diesel sweeties : webcomic by rstevens

Archive for January, 2008

127.0.0.1 is the Loneliest Number

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

I pulled the “IT’S COMPLICATED” shirt a couple days early in order to make it a nice, clean single print run. If you missed, it drop me a line and there may be some extras.
My inboxes were so full of requests for “127.0.0.1 is the Loneliest Number,” it was a no-brainer whether or not to [...]

Parallel Wives (or Hot Girl on Girl Remote Viewing Action)

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Sometimes you just have to draw one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven comics to get to the quantum mechanical slash fic.
Previous Suzie Loves Pete comics.
Previous Kate Has Common Sense adventures.

Twitterbots, Valentines and Pixel Hearts

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Three small things:
1.) It looks like the wooden pixel hearts will be in on Friday. We’ll process and ship ASAP, then contact those of you on the waiting list for extras if there are any.
2.) You can get updates to Diesel Sweeties via Twitter now. It reads my RSS feed and messages you when new [...]

There Are Two Kinds Of Porn Stars: Lubri-Cans And Lubri-Can’ts

Monday, January 28th, 2008

I couldn’t use all my imaginary lube product names in tonight’s comic. Here’s a few more:
*Flanger Balm
*Manhattan Parking Space Cream
*Resistance is Feudal
Make one up and post if it you are so inclined!

Wooden Pixel Hearts! (Sold out)

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Mr. Yates has outdone himself yet again! We’ve got 50 of these wooden pixel hearts up for pre-order today, we’ll be shipping them out next week. You can’t beat hand-made Valentine goodies.
Wow! Those sold out quickly. We’ve still got Valentine’s day gifts and the new IT’S COMPLICATED shirt rocking out today.

Lonelier Numbers

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

My inbox right now is a big reminder that 127.0.0.1 is lonelier than 192.186.1.1, DS #1933 is edited to reflect that. I think it reads a little better this way, too.

It’s Complicated or “I Can’t Say No To Me”

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Posted “IT’S COMPLICATED” to LJ yesterday, got a much more positive response than expected… so it’s a limited run starting now. We’ll keep it up until 2/2, then see if there’s still demand. (button by Octopus Pie, which hits 100 strips this week)
See you at noon with wooden pixel hearts, then back to work!

We have officially achieved SOCKPUNK

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Insane hugs and thankees to Libby, crown princess of steampunks:

I have a bunch more pixel sock photos to post later in the week, but this one is rather striking.

Cavalcade of Dateless Wonders

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Are you having an anti-Valentine’s party like Suzie is? We should spread the word around so sweeties in various cities around the world can hang out with each other. I wonder if there’s a safe way to do this.

Life Meters, Mid-Week

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Mr Yates was kind enough to make us some more wooden pixel goodies for Valentine’s day. I’ll have a limited run of 50 pixel hearts up for sale at noon (EST) on Wednesday! They’re 3″ high, hand-made and will cost $12.99 + shipping. If you grab them with other stuff in the same order, drop [...]