screen prints on oatmeal speckletone paper, print run total of 300.  (the other 100 will be available on a first come, first serve basis at conventions).

BUY YOURS NOW HERE!

note: the print does not include the logo or lettering, it is just the characters

There was so mcuh to post I am continuing to post more Axeiversary submissions here a week later.  Today's Guest Episode comes from Hark Stribley (age 29) and Samuel Stribley (age 4):

For those of you who could not be here in Los Angeles on Thursday night, James and John managed to record the audio of our panel discussion/presentation with Malachai and me along with a very livey crowd.  This is definitely a fun listen. There is some spoilers in here though of videos we will be posting later this week, including the Ask Axe Cop episode which comes out on Thursday, so if you are a purist you may want to hold off.

Here is a piece of fan art from Nayib Nader titled “Hatchet Sheriff”

There you have it.  Also, if you have not seen the live action Axe Cop Episode one fan video, you probably haven't been online for a few days because it has spread like the plague.  Go watch it now!!

Another guest episode comes out tomorrow, and Wednesday a new episode of Bat Warthog Man Can't Find His Friend will be released.  It promises to be one of the most controversial and divisive episodes in the history of the comic, so prepare yourself for that.  Thursday, a new Ask Axe Cop episode.  Until then!

Ethan

Axe Cop, LIVE ACTION episode one, made by fans is now up!  You should watch it!!

note: I meant to post this yesterday, but I was so busy I forgot too!! so, pretend it was posted on the 27th!

It was last year tonight that Obama gave his State of the Union address. I was at Doug TenNapel's house hanging out.  We had just smoked pipe in the back yard as we often do, trading tales of sitting and drawing comics all day.  As the speech carried on Doug was inserting his jabs in like a robot on the Sattelite of Love.  Then my iPod touch started going bonkers.  Suddenly I was getting Ask Axe Cop questions rolling in.  People were adding me on Twitter like crazy.  I get a text from my friend Anthoy who runs the website that the traffic just went crazy. 

I get home that night and search “Axe Cop” on twitter to dicover that there are literally between 8-30 new tweets going up every few seconds.  My inbox is filling up as if it is Instant Messaging.  Every time I finish reading an email, my inbox has five new ones.  I am awake until 4 am watching Twitter rage on like a forest fire, and read all the emails coming in.   I finally fall asleep, but wake up about 5 hours later.  My inbox has nother hundred new emails in it… Entertainment Weekly, Wired Magazine, numerous talent  agencies, publshers…  The site crashes that next night becaue traffic has only gotten more insane, so I put the few Axe Cop comics that are up on my own blog while we get a new hosting provider because the one we had could not handle the traffic.  That blog entry goes viral as well as the website.

That was the day Axe Cop took over my life.  It was all thanks to people on web sites like Reddit, Metafilter, Digg, StumbleUpon, Twitter and Facebook that made it happen.  They shared the “holy heckies” out of it as Malachai would say.  Tonight we celebrate a year of Axe Cop at Meltdown Comics in Hollywood.  It looks like it is going to be a huge event.  Malachai is taking his first plane ride ever.  My Dad, his first since 1985.  My family doesn't travel much.

And it's also my Mom's Birthday.  I love you mom!!

I look forward to tonight and wish every faithful headchopper could be there.  I seriously want to say thanks for sharing Axe Cop with your friends and helping to be part of the tidal wave that made this year so much fun.

Today's Guest Episode comes from Jonathan Playmaker, made in MS Paint but also with a whole lot of love. 

Also, here is a piece of fan art by a 5 year old fan named Asha:

Yes I do believe Axe Cop has a dress on, but I do appreciate the lemon slice on the axe.

Oh, also, one of the most in depth interviews involving both Malachai and myself went up at Newarama yesterday.  To quote Malachai “[as a robot] I-am-going-to-destroy-you.”  He managed to catch me while I was visiting Malachai for Christmas so we talked to him on Skype for a while.  Malachai was pretty hyper.  Also, Sequential Tart gives Axe Cop Volume One a 10!

