My long running superhero satire webcomic, Super Haters, wrapped up yesterday on its 5th anniversary.

With over 500 strips and host of fantastic collaborators, Super Haters has been one of my most rewarding projects to date.

I decided to officially retire Super Haters because I felt it deserved a celebratory send-off, plus I wanted to create a fun mini-event for all of my friends who've been so supportive over the years.

With that in mind, Justique and I whipped up a special 15-part story consisting of 14 daily webcomics and one video sandwiched in between. We even wrote ourselves into the story. (And I hacked my hair off in the process!)

I also released an unannounced collaboration with Kaylie McDougal, one of my podcasting partners from the AudioShocker. Our story was a long time in the making and it was great to finally get it out there.

With the webcomic complete, that meant it was time to put together one final eBook. Super Haters Guest Artists v3 is a 40-page PDF including the stories I've mentioned here, plus two other fun tales featuring Shawn Atkins and Francisco Gruel.

Detailing the adventures of Destruct-O-Tron and Mind's Eye has been an intense passion of mine for the past 5 years and I'm so thrilled about where that passion has taken me. Thanks to those of you who stuck with Super Haters and made it a truly special experience!

I attempted my first 24-Hour Comics Day in 2010, surrounded by friends and local cartoonists at Pittsburgh's Toonseum.

Being the rookie that I was, I approached the marathon challenge all wrong. Chief among those mistakes? Working digitally. (photos by Dan Greenwald)

I don't have any beef with drawing digitally. I think it's great! But in 2010, I had no experience drawing comics on the computer.

Other mistakes were made too. A year later, I wrote this list of the things I did wrong that day (featuring peeks at my script and completed art).

I completed nine pages that day and for years I sat on them. They're kinda ugly and confusing. I didn't feel like trying to make anything coherent out of them.

But early in 2013, I decided to answer an anthology's open call for submissions with a reworked version of my Maximum Cactus tale. Here's what I submitted:

My art here is rife with subconscious sexual imagery. I wish I could claim that I was consciously trying to make an awkward comic book full of phallic and vaginal symbolism, but I had no clue what I was doing.

Which is the exact reason why Maximum Cactus was unfinished for years before I finally unearthed it... FROM THE VAULTS!!!