Pending...

Well, the Zeroes 2 Heroes contest winner will be announced Friday, and I'm pretty sure it's not me. Why? Cary Kelley, who also entered, got emailed yesterday informing him he made the short list, which is basically the semi-finalists. I did not get such an email. So chances are it ain't me. Sigh.

Best of luck to Cary, though.

Tomorrow is my brother's doctor's appointment to see how he's healing up. I'll post the results here. I'm sure it will be good news as Zach has pretty much gotten back to normal. He's got more attitude though, which concerns us, but it's probably because of the extra precautions we've been taking with him. He feels smothered a bit.

Caught the debut of Celebrity Duets last night. Chris Jericho, a wrestler, completely bombed, but Alfons Riebero (Carlton from Fresh Prince) and some guy from Queer Eye, and Lucy Lawless (Xena) really surprised me. They did an excellent job. It'll be interesting to see if this show picks up enough viewers to keep it on the air. Recently The One, an American Idol like competition, only all the contestants played instruments and lived in a music school, only lasted two episodes before getting cancelled. Me thinks AI has the market cornered.

Prison Break has opened to an incredible season so far. SPOILERS

Veronica got killed in the first episode shockingly. I don't think anyone expected that to happen. It'll be interesting to see what happens when all the escapees head to Utah to get the money one of them left before he went into prison. And with the inclusion of this new detective that's almost as smart as Michael it'll be interesting to see how they evade him.

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I sent an idea to an artist this morning. I'm awaiting his feedback to see if we can work something out.

I'm looking all over the place for unlettered pages and scripts for Marvel, DC, Image, etc. titles so I can letter them and submit them. So if anyone has any on hand or has links, please email me.

I started writing my next Myth Conceptions column today, but stopped because I lacked reference. I posted on one messageboard looking for some, but have yet to get any feedback. What I need are examples of copycats of various popular characters. These can include homage, maybe parody, innovative new takes, or rip-offs. For instance, Authority and Watchmen are innovative takes on the JLA. Invincible is a unique take on Superman. Supreme some think was a Superman rip-off. Stuff like that.

Aside from all that good stuff, I'm just waiting for that big break somewhere, some way, somehow...

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Review Mania

I had a whole slew of reviews posted today at SBC, some good, some not so good. You can find them along with all others I've done in the sidebar, but for brevity's and simplicity's sake, here they are:

American Way #7
Hard Boiled Comics #1-2
Man-Bat #5
Teen Titans Go! #34
Trials of Shazam #1
Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters #2

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Review Mania

I had a whole slew of reviews posted today at SBC, some good, some not so good. You can find them along with all others I've done in the sidebar, but for brevity's and simplicity's sake, here they are:

American Way #7
Hard Boiled Comics #1-2
Man-Bat #5
Teen Titans Go! #34
Trials of Shazam #1
Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters #2

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JLA #1 Review

I've done a slew of reviews that will go up over the next couple of days, and the first among them is the new Justice League of America #1.

I was not thrilled with issue #0. In fact I hated it and thought it was a waste of time and money. It made me fear that the series would be just as dismal. I was wrong. I loved the first issue, and in the review I tell you why.

Click the post title to read it, or find it in the sidebar.

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Komic Sutra

While at Broken Frontier today to check out my buddy Jason's latest The Story Factory column I caught a glimpse of the topic of another column there, Komic Sutra. The title, How NOT to Get Into Comics, was enticing enough to take a peek.

In the column, JP Dorigo, the writer, lists his examples of what is sure to keep you from succeeding in your dreams to be a comic creator. He takes a stab at some things others have pulled in a completely ironic way that is just so true it's hilarious.

Go check it out by clicking the post title. And while you're over there check out The Story Factory. :)

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Myth Conceptions

The latest column is up!

This week is a short one. I talk about spoofs.

Click the post title to check it out.

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Indy-Pendant #62

New column's up!

This week it's Koni Waves from Arcana.

Click the post title to read the column.

