Interesting, they remind me of those twin gal’s that were a short side story. Uh oh, Liri’s got the bloodlust now. They really pulled all the stops here. Then Mentl shows up and starts singing “Goodness gracious great balls of fire” flame shoots from his hands setting those 2 and all the Urrts ablaze… One can hope anyway.
JED, I just want to say I have sincerely enjoyed your webcomic. I’ve been following for more than 10 years and I love your story-telling and your artwork. I know you have had health issues that have slowed you down, but I would be remiss if I didn’t acknowledge the incredible work you have poured into this story and the commitment you have shown through the years. I sincerely hope you are encouraged by your fans and supported emotionally as you recover. This comic has outlived my marriage of 32 years that ended in divorce, and I can only hope for a Zona to worship of my own one day.
Yes, Zona has actually used that phrase before in the comic. And of course she picked it up, and other bits of Yiddishkeit, from Mentl and his family.
🙂
Warm regards,
JED
As a lifelong student of fiction (and with an MA in Creative Writing and MA in Teaching English Language Arts to back it up), what I find fascinating is that we, the audience, know that Zona, Liri, Mentl, et al., will win the day. The outcome is predetermined based on the type of story it is. What we don’t know, as an audience, is HOW they’ll win the day. It really says something about the human condition that, in our storytelling, we care far more about the journey than the destination (so long as the destination doesn’t feel like a rug pull). That’s from a literary perspective, of course. From an analytical perspective, we know that:
a) Mentl is super powerful and hasn’t shown up yet;
b) other powerful allies, such as Vito, haven’t shown up yet;
c) (and, in my opinion, most importantly), Mentl and Zona’s daughter (Rachel? It’s been a hot minute) exists and knows both of her parents.
(Analyzing a barbarian soap opera webcomic – gods, can you tell I used to work in national intelligence. I have a very weird background, I know.) Anyway, combined, these factors indicate that the Moon Tribe alliance will win out in the end. The question that remains is HOW that will happen. And that is a question I have been tuning in for… *checks watch* …over 17 years to discover the answer to.
I hope your health and general life situation continues to improve, JED. You do good work, and I’m quite sure there are a lot of people who are looking forward to the finale of your passion project (of which I am most certainly one).
I doubt both Rachel or Vito will get involved, Vito has faith in Mentl and after the chewing out she got from Daddy after stealing her mom’s sword and time jumping I doubt she’ll risk it again. There’s still Zone’s dad’s group to arrive, I think this is the big push by the Urrts, so it’s going to be all hands in.
I’m so pretty! I’m so pretty! 😆
Seriously though, bright colors stand out on the battlefield, and those two DEFINITELY don’t want to blend in! My guess is since ogres are sort of elite troops, I’m guessing these two count as heroes for the Uurts. Not to mention a certain flaming fuck skull’s attempt at his own (per)version of the giantkin.
AFAIK we have no current problems with malware, etc.
Go ahead and clear your cache if you haven’t. I don’t have any problems ATM in either Chrome or Edge.
Can confirm.
AV was triggering on something in normal Firefox whenever visiting here, which wasn’t occurring in private browsing, nor in Chrome nor Edge .
Cleared cache for this website only, and no subsequent AV triggering.
Scratch my earlier reply about everything being ok!
Just had my AV trigger today as well.
1st attempt to access the site resulting in AV alert about a script-based Trojan Horse (accompanied with the page not rendering as expected). Having clicked to reply, I was then presented with a correctly rendered page, but also another AV alert, this time about a botnet apparently originating from fashion-chicken.com.
For reference, this second alert is identical to the one that was triggered yesterday.
This has taken several attempts to actually reply, as once the trojan and botnet alerts have happened, subsequent attempts to access the site (such as clicking on send reply!) fail and require a clearing of the cache to resolve.
Godaddy support said it was with some WordPress plugin. Found a couple I didn’t immediately recognize, and deactivated.
Honesty, this stuff is tiresome beyond endurance …
My AV keeps blocking the site, claiming a Trojan is present. This is the first time I was able to get in to comment.
RBZ
Try clearing your cache.
I’m not getting the Trojan alert any more, but the fashion-chicken.com BotNet is still there.
Not sure where it’s originating from, as a search of the client-side code only shows it in my comment. Probably, there’s something pointing to an apparently-harmless site that does the actual redirect.
