A month-by-month look at the updates to this website (and it's predecessors, my "Anarchy" files and websites), showing roughly what was uploaded and when. Also included significant life events and any other stuff I thought might be relevant. This page might get expanded massively as I remember / check up on stuff that happened... or maybe it'll get ignored and neglected!
Also, the period May 1999 to August 2000 is mostly just guesswork, I don't remember when most of the things happened.
May 1999:
Got first PC, got online.
Ask mate at school where I can find "those guides on how to make bombs" I've heard so much about. He tells me to download "The Anarchists' Cookbook" (the text file "by" Jolly Roger, not the actual one). Do so. It's in Americanese so I don't understand it, what the hell is "Draino"? Randomly decide I can't find these things in the UK because "the government has banned them!", and thus randomly decided to become an Anarchist. Also people used the word "random" a lot back then, it was the style of the times.
June 1999:
I turned 15.
Got Doom on the PC. Started looking into how to make my own wads. I'd dreamed of doing that for years!
July 1999:
Possibly the month I discovered SWAT, a Scottish Anarchist E-Zine with instructions on making bombs using stuff you can get in the UK. Terrorism was all in good fun back then, their current "Swat B00k" has removed all that stuff, as the main writer "doesn't want to wake up to counter-terrorist police pointing MP5s in his face".
Maybe the month I started to write "Deathbringer's Cookbook", my own 31337 anarchy phile full of recipies and ideas for explosives and incendiaries I'd never actually made.
Began making D2: London 2666 - a terrible 1994-level-tier Doom wad.
August 1999:
Don't remember. Insanity Classic might have been drawn around this time.
I got annoyed because I'd just started making level 7 or so of my amazing Doom Wad, when I had to go out for my brother's birthday. I'd just made an amazing new discovery - how to make doors!
September 1999:
Started in Year 11 at secondary school. FAT (Fenland Anarchy Team) was probably started this month. It was our Anarchist group at school, my friends were kind of reluctantly roped in but never did anything much. FAT was basically just me.
This may have been the month my friend visited me, we went to Peterborough and I bought a casette by Silverchair, because the main writer of SWAT liked them, so therefore they were "Anarchist". Actually they're just a very generic rock band.
Also bought some Epsom Salts to try and make smoke bombs with. My brother was trying to reach behind me into the boot of the car to get hold of the tape I had bought and "have a look at" it (he was always absolutely blatant and shameless about getting into other people's shit). I was terrified if he got hold of the Epsom Salts he'd screech out "EPSUM SOLTS, WOYT'S THUUT??" and I'd have to explain to my mum why I'd bought it, but that didn't happen, luckily.
Started the first FAT Magazine. It was supposed to be put online, but I had no idea how to upload stuff, so just wrote it "for phun".
I started to make a website, I tried to upload it but had no idea what I was doing. The first FTP programme I downloaded needed a "sock", so I got something called "Winsock" to "set up a sock", but had no clue what any of that meant (I still don't!). I got a different FTP programme and typed in my desired web address to "upload the site to". Once it timed out, I assumed that meant "finished" and my site was live. Why couldn't I access the site? Well of course you can't access the website on the same computer you uploaded it from!
October 1999:
Issue 2 of the original FAT magazine was made, still not put online!
November 1999:
Issue 3 of the original FAT magazine. Still not online!
The computer fucked up and we lost a load of files, including the original FAT Magazine, and also my awful Doom wad (no loss!). We backed up some stuff like game saves and homework on to a newly-bought Zip Drive, but I couldn't put any Anarchy philes on there, because I had mum barging into the room and hovering over my shoulder, wanting to see what my new "gadgety-poos" did.
May have been the month my friend and I bought some weedkiller, which SWAT said you can make explosives out of, in Cambridge. I think you had to be 16 or 18 to buy it, but this law wasn't enforced at all.
The Gunge parody was probably made this month. The only thing on this site to survive from my old Anarchy sites!
December 1999:
Started the second version of FAT Magazine. Set up a website on Tripod, it lasted about 48 hours before they shut it down because it had instructions about making bombs on it.
Made the first and only episode of "Anarkytoonz", a violent animated gif, and a precursor to the Insanity Please animations. This was also on the Tripod site.
Set up a new website on Piratecity, an imitation of Fortunecity that allowed people to upload their 31337 Anarky Philez. They were in the process of getting sued for ripping off Fortunecity's homepage.
The original Relative Removals animated gif was probably made around this time.
January 2000:
Issue 2 of FAT Magazine. The magazine itself was not hosted on Piratecity, but another site. I don't even remember why now, maybe for "redundancy" in case Piratecity went down?
The news showed "the first baby" born in Britain in the new millennium, who was mixed-race. I wrote a stupid editorial in FAT about what a wonderful beacon of progressive hope that was.
February 2000:
Issue 3 of FAT Magazine. I was making my webpages in Microsoft Word 97, still the best WYSIWYG html editor, but it had it's quirks. If you made a link to a file on your computer it would randomly not make the link "relative" (to the page you were putting the link on, say linking from index.html to anarchy.html in the same directory), but just make the link to the exact location on your C: drive. Also when you inserted images, sometimes it would make the address of the image relative, other times it would copy the image, shrink it, re-name it to "ImageXX.jpg" and link to that in it's exact location on your C: drive. This "feature" (BUG) would activate and deactivate entirely at random. Anyway, for 3 months while I'd been hyping up FAT Magazine, and directing people to the download page, all of the images and download links on the page had been linking to my C: drive! Showed how many visitors I got, if absolutely nobody had told me about this. I was chewing the desk in furious anger and frustration at Microsoft.
Possibly bought my first Sex Pistols CD this month. It was the same day there was an anti-Huntingdon Life Sciences protest in Cambridge, I remember that much.
March 2000:
Might have been the month I finally tried to make an Epsom Salts smoke bomb, put the sooty foil it was on down on the floor, leaving a small black mark. My parents cleaned this up with 3 different powerful cleaners (wet kitchen roll would have done it) and convinced themselves I'd just lit a bonfire on the lino.
Issue 4 of the increasingly moribund FAT magazine. I had no idea what to write in it any more.
Piratecity fucked up (it just redirected all URLs to a page full of banner ads, so they could make money). I moved to a different host called Hack-Net
April 2000:
Last lame and short issue of FAT Magazine. Hack-Net died (or maybe I just left it). I was moving on from thinking Anarchism was about causing chaos with home-made explosives,anyway. Also I was having a sense of humour bypass. SWAT had a joke article about stripping a guy naked and leaving him in a shower room so Russian sailors could "introduce themselves" to him. It tewwibwy othended my dewwicate thenthibilitith.
I started to make Anarchy Doom
This website's first incarnation, now hosted on the "enemy", Fortunecity, was probably launched this month (to promote Anarchy Doom). No more bomb-making manuals, just Doom wads and gif animations! The first version had a table on the front page with links to different sections, all using different fonts. I also visited it on the computers at Ely's newly-revamped library. It was the first time I had definitely confirmed a website of mine worked on other computers and not just my own. I also learned that other computers need the same fonts installed, or the page doesn't look right!
Skewl.wad was probably finished this month. I know I was still at school when I was making it... but only just!
May 2000:
Finished at school, aside from some GCSE tests. Showed some friends the "Story of Terra" animation on the school's computers. They had VGA cards etc, so the colours were all fucked up. Friends less than impressed.
I changed the front page of the site to have blue boxes with yellow links to the sections, all in the same font.
June 2000:
I turned 16.
The Lock, Stock... TV series was on. It was a big influence on some of the early Insanity Please stuff.
We went on holiday in Weymouth, staying in a flat right in the middle of the town during the Oyster Festival. Obviously my brother and I... stayed indoors and played on the Playstation the whole time. The nadir of my life. This trip was also, oddly, in the middle of the GCSEs! I definitely remember I had tests both before and after it.
Last GCSE test. One of the boys at school already had his CBT and rode there on his moped. My brain was still basically twelve.
July 2000:
Don't remember much, probably more Doom wad and animation making. A friend I used to see a lot as a kid came round. I showed him Doom editing tools and gave him a bunch on a disc. Possibly also with an early version of Anarchy Doom. If he still has it, that's the last extant copy! It's also the last time I saw him.
August 2000:
GCSE results! I got D's and E's, so couldn't go straight into Advanced GNVQ Science at Cambridge Regional College, I had to do a year of Intermediate first. The kids in the Advanced course I could have joined seemed like a cool bunch, my class had a hyper-homophobic punk girl ("Poppaz? ...GAYS use them!"), a proto-chav who thought about nothing but sex, a stoner, a Muslim graffiti writer who acted like a stoner but was never stoned, an "OMG u is discriminatin' against me..." Muslim girl who'd argue the toss about fuckin' everything, etc. It was not a good time. Maybe I should have tried harder on my GCSEs and not made bombs and Doom maps, eh?
September 2000:
Started to archive the news updates! Now I actually know when things happened!
Started at CRC, so I assumed I'd be "working hard" and have "no free time" for 3 years. Oh I was such a sweet summer child, eh?
Made several more Insanity Please animations.
Made Stique Death, it was meant to become a major section of the site, but I only ever did one animation.
Made a Doom page on Angelfire and put several other wads up on there.
Tried to set up a message board, it was one where you have to locally host and run various java / php / perl etc scripts to make it work. Yeah, like that was happening on Fortunecity. Later on I got a different forum that worked... sort of. Of course, nobody used it.
