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Fri, Feb. 13th, 2004, 04:15 pm
Gone Fishing
Friday 02/13/04 4:15 PM
Gone to Strategicon this weekend at the Westin Hotel near LAX. Gonna try to build and construct my very own Vampire Counts army for Warhammer Fantasy. No comic on Friday, expect Monday... maybe. I'll work my ass off once I get home. And I'll bring pictures!
zombie out~
So, Keenspace finally got everything assembled, or at least enough to get everything up and running, hooray for the new snazzy server Butch, who without it, you would not be viewing this. In other news: Golem 41 started Monday and I shall keep that as the Monday update. G41 will continue to run Monday, Friday updates as long as school is in or if nothing in my life changes. I have also removed all previous jibber jabber from the archives and will be moving that to the art section in future updates. As it is 2:12, I have tried to be brief in my writing, more detail will come soon, including some new features like storyline and world details, as well as character design and profile. And more about the artist, me, so you don't feel so alienated by my odd behavior. Already added a quick link section at the bottom of the page for sites that both I and Weasels feel deserve special recognition. Oh, shout out for the day goes to IcyMasamune of Poisonwind. This guy is nearly professional, and if he is, then I'm an idiot, and if you have no idea what I talk of just click the PW button in my fav sites area. Genhi and Sakura are too neat. But after writing all this I realize that auto-update is still down, which totally negates all the cool things that I spoke of.
Tue, Feb. 3rd, 2004, 10:23 pm
Complications
Comic should have started by now if Boardy (the keenspace server I'm on) hadn't crashed, so now I can't update for an indefinate amount of time. I am disappointed that this came at such a terrible time that I can't start off Golem 41. I have several pages done, and several more to finsh up. Otherwise things are coming along spottingly.
I just with this didn't suck so much... so so very much. Sun, Jan. 25th, 2004, 01:08 am
Getting Closer?
February 1st looms closer and closer, and Golem 41 shall start then, as I have completed both pages 1 and 2. I am also adding a new banner I made because... it is animated! And animation is cool, right? By the way, all these rants are backlogged on my livejournal which is the news link above. I'm really on a roll now, but you should see me once these "disasteriffic" (to quote FFX-2) finals are over and god-damned done with. Good real life news, got accepted to DePaul (early action) in Chicago, which is my #2 choice of college, go me. Just now to see if USC accepts me (my #1), then I can go laugh at my mom for thinking that out of the 10 colleges I applied for that I would only get into 4. And then laugh some more. Oh, and I watched Teen Titans tonight, and it was awesome, I can only hope that Terra makes more appearances because she just rocks SO FREAKING MUCH. As soon as I can find a (new) picture of her I'm so making some fanart. Oh and today's update? A character that will play an important role later in the comic. Not sure what to call her yet. But you can always email me and give me some suggestions!
Comic: Finished page 2, if I have time over the weekend I'd like to finish page 3 and 4 so I don't have to worry about updates during the finals. Working on an animated banner, fun stuff. Comic kicks off Feb. 1st, updates will probably run Monday and Friday, but these are tenative. Life: Finals next week *pleh*. Fun: Gonna go spend a couple of nights at the Stategicon http://www.strategicon.net at the Westin in Los Angeles Feb 13-16. If you plan on attending you'll see me around. I'll probably be in one of the gaming rooms, the dealer room, or the comp gaming room. I don't wander much. Anyhow, this is bringing back all sorts of memories, we were all really in this sorta thing in 8th Grade, and we've sorta shy-ed away from it all. But it does give me reason to go digging back through my CCGs and crap to organize a couple of decks, get my Hexmaps and character sheets in order and sadly look at my minatures and comment on how unpainted they are. Oh, and I'm gonna start back logging my rants from Graveyard Studios here. Tuesday 01/20/04 10:45AM Well, finished with page 1 of Golem 41, and scanned and shaded page 2, all that's left is some shading, all leading up to the big February 1st kick-off. Well, as long as I don't have access to my PS2 (currently being held hostage) I'm going to be hitting the comic pretty hard, but it doesn't matter all that much to me. I'm excited because I got accepted into the KeenBook 2004 for KeenSpace