Urgh, writer need sleep. Fan art by Riley Boi who I assume is some sort of weed smoking hippy (look at the pic and find out why).
Blargh, need sleep. Better update later, wake me up around Sunday.
“Yarrghbblglblblbll… comicness for you all at last. Do forgive the lateness of this one, took me longer than I would have liked – you know, that horrible thing called life and all it’s misadventures.
So. Here’s the comic – get it away from me.”
Which sums things up quite nicely, I think.
So, I was browsing through my DeviantArt stuff when I saw a comment by yami27 on my page; he had a Lothar avatar on his post. I thought “hey look, a fan” and clicked on it. Now I admit, the guy’s a good artist and had some good pictures of Lothar, (though he seemed to be under the impression that Lothar wore brown boots and had bionic toes Lothar doesn’t wear any boots, he just bionic grey “boot feet”) so I clicked into his gallery.
Damn near EVERYTHING in his gallery was of Lothar, and some of it was kind of creepy, for example, drawing Lothar sleeping more than once, a baby Lothar (I know we already have a picture of that by Juni in the fan art gallery but I’ll get to why this annoyed me) and one of Lothar getting shot. Which I suppose makes sense, as Lothar is a merc and it’s kind of a company hazard. Like how working in a toy factory comes with a risk of you becoming bludgeoned to death with a Barney the Dinosaur toy (the most horrifying death imaginable). But it was still kind of creepy, especially the sleeping ones.
Also he had Lothar singing along to Meat Loaf, I don’t like Meat Loaf, bad yami!
Now let me put this straight, I LIKE people drawing fan-art of Lothar, it gives me a huge ego-boost (current ego size = Sun) and I love seeing other peoples renditions of him. What I don’t like however and which is why I was kind of creeped out and angry at yami27, was the fact that he has done around 25 pieces of Lothar work over maybe a year and hasn’t informed me ONCE about ANY of them. In fact, in his latest journal entry he says that “ I was just doing cause i was inspired by him even though no one from EN noticed or even cared about me.”
Newsflash idiot, we didn’t notice/care about you because YOU DIDN’T CONTACT US! NOT EVEN ONCE! We don’t go LOOKING for EN stuff, so stop playing the pity game arsehole.
Anyway, after seeing the gallery I noticed that yami27, while not claiming credit for Lothar, had not given credit to the other Exterminatus Now members or me. Again we like people doing fan art, but at least say in the description that they’re from Exterminatus Now. You don’t even have to put a link on it or anything, just say they’re from EN. Yami had put one link on one of his works, but didn’t state that it was or wasn’t his character. Which to be honest, to people who haven’t heard of EN before and see a gallery of Lothar without any credit, it’s gonna look like HE created Lothar (which turned out to be the case with one of his friends which I’ll get to later).
So I sent him a DA note asking him to give credit on the pictures. And another telling him about the brown boots/feet thing, and then I notice something which made me even more creeped out. Yami27, on his own DA journal admitted to writing adult fan-fiction. Now considering his rather obsession with Lothar, I understandably was rather concerned, so I went to the site and looked at the descriptions of his work (like HELL was I actually gonna read it).
It turned out that all the stories he wrote were of the Male on Male variety, although none of them did contain Lothar. Now I think history will show that I have no problem with gay people. In fact it pisses me off to some degree that America pisses on their rights by not letting them get married in six states (or was it eight? I forget). But I myself, am not gay and do not want to engage in sexual relations with another man, my girlfriend Raquel, who just spent 2 weeks in the UK with me before going back to America, can attest to this. So as I’m sure you can all understand that I was slightly concerned, I mean Lothar obsession + writing homosexual fan-fiction, you work out what I was concerned about.
So with anger I typed up a journal entry and sent it to Yami, stating that it would go up on the site eventually (it hasn’t since this is a completely new post I have written up). He had started to put links on the fan work but after I sent this he started sending me arse-kissing emails/notes back, calling himself a “fucking fag” and stating that he wasn’t gay at all. In one of his emails he posted this excuse for the adult writings;
“And i do not write homosexual stories. I can’t get an account on fanfiction.net cause of the cookies so i went onto adultfanfcition instead. And i was grossed out at all the gay stories other people had but i had no choice so i submitted my stories. i do not support gay relationships as i am a straight. I have a girlfriend.” (OK I gave the same reason for not being gay, but I don’t write stories involving Sonic characters performing anal sex on each other, so you can’t really call my sexuality into question.)