I had some pictures from the last day of school on my website (see them above!). I also started a page about me that said My name is Mike and I live in England. My mum was convinced I was going to be arrested for "putting up people's pictures without permission", and / or get hunted down by perverts because I had "all my details" online. She came within inches of crashing into somebody's van while ranting at me in the car. To this day I wish I'd let it happen. She uses Facebook.
October 2000:
Started the Insanity Please comic!
Fucked up and overwrote Anarchy Doom when I was trying to change the color palette. Not because I needed to, just because I'd found a tool to do it.
Deleted the remaining Anarchy Doom stuff and made the main website (the one this is the ancestor of!) Insanity Please only.
Started to make Insanity Please Doom!
November 2000:
At some point I named the misc section the "Rogues Gallery". Presently it's called The Skip... I might bring back the old name! Started putting various odds and ends I found amusing in there.
The site started coalescing more around Insanity Please, with an updated cast page, pages explaining references in the comics etc.
I got an illegally-cracked version of The Games Factory, a Clickteam tool, and cranked out a very crappy, and now lost, game. - (October 2024 here, not so lost after all! Click the link to see it's majesty!)
December 2000:
I started "writing songs" (read: Changing the lyrics of punk songs I liked), and also wrote an Insanity Please text story which I remember (December 2025 note: correctly as) being absolutely awful.
I made an Insanity Please videogame, which was pretty crap. I also started to make an Insanity Please RPG using TGF, an excercise in wasted time and frustration. I still only barely knew how to use it, and nothing about keeping track of global variables, making save games etc. Also in the version I'd cracked a bunch of these things were bugged, but I couldn't update it!
Started to make an updated and better version of skewl.wad, with some dehacked work and plans for edited enemy sprites. It never got done. (2025note: Until it did!).
January 2001:
Plugging away at the comic. Also working on Insanity Doom. I added "Evil Mutant Hitler" to the cast page. I'd thought up this character years before, while on the school bus. He was from the "evil dimension" I'd seen in South Park (I did not, at the time, know it was a Star Trek reference), but because the original Hitler was evil, this one was good. I never used him for anything, anyway.
I started a section called Agony Anarchist, where people could send me questions about love and relationships, and I'd answer them in an "Anarchist" way. I never got any questions emailed to me, surprise surprise.
Towards the end of this month, I overheard girls on the bus from college talking about Welney, but misheard "Felney", and thought that would be a good name for a fake village in a new comic...
February 2001:
I tried to sign up for Keenspace to put Felney on it. But I just clicked all the "other information" checkboxes, and got signed up for a Keenspace mailing list. This worked like the old Usenet, but I didn't know that at the time, all I knew was I was getting bombarded with a ton of Emails "from Keenspace", with messages that weren't directed at me. I blocked anything with "Keenspace" in the subect line, which, of course, also meant I wouldn't get the account confirmation email.
I started a second Fortunecity account and put the first Felney strip on it, asking readers to "vote on" if it should be continued or not. As I had no readers, I got no "votes"!
Reorganised the site design, and added some navigation buttons. I didn't know how to back-link at the time, so had a seperate set of the button images in the comic archive. Of course that was the day Fortunecity decided to fuck up and not allow FTP access, so I had to use their web-based file manager, which had a horrifically bad and clunky design, only let you upload one thing at a time, and constantly logged you out and asked for passwords again.
Uploaded an online game (you had to snipe running Shinra soldiers, it was pretty easy to get the maximum possible score), and a game called Insanity Please 3, an actually-vaguely-competent platformer (still bug ridden and annoying). I was also planning to make better animations with sound, using TGF and Vitalize (which allowed you to embed TGF games in websites), but never did any.
Started another attempt at making an Insanity Please RPG with TGF, this time with cute SD-style characters. This was swiftly abandoned when I discovered (Don Miguel's cracked and badly-translated version of) RPG Maker 2000! In which I started making a much better Insanity Please RPG.
March 2001:
I knew a lesbian with homophobic parents nick-named Placebo, who was spectacularly computer illiterate (she had a chat app and something else open at the same time. I sent her a message, causing the chat app to come to the front of her windows, and she claimed the other thing had "disappeared". When we stopped chatting she sent me another hasty message saying it had "come back").Anyway, she got a cameo in the comic this month. As I'd met a person who was being genuinely oppressed and suffering from bigotry, I got insanely overprotective of her. One time my internet failed for 3 days ("Free""serve" cost loads of money and provided very little service) and I was terrified she would commit suicide if she didn't get to vent to me. Actually she just took the piss out of me.
I also got an Ezboard forum. This was a site that made and hosted forums for you, all you had to do was link to them! That one stuck around for many years.
I started a fanart section, due to actually getting a fanart! Of course, it was technically an FF6 Fanart.
Felney was properly started! (the first comic was a "pilot"), it was hosted on a seperate Fortunecity account at the time.
April 2001:
Plugging away on the RPG and the comic.
Went to "Disneyopia" in France. I thought we were going for a week, because our holidays were always a week. I was somewhat put out to find out it was only for a long weekend (incidentally the coldest weekend France had had in over 400 years). I didn't draw any comics for that time. Later on I, for some reason thinking I had an eager public desperately waiting for the next instalment, got exceedingly obsessive about uploading comics on time.
May 2001:
Finished Intermediate GNVQ at CRC. My mum ambushed me with "So, sorted out to get yerself a part time job over the summer?" just out of the blue. Considered suicide.
Got Photoshop LE, used it to make Felney in colour.
My brother got Microsoft Office 2000 for cheap for some reason. I was hoping I could use Word to make better websites, but they'd removed the crude and primitive webpage design aspects entirely, and it was vastly worse. I ended up having 2000 and 97 parallel-installed and they did not play well together. I had to basically reinstall 97 every time I wanted to edit a webpage and 2000 every time my brother wanted to work on a Word document.
Uploaded the Sailor Moon parody. This was supposed to be continued, but was just left as one page forever.
Started the News Archive page
Insanity Please (the first batch!) came to an end. I deleted it from the website, rather than archiving it.
June 2001:
Moved Felney to the main website. Dunno why I didn't just keep it on it's own site and work on it there, and leave Insanity Please up, but there you go. The site became fully focused on Felney.
I turned 17, my mum booked me a driving lesson. I wasn't doing backflips round the room with joy so was therefore an "ungrateful little shit", and still hadn't got myself a summer job yet. She then cancelled the driving lesson because the instructor swore too much. Had another one with a different instructor.
Also, as I could now legally drive on the road, if accompanied by an adult, I became the family's free chauffer. many comics were late because it was suddenly decided I wanted to go somewhere. Considered suicide.
A mate at college got me a cracked version of Adobe Flash, so I made a quick and crappy Felney animation. Started to make another, but I had no idea what I was doing.
July 2001:
Uploaded the Gunge leaflet. I think it was originally on one of my old anarchy sites, It was made in 1999, anyway...
Space Traffic Control, an "Episode 1" (not really)-styled Doom wad, was made this month. I submitted it to a contest, it didn't actually appear on my own website(s) until much later.
I also made a simple Doom wad where you could get a laser pistol in addition to the normal pistol - through the magic of DDF!
August 2001:
Uploaded Sex Pistols Comics.
We went on holiday, as soon as we got there I heard my cat, Rip, died in a car accident, which put quite the dampener on the whole affair.
Uploaded the Felney Games Pack! It promised a "driving section", but this got scrapped. I guess it became Jambuster.
Version 1 of the Insanity Please RPG was uploaded. The non-RTP version was, anyway. The RTP version was a mighty 15mb and uploading such a thing over "Free" "serve" was... an experience.
September 2001:
The Doomcenter E1 Contest, which trafficcontrol.wad was submitted to, uploaded the resulting megawad. My map was on E2M4.
Went back to CRC, first on the 10th and then on the 12th. Of course, in between, "that" happened. On the 12th we did an orienteering team-building thing, to the tune of the entire RAF and UK-based USAF charging round the sky (it was pretty close to Mildenhall).
I had different days off at CRC, so the update schedule for Felney was changed. Cor, imagine me actually sticking to a regular update schedule!
Made a Flash menu, apparently the site already had a basic one, but I made a more advanced one. Unfortunately it had no preloader, and I didn't know how to make one. This meant that, as Freeserve could take 5-10 minutes to load a 400k menu, I was seeing sections of it bug out and fail to load. Of course, it was probably working perfectly for people on faster connections, but I couldn't guarantee that, so took it down.
October 2001:
A flash-based map of Felney with things to click on and read was uploaded. I guess I'd made a working pre-loader by then, as it appears the malfunctioning Flash menu from September was reinstated and working properly.
Jambuster was uploaded.
The Felney Bug Blaster "screensaver" was also uploaded.
A guy called Thoringil started a blog where he came up with another Felney, this one located in Canada. He was writing short stories about the residents of the town and the stupidity they got up to. He could actually write, so his Felney was way better than mine.
There was a story on ely.org.uk called Cauliflower Drove which, as Felney was supposed to be "against" Fenland life, I considered the "enemy". Anyway, the guy who made that announced Cauliflower Drove 2, so I made a parody announcement for Felney 2.
November 2001:
A bunch of odd pictures and things were uploaded.
December 2001:
Just a few more pictures and odd bits and bobs were uploaded. I also added some content to the Flash map of Felney
The first "proper" Felney animation was made. "Animation" doing a lot of heavy lifting in that description.