Enjoy!

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Warbreed Withdraws

I don't think it's been officially announced, but Warbreed has also pulled out of the Small Press Idol competition. Evidently the creator/writer/penciler, Ben Jones, and the inker, Carmen Imperato are going through some personal situations and don't have the energy, time or heart to finish it right now.

I completely understand that part of it, and I sincerely wish them well and hope their situations improve. It still sucks because both Kansas Hit and Warbreed had strong chances of winning in my opinion, so it's a little disheartening after going all this way that both were forced to withdraw due to circumstances. Completely understandable, but still sad.

Even sadder is that Ben doesn't think he'll be doing Warbreed at all for a while, and we've had a lot of outside interest in publishing that aside from Dimestore. I know of at least two small publishers who wanted to take it on.

But what are you gonna do, right? Family, personal life, and life in general has to come first, and Lord knows I've got my own stuff going on as well. So all I can do is hope somewhere down the line Warbreed resurfaces and I get to be a part of it.

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Gonzoblog

To blog or not to blog, that is the question. But I'll get to that in a moment. First I'd like to address the post before last a bit.

I was in an understandably foul mood when we got the news. And while my disposition isn't incredibly better today (for various reasons, not just that) a scripture Ray Hickson posted in the comment section and the scripture-a-day I get in my email encouraged me a bit. I'm still concerned, but I'm trying not to worry and just leave it in God's hands. Doing my part of course, but allowing Him to do the part I can't. So with that said, thanks for the thoughts and prayers, guys, I'm trying to stay in good spirits through it.

Now, back on topic. When my bandwidth got eaten up a few months ago I started a temporary blog (click the post title) to take this one's place. It served its purpose for a few days, but since it's just been sitting there. For a while I updated it with the same links I update this one with, but I finally just stopped.

So, my question is now that I have a website with a pretty useless home page, and I still have this blog, what in the world do I do with that one? Should I use it to showcase or talk about something specific, or should I just do away with it all together?

I had originally thought of using it for my eventual webstrip, Gonzogoose, but that is kind of on the backburner, and I may just do a separate site for that, I don't know.

So consider this the official 'send me your ideas' post asking for suggestions on what to use it for, if anything at all.

While I'm at it, any suggestions for the home page of my site short of making this blog the homepage?

Thanks!

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He-Man vs Lizard Man

Below is an updated version of the piece I did for the first round of the DW draw off. It's still not great, but it's a lot better than the piece I had to enter due to time.

As for my status in the contest, I got 8 votes (thank you, whoever you all are) and pretty much stopped there. Even in a multiple vote poll I'm getting killed. Everyone else has close to 30 or more, which means I'll be eliminated as only 5 of the 6 will advance.

I will get put into the losers bracket since it's double elimination, but then I'll have to climb my way back up. Voting is still open through Sunday I think. :) Click. Post. Title.

Here's the original:

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Bad to Worse

Well, I said earlier I was having a bad day, but nothing really bad, outside the norm that is, was happening. Unfortunately that changed drastically.

First, we had some car problems and ended up having to shell out cash on that. Not so bad, right? But considering the news we just got this afternoon it makes any expenditure seem very bad.

I can't talk about the details because nobody's supposed to really know, but there's a strong possibility that we'll lose the house we're renting. This would mean we'd have no immediate place to go. Needless to say it has instantly become a very stressful time. We don't have the money to put a down payment on another house, and apartments here are very small and too expensive. We got a great break on the house, which we're not likely to get anywhere else.

So this day officially sucks now. Just keep us in your thoughts and prayers once more. Something's gotta give soon, right? I mean when negative stuff keeps happening the good has to be around the corner. At least that's what I'm holding onto. What else am I going to do, right?

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Ah--Sigh

I'm not having a good day. Not really a bad day, and nothing bad has happened really. Just not having a good one. Thought I'd share, misery and company and all that.

That is all.

