A whole slew of comics would go by with nothing and then, well…īack to Artemis. From that point on Bob showed up as a running gag in the strip. At the end, add “Bob was there, too.” This can be particularly entertaining if you end up reading a paragraph from a sex scene. Take a book you like, open to a random page and read a paragraph.
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This spawned a running joke within my group of friends and a fun activity. I jokingly came up with randomly adding “ Bob was there, too” throughout the story. When you’ve got it already finished, adding more into that matrix gets very, very difficult.
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When you set out to write a novel that might be possible. You can’t just add in characters to a heist every additional person in a group noticeably weakens it, so your characters have to have good reasons to bring in these extra security risks.
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“Feel free to edit and resubmit.” But it’s a heist. They thought he didn’t have enough characters in his story. I don’t know that that novel was exactly Theft of Pride, but the pattern fits. He borrowed his comic once to explicitly complain about a rejection not a rejection from a publisher, but from a potential agent for his novel. And the man’s writing has its weaknesses. The heist is pretty cool there’s a lot of interesting world-building (I suspect that the whole thing started as a homebrew setting for a role-playing game) but all that is stuff that plays to Weir’s strengths. The greatest jewel thief in the galaxy needs to steal the symbol of an alien race’s pride out from the midst of the most heavily guarded museum in known space. Theft of Pride is the story of a sci-fi heist. I only ever knew about his attempt at a novel because I was reading his webcomic whenever it updated back in the heady days of 2004. XKCD still has the best summary of this that I’ve ever heard. What he does really, really well is gadgets. Occasionally he’d break into a story with some actual continuity, but things like character development were never Andy Weir’s strong point. I mean, there was a bunch of other stuff in there, but all the best stuff was about mad science. Casey & Andy was a webcomic about mad science. Pepper I think I can break out of the whole hipster milieu and get on with the story. No, not his current website galactanet, the old one where he hosted his webcomic Casey & Andy. No, not The Martian, this is the unpublished one called Theft of Pride. Now that I’m drinking a Triple India Pale Ale double dry hopped with Simcoe, Callista, and Kohatu,* I can tell you that I’ve been a fan of Andy Weir’s for longer than you have. But sometimes I’m early sometimes I… hold on, I’m going to need to get a proper hipster beer to fortify me for this next part. The bad thing is that nobody cares about what you have to say by then. The good part of not staying up-to-the-minute on these things is that I can get the book from the library because nobody else has it out. Yes, I know it’s been out for *checks title page* five years? Really? Man, I am slow at this kind of thing. I just finished reading Artemis, by Andy Weir.