I got a webcam for Christmas! The first "video camera" I ever owned, though it could only be taken as far as the cable allowed. Anyway, my brother and I made some sort, stupid comedy sketches with it. These were hosted on a different free host, which soon vanished. They're now lost media.
In the last hour of 2001, I planned to upload a joking news page update. So OF COURSE Fortunecity fucked up and not only did the FTP fail to connect, the file manager didn't work either. I'd already half-decided to give Keenspace another try, and this time it was definite, I NEEDED a better host. And one where I could upload comics ahead of time and have them auto-update. Though that did of course require me to finish drawing them ahead of time!
January 2002:
Fortunecity said they'd have a small service outage from the 13th to 16th. Instead they went down from the 15th to 17th, but it wasn't possible to upload anything until the 21st. Fucking sub-bred baboon scum don't even know numbers.
Also my scanner fucked up (even when it was "working" it needed to be completely cold-reinstalled every 5 scans) so I made comics with paint or photos of lego.
Got approved for Keenspace, prepared to move Felney onto it
February 2002:
Moved the comics to Keenspace. The rest of the stuff (except for images I wanted to hotlink to) remained on Fortunecity, but at least comics would go up on time even if my brother was on the computer / Freeserve fucked up / Fortunecity fucked up. AND if I'd actually drawn them... I also abandoned EzBoard and got a Keenspace forum.
I added a background picture of a Fenland skyline at twilight to a number of the pages, but it was painful to read the red text over the top of, so it was removed pretty quick.
The Felney Herald was started.
I got a thing for "making 3D games", but it was crap. All you could do was select a pre-made game and swap assets. Anyway I did make a game about fighting giant chickens in a town centre, but it was 50mb and I couldn't upload it anywhere.
I uploaded the Felney Trailer and Relative Removals, my "best" animation so far (it has terrible voice acting and everything). Relative Removals was actually based on an older gif animation, I don't remember when I made that, probably 99 or 2000.
I passed my driving test! Now I could finally take a break from driving!
March 2002:
I started to make a few fake / parody businesses that could advertise in the Felney Herald. This was part of a brief period of trying to expand Felney itself into a kind of "multimedia franchise" with a load of fake businesses and characters who would feed back into the comic.
April 2002:
I started to give the site a more cohesive colour scheme: Red background and black boxes containing white text. This was the genesis of the "all the text in tables" style that continues today, though of course it grew slowly. For a long time many pages were white text on a bright(ish) red background, lovely.
Also I got some fan-comics for Felney! 8 day's worth. So of course I made them an 8-day solid block, rather than, say, using them to fill 2 weeks of my own scheduled updates and using the break to draw more of my own and get ahead.
May 2002:
Just a few tweaks to the colour scheme, and putting more of the text in black boxes.
June 2002:
I turned 18.
There was a proliferation of interest-based dropdowns on Keenspace. The Keenspace dropdown was something you (had to) put on your website and it contained a list of other Keenspace comics. As they started to host more and more, it displayed only a small, randomised section. People started making specific niche dropdowns to find similar comics, there was the inevitable LGBTKeen, a Keenadian Invaders for Canadian comics etc. Anyway, I started one called RedSpace, for far-left comics. It didn't last too long before it was consolidated into a "KeenParty" dropdown. Which I didn't run, which helped a lot because it didn't require me to do any work!
July 2002:
I made my one and only Game Maker game; Planet Felney Asteroid Racer.
Got Multimedia Fusion, the latest Clickteam product. Actually a legit copy! I paid for!! With money!!! Of course, my dad was convinced I was being scammed by "sending money to strangers on a screen". Also I mistyped my email address, so the confirmation email didn't come immediately, and only reinforced his beleif.
I also made Felney UFO Blaster 2.
August 2002:
Made Dress-up Tina. Originally it was online, using Vitalize, but because it trapped the user's cursor inside it, this was "less than ideal", so Instead I made it a standalone .exe.
We went on holiday for a week, but because I was on Keenspace the comic continued to update without me!
September 2002:
Asteroid Race 3D was uploaded, my only Darkbasic game.
Alien Attack! was also uploaded. Took nearly 5 minutes to make, that did!
I had an idea to create a page dedicated to "the shittiest tutorials". Darkbasic would be right up there. They tell you how to make "hello world", then tell you how to OPEN A PRE-MADE GAME AND RUN IT. Yeah, nah, thanks for, say, taking us step-by-step through how that game is made and what each part does. You cunts.
October 2002:
Overhauled the Felney Herald.
Edited the design of the site, incorporating the Herald and the various parody businesses into a sort of "Felney Network". The index page on Fortunecity was changed to a tourist information map about Felney, with links to these various places and graffiti "by" Mike, leading to the comic.
Briefly made Felney in black and white, before returning to colour.
November 2002:
Uploaded the Freeserve Art page.
There was a thing going viral (as much as something could in 2002,anyway) called 8th March 2003. Somebody said they found a smashed-up camera in a remote canyon, and would reveal the "amazing"(ly obviously fake) pictures on 8th March 2003. So I made one called 7th March 2003, which was one day before the other guy's! I had no idea, at that point, what I was going to "reveal".
December 2002:
I was thinking of adding new sections about aliens, bisexuality and atheism. One of those sort-of got made! I was also working on a Timeline of Felney, which eventually evolved into Storyinfo. Way back in around 1997 I'd made a unified timeline of my stories, and was trying to re-find that to incorporate it into the Felney timeline, but it has been lost.
January 2003:
Felney turned 2 years old and I actually made some celebratory bits 'n bobs. OF COURSE fortunecity fucked up on the day so I couldn't upload it.
Feburary 2003:
Felney had a "short 1 week break", for 3 weeks.
March 2003:
The 7th of March was upon me and I still had no idea what to do. I was also watching a Red Dwarf video and decided to use a gag from that.
Felney re-started with a "new" (actually I'd breifly experimented with it before) art style and a more "general satire" direction．After one short story it stalled again
April 2003:
There was briefly a Felney porn site hosted on a porn host called "3hosting.xxx". It was just the sexy strips all collated in one place, though. Anyway, that didn't last long.
May 2003:
I finished at CRC! Off to the Job Centre...
I was working on a Doom project for EDGE called Ultimate Hell, though it may have been started in April or March.
June 2003:
I Turned 19. I updated the site to tell people nothing had happened.
Somebody sent me sexy fanart, so I did some more comics.
July 2003:
The original Timeline of Felney was uploaded
Coming out Under Fire was uploaded. The original apparently had some extra pages that were just angry ranting about murdering people, but these were cut out.
August 2003:
Remade the Slocoach Scambus page.
Also started on a "Comic Guide", which, much later, evolved into the commentaries in Felney Classic. Now they are just on the pages with the comics, though, not on a seperate page.
September 2003:
First mention in the news of Grand Theft Felney, a project I'm pretty sure I originally started in The Games Factory in 2001, with no idea what I was doing. Anyway, by this stage I was hoping to use the "upcoming" "Multimedia Fusion 3D" to make what would basically be GTA3 in Felney. Multimedia Fusion 3D looks like it's just never going to exist.
Grand Theft Felney was meant to be a big connecting point of the Felneyverse, with cameos and connections to other stories, but will probably never happen.
October 2003:
I found a bunch of old crap that I uploaded to a dedicated "Old Stuff" section. These days it's just all mixed in The Skip, or on the specific pages of the comics it relates to.
November 2003:
Queer as Fuck was started. It didn't last long.
December 2003:
I met my first girlfriend! ...it didn't go well.
January 2004:
Living in a homeless hostel because of BS with my then-girlfriend's family, also because my parents had McCarthy Trialled me when I said I was meeting her. Sat me between them and just started barking questions one after the other, too fast to be answered. I just started answering each question slowly, in order, and in a neutral voice. They demanded to know why I was "talking like that". Yeah sorry for not becoming a flustered mess like Dr David Kelly did before he was murdered by the SAS on the orders of war criminal Tony Blair.
Anyway, resentment about that made me only too glad to get out. But my needy clingy girlfriend just treated me as an unlimited fount of money, and was later sent back to a homeless hostel in Lincolnshire, so we were seperated and I had to crawl back to my parents.
Also I was a making it pretty clear on my Livejournal that I couldn't come to the computer or make updates, and some girl comments "Hey I took u of my friends list ages ago, take me of urs". Pigshit fucking ignorant less-than-scum.
February 2004:
Crawled back to parents.
March 2004:
Started making more comics, changed the colour scheme of the website to the purple, black and "silver" one it had for the rest of the time it was on Fortunecity. I was also planning to make a larger videogames section with reviews and that, as well as a cars section.
April 2004:
Nothing happened.
May 2004:
A big update properly rolled out the purple colour scheme. Started a section called "Penny Dreadfuls" containing Queer as Fuck, the restored Insanity Please, and also some Young-Ones-in-Final-Fantasy parodies I'd written called The Chosen Ones.
There was also the cars section, about classic cars.
The games section was revamped, but thanks to Fortunecity's fuckery none of the games could actually be downloaded and played.
There was also a reorganised politics section (basically just the same ripped Anarchist essays that had been kicking around forever) and a "sexuality" section about safe sex, gay politics, the gay scene etc. Nothing was ever done with this.
The Comic of Someone Who Can't Sleep! was uploaded.
Zombie Shock Massacre! was uploaded. Part of the first story,anyway. This was also around the time I bought some cheap Vipco zombie movies on DVD one day in Cambridge. I developed a love of Horror that persisted several years, and influenced my next few projects!
