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Welcome to Bicycle Boy's mid-chapter hiatus. For the break, the BB cast is answering reader-submitted questions for the next 4 weeks. Check back every friday for a new batch of answers!

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For the latest volume of WAVEMEN, Robin & Cory got me to design a bunch of new characters. My favourite was this bunch of mean n' nasty Heian Era bandits.

2 weeks left to back the book on Kickstarter. :)

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Holy typo batman the return date is, in fact, JULY 18! Not June 18. Apologies!

On this week's page of BICYCLE BOY, the guys imagine a better future.

With that, Chapter 9 is complete, and the comic will go on a 1-month hiatus. Please read the website announcement for more info, including a cute li'l Q&A!

Bicycle Boy will return on Friday, July 18, 2025.

<3 Thank you for reading! <3 I hope this chapter hurt! <3

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On this week's page of BICYCLE BOY, the guys imagine a better future.

With that, Chapter 9 is complete, and the comic will go on a 1-month hiatus. Please read the website announcement for more info, including a cute li'l Q&A!

Bicycle Boy will return on Friday, July 18, 2025.

<3 Thank you for reading! <3 I hope this chapter hurt! <3

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LAUNCHING TOMORROW! The fourth volume of the supernatural period drama WAVEMEN is about to be on Kickstarter.

Near the mountain village of Kurama, Japan, bedazzled wannabe warriors keep challenging packs of bandits to battle for fame and glory. It doesn't go so well. When the emperor's Wavemen are sent on a trip there to find an elusive tengu swordmaster, they find a whole buncha weirdos...

Just what the heck is going on here?

Ah! I am so excited to finally share this comic with you. I've been the main artist for Wavemen since 2017, but this episode is funny. I couldn't stop laughing while drawing it. I hope you get as much fun out of the book as I did.

Cheers,

Jack

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i was finally convinced to read bicycle boy when someone told me it had sadistic femdom in it and hoooooo boy

You're welcome~ <3

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On this week's page of BICYCLE BOY, the guys remember better times.

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Hi! I just binge read all of bicycle boy and I'm fucking hooked i love it so much but i have a huge question.....How do you pronounce Machk?

I love to learn about languages so I have done a lot of research to find the answer, but...I am still not sure! I confess I chose this name from a random list when I was a teenager. There’s a lot of misinformation around Native American names, so if anybody knows this better, or if I make any mistakes, please let me know.

Machk is part native, and I wanted his name to reflect that. Initially I thought the name was Algonquin but later learned that’s a misattribution, and it is actually a Lenape word part of the Algonquian language family. For those who don’t know, “Algonquian” is commonly mistaken to be a single tribe, and while there is one in Canada called the Algonquin/Algonkin, Algonquian is the name for dozens of tribes that speak related languages.

Now back to Machk. Machk (or Mauch) seems to only appear in this spelling in books written by settlers (1) (2) about the Lenape language, so its accuracy comes into question. The name also comes up in a bunch of places in Pennsylvania, where we find a mountain ridge, creek, reservoir, lake, switchback railway, and park all named Mauch Chunk (bear mountain). This leads me to believe that Machk/Mauch is an anglicisation of the Lenape word Màxkw [click to hear pronunciation], which means bear. It sounds a bit like ma-hwuh.

There is a character in the Canadian historical drama show Frontier named Machk, and I watched it purely to see how they said his name. For research! (For those interested: it’s on netflix & the first two seasons were p good, but it drops the ball on the third). The natives in Frontier are Cree, and the Cree language is in the same family as Lenape. I can’t find a clip online but they said it softly, like Mashk, and outsiders said Mok with a hard K. This is just a TV show, so I don’t know its accuracy.

I decided to go with the Cree pronunciation, it’s the easiest to say. All these years I’ve really butchered it though. I read it like Ma-chi-kuh.

