If You’re Having Perl Problems
by Man, xkcd you put me in an Empire Strikes Back state of mind… I prefer the Grey Album version myself: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtfEYuZhDjo?rel=0]
Category: Comics
Bookmark: Locke & Key
I’m reading “Clockworks” the 5th collection of Locke & Key, the incredibly high concept horror comic series from Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez. A fun story but more importantly a fun gimmick that centers around the Locke family home (appropriately called “Keyhouse”) where there exist a growing number of magical keys that do strange, wonderful but weird and downright creepy things when inserted into the right lock. Rodriguez’s art is almost always fantastic and adds a lot to the suspense. Hill has a big imagination but it wouldn’t pack half the punch without the visuals. And now just as with …
Stop Me Before I Tweet Again!
Rich Stevens, 21st Century philosopher king:
Guttersniping
I read The Gutters — I have never closely followed the “comic book” industry though so sometimes the jokes and pokes escape me. The art is almost always nicely done though! Anyhow today’s jumped out at me — I have an ongoing interest in issues related to copyright, trademark, etc (even grouping all of that together as “intellectual property” is contentious to one side of the argument) so I really liked the artwork today and the concept Jim Zubkavich put together. I’m not even sure exactly what point Jim is making since the “punchline” about torrenting is kind of submerged …
Bookmark: Fables
(Some earlier discussion of Fables in this post and this post) Fables: The Dark Ages feels like the final final to the big epic “war” storyline of the Fables comic books. It’s a great tale, fantastic comic — anyone who enjoys playing with myth and meta-ing out on existing stories would love this stuff for sure (Like Jasper Fford? You’ll amost certainly like Fables). So mostly just a note to myself – I need to go hunt down a copy of The Great Fables Crossover to read next. February 2013 Update: Just finished volume 17 of the Fables trade collections. …
Bow-chicka-bow-bow
Exactly what movies have been in David Willis’ DVD player lately? Alternate title for this post — Hot for Teacher.
An Old Altbrand Logo
Hey! The forum logo I drew for the resurrected ALTBRAND forums circa 2004. I was not even in the top half of artistic talent associated with the all too brief Altbrand, er, brand. But I ran the web stuff which sometimes let me preemptively slip in some of my work. What’s a forum you ask?! Oh boy, that’s a relic of the days of Internet yore. Gather around the digital hearth here and let Grandpa X tell you young ‘uns a tall tale of wrangling Ikon Boards.
Working on #5 of the Webcomic
I have a couple of things I am not 100% sure how to pull off in this one. The main thing being I want the reader to follow the transformation into the wolf out of the normal Left to Right, Top to Bottom progression in comics. I added a red background for now – not sure if that works (now or after colors, etc).