Felney was once again given an attempted "new direction", which went nowhere.
June 2004:
I had a plan to create a totally new Felney, based on my real life (Mike being 19, experiencing the Job Centre fuckery I was at the time etc). Around this time I was either doing a simple computer course thing at a place called the Old White Lion (now a vet), or helping to shift furniture for a charity called SOFA (now, er, the car park of the vet). I had a friend called Lee, who I fancied the fuck out of. He knew and just thought it was funny. Also a girl I met at the OWL a few times was hot and seemed to want to talk to me, but I was too shy. Maybe I should have made more of that, eh?
Later on I decided that the "New Felney" would be called Mike Comix. I made some but never put them online. Maybe one day, eh? (2025note - the original batch of them from 2004 are in a box somewhere in the UK, so still "maybe one day, eh?")
Also, I turned 20.
July 2004:
Nothing happened.
August 2004:
Around this time I started going to Pelcombe Training, a computer training place in Ely. Most of the time it was filled with semi-literate savages who were in their late teens or early twenties and still couldn't spell. Also a bloke who was just openly fully racist. One time this woman came in to talk about how to do well in job interviews. One of the blokes there asked how he could best explain away doing 17 years for armed robbery, all she could do was stammer "erm, well, you could say you've learned your lesson...".
Apparently just before I went there they had Billy Baxter as a guest. Now he'd have been worth meeting! (he briefly held the blind land speed record - and did it on a bike, too! He also has the blind lap record around Top Gear's track - which doesn't exist any more, so he's got that one forever!)
Also I gave a disc full of my Doom and game stuff to a guy there. Later on Windows XP fucked up and I lost all my progress, so he still has the latest version of Ultimate Hell. Unfortunately I beleive he was murdered later.
Insanity Please Classic was (finally!) uploaded. Only the first story for now. The unfinished second one joined it much later.
September 2004:
I kept telling the staff at Pelcombe training I want to be a lab assistant. Obviously, something so "intellectual" and "high-paying" was beyond scum like me. They would have loud conversations at the reception desk about "one of these who reckons they can start at the top, without working their way up!"
Anyway, halfway through watching an uncensored pirate VHS of Cannibal Holocaust, I got a phone call telling me I'd been accepted for a job as a lab assistant. I took great delight at rubbing that fucker in thier faces.
Intended to go back one last time and meet the guy and ask if I could have the CD with Ultimate Hell on it back, but was too lazy. I was bound to run into him somewhere around one day right?
Planned the Scum Slaughter videogames. Never actually made anything (surprise surprise).
October 2004:
Felney Magazine was started
In the cars section I uploaded some turbocringe called Campaign for Real Cars, which has not been restored. Also the page about modern (for the time!) cars I liked, which has.
The games section had some updates, mainly a belated preview of San Andreas that came after it was already out. Also some improvements were made to the page about my own games... not that anybody could download them! But changes were afoot...
November 2004:
Nothing happened, plugging away at my new job.
December 2004:
Nothing happened.
January 2005:
Nothing happened.
Feburary 2005:
Nothing happened.
March 2005:
Moved to paid hosting! The new address was www.fagshategod.co.uk. I was really expecting furious emails and maybe even a protest from the Westboro Baptist Church, but nothing happened. My paid hosting account also came with two other domains, so I made www.crystal-knights.co.uk as an "offensive" "nazi" reference, but planned plead innocence, saying it was the name of an RPG Maker game I wanted to make. Also, more predictably, I made www.felney.co.uk and linked that to Keenspace, where the comic was still hosted for the present.
Changed the colour scheme of the site to be defined by CSS, now I could change it at will! Also added drop-down menus and a "Tagboard" mini chatbox thing. It just got filled with spam.
Also, finally, all the videogames and Doom wads could actually be downloaded!
I went to my first comic convention! The UK Web & Mini-Comix Thing 2005.
April 2005:
Scum Slaughter the comic was started, after I found a similar webcomic called High Maintenance. It was just like Scum Slaughter, differing only in the minor details of having competent art and an actual plot.
Planned to make two new comics, Shag Shack 2 (evolved into Agent Smoke) and Car Blah (ranting about cars, I did make a couple, but never scanned them). The latter was named after Kabbalah, that wierd cult / sect of Judaism that all the celebs were joining.
Also had the first idea to re-make The Gun.
I'd been drifting to the right for a while, but finally "declared" by changing the colour scheme to that of UKIP for an election.
Created the EU News.
May 2005:
Uploaded Spak Invaders and Centrefold. They were meant to be part of a "101 offensive games" pack, but I only ever made those two.
Planned to start a Cafepress merch store, but that never happened.
The last Classic Felney was uploaded. I didn't plan to end it there at the time, but that's what ended up happening.
June 2005:
I turned 21. I also saw Sin City, which (later!) fed into Scum Slaughter in a big way.
July 2005:
I bought a Mini that had been prepped for hillclimbs. I miss that thing.
Awesome Canadian reggae-metal band Zeroscape were on tour in Europe. Went to see them in London (I remember this gig's rough date because it was just after 7/7) and got absurdly pissed.
The Splatter Movies List was uploaded
I went to The Big Gay Out, a short-lived music festival in London. I won a ticket in some competition I barely remembered entering. I thought the envelope was the insurance documents for the Mini :(
Started to make a comic about The Big Gay Out, which went nowhere.
August 2005:
The Rejected Comics section was uploaded.
September 2005:
Scum Slaughter was relaunched in black and white "Sin City" style. The previous continuity was thrown out (but can still be read... well, bits of it can!)
Insanity Please was REVIVED!! I wrote the basic plot outline which is what it is still following today. I planned to continue with the daily updates, but that didn't work out. I actually got badly sick just after restarting it and couldn't update it shortly after promising "daily updates".
The next UK Web & Mini-Comix Thing was announced, for March 2006. Made preliminary plans to go to it...
October 2005:
Set up a PHPBB forum, nobody posted on it.
Re-launched The Felney Herald, promising more regular updates. Didn't update it.
In previous years, there had been "Fright Night" webcomic crossovers, but later events petered out entirely. So I took responsibility for Fright Night 7 upon myself! But there was no time to set up teams to collaborate on crossover comics, so I just made Hoodie Apocalypse, which crossed over several of my own characters, as well as having a few cameos from other comics. The rest of Fright Night 7 was just a page of links. Maybe one year I'll set up Fright Night 8 properly!
November 2005:
Fright Night 7 and Hoodie Apocalypse were actually uploaded.
I briefly had a rotating set of site logos on different themes, including leaving the EU and bringing back proper Minis, but deleted this after a few days
December 2005:
Me and Mal, who made High Maintenance, decided to share a table at the UK Web & Mini-Comix Thing 2006! ...which meant I needed to actually make some comics.
I made a fan site for the Runabout games.
January 2006:
Made a stupid list of "ins and outs for 2005"
February 2006:
Working on Scum Slaughter. Also planned to make printed paper versions of The Felney Herald and the EU News, and a "best of Felney" book (with web-resolution jpgs in it), but those never got done.
March 2006:
The UK Web & Mini-Comix Thing! Sold about 5 copies of Scum Slaughter, which I ended up cheaply copying in Staples so it looked crap. Grand plans were made, but in the end all I had was a rushed, last-minute compromise. Story of me life.
Agent Smoke was started, but not uploaded yet.
April 2006:
Felney Magazine had it's so-far-latest update. I was preliminarily planning to create a paper version, which I later decided to call SCV. I'd been going to local gigs around Cambridge a lot, at places like Cellar Bar 8, The Locomotive and, of course, Man on the Moon (RIP). At this time I was planning for the back cover of SCV to advertise a gig by Zeroscape which was happening in Man on the Moon the next month, but that fell through...
After two failed attempts at re-making The Gun, I decided I desperately need to improve my art. Started the second part of Zombie Shock Massacre! as part of that.
May 2006:
Zombie Shock Massacre stalled because I lost the pen I was using to draw the blood, and nowhere was selling them.
The awesome Zeroscape gig at Man on the Moon happened. SCV issue 1 wasn't finished in time (and never was!), so I didn't sell it. You can now read what there was online, though!
Had a plan to re-make Anarchy Doom but with the player as an anti-EU revolutionary in 2014. This plan later evolved into Scum Slaughter Doom and, surprise surprise... never got made!
June 2006:
I made 666Hell.wad, to celebrate the date being 06/06/06, only I didn't finish it in time.
I turned 22.
July 2006:
I got Multimedia Fusion 2, but never did much with it. Also Ultimate Hell was reformatted into a rather different project, but I never did much with that either.
A "bird" I was "bangin'" said I should concentrate on one thing at a time until I finish it, so I made some tweaks to the website with a "current project" section on the front page. I ought to bring that back!
Actually uploaded Zombie Shock Massacre part 2.
Uploaded Massacre Art.
August 2006:
Preparing to go to university. I also started doing scripts for New Felney.
I liked a webcomic called Deaththworld, which started out in a paper called The Gateway at the University of Alberta, in Canada. It seems like (at the time,anyway) that paper came out every week. I assumed Lincoln University would also have a weekly paper which I could pitch New Felney to. Actually Lincoln's paper, The Linc, only managed about 5 issues in 3 years!
September 2006:
Left my job.
Went to university.
Started to draw New Felney, put strips up online.
Started Eugene Manx, the first version.
