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[14 Feb 2006|08:34pm] |
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Simply for the fact it amuses me to do so I've decided to observe the holiday of St. Valentine by doing a "commentary" track for "One is the Loneliest Number" from Fanboy Otaku Gamers Club. Let's get started shall we?
http://www.fogclub.net/d/20010211.html
The story starts with Scott being all depressed because it's Valentine's Day and Kevin being such a good friend decides to handle the situation by going to the Karaoke bar. Annamae of course being the kind-hearted soul that she is goes up to see what's the matter.
Now, it's important to note that this sudden character development only came about because I had decided that all comics that fell on holiday's were going to relate to those holidays (I wrote a good chunk of year one like it was a newspaper strip after all) so when I looked up at the calendar to see that Valentine's was approaching I whipped this up in a hurry. It was Valentine's Day, OF COURSE Scott and Annamae were going to have a moment.
Also important to note is that I took the design of Annamae's outfit from Oh! My Goddess, specifically an outfit Belldandy wore at one time. I equated Mae's loving kindness to Bell's so that's where I looked for inspiration.
http://www.fogclub.net/d/20010212.html
Wow. Just Wow.
I apologize for this comic now, I really do.
I had the bad habit in the first year of using Scott to voice my frustrations with the world and here it got really heavy-handed and just DAMN.
On the other hand, it really says a lot about how much Scott and Mae care for each other after only knowing each other for a month or so when Scott just says flat out what he's upset about and Mae's reaction is instantly to offer him comfort.
http://www.fogclub.net/d/20010213.html
Mae offers up her much more happy viewpoint on love, which I'm kind of amazed I wrote looking back now. Maybe Scott's whiny rant wasn't a case of bad writing (yes it was) and maybe I actually knew what I was doing (no I didn't). Still though this totally fits with Annamae's character and that she would view Valentine's Day in such a fashion. In the end of course she realizes that words aren't going to get through to Scott. Action is needed. And I agree. Over the years I've found that the simple act of touching someone carries so much more meaning than words can in many instances.
http://www.fogclub.net/d/20010214.html
And Mae gives him a VERY nice "touch." I distinctly recall trying to figure out how the hell that pose was going to work. I knew I wanted her in his lap, with their arms around each other and both faces visible. I was trying to make a Valentine's Day card here, not a comic. Were I to have done this now I probably would have had Annamae come up from behind him and hold him or sit next to him and hold him. Climbing into his lap like that is a bit much. And I imagine it would get uncomfortable.
http://www.fogclub.net/d/20010215.html
This is a really lazy comic, but I felt it was clever at the time. When I wrote this (and even now) I was of the mind that if I was with a girl I truly loved, I could just hold her in my arms the whole day long and be content with just that. So that's what happens here.
So that's pretty much it, after this we see Kevin at the "Club Escaflowne" (a gag I think very few got) where instead of Japanese guys singing American songs, you have American Guys singing Japanese songs (another gag I think very few got), but of course all the songs I knew were anime intro songs so Kevin sings "Car Robot Cybertron" from "Transformers: Car Robot"
After this we get into the angst and confused emotions that made FOGClub become a romantic comedy which later became a sci-fi adventure because I didn't want to make it a never-ending romantic comedy.
One last important thing to note (because I don't think many people caught this either) after the incident on the roof, Scott starts calling Annamae "Annamae" whereas Kevin will still continue to call her "Anime" for some time. It was a subtle thing but I wanted to show that Scott had made a connection to Mae that Kevin had not (since this was early on and I was playing with the idea that Scott and Kevin would both fight over Mae at some point).
So yeah, happy Valentine's Day to you all, I've got some laundry to do.
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[01 Jan 2006|11:22pm] |
Henshin! #1 is now three months behind schedule.
[EDIT] Oh yeah. Today (the first) was the fifth anniversary of FOGClub.
I just felt like I should make a note of that.
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| Sketchin' 2 Electric Boogaloo |
[01 Nov 2005|10:04pm] |
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Several months ago I bought myself I new sketchbook.
A few days ago I decided it was time to retire my current one.
