Getting close to finishing RSA Volume 3 issues 14 and 15. So, shut up!

Disclaimer: For the benefit of the NSA, CIA, FBI, Secret Service and Trump's private security force; Ralph Snart Adventures is a work of fiction. Ralph Snart is a fictional character. The author and creator of Ralph Snart Adventures, Marc Hansen, does NOT want to kill the President, nor has he ever planned or attempted, and is a tax-paying and law-abiding citizen of the United States of America.Don't be too shocked about the lastest issue of RSA. After all, Ralph Snart has a history of trying to kill the President. It began back in Volume 5 when he tried to kill Socks the Cat (it having taken over for an absconding Bill Clinton). Ralph loses that fight and ends up getting his heart ripped out by Socks. Damn cat.Then, in Volume 6, when he tried to kill President Beaver. Actually, in that case, Ralph and Doofus succeed when they give Beaver a lethal "beer cramming" and then hide his body under some sofa seat cushions. Later the whole sofa is dumped from Air Force One over Pittsburg.Volume 7 is entirely based around Ralph going into hiding after trying to blow up another version of the President (unnamed but sure looks like Bush) with a back pack full of explosives. Ralph fails this time and ends up blowing himself up sky high. Later, the President seeks revenge by trying to send the planet into a nuclear winter.Now the lastest, in Volume 8, as Ralph and Doofus are brain washed into trying to assassinate President Frump. Their success or failure will be revealed in issue 6. Tee-hee! All harmless fun! And FICTIONAL. Don't forget to mention it's fictional.

"Leftovers" beer (1-gallon) on the left and my attempt at hard cider (1/2-gallon) on the right. The beer has no base malt, just some biscuit, flaked corn, DME, corn and cane sugar. Also has all of what little I got from my hops harvest this year. The cider has 9-lbs of Honeycrisp (what was I thinking), Golden Delicious and Granny Smith apples ground up in my grandmother's old meat grinder, plus 1/2-cup cane sugar. I split an old packet of Nottingham ale yeast for both, which was apparently still good since both are fermenting like dogs, and especially since I gave them the whole shebang (good for 5-gallons). Will bottle both in three weeks.

Pioneer breweries in my hometown...

Should release in next ten days...

Quick blather...

- ebooks of Ralph Snart Adventures Vol 3, issues 8 and 9 will release this month (May). Later on comiXology. Vol 3, issues 14 and 15 will come out in due time.

- no con appearances this year, not unless someone's paying -- all expenses, beer, Trump rally type welcome, etc.

- working on a NEW Snart comic, which will be Vol 8, issue 4.

Only have six more issues to go until I'm finished digitizing all of my comic books. They're all from Ralph Snart Volume 3: issues 8, 9, 11, 13-15. After that, I start actually writing and drawing new stuff. Wow. New Snart. Also, I've done new cover art for issues 10 (below), 13 and 17 of Volume 3, and issue 5 of Volume 5.

Harvested today and came across this 3" long mutant.

After doing some tests, it looks like RSA Vol 3 No 24 is a go. So, hopefully sometime this year I'll get to that issue.

Now on the Snart Store is a collection of cartoons done for my college newspaper The Ferris Torch from 1982 through 1984. These later evolved into the comic book Ralph Snart Adventures. This new ebook, reprints all of the comic strips and cartoons from that period. Color and B&W, 26 pages, 99¢.