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Cast of Characters
Hastings Kilgore Eli Kilgore Peter Wipp "Snug" Snugworth Elliott Krauthammer
Hastings' First Appearance! Eli's First Appearance! Peter's First Appearance! Snug's First Appearance! Elliott's First Appearance!
Hastings Kilgore is a rude, sexist, bigoted, seven-times-divorced workaholic. He loves his mother more than life itself, and lives with his unempoyed brother, Eli. Hastings is known to be a cold, unfeeling business monster, but has shown a soft side and tends to fall hard for all the wrong ladies.
Eli Kilgore mooches off his workaholic brother Hastings, bounces from dead-end job to dead-end job, and mostly just hangs around with his best friend from high school, Snug. He has no particular ambition in life other than to continue mooching off his brother until he kills him, eats him, or both. Peter Wipp is a high school student currently interning for Hastings in a business office after school. He is soft-spoken and sensitive, but seldom holds his tongue when it comes to telling his boss when he's being horrible, which is often. Peter enjoys art and harbors a near-constant fear of death. Snug, a high school dropout, still lives in his mother's basement and believes he is 18 years old. He loves heavy metal music and not having a job. Snug tend to overreact about things that are important to him. His weaknesses include easy listening music and salt. Elliott is one of Hastings' co-workers at Poisonwood Brands, and his lifelong arch enemy. He is an arrogant, lazy, smarmy womanizer whose only mission in life is to out-blackmail Hastings and finally get him fired.

Elliott is a big fat jerk and proud of it.

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Mother Kilgore Hope Kilgore Tom Wipp Karl Kilgore Mr. Ladwig
Mother's First Appearance! Hope's First Appearance! Tom's First Appearance! Karl's First Appearance! Ladwig's First Appearance!
Hastings' and Eli's mother is a bitter old crow, and will do anything to keep her son Hastings under her thumb. However, she is fairly ambivalent towards her other son, and he appears to share the sentiment. She had a strained relationship with her own father, and is extremely greedy. Hope is the first of Hastings' many ex-wives. Not much is known about her yet, other than the fact that she is Catholic and, since divorcing Hastings, has become a successful psychiatrist. Hope does not hate her ex-husband, despite his best efforts. Peter's father, Tom Wipp, is an independently wealthy layabout who is often distracted by organized sports and frequent naps. He used to have a spectacular career, but that was a long tme ago. A single father, Tom loves his son and makes every effort to spend time with him. Eli and Hastings' father Karl is a bit of a mooch, and due to a series of boneheaded and highly stupid occurences, now spends most of his time in prison. He just wants what's best for his sons, and at the top of that list is to keep them away from their mother... whatever the cost. Mr. Ladwig is one of Hastings' bosses at Poisonwood Brands. He has the patience of a saint, usually giving Hastings more respect than he deserves. Mr. Ladiwg's job is often made more difficult by the people under him.
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Grant Sherman Samantha Mudrick Ollie the Janitor Ned Gooseberry Pestilence Moresorrow
Grant's First Appearance! Mudrick's First Appearance! Ollie's First Appearance! Ned's First Appearance! Pesty's First Appearance!
Grant is Peter's best friend at school. He is a meek, nerdly fellow who loves civil war reenactments, science fiction, and role-playing games. Miss Samantha Mudrick is another one of Hastings' bosses at Poisonwood, and oddly enough the one he most resents, given that she is a quietly religious doormat. Ollie the Janitor is a pessimistic Portuguese cyclops who cleans up after the employees of Poisonwood Brands. Ned Gooseberry lives in Blight Point, CA and is the owner and CEO of Poisonwood Brands.

He is a very bad man.

