Welcome to 2010! I can safely say that I have published a comic every day of this year so far.
This comic spawned directly from a Facebook conversation I had with Sangheilioz recently:
Sangheilioz: Jim, Reclaimer is my drug. I need my fix, man!
Jim: Oh, so the headaches, shakiness, and nausea are finally getting to you?
Sangheilioz: you have no idea…
Jim: It helps if you find a warm, semi-dark corner someplace, wrap up in a blanket, and curl up into that corner and repeat, “Reclaimer Reclaimer Reclaimer…” over and over again until the symptoms dissipate. It works twice as well if you videotape and upload it to YouTube.
Sangheilioz: If I had a camera you’d see that exact scene, plus rocking back and forth.
Jim: Oh, and drool. There HAS to be drool.
Jim: Heck, if you find a camera and make that video happen, I’ll make a special Reclaimer comic just for you. 
Sangheilioz: You, sir, are on!
Jim:rubs hands together in a fiendish manner and laughs maniacally
Sangheilioz: rubs hands together in a fiendish manner and laughs maniacally
Sangheilioz: You can’t really see the drool, but it’s there.
Sangheilioz, this comic’s for you (and gives me a creative way to introduce a plot point I was already going to implement, anyway.
And just so we’re clear, this was a one-time deal. Making videos without invitation will not necessarily provoke plot-affecting comics. wink
Epic win, I owe you Sangheilioz. I owe you one comic.
It was definitely amusing.
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I can't really see what's going on. Must be my monitor.
Sounds cool anyway.
It's pretty dim in the video—and you're not really missing anything.
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O.K. good
And anyway, did you really wanna see his pimpled, acne scarred, oily face anyway??? :p
Not every Reclaimer addict looks like you, DooBy…
Oh, burn!
Really??
Well, um, my self esteem is now at an all time low…
hugz arbitur?
Owe me what? I could go for a backrub…
Now I'm really concerned for you man.
And I thought my withdrawal symptoms were severe.
By any chance, do we have Reclaimer Pills yet?? I'm itching for some next time Jim drops of the face of Reclaimercomic.com…
And I really do hate you Jim. Just as I was coming clean and sober of Reclaimer, you go and drop another comic right in my lap…
Yup, I'm mean like that.
Did you really think I wasn't coming back?
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Nope. I thought you had died… Or given up on us for that stupid Starchips thing… :p
No death—and Starchips is gonna rawk! Just you wait and see.
still checking the feed every day in anticipation:p
Yup, we're back to our regular schedule.
Excellent!
Sweet
So have you published any Starchips yet?? I see a lot of updates on that twitter thing you have, but I don't know where to look.
Anyway… this is Viper?
This is… well, you'll just have to wait and see.
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I is confuzzled.
BUT IT'S BACK!!! THANK GOD IT'S BACK!!!
Actually thank Sanghellioz it's back :p You, sir, are epic winsauce
Well, technically, I'd planned to start Reclaimer back up again on New Year's Day. Sangheilioz just gave me a creative way to do that (and I really wanted to see if I could get him to make an embarrassing video of himself).
It doesn't take much… I'd link an even more embarassing one of myself, but I don't want to advertise. XD
Oh, but please do!
Oh but don't… :p There are some sights that even the internet is not prepared for…
i literally am grinning like a maniac right now, cuz this is so funny.
Agreed.
Good way to kick off 2010, isn't it?
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Let's hope we can build up some momentum before everybody else starts showing withdrawal symptoms.
Jim, if I start getting the Reclaimer DT's I'm not going to be happy.
I'm going to be very very angry.
And I'm like the Hulk man. You wont like me when I'm angry.
HULK SMASH!!!!!!
I've seen your picture. You're really not intimidating. Your Hulk Smash is more like a Hulk Squeal.
I feel like I have a stalker.
Plus, did Bruce look intimidating when he wasn't big and green. NO!
Clearly, being angry has everything to do with it. Now don't interrupt me when I'm trying to pulverize you with my bare green hands.
Hahaha you got seriously cut by Jim man :p
But even if he can deal with the Hulk Squeal, can he deal with an angry Reclaimer starved mob???
That is the question…
That's what lawyers are for…
Lawyers are only useful after the fact. Are they going to stand in front of our flames and pitchforks, or just sue us afterward???
They're great cannon fodder. Seriously.
Really?? Do you really think you can pay enough to even slow us down?? You'd need an army!!!
I have to admit, this took some creativity and desperation beyond mine.
It's just cool to know I have loyal fans like this…
Loyal to a fault.
Silence, or the great Sam will smite you all!
The great Sam?
His real name…
Nope, I'm going with Snow on this one. It's not loyalty, but more desperation than any of us have….. But if I had to wait any longer, I don't know… I might, only might have stooped that low…
I'd like to think that any one of my readers would have had the creativity to do something like that.
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Again not creativity, just sheer desperation. And you begged him for it anyway :p
Kudos Sanghelioz.
call it loyalty, desperation, or whatever, the fact remains it got us Reclaimer back.
Well, as I said before, I already planned to bring Reclaimer back on the 1st—your video just make it more fun to do so.
why must you rain on my parade?
I'm a sadist like that.
I think Reclaimer (aka Cliffhanger) is enough evidence of that…
Fair enough
More fan-created media would be awesome. Guess I should lead by example, eh?
Blast you JIM!!
There goes my plans for world domination.
