The small, larval creature presented in this weeks comic is loosely based on my own young cousin. The unbridled enthusiasm for Legos as depicted in the comic is fairly inaccurate, as my experience with Henry and Legos consisted of “you squat in a dank corner and assemble this fifteen-million piece spaceship while I sit on the couch and watch TV.”

Some fairly big, and relatively boring news this week. Gamer Candy will soon cease to be called Gamer Candy. This has been coming, for quite some time. In the early days, when the comic was simply a squalling babe, it was intended to be a comic strip about two gamers who played and talked about video games. Sound familiar?

The intentions were never to create a Penny Arcade clone, in fact, it just seemed reasonable to make a comic where the humor was based around our primary interest.

The comic has been striving to distance itself from its gaming comic peers, a group which the gems are muddled by heaping piles and piles of feces.

I did not like the name, Gamer Candy, when it was first created, but since then it has grown on me, like a smelly, mangy mutt that just wants someone to love it. Unfortunately, the name fits a gaming comic, which Gamer Candy no longer is. The base idea is that someone who didn’t want to read a gaming comic would see the name and not want to read it, while someone who saw the name, and assumed it was a gaming comic, would be disappointed.

So the time has come for the name to change to fit the evolution of the comic. Hopefully with a new name it can no longer appear to be clustered in a dung heap, but instead, a lone turd resting on clean, white linoleum.

We brainstormed, and also asked the mailing list (you, the readers) for suggestions. We got a decent number together, rounded them up in a list, and then began hacking it down. When the dust settled, the new name emerged.

Good in Theory.

That’s it. That’s the new name. Now cease! Cease the fear and panic this change has no doubt caused you! The name change is not instant, and a good deal of work must, in fact, be done before it becomes official. As for now, Gamer Candy stays Gamer Candy.

In other news, I have been hired by Eyeskream to draw pictures of their mascot, Skreamie, as well as art for a site comic. While it is not a “paying” job, I am compensated by having my domain name, as well as hosting fees taken care of. Woo!

Okay, you can leave now.