So you don’t write homosexual stories? But you did for adult because everyone else was doing it? So, either he’s:
a) Lying about being gay and did the stories because he’s a fucking idiot.
b) Lying about being straight, this makes him a hypocrite and quite frankly, a coward since he can’t stand up for himself.
c) Just plain dumber than George Bush after several smacks to the head with an aluminium pipe and an all night keg-party.
Personally, I think its b and c.
So after that he posts a DA journal entry saying he’s “lost all inspiration, yadda yadda” when a friend of his comes on saying that he should continue. I tell this friend that Lothar is MY character, not his. She then IM’s me, apologizing for thinking that, and states that she didn’t know this because yami27 had actually claimed that EN was his in IM conversations. She says that she didn’t really look at the page much and thought the difference in art was due to her thinking yami improved on it because “it was computerised and stuff.” Ok she isn’t the brightest bulb in the box, but at least she’s honest.
As you can imagine, this pisses me right off. Not only is he taking credit for my character, but also for the hard work of the other EN staff members.
So yami27, in closing, you are a horrible person, a fucking coward and just plain retarded, and I hope everyone who knows yami and reads this makes SURE he fucking knows that. Not only is he unable to stand up for himself, he’s expecting PITY from this. If anyone gives him pity, you’re almost as stupid as he is.
Thank you and goodnight.
Comic by Queeko, late for these reasons:
1) Virus and Silv were visiting me last week, so didn’t have much time for comic making.
2) When comic was made, the PSD file that Virus gave to Silv became corrupted, so it was unusable.
3) Qeeko was able to make comic, but was suffering from flu at the time, I’m surprised she managed to do anything at all with it.
And that is why the comic is late, don’t like it? Tough. I’m going back to bed.
The comic says pretty much everything I needed to say, but I figure I might elaborate some, since I’m here.
Those of you who were paying attention will know Virus and myself were visiting Lothar and his girlfriend Raye during the week. This was all good fun, though we didn’t manage to do a whole lot of comic work. A little, but no full comics. No big surprise there.
The plan was for me to take the half-complete next comic back home and put it together, and for Virus to send me the sketchwork for the next two along later (since he’s off on holiday for a couple weeks), so we wouldn’t miss anything out. This should have worked out fine, except the mp3 player I was using to transfer the files has much the same problem his did, before he replaced it – a tendancy to corrupt non-music stuff. So I lost the comic files. This being the first comic of the new storyline, this causes us a few problems.
Irony is a bitch.
I’m just posting here to inform you that the new Exterminatus Now storyline begins on tuesday.
Also next week Monday – Thursday Silv and Virus are going to be visiting me and my girlfriend Raquel while she is staying over for two weeks. Comic will probably be delayed and you probably won’t hear from me for the two weeks. So nyah.
I’m loathe to upload this, what with it looking like crap, but I don’t have the time to redraw the entire thing again now and make it not look like crap. So you’ll have to live with it, just like I will.
I have no idea what comic is going up today.
One piece of fan art this week, by Cyber Shadow. Thanks Cyber.
And now a letter to God following events that happened to me yesterday:
To: God@heaven.com
From: lotharhex@notputtingmyrealemailhere.com
Subject: You need a new sales pitch.
Dear God, how are you? I am fine, the cookies were delicious.
I am emailing you today to give you some advice. That advice is that you really need a new sales pitch to get people interested in you, as your current model is extremely annoying.
Today (Monday) I was waiting for a bus after a day performing my civic duty (read: punishment) in the form of jury duty. As the bus pulled up, along the rather large queue an elderly woman, whose nationality I could not pin down, started handing out leaflets. On the front of these leaflets were two football players (and by this I mean PROPER football, not that “Rugby for Wimps” that is played in America). Now I assumed because of this that they were football related. I have no interest in football, so when she came to me I declined, stating this fact. She said to me they were not about football, and they were about your son, Jesus.
