Wow…

We have some very interesting new Fan Art by WarGoddess, who was inspired by speculation in the comments section of how readers’ reactions might be different if The Annihilator and Kyle were female characters instead of male. So, it’s The Annihilator and Kyle, in two different art pieces — as women! Do check them out.

And speaking of the comments section, good speculation continues there! (In fact, so many good ideas have been proposed to explain what’s going on folks have begun to number them!) I look forward to hearing what you think this means. 🙂

Oh and…

***THIS IS A BONUS PAGE!***

Our eleventh bonus page in a row! And look below! We’re already at $252 towards the next bonus page!

Special thanks go out to long-time supporters Kelsey S. (who makes their second generous donation to The Young Protectors!) and Victor R. & Andrea N. (both making their third generous donations to The Young Protectors!), and a warm welcome and grateful bow go out to new supporters Michael M., Marilyn E., Miranda H., Tam V., Alana C., Rebecca A, Kris B., Alicemarie M., Jodi S. & Emiko P. for their generous donations over the last few days!

Big hugs go out to long-time friends Federica G., Marc B., and Christopher D. for their super-generous $25 donations! And this makes Federica’s fifth, Christopher’s eleventh, and Marc’s fifteenth (!) super-generous donations to this comic!

And finally, ZOMG, deeply-humbled, very, very grateful hugs go out to long-time mega-friend Arshad A. for their stunningly generous $100 donation! Thank you so, so much, Arshad! You are a superhero!

Thank you all so much for your generous support!

So! Seems there was a bit more to that spell! A few more choice words and it looks like Kyle’s spouting off like some kind of geyser right now. What do you think this will this mean for our fiery hero?

Tune in this Saturday to find out! Hope to see you there! 😀

DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! Edit 9/26/13 11:19 PM: You’ve done it again! You’ve yet again tipped over the target on the donation bar! That means that in addition to our regular updates this Saturday (page 34) and next Saturday (page 36),there will be a bonus update (page 35) this Wednesday, October 2nd! Thank you all so, so much! 😀

Holy crap! O_O

We have new Fan Art from Bernielover — it’s The Annihilator in bed looking rather pleased with the world. Do check it out.

We had our eighth bonus page on Wednesday and look below! We’re already at $292 towards the next bonus page!

Special thanks go out to long-time supporters RJ H. (who makes their second generous donation to The Young Protectors!), Rodney G. (who makes their third generous donation to The Young Protectors!), Dani Y. (who makes their fourth generous donation to The Young Protectors!), Christopher D. (who makes their ninth generous donation to The Young Protectors!), & Saxon B. (who makes their fortieth (!!!!) generous donation to The Young Protectors!), and a warm welcome and grateful bow go out to new supporters W W F. & Petra R. for their generous donations over the last few days!

Big hugs go out to long-time friends joshua G., Cassandra S. & Robert B. for their super-generous $25 donations! And this makes Cassandra’s seventh & both joshua’s and Robert’s thirty-first (!!) super-generous donations to this comic! Thank you so much joshua, Cassandra and Robert! You are rock stars!

Thank you all so much for your generous support!

So! This happened. The Annihilator is doing God knows what. O_O New page is up next Saturday this Wednesday — maybe we’ll find out more then! Hope to see you there! 😀

DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! Edit 9/7/13 12:49 PM: You did it again! Thanks to your generous donations, in addition to the regular update next Saturday (page 30!), there will be a bonus update (page 29!) this Wednesday, 9/11/13! Thank you so, so much! (And wow, it hasn’t even been 24 hours since I posted and there are already 323 comments—a record for a Young Protectors page update! It’s been so interesting to read your theories and reactions. Thank you for being such awesome readers! You all rock! :D)

“I-I can feel your- you on top of me and your- ah! This feels so… So… Mm! Oh, jeez! Oh, crap! Duncan, I think I’m- I’m-” You think you’re what, Kyle? WHAT?! Spit it out! I mean those aren’t even real sentences! Why can’t webcomic creators just have the characters say what they mean?! >:( Is this some attempt to be arty? If I wanted something cryptic that needed freaking subtitles to understand, I’d go see a freaking existential Swedish film! “Jeez”, indeed!

