y2cl-Daily was an attempt in 2016 to release a hand drawn, inked, lettered and sometimes colored comic strip every day for a full year. They have been broken out into 24 page themed issues for your reading pleasures and released every other month. At the end of each year they are collected into a volume that you can puck up that will contain six whole issues.
Volume 1 (2024)
Released: January 2024
We all get a little anxious. J Horsley III spent a year doing daily hand drawn comics on Instagram and now we’ve collected them into themed books. The first one tackles Anxiety, depression, and ADHD. Great way to start a series, right? Get the heavy stuff out of the way first! Don’t worry though, we revisit these topics often. How often? Well we circle back (like our corporate talk there? Gotta sound professional) on issues 3, 5, 10, 20, and 21. If you’re worried about there being a TEN ISSUE gap without anything related to this, it’s sprinkled in to damn hear every issue. How fun, right? ENJOY!
Released March 2024.
We all have that lingering question “Am I an asshole?” Hell, there’s an entire sub-reddit on this topic. (Side note, I HIGHLY recommend heading over to that sub-reddit and reading through some of the topics. There’s some real gold in there. You could make a book out of some of them. Hmm… Why have I never thought to mine this sub-reddit for You might be an Asshole if… ideas?)
Anyway, this book aims to help you answer that question.
Released May 2024.
Disquietude (noun) – a state of uneasiness or anxiety.
Who say’s you can’t learn something from these comics? We learned something putting it together! That J Horsley III doesn’t know how to shut up about his feelings. Or how to take them seriously. There are more than one masturbation jokes in this supposed book about his feelings…nothing more than feelings. There is also a really clever Dick joke, a potty joke, something about Batman, and a two page true story about adventures walking through Seattle at 5am!
What are you waiting for? Pick up this book and end your disquietude!
Released July 2024
Have you ever bought a y2cl-Daily book and thanked yourself cause it’s the greatest y2cl-Daily book you could possibly imagine? No? Well this may be it!
Buy this issue at SpoilerVerse.com here.
Released September 2024.
Apparently J Horsley III spent a lot of time using this series as a diary to work through things. Here’s a book full of that kind of stuff. From that ballad of the bad tooth, to cancer, to face melting medication this book as it all! You also get some pretty sweet man ass on one of the pages. How could you pass this one up? Oh, that’s right. You can’t.
Released November 2024
You know how it’s a trend in mainstream comics to do cover swipes, or homages to classic comic covers? Well I do that too. It’s fun and let’s m stretch my creative muscles a bit into things I wouldn’t normally draw.
Cover swipes in this issue?
- Detective Comics #27 – Bob Kane
- Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 – George Perez
- Amazing Fantasy #15 – Jack Kirby
- Wolverine #8 – John Buscema
- Action Comics #252 – Al Plastino
- TMNT #1 – Kevin Eastman & Peter Liard
- Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #98 – Curt Swan
- House of Secrets #92 – Bernie Wrightson
- Archie #1 – Bob Montana
- DC Super-Stars #7 – Jim Aparo
- Flash #123 – Carmine Infantino
- Star Wars #1 – Howard Chaykin
- Green Lantern #84 -Neal Adams
- Justice League – Darwyn Cooke
- Batman #66 – Dick Sprang
- Betty and Me #16 – Barry Grossman
- Incredible Hulk #340 – Todd McFarlane
- Fantastic Four #1 – Jack Kirby
- X-Men #1 – Jack Kirby
- Batman #59 – Lew Sayre Schwartz
- Detective Comics #523 – Gene Colan
- El Diablo v3 #1 – Ande Parks
- Brave and Bold #200 – Jim Aparo
- Fury of the Firestorm #28 – Rafael Kayanan
- The Flash #117 – Carmine Inantino
- The Brave and The Bold #25 – Ross Andru
- Batman Adventures #12 – Mike Parobeck
- Batman #1 – Jerry Robinson
- The Killing Joke – Brian Bolland
- x-Men #11 – Jim Lee
- Superan #79 – Dan Jurgens
- Wonder Woman #88 – John Ross
- Rai #1 – David Lapham
- X-Men Adventures #1 – Andrew Wildman
- Green Day Dookie – Richie Bucher
- Green Day Kerplunk – Chris Appelgren
- Ugly Kid Joe America’s Least Wanted – Moish Brennan
- Spider-Man The Venom Factor – Ron Lim
Released January 2025
Collecting:
Issue #1 – Anxiety:
Released: January 2024
Issue #2 – You Might be an Asshole of…
Released March 2024.
