The Nerdiest Post I have made yet

Before I begin what the title claims, I wanted to drop a link to a pretty awesome service that I checked out yesterday. I was going to blog about it as soon as I used it, but I figured I'd save it incase there was nothing to talk about today. Anyways, here's the deal. There is this company called "Moo". They print things. They have a very polite website and some nifty products. The thing that I used their site to make(and bought) was this new book of stickers that they offer. Here's the link. The thing is simple: Upload 1 to 90 of your favorite jpgs (family, friends, artwork, etc). They make this super easy -- if you have a bulk of images, then you load a zip of them and it will extract them for you. That is pure customer service. Next they bring you to the cropping. Completely easy. Move your images around, zoom in zoom out etc. Well designed and a joy to use. I uploaded 8 images. After this they bring you to a section where you get to choose the color of your sticker book. Simple. Then you pay for it. $9.99 for 90 postage stamp sized stickers of whatever you choose. For kids this is a winner.

This was in their FAQ, and I thought it was really clever. Your order is printed on one of the pages in the sticker booklet so that the printer can know what to do with it. But instead of having a bunch of boring text and a barcode and junk they have opted instead for a sticker system. They print an extra page of stickers (each page is 6) and so the first one will be a type of animal, this will tell them what color to make the booklet. Next will be some sort of object, that will tell them where to mail it and so on and so forth. It's like pictograms used in buisness. Very cool to me.

So I should have my set in about 9 more days and I'll post again about the final product. I'm sure I'll recommend it some more.

Now then. On to the nerdiest post I have made yet. I think I've been holding back.

1. One of the most exciting comic book days for me in a long time. Sometimes you buy so many comics that you get behind on certain storylines (Grant Morrison's Batman run for me, at the moment). So you fall behind and then another issue comes out. So you have 2 sitting there. Anyways, I am about 5 behind. But nothing in this stack will be unread by tomorrow morning. It's almost every one of my favorites.
a. Local #10. This series is almost over I believe and every issue is just perfect.
b. Hellboy: Darkness Calls #5 of 6. In my mind there is no way you can go wrong with Mike Mignola's writing. He also does the covers so that helps. This HB series has a new artist named Duncan Fegredo. At first I wasn't excited about this. I love Mignola's work. Guy Davis (The Artist of Hellboy spin-off BPRD) grew on me in one issue. He is amazing. I was worried about this Duncan character. But I shouldn't have been. He takes a lot of Mignola (shadow heavy with lots of "irrev. lines") a splash of Guy Davis (Looser linework and lots of character in faces) and a bit of what I assume is his own style as well (all around goodness). He is like a stew of the greatest things in Hellboy. He is a welcome addition.
c. The Walking Dead #41. The Walking Dead is a comic that is normally late. Not anyones fault and it always delievers some great zombie action, but still. It comes out once every 6 weeks or so most of the time. Well, issue #41 is like the 3rd one in 4 weeks. That's awesome. We're getting spoiled by this. Zombies are at the gate of the jail. Someone will probably die.
d. American Virgin #18. This is just a nicely drawn book with an interesting premise. I always like reading it.
e. Ex Machina: Masquerade Special. 2 days ago, before I knew what was coming out this week, I felt like it had been over a month without an issue of Ex Machina. Maybe even 2 months. It seemed like it has disappeared. Y was still coming out, so I knew that BKV hadn't fallen off of the earth but I was worried. This issue supposedly explains why there are no superheroes (ie. the Great Machine) allowed in NY in the present day-ish story line. Should be interesting.
f. Brit #1. Robert Kirkman (Invincible, Walking Dead) has written a bunch of Image superhero books. The cool thing about them all is that unknown to you at first, and only very minorly touched on through similar locations/characters, they all take place in the same universe. I don't know if you could call it the Kirkmanverse because I'm not sure what the Superpatriot does when he isn't in Invincible. But anyways, Brit is one of those characters. He originally starred in his own mini series which I don't think did too hot. Then he wasin a few issues of Invincible. Now he has his own series which will probably do great due to Invincible.
g. The Mouse Templar #1. This is the real reason for my excitement this week. When MouseGuard was first published, I was told I should check it out. I flipped through it and I wasn't really in to the style of the artwork and I had never heard of the writer. (The comic sold out instantly and went on to be one of them expensive 1st printings. Oh well). The basic premise of MouseGuard is Mice with swords and armor and grand adventures. Like Redwall but with drawings. In the end, I really enjoyed MouseGuard and am buying the new Winter series right now and really liking it. Anyways. This isn't MouseGuard. This is Michael Avon Oeming's dream project. As far as I know (I have looked at his work before but never bought any) Oeming has been talking about Mice Templar for years. It's here and it's amazing looking. This is a new style of drawing for him and it is so Mignola-esque that I couldn't help but buy it on looks alone. Plus it seems to be a double-sized issue. That's a good value.