Met a guy called Dale, it was a bit of casual fun for him, but I fell in love. It didn't go well.
October 2006:
Started on a horror comic called The Legend 'o Bosun Jack, but never finished it. I suppose it was intended to be for Fright Night 8.
Started a comic called Extreme Nightmare, because some chavs shouted homophobic abuse at me one night, so I dreamed of two sexy goth guys and a chubby but hot girl all having casual sex together and blowing people away. That never got finished either.
Evolved the original SCV into The Horrific Picture-Paper and then The Red, White & Blue. It was still, at this stage, intended to feature violence, sex and swearing, but also family-friendly stories of a Sexton Blake rip-off called Victor Sexton. I planned to have one issue of this ready for the 'Thing 2007, and flog it out of my pockets.
November 2006:
Got involved in the Scribble Battle in the UK Web & Mini-Comix Thing forums.
December 2006:
By this time I was getting a lot more into Boys' Own-type adventures, in a move that would have horrified the version of me who had started this site.
Dale was done with me, this made 2007 a pretty shitty year.
January 2007:
Decided if it wasn't working out with Dale, I'd drop out of Uni. My mum said "Don't decide if you want to stay or not just because of a friend" (obviously I hadn't told them I loved him). I decided this was a "truly subhumanic comment" which could "never be forgiven". Which does seem a bit of an overreaction, doesn't it?
For the rest of the time I was at Uni I was regularly buying lottery tickets, if I won I was planning on buying a car and a new phone, driving off to the Scottish Highlands, and just buying an isolated cottage and living there on savings. I'd throw my old phone into the Brayford Pool on the way out and never speak to my family again.
Finally pitched some strips of New Felney to The Linc. They never even replied... well, would you? I went trumpeting on forums about my "publishing deal", somewhat prematurely...
Also pitched some specially-drawn strips of New Felney, with 6 panels, to the 'Thing anthology, those did get accepted and printed!
Gave the Felney section it's own colour scheme, reminiscent of the original one - dark red and green.
February 2007:
Nothing happened.
March 2007:
The Thing 2007! I didn't proofread my anthology submission, so one of the strips didn't make sense, oops.
The Thing 2007 was "controversial" because some pigshit-thick London anti-capitalists balked at the price he was charging for tables, saying that it should be some unrealistic price like £5 per table (yeah because renting out a huge hall in central London on a weekend is cheap, right?). After the event one of them asked if we'd "made" our table costs in the forum. After a number of perfectly polite replies telling him we were doing it for the art / didn't care about the money / were just having fun, he, on his own blog, claimed to have suffered "a frenzy of keyboard bullying". Of course he had a bunch of sympathetic, emoji-laden replies from fellow travellers who just took his word for it.
Said pigshit-thick London anti-capitalists later started a market stall at some indoor market to sell small press comics from. I vaguely planned to send them the Red, White & Blue, but never did.
Took down a banner for The Linc from the Felney page.
April 2007:
Uploaded Agent Smoke.
Uploaded Imperium... to Comicspace, a short-lived "Comic Social Network".
May 2007:
Visited Mallory, the maker of High Maintenance, in Bristol (oh, and went to the comic convention too). Fell asleep on the desk in her home office.
Shortly afterwards, went on a rant about how all American comics are edgelord 90's crap with people shouting "NNNOOOOO!" into the sky under dripping pipes in alleys, and she stopped talking to me. I'm not surprised. Mind you, she was a big fan of Spawn, which is actually like that. Give me the Silver Age any day!
decided to seperate out family-friendly Boys' Own-type stories into The Red, White & Blue, and to put sweary gag strips and satire into a seperate comic called SCV.
Restarted Eugene Manx.
Finished year 1 of university. REALLY didn't want to go back. I had a chance to get a summer job, driving van-derived tipper trucks. My mum really wanted me to go to university (bragging rights of having two sons with letters after their names), so suddenly wasn't so keen on me getting a summer job (which I could potentially wangle into full-time). Funny, that.anyway the job never came off anyway, so I had months and months of sitting at home in which to draw comics, so I did... nothing.
June 2007:
Refined the "Timeline of Felney" into one that only focuses on things that happen in my comics. Apparently. Now I can only find the older, jokey version! Looks like that altered timeline is now lost media. anyway it was another seed of what was to become Story Info.
I turned 23.
July 2007:
BBFC Smash!, actually a much-older and abandoned game, was hastily polished-up and uploaded.
August 2007:
Working on The Red, White & Blue issue 1.
September 2007:
Started a section for my self-published comics. For a fair while it was treated as a seperate website within the main one, which got awkward.
October 2007:
Still working on RWB issue 1.
I became anti-videogames. destroyed most of the games section, cancelled all the projects, and moved the downloads to the "other" section. Actually, the games are still in the other section! (2025note: Not any more!)
November 2007:
Nothing happened. Other than working on the RWB, of course!
December 2007:
Finished issue 1 of the RWB. Also booked a table at The Thing 2008.
January 2008:
Launched "Felneychan", a short-lived imageboard.
Working on a submission for the Thing Anthology, and also RWB issue 2.
February 2008:
Did my first hourly comic!
March 2008:
Attended the 'Thing 2008, as a seller again!
April 2008:
Eugene Manx (the "new" version) was first uploaded.
Met a cute girl called Chrissy and fell madly in love. You know how this goes, eh?
May 2008:
Uploaded an extended version of the Insanity Please RPG.
Tidied up the site a bit, and did some design tweaks to the CSS.
June 2008:
Went to the Download Festival for the first time. Mostly because Chrissy was going!
It became clear it wasn't happening with Chrissy. Actually she only stayed for Friday then left early. I Nearly left early too, but decided to, you know, enjoy the music.
I turned 24.
July 2008:
Nothing happened.
Actually this month may have been the closest I came to suicide, over Chrissy. I was going to run the engine of my Mini inside the garage, but the battery wasn't in it.
August 2008:
Started another re-make of The Gun. This version was planned to be in black and white for a series of comics called The Dragonfly, as well as in colour for a "hardcore" online version.
September 2008:
A bit of odd tidying up round the website.
Shut down the imageboard.
Started a Blogspot called The Union Jack Index.
Started a locally-hosted blog called British Comics Miscellany. As of 2024, the entries from that are being republished on World Comics Review.
October 2008:
Nothing happened.
November 2008:
Nothing happened.
December 2008:
I was working on Issue 1 of The Red, White & Blue Adventure Library, an A5 sized text story-paper. This was later renamed The Trident.
Had plans to start a wiki about British comics, with information on every issue, mini-reviews of stories etc.
January 2009:
Created the "sunset" colour scheme, which the site had until it was closed down in 2017.
Created the British Comics Wiki.
Removed the Anarchy, Sexuality, Games and Cars sections, moving their parts to the Other section, The Skip, or just deleting them entirely.
Started a short run of making new things to put in The Skip, up until now it had been for old stuff I wasn't sure if I should delete or not.
Picked 6 random days around the year to do Hourly Comics in. Ended up missing most... a couple for very good reasons!
February 2009:
Did an hourly comic.
Uploaded the 2007 Massacre Art. 2008 is when my interests really shifted from horror to Boys' Own adventures, so there wasn't really any more.
March 2009:
Started going to pub gigs round Lincoln.
Got tinnitus from The Band From County Hell, who opened for Stiff Little Fingers in Lincoln. I still have it in 2025
Missed going to the UK Web & Mini-Comix Thing 2009. FUCK university.
Was E-seeing a Scottish guy, we were planning to meet up and bang like rabbits at Download '09, but that never came off because...
Booked a ticket to an extreme metal event called UK Deathfest. Extreme metal annoys me, I just fancied some moshing. anyway, I met a Japanese woman called Yasue on it's Myspace.
Vaguely planned to get a cheap bass guitar from Cash Converters, but never did.
April 2009:
Nothing happened.
May 2009:
Went to UK Deathhfest with Yasue, she became my girlfriend.
Did an hourly comic but didn't upload it immediately, for some reason.
June 2009:
I turned 25.
Missed an hourly comic day.
"Started to make" a Crazy Taxi like game, this never went anywhere. Maybe I should try again!
Actually uploaded a very simple shooter based on Galactic Conquest. It used the now-not-suppored Vitalize, but has not been converted to a standalone .exe.
Finished at university, woohoo!
Went to the Download Festival 2009. Didn't meet the Scottish guy, that chance had petered out.
I turned 25.
I had a cold, and blew my nose in the toilets of a pub where loads of bands played. The landlord said he "saw me snorting coke through the window" and barred me. Stopped going to pub gigs in Lincoln. In 2025 that pub is a graphic design agency, so I think I won that one on aggregate.
July 2009:
Uploaded the May hourly comic.
Uploaded Jambuster EX.
August 2009:
Started the GTA Fangame Reviews section.
Had a "temp job" that kept getting extended and extended. Better than the dole!
Started "learning Japanese".
September 2009:
Visited Japan for the first time!
Missed an hourly comic, due to it being the day I flew. Not bad for a randomly-picked day in January, eh?
October 2009:
Shut down the forum. I didn't visit it for ages, then when I did there were tens of thousands of posts! Did I have a busy community of fans? Nope, it was all spam bots!
November 2009:
Missed another hourly comic day, because I got a job! Yep, another day I randomly picked in January ended up being a significant life event!
Bought the Unity engine for £150. Just over a month later the basic version became free! Never made anything with it, anyway.