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Mark Millar

I got a chance to listen to Mark Millar on Fanboy Radio yesterday, and man was that a great interview. He is an incredibly fun and funny guy, and he had me in stitches. He has that kind of matter of fact humor about him.

I had never heard him speak before, so it was kind of wild to hear him just being himself. It was pretty cool. You hear all these stories in interviews and such about Mark being crazy and all this stuff, and I can see that because he's just out there!

But he's much more than that. The answers he gave to callers and such were incredibly well thought out and even philosophical. And even through his thick accent he's a very well spoken guy and he was just blowing my mind with all his deep ideas. Yes, they're comic books he's writing, but the way he detailed everything made them feel like more, and that's part of what I love about comics.

I admittedly haven't read a lot of Millar's work. Probably the only things I have read are Civil War and his Wanted series that I'm aware of. I may have read one other thing of his at Marvel, but I'm not sure. But everything I've read from him so far has been, in my opinion, edgy, controversial, introspective, thought provoking, entertaining, fun, and quite enjoyable. Sure, there were a couple of flubs here or there, but overall my impression of Civil War is a very positive one. I finally read the Illuminati, and I don't think or feel like I was robbed in Civil War #1 at all.

Wanted was a little racy and vulgar for me, but it was still very well written, very well plotted, and a very unique take on an idea that I thought was pretty innovative.

That podcast won me over if I had any doubts to begin with. If you get a chance you should listen to it (click the post title!). The man's crazy, but in a good way. :)

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Are You a Digital Inker?

If so, I know someone who's looking for you!

Victor Poon is looking for a digital inker for a project called Academy of Heroes. I have lettered a couple of projects for Victor (The Pozers, Bureau 13) and the art and writing on both were top notch.

These are the qualifications the potential applicant must have:

-The inker will have to have DSL/Cable.
-The inker will have to do an inking test.
-A dedicated inker that can meet deadlines.
-but most importantly, an inker that can take constructive criticism and be able to work within a team dynamic.

Project info:
-Pay is slated on a backend percentage
-Distributiuon will be via my publisher in part with Diamond

The inker is needed by August 31st, so start submitting.

What you should submit:

1) no more than 3 jpgs of your best work
2) links to your work

Send them to:
inks@dreamonwords.com

So if you ink digitally this is a great opportunity to work with some great creators.

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Zeroes 2 Heroes

Man, I've been in a writing frenzy!

Well, I either submitted two or three separate entries into the Zeroes 2 Heroes contest before deadline. I say two or three because I'm not sure if the third one made it in on time. I know two of them did though.

The two I know for fact I got in on time are Eliminator and Wannabez, the projects shown on my website. The third I'm not sure about is a project called Snow, which is a story I really love, and probably the best written of the three. So I'm hoping it made it.

I wanted to get Night Riders done too, but I just didn't have enough time. Oh well. The great thing about this contest is it forced me to finish up a few things and got me off my slump. So I win either way.

Man prior to tonight Snow was a vague idea and seven pages of script that I loved, but had no idea where it was going. It sat that way for two years. But tonight I finished the first script, came up with the rest of the story, and added all this cinematic stuff to it. I love this story. It took me in places I wasn't expecting. And I discovered that it works best as an ongoing I think, which is cool because just about everything I write is designed for minis or small arcs, and this is much bigger than that. It's a challenge and it's expanding my comfort zone, which is always a good thing.

So I guess come September 1st we'll find out who the winner is. Man, that's going to be a brutal 11 days!

Well, just got the word all three made it in, so all is good!

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Myth Conceptions

The new column is up!

This week I talk about some of my own projects. And yes, there are pictures!

Check it out by clicking the post title.

Thanks!

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Why Do I?

Why do I do the things I do? Why do I get involved and invested to a point where I'm passionate with everything I commit to? I guess that's a good thing mostly, but sometimes you can become so invested in something that you take things personal. It's hard to turn it off, then you realize you've worded things wrong or reacted instead of acted.