It took me a second, but here is a great example.


2. Puzzle Fighter HD is finally here on XBOX Live. This is how they shorten the title for their menus at least. It is actually titled "Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix". This of course is a gag on the long winded Street Fighter 2 titles of the 90s. My history with this game is as follows.

A really long time ago I did not have a Playstation. This was in the early days of its life. We finally got one when Final Fantasy VII was released and picked up Vandal Hearts as well. At this time in my life (and still a bit now) I was completely enthralled by the Capcom/Street Fighter Universe. I think it was similar to the Robert Kirkman thing and the Dark Tower and things like this where everything is unreleated at first glance but actually tied together somehow, even if it is loose.

So you have your Street Fighter games, you have your Dark Stalkers games, you have your Cyberbots. These were the main fighting games of Capcom at the time. Then they go and make an amazing puzzle game with characters from all 3 series. Later they would follow on this success with Gem Fighters and even taking the idea to major extremes with Marvel Vs. Capcom 1/2/etc. Self Referental things are for me.

Anyways, I rented this game from Blockbuster back when the store was worth a damn. I played through it lots. Then there was awhile when I didn't have it. Lets call this the dark ages. I then found it in Best Buy on sale and knowing that I loved it and that it was so unknown that it would be out of print soon, I had to ask to buy it. It was OK'd and I rejoiced. This game along with Final Fantasy Tactics was the reason I never did anything with peers in High School. If you could track the hours that Eric Peterson, Mike Love, Gabe Fowlkes, Matt and I logged into this game, I'm sure it would suprise you. We seriously played it a lot.

A side note: A neighbor later bought a Playstation and asked to borrow cool games. I lent him this and he lost the instructions. I love Capcom art so this really depressed me.

When it came time to move to college, I could find a single person that had ever played this game. And once I showed them how, they would try, but my high school years of training were pretty brutal so no one played more then one evening. I even tried this experiment a few months ago with similar results. But now it is on XBOX Live and I have a hard time putting it down. In public matches I was 14-2 before my xbox crashed (wtf!). In ranked I am 5-0. There are a lot of people online that have never played this game (it also came out later for the Sega Saturn and the GBA, so they have no excuse). They hop into games and it's over in under a minute. I had the standard guy who logs in and calls you gay and tries to shock you into hating him but he lost so fast it wasn't even funny.

And his reason for losing, but what he didn't realize, was that he picked Dan of all people. Here's a breif rundown of Dan that I wish I had to look up on Wikipedia but I am infact lame enough to know this. Dan, a Street Fighter character with similar fireballs/hurricane kicks to Ryu/Ken/Akuma was originally introduced as a joke. His backstory and character design along with his tiny fireball attacks were an attempt to make fun of SNK/NeoGeo fighting games (King of Fighters mainly). He is this joke that they kept around for a long time.

In Puzzle Fighter, the object of the game is to put like colored gems together and once you have a large "power gem" you place these circular "crash gems" of the same color onto them and they vanish from your side of the screen. This is like completeing a line in Tetris. The "Fighter' part of Puzzle Fighter tho comes into play when you use the crash gem. Depending on the size of your power gems your opponent will suddenly get a bunch of gems dropped onto his screen. The pattern of the drops (Drop Pattern) is dependant on your character. So Ryu drops columns of the same colors while better characters drop seemingly random bunches of mess.