 Pestilence is a "goth" girl who goes to school with Peter. Peter has a crush on her, but we don't know yet if she shares his sentiments. Pestilence hates her stepfather and enjoys skulls.
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Story Guide
Don't know where to start? While it's always best to start from the beginning, sometimes you just want to jump in and see where the current takes you. Well, now you can use this handy guide as a floatation device! Just click on the blue links to go to the beginning of the story, and use the navigation buttons below the comic to progress through the strips. Happy reading!
5/23/05- Things Get Ugly- The first strips ever! This is where it all began.
6/3/05- INTERNal Affairs- Hastings clashes with his new intern, Peter.
6/22/05- You're Fired- When Hastings fires Peter, Eli makes him a deal he can't refuse.
7/4/05- KRAUTHAMMER!- Peter is introduced to Hastings' arch enemy, Elliott Krauthammer.
7/28/05- The Job #1: McDorsal's- Eli gets his first job, and unearths an unsettling clown-related discovery.
8/15/05- Smoke 'Em if you Got 'Em- Snug panics when he arrives at the store to replenish his mother's cigarettes before her show comes on and suddenly forgets what brand she smokes.
8/31/05- Under (Blood) Pressure- When Hastings ignores his strict doctor-prescribed diet, his blood pressure takes a turn for the worse.
9/19/05- A Physical Education- Eli is feeling old and fat, and decides to join in on Peter's high school gym class to get back into shape.
10/5/05- Dateline: Cornea Falls- In response to his flagrant bigotry, Hastings boss forces him to mentor a cyclops boy from the nearby town of Cornea Falls.
10/26/05- The Job #2: Halloween Haunt- Eli's second job lands both he and Snug at a Halloween supply store, where they find more than rubber spiders in the stockroom.
11/17/05- The Thanksgiving Contrivance- Offended that Elliott Krauthammer is getting special treatment from his new cyclops boss, Hastings make a holiday grab for some special treatment of his own.
12/7/05- Have Yourself a Heavy Metal Christmas- Eli's favorite metal band, SkullDrift, comes to town for a Christmas reunion tour.
1/02/06- The Legend of Prod Roberts- Hastings is disillusioned when he finds out an inspirational author is n ot exactly as advertised.
1/16/06- Several Short Snow Stories- Five unconnected snowy vignettes.
1/23/06- The Battle for Little Big Nerd- Peter's nerdy friend Grant wants him to join their Civil War recreation society, but is their friendship worth being labeled as a nerd?
2/13/06- Blackmailer: There Can Be Only One- An anonymous love note causes havoc in the office and starts a blackmail feud between Hastings and Elliott.
2/27/06- The Sepia-Toned Truth- Snug's mother's house is declared a historical landmark, after it is determined that the town's founder, Cutty Gosnold, once lived there. Gosnold, however, may not be as heroic as they think.
3/13/06- Blackmailer 2: The Thickening- Reprecussions from the first part of "Blackmailer" play out as Hastings' father Karl becomes a detrimental factor in Hastings' schemes.
4/03/06- Ugly Hill Guest Artist Spotlight Week- Interpritations of Ugly Hill from some of your favorite webcomic superstars!
4/10/06- The War In Eyeraq- Peter, confused about the war, is unwittingly embroiled in a deadly game of politics gone bad.
5/08/06- Camp Cadger- Karl invites his son Eli on a secluded camping trip, but who is he hiding from?
5/29/06- A Rough Patch- While going through a troubled time, Hastings runs into his first ex-wife, Hope.
6/19/06- Cthulhu Motors- Eli's third job lands him in the clutches of the dreaded car salesman Joe Cthulhu.
7/10/06- The Fattest Man in Ugly Hill- Peter is commissioned to do a mural for the fattest man in Ugly Hill.
9/11/06- Ecumenical Cousins- A flash back to the beginning of Hastings' marriage to Hope.
10/02/06- Beard Science- Eli's decision to grow a beard has an unexpected effect on his friendship with Snug.
10/23/06- The Dung and the Restless- Hastings and Elliott decide to include their respective interns in their game of backstabbing, blackmailing, and general feuding.
11/20/06- How I Hate Your Mother- Hastings' and Eli's manipulative mother is pushed down the stairs by an anonymous attacker, which indirectly causes Eli to make an important decision about his relationship.
12/18/06- The Customer Must Always Fight- Hastings and Eli are roped into a back-room retail store brawl over a rare DVD boxed set.
1/15/07- The Price of Success, Part 1: No-Tell California- Hastings is offered the job of his dreams in Blight Point California, but will he leave his beloved mother behind?
2/5/07- Mother, Can You Spare a Dime?- Following the events of "No-Tell California", Eli is struck with a medical emergency, forcing him to ask his mother for help.
2/19/07- The Price of Success, Part 2: Stay in the Lines- Torn over his decision to leave Ugly Hill, Hastings has a conversation with a child on a cross-country bus that causes him to remember an event from his youth.
3/12/07- Forebodings and a Funeral- With Hastings gone, Peter is finally free to pursue his own interests, and even develops a crush, only to discover that Hastings had a bigger effect on him than he thought.
4/9/07- The "W" Word- Eli is horrified when he discovers his mother's personality is rubbing off on him.
4/23/07- The Price of Success, Part 3: Wrath of the Gods- The startling conclusion to the 3-part story!
5/28/07- Original Ugly Hill Submission Packet- Five of the original strips from Ugly Hill's early development.
6/4/07- PvPvUH- A canonical crossover with popular webcomic PvP!
6/18/07- Peter, Darker- Peter becomes depressed when he finds he can't stop thinking about death.
7/9/07- The Kilgore Redemption- Karl tries once again to escape from prison and fix his relationship with his sons.
7/30/07- Hello Grandpa, My Old Friend- When Hastings strikes up a relationship with a grandfather he hasn't spoken to in years, he begins to doubt his mother's word for the first time.
8/27/07- Primal Rave- Snug questions his own identity when he finds out his favorite heavy metal band, Thumb Stew, now plays techno music.
.9/24/07- The Upper Crass- Hastings and Elliott get sent on a top secret fact-finding mission to a rival company in the nearby upper class town of Port Winsome.
.10/01/07- Emergency Baby Guest Week!- Some guest artists fill in for me while we get to know our new baby!
10/15/07- The Upper Crass, Part 2- We now rejoin our story already in progress.
10/29/07- Two Monsters and a Smaller Monster- Eli ends up in charge of his friend's newborn baby for the weekend.
11/19/07- Wearing Black Like Me- Pestilence's goth friends turn against her when Peter's creative writing project gets the color black banned from school.
12/10/07- Raising Ugly Hill- When Hastings tries to get the perfect present for Nora, he finds out he may have some loose ends to tie up with his old wife before he can turn his attention to his new one.
12/31/07- 99.9% Inspiration- On his birthday, Eli decides he wants to make his mark on the world.
1/21/08- SnowDown- Hastings and Nora move to begin the adoption process, but run into a familiar maternal roadblock.
2/11/08- Bludgeon Planet- Grant feels left out now that Peter is spending all of his time with his girlfriend.
3/3/08- Nosleepitol™- Hastings turns to experimental drugs to ease his depression.
4/7/08- God's Will- Eli meets a very strange young man at night school who may hold the key to his success.
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