The Ultimate Sidekick - Little Wooden Boy

In response to @agent_m's posting of Speak:

Fan made 'Little Wooden Boy' - Hero support extrodonaire!

I was honored to sign his butt.

The Tick

I guess its time to start writing again. They've released 'my' (amongst others) combined works for 2 series:

The Tick Specials AND The Tick & Arthur, including Heroes of the City

Backups are your friend

It feels good to have a webcomic strip posted again, I can't believe its been four years.

The 'Baroness' Real-estate Agent Extraordinaire

In anticipation of David (Comic co-creator, co-writer, and sometimes editor) finding the actual amusing 'Baroness' strip I mention in my previous post, I have decided to post the one where she is selling real-estate.

Yes, it is very linear, but well it's my G.I. Joe appreciation week and after last nights twitterfest of updates from the very successful webcomic creators Scott Kurtz and Kris Straub with their twittering of lines like "I can't wait for G.I. Joe 2: Joemaggeddon!" (They twittered while watching the movie) and the posting of videos made in the bathroom at the movie theater, I just had to post it.

(A little background: In our (now defunct) webcomic, David and I alternated writing and drawing the strips. Being lazy I used David's version of the Baroness, and now I suddenly have the urge to draw my own version.)

Well Crap.

In honor of the new G.I. Joe movie I wanted to post a strip we had done for the webcomic back in 2005 that featured the 'Baroness' from G.I. Joe, (now retired and selling realestate) but I can't find it (Grrrrr).

When I was looking, I ran across my favorite San Diego Comiccon picture:

Oh yeah, I have a blog! Doh!

So I got laid-off in June and I have taken the opportunity to study for some various tech certs and do some reading with my free time while also working on the job search.

I just re-read the Wheel of Time series in about 2 weeks which was fun. Reading eleven 600 to 800 page novels in that short of time really immerses you in the stories. I hadn't really been following the news for WoT, so I just recently checked the Dragonmount site and was happy to see that a new book is due out in November "The Gathering Storm" and was excited to learn that there will be at least 2 more books.

I know some people don't like long series, but I love them. It was very sad news to learn of Robert Jordan's passing. I can't imagine working on a story for 25+ years and not be able to finish it. I am very glad his wife is continuing the project. I met them once at the San Diego Comic Con, in the professional's backstage area, it was a very meaningful event for me.

Speaking of long series and fun diversions, I also just read the eleven Dresden file novels "Turn Coat" and those are good fun if you like that genre. It was a brief TV series, but I have to say as usual the books were much better. Except I liked the old WW2 jeep better in the show than the VW Bug in the books, but anyway it is a lot like the first few Anita Blake series novels before Laurell got side tracked...

I also read "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson, it had been on my to do read list for awhile and I have to say I wish I read it sooner. It was quite possibly the best book of that genre I have ever read. I highly recommend it.

Well, now that my reading list and free advertising for Amazon is done, (I typically buy all my books at Barnes & Noble, guess I could have used their site to link the books now that I think about it. The store in the Arboretum in North Austin is nice and they have leather chains upstairs that the boys and I like to hangout in.) I am going to go take a nap on the couch.

Catalog of Exoplanets

Catalog of Exoplanets:

This site has very cool animated visualizations of the extrasolar systems!

With Kepler up there more will be coming.