Monster Vacation!

Oh man, I love this vacation. It was badly needed.

I've been frequenting the local coffee shop quite a bit the past few days, pulling out the ol' Wacom Tablet, inking a comic, drinking some sweet sweet coffee. It feels so good to be productive, and being productive doing something I love to do. I have spent the last 2-3 days drawing for 6-8 hours a day, it has been wonderful. That, and my wife and I collaborated on a painting for our den, and that turned out really well. I know that anyone who has been reading this blog is going to be thinking, hurry up and post the comic already. Well, I'm gonna ask for just a little more patience. Essentially I got to a point where we could feasibly start posting, but I really want to get this entire story arc done, before we do that.

At least I feel like I've been able to keep up on the schedule a bit more, and I'm happy with how the art has progressed throughout the pages. So, soon dear readers, soon. Until then take a look into Monsterland:

Well well well, looks like they finally decided to start letting me post on blogger from work. Anywho, we're getting ever closer to launch of the comic. The script is finished, and TJ has maybe 5 or 6 more comics to draw before the first adventure is complete, which should give us a good 3 month buffer. From there, all that's needed is to finish the site and we go gold. It's been a long road, but I think it's been worth the wait. The comic we're doing now has very little in common with the comic we set out to do, but I think it's far better for it.

Tease-Rex

Hey just thought I'd hit you up with another teaser image. What better than Steve riding a battle-armored T-Rex?

Honkglomeration

I wouldn't say that I've got insomnia right now, more like a freeway of ideas running through my head, honking at each other. Website coming soon? fingers crossed. It's never an exact science.

Work-a-day

Some days I love my day job, and others...I really, really don't. Is it so much to ask that, when we start to get busy everyone pick it up a gear or two. Seriously. I'm burning myself out and the customers are left holding the bag, because the other crew can't get their ass in gear. Blergh!

A Calliente Adventure

So, what the fuck is wrong with people?
I think that is a legitimate question.

Yesterday, Jack and I went on an adventure. We were driving through a bad neighborhood when my car overheated, billowing smoke, which would have been cool had we been in a music video and not in the barrio in 100 degree weather. So I pull over in front of a house, and two houses down a group of drunks (literally) start shouting at us to "get the fuck outta here!" etc. etc. (which I would have loved to had we had the choice).

Meanwhile the guy whose house we were parked in front of was badass, offering to help and busting out the hose so we could cool down the engine. Maybe 10 minutes pass and one of the drunks comes over and tells us we have 15 seconds to vacate the premises, he then goes on to ask me if I'm a cop, and unloads a barrage of obscenity upon me. The homeowner steps in between us and holds the drunk back, telling him that our car had broke down and that he needed to go back to his friends.

So it's been about 20 minutes and I'm fairly comfortable that the car is cooled down by now, so I thank the guy for his help, and we're on our way. Which leads me to my previous question, "what the fuck is wrong with people?"

woot!

The manuscript for the first adventure is officially finished! I think I wanna celebrate by playing some Smash Brothers and keeping myself from going back and re-writing it.

On another note, I'm really super excited about Iron Man next week. Unfortunately, I probably can't convince anyone to go to the midnight showing with me, but TJ and I will probably go after work.