NBC needs to fail… it’s a long time comin’

Conan should do a ‘net show & revolutionize the game…

he’s too good for dying media anyways

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one fun thing I got for christmas this year was a two-issue grab bag of old comics (complete with collectible trading card!), which contained, for one thing…

Death’s Head II #16

by Dan Abnett & Henry Flint

March 1994

Marvel UK

• good example of a self-contained comic.

• No previous knowledge of the character(s) needed.

• No knowledge of what came before needed.

• No need to see what happens next (but you may want to).

More detail:

• cover grabs you.

• Interior art is dynamic & substantial.

• Exciting action story with ugly (in various definitions) villain who doesn’t keep you waiting in letting you know why he’s the villain.

Still don’t wanna read it? Then here’s the summary:

Death’s Head gets flung into the insanely far future by an alien warlord who wants to reprogram him & send him back in to the past to get revenge on mankind for resisting his race’s dominance, thereby “forcing” the extinction of his own race as well as mankind. Death’s Head uses the 100+ mental patterns in his brain & memories stolen from his own future dead brain to defeat “Chronozone.” Turns out it’s the final issue of the series.

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been effectively out of commission (online) this last week or so, but I had a lot of fun meeting people at the local tweetup, as well as a great time with family & friends, etc. …

anyways, I hope everybody’s been having a great holiday season & that it keeps up as long as it can muster!

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so how do you make the time? it's coming together, but it seems almost like I'm making it up as I go along…
of course, that's probably okay… preferable even… everybody's different, every situation is different, & every thing requires an individual response…

but still, we can learn from each other…

so how do you manage your freelance illustration/cartooning/comic time with the rest of your life… hungry souls are intrigued…

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The one industry unaffected by Wal-mart #comics http://bit.ly/5mlzGs

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 12:21 PM PST

The one industry unaffected by Wal-mart #comics http://bit.ly/5mlzGs

is this true? I hope it’s true. sounds like a good thing, but is it a good thing ? does unaffected just mean not successful enough to feel the pinch – to low to get any lower?  I don’t think my personal feelings about the monster chain mean much to the success of the industry… everything’s in such a state of flux right now – comics have definitely had harder times than now… maybe the current climate isn’t very telling, because comics are going digital anyways… it’s only a matter of when, not if.

I just had a lady call me tonight to try & sell me a Sunday newspaper for $20 a year.  She sounded desperate.  I really felt bad for her.  Her last resort to sell me the paper was a $10 Target gift card, which, if thought of as such, could be viewed as making the paper cost $10 a year (less than my pro flickr account?)… even though I didn’t take the offer, I still felt bad that that was this woman’s job & told her to “try & have a good night” (what else could I say, “get a new job”?)

but with the “big two” still trying to bend the new formats to their will, they’ve given us 2 experiences that I find unusable:
1. Marvel’s digital comics took took spiritual possession of my browser when I tried to view some freebies – I literally had to shut down my machine & boot up fresh…
2. DC’s Zuda site doesn’t hijack my browser, but they knew it was foreign enough of a comic delivery that they put up a mini tutorial on how to use the viewer when you go to a comic… less & less do I have time to do much more than view a simple RSS post in my feed reader, let alone, actually go to a site (though I may want to).

both of these seem to use everyone’s favorite resource-hog/base-level-content-fence, Adobe Flash.

now, contrary to what specific project evangelists may think, I don’t want either of these companies to fail in digital format – but they’re late to the game… they can innovate if that’s truly what’s happening, but they’re joining a forward motion already in progress… & both parent companies lack in this department.

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