Late one this weekend. But still within the ‘Weekend’ timeslot, ha. Spent most of the week writing the rest of the story, forgetting I was at work all day Saturday. Feels good to be back on a story arc. Straight in with the action too.
It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Y’kinda run out of ideas for it.
And part two. I have nothing to say here. I just need to upload a post with the comic otherwise it breaks the layout, that’s all. In fact if you’re running Internet Explorer, the layout’s already suffered minor damage, since the text you’re reading here is centered, when it’s designed to be left-justified. Firefox does as it’s told and displays it correctly, but IE has problems with authority and decides to ignore my instructions because it knows better than I do and thinks it would be much better centered.
Part one of two.
You may have noticed the update schedule has changed from “Saturday” to a more vague “Weekend”. That way, I’ll still aim for Saturday, but if it goes up Sunday, I’m still on the stated schedule, and you can’t call me a filthy liar. Whereas if I changed it to “Sunday”, I would end up aiming for Sunday, and they’d start coming out Mondays. I’m deadline-myopic; I never seem to see deadlines very clearly until they’re up close.
I think in some ways, it’s easier to do the bigger, more ambititious strips, such as during the Morth arc. These smale-scale domestic ones, there’s a couple of sticking points. One is, they’re just sitting around, it’s difficult to do anything interesting with that. Another is drawing them so that they fit the pre-drawn sofa background. So while I thought these types of things would be a break, easy stuff, before the next arc starts, they’re actually a lot more hassle than expected. The sooner we start the new story the better!
I’d better finish writing it then I s’pose.
I have no idea which comic is going up today.
So anyway, I recently became unemployed (shouldn’t last too much longer though) and like all unemployed people, I partook in some day time television. I am never doing that again. However, during this terrible experience I’ve learned a few things about and from soap operas:
- Nobody is every happy for more than five minutes before some terrible tragedy occurs. Even on their wedding day something will fuck up or an event from the wedding will lead to a future crisis.
- Cancer is more common than the common cold on these things. Also, amnesia. – EVERYBODY gets pregnant. Even a 40 year old virgin who has lived in a 20*20 room for all her life will somehow manage it if this room was in Summer Bay/Palm Springs/etc.
- People come back from the dead all the damn time for the simple reason that nobody ever finds their body. This might be because the searches always get called off five minutes after they’re reported missing.
- The career criminal will always reform for love, unlike in real life where they just keep going to prison.
- Everybody has a deep dark secret. Usually this involves murder, or manslaughter, or cancer.
- Apparently only American soaps have an abundance of evil twins. They also tend to lack goatees.
- 4 out of 5 kids are born out of wedlock.
- School teachers seem to care about their pupils, rather than just being glad to get away from the ungrateful buggers when the bell rings.
- Again with teachers, there will always be one kid who falls in love with them no matter how fuck-ugly they are. – Even if a character came out as gay 5 years ago, people still make a huge deal about it instead of just accepting it and moving on with their lives.
- There are more crazy cult houses than churches.
- Everyone is either Christian or Jewish. You don’t seem to get many Muslims in Australia.
- On that subject, there are no black people in Australia according to these things. – Everyone gets divorced.
- Fires are so common that I’m starting to think some dodgy electrician has clients in every corner of the world.
Hey, it’s still Saturday! I am sort of on time!
Dialogue is near-verbatim from IM. Xandius Blackwing is a grave and sober inquisitor in the grittier, noirish setting of the Grim Darkness. So of course we make fun of him/ourselves.
Oh, I also arranged another Bonus Feature. Behind the scenes design work for Morth and other characters from the arc.
Real comic next week. I will get off my lazy arse, and then get back on it, but in front of the drawing tablet.
I drew this for Valentine’s. Printed it as an actual physical card too, though sadly that arrived late for V-Day itself. Jess still got to have the digital version as a gift on the day, and I’ll know in future: send gifts plenty of time in advance! Damnfool international post taking longer than advertised…
By the way? The answer is ‘all of the above’.
Um, probably one more Dead Virus Day update next week. Then I’ll try and get back into it.