Word 97 failed, couldn't easily make webpages any more.
Booked a table at the UK Web & Mini-Comix Thing 2010!
December 2009:
Uploaded Kana Learna... using an outdated Romaji table, so don't use it!
Tried out a program called Pagebreeze for editing the website, it's shit.
January 2010:
Tried out a program called Webdwarf for editing the website, it's shit.
Tried out a program called Sea Monkey for editing the website, it's shit.
Tried out a program called Kompozer for editing the website, it's shit.
Tried out a program called Amaya for editing the website, it's VERY shit.
Tried out a program called Trellian for editing the website, it's shit.
Tried out a program called Frontpage Express for editing the website, it's MONUMENTALLY shit.
Tried out a program called Openoffice Writer 2.0 for editing the website, it's shit.
Tried out a program called Openoffice Writer 3.1 for editing the website, it's shit.
Tried fixing the program called Microsoft Word 97 for editing the website, it's okay.
Feburary 2010:
Started an "Anything Comics" section, where I could upload random nonsense, such as fake newspaper cuttings and single gags, like the latter days of Classic Felney. The few things that were made for this are now part of Mike Comix.
March 2010:
First had the idea to make the Felneyverse a multiverse.
Promised to make a guide to this multiverse and which story is in which part of it "at some point". HEH.
Sold the RWB issues 1-3 (series 1) and The Trident issue 1 (also series 1) at the UK Web & Mini-Comix Thing 2010. This also turned out to be the last one. It's still my favourite con!
April 2010:
I don't know exactly when "this" website started (the one you're reading now is hardly the same, but it has continuity!), but around early-mid 2010 it became 10 years old! Of course, my 15 year old self had hoped it would have inspired the masses to rise up and fight a revolution by now.
May 2010:
Added a Liberal Democrats colour scheme to the site, we ended up with them in a coalition. It was me wot swung it!
Put up a report on the Thing 2010, initially in the British Comics Miscellany blog.
Started a blog called Things Japanese. I never did much with it.
June 2010:
Went to the Download Festival 2010, it pissed it down.
I turned 26.
July 2010:
Went to Japan for the second time. Bad time of year to go!
August 2010:
Nothing happened.
September 2010:
Changed the name of my self-publishing efforts to 1910 Press.
The London Small Press Expo 2011 was announced. This was the replacement for the Thing, but it only happened once.
October 2010:
I went to the Birmingham International Comics Show.
November 2010:
Applied to go on the JET Programme, the government-run (read: well-paid) ALT scheme in Japan.
December 2010:
Nothing happened.
January 2011:
Planned to make lots of news updates because I could make interesting numbers, with the date being "11". That didn't pan out.
New Years Resolved to make the Red, White & Blue bi-monthly. That didn't pan out. (It's still the plan eventually!)
Feburary 2011:
Got rejected from the JET Programme. Though I kinda guessed I was since most people who were going (including one of my friends in Cambridge) already knew in January.
March 2011:
I went to the London SP Expo. Selling issues 1-3 of the Red, White & Blue (series 1), issue 1 of The Trident (series 1) and, still, Scum Slaughter! This was it's last con, I slung the rest in the recycling bins at work.
The SP expo was the day after the big earthquake in Japan. I rang Yasue from the show, my mum was convinced she must have died. All that happened was she had to walk for 10 hours to get back from work.
April 2011:
Finished issue 4 (the News Archive says 3!) of The Red, White & Blue (series 1).
Started another batch of Insanity Please
Started a blog for "general stuff I like"
Found out Sexton Blake is still copyrighted. Unsure what to do at the time, I later re-launched my comics, The Red, White & Blue and The Trident started Series 2.
May 2011:
Might have been the first time I went to the MCM Convention, it's an event in London which is basically just a giant dealer's hall / cosplay area.
June 2011:
Nothing happened.
I turned 27.
July 2011:
Nothing happened.
August 2011:
Nothing happened.
September 2011:
Nothing happened.
October 2011:
I went to the MCM Convention
November 2011:
Broke up with Yasue... should have happened about a year earlier, really!
Applied to the JET Programme again, regardless...
December 2011:
Nothing happened.
January 2012:
Nothing happened.
Feburary 2012:
Got turned down for JET, again.
March 2012:
Reformatted the 1910 Press website, now the "In Print" section.
I had plans to create a couple of magazines based on the UK small press scene. The Sentinel (a defence of British comics in general - planned features included a "stupidest news story about comics" column) and Small Press Digest, with reviews and whatnot. Nothing ever came of them (of course), but I still like the cover of the latter!
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April 2012:
Nothing happened.
May 2012:
I went to Camcon 2012, at The Junction in Cambridge. I was selling issues 1 and 2 of the Red, White & Blue (series 2). I also got sunburned indoors.
I went to the MCM Convention. It was freezing cold!
June 2012:
I went to a small convention in London, organised by Animeleague. If you know, you know.
Started planning, and collecting pictures for, Figshit Picks this month. Or, at least, the oldest pictures I now have are from around this time.
I turned 28. Planned on suicide if I was still living at my parents house when I was 30. This time I'd get a petrol generator and run it inside the car (because it wouldn't have a catalytic converter on it). So I'd end up in the next world deaf as a post, too.
July 2012:
Nothing happened.
August 2012:
Nothing happened.
I went up the footy for the first and only time so far. It was the Olympic womens' final, at Wembley!
September 2012:
Went to Japan for the third time, and the first time on my own. Visited Tokyo, Kyoto and Kochi. The latter because the friend from Cambridge who got on JET was working there.
I liked a Chinese woman at my work, until she suddenly introduced her husband to me. She had no concept of personal space, and would lean on me with my arm between her boobs.anyway she told me "tomorrow's my last day" and I told her "tomorrow I'll be in Japan".
October 2012:
I went to the MCM Convention.
November 2012:
Nothing happened.
December 2012:
Nothing happened.
January 2013:
Possibly uploaded the first Figshit Picks entry to the Anything Blog this month. I wanted to have them be 6 months "behind" real life.
Feburary 2013:
Nothing happened.
March 2013:
Nothing happened.
April 2013:
Nothing happened.
May 2013:
Nothing happened.
June 2013:
Went to the Download Festival 2013.
I turned 29.
July 2013:
Nothing happened.
August 2013:
Camcon 2013, at The Junction in Cambridge. I was selling The Red, White & Blue issues 1, 2 and 3 (series 2), as well as some mini-comics including one called Adventures in Gayness. I got interviewed by some Youtube channel or something, but I've never been able to find that interview!
September 2013:
Nothing happened.
October 2013:
Nothing happened.
November 2013:
Nothing happened.
December 2013:
Nothing happened.
January 2014:
Nothing happened.
Feburary 2014:
Nothing happened.
March 2014:
Nothing happened.
April 2014:
Nothing happened.
May 2014:
Visited Japan for the third time, once again going to Tokyo, Kyoto and Kochi.
June 2014:
I turned 30. I did not commit suicide by buying a petrol generator and running it inside the car. Petrol cost too much.
My dad got free tickets to the Goodwood Festival of Speed somehow, so we went to that.
July 2014:
A department at my job closed down, meaning I finally had a desk! About 25 desks, actually!! Started another batch of Insanity Please. Actually managed to produce consistent content for a bit. Fancy that!
August 2014:
Insanity Please, my "daily" comic, reached 365 updates... after over 13 years.
Work began on the new site design, with "Story Info" a major part of it. Yes, that's the thing that's still not done in 2023!
The third and final Camcon happened. I forgot to go, oops.
September 2014:
Nothing happened.
October 2014:
Nothing happened.
November 2014:
Nothing happened.
December 2014:
Nothing happened.
January 2015:
Nothing happened.
Feburary 2015:
Nothing happened.
March 2015:
The Gun was finally uploaded. This was the fourth re-make, and also published in The Red, White & Blue.
April 2015:
Started to update Agent Smoke again alongside Insanity Please. One page a week for the former. New labs were moving back in to the abandoned building at work, so I couldn't draw porn too much. But luckily it was just starting up on a car chase at that point.
Felney went over to the current style of solid grey shading (a style I always associate with Canadian comics, for some reason). Initially it was done with Promarkers, Marvys or Copics, but now is done digitally.
May 2015:
I'd bought another plane ticket to Japan, and was saving with an eye to moving there (I'd already tried once, by applying for a job directly, to little success). My computer broke so I needed a new one. This "delayed" the "upcoming" new site design "slightly". HEH.
Teddy Bear World made it's first apperance on the site, mingled in with Insanity Please.
Fourth trip to Japan! This time I visited Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka. In Osaka I met a cool woman called Savannah in the world's coolest bar. She told me about working holiday visas.
June 2015:
Idly looked into working holiday visas after getting out of the shower one evening. They're for ages 18-30. I was a week away from turning 31!
Applied like crazy for a working holiday visa... and got iiiiiin!
I turned 31.
July 2015:
Nothing happened.
August 2015:
Nothing happened.
September 2015:
Nothing happened... on the website. I did make an update to the news page, but it was just to say I didn't do anything!
October 2015:
Insanity Please reached strip 500, and finally had some sex scenes. I decided to try colouring Agent Smoke the same way, with pencils or promarkers, but that fell through.
No longer had a desk at work, as the building was being refurbished. We randomly found some capsules with radioactive warnings on stuffed in a cupboard, which was a tad dodgy.
Made the expected "Fly into town to catch Jaws 19" gag.
