Yes...that's all, folks. 2 years, 9 months later...Chapter 9 is finally complete! I hope it hurt.

The rest of the chapters won't be this long, hahah. I promise.

For any new readers out there, at the end of every chapter, Bicycle Boy goes on hiatus so the withered old artist can take a break and get the next batch of pages ready. Thus, the comic will now pause for 5 weeks, and then we're on to Chapter 10: Object of the Beholder.

For this hiatus, I'll be posting the BB cast's replies to a character Q&A every Friday. Check back as usual for that, if you're interested. Otherwise...

Bicycle Boy will return on Friday, July 18, 2025. See you then!

In the meantime, to sate your thirst, I have some webcomics to recommend you:

In Blood We Rise by Captain Mera

A young witch butchers his initiation ritual, and is forever a disappointment to his family. As a widowed adult, with a child his family won't let him see, the fates themselves conspire to set him up with a vampire: a soft spoken fellow named Oliver. Monsters such as him are dubbed 'peculiars' by society. But Theodore comes from a long line of witches who hunt his kind...can their love really work out?

I loved this comic's ornate framework, 4th wall breaking characters who affected the comic from outside the comic panels, gushingly cute romance, and plenty of genuinely kind people making each other smile. Also it's hilarious.

Concerning Matters of Blood by Shea B

A demonic presence sets Cecelia Edwards' childhood home on fire, leaving her fiancée, father, sister, and 9 others dead; and her mother disabled. In her quest for revenge, Cecelia and her brother Agrippa track down a pair of 8ft tall Irish vampires who claim they are capable of hunting the creature down. As payment, Cecelia & Agrippa must work as their housekeepers...and feed them their blood! (But they're handsome, so, maybe it's not so bad?)

I loved how this comic sets itself up to look like something of a quaint 1800s slice of life, and then goes off and horribly murders most of the protagonist's family. Satisfying genre bending. Also, vampires big! Wow! Wow!!!

Clamp by Fugummyfruit

A shaggy cat wandering the desert becomes trapped in a labyrinthine, esoteric factory teeming with strange, ink-like figures. All seems hopeless, but as he teams up with another feline friend, they use their strange powers to fight their way to an exit...if one exists.

I loved Clamp's unique black & white art style. The lines are thick and lithe and voluminous, and everything is carefully textured. It is just so weird. Nothing is explained. There's a guy with ink powers blocking the door (but why?). The black-hair cat can tap two things and make them smash together (but why?). They got (metaphorically?) eaten by a giant lady and then watched lizard people sparring in the stomach-realm (but why?). It's some good shit!

Thank you for reading,

Jack