(Oh, and just for the record, if thingy-smushing means that eventually I’m going to be making goofy faces like what I’m seeing on this page, then forget it! People can just go smush their own thingys and leave mine alone! O_O)

Anyway!

I want to thank all the straight dudes who spoke up in the comments on the last page and shared how they found The Young Protectors and why they are enjoying it. I actually feel a kinship with straight guys who can enjoy a romance featuring two dudes because I’m a pure Kinsey 6 (the female form does nothing for me sexually or romantically) and yet my favorite film of all time is Bound which features a romance between two women. One of my great hopes for the future is that it becomes the norm (instead of the exception) for people to enjoy romances featuring happy couples who are different. That someday prejudices will be a thing of the past and that we’ll all be able to cheer for everyone in love. It’s a strong motivation behind the creation of my own work and so it’s always gratifying to hear that there are those (straight guys, lesbians, asexual folk, etc.) who are enjoying my comics even if they would choose something different for themselves. 🙂

Last week, I revealed tidbits about how things broke down for the guys who took my survey. This week, we’ll focus on those who identified their gender as female!

GALS

• Out of the 8,387 respondents, 5,221 identified as female.
• The majority (56.29%) are between the ages of 18-25 with a whopping 85.75% being 30 years old or under.
• Only 0.48% identified as “transgender” with 2.43% “still figuring that out.”
• 44.26% would self-identify to a close friend as “straight”, 27.43% as “bisexual”, 4.94% as “gay”, 10.23% as “I’m not sure/still figuring that out”, 7.53% as “something else” and 5.61% as “asexual.”
• In terms of the Kinsey Scale, 18.94% identified as “0 – Exclusively Heterosexual”, 25.67% as “1 – Mostly Heterosexual”, 25.51% as “2 – Predominantly Heterosexual”, 15.25% as “3 – Equally Heterosexual and Homosexual”, 4.08% as “4 – Predominantly Homosexual”, 4.54% as “5 – Mostly Homosexual” and 1.86% as “6 – Exclusively Homosexual.”
• 7.81% chose ” I DON’T HAVE SIGNIFICANT SEXUAL FEELINGS FOR OTHER PEOPLE” and 0.34% chose “I AM MOSTLY OR EXCLUSIVELY SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO PEOPLE WHO DO NOT IDENTIFY AS EITHER MALE OR FEMALE”
• Finally, a sizable 76.48% wanted “Kyle and The Annihilator to live happily ever”, 20.26% were “cool with Kyle and The Annihilator being together for this night,” but ultimately wanted Kyle to wind up with someone else and 3.26% had this advice: “Run away, Kyle! Run away now!”

So some very interesting results! My note has already become novel-length, so I’ll leave it to y’all in the comments to discuss how these results compare with the results I posted on Saturday! 🙂

Oh and

***THIS IS A BONUS PAGE***

Our eighth bonus page in a row! And look below! We’re already at $177 on the donation bar towards the next bonus page!

Special thanks go out to long-time supporters Federica G. (who makes their second generous donation to The Young Protectors!) and Daniel M. & Marte H. (both making their third generous donation to The Young Protectors!), and a warm welcome and grateful bow go out to new supporters Jose S., Bart T., Ditte S., & Larry B. for their generous donations over the last few days!

And big hugs go out to long-time friends of The Young Protectors Christopher M. and Daniel N. for their super-generous $25 donations! And this makes Christopher’s second and Daniel’s thirty-third (!!!) super-generous donations to this comic! Thank you so much, Christopher and Daniel! You are totally awesome!

Thank you all so much for your generous support!

