The webpage is here. Bookmark it.

The blaag is here. Friend it.

Obviously not everything is refined, but I'm tired of quibbling over details, since that's what partially postponed the comic for so many months.

Enjoy, tell your friends, tell your enemies, and it updates every Friday, and eventually it'll update more times a week once everything is ironed out.

mood: enthralled tags: comics, discordia, my webcomic, plugging

Star Wars



( Sinbad, Cthulhu mythos, Hellboy, Marvel, etc )

mood: anxious tags: avatars

I hate DeviantArt. But where else can I post my artwork besides a blaag? What pisses me off the most is that I am pretty sure I used to have some of the "features" they're now asking me to pay money for. DeviantArt has so many damn rules and advertisements I'm wondering why exactly they're considered socially divergent.

Also, I recently joined a pretty awesome DeviantArt group but for some reason forgot to read the rules in their entirety, even though they're pretty brief, as far as rules for these kind of things go. My first submission was an elegant, sensitive rendering of Hellboy's Johann Krauss and Karl Reprecht Kroenen scissoring like undead homos in the B.P.R.D stock room.


The problem I have with this rule is that it basically assumes all characters are heterosexual (or maybe asexual) unless they explicitly indicate otherwise. I don't see any rule that states that characters not be depicted in heterosexual relationships unless canon makes it official, for example. It's frustrating to contemplate. Amusingly enough, Guillermo del Toro, the man who directed the Hellboy movies, loves gay!Kroenen. He's a fan of a webcomic that depicts Kroenen and Abe Sapien in a homosexual relationship. There was also a harmless love triangle with Johann Krauss at one point.

mood: disappointed tags: art, hellboy, movies

By now, you may have figured out that I like drawing rocks.



This comic rapidly became a rough draft. I've planned on re-drawing the whole thing later. Already got Princess Python re-designed and I'm digging the new style. That being said, two paneled pages and one splash page to go until this version is finished.

A sick part of me wants to start a fan webcomic where each month I'd draw a new "rest of the story" based on some series or issue of whatever comic I want. Zemo: Born Better, for example, really needs one, given that we never find out what Zemo does with the BODIES OF SEVERAL POLICEMEN that Wendell kills, and what the police do about Wendell's killing in general, and about how Zemo is technically protecting Wendell from facing the law for his crimes. But I am still working on Discordia (slowly but surely) as well as my portfolio, and writing a short story every 2-4 weeks. Maybe next year I'll have time.

mood: amused tags: art, baron zemo, comics, doctor doom, fancomic, princess python, the rest of the story

   

mood: depressed tags: comics, concept art

 

tags: b.p.r.d., comics, scans_daily

This is the greatest, most lol-arious thing in the history of ever, EVER.

Seriously, if you don't laugh, you are not alive.

mood: giggly tags: humor, video, wtf

My Citroen robot lost against the maker of madness tonight in gore_sports ' fourth Bash Wars.



Oh, how I wish I had not entered the contest. There were things man should not, can not, see without being changed forever.

There are forces that dwell among us which originate beyond the scope of our humble, mercifully ignorant earth. Our awareness is, for now, dim to the endless black miasma of cosmos and elder things that I pray do not, yet suspect do, dominate and define the structure of our universe and most probably beyond even that. Not even the cold, analytical minds free from neuron and membrane can resist the sinuous infection that curls about it, and dampens it with madness, freeing though that madness may be from the indescribable horrors that I only merely glimpsed in my short time just last week, and again, for the last time, tonight. The magnitude of that which looms over our world's very existence is so great that to even think of it threatens me with the same deliriousness, the very echoes of madness, that so consumed my champion in its final moments. In the end I had to look away, overcome with sheer revulsion; but perhaps what I saw wasn't even a true representation of the creature, merely our earth's own attempt to place some order on the offensive shapes and dimensions born in a plane where alien laws of scientific and physics and time cannot be properly translated to our understanding. Perhaps, and I am filled with unshakable horror at the mere suggestion of the thought as I remember what I did glimpse of the monstrous thing, this is for the best.