One such situation came up recently and it all blew up with people getting offended and it caused a split. I don't feel I said anything offensive, and it wasn't just me but a WHOLE bunch of people involved all talking highly emotional and all taking things to heart. It just wasn't a good time for certain conversations to take place and things got heated.

My part was actually very small, but nonetheless I wish I hadn't even been involved because of the end result. Retrospect I guess. I hope things can be salvaged because I do feel certain people acted impulsively.

So why do I get so passionate? I guess that's just who I am and I won't apologize for that, or for wanting to improve things. I'm not a fan of stagnation, and if something can be better it should strive to be better. But not everyone thinks that way, and when you're in a group you need to realize that and understand that you can't change the way people are. That can be a tough pill to swallow sometimes, but it's a pill that must go down.

Anyway, I hope this isn't the end and that things can go back to normal. I doubt they will, but it really was an unnecessary ending to a volatile situation that was taken way out of context. But what's done is done, and that's that. Oh well, live and learn.

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Indy-Pendant #61

The new column is up. This week is a short one. I review 48 #1 from Paper Dragonz.

Check it out by clicking the post title.

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DW Tournament Round 1

The first round of the tournament is underway. There are 10 groups (or brackets) in the contest. I'm in group 4. My group's task was to draw He-Man vs. a Lizard character. I didn't get to finish mine as much as I would have liked because of getting sick mainly. But I made it in nonetheless.

If you like it vote for it. This is a multiple choice vote, and 5 of the 6 in my group will advance to the next round. The voting thread can be found by clicking the post title.

Here is my entry. I plan to finish it when I have time.



Sorry about the thumbnail, but it's a little large for the width of the blog.

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Down, But Not Out

Whew, this has been a long week and a long day. I've got so much to do, but I am so sick. I did manage to write both columns and get them out of the way today. So they'll both go up Sunday and Monday respectively.

I have until midnight to finish my He-Man drawing for the first round of the DW tournament. I think (hope) I'll make it in time.

I've got another script to look over for Cary that I have yet to crack open. Hope he doesn't kill me.

I've got to type up my feedback to Doug on something.

I've still got to finish scripts for the Zeroes 2 Heroes contest deadline Monday.

And finally, I've got to finish some lettering for Approbation soon.

And that's just the creative work. I'm working on some stuff for SBC that's whipping my sick butt. And not to mention regular life drama.

But these are all good problems to have. It may be a bit stressful and may seem like a lot of work, but I am having a lot of fun with it all.

Right now I'm going back to bed/drawing board so I can relax and draw. Then I'm crashing!

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Broken Links

For anyone who has encountered broken links on the site, I have fixed them. Some of my poems were still linking to the old urls, which are no longer there obviously. Please let me know if anything else doesn't work properly.

My mother also told me one of the pictures in my animated pic on the homepage I looked like I had pepper all over my face. lol. It was a filter gone wrong, so I fixed that also. The whole image thing is supposed to look like dated artistic style photos. I hope it comes across that way.

Thanks to everyone who has checked out the site so far and for your kind words.

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The Website Is Up!

HOORAY! It is finally up, and I'm quite pleased with it. Not everything I had hoped for, but a very nice site if I do say so myself.

You can get to it or any of its pages by clicking the post title, or by using those nifty little links at the top of the blog!

This has definitely been a labor of love. Now I'm gonna go crash before having to do some more important stuff. :)

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SOON

I am very close to launching the website! I just have to update the links on my poems and finish the links at the top of this blog for now and I think I'm good to go. So the site will definitely be up either later tonight or early tomorrow, without a doubt!

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Some of my Lettering Online

Just came across some things last night and figured you guys might be interested.

This is an interview at PBR with Victor Poon, writer of two series I have lettered or am lettering, Bureau 13 (I did 10 pages) and Pozers (I'm the regular with one issue down so far).

