Back in Business

Okay, so the cable/internet's back on thankfully. But as you can see it's pretty late in the day, and I'm just now waking up and about to be catching up on emails. So it will be another long night of work ahead of me.

In the downtime I was able to get quite a few things done, though not all of them productive. I did manage to get some lettering completed, which is part of the productive contribution.

Another productive accomplishment was writing five more installments of my column. I only had one more left (next week's) already written, and so I took this opportunity to write a couple more, which turned into five. I could have continued writing several more with the roll I was on, but sleepiness overtook me as I approached my 20th consecutive hour of being awake. So I forced myself to stop. I'm feeling really good about the way these are flowing, though, and I hope you enjoy them as well. Everything's centered around my path to being a comic creator, but I talk about some personal stuff in my past that's revealing and therapeutic for me as well.

In the non-productive column, at least in terms of work, I caught up on some reading. First, I finished the first volume of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I didn't read the prose story in the back yet, but I did read all the sequential chapters. As I stated before after reading just a bit of it, it is an entertaining story and very different from its movie counterpart. There are a lot of elements shared between the two, but now having read the entire volume I can understand fans of the work being more than perturbed with the outcome of the film. The film takes quite a bit of creative license and quite the departure from the source material. While some characters and certain events were the same, the entire concept and delivery was completely different. I liked the movie, and even watched it again the other night, but only as a standalone work or derivative of the source, not as an adaptation or retelling. It completely fails on the latter, but succeeds on the former in my opinion.

The book, as I said, was an interesting and well-written yarn, but not quite my cup of tea. It's not quite as mysterious as the movie was, and neither really capitalized on that mystery element enough for my liking. I could see both works improved immensely, though I am trying to keep in mind the timeframe the source material was written in. It's certainly not one of my favorite stories, but it has its merits. I'm glad I read it, but it's not something I'd read over and over again.

I also read another chapter of Amber & Blood. I'm 235 pages deep into it now as it rapidly reaches its conclusion. I believe I have 100 pages left, give or take a few. This last chapter I read took an interesting turn that I wasn't quite expecting. I can't wait to find out where that thread goes.

I forgot to mention last night that I got to finally see the pictures from Thanksgiving. I'll be posting some of those soon for you all to see. I will say this though. After seeing the pictures I know I have to lose weight now. I didn't know I was as heavy as I was then. I realize the camera adds pounds, but I've gained weight since Thanksgiving, so I am now determined to lose it before MegaCon!

No Pay, No Play

That's the point I'm getting to anyway. If you don't know, don't ask. If you do know, well, then you know. Otherwise, I'm just keeping on keeping on as the saying goes.

I finally decided that my MySpace page didn't have to coordinate with the rest of my site, so I changed it. And what did I use? The classic Marvin Martian! Yay! I love that little guy. I even used a phrase that adorns many a bumper sticker featuring him as my page title: "Alien With An Attitude!".

I just picked up another book to edit for Rogue Wolf. I was only doing two, but the previous editor dropped out, so I got a third book on my plate, and it was welcomed. I may also work out another editing gig soon, we'll see.

This weekend will mainly be chilling and lettering. I might make my first venture into selling on ebay as well since their month long special of no listing fees ends Sunday. Again, we'll see. I'm a little scared...

CBR's Comic Book Idol deadline for entries also comes to a close Sunday. I definitely won't be entering this year. I haven't even drawn a full sequential page in a long time, so there's just no point in it. Maybe by the time it comes around again I'll be ready. Yep, you guessed it... we'll see.

Tonight a new show on CBS debuts called Moonlight. It's a vampire detective drama, and one of the guys I letter for is the Assistant Production Coordinator on the show, so check it out. It comes on at 9pm right after Ghost Whisperer.

Sadly, Las Vegas' 2 hour premiere also comes on tonight (as does wrestling) so I'm either going to have to sacrifice one or two of them, or do a lot of channel flipping.

Yep, that's how sad my Friday nights are these days...

I've only got 11 pages left to read in Dragonlance: Amber and Iron, the second in the small trilogy, and the third part has been delayed until May 2008! Sigh.

My Kroger will not stock more than 3-4 flavors of Yoplait yogurt. What's up with that?

Why do cat's like to hang around my garage? I don't like cats, and I'm allergic to them. Yet they tend to come around quite often. I'm telling you, if a baby with a lightning bolt shaped scar winds up on my doorstep...

You ever get really bored even though you have stuff to do? That's the way I feel right now. I think I need a vacation!

And on that note...

B-Out