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May 31, 2007
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Big one this time around. Lots on my mind:
* Did this for an exercise over at The Engine:
“Five years. That’s all we’ve got.”
Stardust looks over at his female companion, knowing that her words ring with the truth. She’s had…a way with words, since her family was killed by the Spiders From Mars.
He leans over and picks up his guitar. He plays it left-handed. He sings about their recent battle with Aladdin Sane and his Diamond Dogs, he sings about the refugees from Suffragette City, but boy, could he play guitar.
Finally, she pulls the microphone from him, says to stop making love with his ego, and Lady Stardust got up to play.
* I'm putting up the lettered pages for Too Late over at ComicSpace. I'll put up the pages from this prologue, and then spot illustrations after that.
* Kevin reports that the Star is ending the comics page in the Preview Section. That's too bad, but it was inevitable. It was a very noble experiment, but the writing had been on the wall for some time now. I'm glad to have contributed, and there were some great bits in there, and well, some fairly awful ones, too.
* Coming back to ComicSpace, am I the only one bugged by the signal to noise ratio there? I mean, there's some awful, awful work going up on the site, and it's quickly becoming a circle jerk mutual admiration society, which I find to be too bad. It's got a lot of potential, but it doesn't seem like it's really being realized by both the guy running it and the people using it. If I were Josh, I'd be hitting the big publishers hard to put up previews of their upcoming books. But, it also seems that MySpace has already sewn that up. I'd like to see this site work.
* I intended to fill this bullet-point with something funny about the CCN, but it seems like making fun of the Special Olympics anymore. I know what I'd do to make it work again, but you know, been there, done that, wash, lather, rinse, repeat. It seems like the hole left by the group is being filled, but in other more organic ways anyway. It was fun when it was fun, but the entity seems like something that belongs in the past anymore. The message board is depressing and barely-active. I don't think anyone would be surprised to see it go away, and more would be surprised that it was still around. I think something like this would be all that we need for our community. And, that should be all I have to say on this for another year or so.
* I'm getting tired of the online comics presence in general of late. Too much snark, too many crazy people, too much over-reaction. The Engine seems to be about the only oasis from all of that. I'd like to see a site that talks about comics without the discussion threads attached, that gives a wide view of all genres within the medium. Then I'd like to swim in a lake of chocolate with the Oompa Loompa's.
* I got stuck on scripting Too Late, but today I got past it and constructed the scene I needed. I'm excited to finish this up so that I can then start casting and shooting reference, which leads to the real fun: drawing it.
* T-Minus fifteen days and counting for the move.
Posted by Schamberger at May 31, 2007 10:18 AM