This was supposed to go up weeks ago.. but moving the sites then updating them and making new themes took a little time. Next week we return to two updates a week. 
- Tiff
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I’ve always been fascinated by “cool” cars that have obviously live a long hard life. “Junker” sports cars have a definite appeal. I think it was the movie “The Big Chill” that included an old beat up Porsche that I absolutely loved.
But this storyline is based on the kind of car that I had most of the time growing up. I’m a strong believer that early drivers need a healthily trashed used car. I know I learned a lot about cars putting band aids on some of my old junkers in my early driving experience. Of course none of them had left over spy gadgets.
My new years resolution this year is to be be more active in my blogs, twitters and forums. I tend to be kind of a quiet type who likes to have his comics talk for him, but I really do like connecting with the fans. So I’m going to do my best to be more vocal this year. Of course I tend to make this resolution every year, but I’m going to try to stick to it this time.
This storyline is based on my wife’s famous toffee. It’s something that she only makes around Christmas and every time I take a batch to work I’m bombarded with requests for the recipe. So I can only imagine how difficult it would be to keep it secret from a top notch intelligence organization.
 When we started Abby’s Agency, one of the things that I was really interested in developing was some kind of reader role playing opportunity. Abby’s Agency is about the office workers behind the scenes of your favorite spy adventure, only a couple of actual WSA agents have been introduced in the comic. So I always wanted to give you, the readers, an opportunity to become the field operatives for the World Star Agency and develop the fan community around a role playing opportunity. I just never got around to it.
Fortunately the guys over at Snakehead Games have made that dream a possibility. Spy Battles 2165 is a role playing game where you become a spy and can join the WSA or any one of a number of other factions to travel the globe in search of intrigue and adventure. You have the opportunity to build and develop your character as you go on covert operations, gamble, and attack enemy agents. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, I have a confession to make. I wrote this current storyline to conclude on Election day. However my estimations seem to be off. It’s set to conclude on December 4th instead of November 4th. I don’t know what I was thinking, but I need to take full blame for this one.
The good news is that I had written 2 endings depending on who won the election, but by December it’s going to be pretty obvious who won (I hope).
I’m heading off to Comic Con!Â
I’ll be appearing at the Keenspot booth so please stop by and say “hello”. I’ll have both Abby’s Agency books as well as bookmarks and postcards. I’ll also have some Zortic books and ETI-PI fliers. We’re still working on trying to get Tiffany and I to appear together sometime soon!
Just got back from seeing Get Smart and I loved it! I can’t say that it’s the funniest movie I’ve ever seen, or the best action movie I’ve ever seen. But it is the funniest action movie AND the most action filled comedy I’ve ever seen. And if you know your Get Smart trivia, there are ALOT of references in the movie… And at least one Abby’s Agency reference!!! See if you can spot it!
Until Abby’s ready to go again (and there is some GREAT stuff coming soon), you might want to check out my new comic. If you like Abby’s Agency, I’m sure you’ll like ETI-PI. While the Worldstar Conglomerate is an example of a “successful” organization, the “Extra Terrestrial Intelligence-Private Investigators” are stuggling to find out what’s out there. Catch up now while it’s still new!
So not only do you all get a chance to get to know me through this blog, but Tiffany’s new site allows my original scripts to appear under the strip. So you’re going to get an extra chance to see how Tiffany and I work together. I’m both excited and intimidated by this.Â
I carry around a PDA which I use to jot down my ideas where ever I am. Once I have a bunch finished, I collect a group of them and send them off to Tiffany. She’s the one that puts the final coat of polish on it. Unfortunately it’s not much of a high end computer for things like spell and grammar check, even the format is a little primative. So please keep your laughter aimed at the strip and not my script.
Hello everyone! Thanks to Tiffany’s great new page design, I get to join in on the blogging. I’ve never been much of a blogger, so hopefully this will be an excellent opportunity for all of us to get to know one another a bit better. Hopefully I won’t do too much meaningless rambling.
For those that don’t know me, I’m Mark Mekkes, I’m the writer for Abby’s Agency. I also do the comic Zortic, and am part of the Web Cartoonists’ Choice Awards and Podwarp 1999 (speaking of which, I did slip an Abby’s Agency plug into the normal SciFi discussion last week).
Would you believe … doing this layout has taken most of a day? It looks easy (well, I knew it wasn’t easy before I started, because I’ve been contemplating it for awhile.) This layout has changed a bit, but I’m liking how it’s looking so far. I WAS going for a theme in the form of a cork board, but went from there to a desk to .. bah.. it just looks pleasant.
I still have to complete the header, new navigation buttons (I may put that off for awhile as it’s not really THAT necessary) and to fix the top and bottom on that center part where this blog is at. Otherwise, we’re good to go and there WILL be one update for next week.
- Tiff
Site’s going to be a functional mess for awhile. Server problems have been getting a good deal of my attention … so trying to fix that with a new server. I will get this page looking nice again before I overhaul the rest of them.
- Tiff
I completed this week’s updates .. but forgot to load them. At the same time, I’ve been busy making things for A-kon which starts on Friday .. and didn’t do any for next week, so I’m going to hold this week’s comics and use them next week.
- Tiff
I didn’t INTEND to take the comic into hiatus right here. It WILL return, I’m just not sure when. I’m going to shoot for sometime this month (February), but not within the first two weeks. I have too many things to get done. (Most of what’s been in the way of updating has been doctors visits and other similarly fun things.) The comic IS supposed to go on hiatus, but not until the end of this arc.
Today’s update will update late. I still have to letter it. I’m being slowed down by a minor bit of soreness.
Welcome to the new and improved Abby’s Agency, now complete with new features such as a bookmark to keep your place in the archives, art gallery, … ACTUAL commentable updates! And places for both Mark and I to easily make posts without uploading webpages.