members, so demand your KeenBooks this Free Comic Book Day (May 3rd) and pick them up at Comicon in San Diego this year (July 22-25). Time for a big shout out and the first goes to Rodrigo Nitto of Alex and Ilia ( http://alexandilia.keenspace.com) for doing such a great job on the KeenCaptors project (I'll upload mine someday). It's people like him that make this worth it, I believe. Also shout out to my friends at Bizarre Uprising (www.bizarreuprising.com); Razlo, Yuji, and Gil for putting on not one, but 2 awesome comics simultaneously. Lastly, to my man KleSt, who has been around helping me prod my way through webcomics since 2001 or so, he's the head honcho down at Nameless Story ( http://klest.keenspace.com) I've been seeing too many comics like The Lounge, Post Sex Cleanup and Chugworth Academy hit the big numbers and wonder if really I should be drawing Sci-Fi Action comics. I mean, if I just draw sexy women and lots of Lesbians in sitcom real-life situations then I'm obviously going straight to the top of the lists... Whatever, let's prove them wrong, just click that "Vote for Me" thing at the bottom and take 1 second out of your day just to go, "Hey, az is a pretty good guy, and I like the cut of his jib." Let's make actual comics popular again. Sorry if it sounds like I'm going hard on those other comics, it's just that if I see another "real-life" comics with lesbians hitting the top as an alternative to softcore porn, I may just blow a gasket. (whatever that is)
Haven't been sleeping much recently, fine by me though, keeps the dreams away. I've had maybe one or two good dreams in the last three years. Consequently the rest either don't make sense or of course Nightmares (usually the latter). But this is just one cause of my perpetual and reoccuring insomnia. When people tell me, "Sweet dreams" I smile and nod, but really don't expect to have any. Everything going on recently has been pretty good to me. But reguardless I'm still in a slump and not making much progress getting out of it. I think my recent combined lonliness (ver 2.0!) combined with my favorite chemical inbalance of bi-polarism coming back into season (it's kinda like allergies, feel great one day, shit the next) has thrown me pretty much for a loop. I shouldn't be trying to deal with all of this with Finals around the corner, but it's hard to ignore that deep pit of despair in your chest. Anyhow, want something a bit more cheery? Here's a rating Tokyo Godfather (10/10 GWO) -- I went to the Nuart in LA on Saturday on a whim with my friend, and I really didn't know what to expect. At all. I had seen Perfect Blue (9/10 GWO) but not Millenium Princess (7/10 GWO), but this was something else. It was fantastical but at the same time, much more down to earth than Satoshi Kon's previous works I had seen (I still can't seem to find "Memories" anywhere), but it's quickly become my favorite. The animation as usual, was top notch and the scripting and dialogue dead on. At first this seems to be the usual gritty picture about homeless people, as we are introduced to Gin, Hana, and Miyuki, 3 very "interesting" characters all with different backgrounds and unique motivators (all of which are beautifully voice acted). This story follows a slow methodical build up to until they come across a man trapped under his car. From there the plot becomes an absolute train wreck of the entertaining kind, as these poor souls are both plagued and delivered by their foul luck. The humor at first is lackluster and purposefully so, because being homeless isn't as funny as some may believe (maybe watching a little too much Farley on SNL). But as soon as these chance events begin laying themselves out you can't help but to chuckle, chortle and burst out laughing at what unfolds. I won't spoil anything for you, but if you happen to live in the LA area I most strongly suggest you go see this movie. Saturday night they had about 35 or so in a theatre of about 100 seating (I should know, I saw and met Bruce Campbell there while watching Bubba Hotep's premeire) so crowds are no problem. The film itself is a fresh cut, and used infrequently so very little disturbance (at all) from the projector. It's worth seeing in bigscreen and the sound effects (If you are like me without my surround sound) only add to the list of reasons you should go. Any complaints? Well, if you are a cynic, you'd say what happens is a bit too much coincidental, but it's just realistic enough to believe and crazy enough to enjoy intensely. So, no, no problems here. Unless you are hobophobic, otherwise, see it, buy it when it comes out, father it's children and declare yourself unworthy of Tokyo Godfathers, this is a classic.
