You know what's awesome?

When you have a comic you want to scan and your computer just doesn't want to recognize the scanner!

Fantastic!

I suppose I could just draw the damn thing digitally, but I really am at a point with drawing digitally where I am quite happy just using the Wacom to color and do touch ups in Photoshop. Yet I still want me a Cintiq. I want to try one out first though, before I sink that much money into it.

Although I still prefer the look of traditional inking vs digital inking, I am always intrigued by the prospect of going completely digital, and becoming a paperless artist. I think a Cintiq would get me closer to that, cause you don't have the disconnect of drawing on a Wacom in one place, and looking at the monitor in a different place. I dunno, maybe I just think about this stuff too much. What do you guys think?

Rar. My computer has been acting a little funny lately. And not only that, some of the programs I've been using haven't been working quite right. I upgraded to Toast 9, and when I try to burn a dvd in that, the thing just sits there and will not convert anything no matter what. I've gone back to using Toast 8.

On the plus side, I didn't pay for it, so I've got that going for me.

On the other plus side, I have figured out how to use iDVD, which means I can burn crap with cooler menus than before, but it just takes a while. No problem though, I can just start it and let it go overnight. I can deal with that. It's like waking up on Christmas morning! To a present I bought for myself! And it's a dvd of Mythbusters or Dirty Jobs!

Okay, so it's nothing like Christmas, really.

In honor of today being my last Anatomy class, I'll post this comic. I did pretty well in the class, based mainly on having an awesome teacher. Mr. Styczynski is honestly one of the best teachers I've ever had.

Unless he flunks me for some reason, in which case fuck Mr. Styczynski!

Okay, here's the list for '08 so far. The asterisk'ed movies are on dvd.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Cloverfield
Pay it Forward*
Rambo*
Justice League: the New Frontier*
The Mist*
Lars and the Real Girl*
Juno*
Hatchet*
Harold and Kumar go to White Castle*
Iron Man
The Manchurian Candidate (200...4?)*

Okay, in case anyone wants to see this as one full continuous comic, here you go!

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"Introduction to Carmina Buarana," by Orff

Classical music? YEP!

This is music I've loved forever, but I just recently found out what it's actually called. I couldn't find a better video than this one, so you'll have to deal with Christmas lights. But I love this god damn music. It's so spooky and so epic and so intense.

It is also used to sell Gatorade, currently.

And that my friends, is how we do that.

Yeah, this is probably one of the strangest things I've ever drawn. It's easily up there with Superman: Babykiller, which I think is one of the worst things I've done.

This whole thing came to me a while back. I had the beginning of the comic all planned out, up until about part 7. See, I knew future me had to come back to the present, but I had no idea how to wrap things up. I was at work one day when parts 8 and 9 came to me inexplicably, and I knew that was the way I had to end things.

So, there you go. I hope it was worth reading each update only to find out it was a comic that never happened and never will, but the whole time travel thing had to kind of make you figure out something was screwy, right?

Sooo close!

And now you know why the last one was very unfinished. Cause Liz interrupted my comic-making! Although, I probably should have drawn me at the computer, rather than the drawing table. That would have made more sense.

Come back tomorrow to see the conclusion!

So, here's my review of Iron Man.



Seriously guys, Iron Man is one of the best comic movies ever made, if not THE BEST comic movie ever made.

Hard for me to say, cause I've never even been an Iron Man fan. benitocereno Said it best when he said "I mean, the other ones we love...they've all got something. Like, "Well, Spider-Man is good, but boy does the Green Goblin costume look bad, plus that scene with Aunt May and the 'finish it finish it' is terrible" or "Can you read my mind? If yes, you will know what I am thinking: this scene sucks."

Iron Man does not have that. Ever. There is no moment of misstep where you go, 'I regret seeing that with my eyes and/or hearing that with my ears.'"

So, there's my review. A hastily drawn comic that took maybe fifteen minutes and a bunch of text not written by me.

So, yeah. Go see Iron Man.

I was debating taking today off, but I think I'm drawing this out long enough, haha.

And I guess my goal in life is to look like Deathstroke when I get older?


I can't say as I know where that came from.

We're almost there! Just two more days until you see where this whole thing is going!

1 - Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to Random quotations: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

If you want to do this again, you'll hit to hit refresh to generate new quotes, because clicking the quotes link again will just give you the same quotes over and over again.

3 - Go to flickr's "explore the last seven days" http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

Put it all together, that's your first album.


Mine turns out to be:

Band: Malicious falsehood
Album: Mine and Only Mine
Cover art:

I was looking for something on PJ and I came across this. You should all try it!

And here's part 6. I think this is one of those ones where it shows that I basically just drew this comic as it came to me, rather than plan it all out ahead of time and figure out some of the dialogue beforehand.

Sometimes, I just want to get something on paper, so I just throw out a bunch of boxes and start drawing, and figure that no matter how it takes to get to the end, I'll get there somehow. This whole Weird Science comic is just such an example of that, heh.

Admitedly the art in panel two here is kind of weak, but I think "that is crap, future me. Crap from an ass." Is the best line in the comic. It's one of those things that made me laugh as I wrote it, heh. I'm very easily entertained!