Victor Poon Interview

Also, as I mentioned last post I came across some pages I lettered online. Here they are:

Safe At Home
Magic Bullet (I also did the logo for this one)
Word is Bond (The card in the third page is lettered now)
Mirror/Mirror
Southern Hospitality (I'm lettering this one now)

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On the Line

Whew, I had a slight scare with blogger a little earlier! You know how your internet browser saves your login and passwords if you tell it to? Well somehow mine got mixed up and for a few hours I thought I lost access to my blogs!

This was right after I had changed the blog url too, so I was freaking out thinking I did something to them. But I figured out the correct username finally and here I am. Whew!

Well, I haven't gotten to work on the website at all today unfortunately. I still think it'll be up by tomorrow night, but it'll be tight. I promised it would be up this week and it will without a doubt. Thanks to Cary who's taken a look at it and offered some advice, and to Chuck who will be taking a look at part of it to see how it works, though he doesn't know it yet. Shhh! ;)

I would be remiss if I didn't tell my fellow writers out there about an avenue to be published... without an attached artist! The problem is I found out about this 3 and a half weeks late and the deadline is in FOUR DAYS! August 21st is the due date for full and complete scripts. Check out the guidelines and everything by clicking the post title. It's really cool because the winner will get an art team provided! And the judges credentials speak for themselves.

I'm going to submit a few projects myself, I just have to figure out which ones. And it means I'll have to do some writing this weekend to tighten things up and finish a couple. Which is going to be tight for me with the website and the DW draw off, which is due Sunday for the first round. I have to draw He-Man vs. a Lizard man of my design. I've already got it half way laid out, but there's still a lot of work to do on it.

Speaking of draw-offs, I was eliminated from the CBRunway contest today. I trailed by 4 votes, but with everything going on I'm kind of relieved. The next entry would have also been due Sunday, and this round it's redesigning a cohesive yet individual look for Thor, Wasp, Giant Man, Hawkeye and Scarlet Witch! Yeah, that would have been a bit much I think.

Another thing keeping me busy this week is lettering. There's a horror anthology at Arcana called Dark Threshholds that is accepting submissions until August 31st. The submissions must have art, and they have to be 6-20 pages in length, no more, no less. You can submit a partial entry through the 18th. Beyond that they have to be complete. Check it out here.

Anyway, it turns out, little to my knowledge, that I am lettering 5 entries! Three of them are already lettered, two by Approbation, which I sort of knew about. I still have one more to letter for Approbation that's already been submitted, so I'm definitely on a deadline with that one! Another one I lettered, Safe at Home, I lettered a while back and discovered it was entered there also. And there's one more I lettered five pages of for another contest at Viper that we lost not too long ago. Well the writer is adding 3 pages and providing the artist gets done on time I'll be lettering that one too! And heck, if I had an artist willing to do a 6-8 pager for free in 2 weeks time I'd letter and submit something of my own to boot!

A lot of comic news to talk about, but it being late (3am) and me having much to do, I'll keep it brief.

Mark Bagley is leaving Ultimate Spider-Man with issue #110. I am saddened by this as I had hoped he'd continue it through the duration. But I could definitely understand if he's burnt out on it. I just hope the transition isn't too obvious. Now I don't really follow the book on a monthly basis, but I'll get a random issue or trade, and intend on getting the whole trade collection at some point. And I think Mark has really defined the look of the character and I'm not looking forward to a departure in it.

Civil War and all its tie-ins, except for any X-Men books (so far) are being delayed. That just sucks. You have one of the most covered storylines by media in modern day comics and you halt the entire storyline. That just really bums me out. I understand why and all, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.

And that's all I have in me to talk about right now. My leg is shaking and I'm anxious about all the stuff I have to do. I'll never be able to sleep!

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On The Brink

Currently I'm only FIVE votes away from remaining in the CBRunway contest. So again, if you like my entry PLEASE go vote for me. I can win some art supplies, which I so desperately need!

We're technically allowed to vote for ourselves, but since no one else is, something I just found out this round, I won't either. So I need all the help I can get. :) Click the Post Title to Vote!

