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March 19, 2006
Weekend
Friday night, I got together with Mike to check out the final(ish) pages of Scotty Skyrocket. Holy shit, y'all, this is going to be so damned cool. Yes, I'm a walking talking hype machine, but I'm being for-real on this. I haven't been this excited about a collaboration since The Believer.
Now, we need to do the porno sequel, Scotty Cockrocket, and we'll go down in the annals of history right next to Flesh Gordon, Bonan the Barbarian, and The Cocketeer. They'll be selling the movie adaptation in a box with Barbarella. Mike, let's get on that, buddy.
Saturday, I went with Tommy D and his recently-released-from-jail buddy to see V For Vendetta. Eh, it's an alright movie. It seemed to be a little too fond of itself, really. Once again, I'll bring up the story most-attributed to Raymond Chandler, when asked about how the movie of The Big Sleep ruined his book, he walked over to his bookshelf, pulled his copy off, flipped through it, and said something along the lines of, "The book looks fine." The Big Sleep was, incidentally, a better adaptation than V, but that's just my personal opinion. It wasn't a waste of money, it just wasn't great. After that, we watched some rasslin', and then I came on home.
Today, I did some reading, some cleaning, had a couple brews with The Sasquatch, then some actual work. I (hopefully) finished up that website for my client, and did some drawing-for-fun, as you can see in the post below.
Hopefully, y'all have bought the nice black and white Showcase Collection of The House of Mystery. Gorgeous, gorgeous book, isn't it? Alex Toth, Gil Kane, Neal Adams, Berni Wrightson, Joe Orlando, Tony Dezuniga and the incomparable Sergio Araganes, all in stunning black and white. 552 pages for 17 bucks? How can you NOT buy that? I mean, hell, the two Gil Kane stories are inked by Wally By God Wood!
Back to the day job tomorrow. Lots of stuff developing there. I've just taken over an additional department, plus we're short on help, so things have been a little hectic, to be sure. I'm also developing some software for them that'll be just wicked cool once it's done, that'll make our already cutting-edge company the leader by a mile. The other day, the big boss told me that I'm "the man". So, I'm like that commercial where I can't say that I'm 'sticking it to the man' anymore. C'est la vie.
So, enough about me, how have y'all been?
Posted by Schamberger at March 19, 2006 06:01 PM