Well, keep your eyes on the Twitter feed and the Facebook page.  We are going to attempt to live stream the event tonight.  If we do, it should start at 8pm pacific time.  If you live anywhere near Los Angeles I hope to see you there!

Ethan

Hey head choppin' homies.  The bad news is I am too swamped to get you today's episode because of the Anniversary event coming up tomorrow in Los Angeles.  But the good news is that you will get guest episodes every day this week, and a couple days next week… plus you will get a new Bat Warthog Man Can't Find His Friend episode next week, AND you will get a new Ask Axe Cop episode, so be of good cheer.  For the next two week AxeCop.com will be updating just about daily.

Some quick news… new interview is up at Strange Kids Club and io9 got an exclusive look at the cover art for Bad Guy Earth issue 3 coming in May.
 

Today's guest episode comes to us from the creators of the Fleabitten and it involved cheese:

Also, we have this awesome pin up of Axe Cop doing a fly kick by Nate Domschot (click for full size)…

And here is a piece of fan art from Andrew Pollard:

Everyone should be ready for the AXECOPALYPSE.  It's coming.

That's that.  I need to go run around like a bad guy chicken with its head chopped off.  See you tomorrow!!

Ethan

A year has passed.  Late in the night, it was January 25th and we put the Axe Cop website up online to see what would happen.  We didn't have incredibly high expectations (and by we, I mean my friend Anthony and his wife Amy and me), but nothing could have prepared us for what was to come.  As I type this, Obama is giving the State of the Union address.  I have been workng fevershly on preparing for the big Axe Cop event at Melt Down Comics in Los Angeles on Thursday, and on getting all the guest episodes and fan art together for this AXEIVERSARY week.  I am over a day late on it, it's been intense.  I am sort of teetering on the brink of crazy right now, but it's all for a good reason. 

To start, we have this drawing sent in by Michael Horowitz:

Yup!  In some other dimension this is the comic that went viral and it was written by a 29 year old and drawn by his 5 year old brother and they are celebrating their one year anniversary.

I'm also posting this guest episode by Marjorie Rishel because I think Malachai will love it, and in fact I love it:

Please check out Marjorie's web comic here:

That's all I have for today!  I have a lot of catching up to do.  Expect more content all week, because people have sent it, and I'm posting it.  Thanks so much for making this the craziest, funnest year of my life.  Here's to the next!

Ethan

I feel like the giant ramp in last weeks episode was a metaphor for this week's traffic!  It's been a good week.  Big thanks to Boing Boing's write up  and Peter Serafinowicz for spreading the Cop!  Thanks also to Joe Randazzo of the Onion, the guys at Riff Trax and Graham Linehan too.   Axe Cop's book was at #263 on Amazon's bestsellers list, and at #2 on  “movers and shakers” because sales went up almost 6,000%!

But you came here for your new episode, so go ahead and read it, but you better read the rest of this blog because there is more I have to tell you!

Next up… Axe Cop was nominated for Best Character and Best New Comic on the Webcomics List Awards!

Also, January 25th is the AXEIVERSARY!  Which is a dumb word, but a special day, because it is the day that AxeCop.com went live!  If you have a message, a drawing, a guest episode, or anything you want to contribute, please send it to info@axecop.com by January 23rd.  I will be posting Axeiversary items throughout the week of the 25th. 

We want to make the ultimate list of the TOP TEN AXE COP MOMENTS OF 2010, so please send us your own favorites.  You can send us your own top 10, but please do not send more than 10.  Please keep it between one and ten.  Send your list to chopcast@gmail.com

That week will hit it's apex on the 27th when we have our big Axe Cop Anniversary Party at Meltdown Comics!  If you live anywhere near Los Angeles, don't miss it, Malachai will be there and so will I!  Also in attendance will be James and John of CHOPcast.  We will be debuting the Live Action Axe Cop short film of episode one made by some Australian head-choppin' film students.  Check out these teaser pics juxtaposed to the actual comic:

I am pretty sure I am forgetting something, but that seems liike plenty to leave you with.  I will end with another plug for RATFIST by Doug TenNapel because you really should be reading it.  Full color, 5 updates a week from the creator of Earthworm Jim… there are not many free things as awesome as that.