9/16/2011

Hah! I've had this scene in my head for a while. Originally, it was Lienne at Morgathu's village that she sees Judah in the all-together, or as close as I'm going to draw it. The dialogue came to me in a rush before I drew this page. I have a dry erase board over my computer desk that I scribble things down. When I was doing High Plains Warlock, I also made notations of what pages I haven't done, which pages I've drawn, which pages I'd inked, which pages still needed to be Photoshopped and corrected. It's come in handy. Okay, I looked up and the dialogue did get some fine-tuning but I wrote the gist of it up there.

Okay, and drum-roll please. I've been working on a new card for a while and most of the design has been wear I wanted it, but wasn't quite there. I was doing some designy things to the type and such, but it just wasn't working out. But this is something I came to.

It's called KISS. Keep It Simple, Stupid. Something Bruce Timm did so well, in all his animated ventures. I'm not sure if ther will be three or four pages next week. I may do 3 next week and then 2 the week after, just so there isn't a skip week. Still do not know, and probably wont know myself until Sunday night or so. So Have a Great Weekend, everyone!

9/15/2011

As you all know, I like the cheese. As in, quite a bit of movies I watched as a younger man. I celebrated the Roger Corman Sword and Sorcery I gave myself for my birthday. I've waxed nostalgic for the movie 'The Sword and the Sorceror.' C'mon, it has a triple-bladed rocket sword! How can you not love that?! Seriously.

Well, add another one. Last night at Half-Price books, I found the just recently released 30th anniversary of 'Battle Beyond the Stars', another Roger Corman extravaganza! It's 'the Seven Samurai in Outer Space'. Even has one of the original stars of my favorite movie, the Magnificent Seven, Robert Vaughn is in it, playing essentially the same character. But in Outer Space. Makes a world of difference. Sador, the bad guy, played with John Saxon is truly bad. He takes the body parts of those he fights and replaces his failing body with them. Evvvvvviiiiiiilllllll, with a capital E.

It was co-written by John Sayles and directed by Jimmy Murakami. Murakami went on to work on Batman: the Animated Series and other cool projects. Great design work and really cool characters, some of the 'special effects' aren't up to what I saw in a later Corman movie, Galaxy of Terror, but I still enojyed it. It has a 'Making of' that I'll be watching later. If it's anything like the making of 'Galaxy of Terror', it'll probably get me inspired to make a low-budget movie. That I'll never get to make, but still... I'll be inspired.

If nothing else, I'll want to make a story set in space. With spaceships and space-guns and space robots and even some spacemen and spacewomen.

9/13/2011

This week, as before, will be Monday and Tuesday, of course then Thursday and Friday. Still not sure if that keeps more readers or not, but I'm going to keep doing it until I figure out what works better.Still trying to figure out if Skip Week will be just a skip of story and nothing new, or if I'm actually going to post some 'Behind the Scenes' stuff or what. Don't know. Time is limited and I have to go to work and sleep and interrupting stuff like that. We'll see.

9/12/2011

I firmly believe, in my heart of hearts, that people who say drinking never solved anything, have never drunk enough. There's going to be some talking going on next week. Some explanations and the like, so I may not have a Skip Week, but don't get your hopes too high up there. I haven't gotten to those pages just yet. We'll see.

9/9/11

I said I don't try to do a cliffhanger every week, but this one was an exception. Not to say I had some far ranging gameplan, but sometimes things just seem to work out storywise. I'm somtimes a little scared if I wrote myself into a corner and couldn't get out, but so far, (tapping myself on the head) knock on wood it doesn't happen. Because having blank pages on this site would be a bit embarrassing. That, and the opportunity for too many people to tell me that a blank page is the best I've done, is too great. Okay, then, you all have a great weekend. It's getting cooler at there, now let's hope we get a nice amount of rain to go with it. See y'all Monday.

9/8/2011

Hard at work on next week's pages. Got them all plotted out and started the drawing bit. And, uh, that's it for right now.

9/7/2011

This is so much my reaction to heights. Up in a building with glass around me or a plane, well I can't take the taking-off, but the flying and landing I'm cool with, but heights like the Tower at Six Flags wig me out something fierce.

Anyway, I just read the first fourteen or so new #1's of DC Relaunch. Action,Animal Man, Batgirl, Batwing, Detective, Green Arrow, Hawk & Dove, Justice League International, Men of War, OMAC, Static Shock, Stormwatch, and Swamp Thing all came out with new #1's in this complete relaunch of the DC comics universe this week. If this the level of quality that DC is going to have, then it's going to be great relaunch. All of the comics are solid stories, with good writers and artists sheparding the DC universe. They aren't perfect, but some like Action, Animal Man, JLI, Stormwatch and Swamp Thing are really exemplary. The rest are still solid. I do like some of the changes to the other titles, especially Green Arrow. Even though it isn't what I would do with the character, I do like the fact they play up the fact he lives in a world with seriously advanced technology and uses it. I also appreciate the fact they actually tell you what Queen Industries does. I said fourteen, Justice League came out last week. Not too bad, but it felt like part of the story with mostly just Batman and Green Lantern in it, but I guess the whole arc is them building the team. On the other side, the Intrepid Escapegoat #1 came out. It is an unabashed and awesome all-ages book. Chris sez Check It Out! A new issue of Kirby: Genesis the series that puts together all of Jack Kirby's 80's creations and stuff never made it to comics into one mind-blowing space opera of a comic. I so still want a live-action movie made of this.

Go buy some comics!