It’s Not What You Think

Planes Trains and Hovercars

Watched the return of Psyche last night. Great show. Good episode. The WWE or whatever guest star could almost act.

Girl and Her Gunship – Leaping into the writing this morning. Got the first sentence, so the book’s as good as done.

Arkham Polytech – New strip. Slice and Dice.

Other webcomics to check out: http://www.madscottcomic.com/

and now, this:

iUnion

Okay, one iPad joke and then I’m done.

“iPad just works. But you’ll only need it once a month. And not at all if you’re over sixty.”

But seriously, it’s a five-hundred dollar (at a minimum) web browser. It doesn’t even have a phone, which means you still have to carry around your cell. And instead of a real op system it’s running the iPhone/App store system, which means it’s a closed garden system you can only run “approved” software on. And no stylus means it won’t even be any good as a digital drawing tablet. I’ll pass — on this round, anyway. ‘Course if I didn’t already have a Kindle, I’d be thinking about it.

Didn’t watch the State of the Union. I’m done with politics, and politicians. Unless I’m elected, of course. Then I promise to usher in an age of graft and corruption not seen since the Taft administration, and you’re all invited to the party.

Check Out This Webcomic – Strangegods.

Girl and Her Gunship – Outlined it yesterday. Doing a breakdown of the first third today.

Now Taking Donations for a Cintiq

Once again, we did not hit it big on the lottery. We did however win three dollars. On a five dollar ticket. There’s got to be a better kind of retirement plan out there.

Tonight, new episodes of Psyche return. And it’s about time. It’s one of the best shows on TV. If I were a younger man, and lived in LA, I’d be scheming to get on the writing staff — just to learn.

Netflix streaming has added Have Gun, Will Travel. Turns out Richard Boone can’t act. But it’s still an addictive old western.

Anybody see Caprica? I’m still pissed at the way BSG ended, not to mention I hate prequels.

Webcomic You Should Check Out – Spud Comics.

A Girl and Her Gunship - We have a plot! We have a plot! Expanding and fleshing it out today, probably tomorrow, too. Then back to actually writing. And nope, it’s not an origin story.

Arkham Polytech – Reached ten unique visitors yesterday for the first time. Sounds tiny, but I’ll celebrate any milestone I can get.

You Are Not Your Credit Rating

The local NPR station is in the middle of pledge drive. They can suck it. It’s the 21st century. Just tell us a web site and ask us to donate. Then get back to the show. No need to ramble on anymore.

It snowed a bit over-night. Gotta go shovel.

Arkham Polytech: New strip. Ia! Ia!

Girl and her Gunship: Reboot prep coming along nicely.

Webcomics You Should Check Out: Cleopatra in Spaaace!

Throw the Cards in the Blender and Hit Reboot

Had an absolutely lovely weekend hanging out with Amy. Saw Up in the Air — pretty good, with a very non-Hollywood ending. Played a good deal of Borderlands. Got a couple Arkham Polytech strips done for posting later this week.

We stopped by the SPCA, starting the process of finding a dog. Spent some quality time with a 9 month hound with the unfortunate name of Miley. A cute little bugger who spent the entire time we were with her in the human-cage sniffing the floor and watching other dogs pass in the hallway.  The search continues. If it goes longer than a few months, I’m gonna say screw it, let’s just get a Roomba.

A Girl and Her Gunship – It’s reboot time! Took a break from this last week to get my head sorted out about it. I was going all spastic over whether it was gonna be an origin story or not. And if not an origin story, what would the first sentence be. (If I don’t know the first sentence, I just can’t start writing.) Figured out a potential non-origin first sentence Friday, and it’s all clicked from there. An article over at io9 (which I won’t link to because they’re a bastard closed-garden site that doesn’t let you use a url when you leave comments) sealed the deal when it pointed out neither James T Kirk  nor Han Solo didn’t needed an origin story — in fact, when their origin stories were delved into, they kinda lost some of their cool.

Today’s Webcomic You Should Check Out: Not Invented Here.

Sites: Redesigned mishmashocrap.com and arkhampolytech.com over the weekend. Over the next month, I’ll be redesigning the t-shirt store site (probably going back to using fourthcult.com for it) and giving slackpocalypse.com a thorough nuking and rebirth. In case ya didn’t notice, Mishmashocrap.com is now my primary blog of choice, again. It just felt right.

New Arkham Polytech – Blood and Kharma

Just posted a new Arkham Polytech up at arkhampolytech.com.

Site’s Undergoing Some Changes – It’ll Be Over Soon

Now that Arkham Polytech has its own site, Mishmashocrap.com needs a facelift.

Arkham Polytech Gets Its Own Site

As of this Friday’s update, Arkham Polytech updates will occur at it’s new site — Arkhampolytech.com. I’m rather excited about this. You, on the other hand, can be forgiven for a lack of enthusiasm. Anyway, the site’s live now, why not give it a click?

Enemies Part 2

The Enemy List continues (and wraps-up) on Friday.

George Lucas Can Still Bite Me

…for churning out such crappy prequels, but damn, i have to admit, Clone Wars looks mighty shiny in hi-def. Story still makes no sense… they’re fighting a faked war. They don’t know it’s faked, of course, but since I know it is, I find myself unable to care.

Enemies Part 1

Yes, another talking head strip. But at least there’s nudity, right?

The production process is pretty much what it was last strip. Splish’s design is pretty much what it was last time, too, except for the nudity. Drawing him this time I realized with his head, unless he’s looking up, it’s hard to see the pupil in the farthest away eye — well, at least it looks weird when I try to draw it in. Don’t know if I’m gonna do anything about that, or live with it. Probably will continue to tweak his design — and Hugh’s as well — for years. Part of the process, right?

Today marks a new update schedule: Tuesdays and Fridays.

Naked

the style is almost where i like it.

the art is slowly getting somewhere near “tolerable”, I think.

process stuff: sketch with .5mm mechanical (had been using soft blue on the theory scanner couldn’t pick up blue but yeah, no, it can so went back to real pencil), ink with .7mm penstix, scan, clean up in photoshop, place in illustrator, live trace, live color, assemble, caption (no balloons this time — doing the doonesbury thing), then export.

so, am i getting closer to something? you guys tell me.

Radical Makeover: Splish Edition

Did a sketch of Splish. Think he’s gonna start looking a lot more like this starting with the next strip.

Nefarious

Style wise, really getting there.

Process wise… Pencil/Pen/Scan and clean with Photoshop/Place into Illustrator/Live Trace/Tweak/Live Paint/Layout/Balloons/export/post. two-and-a-half hours. not bad. Live Paint saves a huge amount of time. Might be able to go to two strips a week here sooner than I thought. Guess I should write the next scripts…

Design wise… Hugh’s design is getting real close to final. Splish… needs to be more muscle-boundy loveable. But getting there.