Animu Jackass
Groovy.
Buff, buff, buffing along. Okay, so I only have about 1 and a half pages to show for the extended break, but if I keep rolling at this rate, I’ll be easily set. Dare I say it, I’m getting into the vibe of my own universe again!
Hopefully when next I post here it will either be with a new theme and/or the year in review piece. KANGEKI! GO, GO, GO NEXT ZONE
Scooby Dooby Don’t. Please.
I’d really like to hear the explanation for why Cartoon Network STILL prefers to show 70’s Scooby reruns to classic Looney Tunes during the dead portions of the day. Currently playing is that one where they’re driving all over Chinatown while generic hippy music plays as usual- in fact, the exact song parodied in that one Johnny Bravo cartoon.
It’s hard to say if the old cartoons are more or less palatable than the new direct-to-video movies that they’ve taken to airing just as frequently. At least in the old ones they don’t bludgeon you with an almost offensively stupid version of Fred while making Daphne out to be a genius martial artist (the better to undermine Fred’s only other attribute, his ‘muscle’) TV star, surpassed only by Velma in wits. It’s better than her being perpetually-posed eye candy in a Crayola dress like before, but was it really necessary to make the former alpha male hideously stupid (which started seemingly in the 80’s “WHAT IF THEY WERE KIDS edition.) Make ’em all smart, why not. We’ve demeaned stoner hippies for too long. You can’t make Scooby-Doo funny in any way, shape or form anyway, so it’s no big loss to sacrifice the backup doofus.
I should probably get back to work before this starts sounding like Bizarro Crimitism.
Another Weekly Something
RK will be back next week, as previously/vaguely implied, I’m taking the hiatus week I skipped between 13 and 14 to make up for the reboot. Don’t worry though, I’m getting way ahead in penciling, which should be good as far as avoiding so many delays once we resume with track 15.
As tempting as it is to, you know, fucking nuke everything and start it over again.
I was an avid follower of Your Webcomic Is Bad(…) when they were updating, and as someone drawing something easy to dismiss as an ‘animu bullshit’ comic, naturally every so often it would make me stop and think about what traps I do and don’t fall into. I’m glad so many people have given me good feedback, by which I clarify, regardless of positivity or negativity, points out a direction in which to improve.
One time I posted a page on 4chan in hopes of attracting the maybe two people there who actually do real critiques. For the most part, it was, as in their native tongue, FAIL. The most generous comment was something along the lines of “The first panel looks okay, then you stopped trying.” Which really, pretty much hit the nail on the head.
It’s pretty clear that lately I’ve been going more experimental as far as trying new art styles, be they the ultra-ultra thick look I went with for a while, the ‘blobby lineless’ style, or going back to normal for the end of the chapter. I kinda liked that style, but it was pretty easy to get sloppy with. I’m starting the next chapter in a similar manner, I think, but only if the first page looks good enough, otherwise it goes right back to the regular ink style.
Anywho. I’ll start off with the traditional three a week thing when i get back to it.
In other news: LET’S BIBLE!
More on Hero’s Cape then I’ll shut up
HEROSCAPE: THE BATTLE OF ALL TIME
Milton Bradley/Hasbro (no console- WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE)
In a nutshell: I really want to play a strategy RPG, but my hometown has no electricity!