What what? Another comic? Yes! The 4th, in fact. I might even make this a habit. Maybe I’ll even settle on a style! Maybe. I need to work on the panel layout, I do each panel separately and I’m wasting too much space.
Hmmm, I don’t like the way the small preview is squashing it. So click the link to see the comic please.
I can’t remember whether I’ve mentioned this webcomic before, but by golly I’m going to mention it again.
It seems the guys at Penny Arcade are running some guest comics and one of them is by Kate Beaton of Hark, a Vagrant a wonderfully witty and intelligent webcomic about history and politics. Awesome to see awareness of her work spreading.
I must confess, I have something of a geek crush on Kate. Man, can there be anything sexier than an intelligent, witty woman with an interest in topics beyond celebrities and clothing? I don’t think so.
So yes, if you’re reading this blog and not a regular reader of “Hark, A Vagrant”, well, I’m afraid I have to ask you to GTFO. ‘Cause we don’t take kindly to your type around here.
The weekend is upon us. And this weekend is particularly special. For this weekend I’m going to go watch Eddie Izzard Live. Squeee More!!!! Izzard is my favorite comedian, I love his rambling brand of nonsense. And I have a seat near the front.
In case you’re some type of Heathen and don’t know Izzard, here are two of his best clips. Enjoy.
For $250 million total to develop and market, you’d think they could have added more than 4 hours of single-player gameplay, hey? The excuse used by MW2 apologists around the office is “But the multiplayer!!!”. Yeah, I was getting bored of plain-old modern warfare shooters around the glory days of Counterstrike.
Madcap Adventures is what I’ve decided to call these comics. If I ever do enough to make them worthy of an archive I’ll put them up under that name.
I’m playing with art styles, colour vs no colour etc. I’m trying to find a style that feels most comfortable while being quick to draw. I’m a man with a lot of hobbies and side-project, you’d be surprised at how long it can take to do these comics, shoddy though they look. So I’m trying to find a style which retains a clearly readable comic style while minimizing the time I actually have to spend getting an idea down. I think I’ll probably stick to the black and white, sketchy style, minimal shading and whatnot. Colour takes a fair amount of time.
Anyway, enjoy.
(For those who don’t get it, the new Twilight movie opens in cinemas soon. God help boyfriends everywhere. I nearly didn’t survive being dragged to the last one by my ex. Singledom has its advantages.)
I don’t know about the rest of you, but for me, as a sensitive, new-age male, the opening of an institute designed solely around exploiting the looks of pretty young women horrifies me!
I mean, can you imagine the plight of these girls? Through no fault of their own, they were born winners of the genetic lottery, growing to have the kind of physiques that would allow them to earn a not-insignificant wage performing the most trivial of tasks, while all of their peers earn their livings as soul-destroying office drones! Posing for photos, standing and smiling next to cars at trade show, serving fried chicken in restaurants! The horror! These poor creatures, taken advantage of in that way!
Why, this whole situation is so disgusting that I’d…I’d…I’d burn a bra in outrage! Yes, that’s what I’d do, if I was wearing one. (That’s only for Saturday nights, down behind the bar, and you’d have to call me by ‘Susan’ if you ran into me.)
Durban guys! We must rally to support of these young women and their struggle! The only decent thing to do is go down there right now and give them the most generous tips we can, so that they can afford to keep themselves in nice clothes and put themselves through higher education without taking on the back-breaking bank loans that the less endowed have to endure!
I think I’m going to start a side-feature on this blog called “Visions of the Future”, where I’ll post up amusing evidence of the general decline of this hobby of ours, gaming. Now, I know, it’s not hard to find evidence of decline. But I said “amusing”. Gotta be funny, even if it’s slightly tragic.
Thanks to Zeus of the Codex for spotting this glorious image of the future of hardcore roleplaying games :
