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Extinctioners #16 now Ready for Purchase

Wed Sep 23, 2009, 6:20 PM
According to Angry Viking Press reps:

"All the Pre-orders (except two) have been shipped We have now open the rest of the stock for sale. You can order at [link] and check out the site for more details "

Check it out, first color issue since the original issue 1.

  • Mood: Rant
  • Watching: Sonic SatAM dvd 1

Gargoyles Clan Building V2 OUT and Complete

Thu Sep 10, 2009, 3:36 PM
Just picked up the graphic Novel of the official canon Gargoyles comic yesterday and it was pretty good. Finally a poor Red gargoyle get's a little respect. The Graphic novel reprints the first 2 chapters of the Clan Building comic that was released by SLG Publising, but also features 4 never before published issues that finish off the story and I guess wraps up the Gargolye story as we know it.

The book is written by the actual show's writer, so everything in it is ocnsidered 'official' story points.

On his website, it's said that the DVD collection of Gargoyles season 2 vol.2 has been canceled due to low sales of vol.1, which is horribly ironic since it's the second half of that season that contained the best espisodes of the whole Gargoyles series. ON his site it's said that if they sales of the dvds increase then there still is a chance of them at least finishing off the Fox TV related episodes (I highly doubt the Goliath Chronicles will ever see DVD life).

Ironically, while I already own the first 2 dvd collections, I certainly can't find them anywhere locally and I've not really seen them when out of town either. It appears you can still get copies of the show from Amazon.com for around $20. If DisneyMarvel, the company trying to gain more of a boy audience doesn't release the best episodes of the series, they are really missing a great chance of increasing their product variety.

It'd be neat if, now thanks to the merger they bring back Gargoyles as part of their Youth Boys push. It's bad enough that the only time to see it on tv is to be up at 4am (and what kid is up that late to watch an action series on tv). Just don't get that particular program decision.

  • Mood: Rant
  • Reading: Gargoyles: Clan Building vol.2
  • Watching: Gargoyles season 1 episode 3
  • Drinking: OJ

"I'm not a Furry Artist" Artist

Fri Sep 4, 2009, 9:39 AM
Get over yourselves and stop letting morons on the internet attempt to label you, make you feel self conscious, and steal the joy of drawing the cartoon subject matter of your choice. In other worlds, stop whinning.

If you like drawing a lot of humaniod animal characers, guess what, people have been doing it as far back as the cave man. Animals are creatures that people of all races and gender can relate to, because they are different and don't hold any other ethic, racial, religious, or sexual orientation context that a human being does. When given human qualities, I.E. anthropomorphized, the characters become universially easier to relate to because they convey pure human values instead of translating the human limiations that ethnicity bring along.

I like Dora the Explorer, but bottom line is, she's a hispanic character and there is going to be aspects of her, being that I'm an African-America, am not going to relate to. However, I also like Goofy. Goofy is a dog, I'm not a dog, but I like the humanity of the "every-man" he conveys that anyone and everyone can relate with.

That's why SPider-man as a character is so universially easier to relate with. That fully body costume allows children to be able to easily believe they could be Spider-Man when he's in full costume (I remember a Awesome issue of Spider-man where he was seen through the perspective of a little black boys eyes, and I felt, yup, that gets it perfectly why people love SPider-Man. In the boys mind, when Spidey took off his mask, he was a black guy underneath (OF course we know Peter Parker isn't, but to that kid not knowing, he could have been anyone).

Trying to either lable or distance youself from a term like "Furry" when you draw predominately anthropmorphic animals is a huge waste of time and mental energy. For one, the term is so vague nobody can clearly define exactly what "Furry" means, and exactly what about it is so positive or negative. Afterall, if you draw a bunch of cartoon talking birds, some people are going to lable you furry (never mind the obvious fact that birds don't have fur). Save if you draw dragons, lizards, ect.

I draw anthromorphic characters that would be considered part of the superhero genre set in a science fiction world. For some aspects they could be looked as being alien, genetic constructs, natural evolutions and it doesn't matter what type of animal creature they may happen to be people are going to look at them and say "HEY, You draw furries!" Or, if it were say 20 years ago, people would be using another genertic term to describe animal orientated genre "HEY, you draw FUNNY ANIMALS!" (Never mind little of what happens to my characters could be considered funny).

So basically, if you like drawing humaniod animal cartoon characters do so and don't waste your time with trying to define what you are or aren't, because as any mature artist knows, once a work of art is created and released for public consumption, you can no longer control the narative of how people will see or lable your art, no matter how much you flail your arms and make images saying the contrary. If you feel the term "furry" is something to be embarrassed about because of the narrative that's been attached to it, then change the narrative. Be like, yeah, this is furry art and look, it's not as bad as you may have been lead to it was. Because I'm sorry to say, saying you're not furry (with a 100% posting rate of cartoon animals in your gallery) is like saying water isn't wet. You define your narrative and yourself, stop letting others do it for you, if you're so concerned about such things.

Me? I draw kick ass art that apparently enough people like enough to want to see more of. And I happen to find drawing animal faces more interesting than humans because the my level of possible different facial types expandes 1000000 fold when I consider drawing all of God's awesome creations and not just focus solely on creatures that look predominately like myself. That's why it's so cool having an imagination and the ability to put it down on paper. The limites of what I can draw are only confined by myself.

Now get out there and draw something.

  • Mood: Rant
  • Listening to: Jim Rome Show
  • Playing: Batman Arkham Asylum
  • Drinking: MILK

Batman Akham Asylum

Tue Aug 25, 2009, 7:05 PM
I'm only 10 minutes in the game and my inner fanboy is having a joygasm. Man, after watching the whole series of Batman Beyond this weekend and to then top it off playing this game..DROOL!!!

  • Mood: Hope
  • Listening to: Batman Arkham Asylum
  • Playing: Batman Arkham Asylum
  • Drinking: Chocolate Milk straight from the container

Time to get back to work

Sun May 31, 2009, 6:46 AM
Ok. I've now completed a full file recovery from older computers and thanks to the aid of some very thoughtful and helpful fans. I have a lot of work to do to reestablish my DA page and yes, the web page which I will be working on in 2 weeks.

The process will be a bit slow but hopefully with some decent results.

  • Mood: Hope
  • Watching: Meet the Press

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