Nobody saw this coming, right? Actually that’s only partially in jest– I genuinely expected the lawsuit to be for copyright infringement based on the “Pal’s” similarity to their Pokemon counterparts. Instead it’s patent infringement, which sounds to me like they gave up on the copyright approach and just tried to find something to sue for. Palworld’s explosion into the cultural zeitgeist earlier this year probably bruised Pokemon’s ego a bit, and you know how much Nintendo loves to put their lawyers to work.

On a related topic of things we saw coming (in this case because I told you it was coming)… we’re getting ready to launch the Kickstarter for the next Ctrl+Alt+Del books! This time I’ve managed to activate the “coming soon” page without accidentally launching the project weeks early. That’s a win for my anxiety levels.

If you head to the link, you can sign up to be notified when the project goes live (which should be early October, concrete date to be settled upon soon). The books are kind of a big deal for what we do here, not just because I like to collect my work into a power-outage-proof, end-of-civilization-proof format, but also in terms of their ties to the sustainability of the website and the work I do here. Apart from our Patreon, books are the other big way you can support the comic, and help me continue operating this weird business model where I first give you my work for free, and then years later ask you to buy it. So I’m really hoping you’ll come check out the project once it launches.