So in class today I gave my new sketchbook a PROPER initiation:
It's kind of odd when you realize just how many damn characters you've come up with over the years...
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| DRAGONSTAR AT COMIC-CON. |
[12 Jul 2005|11:36pm] |
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WHERE? The San Diego Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center!
WHEN? July 14th to July 17th
WHO? THOUSANDS OF FANS AND FAMOUS PEOPLE AND STUFF
WHAT? The WORLD DEBUT of [secretproject]!!!!
WHY? Because I wanna make money drawing comics instead of working retail.
SHORT FAQ
Q: Does Dennis Have a booth?
A: No.
Q: Will Dennis be on any panels?
A: You're kidding, right?
Q: If I were so inclined where would I be able to find Dennis during the convention?
A: Um...I guess the place I'll frequent most will be the Bag of Chipsbooth. Since I know all those folks.
Q: Will Dennis give me a copy of the [secretproject] zero issue if I find him?
A: Dennis will die of shock if he encounters an actual "fan" at this con. Make sure you have a Phoenix Down handy, and when he revives he will gladly give you a copy.
Q: Is Dennis deluding himself by making a post like this that implies he's much more well known than he actually is and people actually care that he'll be wandering around a convention hall like a schmo for four days?
A: YES!
My shuttle will be at my house in exactly 12 hours from now! Wooo!
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| Writing is hard. |
[08 Jun 2005|10:17pm] |
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[secretproject] eats away at my brain...
Also, since I think a good chunk of you didn't notice it the first time...
DRAGONSTAR COMICS #2 IS NOW AVALIBLE.
Click HERE to go to the store page.
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| Dragonstar Comics #2 |
[27 May 2005|09:32pm] |
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http://www.fogclub.net/store.html
Whoo, all done. Now I get a three day rest (yeah right, I work all three days) and then I get to buckle down and get as much [secretproject] work done as I can over the month of June.
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| Actual comic-related update. |
[21 May 2005|12:38am] |
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Just so everyone knows I hope to have Dragonstar Comics No. 2 ready to be printed sometime next week. I meant to have it done by now but any of you who follow my regular blog know last week was a big swift kick in the ass for me.
The comic will feature my 24-Hour Comic "I Wish I Knew More About Him," the first ever "Dragonstar" story.
I'll probably do a smaller print run than Jarmara and Dragonstar Comics No. 1 as I still have a box of leftover copies from both of those titles, even after giving several away at Comic-Con.
The book will most likely cost 3.00 like the previous ones, with the price including shipping. International orders will probably be a bit cheaper this time around as well.
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| How F.O.G.Club Ends. |
[16 May 2005|10:09pm] |
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Hey everybody.
For the past few months I've received e-mails asking me to tell readers what was originally going to happen in F.O.G.Club before I decided to end it. I replied to all that asked that I planned on revealing it eventually, but I was too busy with work and school to sit down and do so.
Well today is my first Monday without classes, so it's time. Fair warning: This is LONG.
F.O.G.Club: The Rest of the Story.
( Read more... )
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| Well, it's done finally. |
[02 May 2005|12:08am] |
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Just finished page 24. If you wanna talk consecutive hours I'm pretty certain I finished it in under 28 hours of actual work time.
And saying it took me a week to do dosen't sound good in the papers, youknowwhatimeanvern?
So now I just have to design a cover, back cover, two inside covers, and then scan the whole lot, print them all out, copy them all and bind them all.
Whoo.
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| "Official Announcement" |
[18 Apr 2005|10:30pm] |
I will be participating in 24 Hour Comic Day again this year!
I will be at Samurai Comics on Saturday April 23rd, 2005 and will be drawing from 10:00AM till 10:00AM Sunday morning. The store itself will be open from 9:00AM till Midnight on Saturday.
Feel free to stop on by, or even better, participate!
Samurai Comics
5024 N. 7th St
Phoenix, AZ 85014
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| T-Minus 6 days and counting... |
[16 Apr 2005|11:10pm] |
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So the ideas for my 24HComic keep rattling around my head.
