Made of Fail gets a redesign! http://bit.ly/cesiBW [bit.ly]

A little one-panel joke, out of schedule and out of continuity.

Made of Fail movie news: Garfield confirmed as Spider-Man! http://bit.ly/aqM4Hw [bit.ly]

Made of Fail's dirty laundry. http://bit.ly/btXl3G [bit.ly]

Made of Fail ignores Amy at our own risk. Guest starring Captain America, Avengers. http://bit.ly/bji2Zd [bit.ly]

Would be nicer if you used real links instead of making me think this is going to go to some form of malware site.

They are real links to the comic here on Drunk Duck. I'm using the Bitly shortening tool because it gives me more data on readers, referrers and locations than what the DD stat counter provides. I'm horribly curious that way.

Made of Fail update: Amy gets a job! http://bit.ly/cTB7sx [bit.ly]

Guest-starring Joe Quesada and Stephen Wacker.

The link is safe. It's a link shortening tool that provides extra information on who clicks on it -- such as when they clicked on it, from which site that I posted the link on, and from which country. Because I create a bit.ly link for each strip, I also get to see the data for each individual strip -- all of which the DD counters don't provide.

Is Amy's writing Made of Fail? Guest starring Spider-Man, Wolverine, Deadpool. Black Widow + Black Cat mud-wrestling. http://bit.ly/aKTJHl [bit.ly]

Amy fixes Spider-Man! Guest starring Writer X, Spider-Man, Mary Jane Watson http://bit.ly/bfO05v [bit.ly]

Amy gets a DC Exclusive contract! http://bit.ly/cAgz5p [bit.ly]

And read the backstory to the current storyarc on my workblog: http://bit.ly/cvKILr [bit.ly]

Why you didn't see Craig at SDCC: http://bit.ly/SDCCFail [bit.ly]

Made of Fail update: Adopt a pet advertisement http://bit.ly/9kZgUJ [bit.ly]

It’s my soapbox, and I’ll climb on it if I want to…

This particular Made of Fail strip isn’t meant to be funny. Rather, it’s something near and dear to my heart.

I love animals. Sadly, there are too many people who only think they do. They take a cat or a dog into their homes, but as soon as it becomes inconvenient, they discard it. Usually, that happens around this time of the year. Summer vacation time. Everyone wants to get away… oh… there’s that dumb animal that we can’t really take with us. I know, let’s just drop it off at some rest stop along the way. Maybe it’ll get lucky and some truck runs it over. Or, let’s just set it loose somewhere in the city. Sometimes these people show at least enough sense/compassion to turn their pet in at their local animal shelter, where it at least has a chance of finding a new, friendlier home.

Would it surprise you to learn that a lot of those animals were brought into these unloving homes as Christmas gifts?

Anyway. A lot of these animals, although not all of them, end up in shelters. Now, depending on these shelters (and the country), if they get overcrowded, they kill the animals. They feel they have no choice, and as much as I hate it, under their bureaucratic circumstances, perhaps they actually don’t. We all know how little our bureaucracies care about people. It’s no surprise, then, that they care even less about animals.

What this amounts to is that these cats and dogs and assorted other animals are given the death penalty for not being loved.

That is where today’s Made of Fail comes in. It’s an advertisement. If you think of bringing a pet into your home, at least look at your local shelter. But not after having given the matter a lot of thought. If you bring a pet into your home, you’re stuck with it for life. Their life. And that can be quite a bit of time. Cats for example have a life expectancy of around 20 years. You’ll have to care for it throughout those years. In that regard, adopting a pet is not that different from adopting a child.

If you run a shelter, or an organization that promoted adopting and/or rescuing pets from shelters, you are welcome to use this particular strip to advertise. You are free to use it as posters, for print advertisements, leaflets, on your Facebook page, your website, any way you feel it can be useful. You are welcome to customize the text to better fit your specific needs – for obvious reasons, I made it generic. The only condition is that you use the entire strip, including the ownership and permission notice at the bottom.

Just download the graphic from the site. If that doesn’t work, or the graphic is too small for your needs, drop me a line and I’ll provide you with the original-size scan.

Amy's new Farcebook friend is Made of Fail. http://www.drunkduck.com/Made_of_Fail/index.php

Ben & Don find their dream job. http://bit.ly/ae2hGn [bit.ly]

Made of Fail update: Curses, Foiled Again! http://bit.ly/bOA55L [bit.ly] And read the workblog backstory here: http://bit.ly/dj0hjR [bit.ly]

Does anyone miss Don? http://bit.ly/aPaSF4 [bit.ly]

Amy is competitive http://bit.ly/9obmwi [bit.ly]

The Music of the Fail: http://bit.ly/bGevQB [bit.ly]

And don't forget my blogs: Way of the Word http://bit.ly/cmSpK8 [bit.ly] and Mad Pulper Project http://bit.ly/dfMLBl [bit.ly]

I (heart) Christopher Lee http://bit.ly/aHRhDk [bit.ly]

Craig meets Christopher Lee! http://bit.ly/d0AQDR [bit.ly] Plus: the backstory to the Christopher Lee two-parter on by blog: http://wp.me/pJ3jG-68 [wp.me]

Pizza! http://bit.ly/9nHN1v [bit.ly]

Pizza! http://bit.ly/9nHN1v [bit.ly]

Last character to leave the comic, please turn out the lights. http://bit.ly/MoFFinale [bit.ly]

And with this, I take my leave.