Well, all of you DA users who don't know this need a heads up. We've all been deceived, and we shall now know where that deviant part comes from. When you register with DA there is something interesting in the fine print. Look closer. When you submit something to put up it instantly becomes their property to distibute or do whatever they please with it, WITHOUT your consent. That's right, your art could be sold to advertising agents right now, and you wouldn't know it. Well, I for one am boycotting this due to my own personal agenda and idioms, including I like to own the stuff I spend time making. I advise that any artist worth his salt on DA should stop posting immediately. I know I will, and too bad for anything I've already posted. Don't you just hate it when they pull something on you with the fine print? I always thought that only existed in cartoons. As for me? I've been cool. Received a scholarship from Drexel as a Dean's Scholar for $9000, signed up for the KeenBook for this summer and am cranking through the first page of Golem 41. Here's some more teaser stuff, this one is for the KeenCaptors contest (where we make clow card illustrations for 1 character of our comic.) http://ssl.keenspace.com/images/fun/clowgolemsample.jpgAnd serious, DA, how could you?
Tue, Jan. 13th, 2004, 04:46 pm
Trouble Ahead
As the school semester draws to a close I am suffering under wave after wave of very painful assignments, so expect little from me until February. I'll try to continue working on rough drafts for upcoming Golem 41 story, but you probably won't see any revampments until, say, February 16th. And for the last time Weasels (if you read this), live without regret =D
Mon, Dec. 29th, 2003, 01:11 pm
Update
It's been a while because I was preoccupied for Christmas, and I lost my internet connection for a while so let me digress... I had 17 people at my house all last week, 3 cousins, 4 aunts/uncles, 2 grandmothers, Janice and Dennis, Ellie and Gabby, and my family of 4. All to top it off on Saturday with a huge party with even more people. We just bid farewell to my grandmother and she's the last one to leave, and I think we're all just heaving a big sigh of relief and exaustion. I'm feeling better I suppose, and let's just leave it at that. So, what'd I get for Christmas? Just about everything I wanted. Nikon CoolPix 4300 Digital Camera and HP Scanjet 6300C were the biggies, and if it weren't for my lethargy more than just Chapter 1 Title Page would be done. FFX-2 and Tony Hawk's Underground were my 2 big game scores, but it's all I really needed. My only anime was Neia_7 box set, but it's all good. Surprising (to me anyway)-- no manga. But the days after really cleared that up, I'm almost right back on schedule with my series, but I'm still missing the recent Priest volumes (only up to 9) and still no sight of Battle Royale 5. Go-dame (god damn). And does anyone know the release for Tuxedo Gin anime? No review this time, I guess just an editorial. Whatever happened to the Beat-'Em-Up genre? Everyone loved them, and I mean everyone. I have never met someone who didn't talk about Final Fight, Streets of Rage, Battletoads, Double Dragon, or even River City Ransom without anything but praise. Recently, I just can't think of too many outside the Dynasty Warriors (with it's own cult following) or maybe the re-release of the old classics to GBA. Now, don't get confused with the arena battlers like Super Smash Bros. series, or the Onimusha battler, those are of another genre. Why is there no Bouncer 2? What happened to Guy, Haggar, Maki, Blaze, Skate, Axel, Wart, Billy, Alex, Sion, Kou, or any of the other greats? Everyone loved them, everyone has them on their emulators, and yet we are stuck with yet ANOTHER platformer (did anyone buy Kya? And if you did, are you sorry? Or Maxx?) Maybe Namco could make a good one, I mean, they included a beat em up sidegame in Tekken, why not just create an entire game? And I don't mean like Mortal Combat Anthologies or something, I mean a totally new and great classic. Come on Square, Konami, Capcom, Namco or whoever wants to jump in, give us some new heroes, make us a damn beat em up.
