First, there's the Pre-Daily Grind story Hearts and Minds if you wanna see what some of the characters looked like in a story I wrote and drew a couple years before the contest came along
Then would come the actual Books:
Book I: Another Country
Intro: Welcome to Daily Grind
One: The Crossing Guard
Two: A Tooth for a Tooth
Three: Chrysalis
Four: Dust Bunny
Five: "-30-"
Six: The Batrachonesian Amphora
Book II: Out of Darkness
Seven: Pocketful of Dreams
Eight: Under Hill
Nine: Selected Shorts
Ten: Sons of the Black Swan
Eleven: The Apprentice
Twelve: Holiday
Book III: Alone Together
Thirteen: Tools of the Trade
Fourteen: Simplicity Itself
Fifteen: Shifting Sands
Sixteen: Toil and Trouble
Seventeen: Cradle to Grave
Eighteen: Administrative Oversight
Book IV: Till There was You
Nineteen: Signing the Senses
Twenty: Hypocrisy
Twenty-One: Animus
Twenty-Two: On a Clear Day
Twenty-Three: Point of Order
Twenty-Four: A Long, Long Trail A-Winding
Book V: Written on Water
Twenty-Five: Saturday
Twenty-Six: Artifacts
Twenty-Seven: Foreign Correspondence
Twenty-Eight: This Mortal Coil
Twenty-Nine: Patrimony
Thirty: The Way of All Flesh
Book VI: The Eyes of the World
Thirty-One: Refraction
Thirty-Two: A Flick of the Lash
Thirty-Three: Against the Dying of the Light
Thirty-Four: Crack of Dawn
Thirty-Five: Iris Out
Thirty-Six: Chiaroscuro
Book VII: The City When it Sleeps
Thirty-Seven: Second Date
Thirty-Eight: The Old Country
Thirty-Nine: Twelve Feet Under
Forty: The Best Defense
Forty-One: Grand Opening
Forty-Two: Burning Down the House
Book VIII: Stolen Moments
Forty-Three: Solitaire
Forty-Four: The Sting
Forty-Five: Feather in the Wind
Forty-Six: Time and the River Flowing
Forty-Seven: Maintenance
Forty-Eight: Hierogamia
Book IX: Rhapsody
Forty-Nine: Introduction & Allegro
Fifty: Adagietto
Fifty-One: Menuet a Tre
Fifty-Two: Scherzando
Fifty-Three: Toccata & Fugue
Fifty-Four: Totenfeier
Book X: Sun Won't Stop
Fifty-Five: Acceptance
Fifty-Six: Settling In
Fifty-Seven: Forgery
Fifty-Eight: Many Happy Returns
Fifty-Nine: In Shining Armor
Sixty: Waxing and Waning
Book XI: Midwinter's Eve
Sixty-One: Standard Operating Procedures
Sixty-Two: Black Swans LLC
Sixty-Three: Paper Moon
Sixty-Four: The Ties That Bind
Sixty-Five: Jitters
Sixty-Six: Hearts and Flowers
Book XII: Worlds in Collision
Sixty-Seven: Adventures in Spider Sitting
Sixty-Eight: The In-Laws
Sixty-Nine: Brunch
Seventy: Taking the Ride
Seventy-One: The Unpleasantness
Seventy-Two: Crash Positions
Book XIII: Dawn's Early Light
Seventy-Three: Fits and Starts
Seventy-Four: Familial
Seventy-Five: Contraindicated
Seventy-Six: In the Country of the Blind
Seventy-Seven: For Want of a Nail
Seventy-Eight: Red Glare
Book XIV: Ringing the Changes
Seventy-Nine: Birthday Boy
Eighty: Nesting
Eighty-One: The Job
Eighty-Two: Safety Net
Eighty-Three: Minding the Gap
Eighty-Four: Chutes and Ladders
Book XV: What Remains
Eighty-Five: General Quarters
Eighty-Six: Radio Silence
Eighty-Seven: Stable 2
Eighty-Eight: Snafu
Eighty-Nine: Hurry Up and Wait
Ninety: Fubar
Book XVI: Boundless
Ninety-One: Windy and Warm
Ninety-Two: These Mean Streets
Ninety-Three: Conglomeration
Ninety-Four: Gang Aft A-gley
Ninety-Five: A Game of Gnat and Serpent
Ninety-Six: Centerpiece
Book XVII: Spellbound
Ninety-Seven: Evidentiary
Ninety-Eight: Jurisprudence
Ninety-Nine: The Court of Public Opinion
One Hundred: Move to Strike
One Hundred One: Star Chamber
One Hundred Two: Balancing the Scales
Book XVIII: The Raveled Sleeve of Care
One Hundred Three: Sticking Plasters
One Hundred Four: The Vapors
One Hundred Five: Leech
One Hundred Six: Autoimmune Response
One Hundred Seven: Warts and Bunions
One Hundred Eight: Motion Sickness
Book XIX: Window Box
One Hundred Nine: First Person Plural
One Hundred Ten: Glottal Stop
One Hundred Eleven: Sibilance
One Hundred Twelve: Voiced and Unvoiced
One Hundred Thirteen: Resonance
One Hundred Fourteen: A Tickle in the Throat
Opening Pages with Art by Roz Gibson
Back in 2010, I hired artist Roz Gibson to redesign and
redraw the first twenty or so pages of the comic.