Being agnostic I wasn’t interested, yet the woman persisted. After a short speech I pointed to my face and said, “Do you see this? This is me not interested”. She then proclaimed that if I did not accept you and your son that I must be a sinner. To which I raised my hand and said “Sinner right here”. She then went on to say that when you came to judge me and I had not accepted you, I would burn in hell. I replied “Alright then” and ignored her while I made my way towards the bus.
Now God, if you want people to take you seriously, sending out crazy old women who insult your potential followers for being more concerned with missing the bus than the rantings of some senile old bint is not the way to do it. They will most turn away from you, since they don’t want to be associated with crazy people like “Mrs Old Psycho”.
To this end I have three suggestions on how to get me to follow you:
1) Send Master Chief to talk to me. The fact is, if you can get a cyborg super-soldier from 500 years in the future to turn up on my doorstep and talk to me about your teachings, I will listen and do whatever he says. After all, it IS Master Chief.
(No one better email me about that group that is using Halo 2 to spread the message of God, cos I already now about it)
2) Send Samuel L. Jackson along with a really big gun. Look, if you can ignore Samuel L. Jackson holding a really big gun, you’re probably dead already. Plus he has that “ultimate cool” thing going for him, plus he swears in casual conversation. I like that.
3) Send a 7ft tall Amazonian Princess with a Swedish accent wearing nothing but a smile who is open to experimentation. Do I really need to explain this one? If you had sent a woman like this to hand out leaflets in the bus queue, I’d be well on my way to becoming a Vicar about now.
Thank you in anticipation of reply.
P.S. Judas keeps stabbing East’s party members in the back on World of Warcraft. I know he’s a Rogue, but he’s supposed to be on the same team. Could you talk to him for me? Thanks.
East made, this, but I feel it is very true.
New fan stuff, first a picture of Eastwood by Ourik. Followed by a Comic by Wendy Atticus, thanks peeps.
Right, a while back I talked about Dan Brown’s book “The Da Vinci Code”, since then I have also read “Angels and Demons”, “Deception Point” and glanced through “Digital Fortress” and you know what?
THEY’RE ALL THE FUCKING SAME.
Seriously, you wanna know how to write a Dan Brown book? Follow this simple step-by-step guide.
1) Have someone die at the beginning for no real reason.
2) Have a powerful individual/organization under threat in it, Catholic Church/Pope or U.S. Government/President. Throw in a conspiracy theory about them to sell the books.
3) Have them be in some sort of crisis. Attacked by mysterious third party for example.
4) Get the main character whisked away to a secret location in some stupidly fancy vehicle without them knowing what the fuck is going on.
5) Main character meets secondary character of equal intelligence and opposite sex.
6) Fantastic discovery is made by characters, but missing vital evidence.
7) Third party attacks main characters to find/stop the fantastic discovery.
8) Long chase scene with other characters getting either murdered or hurt badly.
9) Vital evidence is found, discovery turns out to be a hoax.
10) Mysterious third party revealed to be controlled by the organization they seek to destroy or previously friendly character.
11) Massive convoluted, over-complicated, yet at the same time, down right STUPID plot twist that explains everything and deals out swift justice to villains.
12) The main character and secondary character go off and fuck like bunnies.
THE END. I’m serious, if you have read more than one of Dan Brown’s books, take a look and you will notice ALL THE FUCKING PLOTS ARE THE DAMN SAME. They’re not even that well written either. And despite this, Dan Brown is a millionaire and his books continue to sell like hardcore Asian lesbian schoolgirl sister porn.
The man is a fucking genius, he writes the same book every time and just replaces the conspiracy theory. You magnificent BASTARD Dan Brown.
Well, it took us almost two years, but we finally hit triple digits. The big 100. Took us long enough, didn’t it?
See, this is what happens when artists procrastinate. And/or attempt to do large quantities of work in short spaces of time, while also procrastinating. We are Professional Crastinators, and we are very good at it.
Speaking of procrastinating, this is already most of a day late….
