Stayed up one time.. (Updated)

Seven posts no one cares about in two days?!
Clearly I've gone "Content crazy".

Anyway, I've finally got all my birthday photos sized, edited, uploaded, and annotated for you to check out.
All you've got to do is click on that picture up there.
You'll see pictures of things I got, the birthday party that was held on Friday, and then photos from my actual birthday on Monday.
I'd also like to take this time to say that my Friend-Set is the best.
April is bestest, prettiest, sweetest, make me feel special-est girlfriend ever.
Extra special thanks to Curt, Sean, Joe, Clayton, Bonnie, Joel, Edward, Lynn, Nathan, Katie, James, and anyone else who helped organize or helped make my party a lot of fun.
I apologize to all of the people (of which there were many) who were at the party that I was too drunk or too busy partying to remember to take pictures of. (Dangle there you lousy preposition!)
So, yeah, I hope you enjoy them.

UPDATE : There were some perfectly nice and pretty pictures of April in that set that she didn't like so I had to delete them. I tell you this only because I want you to understand why there are no pictures of April.
Also, based on which pictures have been looked at (ie. the ones James is in and the one of the Dwight bobblehead), I know that at this point Maggie is the only person who's checked them out.

There it is, get it!

The world must have been turned topsy-turvy (a hyphenated word I absolutely love), because both April and Sean have updated their respective blarghs.
I really enjoyed both of their posts, and you might too, so go check it out.

In reference to my previous post about watching Godzilla : Final Wars last night, I had to try to explain Godzilla and his inherent and total dominance in the field of awesomeness to April.
I was amazed to find she was not aware of Capital G's greatness.
Even more amazing though, was that she didn't know anything about Godzilla besides that he was from Japan and she could pick him out of a line-up.
At one point during the opening credits he let loose with a blast of his patented Atomic-Breath which elicited a confused and incredulous "WTF" from April.
I had to explain to her that Godzilla is like the Superman of monsters.. in that he's the best.
To which she replied, "Couldn't you also say he's the worst, then?"

I was hellbent...

I saw Godzilla : Final Wars again last night, and in celebration of this I'm reposting my musings on the flick from my inital viewing way back in February 2006.

Enjoy!



Other notes while watching Godzilla : Final Wars....

- Monster X is one of the best giant monster designs I've seen in a long time.
- Gigan v2.0 may very well be the worst monster design/redesign ever.
- Mothra is really fast, but quite vulnerable.
- Anguirus makes a great soccer ball, and the G-Man is quite a goalie.
- Ebirah learned quite harshly that Godzilla is not a fan of seafood.
- Godzilla has similar feelings towards pollution. Poor Hedorah.
- Zilla (or G.I.N.O. as some people call him) looked great. Toho can do some mighty fine CGI.
- King Seesar is as cute as a puppy sometimes.
- Though it was neat to see King Ghidorah, I hated how he ended up in the movie. As an aside, I think it's ridiculous that KG is one of Godzilla's most powerful foes.
- Mothra ain't going out like no punk ass bitch.
- I hadn't really been familiar with Manda before this flick, but I feel like he/she/it should be much more popular in Japan.
- Almost every scene that doesn't feature a giant monster is completely worthless to me.

In conclusion, Godzilla : Final Wars was awesome!

Trunk full of stuff...

Do any of you have Netflix?

Without even trying..

And now for what I'd like to call, "A Series of Images Illustrating Why You Should Be Buying DC's Black Adam Mini-Series"
The following panels are all from Black Adam #2.
As always, click the pictures for a closer look.


Black Adam is using the entrails of an abominable snowman he's just cut open with a big knife to bungie down a cliff to retrieve his backpack.. which holds the bones of his dead wife.
To be completely honest, I don't think I should need to show you anything else.
But I will because I love you.


Superman stops one bullet by grabbing it and stops the other bullet that bounced off of him with his heat vision.
Superman is not just faster than a speeding bullet, he's faster than TWO speeding bullets and he's got a good sense of humor about himself.
Oh, and he has laser eyes!