Anyways, Dan being the joke that he is has a drop pattern of all red gems. So no matter what you do with him your opponent will have tons of red all over his screen. This is nice because you end up with massive red power gems that you crash and kill dan easily. A good Dan player uses one of two strategies neither of which is guaranteed to win: You either bombard them with so much red that it clogs their screen and they lose, or you don't destroy much and amass power gems of your own to unleash all at once in a massive chain combo. Dan vs. Dan matches are a lot of fun.

Long story short, this game is a lot of fun and had it not been for the lag I had and the 2 crashes while playing, I would have attempted to take the current #1 leaderboard position (40-1) through the night. That's ok tho. I did some nice achievements like finishing the game on Hard with Dan (took a lot of tries), finishing the game without losing, etc.

They have added all the Saturn modes (Y - match 3 colors and they vanish, like puyo pop; and Z - rotate 4 gems at once to clear portions of the screen, like tetris attack/puzzle league/warios woods/etc) and also a new X' mode which has rebalanced characters (much needed as high level play was always between Ken and Donovan. Now more people stand a chance). I love this game. I think you should play it if you really just read that long ass post.

I could write another 10 paragraphs about this game but I'd rather go play it or read comic books.

3. I am headed to NYC Friday morning. I will be attending a free Battle concert. I will be seeing SuperBad again (first time paying for it tho). I will hopefully run into my High School hero and friend (and recent Drawn front page link) Kymia Nawabi. I will hopefully see my "sister" Leah. I will hopefully see Clay. It should be a lot of fun.

4. I grind my teeth when I type these things. Ouch.

5. My evening, post toothbrushing but presleeping, brown belt sudoku has been replaced with Picross DS. I love Picross and Nintendo has finally seen fit to release an american version of the game. The last Picross game they brought over to the US was Mario's Picross on the original white-brick Gameboy. That was 12 years ago. And it was one of those rare sleeper hits like puzzle fighter. I have finished about 70 of the 15x15 grids and they just started giving me 20x20. These are getting tough but it's so fun. I need to break out my graph paper again and make some more of my own. I have a self portrait one I made but haven't broght over to the digital realm yet. And a couple PFS ones as well.

6. In the new Print magazine they have this article about a new Nickelodeon kid's show called "Yo Gabba Gabba". It has Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo and what appear to be giant kid's version of the Wonder Showzen puppets. It looks really strange and great. I saw an episode on at lunch the other day (according to TiVO) but when i flipped to it it was actually...something else. I don't remember what. Spongebob probably. I bring this up only because kids shows are sometimes reallly strange/interesting (ie. Lazy Town!) and this looks like another one of those. I'll bet it's cool.

7. While in Aurora, Brantley gave me some really interesting ideas for the superhero comic threads that are building in my mind. My memory being what it is tho, I can't recall them. I'll have to have another round table discussion with him over Frank's pizza's cheese steak.

8. I think that'll be it. This was long and I am going to check the TiVO and read about mice with swords.

nothing

nothing much to blog about.

Went to the pamlico river last weekend. That was a fun trip. Going to NYC this weekend. I hope that's fun. We'll see.

Finished Invincible volume 7 yesterday. I can now see why this comic is so loved. It's getting more awesome with each new storyline that is introduced. Same with Transmetropolitan volume 2. Really cool stuff in there.

I have eaten at the "new" (re-vamped and twice as big...same location) Tokyo 3 times in like 7 days. I think it's starting to hit me. Blech.

I don't really remember what else I was going to type. Been pretty much just working and sleeping, neither of which have resulted in anything interesting.

I think today I may have realized that my glasses are a bit huge for my face. I bet they've been that way for a long time.

Not feeling to hot right now. Gonna go ahead and end this before it gets any more boring.

PsyCow Killa, Norman Bates

1. Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindleoff have optioned the Dark Tower movie. While this isn't a guarantee that it will be made, it is still a really good sign. In case you are in the dark about Carlton & Damon, they write Lost & run the Lost Podcast. They are Dark Tower fans bigtime and I think they would do it a bit of justice. Dan, I can see the face you are making so quit it.

