1/25/2012

So Friday's page MAY be late. Maybe even on Saturday. Maybe not. Some things in life came up and I got a little over-loaded. As of this writing, I still haven't even put pencil to paper for it. Got some story issues with that page. Another 'I know what I want, but I don't know what I want' type thing. I got the next few pages plotted out in the ol' head space, but the next one is a bit of stumper. I'll have an epiphany some time soon and all will be well.

Check back on Friday to see if the page is up, if not come back Saturday and it'll be up then.

But in the meantime, GO BUY SOME COMICS!

1/23/2012

A while back, I posted that I was know on Facebook. I am. I've been told that I did not inform y'all of the name I was under on Facebook. It's under, 'Chris Medellin'. The picture currently in the profile is the same as the 'Who Is This Guy?' page. So far, this year, I seem to have a steady stream of people taking a gander at my web-comic. I hope y'all stick around. I think I'm doing a really kick ass story and it's just going to get better.

That thunder and lightning you saw in my eyes? Brainstorm. As I've said before, I have this story semi-plotted out. Some bits I want to hit, but everything is in flux. When Volcan was telling Judah about the doors? That was going to be someone else telling it. Lady Anamel attacking the school. Different villain, different attack. Aysuni got some lines that Lienne was going to have, because I started to see Lienne as much younger than I intially thought of. (She's around 17 or so.) Things evolve. As I was working on these upcoming pages, had a real killer-diller idea that's too good to pass up. Still no end in sight. Still have a bunch of stuff, I haven't even got to yet. Still having fun.

If you are, let me know, with that nifty 'Contact Me' button to the left of this blog, and drop me an e-mail.

1/20/2012

I did a M.A.S.H. quote. One of the greatest shows ever.

It seems the internet censorship bill is starting to get beat down to an unrecognizable pulp and flushed out. I guess after carefully explaining to Congress, again, that they don't make wax cylinders for their phonographs anymore, they brought in some random 12 year olds to explain to them how the internet actually works.My website did not go black in protest. I did that last year, when I didn't renew my domain name in time. I did it before it was cool.

It's supposed to be in the'60's and '70's this weekend?! It's WINTER. I got my good coat ready to wear. C'mon, now!

All right. Y'all have a great weekend. See y'all on Monday.

1/18/2012

Cat-Fight! Cat-Fight! Cat-Fight! Reooowwrrr! Heh, heh, heh. Meretrix. Thesaurus' are cool. Is it s' or s's? I can't ever remember. I'm sure someone will tell me. Anyway, this page went through a few written permutations. Still not sure if it works entirely, but it's what I got. Some of the inks are really flat on this page. The ladies aren't coming out as well as I want. Just gotta keep working at it, until I do. I MAY be having a skip week. I need to take some time off and deal with my Aunt's stuff. Or at the very least, help my mom go through stuff to see what things are worth. We're planning on taking it to auction or something like that and we need to know what we are dealing with, so we don't get ripped-off. We are already aware of the fact that we, if we're lucky, are probably only going to get half of anything we sell. But we need to know, the half of what?

Sold some stuff to Half-Price books, which helped me to buy the next two Game of Throne books. I'm still a 150 pages or so from the first, and I have things in my 'literary queue' that I'm going to read first, but it's nice to know I gots them and can get to them when I want to.

All righty then, GO BUY SOME COMICS! I actually bought some of mine last night, and hopefully buy the time y'all read this, I've read some of them.

1/16/2012

Didn't buy a lottery ticket. When I got home Friday night, I just wanted to stay in. Did watch my Amazon gifts. Or at least a few episodes. Captain Power is still a show made to sell toys, but the writers and producers didn't look at it that way. Some cheese in it, it is a kid's show from the '90's, but the writing is way ahead of what it could have been. There was a good reason the TV movie never aired in the US. Not that it was bad at all. The TV show would have been changed a bit, there was a finality to some of the characters in it. Plus what they had planned for the second season, before Mattel pulled the plug, would have made it 'a must' viewing. Oh, well. Like another kid's program that was better than it should have been, 'Land of the Lost', at least it's on DVD so I can re-visit anytime I want to. The blinky neon chest guards and 'targets' on the Dread soldiers and vehicles that you are supposed to 'shoot' with your Captain Power ships is a bit distracting, but it's something I'll live with.

I kinda wish I had one, when I'm watching it though.

Now Justified is still amazing. I've gone through 4 or so episodes, it's just as sharp as the first time I saw it. The 3rd season comes on this week, and I think Amazon will be streaming it for $2 an episode. I may just have to invest. I just wished that if I did do that, they would give me a discount on the blu ray/dvd when they come out.

1/13/2011

Friday the 13th. Maybe I should buy a lottery ticket. With the way my life goes, maybe I'll win something. But then the way my life goes, I probably wont. So anyway, before my Aunt passed she sent me a $75 Amazon gift card. Last thursday, I spent it. I got: Captain Power: The Complete Series DVD, Justified Season 1 Blu-Ray, 'all the earth, thrown to the sky' by Joe R. Lansdale, 'How to Cook Everything' 10th anniversary edition by Mark Bittman and Super-Friends Season One, Part 2, all for $21 out of my pocket.