Wed, Dec. 17th, 2003, 10:29 pm
The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Fifth Level of Hell!Here is how you matched up against all the levels: Take the Dante's Inferno Hell TestNo big surprise here, of course I'm headed off to the 5th lair of hell. With all my pent up rage and anger and smiting of peers I see no reason not to. Of course for those of you who don't believe in Dante's Inferno, then I will probably wind up in limbo, I do good and bad. This quiz is assuming that you will go to hell. And for those who don't believe in an afterlife... you live pretty depressing lives, huh? Oh, and I dare anyone to beat my Tony Hawk 3 score at the Airport. 1 trick, 2,294,179 points. No cheats or codes. DO IT! And if I get that camera for christmas, I will show the world!
Well, fun fun fun fun. I haven't been able to rent anything lately due to lacking funds, but I have been able to enjoy some of my favorite games meanwhile. Resident Evil: Dead Aim (RaTiNg- 89%) A sound game if you ask me, a vast improvement over it's "Gun Survivor" counterparts. You see Capcom of America never thought it would be continuing it's gun survivor series overseas, so when Gun Survivor came out they dubbed it Resident Evil: Survivor (which I give about a 38%), anyhow, long story short, this should be number 5 or so. Well, it's a new story similar to Survivor because it has no effect on the main storyline or Resident Evil, but does add more to the plot. This also starts you right in the middle of the action as American Agent Bruce McGavin. Oh, it's fun switching off between him and Chinese agent Fongling ala RE:Zero, but the main thing above all is the combination of RE zombies and creatures combined with a faster pased arcade-feel game system. It's much like House of the Dead or other shooters, but with the dpad on the back of the gun, you are put in charge of moving the character around. Sometimes some collisions appear, and sometimes the graphics slow down, but with solid music, incredibly grotesque and gruesome monsters, and a bizarre urging to play again and again this game falls just short of greatness. By the way, my preferences for RE heroes (male) would fall: 1) Leon S. Kennedy (RE:2, 4, Gaiden) 2) Bruce McGavin (RE: Dead Aim) 3) Barry Burton (RE: 1, 3--camio--, Gaiden) Females? 1) Jill Valentine (RE: 1, 3) 2) Alice (RE: Movie) 3) Rebecca Chambers (RE: Zero, 1-but only the remake-) And why do I call it Resident Evil instead of Biohazard? RE just sounds sweet, that's why.
Sun, Dec. 7th, 2003, 04:09 pm
One Hot Find
What am I, rating webpages now? Well after a quick look through of www.blackalbinosheep.com and getting the shit scared out of me, I found an interesting music video called Mario Bros Blitz using some music from a site called www.ocremix.org ... Oh my sweet baby Jesus. I have for long waited and looked for such a website. Believe it, DJs actually remixing old sounds and music from everyone's favorites. Going on 23 songs right now and definately gonna make a CD out of it, if you haven't been yet, GO NOW. RUSH WITH ALL YOUR 56K MIGHT (or more)! Click off that Kazaa, close down your iTunes and see what it trully means to be F|_Y1|\|9 F|233 Sometimes I think it too good to be true, but when the pinching, the punching, the stabbing, and the cutting doesn't work, I know I'm alive and awake.
Yup, last night I went to the Writers Guild Theatre in Beverly Hills and watched Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. For those of you living in cave, this movie is huge and most of all... isn't in theatres yet. So I can count myself as one of under 2000 people who have seen this movie, and I didn't even have to pay $7.50 Afterwards was a Q and A with Peter Jackson and the other 2 writers (which names escape me right now) Unfortunately I don't want to spoil this for everyone so this will be a brief rating. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (RaTiNg- 11/10 GWO) -- Well first there's this ***** where they do some 1@&%$^#@( and so Legolas is all "&%#%#(*# @&*@& @&#&#&$#&!!!" so they go over to #%&#&% and do some #*%#(#%%(^# where they meet up with Gandalf, but he's all like (*#(*%$#%^! ... ... ... OK, I'm sorry, this movie is really good and other than saying the scripting, casting, videography, special effects, sountrack, set design, acting, and directing were superb, I really can't rate this without giving away anything. So for a more indepth article you'll have to wait until it comes out so I can be fair to everyone. Let me just leave you with these two non-spoiling things not to miss, Goblin Roadkill, and everyone loves the undead. Otherwise if you plan on seeing it already, see it twice. And if you think you are gonna miss it, reguardless of seeing the previous or not... go see it. Seriously, I obviously can't put my money where my mouth is, but I would if I could. GO SEE IT. NOW. (meaning when it comes out)
Tue, Dec. 2nd, 2003, 09:07 pm
Nothing!