2. Leaving home from lunch today I almost stepped on a Cow Killer "ant". I've never seen one of these before and it blew my mind how large and red it was. And furry. Spooky, to me.



3. Bought BioShock yesterday. Wish I would have price matched it because Circuit City had it for $10 less then anyone else. Of course they didn't have any copies, but I coulda brought the flier to Best Buy and gotten the deal. My bad. Anyways, if the demo to me was just "OK" then this (the full game) is worthy of all those 10/10 reviews it is getting.

4. Designed a DVD for Mel Stanforth (former ECU Professor and very odd dude). I think it looks pretty cool and hopefully it will be approved and I can see it in production.

5. Ol' dirty fans, how awesome is the title to today's blog? I know, right?

Smell that?

1. skate - the demo. On XBOX Live. Completely fun. The camera is kinda lame, but it's really cool to learn to skateboard and then do sick tricks.

2. In the grocery store on sunday waiting on some turkey and chee for my sammys. It is taking awhile because the lunchmeatgirl is using all these scrap turkeys from through out the day. So it takes 3 different turks to get me 1 lb. Anyways, while waiting this little lady comes over to get meat and stops, sniffing. She looks up at me and asks if I smell bug spray. I feign a sniff and say I don't and she asks me "You know what it smells like, right? Kinda sweet?" I said yes and then sniffed around again and said, I smelled it, Barely. I was lying. She said "good I wanted to make sure it wasn't just me" and then just kind of stood there awkwardly. 30 seconds of awkward silence (awkward for her, clearly. I was looking at the cakes) pass and she looks up again and asks "So...What kind of cheese you gettin'". What a good coversation starter. As I pointed to Provelone, another Harris Teeter meatgirl came up and asked what she needed. Her reply was "6 slices of turkey and 6 slices of swiss". I wish you could have seen the look on the meatgirls face.

3. Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell) will be on Heroes season 2. This is good that she is getting work on another show I like. She should be on more shows that I like.

4. Driving to work this morning, bright and early, I come to a stop light. Next to me pulls a huge truck blasting rap as loud as it can go with as much bass as his subwoofer can handle. I think that 9am is too early for rap as loud as it can go.

Bernies.

Caught the tail end of Weekend @ Bernies 2 earlier. I pretty much forgot I owned that...and I forgot how good it wasn't. The only good thing about W@B's2 is the Bret Atkins version of the voodoo walk/shake. I'm laughing right now picturing it.

Did I mention that I am near done with the first in the Lorna/Billy collab thingie? I hope to have it inked/ready by the weekend along with 1 other. Maybe.

That's it really. I'm tired.

Sunday Sunday Sunday

1. Uploaded tons of new images to wburkert.com. Updated the Lightbox to the newest version which now offers arrow key navigation. Very cool. If you have been keeping up with my work through other sites (deviant/flickr/whatev) then a lot of this may be old for you. But there are some newbies in there too.

2. Coded the site using Coda from Panic. Not only do they make awesome Katamari Shirts but they also make great mac apps. I think I may buy the full version of Coda. I really love it. And it beats the crap out of saving html docs to my desktop and dragging them into fetch everytime I want to see live changes. It was love at first type. Trademark that. I want it on a shirt that will sell at Veer.

3. Saw Superbad today with my brother. Was pretty funny. Not the comedy changing film I felt like it was hyped up to being, but still pretty funny. I love the intro/007 dancing thing. Micheal Cera's moves were on point.

4. Watched Do The Right Thing over the weekend. Everyone should do the right thing. I'm not really sure that Spike Lee's character Mookie did the right thing. But that's ok. Da Mayor did, and that's all that matters.

5. Saw some pretty awesome bands this weekend. Cup 'n' String from Chicago were the first act of the evening. They were great live. Lead singer on acoustic guitar, girl on cello, girl on floor w/ back-up vocals. no mics. Their voices carried. Reminded me of Daniel Johnston meets Joanna Newsome (milk eyed mender) meets Violent Femmes. Kinda. Also caught Mega Mega. They were math-rocky-metal-stuff with their drums recorded on an ipod. I guess the drummer was sick.