Issue #3 – Disquietude:
Released May 2024.
Issue #4 – Have you Ever?:
Released July 2024
Issue #5 – Diary Entries:
Released September 2024.
Issue #6 – Cover Swipes:
Released November 2024
Volume 2 (2025)
During the initial run of y2cl-Daily in 2016, J Horsley III would take suggestions from the readers as well as answer questions. It’s a fun way to not have to think of content. Enjoy!
Answers to questions like:
- What does a pule of flamingos next to a middle aged Power Ranger standing in front of a pile of shit with a “Detroit” sign on on it with a parachuting cat and heaven’s gate closed in the sky look like?
- Is it tru that Kangaroos have three vaginas?
- Are Flamingo yolks really pink?
- Do Wombats have cubed poop?
- Am I rich yet?
- What does it look like to see a cat riding a unicorn that’s farting rainbows and breathing fire while Deadpool laughs to see such a sight and the dish runs away with the spoon?
- Do I lift, bra?
- What is the dimensions of the universe?
- Is this all there is?
- 42
- What is the airspeed velocity of the unladed swallow?
- Why can’t I just buy a sports car and be normal?
- Can we get an updated drawing of me?
And much more!
Released March 2025.
The EIGHTH wonder of the world! Or of this series at least. Is it the greatest issue yet? Probably not since it’s just a bunch of behind the scenes non sense of me explaining my little y2cl-Verse to you all. Wait, no thats not this issue. That’s issue ***fourteen…***with will release March 4, 2026. Only one year off. Dammit, get back on track. We are talking about y2cl-Daily #8 – Behind the Scenes. The concept here is the characters are aware they are in a comic strip, or a TV show, or a “whatever” and this is them behind the scenes talking about the series. Or about me. Or about something outside the comic itself. I’ve been doing this in y2cl since the literally FIRST comic.
You get a neat little look at some of the original y2cl – The Web-Comic characters like Plank Face (originally called The Tiki Guy, but I like Plank Face better), Larry T. Cob, a nice reference to Stick Dylan (See Just Shoot Me, NJ the Fasion Model, y2cl vs Caitlin Day, and Dylan’s Stickaversary for contest), and the ninjas **SMT, and K-Bot.**
All in all, a SOLID issue. With a hella cool cover.
Released May 2025.
Who doesn’t like true stories? J Horsley III promises all of these are 100% true or your money back*!
*no refunds.
Released July 2025
Ahh man, more anxiety stuff? You’d think this guy would get some therapy and work it out. What’s that? He says these comics are his therapy? That’s sad. Or cool? You decide.
Released September 2025.
Don’t talk politics at the dinner table. Talk about them on the internet with strangers so you can yell at them and call them nasty names. Like a true American.
Released November 2025.
A family y2cl-Daily book? What is this? Oh, it’s me, mys FIVE kids, and amazing wife, all working together to make a comic. You should know he forced them to be a part of this. They are comic creators by force. AND THEY LIKE IT.
Released January 2026
Collecting issues 7-12.
Volume 3 (2026)
Released: January 2026.
We all love a good pop culture reference, so why not collect all the ones from this series into a book? Well, here you go anyway.
Released March 2026.
It’s fun to learn! Take a moment to learn about what all this stuff is. There will be a test at the end.
Released May 2026.
Ruh-Roh, this one gets political…again. Get yer pitchforks and storm the castle!
Released July 2026.
So many pop culture pages we had to make a second book. Enjoy this one, it’s amazing! Promise!
Released September 2026.
Since part one was such a hit, and everyone just loves learning about the y2cl-Verse, we made a part two! Should there be a part three? We could write a coffee table book on this…thought not sure who would want that much detail on the creations from J Horsley III’s mind. Unless you do?
Released November 2026.
I wanted to call this book “Holiday’s and the Gays” Cause it’s holiday comics and LGTBQ+ themed comics I made. Greg suggested “Holi-Gays”. Maybe I’ll rename it on a future printing. Anyway, this book is about various holiday themed comic strips and ones about the LGPTQ+ community.
Released January 2027.
Collecting issues 13-18.
Volume 4 (2027)
Released: January 2027.
Released March 2027.
At the end of the original run of y2cl-Daily things kinda…stopped. Find out why!
Released May 2027.
Seriously, we should all be in therapy.
Released January 2027.
Collecting issues 13-18.