Hello! I am a security analyst investigating this malicious domain “fashion-chicken[.]com”. As of today, 8/17/2026 4:28PM CT, this website is seemingly still making callouts to “fashion-chicken[.]com”.
I am but a meager analyst, but I did want to recommend that you remove all suspicious/unknown WP plugins again, as WELL as resetting your admin credentials and investigating any other new/unknown admin users and removing them as well. That would help prevent the intrusion from happening again, as that is likely how they are regaining access.
Apologies for the unsolicited advice if it caused offense, I wish you luck!
Both RSS feed links, the “entries feed” and “comment feed” returns the same feed result: the comments feed, no wonder i have not gotten any updates on the comics itself in a while 🙂
In case you were concerned about the lack of comic updates, the reason is I have been mastering brand-new skills and not always being good at it. This is the current state of the video project. Still very rough, and needs more smoothing out and work, but I decided to start telling the story at the beginning. I’ve only been at this for a couple of months now, and I am sure, just like at the beginning of the comic itself, things are going to get better. In any case, kids, Enjoy!
Yes, kids, we had a nasty malware infection. Godaddy Support cleaned it up and I upgraded our security and anti-spam stuff. jedraft@barbarianprincess.com also works now. Hopefully we won’t have any more of that nonsense.
That, plus a short trip to the hospital which fortunately turned out not to be anything life or Zona-threatening is in the past, and we’ll try to get the new content rolling again.
One of you wonderful people pointed out a couple weeks ago that we passed the twentieth anniversary of this webcomic in July and I didn’t even notice. Well, almost exactly ten years ago, I made a special strip for the tenth anniversary, page 900.
In it I included this song that I wrote for Mentl to sing to Zona in the Otherwhen. The lyrics and meter are mine, but every time I tried to put a tune to it it sounded derivative anyway, and so I decided to feed it into Suno and see what AI could do. It’s okay, and doesn’t not sound like what I had in my head. Just so we all know, it’s obviously based on the thing being trained on the work of many other people much more talented than I am, and I would not dare to try to monetize it, but the song as a whole is mine. Sort of collaborating with machine learning.
For no reason I can find, and none that Godaddy can find, it’s impossible for me to post a new comic at barbarian princess Dot Com using my theme Toocheke without getting 503 ERROR. I have added nothing, done nothing in the past month or longer that would cause this. I think the demons from the Deeps have done something nefarious. Until I fix it or redo the entire site using another plugin (again) I will be posting the update in FaceBook.
I owe you all many apologies, and many updates, but we’re finally truly back in the saddle. I am so very grateful for your loyalty and patience, and I won’t bore you with all the details of the heart problems (now completely symptom-free) and the neck stuff and the lung infection (fine at last ) and Jeebus everything in my little old body that seemed determined to break down all at freaking once. I’m back to splitting logs and exercising and all the good, healthy stuff – and, of course, working on Zona!
So here we go! Yes, the dragon tried a flame-strafe and yes, flying top cover Tula was able to shield the frontline of the cavalry and now it appears some kind of hawk has taken a decided dislike to our urtt rider. Imagine that.
More as soon as I can get it finish rendering and doing the magic. Warmest regards,
Hi kids! There was a delay in updates, and I think you ought to know why.
Didja ever want to know what an actual heart attack feels like? Well, with any luck you never will. I, on the other hand, know exactly what it feels like. It’s not like Aunt May clutching her heart and collapsing. It was more like the worst acid reflux you can think of for about 24 hours straight. Went to the doc, and to make a long story short, anyone can have clogged arteries under the right conditions – even me!
This was about a week and a half ago, and yeah, I spent a couple of miserable nights in hospital where they kindly opened my artery and put a nifty little mesh tube in there to keep it open. Did I ever wish there was some kind of wormhole and Tula could come use Erogenian Magick to heal things quicker. Hospital sucks.
Otherwise, I am fine, and looking forward to eventually splitting logs again and doing other macho stuff around home, just like before. But, as I write this I need lots of rest and can’t lift anything heavier than ten pounds. (That means I have to put my little dog or my cat on the scale before I heft them, just to be sure. )
But I am now well on the mend, and look forward to making regular updates – or even more to make up for the lost time.