Like... nothing important happened today. At all. I mean, not interesting. I guess my reverend at the MBC Church came down to deliver my letters of recommendation and he's such a great guy to speak with and my mom keeps crying over the letter. But nothing interesting to other people. Cept maybe this new oekaki I just did http://www.bizarreuprising.com/oekaki/pictures/27.pngBy the way, while you are there, read Bizarre Uprising and more importantly, Entertain Dome. I mean I'm all for teen melodrama/sci fi thrillers, but Entertain Dome is like Penny Arcade unglued. And pound for pound just as good. So I'm just gonna sorta... chillax, or some shit. How about a rating? Armitage 3: Dual Matrix (8/10 GWO)-- It's hard following such a great movie, huh? Armitage 3: Poly Matrix is my absolute favorite movie, so this would definately be a hard act to follow. The previous is such a powerful piece with great animation and vo-ing that you can't help but love it. This on the other hand... Well let's begin at the visuals. The art was obviously done by the same guy who did Sol Bianca... but the problem is 1) I don't like it all that much and 2) I really liked the original's style. As for computer animation... I just don't like it in anime for the most part, but this is even more uncompelling. At least in Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 they did it right. The story here has the undertone of what it means to give life, to be a mother, etc etc... which turns this action flick into some sort of Lifetime Special. And what is with Yohko's English voice? UGH! OK, now on to the good. All in all it's well put together with some awesome cinematography (always important) and decent dubs (cept for Yohko's). The action, though sort of far between here, is still very convincing and always looks awesome when Naomi's involved. They tie in the previous story well, though you don't have to watch Poly to see Dual. I wish they'd just make a cool 3rd movie I could get all hyped up about again, this is no way to end such a great film. So why does it get 8? It would be a 6 or 7 but it's got Armitage and Ross Syllabus, one of the greatest pairs of crimefighters since Batman and Robin. And really, it ain't such a bad movie.
No it isn't drinking, drugs or sex. Those are things I haven't done ever (proudly and or sadly), but today I enjoyed something I don't do too often these days... I watched some good ole anime. Tenchi Forever and Colorful to be exact, on loan from my friends. Well, dawdle no futher I shall and bring you... THE REVIEW! (Rating system is based out of 10 Guitars Wailing Out) Tenchi Forever (RaTiNg- 7/10 GWO)-- Yes I've seen #1 and #2 and sadly... I still love #1 more. Yes, this is yet another heart warming story of Tenchi, but this one wastes no time getting down to it. After stepping out for a walk Tenchi disappears... for a year. The girls desperately search for him as Tenchi lives out his year (and more?) with another strange and mysterious girl. As far as plots go, this one has relatively few holes, and despite the wasted time used in such long shots, a relatively decent watch. Tenchi fans must watch of course, but I also suggest this as a good date movie (like I'd know?). I still sorta have trouble with the fact they all fall for such a so-so kinda guy. Colorful (RaTiNg- 9/10 GWO)-- Thank you god! I have waited to see this and finally, my time has arrived. With very little to regret. Does it make sense? Fuck no! Does it follow any sort of continuity? Nope. Logic? Uh-uh. Is it amusing? Hell yeah. They don't kid around here, they know what this is about and follow it so closely you swear you were watching one of those crazy german independent films like Run, Lola, Run. The scripting is perfect and the vo's are right on cue. The style is surreal and yet much more realistic than many others out there. It's a fast and furious ride that makes you throw up at the end... but with joy. This is one sick puppy, but you can't help but to cuddle it.
