that game people already played

We have technically reached 30 comics, which means we are eligible to join Project Wonderful, but since I'm the OCD person about only certain things, I will work on the layout and background instead. "I" meaning, I will make a pretty background and send it to Frank and then harass him to death about posting it because I'm an obnoxious jerk. So one day I intended to do a portal comic because I love the game and the song constantly played in my head. This has been sitting in my computer for months and even longer in my work notes because I'm lame. The last panel design has been in my notes long before the words for the comic even took place. I would really like to make it a desktop or a print but I SUCK at backgrounds. If I do make it such things I will edit the background to death. But I tried to make the layout more adventure comic-y and I think I did that alright. I do have to remember to make the files I send smaller because I have to work on such a large scale doesn't mean it has to look that way.

So last weekend I went to comic con and met a lot of people. Penny Arcade guys were at their table and they are their characters personalities which is wonderful. I got a signed poster from the new chapter of their game which was exciting. Dave came representing Snafu and was all alone for a while. Cyanide and Happiness table depressed the hell out of me because they are made of two guys who are both younger than me and were busy as hell making custom valentine cards. And of course, got a badge with a charmander drawn on it from Vgcats man Scott. I was able to find a dvd version of the complete series of Daria which made my day. Yay life. I found out that on my birthday there will be a Webcomics Weekend which I'm DYING to go to but cannot due to an acroyoga performance that I signed up to do. Lol oh shame. I'd probably go and make an ass of myself drooling all over everything. With any luck it will happen again next year and I will have learned how to draw a decent background.

Anyway I will leave you with random crap from the internet

Ratatat's Falcon Jab which is just ironic



And the newest digital short from SNL



:P

so I've had no actual work to dd

Hey, wanna see some stupid things I did this week?

Both as gifts to the webcomic greats and practice for myself I've been emailing out random comics that have been inspired by reading other people's sites. It's been fun to get feedback. But anyway.

this is for Joe at joe loves crappy movies












And this is for John Campbell at
pictures for sad children












Working on one for dresden codak, snafu, and vgcats (yay big people, but just because I met them at comic con, the last two that is)

so that movie then

So I saw this movie on opening night with a friend who makes decisions for hilarity's sake. It. Was. Terrible. It was so bad that the whole audience, which mind you was made up of the 14 year old girls cuddling the book like it was their bible, was laughing at every line uttered by this awkward couple. Awkward because Robert Pattinson is a bubbly Brit trying to portray an angsty kid from Forks and because Kristen Stewart is incapable of moving her GODDAMN FACE. Not to mention the copious amounts of staring, aka eye sex. Yes a summation of this movie is staring and sparkles. No I didn't read the book, no I don't intend to, NO MEANS NO. So during this movie, of course my friends and I were laughing the loudest, so a woman turns around and actually tells us to "please be quiet some of us are trying to watch a movie here". A moment of silence passes and suddenly the ENTIRE audience erupted in laughter at her. I fell in love with the cracked review of this movie, completely made my day. Twilight was like watching Sarah Palin debate; produced, written, and directed by women yet COMPLETELY not helping any good representation of women today and lacking any role model for the younger girls to legitimately aspire to (they will all die terribly in a BDSM accident involving, you guessed it, bloodletting). So what did I do the next day? Tell everyone how terrible it was and they had the lovely idea of using free tickets to get in and see it again, this time with 40s. THAT is how you watch a movie.

New York Comic Con! I will be there, but not selling things, just as a crazy fan because so many people will be there. I hope to have presents and comics as homage to them all (and penny arcade will just scoff at me), and then I will run away into the darkness. I'll be there Saturday running around with ...I think he's dressing as the Spirit but whatever... Currently not planning on dressing up, it being FREEZING here in NYC. I'll probably post pictures from my iphone, so they won't be the best quality but they will be there!

CPAC is my main objective right now. I'm hoping to do an updated version of the Snow White Ring, a portal comic, and something anime related as prints (it being an anime con) . I think its possible to do before the end of march.

~Sharmander

PS. tiny ninja theatre was amazing
PSS. LENS FLARE...yes take that strongbad


and then SOME INTERNET


They be gangsta yo


And this addicting song that I heard at a cafe

hourly comics 2/1/09

February 1st
taking part in the hourlies event I learned about at pictures for sad children


it is very hard to write legibly on a tablet...
















9 am
me: no

10 am
me: Crap I have to be classy in an hour!

11 am - lincoln center
grand aunt: the french horns are my favorite

12 pm - lunch
grand aunt: so he's a doctor now, how about you?
me: ...just graduated college

1 pm - MACY's
grand aunt: oddly empty, Vday soon, need to get anyone anything?
me: no one, not in this economy

2 pm - IT Support
me: I'm here!
frank: you know you don't work here anymore right?