Soooo – I know the comic is a bit late, but I have not been idle. Nor has Brian. We are now really, truly and officially out of preproduction. The hernia was to transition all the assets, including out titular heroine, into Unreal Engine 5. It was a seemingly Sisyphean task, involving lots or frustration, hard hard work for my dauntless perfectionist animator and some creative innovations to solve the problems that they can absolutely take complete credit for solving.
We are now in production and animating scenes for the final trailer in UE5. Well, why did we go to UE5 in the first place? If you look at this picture, maybe you’ll understand. It’s representative of what you will be seeing on screen, and this is just one frame. UE will show you 60-120 fps of THIS in real time.
I’m extremely pleased. This is much much more than I thought I wanted. She’s going to live, breathe and act out the story in the world we’ve created.
Naturally, if you want to see more, then go to Patreon.com/ JEDraft
30 thoughts on “Big Enough – Page 1338”
Scarsdale
Interesting, they remind me of those twin gal’s that were a short side story. Uh oh, Liri’s got the bloodlust now. They really pulled all the stops here. Then Mentl shows up and starts singing “Goodness gracious great balls of fire” flame shoots from his hands setting those 2 and all the Urrts ablaze… One can hope anyway.
JEDraft
Heh. Stay tuned, kids. Things are about to get interesting, I think.
Warm regards,
JED
Wiggidy Miggidy Mack Daddy
JED, I just want to say I have sincerely enjoyed your webcomic. I’ve been following for more than 10 years and I love your story-telling and your artwork. I know you have had health issues that have slowed you down, but I would be remiss if I didn’t acknowledge the incredible work you have poured into this story and the commitment you have shown through the years. I sincerely hope you are encouraged by your fans and supported emotionally as you recover. This comic has outlived my marriage of 32 years that ended in divorce, and I can only hope for a Zona to worship of my own one day.
The Old Hack
‘Oy vey’? Zona, did you pick that up from Mentl? O.o
“They aren’t just ogres. They are *goyim* ogres!”
JEDraft
Yes, Zona has actually used that phrase before in the comic. And of course she picked it up, and other bits of Yiddishkeit, from Mentl and his family.
🙂
Warm regards,
JED
Ed Brault
Well, Liri may be about to conduct a Two-for-one Bris!
Lora
Of course, what else? 😛 Liri is ready to test herself and her shiny new weapons.
Joe Fonebone
I gotta say, I like Liri’s attitude. I sure as Hell hope it doesn’t bite her on the sweet ass of hers!
Teri
“Liri Smash..”
Mick
Cue Feeby and Mahd!
Kenny S.
As a lifelong student of fiction (and with an MA in Creative Writing and MA in Teaching English Language Arts to back it up), what I find fascinating is that we, the audience, know that Zona, Liri, Mentl, et al., will win the day. The outcome is predetermined based on the type of story it is. What we don’t know, as an audience, is HOW they’ll win the day. It really says something about the human condition that, in our storytelling, we care far more about the journey than the destination (so long as the destination doesn’t feel like a rug pull). That’s from a literary perspective, of course. From an analytical perspective, we know that:
a) Mentl is super powerful and hasn’t shown up yet;
b) other powerful allies, such as Vito, haven’t shown up yet;
c) (and, in my opinion, most importantly), Mentl and Zona’s daughter (Rachel? It’s been a hot minute) exists and knows both of her parents.
(Analyzing a barbarian soap opera webcomic – gods, can you tell I used to work in national intelligence. I have a very weird background, I know.) Anyway, combined, these factors indicate that the Moon Tribe alliance will win out in the end. The question that remains is HOW that will happen. And that is a question I have been tuning in for… *checks watch* …over 17 years to discover the answer to.
I hope your health and general life situation continues to improve, JED. You do good work, and I’m quite sure there are a lot of people who are looking forward to the finale of your passion project (of which I am most certainly one).
Scarsdale
I doubt both Rachel or Vito will get involved, Vito has faith in Mentl and after the chewing out she got from Daddy after stealing her mom’s sword and time jumping I doubt she’ll risk it again. There’s still Zone’s dad’s group to arrive, I think this is the big push by the Urrts, so it’s going to be all hands in.
Descartes
Just want to point out that the comic itself is now 21 years old and old enough to drink.
Scarsdale
So, too many hang-overs then? 😛
Michael Jackson
Appreciate the step-by-step breakdown. Very beginner friendly.