The contest is not over--perhaps, it will never be truly over. For my champion, however, it is done. I pity those who are yet sentenced to face this abominable horror, this ghastly contrivance of flesh and matter, and I pray to God, despite my fears to the contrary, that they fare better than the Citroen did.

mood: indescribable tags: humor

Lately I've been reading quite a bit, as it's probably been obvious to determine. Part of this is to make myself a better writer. I've got it into my head that I want to write dark fantasy and horror, stuff like that.

I finished two Lovecraft stories today, which is quite a feat--I bought one of the serialized anthologies collecting his works, Blood-Curdling Tales of  Horror and the Macabre, several months ago, probably in Spring, and I'm maybe half done with it. That's because Lovecraft's stories are long, slow, and heavy, which makes reading them a bit of a chore for me. Usually the chore is worth it, but it's something that I've progressed with very slowly. Which is fine, because I feel so intellectual and contemplative that way.

It's worth it, though, because not only has it given me additional story ideas, it's also given me the recognition that Wow, this guy is really good, and more than that, I am nowhere near this good. That's not me being pathetic or anything, just realizing that I'm glad I'm doing "research" to learn how the masters got to be so damn awesome. In Lovecraft's case, he was weird, had natural talent, and his parents went insane and died, but I'm trying to avoid that last detail.

What is so great about Lovecraft is his ability to transform things I normally like into stuff that's unappealing and frightening. For example, I love science fiction and fantasy. I greatly enjoy stories about alien cultures and planets and traveling through time and space. But when Lovecraft writes about all of these things, they become dark and sinister and I can imagine just how terrifying such an experience would truly be.

The other thing that reading so much has given me is Wow, I really don't like Neil Gaiman's work. I know he's supposedly really awesome, but I tried reading Coraline several months ago and got bored (bear in mind that this book is like 100 pages), I watched the film and wasn't really that impressed by it, and recently I've sampled his other stuff and Wow, I really don't like Neil Gaiman's work. I've never even really read his Sandman comics, because I was super disappointed to find out they didn't star the actual DC comics Sandman. Plus they look so damn boring. And Death looks damn stupid.

I bring up Neil Gaiman because the circles of the Internet I tread love him. He's a fantasy writer. He co-wrote a book with Terry Pratchett. He likes Lovecraft. He's liked by geeky feminists. He...something. I just assumed that I would like him too, but so far I'm deviating from the norm on this one.

Anyway, for my Christmas list I'm putting, in addition to Transformers DVDs and gel pens, Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos and Dreams of Terror and Death by H.P. Lovecraft, and Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King. I want to add one more, maybe something not horror so I don't give my mom a heart attack but I don't know for sure what yet, so offer your own faves if you got something you think I might enjoy.

mood: thoughtful tags: books, lovecraft, neil gaiman, short story, writing

I figure the brain can be Mr. Intellectual, the gorilla can be Professor Evolution, the blade guy can be Doctor Abortion, and the ice guy can be Climate Change Man...

(Artist is chriss2d at DeviantArt.)

mood: anxious tags: comics, humor

I got the first Transformers Season on DVD and now I already want the rest ughhh. Seriously, I forgot how much I like this show 8(.
And now I don't have to watch it on YouTube anymore. I watched almost all the episodes in one go, for like five amazing hours.

Also, because I've been trying to categorize them in my head lately, my 20 top-favorite TFs (and top 3 humans):

Autobots:

• Jazz
• Optimus Prime
• Skyfire
• Wheeljack
• Bumblebee
• Perceptor
• Blurr (TFA)
• Fireflight
• Blades
• Snarl

Decepticons:

• Soundwave
• Shockwave
• Ratbat
• Starscream
• Bombshell
• Scrapper
• Vortex
• Scavenger
• Rumble
• Shockblast (Energon)

Humans:

• Chip Chase
• Mikaela (movies)
• Alexis (Armada)

Since a good half my flist are fans of TF, share your faves, in your own standard.

EDIT: I know technically Shockblast is Shockwave, but I count them as two separate guys, especially since Shockwave's name is back in use again. Also, I have a real love-hate relationship with TFA and the films, so a few snuck onto the list.

mood: geeky tags: list, transformers