So far I'm pretty certain the story is going to feature the following:
- A Guy
- A Gal
- One of them is going to WUV the other, but the other won't know he/she thinks of them that way
- A building catching fire
- A bittersweet ending
But wherein lies the challenge? WHEREIN I ASKS YA?
I kept finding myself wanting to make it a tokustatsu type story, where somebody magically transforms into this crazy badass at one point to save the day with their aewsome weapons and kung fu skills.
I was also tempted to place the story in the universe of [secretproject] so I could have fun writing some of the side-characters.
But that meant doing something I'm already used to doing/going to be doing anyway.
So I thought about ways I could make the story take place in "the real world" for a while, since I haven't done much of that lately. But then I realized that doing that makes it a bit less of my style, and also opens itself up to me putting a bit more of my own problems into the story than I may want to.
So I kept thinking about ways to make it something different.
Then it hit me.
Super-Heroes.
Seriously, I've never done ANYTHING in the super-hero genre. It's always been sci-fi or adventure or henshin/tokusatsu. But never a super-hero. It's a challenge because I've never really tried to do it before.
Of course I may end up doing something else completely when the day arrives, but I figured you all might want to know that I have been still giving the matter thought.
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| 24 Hour Comic Day Approaches. |
[04 Apr 2005|11:02pm] |
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Just thought I'd drop a line letting everyone know I'm going to be participating in 24 Hour Comic Day again this year. I'll most likely be taking part at Samurai Comics like I did last year.
Last year Ian Jones-Quartey of RPGWorld challenged me to do something totally different than what I normally do subject-wise, and I ended up with Jarmara a story about a man with a haunted past and his pet cat, who fights some Nazi's and meets a nice girl along the way.
I'm trying to think about what to do this year. Part of me is tempted to do a prequel story for [secretproject], but that kinda defeats the spontinaeity aspect of the challenge. I also have an idea called "Hitler's Grandson" but the more I think about it as a story it becomes pretty predictible pretty fast.
What to do what to do. I know the challenge states you can't do any character designs or scripting or layouts and what not beforehand, but it IS nice to have a rough idea of what you're going to try and do, so you can hit the ground running.
[Edit] Just had a pretty good idea, ironically enough. Pity the rules say I can't lay anything out solid. So I made a few quick notes of vauge situations to keep me reminded of it till the 23rd.
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| Creation Hurts. |
[29 Mar 2005|10:31pm] |
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I have more time to think about [sp] that I have to work on it.
And I think about it.
A lot.
Every day.
Every day scenes play out in my mind.
Every day a new take on an old thought emerges.
Every day an old thought that I had forgotten about is recalled.
Every day I think of something that I need to write into the pitch that I haven't had time to touch in over a week.
Every day it grows.
Every day it mutates.
Every day it evolves.
And you know something?
I don't know if I can do it.
I don't know if I have the skill to pull it off.
I don't know if I can force the idea from my mind to my hand to the paper and make it work.
I don't know.
This...this thing.
It's massive.
It's a simple story really.
But in my head?
My head that has to think of every little fucking detail to make it all go together?
It's massive.
That's why it's a secret.
I can't give it all away yet.
It's not done.
It's not ready.
And I'm not going to spoil it.
Nope. Not going to do it.
That would ruin it.
This...this thing.
It's my fucking opus.
My fucking opus that sums up the past decade of my influences.
I know later on in my life I'll have others.
But this is my first one.
Everything before was a sonata.
This is my first symphony.
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I hope I can pull it off.
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| Your hard earned money at work. |
[23 Mar 2005|09:52pm] |
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So today I got my copies of Trigun Maximum Vol. 10 and Vol. 11 in the mail. I ordered them about a month ago and they were on backorder from Japan which is why it took so long. I'm happy to have them, for the longest time I had thought Yasuhiro had gone on a hiatus or had slowed down in production after Vol. 9.
Why am I posting this here you ask?
I paid for the books with money I had in my paypal account, all of which came from those who have donated and purchased my mini-comics.
Just thought you might like to know where your money goes.
^_^;;
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