I've watched the first couple of episodes of Captain Power. A TV show meant to sell toys, being way to well written and smart. The quality is just above VHS, but according to Gary Goddard it's the best quality they had. Oh, well, it's all 22 episodes, plus a TV movie that was never aired in the US, plus a host of extras.

The Super-Friends DVD is the one with the Green Arrow episode, so I had to get that. I am a fan of Justified, so a chance to re-watch is just awesome. So y'all know what I'll be doing this weekend. Y'all, have a great weekend.

 1/11/2012

I love me a good time travel story. Maybe that's one of the reasons I like Dr. Who so much. I have been a fan when the only way to see it is PBS on Saturday nights or, if you had cable WGN would show an hour every morning Monday through Friday. Back when Dr. Who was still considered a children's program, a serialized 30 minute show. The Tom Baker years. Yeah, I know there were 3 Doctors before him, and the Pertwee episodes were shown before they aired the Baker stuff, but Baker was the Doctor for SEVEN years. Ever so often I think of writing an actual time travel story, but then I get sidetracked on other things. As a storyteller, I'd like to tackle every genre out there. I can add a bit here and there to the stories I'm doing now. I've done it. But I'd like to come up with some that are, 'This is MY ROMANCE story', 'This is MY MYSTERY story', 'This is MY SCIENCE FICTION story' and stuff like that. Who knows. Maybe it'll happen.

Anyway, it's Wednesday. GO BUY SOME COMICS!

1/9/2012

Still hacking my way through the first Game of Thrones book. It's a great book, but time is limited. Between work, normal household stuff, this web-comic, friends, family, and other things vying for my attention, it's hard to get some reading done. I try to get 30 minutes or so a day, but the holidays made a mess of that. I'm back into it. Read for whole chunks of Saturday and Sunday. I'll eventually get the rest of the series (so far) and get through those. Plus the eight or so books I have on my shelf that I need to read.

I used to read two or three books at a time. Read a few chapters or another book entirely and then pick up one I had started, looked to see where I was in it and then continued reading it. Ah, the good old days.

1/6/2012

Just to point out to all y'all, Aysuni brings stuff to the table.

So this week was fun. Emphasis on the FU. So had a bit of squabble with iPage. They're my web-site provider, and usually they are pretty amazing and helpful and whole bucket full of positve adjectives. But this week...damn. When I had all my computer problems, I was going to chuck everything and not deal with this site anymore. Might have even stopped drawing. Don't know. Anyway, for some reason iPage likes to charge it's subscribers 15 days before the payment is due. Not sure why. Last year I had it fixed easliy enough, I called them this last Monday and thought I had it taken care of.

Until I checked my bank account on Wednesday, and found myself overdrawn by $80. I called them up to see if they could reverse it and I'd pay them later. They said okey-dokey. (Not an exact translation, but you get the point.) Later that afternoon, I check my e-mail to receive a 'We're turning off your account and deleting all your files, tah tah, so long, you don't get any fish' e-mail from iPage.

So I had to call them AGAIN. Turns out if they charge you and you say stop, unless you have another credit card to charge they cancel. Blah blah blah. Luckily I got to deposit my check early, so that catastrophe was averted. They didn't delete my site, it was all their fault but I was still charged. Man, if I didn't already drink, I'd start it up.

On a technical note, I may have to start lower the point size of the font. It looks a little big on some of these pages. I'll start to fiddlin' with it over the next few weeks.

So anyway, all of y'all have a great weekend. Hope it is as quiet/loud/productive/lazy as you or need. See y'all on Monday.

1/4/2012

HAH! I just noticed I did it. I put 2011, instead of 2012. Oh well, if that's the worse that'll happen to me that'll be a good thing. Just marking time until the apocalypse later this year. Kidding. I know that the Mayan's had a thing for the end of one thing, the rebirth of the new, but there's that curiosity of the maybe. I blame comics/movies/tv shows and a very healthy overactive imagination. It'll be like the whole Y2K thing. We KNOW nothing was going to happen. But when images of the new year came from that first city, and the lights didn't go out and computers didn't go bonkers, everyone gave a big exhale. Don't deny it.

Dead begin to rise. Biblical plagues. Alien Invasion. Time traveling cyborgs. It ain't goin' to happen, but it does give the imagination a good exercise.

It's Wednesday! Go Buy Some Comics!

1/3/2011

I have returned.

Originally, I was going to have a Recap week. Once a day for Monday through Firday I'd put up a broad overview of what has gone before, but by the fourth page I was only a third a way through the pages. So I just returned to posting the pages I had already done, before all of the unpleasantness. Not only my computer problems, which was solved by my new Christmas HP laptop. Shout out to my cousin, Kevin for that.

But also the passing of my Aunt. My aunt Mary was the oldest of my Grandma's children, my Mom was second. She was also my godmother. She passed suddenly the Tuesday before Christmas, and we buried her on that Friday. Luckily, my family has a tendency to celibrate the life and not mourn the death. She had no children, she had her nephews and nieces for that. Right now, we are taking care of all her will and her wishes.

It was a rough couple of weeks for me. I think everythings back and up and running, but I don't want to jinx anything.

For those that have Netflix. 'Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil" is one awesome movie. Hillbillies and College kids, what could go wrong? Heh, heh, heh.

Later.