I didn't get to work on the site as much as I would have liked tonight as we had company for a while, then I had some stuff to do. But I'm still nearly there with the first phase of it.

I have not had my hair cut for nearly five months! I have trimmed the back of it so it doesn't get too long, but it's really thick all over and down past my nose on top. It's the longest it's been since I was 17 when I used to wear it that long. At that point I got it short, then went the whole buzz route for a year or so. Then it's been pretty much like it is in my pictures online fluctuated an inch or two here and there. I just got tired of it and decided to grow it out for a while. I never imagined it would be this long before I got it cut. But it's royally getting on my nerves. I can't stand it in my face anymore. So I'll probably be getting it cut soon, but never fear, I will get at least one picture of me with it long.

With funds running low and all, and just because there's not that much cool stuff coming out, this week will be rather light for me if I ever make it to the shop at all. If I do this is my short list:

52 #15
Civil War: X-Men (maybe)
Runaways #19
G.I. Joe America's Elite #16

And that's it. A few other titles had I the money, but nothing I'd go out of my way for.

And on that note, I'm on the brink of falling over, so I think I'll hit the sack.

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Changes Abroad

I'm sure you've noticed that the url change went into effect. It's a simple change, true, but a change nonetheless.

I am very close to debuting the beta version of my website. As I've mentioned before, it won't be as nice as I wanted it to be at first, but I will continue to work on it and improve it even if I have to eventually pay someone to make it pretty for me. :)

I finished the art and lettering pages for it last night and today. I figured out how to get the images to pop-up in perfectly sized windows, so that was cool. A LOT of coding, but it works!

The only pages left to finish are the logos page, contact page, projects page and links page I think. The contact page is simple of course, I just want to look into what my cpanel has to offer. And the projects page is going to be kind of bare at first since I only have art to show off from a couple of projects. The links page, I haven't decided if I'll go with picture links or text links. I'll probably throw up text at first while I'm thinking about it, I don't know. And the logos page, I just have to make smaller versions of the logos and I'm good to go.

Aside from all that I need to refine some of the graphics on the site, mainly the buttons, which currently looked jagged and misshapen. I don't like that.

And finally, I have to decide whether or not I want my MySpace background to match that of the site. That's another simple change (I hope). The blog will stay the same for now. I decided not to go with it fitted inside the web design for a few reasons, chiefly because it loses width and just looks all mashed together. It's close enough as is.

As I mentioned, I decided to wait on the forums. It would be an easy addition, and if people tell me they want them I'll add them. But I've had forums before and never got a post. I figure until I have some known published work out there nobody's going to be really interested in posting. Plus I have the blog, which I opened so you don't have to be registered (or own a blog) to post.

I anticipate the site going up by Thursday at the latest. If I have enough time I may finish it and put it up tonight, just depends. But I can't see it taking longer than through Thursday.

And I will be open to suggestions once it goes up. Until then...

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Myth Conceptions

The latest column is up!

Click the post title to read it.

Enjoy!

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CBRunway Round 5 Vote

As promised, click the post title to be taken to the thread to vote, hopefully for my entry if you like it the best.

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CBRunway Round 5

This round we were given the task to design a solo costume for Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman. Here's what I did with it:



Okay, this challenge was actually easier for me than I expected. I started with two basic designs, chose one over the other, and developed it a bit more.

I wanted to go with a more traditional look to still make her recognizable, so I chose to keep the same colors and keep it a superhero costume.

I think of Sue Storm as a sweet and loving woman, but also a strong, independent, intelligent and determined woman. She should stay modest, but still look attractive.

I admittedly took elements from past costumes and meshed them together with my own feel for it. I chose to use white at top because I felt it was more empowering. I went with the three tone blue to break up the costume a bit and give it a more modern look.

I lengthened the sleeves and belled them out a bit to make her look younger, and I added the dark blue side sections to give the costume more personality and to make it more unique.

I gave her a modern. hip haircut as Sue has probably had more hairstyles than any other woman in comics, so she keeps up with the times.