Jim Nelson
Nobody has said it yet so, here goes; “Pink skirts?” Really? JED, you run out of Black, Brown or Red? 😉
Speedy
Historically, Pink was a warrior’s colour. due to being close to blood.
jedraft
It makes them feel pretty.
😉
Regards,
JED
SanBernInATL
I’m so pretty! I’m so pretty! 😆
Seriously though, bright colors stand out on the battlefield, and those two DEFINITELY don’t want to blend in! My guess is since ogres are sort of elite troops, I’m guessing these two count as heroes for the Uurts. Not to mention a certain flaming fuck skull’s attempt at his own (per)version of the giantkin.
Speedy
Every time I open this page in Firefox, my Nortons chucks a fit.
“Siege-close.com” a URL: Botnet seems to be living here.
jedraft
AFAIK we have no current problems with malware, etc.
Go ahead and clear your cache if you haven’t. I don’t have any problems ATM in either Chrome or Edge.
Regards,
JED
RBZ
Can confirm.
AV was triggering on something in normal Firefox whenever visiting here, which wasn’t occurring in private browsing, nor in Chrome nor Edge .
Cleared cache for this website only, and no subsequent AV triggering.
RBZ
Scratch my earlier reply about everything being ok!
Just had my AV trigger today as well.
1st attempt to access the site resulting in AV alert about a script-based Trojan Horse (accompanied with the page not rendering as expected). Having clicked to reply, I was then presented with a correctly rendered page, but also another AV alert, this time about a botnet apparently originating from fashion-chicken.com.
For reference, this second alert is identical to the one that was triggered yesterday.
This has taken several attempts to actually reply, as once the trojan and botnet alerts have happened, subsequent attempts to access the site (such as clicking on send reply!) fail and require a clearing of the cache to resolve.
jedraft
Godaddy support said it was with some WordPress plugin. Found a couple I didn’t immediately recognize, and deactivated.
Honesty, this stuff is tiresome beyond endurance …
Warm regards,
JED
RBZ
Unfortunately, eternal vigilance is still the price of freedom (liberty).
Scarsdale
My AV keeps blocking the site, claiming a Trojan is present. This is the first time I was able to get in to comment.
RBZ
Try clearing your cache.
I’m not getting the Trojan alert any more, but the fashion-chicken.com BotNet is still there.
Not sure where it’s originating from, as a search of the client-side code only shows it in my comment. Probably, there’s something pointing to an apparently-harmless site that does the actual redirect.
CoolGuy098
Hello! I am a security analyst investigating this malicious domain “fashion-chicken[.]com”. As of today, 8/17/2026 4:28PM CT, this website is seemingly still making callouts to “fashion-chicken[.]com”.
I am but a meager analyst, but I did want to recommend that you remove all suspicious/unknown WP plugins again, as WELL as resetting your admin credentials and investigating any other new/unknown admin users and removing them as well. That would help prevent the intrusion from happening again, as that is likely how they are regaining access.
Apologies for the unsolicited advice if it caused offense, I wish you luck!
Xerxes Aragon
I’m also getting the warning from Norton about blocking fashion-chicken.com as a dangerous web site.
Maybe
Both RSS feed links, the “entries feed” and “comment feed” returns the same feed result: the comments feed, no wonder i have not gotten any updates on the comics itself in a while 🙂
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Big Enough – Page 1338
State Of The Project. COZ Ep 01
In case you were concerned about the lack of comic updates, the reason is I have been mastering brand-new skills and not always being good at it. This is the current state of the video project. Still very rough, and needs more smoothing out and work, but I decided to start telling the story at the beginning. I’ve only been at this for a couple of months now, and I am sure, just like at the beginning of the comic itself, things are going to get better. In any case, kids, Enjoy!
And please be kind in the comments. 🙂
Warm regards, JED
Finally un-Fucked and Fully Functional
Yes, kids, we had a nasty malware infection. Godaddy Support cleaned it up and I upgraded our security and anti-spam stuff. jedraft@barbarianprincess.com also works now. Hopefully we won’t have any more of that nonsense.
That, plus a short trip to the hospital which fortunately turned out not to be anything life or Zona-threatening is in the past, and we’ll try to get the new content rolling again.
Warm regards and happy days to you all.
