Scarce

I'm not going to be online too much this week. I've got a lot to catch up on and I just frankly need a break. There are a couple of things I need to be online for, like emails and a couple of things I need to write, but other than that I won't be around too much.

It's a new year and the past couple of days I've found myself doing a whole lot of reflecting. I want to make some serious changes in all aspects of my life this year, so I'm starting today. I'm reevaluating a lot of things and seeing where it all goes from here.

Anyway, I just wanted to let you all know if you miss me from messageboards and blogs for a few days. I may pop in every once in a while, but nowhere near my usual involvement.


Now that that little piece of news is out of the way, I mentioned previously that my column returns this coming Sunday. I hope to do something special for the first column of the year, so we'll see how that goes. I hope you all enjoy it whatever it ends up being.


This is a really crazy time for various members of my family. My younger cousin and her husband who used to live about 5 houses down from me recently moved back to Lexington, her sister, who is around 19 just moved out of her parents' house, and one of my aunt's is also moving. My uncle is having some trouble with his businesses, my Mother is working physical work again, which I hate because she has worked all her life and she has rotor cuff damage, and I'm, well, we all know where I'm at. It just seems like so much is going on.

I mentioned my uncle out of the blue paid me for designing his website. He also made mention for renewing our agreement in the new year for a redesign. I haven't contacted him yet, but that's a positive thing.

I wish I had some comic news or fun stuff to post about, or some funny story about friends or relatives, but I haven't been around too many people in the past several months to have any stories of any worth. I read other blogs and how people recount happenings during their day or whatever and I wish I had more of that to share. Alas, that's not the case at present. But I reserve the right to throw in a bunch of that for your enjoyment later on. For now you have to deal with me talking about the same old boring stuff. That is, if you continue to read of course. :)


Oh, I got a chance to finally watch the Shawshank Redemption a friend let me borrow and all I can say is I can't believe I never watched this before. This was a great movie with a lot of deep meaning. Some of the meaning and symbolism was easy to grasp, while some of it was buried in little parts throughout. It was a very sad, yet happy movie at the same time. It filled you with a lot of emotions throughout like any great movie should. And Morgan Freeman, one of the greatest actors of all time in my opinion, was phenomenal as usual. Tim Robbins was also very good. He was the perfect actor to play that role. He as a person and in pretty much every role I've seen him in has this quiet, unsuspecting strength and he's very genuine. They did an excellent job casting this movie. Thanks, Chuck, for giving me a reason and avenue to watch this movie!


Knowing I won't be able to buy many comics for a little while I have been spacing out the ones I got for Christmas as much as possible. Of course thanks to Chuck I also have plenty to read now! But today I got around to reading Infinite Crisis #2 and am very interested and excited about where this is heading. I got one impression at the end of issue #1, but then that entire impression changed in issue #2. I still have issue #3 here and I'm very curious to see where Johns twists it next.


I'm still reading that issue of Wizard I got for Christmas a little at a time. Last night or this morning, I don't recall which, I read the article on Ethan Van Sciver who was Wizard's pick for Artist of the Year in '05. It was interesting to discover that he can live off of only doing 6 issues a year. Man, I need to rapidly improve my art and storytelling skills! If he did a page a day that would leave him with nearly 8 months of free time a year if he so chooses. And the man is only three years older than me! Sigh.

The article also stated how Ethan used to play the ice cream truck music on his keyboard and blast it out of his window and watch all the neighborhood kids run into the streets to find no ice cream waiting for them. I may not agree with a lot of things Van Sciver does or says, but that was hilarious!


Just for a laugh, here's my very first attempt at full coloring with a sorry little program that came with my PC on a drawing of DC's Wildcat I did a long while ago for a jam poster that never got finished. It's truly pathetic and should bring a smile to your faces.

Here's the original pencils. Not a great job, but not too shabby either I think.

And before there was Super Bad James Dynomite, there was Funky Ninja!

This is the official look of the Funky Ninja I designed for Funky Ninja Comics where I also illustrated and lettered a seven strip comic featuring the character. (If it doesn't show up it's because ImageShack is doing maintenance)

I guess that's it. I'm sitting here racking my brains for something to type because I don't want this to be non-entertaining post. Sure, the blog is here for information purposes, but it's also here to entertain. I enjoy making people smile, and to hear they like what I write is all the encouragement I need. I have gotten a lot of that from people that read this blog and my column, and other things I write, and I never want to disappoint.

That being said, I also know I tend to say too much sometimes at the same time as not saying much at all. So with that in mind I'll bid you all farewell until next I post my blogging goodness.

B-Out