Just click on it.
I really miss Doug Mahnke drawing JLA right about now.


Look at Black Adam's beautiful teeth.

And there you have it.
Go buy Black Adam.

With all sincerity..

Me : At the 2:50 mark on that song it becomes the greatest thing ever.

Maggie : It's so triumphant.

Me : The harmony at the 3:10 mark is enough to make rainbows explode.

Maggie : Hahahaha. You should write music reviews. Get a job at The Flyer or something on the side.

Me : Haha. Yeah, where I just review the Flash Gordon soundtrack every week.

Well then let's still do that...

So over at Newsarama there's a preview up of the next issue of The Flash.

Following the preview is a good bit of debate over Daniel Acuña's art.

A lot of the people posting in Newsarama's forums don't care for his art for some reason. I don't know that the Newsarama forums are any kind of indication of the real feelings of the entire comic buying populace, but it's still really surprising to me that everyone isn't a huge fan.
I wonder if the people who don't like Acuña are the same people that defend the artistic ability of Michael Turner or think Ed Benes' Justice League looks incredible.
I think some people are scared of how Acuña's art isn't just black lines with colors then neatly applied inside those lines. Comic fans tend to be a cowardly, superstitious lot.. wait. Comic fans seem to be afraid of changes. New things. Things that are different. As far as comics go, I mean.

I wonder if Newsarama had been around back when Alex Ross hit the scene if people would have been complaining about his take on the Human Torch not being red with black lines all over him the way Kirby did it.

They were on to you..

I'm eating tiny microwaved hot dogs.
They aren't particularly great, but they were free (thanks Maggie!) and I have zero (literal) dollars at the moment.
I brought a Dr Pepper from home though, and it's pretty good.
I've been swallowing so much mucus or whatever head fluid is leaking down the back of my throat that my appetite hasn't been great over the last few days. The half eaten Pop Tart on my desk from this morning will attest to as much.

I read "If you're bored, you're boring" on someone's blog or Myspace profile or somewhere on the internet and immediately fell in love with that sentence.

Pictures for Sad Children is real and hilarious and fantastic. I met John at Comic-Con. He was easy to talk to and friendly. He gave me a free comic and then I bought some. Then he gave me a comic to give to Joel.
John, if you're reading this, I gave that comic to Joel for you. Mission accomplished.

I could write songs for They Might Be Giants all goddamn day long. Why not just write them for myself and then perform them? We've already got one They Might Be Giants. I'm pretty sure that's as many as people want.

Action Button reviewd the game, God Hand, and gave it 4 out of 4 stars. Their "bottom line" on the game was, "God Hand is 'Beat them up. Beat them all the way up.'"
I could not be any more interested in playing this now.
Even though I never get to play video games anymore.



I've completely forgotten the other things I wished to say.
I'm going to try to have the birthday post up later today, so feel free to check back.
Maybe there'll be a picture of you.

makes a lotta sense..

1) Birthday post after I get home from work.

2) Where's the update, Sean?

All my love tonight..

Still feel terrible.
My thanks to those of you who commented about things. Be sure to check out the responses since it took me a good minute to get back to everyone.

My thanks also to Patrick Gleason who as far as I'm concerned is one of the finest pencillers in comics today.
Why am I thanking him?
Well, besides drawing the best Aquaman ever, he told me he was digging my blog.
That's awesome to hear.
I'm accepting that as an early birthday present from him even if that wasn't his intention.

If anyone would like to get me something but isn't sure what to get me Ducktales, Talespin, and Gummi Bears (aka The Disney Afternoon) are all out on DVD now... and I don't have any of them.
I'm just saying.
I do have the first season of Darkwing Duck though.
It's awesome.

Devastated by the news...

I'm sick.
I'm stuck at work.
I feel terrible.
No art today.
But, there is this..


YES!

Walking out on you again..

There are 2 notes on this picture if clicked upon.
Dedicated especially to Sean.
This is one of my self-rejected Flash redesigns for Project Rooftop.
This is based completely (as far as the pose, attire, and attitude go) on a guy I saw jogging by the coffee shop I was in working on Flash redesigns.
100% true story.