JED
You Are The Love Song
One of you wonderful people pointed out a couple weeks ago that we passed the twentieth anniversary of this webcomic in July and I didn’t even notice. Well, almost exactly ten years ago, I made a special strip for the tenth anniversary, page 900.
Page 900 – The Challenges Of Zona
In it I included this song that I wrote for Mentl to sing to Zona in the Otherwhen. The lyrics and meter are mine, but every time I tried to put a tune to it it sounded derivative anyway, and so I decided to feed it into Suno and see what AI could do. It’s okay, and doesn’t not sound like what I had in my head. Just so we all know, it’s obviously based on the thing being trained on the work of many other people much more talented than I am, and I would not dare to try to monetize it, but the song as a whole is mine. Sort of collaborating with machine learning.
Warm regards,
JED
Emmon And The Horses
You said you’d like to see the little giant’s adventure during the attack. I put this sketch together and am not displeased with the results.
Enjoy!
JED
Things appear to be fixed.
Still not sure what actually went wrong. Looking forward to the report that WordPress Support will give me.
Patreon Update – Sexy Saturday
As many could have predicted, today’s Sexy Saturday involves our two lovely priestesses of the Sun and The Moon, respectively.
To see the rest, just visit Patreon.com/JEDraft. Hop
Here We Go Again
Here we go again!
For no reason I can find, and none that Godaddy can find, it’s impossible for me to post a new comic at barbarian princess Dot Com using my theme Toocheke without getting 503 ERROR. I have added nothing, done nothing in the past month or longer that would cause this. I think the demons from the Deeps have done something nefarious. Until I fix it or redo the entire site using another plugin (again) I will be posting the update in FaceBook.
Warm regards,
JED
Finally!
Wow, it’s been a long time.
I owe you all many apologies, and many updates, but we’re finally truly back in the saddle. I am so very grateful for your loyalty and patience, and I won’t bore you with all the details of the heart problems (now completely symptom-free) and the neck stuff and the lung infection (fine at last ) and Jeebus everything in my little old body that seemed determined to break down all at freaking once. I’m back to splitting logs and exercising and all the good, healthy stuff – and, of course, working on Zona!
So here we go! Yes, the dragon tried a flame-strafe and yes, flying top cover Tula was able to shield the frontline of the cavalry and now it appears some kind of hawk has taken a decided dislike to our urtt rider. Imagine that.
More as soon as I can get it finish rendering and doing the magic.
Warmest regards,
JED
A Minor Inconvenience …
Hi kids! There was a delay in updates, and I think you ought to know why.
Didja ever want to know what an actual heart attack feels like? Well, with any luck you never will. I, on the other hand, know exactly what it feels like. It’s not like Aunt May clutching her heart and collapsing. It was more like the worst acid reflux you can think of for about 24 hours straight. Went to the doc, and to make a long story short, anyone can have clogged arteries under the right conditions – even me!
This was about a week and a half ago, and yeah, I spent a couple of miserable nights in hospital where they kindly opened my artery and put a nifty little mesh tube in there to keep it open. Did I ever wish there was some kind of wormhole and Tula could come use Erogenian Magick to heal things quicker. Hospital sucks.
Otherwise, I am fine, and looking forward to eventually splitting logs again and doing other macho stuff around home, just like before. But, as I write this I need lots of rest and can’t lift anything heavier than ten pounds. (That means I have to put my little dog or my cat on the scale before I heft them, just to be sure. )
But I am now well on the mend, and look forward to making regular updates – or even more to make up for the lost time.
Warmest regards,
JED
Zona in Unreal Engine 5
Soooo – I know the comic is a bit late, but I have not been idle. Nor has Brian. We are now really, truly and officially out of preproduction. The hernia was to transition all the assets, including out titular heroine, into Unreal Engine 5. It was a seemingly Sisyphean task, involving lots or frustration, hard hard work for my dauntless perfectionist animator and some creative innovations to solve the problems that they can absolutely take complete credit for solving.
We are now in production and animating scenes for the final trailer in UE5. Well, why did we go to UE5 in the first place? If you look at this picture, maybe you’ll understand. It’s representative of what you will be seeing on screen, and this is just one frame. UE will show you 60-120 fps of THIS in real time.
I’m extremely pleased. This is much much more than I thought I wanted. She’s going to live, breathe and act out the story in the world we’ve created.
Naturally, if you want to see more, then go to Patreon.com/ JEDraft
Warmest regards,
JED
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