So! Is that fire I see in Kyle’s eyes? Or… at least coming from Kyle’s eyes? What could that possibly mean?

Tune in this Saturday to find out! Hope to see you there! 😀

All right. So I’ve come to terms with the fact that I’m not getting ninjas or giant robots in this scene. (Which I still feel is a missed opportunity but, you know, WHATEVER!) So I might as well try to understand what’s going on here. Now, at this point, both Kyle and The Annihilator are completely naked, right? And it seemed like they were wrestling… or something… But now I’m thinking they are smushing their, um, thingys together and that makes them feel… good? Am I understanding that correctly? And so that’s why they’re not fighting robots right now? I’m really trying to understand this kissy stuff so please let me know if I’m reading this wrong!

We have some new Fan Art from long-time friend of The Young Protectors Frenchie! It’s The Annihilator on a throne… of tentacles! You definitely need to check it out!

And I know I said I was going to sum up some interesting results from the survey tonight, but I’ve been having some really wonky computer problems today (le sigh), so with your permission, I’ll hold off on that until next time. I want to be able to do it justice.

I am, however, excited to say we had our sixth bonus page on Wednesday and then you immediately turned around and tipped over the donation bar to make sure we’re going to have a bonus page next Wednesday too! And look below! We’re already at $144 towards the bonus page after that!

Special thanks go out to long-time supporters Cherise B. (who makes their second generous donation to The Young Protectors!), Kathryn G. (who makes their third generous donation to The Young Protectors!), Christopher D. (who makes their sixth generous donation to The Young Protectors!) & Saxon B. (who makes their thirty-eighth (!!!) generous donation to The Young Protectors!) and a warm welcome and grateful bow go out to new supporters Tian L., Jaime-Lynn W., Brent S. & Federica G. for their generous donations over the last few days!

Big hugs go out to new friend of The Young Protectors Sensational S. and also to long-time friends joshua G., Robert B., Cassandra S. & Perrine S. for their super-generous $25 donations! And this makes Cassandra’s fifth, Perrine’s tenth, and both joshua’s & Robert’s twenth-ninth (!!) super-generous donations to this comic!

And finally superhero-strength hugs go out to long-time super-friends James A. and Sam B. for their amazingly generous $50 donations! This makes Sam’s second and James’s seventh amazingly generous donation to The Young Protectors! Thank you so, so much, James and Sam — you’re both totally awesome!

Thank you all so much for your generous support!

So! Comforting words have been spoken! Flesh has again been pressed against flesh! And it turns out The Annihilator has actually heard about this crazy, new-fangled tech called The Internet! Love, passion, revelations — what more could there possibly be to this scene?

Tune in next Wednesday to find out! Hope to see you there!

Methinks Kyle heard a giant robot outside! WOO HOO! 😀

So! People often ask me who I think my readers are in terms of age, gender identification, sexual orientation, etc. Basically, “Who reads your comics, anyway?” So I figured it might be fun to actually ask you. So, I’ve created this very short survey to find out:

CLICK HERE TO ANSWER THE “WHO READS THE YOUNG PROTECTORS?” SURVEY!

There are only seven questions and they are all multiple-choice, so it shouldn’t take you more than a minute. Your answers will be completely anonymous (the survey link is actually encrypted with HTTPS) and I’m really just doing this because I’m curious who’s reading this comic. But please answer honestly — I imagine you’re as curious as I am who your fellow readers are and so it’s important we get real information. And hopefully you’ll find it fun!

There are a lot of questions I could ask (for example, about ethnicity, whether you read other webcomics, etc.), but this seemed like at least a place to start because this is the kind of stuff I get asked about all the time (especially about sexual orientation). If people like this survey, I can maybe come up with different surveys. Oh, and if you take the survey, you’ll get to see the current results of what everybody else answered when you are done! (Edit: per commenter DanishWolf: “Above the survey answers is an arrow. You need to click you way through the 7 question -replies.” to see all the results. Pro-tip!)