Cosmic Boy by Mike Wieringo!

This is a sketch of Cosmic Boy as drawn by Mike Wieringo that I am very proud to own.
It is completely awesome.

It was the start of the summer..

April has updated her blahg again.
Feel free to peruse it.

The universal and resounding indifference my Kid Flash redesign was met with has me both puzzled and pensive.

Nothing could go wrong.

Sometimes life feels unbearable.
Inescapable and undefeatable.

Then, sometimes, every once in a great while, life goes out of it's way to show you indisputably that it can be wonderful and beautiful and magical.

Sometimes you have to take the little good things as they come when you can get them, but then they start to add up.

I step outside to come to work and it's not unbearably hot.
I check Joel's site and he has Metamorpho hanging out with Hal Jordan and Stephanie Brown.
The Iron Man trailer is awesome.
I read a synopsis of the (rumored) plot for the next Superman movie along with the (rumored) news that the pitch for it Bryan Singer and company has everyone very, very excited. I am part of that everyone.
As I'm driving through a retail center near where I work, I see several little birds splashing around in the little puddles of water in the parking lot. I don't even like birds, and it was absolutely adorable. I don't know if birds can have fun, but if they can, it definitely seemed like these birds were. Hopping and splashing and shaking and chirping.
I go to Taco Bell for lunch and the girl taking my order is incredibly courteous and professional even though she's working the drive-thru at Taco Bell.. in Memphis.
As I'm exiting the drive-thru, for whatever reason, I look in the windows of Taco Bell.
I see this adorable blond-headed little boy who's probably only 2 or 3 eating with his mom.
It looks like he's wearing a shirt that's red in the back and blue in the front.
Wait, that's not the back of the shirt that's red.
That's a cape.
Then he stands up in his chair suddenly for some reason.
That's an S.

Like I said, sometimes life decides to go the other way and give you some hope.

I can't stand it..

Photo provided by me. Minimates for photo also provided by me.
So the trailer for Iron Man is finally available to all of those who didn't see it on the Con circuit.
Though I attended SDCC, I didn't get to see it because the only panel I attended was the Episodic Gaming panel.. thank you very much, Curt.

Anyway, the trailer. Wow.
I never would have guessed in a million years this was a movie anyone would be able to pull off well, but all signs point to awesome if this trailer is any indication.
Of course, I know a 90 sec trailer and a 90 minute movie leaves a lot of room to screw the proverbial pooch, but as far as trailers go this one has me on board as much as any I can remember in recent memory has.
Well played, Favreau, well played.

Always should be someone...

So here's the final inks for my Project Rooftop failing Bart Allen Kid Flash.

And here's the finished, colored version.

There are 3 notes on this picture if clicked upon.
You'll notice there were a few subtle changes to the picture, most noticeably the emblem.
Failure or not, I'm still pretty proud of it as a drawing by me, and I like the design.
I've got a hundred (give or take) other abandoned costumes that I might finish up for fun and put up here.
I've got a real comic I need to be working on though.

Looking up and..

Justin3000 from The Drawing Board, colored up my picture of Robin all pretty like.

Also, April updated her blog.
Curt and Sean have not.

Literally..

From the DC press release :

Originally scheduled to appear in SUPERMAN CONFINDENTIAL #6 (MAY070149), the final chapter of the story “Kryptonite,” written by Darwyn Cooke and illustrated by Tim Sale, will be rescheduled to appear in a future issue of SUPERMAN CONFIDENTIAL.

The story then continues to tell us what will now be appearing in issues 6, 7, 8, and 9.
None of which are the final chapter of the story we've been reading.
WTF much, DC?
What the hell is going on at the DC offices that all of these big books keep having their schedules or creative teams fall apart?
Am I done with monthly comics?
Should I be?
Has it officially become a "Wait for the Trade" world?

Take the next step..

Cyborg on a tiny Post-It.
He looks like he's doing "The Robot".


Beast Boy is dodging some kind of beam.
Also on a Post-It.