The baby blue is my favorite element of the whole piece. To me it lends to that gentle side while being encased in the darker blues showing she's tough when she has to be.

Yes, this could easily be an FF costume as well, but I think I took it one step further and personalized it a bit. And that's about it. I hope you all like it!

If you want to see the other entries click the post title. As always, when the voting thread goes up I'll post the link. I hope you all like it and vote for me!

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URL Change

It's about time! This blog's URL will change this week, with any luck by Tuesday or Wednesday. Just remove the blog.html from the current URL. Or of course you will be able to access it via the website.

The new URL will simply be www.brantfowler.com/blog.

The website of course will be www.brantfowler.com, and it will be up this week! It won't be as finished as I wanted it or have all the content I wanted, nor will it be the final version, but at least I'll have a site up. Sorry for the long wait for it.

Right now the new url takes you to a forbidden page, but when it changes of course it will work. And at this address I'll put up a redirect for those that don't catch this post.

I think I mentioned here before that I am now playing with a content management system, but it's more complex than I thought it'd be and it would take me even more time to get the site up. August is already practically half over, so I don't want to wait any longer.

Thanks for everyone's patience.

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Two New Reviews

First up is Brodie's Law #7, a great read. You can check that one out by clicking the post title.

Next is Abra Cadaver #1. I wasn't as impressed by this one as I was by other works of the writer. Check it out at this link.

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Indy-Pendant #60

The new column is up!

This week I go back to focusing on one particular company. This time it's new publisher AK Comics, which introduces Middle Eastern heroes. There are actually some good reads among them.

Click the post title to check the column out.

Enjoy!

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Need... Sleep...

Man, I've been so busy! Between the new PR thing, lettering jobs, writing, working on my website, drawing, and of course life I've not been getting much sleep. What else is new, right?

Well, that's what I'm going to do today. It's 8:15 am and I haven't been to bed. I tried, but I'm still having trouble sleeping. So here I sit. But I can now barely keep my eyes open, so away I go.

I have to get some rest because my CBRunway entry is due tomorrow. Yep, by luck I made it through to the next round because it was a non-elimination round. Otherwise my butt was royally kicked! I thought I did well, but only two other people agreed out of the nearly 40 people who voted for myself and the other three finalists. Oh well. I'll try, try again...

I've also got to finish tomorrow's column, then write Monday's column, and get to work on three separate lettering projects, and get my website up! Not to mention the PR stuff. Man, I'm going to bed!

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The Handsome Devil

Here are a couple of pictures of my brother, Zach, from May, the most recent ones I have. These are from his Middle School Graduation.

His hair's actually longer than this now as he hasn't had it cut since. Yep, this kid's gonna be a heartbreaker.

This pic doesn't really do him justice, but it shows a bit of his personality.

Yep, I'm a proud big bro! :)

Brant

Zach's First Day

Well, things went pretty good yesterday. Zach made it clear he didn't want special treatment, so he didn't get any. He had homework on his first day, though it was pretty easy. He's got mom scared to death because he's taking woodworking, and my brother is notorius for being a little clumsy, or moreso careless.

He was also given a low locker, which my mom doesn't like. She's afraid he could bump his head when raising up should the upper locker be open. So he's supposed to ask for a top locker, but he probably will forget.

He hates the food they serve and says the lines are so long it takes up all but a couple of minutes of their lunch time, so he's vowing not to eat lunch. He hates taking his lunch (I guess he thinks it makes him look uncool or some crap, I don't know), so we're kind of concerned about him not eating, so we're making him eat breakfast, something he normally doesn't do on school days. He's that much like me I guess.

But he seemed to handle the whole day pretty well. He had quite an attitude yesterday as he wants to believe he's better than he is and wants to start doing things again. Of course we can't let him yet. Despite him saying he's okay he had a terrible headache last night, which also concerns us.

Today he was supposed to wait for his cousin and they were to walk down to this restaurant, a nearby han