SO PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT AND TAKE THE “WHO READS THE YOUNG PROTECTORS?” SURVEY!

We had our fifth bonus page in a row this week and almost immediately after it posted you tipped the donation bar over its target, which means that there will also be another bonus page this Wednesday (page 23!). AWESOME! And look below! We’re already at $25 towards the bonus page after that!

Special thanks go out to long-time supporters Adeline V., Sofia T., Guido P., Jake S. & Nicole P. (all five making their second generous donation to The Young Protectors!) & Saxon B. (who makes their thirty-seventh (!!!) generous donation to The Young Protectors!) and a warm welcome and grateful bow go out to new supporters Carli W., Tina M., debra p., and Julia S. (who makes their donation for Savannah B. with love) for their generous donations over the last few days!

Big hugs go out to long-time friends of The Young Protectors John D., Robert B., Cassandra S., Elizabeth L. and joshua G. for their super-generous $25 donations! And this makes Elizabeth’s second, John’s third, Cassandra’s fourth, and both Robert’s & joshua’s twenty-eighth (!!) super-generous donations to this comic!

And finally, superhero-strength hugs go out to new The Young Protectors super-friend Christopher M. for their amazingly generous $86 donation! Thank you so, so much, Christopher! You ROCK!

Thank you all so much for your generous support!

All righty! Looks like Kyle has called a time-out from the action between the sheets! What’s up with that?! Does this mean that sexy times are over? Will there in fact be an awesome battle on the next page with robots and space pirates? Or will the kissy stuff somehow find a way to continue?

Tune in this Wednesday to find out! Hope to see you there!

Well, at least they seem to have stopped kissing. Phew! Maybe they’ll go to sleep now, it’ll fade to black and they’ll be woken up in the middle of the night by the sounds of battle! Maybe with, like, giant robots or something? Or ninjas! Everything gets better with ninjas…

The Mahou Shonen Fight Kickstarter is in its last 3 days! It’s a really fun comic, they’ve hit their goal (so the book will be printed!) and are now in stretch goal territory, so you should totally take a moment and check them out before it’s too late!

Oh, and

***THIS IS A BONUS PAGE!***

Our fifth bonus page in a row! And look below! We’re already at $159 towards the next bonus page!

Special thanks go out to long-time supporters gregg H. & Rodney G. (both making their second generous donations to The Young Protectors!), Dani Y. (who makes their third generous donation to The Young Protectors!), and Desiree H. & Christopher D. (both making their fourth generous donation to The Young Protectors!) and a warm welcome and grateful bow go out to new supporters Steven H. & Sofia T. for their generous donations over the last few days!

Big hugs go out to new friend of The Young Protectors Jenna I. and also to long-time friends Christopher D., Rusty B., Kim N. and Thomas D. for their super-generous $25 donations! And this makes both Thomas’ & Kim’s second, and both Christopher’s & Rusty’s third super-generous donations to this comic!

Finally, superhero-strength hugs go out to long-time superfriend Jeff S. for their amazingly generous $50 donation, their second amazingly generous donation to this comic! Thank you so much, Jeff! You’re awesome!

Thank you all so much for your generous support!

So! Full booty exposure has now been achieved! The underwear has hit the floor! And soon naked bodies will be pressed together!

Or will they?

Lots of you have been placing your bets on when these two are going to get interrupted by some kind of attack. Will that finally happen on the next page? (Fingers crossed!)

Tune in this Saturday to find out! Hope to see you there! 😀

DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! Edit 8/15/13 10:02 AM: Boy, that was FAST! Thanks to your generous donations, you’ve yet again tipped over the Donation Bar! So that means that in addition to our regular update this Saturday (page 22!) and next Saturday (now page 24!), there will be a bonus update (page 23!) on Wednesday, August 21st! Woo hoo! Thank you so much! Hope to see you there! 😀