In other news, I picked up GTA IV. I haven't been playing it as much as some people, but it's fun so far. I did accidentally kill my first girlfriend in the game. I was driving her home, ended up in a police chase, and my car started on fire. I dove out, she stayed in, the damn thing exploded and she died.

I tried to call her cell phone, and she didn't answer, heh.

Who the fuck is Regina Spektor indeed.

Actually, the truth is that there is SOME hardcore music on my iPod, but just not a whole lot.

You know, when you post comics daily, you really run out of things to say about them.

Okay, so young me is here to talk about music? Why would he want to do that? I have no musical talent outside of Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and Karaoke Revolution.

I'm not sure exactly when young me comes from. Maybe like, junior high age? I dunno what number that works out to.

And yeah, that's all stuff that's on my iPod, heh.
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"Little Girls," by Oingo Boingo.

Honestly when I first heard Oingo Boingo they really didn't do anything for me. But I waited a while, checked them out again and realized that I really did like them. A rock band fronted by Danny Elfman? How can you go wrong? I picked this song just because it has such a bizarre video. Why is he singing to midgets? I dunno, but I like it!

My internet connection seems to be kinda shoddy today, so I'm gonna try to sneak this up while I can!

Yep, the visitor through time is me from the past. What kind of hijinks will we get into? WHO KNOWS!!!!!

Oh, right. I totally do!

Three panels? Part one? No punchline? What the fuck, right?

Well, this begins the comic called "Weird Science," which for those playing at home, is the second comic I've done named after an Oingo Boingo song. Why is it only three panels? Well, this is day one of (hopefully) nine consecutive days of comics! That's right, I'm gonna try to update for nine days straight.

It's really not that big of an achievement, as the entire comic is already done, heh. It's 25 panels long or so, and I thought "what the hell, let's cut it into threes and upload it that way." Never hurts to try something different, right?

So, yeah. That's that. Keep checking back to see where this comic goes!

Oh, by the way, the first panel, that's music playing from the iPod. I had music notes in there, but I didn't realize that Illustrator doesn't play nicely with that font until it was too late. (The song is "Hello, Bonjour" by Michael Franti.)

Okay, here's the list for '08 so far. The asterisk'ed movies are on dvd.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Cloverfield
Pay it Forward*
Rambo*
Justice League: the New Frontier*
The Mist*
Lars and the Real Girl*
Juno*
Hatchet*
Harold and Kumar go to White Castle*

And I think that's that. I've barely been to the theater at all this year!

"Something That I Said," by The Ruts

Again, another Henry Rollins band. Well, he's not in it, but he pointed me towards these guys. The last time I saw Rollins, he talked a lot about these guys, and talked about a show he did with them. So when I got home, I immediately looked them up and I really dig them. So here's the first song I heard from The Ruts!

And just for the hell of it, here's Henry performing this song with the rest of the Ruts.



The lead singer died a while back, and shortly after this show, the guitar player died of cancer. This show was a benefit for him, I believe. They got Rollins to sing because they knew he was such a huuuge fan of theirs.

Why, I kissed her because I love her, of course! What else could have been the reason?

*cough*

Anyhow, if you are like me, you have encyclopedic knowledge of Married With Children. I pity you. So I'm gonna rattle this off the top of my head.

See, the reason Al has grey hair is because a Bundy with money dies (Uncle Styme, for those keeping track.) There's a stipulation in the will that says whoever has a child and names it after him gets 100 grand. So Al and Peg start going at it, but Peg starts taking the pill so she won't get pregnant, cause no amount of money is worth the trouble of another child. They had so much sex that it turned Al grey. She was up in their bedroom and that's where today's comic starts.

God, that's kinda sad. But also kinda awesome!

Why am I posting this on a Friday morning? No one will see it, heh.

Rollins Band: "Liar"

So, I skipped last week, on account of by the time I really kinda realized it was Wednesday, I really had no ambition to type, heh. But I'm here now!

Today, we have "Liar," by Rollins Band. Now, it's not my favorite Rollins Band song, nor is it my favorite Henry Rollins song. Hell, Henry Rollins isn't even that good of a singer. But if you know anything about me, you know how I love this man. So, I post this one because it is my favorite Rollins video. Seeing him painted up red in the desert, dressed up like a cop and Superman just makes me laugh. So, there you go.

See, there's sort of a pattern, I suppose. I went with Skunk Anansie a little while back because I heard of them through Rollins Band. If I can find the video I have in mind next week, it will also be a band I heard of because of Henry Rollins. Not sure why it's Rollins appreciation month or whatever, but such is life.


And I was gonna post an Egomaniac last night, but it was my birthday and I worked all day. When I got home, I had homework to do, so that didn't work out. I think I'll post one tomorrow. We will see!

Today I:

-Got my oil changed
-Had a headlight replaced (which I didn't even know was out, heh)
-Finished two more assignments for my online class
-Got most of my Power Point presentation on Epilepsy done
-Finished Gears of War
-Ran out to Fry's cause I needed to buy a new keyboard
-Read some comics

I think that's all. I think I will draw some stuff tonight, cause I got a lot done. I picked up a brush and some ink, and I am going to practice my brush inking a bit more. I'm not that great at it, but I want to learn. Anyone have any advice? I'll post some scans of stuff eventually, but I don't think I'll be doing any Egomaniacs with it until I am comfortable with my abilities with the brush.