November 2015:
I started a blog called Articles of Empire, where I uploaded unabridged articles from old British magazines and story-papers. It never had many posts!
I went to a geekish Halloween party at a friend's house. The next day, erm...
December 2015:
Agent Smoke stalled on page 49. It's still stalled. Not sure what I'm going to do with it yet.
January 2016:
Nothing happened.
Feburary 2016:
Started Tabakushō.
March 2016:
Nothing happened.
April 2016:
Nothing happened.
May 2016:
I moved to Japan! Big mistake!
June 2016:
Nothing happened, due to being extremely drunk.
I turned 32, not bad for being just over a month in to a programme for 18-30 year olds, eh?
July 2016:
Nothing happened, due to being extremely drunk.
August 2016:
Nothing happened, due to being extremely drunk.
September 2016:
Nothing happened, due to being extremely drunk.
October 2016:
Oh dear, where'd all that money go? Time to get a job, eh?
Got first job in Japan, it's shit. This caused 2017 to be a pretty shitty year. What is it with me and years ending in 7? (actually I don't remember much of 1997 and 1987 is when my brother was born, so obviously that was terrible).
November 2016:
Nothing happened.
December 2016:
Nothing happened.
January 2017:
Nothing happened.
Feburary 2017:
Nothing happened.
March 2017:
Nothing happened.
April 2017:
Started a new batch of Insanity Please.
Got put into "extra training" at my job. This is Japanese code for a firing, as they don't fire people, just make them miserable so they quit. I didn't know that at the time, of course.
Belt-tightening caused me to cancel the contract for hosting this website. They'd already taken the automatic payment for the next year of hosting, though. Oddly I didn't seem to mention "this site will disappear soon" in any news updates.
Put a second go of Fiasco up on Comic Fury.
Also started shifting Felney and Tabakusho over to Comic Fury. Insanity Please was probably planned for a move, but have you seen how many strips there are? In the event, while the site was down / in a temp state, I did some updates but just left them offline.
May 2017:
Quit / was fired from the shit job. I'm still not sure which it was! I handed in my resignation, then got called into the office for a talk. The guy said "Do you know what this is about?" I said "because I handed in my resignation?" and he went "Oh, really?". He waffled about "being under pressure" from "up above", then I filled in a bunch of forms and left. Then got called back in because I'd filled them in with the wrong colour pen.
Met a very cute and very short woman, we had some fun.
June 2017:
Got a NEW job, less pay, but never mind. It was at N- High School, one of the most fun places I've ever worked, though I was still terrible at it and the other staff apparently thought I was useless. Never mind, funny students!
I turned 33.
July 2017:
Got a backup saturday job. Still poor, and I initially hated it and almost quit after one week, but was encouraged to keep at it.
August 2017:
Nothing happened.
The cute and short woman turned out to be married.
September 2017:
Nothing happened.
October 2017:
"Issue 5 of the RWB might be finished by January 2018!". HEH.
That would have been series 2, when the Red, White & Blue returns it will be as issue 1 of series 3!
November 2017:
Nothing happened.
I think this was the month I met a tall, big-boobed older woman. We had some fun.
December 2017:
Nothing happened.
January 2018:
Nothing happened.
Feburary 2018:
Nothing happened.
March 2018:
Nothing happened.
Last contact with tall, big-boobed older woman. I still don't really know why.
Finished contract at N- High School.
April 2018:
Presumably the site shut down sometime this month, a year after I cancelled the contract. But I don't know exactly when.
May 2018:
No website.
New contract at K- High school.
June 2018:
No website.
I turned 34.
July 2018:
No website.
August 2018:
No website.
September 2018:
No website.
October 2018:
No website.
November 2018:
No website.
Met a medium-height less-older woman named Keiko, the love of my life. On 11/11/18, 100 years after WW1 ended. Romantic, eh?
December 2018:
No website.
January 2019:
No website.
Feburary 2019:
No website.
March 2019:
No website.
Finished contract at K- High School.
April 2019:
No website.
May 2019:
No website.
Started Contract at I- Jr High school. Best place I have ever worked. Tearing up a little right now just thinking about it, I must admit.
Proposed to Keiko.
June 2019:
No website.
I turned 35.
July 2019:
No website.
August 2019:
No website.
September 2019:
No website.
October 2019:
No website.
November 2019:
No website.
December 2019:
No website.
January 2020:
No website.
Feburary 2020:
No website.
March 2020:
No website.
Ended first year at I- Jr High School.
April 2020:
No website.
Signed the new contract with the company that sent me to I- Jr High School, but that school doesn't need me for a month and a half. The "ongoing circumstances" result in a great many emergency cover positions opening up. Positions I gladly fill - working full-time hours at the part-time rate! Corona was good to me.
May 2020:
No website.
Started second contract at I- Jr High School.
June 2020:
No website.
I turned 36.
July 2020:
No website.
August 2020:
No website.
September 2020:
No website.
October 2020:
No website.
November 2020:
No website.
December 2020:
No website.
January 2021:
No website.
Feburary 2021:
No website.
March 2021:
No website.
Ended second contract at I- Jr High School.
April 2021:
No website.
May 2021:
No website.
Started third and final contract at I- Jr High School (legal fuckery about tax and that).
June 2021:
No website.
I turned 37.
July 2021:
No website.
August 2021:
No website.
September 2021:
No website.
October 2021:
No website.
November 2021:
Website revived!, but only as a single placeholder page with some hastily-drawn logos.
December 2021:
Nothing happened.
January 2022:
Nothing happened.
Feburary 2022:
Nothing happened.
Drew some new Insanity Please, decided to flat-colour it on a tablet while commuting. This took "a while". It wasn't uploaded until over a year later.
March 2022:
Nothing happened.
Last day at I- Jr High School. "My" kids, the ones in 1st grade when I started, were a wonderful bunch, and almost all of the other teachers I worked with were so nice.
April 2022:
Nothing happened.
May 2022:
Nothing happened.
Started at F- Jr High School, not a patch on the last one, and F-K- Elementary school nearby. Nice, but only one or two days a week.
June 2022:
Nothing happened.
I turned 38.
July 2022:
Nothing happened.
August 2022:
Nothing happened.
September 2022:
Nothing happened.
October 2022:
Nothing happened.
November 2022:
Nothing happened.
I got Corona. I guess it was thanking me for saying I "did well" out of it, and didn't infect me when infection meant an isolation ward and interrogation on your movements.
December 2022:
Nothing happened.
January 2023:
Nothing happened.
Feburary 2023:
Nothing happened.
March 2023:
First contract at F- Jr High school and F-K- Elementary school ended
I asked to switch contracts to somewhere else, but they told me I would be going back to the same place. Thanks for that.
April 2023:
Started second contract at F- Jr High school, which I don't like, and F-K- Elementary school, which I did like, but only went to 1-2 days a week. They reduced my time at the Elementary school, to only 1 day a week every week. Wonderful.
May 2023:
Nothing happened.
June 2023:
Nothing happened.
I turned 39.
July 2023:
Nothing happened.
August 2023:
Nothing happened.
September 2023:
Made the first real change to the site since restarting it, I made seperate placeholder pages for all the sections.
Restored Insanity Please and allegedly Tabakushō, but not really for the latter.
Work stalled due to Buffalo, the criminal ransomware scammers, taking my files hostage.
October 2023:
Found I'd luckily backed-up a recent version of the new site to a USB drive, so could continue...
Several comics restored to the website, including Scum Slaughter, Tabakushō (really this time), the Hourlies, Queer as Fuck...
The Doom section was restored
A concerted effort to fix up and upload what there is of the new design, then "gap fill" over time, began!
The Otaku Bar Reviews page was started.
I made the Potted History of The Felneyverse.
EU News was restored.
Mike Comix was restarted.
I went to Kansai Comitia 68, though the report about it wasn't uploaded until early November.
November 2023:
The few comics made for the "Anything Comic" mentioned in February 2010 were dug up and added to the archives of Mike Comix. As were the Smallwood Cartoons I did on Facebook in 2015.
A few "complete-ish" Universe guide pages for the Story Info section were uploaded.
A bunch of stories got shifted around into different fictional universes where they are better fits. A dimensional merge, you might say. Yeah well, when you all die and find out Chris-Chan's beleifs were the true religion, you'll be mad.
December 2023:
WOULD have gone to a con called Oricomi 10, but couldn't due to work.
January 2024:
Was considering quitting my second job (of Oricomi 10 attendance-preventing fame) and just continuing with my work at JR high and elementary schools, even though it would make me much poorer.
Got offered to go full time at my second job, from April 2024. A considerable resection in working hours with a considerable increase in pay. Crazy not to...
Went to a convention called Comic City 125, at Intex Osaka. It was HUGE! Filled every hall! I got there an hour or so after opening and barely saw half (didn't help most exhibitors packed up over an hour before it finished)
Went to a convention called Comic Treasure, at Intex Osaka. It was PRETTY BIG! Filled two halls! Though half of one was the cosplay shootin' area, and half of the other had loads of custom cars.
Went to a convention called Kansai Comitia 69, at Intex Osaka. It was... normal sized. Filling one hall. My girlfriend was supposed to be visiting but cancelled, so I had all-day free reign to visit tables and buy comics, which I promptly did.
Yes I did three cons in as many weeks, what a trip!
Feburary 2024:
Went to a tiny convention called YonKoma Komachi 23. Only about 25 tables. I spent more time trying to find an open place to eat in the surrounding streets than I did in the con!