These are the results.
One Hundred Fifteen: Jo's Typewritten Musings
Jo gets a typewriter to put her thoughts on paper.
She eats all the paper afterwards, sure, but still...
One Hundred Sixteen: All in the Family
Alice and Doc are exchanging text messages when Malvolio decides to drop in.
How she manages to do it isn't a question that really comes up....
One Hundred Seventeen: The Nameless
Tharka, Gana, Juliette, and Eduard are up to their old tricks when it comes to summoning little blue monsters.
This time, it's maybe not the best idea they've ever had...
One Hundred Eighteen: Expense Reports
Daily Grind's been hired by Florabelle, the Queen of Queens in Gadsden's Myrmec District, so Howlett asks Mrs. Teasdale to come along with him. And working for royalty, well, there certainly shouldn't be any problem covering the expenses they incur on the job.
But nothing's ever simple in Anttown, is it?
One Hundred Nineteen: A Dose of Perspective
In the aftermath of the previous adventure, Mrs. Teasdale expresses a certain amount of disgruntlement to Alban over supper. Alban's attempts to ease this disgruntlement lead to assault, theft, and a great deal of death magic.
All of which proves that disgruntlement's rather in the eye of the beholder...
One Hundred Twenty: Deliverance
Time runs together, unspools, and drips all over the place as the Coil of the future records in his journal what the Coil of the present did the day Grace gave birth to her and Steven's child.
As if that wasn't enough of an adventure right there!
One Hundred Twenty-One: The Transitive Property
Once upon a time, a young frog found herself attracted to a building, a temple whose construction had allegedly been ordered several centuries earlier by the semi-mythological figure known as Lord Quetzal. And despite all obstacles, Chloe Rhegminos became an acolyte of Lord Quetzal's temple on the island of Cloud Forest.
Then her troubles really began.
One Hundred Twenty-Two: Nuptials
Malvolio doesn't want to tell this story no matter how much Doc or Alice or Jolene or Coil or anyone glares at her. That none of them actually are glaring at her—except maybe Coil—doesn't matter in the slightest.
Malvolio's a proudly unreliable narrator, after all.
One Hundred Twenty-Three: Universally Acknowledged
Nathaniel Henshaw hasn't had an easy road becoming Gadsden's police chief. And now that he's entered into a romantic relationship with a semi-mythical spider who's rehabilitating from a murderous life of crime, things have gotten even more complicated.
Henshaw loves every minute of it.
One Hundred Twenty-Four: The Wild Hunt
With the Twilight Realms reestablishing their connections to the Mortal Realm after four hundred years, it seems inevitable that there will be a few snags and glitches and peculiarities that need smoothing over.
It seems every bit as inevitable that these jagged pieces will find themselves drawn to Daily Grind...
One Hundred Twenty-Five: Honey or Cheese?
Alice writes a feature article for the Gazette about her recently concluded honeymoon.
Other topics may come up as well.
One Hundred Twenty-Six: Slipskin
Howlett comes to Tharka for assistance in shedding his skin.
This proves to be more fraught an operation than anyone might've expected.
One Hundred Twenty-Seven: Succor
Jo and Mrs. Teasdale have just finished up something of an impromptu mission. That means it's time to write a report about it for Howlett.
No typewriters were harmed during the making of this storyline.
One Hundred Twenty-Eight: Triage
In the wake of the previous storyline, Doc finds himself making a number of plans, some of which cause him to think about things he'd rather not think about.
It's all part of being a Daily Grind operative...
One Hundred Twenty-Nine: Crown Moldering
While this storyline could certainly be considered a sonnet cycle, it most definitely isn't a crown of sonnets. Howlett here has very little use for crowns either actual or metaphorical.
He will sometimes wear a fancy blue necktie, though.
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