Indian Local Names by Stephen Gill, 1885

Words, Phrases, and Short Dialogues, in the Language of the Lenni Lenape, or Delaware Indians by Rev. John Heckewelder, 1819

Note: I don’t advocate for the wording used by those idiot 19th century settlers, but the names of the books are here for archival purposes.

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On this week's page of BICYCLE BOY, Machk tells Poet his old name.

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god fucking dammit

bro last night was totally redacted! last night was fully expunged from the record. bro, do you... can you remember last night? what did we do...? what did... did we hurt someone? bro? why won't you look at me? what did I do...? whose blood is this...? bro...?

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On this week's page of BICYCLE BOY, Machk and Poet each make their own attempt at coping. :/

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On this week's page of BICYCLE BOY, who the fuck are you, Poet?

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Five sci-fi webcomics from the Chimera Collective Catalogue! ⭐🚀

By Mike Stamm / @automansdaughter

An adventure story set in an alternate-historical dieselpunk world, The Automan’s Daughter follows military-school dropout Aisha Osman and her industrialist uncle Siddig as they outwit bikers, spies and kidnappers while gearing up for a tournament showdown with the formidable Widowmaker mecha.

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By @jackarais / @bicycleboyblog

Our protagonist--a cyborg who calls himself 'Poet'--cannot recall anything before the day he woke up in the middle of the desert, surrounded by corpses.

With no memories, no purpose and no idea what the hell is going on, he sets out to find answers.

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By Krispy and Space / @studiocartridge

Trigger Elliot is a bounty hunter who travels around the galaxy with his not-so-fully-licensed-and-technically-illegal-hunting-partner Vahn Gavotte. They’re lousy at what they do and often resort to petty tactics just to get a bounty, this is their life.

Their home planet, June 7, is a world rebuilding itself from an inexplicable catastrophic phenomenon that destroyed 75% of the planet’s surface. It has been 5 years since the destruction of June 7 and the planet now thrives on the transient and growing population of bounty hunters. Trigger and Vahn’s routine changes when a ambiguous huge bounty surfaces; an alleged bounty hunter killer named the ‘ghost’ with frightening abilities and an unknown motive. When Trigger’s past catches up with him, there begins a strain on his and Vahns hunting dynamic, forcing them to become further involved in chasing the elusive and unpredictable ghost.

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By Lorian Merriman / @longlostlorian

12-year-old Chandra (and her rich jewelry magnate aunt, Ajupris Lerazmine) have accidentally gone back in time. Now, they have one mission: to get their hands on the gigantic cache of the dangerous mineral that got them into this whole mess, chronotite, before it is officially discovered years in the future.

There's only one problem: the small moon where the chronotite is hidden is owned and operated by a corrupt galactic organization, A.I.D.E., and they'll have to pass the scrutiny of local administrator Mr. Demeck to get it. And even with knowledge of the future, there are some twists Chandra and her aunt can't predict.

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By Ally / @varethane

Over twenty years after the world was invaded and then rescued from a terrifying alien force, humanity has begun to master the strange magic their enemy left behind. After spearheading the wartime research efforts, an organization called Wychwood has become the leading authority on magic and is aggressively hunting for new things to study.

This is kind of a bad thing for Tiara, a delinquent who has been using a mysterious power to goof around for years without realizing the kind of attention it could attract.

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https://www.tumblr.com/bicycleboyblog/783107600577396736/they-should-let-you-run-creature-commandos?source=share

Okay so there's this lady character named the bride and she's supposed to be this super strong stereotypical girl boss character (she has more depth then that but ugh words) but she's just like. Not that muscular. And given the stuff she's done she like totally should be and you like giving girls muscles

Ouh, there is a dearth of interesting or atypical female character designs in popular shows, I feel ya.

Jack as showrunner would make all the ladies too buff and too mean and I would get in big trouble, hehehe.

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They should let you run creature commandos

I haven't watched this one yet Anon, you'll hafta provide some more context.

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machk is so real

It's reassuring to know there's somebody normal in the midst of all this, I think. XD

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On this week's page of BICYCLE BOY, Machk and Poet have communication troubles.