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My name is Matthew J Wills, and I'm a cartoonist and video game tester from Wellington, New Zealand. I've made a few different webcomic series in the past, which were all shortly lived with a niche following. One day, just for fun, I made a silly webcomic about a doofus knight looking for a sword and was met with overnight success - it was a hit! I knew I'd tapped into something special with it, and I've been drawing Swords 3 times a week ever since. It's a series aimed to make light fun of all kinds of fantasy tropes, without punching down or taking sides.

More info: swordscomic.com | twitter.com | Instagram | reddit.com | patreon.com

My goal for the future is for Swords to help support me move into comics full time, where I can continue the series while also revisiting some of my favorite old ideas and give them the endings they deserve. I'm hoping fans of the series will follow me on all the adventures that come next.

I posted the first episode to Reddit, and when I woke up, it was super popular! I have no idea how it happened to this day. I started to expand the world, introducing beloved characters like Xiphos, the Barbarian, and his patron God, Kargob. I riffed on some classic sword-based fairy tales and made fun of some current events... Some people said, "I can't believe you've made 30 comics all about Swords!" I was just getting started. The Demon Swords are some of the most essential characters in the lore - that's right, a silly webcomic about Swords has lore now. I accidentally made a comic that was very similar to an existing meme - but people made edits of it anyway. I'm glad they had fun with it. Animals with swords... Rapier Tapir, Falchion Falcon... They're all in. ...even animals filled with swords. And that's only but a small fraction of the overall content. Enjoy a slice of my swords comics! En Garde!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm having flashbacks to a 2014 video game and I don't know why

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ouch ...for both of them! For the knight, the reason's obvious. But consider the poor dragon. That many swords coming up past his throat and out his mouth, point first, has got to hurt! And we complain when we have a sore throat.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You go after a chicken once and you are "chicken chaser" for life. /sigh

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I want to know more. Seems like we are missing lot of back story here.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, if previous comics are to be believed, the last thing is entirely possible, but not very plausible, given that it doesn't look very old.

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...and Some More Swords...

And made fun of some current events...

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think that’s me in the picture, right there in the second panel

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Go with invincibility, if you were immortal, life would get old before you do.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

also, for those of yall who don't know, the word 'wind' could be used to describe the wind itself, as in air-yet wind could also refer to it's other meaning, to turn or twist something. So lol this really blows me away how easy it was to get to the temple thingy (sorry this post is so bad, it's only a draft...)

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

if so, get wind of this, then the demon king is inside himself

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

haha kudos to you love a guy who's respectful when stabbing

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's the dude from the other comic The one that cleared his mind to defeat the guy who broke his sword with his mind

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