HOLY CRAP THIS IS STILL GOING!?!?!?!

Hey everyone, i just broke down and started an Instagram account...  *sobbing* Why would i do that?

Just to add a bit more to the blog which I shall be updating, hopefully, more often.
Here's the first pic:

Say no to SOPA PIPA!!!

Sorry I've been out injured and feeling like crap for a while, but all this SOPA crap has got me worked up.
More real posting with art and words and entertainment to follow this return to blogging post.

Here's what I think about this absurd bill:  It's shit. 
I would much rather have people steal some of my images and know who I was(free advertisement) than be stuck under the SOPA bill.  Sure, I make crap for money, but the things I've downloaded I ALSO ALREADY BOUGHT!!!

Anyway, thank goodness for Google's Blacked out protest logo, and Wiki's only availiable page being that of the SOPA bill page.  Very well played by them.  Great ideas indeed.

Here's a stolen picture I added words to.  Appropriate for my stance on this topic.  Everyone knows it's not my pic, it's Gandalf.  The words I added, and I guarantee some others have made similar things.  If so THANK GOD for similar thinking.  I want their access to their ideas and thoughts, even if they are different.  Not censored.  With a dash of humor.

I've downloaded comics- Such as DC comic's Intimates.  I have bought 3 copies of the first 4 issues, and 2 of the rest.  So I decided, after paying for them in hard copy multiple times, I'd download digital ones.

Dark Horse Conan comics- I bought issues 1-40something as well as the first 5 trades.  So I downloaded duplicates of the ones I've bought.

Same goes with movies and music.  Big Trouble in Little China?  I own it on VHS, DVD, and BluRay.  Two days ago I bought the 2 disc soundtrack, and soon I will have a digital copy, that I downloaded.

I've gotten zero credit for many ideas and creations that I've made, and guess what, I'm ok with that.

Pokemon or Pervymon?

While working a ton of hours at work, I've been eating up breaks playing Pokemon Soulsilver.  Very addictive game.  Also playing Leaf Green and Pokemon Black.  Too addictive!

Well, I saw an "Ay Gurl" pic over at http://pokememes.memebase.com/ and decided to make a couple myself.  (The creeper Ash pic is from that site, the words I added)  If you haven't been over to those sites, the http://comixed.memebase.com/ (and the connected memebases, Demotivational is wonderfully hilarious in particular) is the only website I frequent daily, and would recommend swinging by to have a laugh or two.

I would also like to say that while I made these up, someone probably has something similar because I'm out of the loop here.  This is just me being an idiot with some pics.

Megamoth!

I'm taking a break from helping move a neighbor's ridiculously heavy piano, average weighted washer, and destroying their tree fort so they can move away to post on blogger. 

At the end of June I went out on a 40 mile bike ride that had me meet this monster moth/butterfly thing.  Each of it's wings were larger than my hand and it tried to beat me up for lunch money.  Sucker!  I don't have any money!   Bwa-hahhahahahaha!

So now I know where Mothra grew up- Minnesota.

Anway- I thought it was pretty cool looking. 

Once again, it's been a while

Well, I've been working a zillionty hours a week and have like 100 things all on a back burner.  So I'll keep this post short while I work up some bigger and better posts. 

My friend, the great and terrible/powerful Miss Kenzington over at http://highteawithcougars.blogspot.com/ still hasn't followed me back so I'm posting this awesome pic I took of her. 

Feel free to check out her site as well.  Maybe leave some questionable comments...  just saying. 

I would also like to recommend the highly talented Nick Straight over at http://infinitywallcomix.com/ working with the one and only Mr. Speets.  Good stuff is to be read over there.

Imaginary Friends Page 4 (of 4)

I suppose for the last page I should tell people the title of this short comic is "Friends, I imagine."

Imaginary Friends Page3 (of 4)

Portal: Enrichment From Aperture Science

Portal 1 refresher post.

I remember the first Portal game in the Xbox 360's Orange box set quite well.  There was a weekend in October 2007 that I had off of work and was extremely sick for, and a coworker picked up the Orange Box for me to keep me occupied through the illness.

Even the sickness couldn't keep me from spending all my waking hours glued to the Xbox.  Sure Half Life is a great game with a good story, and Team Fortress is a fun multiplayer shoot em up, but Portal...  Portal was the real gem in the set.

The gameplay is simple: 
There are no weapons, no bombs or crazy explosive devices.  Just a simple portal gun.  This "gun"(the handheld quantum tunneling device) creates 2 portals.  One orange, one blue- an entrance and an exit, an in and an out, in either direction.  With the ability to make these on any surface painted in a special white paint, it makes for an infinitely changing, simple and yet challenging experience.

Here's a simple text based visual I made to give an idea of how things work:

Momentum is kept through they portal as well.  If you fall in a portal on the floor from a high point, momentum will carry through sending you flying out the other portal. 

You are a woman named Chell, armed with a handheld quantum tunneling device, solving puzzles for science. By science I mean "trying to escape with your life from a science facility run by an AI obsessed with testing your skills with the Portal gun."


Anyway the story starts as you wake in a holding chamber in an Aperture Science research facility.  The controlling AI, GLaDOS, informs you that you will be tested through various specially designed chambers in the facility.  Your victory of passing these tests are supposedly going to be rewarded with cake and the promise of grief counciling.  As you are guided by GLaDOS the testing area's become increasingly deadly being loaded with military training gun turrets, and hidden messages about the cake being a lie. 

At the last testing chamber GLaDOS attempts to drop you into a giant pit of fire and kill you, but you escape and GLaDOS tries to trick you into giving up.  After finding a way out you get into the back areas of the science facility while evading the attempts on your life.  Making your way to GLaDOS herself you defeat her and there is an explosion that leaves you on the ground and the screen fades to black. 
Someone told me they later added a segment of a robot dragging off your unconcious body.
The credits roll and GLaDOS sings the still alive song, explaining that she remains alive and will be back to continue scientific testing. 
After the credits, a room appears and a bunch of AI personality cores light up and put out a candle on a cake.

Wonderful.  I love this game.  The references to Black Mesa from Half Life are brilliant, the gameplay is great, and the dialog is amazing.

More videogames could learn from this.  Keep it simple and effective.

Imaginary Friends Page 2 (of 4)

Page 2: Written by me, Fantastic art by Nicholas Straight.

Imaginary Friends Page 1 (of 4)

Nicholas Straight and I made a 4 page comic for an art show/art compilation.  Here's the first page.
I did the writing and Nick did the art.