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7/6/2011
I misspelled a word on the last page. I know this. Or the
ol' Rev was so nervous he misspoke. Yeah, that's it. That's the
ticket...Sorry, an 80's catchphrase popped out. It happens. I'll
try not to make it happen again. And suprisingly, the scene on
this page was not inspired by the myriad of weird westerns that
have appeared over the last few years. Including my own 'High
Plains Warlock'. It was inspired by a sequence from the great
Matt Wagner's Mage. The bad guys gave some other bad guys a magic
staplegun that made a loud bang and eventually killed one of
the heroes. Hmm, I haven't read Mage in a long time, or it's
sequel.
Put more stuff in my 'need-to-read' pile, I guess. I am currently
reading 'Soulless' by Gail Carriger. She's the Guest of Honor
at FenCon in September. Saw her book at Half-Price and picked
it up. It's a fun read so far. I'm up to Chapter Three.
New Comic Day today. I'm enjoying the insanity of the alternative
world of Flashpoint from DC. Wait'll y'all read tomorrows books.
Oh my. On the Marvel side, the Fear Itself is a crackling read.
The one thing I'm really enjoying is the fact the are trying
to show entire worlds in these stories, especially the Flashpoint
stuff. I'm not reading any rehashing in different books of stories
that have already been told in a previous books. Fun, fun, fun
stuff. Chris says check it out.
7/5/2011
I hope everyone still has all their fingers and toes from
the fireworkin' yesterday. I worked. From 12 to 4, where we had
a big sale at Keith's. And I got my ass kicked. Which in Keith's
Comics parlance, means people came in and kept giving me money.
Well, buying lots of stuff. We even did better than the main
store. So YAY!.
As I said yesterday, only 3 pages this week, next week I'll
try to back to 4.
7/4/2011
HAPPY 4TH OF JULY, EVERYBODY!
I hope y'all are all having a safe and fireworky 4th. I will
be working and then going home to sleep the sleep of the dead,
whilst not actually doing the 'dead' part. Had a pool party Saturday
at a friends and I am plum tuckered out still. You every play
with a 4 year old? Like life-like WB Tasmanian Devils they are,
I kid you not. While I got nothing for y'all today, I am hard
at work to get this weeks strip done. I may only get to 3 pages
though. That wont be a regular thing, I'll still try to give
you four pages a day.
6/30/2011
I hope everyone had a great Fourth of July. Saturday I get
to go over to a friends house for a pool party. Then I'll be
hard at work on Next Weeks pages. Got it started plotted out.
The thick plottens, as Elvira, Mistress of the Macbre would say.
And don't wory, faithful readers, things are about to get a lot
worse before it gets better. Heh heh heh.
6/29/2011
Honestly, why is 'Captain America: The First Avenger' not
being released this weekend? I mean, the Fourth of July weekend.
Seems like it would be a no-brainer. Oh well, at least they're
making a Captain America movie together and putting a solid budget
behind it.
Hah! Sorry. I just saw the Dunkin Donuts Captain America Cherry
Coolata commercial.
Anyway, the Albert Pyun Captain America will be released on
DVD before the new Captain America. Seeing as how my bootleg
VHS has worn out, maybe I'll buy it. Maybe not. The only good
bits are the first half set in WWII. Of course, if they released
the two Captain America TV movies (with Reb Brown!) I would definitely
buy them. C'mon, they're cheestastic.
6/28/2011
I was thinking of the characters voices. Judah sounds like
Nathan Fillion. In my head, Haig sounds like actor Henry Darrow.
Rasta is Peter Weller. I don't think I have any of the others
set yet. Maybe Castigere is a young Jack Nicholson. It helps
when writing dialogue sometimes to hear the cadence of someone
other than your own voice. It helps keep to keep the dialogue
distinctive. If you're doing it right, you could put all the
characters in a dark hole and with just dialogue pick out who's
saying what. I'm not there yet, but I keep trying.
6/27/2011
I was talking at dinner with some friends and we started talking
about the movie, Remo Williams. Now, I was a voracious reader
of the Destroyer novels on which the characters of Remo, Chuin
and Smith are based on.. I have 104 books out of, what, 140 or
so. Great series. It was good when the creators Warren Murphy
and Richard Sapir were writing. It became great when Will Murray
was writing. They've had writers after him. Some horrible and
some not so bad. A lot of people don't get the fact, even though
the title suggests otherwise, it IS NOT a male macho action series
like Bolan or any of the others. It is at best a very satirical
series, that takes the time and skewers all sides without apology.
However, the movie....ehhhh. Fred Ward and Joel Grey made
an excellent Remo and Chuin. Wilford Brimly did a gruff Smith.
Smith is described as 'lemony' and thin in the books, so that
was missed. And the adventure? Man, they had earthquake machines
and brain-washed assassin children and suits that could make
people go through walls and weapons that fired coins and sentient
androids and China invading the Midwest and Kali resurrected
and all sorts of cool stuff. The movie had....a guy selling bad
guns to the military. And there worn't no satire in the movie.
However, it would be cool if what we could get someone like
Michael Gondry or Spike Jonze to do a updated (and correct) Remo
cinema adventure.
I'm not sure why I stopped reading the Destroyer novels, but
I did pick up one on Wednesday. Destroyer #139, 'Dream Thing',
ghosted by Tim Somheil. So I'll see if I've been missing anything. |