You heard me, after having a hellish yesterday I decided to basically stay off the comp today! Instead I did semi to non-productive things of my choosing as I should! Huttah! So I went to the movies with Weasels Dont Fly and saw Gothika which I must commend for being an excellent movie. Not as an excellent scary movie, although it did have it's moments, but overall a very fine film with some very good cinematography. I give it... 8/10 Guitars Wailing Out (GWO). Then I bought some Battle Royale Manga and read it and loved it for every gruesome moment, which was awesome. Then I ate some pizza and went to hang at the arcade with friends... once again awesome. Then I sat down and inked Insane-chan and her Posse for a while, which is my upcoming art project (It'll be posted in good time). So... you know what this means... it's time to do a dance. Oh! And I've been thinking and I know what I want for Christmas (I think). 1) Scanner and/or digital camera. Bought time I got one or more of these. 2) New goggles! I found them at Hot Topic and my old ones are getting ratty. 3) updated manga! About 2 months ago I thought "Why not buy like 8 new series of manga and try to keep up with all of them?" So far, so good, but if I don't have to pay, all the more to me. Umm... actually I haven't given a whole lot of thought to it, but I will update when I freakin remember.
Well, day after the big feast and I sat on my ass writing my common app and Drexel app... 3 down 8 (or 9?) to go. I sat in front of the glowing box with words for 8 hours and both my ass and feet are killing me. Don't expect me to even get on my computer tomarrow cause it's just starting to make me sick. In my boredom I drew this http://ssl.keenspace.com/images/haha.jpgEnjoy at the cost of my own sanity! StarFox Adventures (RaTiNg- 68%) Ugh... this game actually lowers your IQ by playing it. The graphics? Terrific. The controls? Clear, easy, crisp. The fact that for small moments of the game you get in your Arwing? Awesome. The rest of the game bites big time. The 1st gripe would be about 4 minutes into it (after the whole entire Crystal thing) you are introduced back to Fox McCloud (who is quite well voiced and just the right attitude in this game) now if it weren't for the fact that the rest of the voices were laughable at BEST, then this would have earned better than a D+. Second grope... this Zelda rip-off staff combat. It's inane, it's unnessary and completely repetitave without any deviation. Actually the entire game is like that, collecting shit you only need for 10 minutes then never having to use it again, and yet it clutters your inventory screen. In addition, this game just plain needed more buttons, 1 hotkey is good, but the multiple spells and items you use should have been given at least 2 hotkeys, but alas, among other pointless commands, the controller is full. Then after you grope about the game itself you can kick yourself over the incredibly lame and forced storyline as you play StarFox Grocery Quest and become the friendly neighborhood bitch which all the natives take advantage of. The biggest problem? This game won't let me quit. Among it's frustrating, stupid and confusing gameplay I can't see myself putting this game down forever. I mean, I've delved this far into the crap, why not see the fruits of my labors? I swear if Fox doesn't get with that hot fox Crystal, Tricky falls off a cliff along with Slippy, and Fox finally gets paid the money he keeps talking about, I'm going to go over to Rare myself and help them to a nice plate of ass kicking.
So, if you visit both this and my website you might notice there hasn't been any updates for a while. Well I have 2 more pages done but I lack a scanner and so far have only been able to rely on my friend's good will to get them up and really I haven't got around to going to someone's house and using one. Right now I'm hoping it will be a good Christmas for me so I will be able to use one, which would be nice. Oh, new item in the store, Trash Can Fu Mousepad, I'm gonna put it on a mug and quite possibly a desktop as well. This will all get cleared up as soon as I put enough time aside. Final Fantasy X-2 (RaTiNg- 96%) I'm really suprised. No, trully I'm really suprised. This not only managed to live past my very low expectations but blow me away in the same process. I'm certainly going to buy this game and so should you. I haven't played any Final Fantasy since 7 because mainly I have been put off by every one since then. But this game I like... A LOT. And I really haven't felt this way about a game since say, Kingdom Hearts (Kingdom Hearts 2 coming out soon I hear?). Squaresoft has proven to me that they are not over the hump yet and will hopefully continue making such sound games. My only groan goes out to the sub-par scripting. While the voice acting isn't too terrible (I've certainly heard worse) it's more about what they say that I dislike. Now I'll have to go out and buy FFX though, good thing it's only $10. I think it would be a nice investment to make a FF7 remake or a FFVII-2. And I'm not going to spoil this for myself and buy a strategy guide. I'm doing this on my own!
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