3 pm - IT support, student office
me: and that was the summer of card games and porn ideas!
frank: leave the new hires alone!

4 pm - Kmart
*playing mancala on my iphone*

5 pm - new cafe
me: this place looks like a brothel
abby: where do I take him for dinner!

6 pm - Arepas for dinner
me: take him here

7 pm - 8 pm the streets
*avoiding the superbowl horde*
horde: wooooo!

9 pm - home
*flop*

10 pm - forever
WORLD OF WARCRAFT

oi silly me

Right, the ENTIRE point of this comic being posted now:



STAR TREK MOVIE



oh right
p.s. Leonard Nimoy

upbringing

Here is a snippet of my upbringing, which probably explains me to an extent. All til the end which is when I watched the news one day and listened to after work conversations. The "cold and alone" bit was added on behalf of Frank who enjoys melodrama as much as I do. Third panel is a direct quote from a star trek episode I found on the internet somewhere. So welcome everyone to 2009. This comic has been up and running for over a year and I still haven't reached 30 comics to advertise with project wonderful, yes believe it or not they have some standards. And I've done two holiday themed comics, I think christmas is the only real funny one that can be parodied.

After many weeks, I was finally able to grab a mac compatible version of dreamweaver and am in the process of learning to upload and link up a layout so that I don't have to harass Frank so much. Yeah having a family makes it hard to be my minion. What's happened this week...um. Last monday at the Upright Citizens Brigade theatre I was able to see the internet sensation BriTANick perform their skits for an audition for a run at the theatre for a month. Wow they were amazing and they were both NYU grads, I didn't even know that. In addition to that nerdiness, tiny ninja theater is also back in action after a very long hiatus bringing us the romantic tragedy of romeo and juliet with tiny plastic ninja figurines. Fantastic idea really, I'm sure it will either get old really fast or continue to remain amazing.

On the internet I have discovered the most AWESOME remix snippet of the super smash brothers brawl theme ever created by an independent artist named Audix. I am willing to pay him and harass him until I can get that mp3, but in the meantime, his first album came out not too long ago. Purchasable over the internet, its amazing what technology has allowed us in this day and age. Con wise, I didn't get a response from the artist alley folks from katsucon until after the registration was closed, so no trip to VA that weekend. Castlecon is still on with a full registration and table available, thank god. I was wondering where I would be able to put all of these shirts. Anyway, that is all for now.

~Sharmander

the youtubes of great things:

eargasm


sheer hilarity, I know the original is on newgrounds but I'm too lazy to find it


oh man Rhod Gilbert is a Welsh comedian I discovered while bored at work, he seems so insanely annoyed at things but when he speaks in interviews he's as chill as they come.


lastly, a spoken word artist named Ernest Cline, who's done several videogame poetry smashes has had several youtube vids up. I just want to know WHERE THE HELL ARE THESE POETRY SMASHES?!

CHRISTMAS

Wow, 2 months behind.

ALRIGHT! So this is the Christmas comic, it deserves some explaining. Back in the day when we were coming up with ideas for the name of this comic, the winning idea came from a random insult that we hurled at someone's odd shaped bag, and he indeed did hear us claim that he was carrying pieces of little children. POLC would have been the name of this comic if the very URL did not turn us up in the Times. Christmas shopping is always a chore and that is what the internet is for. I suggest these cute sites for unique things for ladies and these sites if you are lost like me. And no I have not finished my shopping yet heh.

Yahtzee has decided to show his face on the internet on a webseries called gamedamage. The pilot is a bit tedious but if they are able to cut down their rambling to the small segments that we love zero punctuation to be for all 3 guys involved, I'm sure it would be a bit more tolerable. A couple weeks ago I was also able to sneak into a taping of Demetri Martin's Important Things which is a lovely 30 min show with Demetri talking about the things in life that you should take heed of. Its definitely something that you should check out. That and I love him and his 100s of talents; no seriously, I think I have a problem. He's also in the newer episodes of Flight of the Conchords as a rival band. I know that season 2 has come out and I haven't even finished season 1, but the episodes I have seen are amazingly hilarious. And lastly, there will be no reviving touch for Pushing Daisies amongst other shows. Such quirk and love seems to be lost on the current audience and it is indeed such a waste. Although I'm sure that some cable network would be more than happy to pick up Pushing Daisies and the following it has gathered, it being more of a guilty pleasure for the romantically inclined.

That's all I've found on the internet my friends. Cafepress is being ridiculous so I may just format my own shop page and finally get some stuff out. No word on Katsucon artist alley dealies but there is Castlecon (one day con in NJ) which I'm very sure I will be at mainly selling shirts and a print or two.

~Sharmander

p.s. and the latest song addiction is

Paramore
That's what you get