I'll get you yet.
No one can 'get' Jim. He just is.
I've said this before, but I'll say it again.
In the Beginning, there was nothing… Except for Jim. And he said "LET THERE BE RECLAIMER!"
It's good to see reclaimer ringing in the new year. Loving the withdrawal, may have to get myself checked out.
Go get that done—and wipe that drool off your face.
At least he didn't go as far as Sangheilioz.
I don't think that's possible… :p
lol
You and me both…
I wonder how many people we have lost with Jims hiatus'??? It seems like only the regulars have stuck around…
Bungie isn't even adding us back on the front page any more… :'(
Bungie posted it the last time I put out a comic—and they're all on vacation until Monday, at which point I fully expect them to play catch-up from the last couple of weeks.
Yup, saw Reclaimer on the Comm Chatter yesterday.
Yeah, urk treats me really well.
Haven't lost me, I'm still here! I just don't comment regularly
I wont stop following Reclaimer believe you me.
I don't think anybody blames Jim though, so if we did lose a few people I think they'll come crawling back begging for more sooner or later…you know, with the withdrawal symptoms and all.
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Well, the reader numbers are still pretty good, even without the usual Bungie Rush. So, no worries!
Oh okay
Well hopefully we'll see some more people when they realize you're back 
I think we already have. Most of the regular commenters have already chimed in here.
I saw that
Looks like I'm not the only one that's been checking in on a trice daily basis…
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WOOT!! You're back!! And that vid was hilarious!
Reclaimer has a GREAT community.
I actually found that mildly disturbing…. Like the Flood transforming something into a scary fucking zombie monster thing….
I'm honored… Really, I am.
Symptoms seem to have cleared up for the time being…
well its not exactly an easy one to type.:p
good to see RC to start the New Year.
Happy New Year everyone from the North Sea.
I don't have any idea what you're talking about…
Well why don't you just get an easier to spell name???
And I'm not sure if that is win or sheer desperation born of some serious withdrawal… Or desire to be humiliated online…
some combination of all of the above with just a hint of insanity and a pinch of boredom.
Fair enough, but I think there are some deeper more potent ingredients… Like psychosis…
more like neurosis, but there could be a smidgeon of psychosis in there as well.
'Neurosis' is such a fuzzy term. There are so many much better terms to describe mental illness. :p
must have been my imagination…
Clearly. The world does not revolve around you, dude.
Nope, but it and everything else revolves around Jim. Well at least everything Reclaimer related
You are made of win, sir.
YAY!!! MORE RECLAIMER!!!1
Matbe my twitch will start to go away now…twitch ugh, damnit. twitch
Easiest way to deal with twitches is to sever the nerve causing it. No more twitch!
I kept my withDRAWL symptoms at bay by reading at least two reclaimer comics a day.
I think it worked out pretty well.eye twitch
It's a good plan.
But just not as good as the real deal is it Chad?? My only sanity saver was HSAR's epic RPG thread that we were running for Jim's entire absence. And trust me, it was epic. Check out the forums if you don't believe me!
thank deus youre reclaimer's back… i had to stave my self off on Rooster Teeth's comic series… unfortunately theres no plot lines to follow there…
Plenty of plot line here—the never-ending cliffhanger.
But it will end, right?? Jim??? Please???
And I know, I too had to fall back to Rooster Teeth. Though they are funny, I like RC better
It will—and relatively soon (by comparison to how long this series has been running).
I gots a new account
What happened to the old one?
I forgot the password and ID won't send the bloody E-mail
Wait, NOOOOOOOO!! As much as I hate the cliffhangers and whatnot, I <3 RC! (In an entirely normal fanboy way…)
I tried that… But it had already spread to my eye…. Then it got messy… :'(
Pop!
No, no pop. It was a sort of squelch, then there was this liquid that splattered everywhere. I don't remember much after that, I black out from the pain…
Ah, well, you didn't do it right, then. A good pop will get you a really wicked spray.
Really?? That might be interesting… But I'm not sure if I want to try that. I mean I only get one try now, and I won't get to survey my handiwork…
Alright! I like the images on this one. I suppose this now means the Cavalcade Exorsism idea I was working on for you is unlikely to find find fruition in you comic, but, you know, oh well..
Exorcism is for wimps. There's nothing quite like a hot poker in one's eye.
o_O
Yeah sure that works great looks nervously for an exit
Don't worry… the process is completely painless—for me.
It's not painless to your ears!
What ears?
Damn straight!
so THAT'S why I've been compulsively running at a slightly-leftward angle for the past year or so…
I have gravitas!
There's also the ability to subscribe by RSS or email for instant (or nearly-instant) updates.
Have you even looked in the yellow pages lately?
Not yet, no. You can go to starchipscomic.com and subscribe by RSS or email for updates (once I start posting some), but right now I'm just actively drawing and building up a queue. I'd like to officially launch it sometime in the next two or three months, but I don't have set date yet. If you pop over to the halo3webcomics.com forum, I've got a sneak preview posted in one of the threads there.
"And there was Reclaimer. And Jim looked upon his creation and saw that it good, and he blessed it and sent it out to protect the world from evil.
But lo, a darkness fell upon the land, and evil stalked to and fro', looking for those it may devour. And this evil was called Ferial, and his deeds were very evil, indeed."
great, now I have the urge to rewrite the bible in a reclaimer context…
That… would be friggin' awesome.