March 2024:
Finished my contract at F- Junior High school and F-K- Elementary school, and also finished being an ALT in general, for the time being,anyway. Had quite the pub crawl around that area.
Started full time at my former part-time job.
Started to regret going full time at my former part-time job. I'd bike past an elementary school and get nostalgic.
Went to a comic convention called Haru Comic City 33.
April 2024:
Went to an FF6-only doujinshi convention called FF6 Prosit!
Put up the vastly-improved Otaku Bar Reviews page. Such a big change it's virtually a new section.
Uploaded photos from Download 2009. Better late than never, eh?
May 2024:
Uploaded a report on the MCM convention from May 2013, better late than never again, eh?
Also several more photo albums, including UK Deathfest 2009, Dubs at the Hall 2011 and the Little Downham Byegones & Organs show 2014.
I went to Kansai Comitia 70, it was also the exact day of my "J-Birthday", 8 years living here!
Restored the Gunge parody to the website. If you must see a leaflet I did crude scribbles on in 1999.
Restored Imperium to the website. Yeah, all four pages of it!
Restored Felney to the website. The website called the "Felneyverse" should probably have Felney on it, eh?
Restored The Chosen Ones to the website
Restored The Fourth Reich to the website, with some of the beginning partially rewritten to make it less shit. But I got fed up with doing that. Also two pages relating to "Gaydoom", an abandoned Doom project. are uploaded with it.
Restored Postman Prat to the website. What there was of it,anyway.
Added an index page to, and restored much more of The Skip.
Put up the story of IRL Anti Bully, rewritten from a lost blog post.
Dug up and uploaded a PDF of the unfinished original SCV!
Started the Felneyverse Mini-Stories page.
Went to Comic City 126 in Osaka
Found out the Misono Building in Osaka is due to be demolished at the end of 2024! That's ripping the heart out of the city, that. Like shutting down Man on the Moon in Cambridge. Started making the Misono Memories page, though it wasn't uploaded for over a year!
June 2024:
In a possible annual tradition, I turned the website black and white for "pride month". Not in my name.
I turned 40. I planned to have a day off to have a big drinkin' sesh and to recover from the hangover. I had the ready-booked day off pulled out from under me at the last minute. So fuck this job.
Classic Felney was restored to the website! About time, eh?
The Click games accompanied it.
July 2024:
Nothing happened
August 2024:
Nothing happened
September 2024:
I went to Comic Treasure 44.
I bought an escooter, what a hoot! Even if it's a very slow Japan-legal one.
October 2024:
I quit the job that deprived me of Oricomi 10 and a proper 40th birthday. I thought I could waltz back in to my former ALT company, but they didn't even reply to me. Panic set in. Agreed to do some part-time work after quitting.
I did go to Kansai Comitia 71, though. Limited haul, this time!
Found and re-uploaded a bunch of other old convention reports too.
Started the World Comics Review subdomain, posting stuff from my old British Comics Miscellany blog.
November 2024:
Got an email that some "legend" students from my job quit it, because I praised them saying it was "too easy" for them. And that was it, the moment I was fuckin' done with teaching and life in Japan in general. My girfriend had been pestering me for years about living in the UK, USA or Australia. As soon as I say "OK, let's go!", she's the one having second thoughts. I thought I was fired, actually. Then discovered I wasn't, they still wanted me to do Thursday evenings and Saturdays. Broiling with fury and frustration...
It was made a long time ago, but the Felney Ornithological Society page was finally uploaded and linked-to.
Fright Night 7 was restored. It's probably the only evidence the Fright Night webcomic crossover events ever existed now! I remember reading one of them at friggin' CRC!
Teddy Bear World was "restored". Well, actually, it had already been uploaded and put in amongst the archive of Insanity Please, but now it has it's own pages!
One of my favourite bars in Osaka, Caoff Discovery opened it's new version.
Dug up and uploaded a video my brother shot at a Zeroscape gig in Bury St. Edmonds's in 2006. Because it contains pictures of their graffiti'ed van from 2005, and also the shots from my car he filmed before realising he was taping over the gig.
Uploaded a bunch of no-longer-topical Coronavirus-related strips from SCV Series 2
Digital archaeology'd Black Widowe and added it to the site
Restored Spak Invaders and Centrefold to the website.
Finally made the Felneysoft Lost Media page! Only a couple of the games aren't as lost as I thought they were... "Insanity Game 2" and "Insanity Game 3" were probably last online in 2001!
Dug up what little I made for The Sentinel and Small Press Digest, turned it into PDFs, and uploaded it.
Got a new job, with a different ALT Agency!
Started work at K- elementary school.
December 2024:
My Escooter decided to fold up on me while I was driving. Now I'm glad it only does 20 km/h! Bolted down the folding-up lever tight, so it can't even move. But I'll be making further modifications.
Some not-so-lost media games were dug up and restored to the website! One made in November 2000!
Uploaded the abandoned Bughunt 2.
A "lost" Doom wad was found (in modified form, probably last worked-on in 2004, mind) and uploaded. Skewl2.wad!
Restored Games to a "full" section, and not just part of "other"!
The old Caoff Discovery closed it's doors, along with the Misono Building as a whole...
January 2025:
I got somewhat anniahlated at Caoff / The Misono's last night (and I so nearly took the scooter and made it a "dry" night, wish I had done!), and spent all of January 1st in bed. Still last year an earthquake flattened a town, so at least it was better than that.
Uploaded Ant Blaster, a game set in the same universe as the Bughunt Doom wad(s). It was actually made around 2001, but never got compiled and uploaded for some reason.
I went to Super Comic City 30.
I went to Kansai Comitia 72 and Comic Treasure 45, which were held at the same venue and date..
February 2025:
Did an Hourly Comic.
Uploaded a report on the Spring 2011 MCM Expo. Better late than never again, eh?
Also the hourly comics weren't on the Site Map for some reason, so I added them.
March 2025:
Went to Yonkoma Komachi 25, when I found the bloody thing,anyway.
Uploaded a somewhat-disappointing Felney Movie.
Restored Zombie Shock Massacre! to the website. Actually I was quite surprised I hadn't done it already!
Uploaded a couple of crappy stop-motion movies.
Uploaded a botched old movie which ended up being called "Shint", because I was laughing too much at our pathetic fails to type "Shit".
The report on Kansai Comitia 72 and Comic Treasure 45 actually got uploaded.
Added an about page to Teddy Bear World.
Finished the contract at K- elementary school. It was nice but crazily overworked and sleep-depriving. Not surprised they didn't renew me.
Went to Osaka Fes 25, another Akaboo con where everybody closed up early. decided to boycott those cons.
Started a job at an international school thing, but found it miserable and asked to quick-quit. Later I decided to get my head down and stick with it.
April 2025:
Left the international school thing. I think they'd already got a replacement for me XD.
Started work at D- Jr High School. Also U- and M- Elementary schools, but I won't actually go to them until May.
Started cycling to those schools on my e-assisted mamachari (or sometimes the rickety Ekon scooter of death - now with barely-functional rear brakes). 20 miles a day! That'll slim me down.
May 2025:
Started at U- and M- Elementary schools, very cute and funny.
Went to Kansai Comitia 73.
June 2025:
I turned 41.
July 2025:
Misono Universe proper (as in, the live house in the basement) closed on the 5th... or the 7th. The last show was on the 5th, anyway!
August 2025:
Gamer Scum was restored to the website.
I got RPG Maker MV, for all of £9, and started to make a new Insanity Please RPG
I also used the world map from that to make the Insanity Please World Map.
The Insult Maker was restored to the website.
Uploaded version 2.1 of the old Insanity Please RPG.
September 2025:
I went to Osaka Expo 2025
But nothing else happened.
October 2025:
Figshit Picks was started.
I went to Kansai Comitia 74
November 2025:
The Ekon Escooter warning page was uploaded.
Misono Memories was FINALLY uploaded!
The also-delayed report on Kansai Comitia 74 was uploaded.
The Kestrel Books page was created.
I added a background image to the site again. Last time I did it, it made the next hard to read... but now the text is all in tables, so it isn't so bad.
December 2025:
An old Insanity Please Text Story was restored to the website.
January 2026:
3½ was uploaded to the Mini-Stories page.
"N" for Nipper was uploaded to the Mini-Stories page.
P.I.E. (Paranormal Investigation Executive) was uploaded to the Mini-Stories page.
I finally dug-up and made available Galactic Conquest: Lone Survivor.
I went to Kansai Comitia 75.
It was Felney's 25th Birthday!. Uploaded The Felney Special and the unfinished (and crappy) old story Felney 2!
Also uploaded Oo-Arr Farmer.
It was the 10th birthday of Tabakushō, I didn't really do anything, bar reposting an old Bonus comic.
Giant Chickens of DOOM! was uploaded, a belated second game for Felney's 25th.
February 2026:
I did an Hourly Comic.
I downloaded a couple of free game engines, which require coding, called Flax and Redot... will anything come of this??
Gave the Doom page a jiggle about.
March 2026:
Tea Room Mystery was uploaded.
Twilight Hunt was uploaded.
Also, the Darkbasic games got their own section.
April 2026:
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December 2026:
The day is dawnin', on a Chadian Sunday mor-rnin'. How I long to be there, to meet the mugu waitin' for me there. Is this the way to N'djamena? I'll be weepin' like a willa', if I can't get to N'djmena, where my mugu waits for me!