6. The best portion of the evening was probably The Subliminator. Go ahead and take a second to read the little bio there on his site. I'll wait.

Done? Pretty awesome right? Here's pretty much exactly what he looked like:

His shirt was blue this night tho. Anyways, he plays noise with some sort of beats sometimes. His lyrics were like a mix of monk chanting meets fast-forward vhs movies. Strange. I did catch a snippet of lyrics tho -- "You are so digital. You are such a microwave." Mind blowing.

cricket noises.

1. No one around. Kinda creepy quiet in town right now.

2. What about this: A team of Army trained mercs. One is a Paralegal, One is a set of conjoined twins, one is a paraplegic and one is a master of the umbrella/parasol as a weapon. Together they would be called the Paratroopers. (Conjoined twins: Pair of Troopers). Thanks to KLM and BEN for making this one possible.

3. I'll bet everyone is seeing Superbad right now except for me. I'll bet they are laughing and eating popcorn and spilling the popcorn because of how hard they are laughing. I'll bet you can't even really hear the movie over all the laughter, so it's probably a big waste of 8 bucks.

4. I ran into some people I knew on Wednesday and they yelled to me (instead of Hello) NEW STARBUCKS! FREE COFFEE! What's the big deal. Just say Hi.

5. I woke up late for work this morning because I was having some sort of dream about Batman. He was going by a new name and had a silver mask/cowl on. Someone else in the dream was telling him that he could no longer wear Batman garb or Bruce Wayne stuff because there was some sort of system in place (see: The Voldemort Jinx) where (evilpeople) would be there in an instant to pacify him. When I was waking up I was thinking "what a good idea" but that's why waking up is stupid because when you wake up you are stupid for awhile. I normally have these dreams about interesting superpowers or groups of superhumans. Ask Dan. I email them all to him. Actually, don't ask him. Because they are secret until I do something with them(nothing).

It's Over.

1. John from Cincinnati was cancelled. David Milch is cursed.

2. No matter how many seasons/episodes I watch, there is no TV worse then "Who Wants to be a Superhero?" It is awful. The "CGI" (made with mario paint) is straight out of Hackers or Bibleman. I want to be on this show because all they have are complete idiots. I killed brain cells watching that.

3. Played Bomberman Live tonight with 8 french people. This was similar to the show mentioned above. Their language is like wiping my ears with razor blades. And they kept saying "blahblahbalhblahAmerican!" I was getting picked on in french. Then some other American guy (sounded gangsta' so he was probably a 12 year old white dude) logged in and they picked on him pretty hard. Mostly because he was talking and sounded like an idiot. These 9 guys pretty much set back the USA/French relationship by another 1,000 years.

4. There wasn't a single comic out that I read this week. I have never gone to the store and not spent any money. This is the first week I can think of where I didn't go at all. This isn't the end of the habit, but it is an odd feeling.

5. I think B's BBQ might have made me sick. Or B's + Chili. Something. I feel like death right now.

6. There is no 6.

Blades of Boring

That's a good pun, right?

1. Just finished watching Blades of Glory so I won't even have time to think this one through: (Doing my best Adrian impression) Not Impressed. Will Arnett had some funny lines and looked awesome as Kennedy (esp. when he limbos during the chase scene) but even his greatness couldn't clear the stench of Jon Heder. Too bad for this movie.

2. Bioshock a second time through: I like it a bit more now. Hacked some bots, found some other areas I missed, etc. May pick this one up.

3. Hexic 2 on xblive. Why is the game board zoomed out so much. I know there isn't much to see in a puzzle game of hexagons from the creator of Tetris, but come on. I loved Hexic HD and I had high hopes for this one. Maybe it's just the demo's fault.

4. Picross DS. This is the reason to own a DS. Nintendo finally comes to their senses and releases a Picross game in the US of A. We haven't had one since Mario's Picross on the regular brick-sized gameboy. I love Picross and some of these puzzles are the devil. It's great. Makes me want to finish up my PFS Picross puzzles I was making. I have 2 in the bag. The puzzle bag.

5. Speaking of PFS... I think it's over. I have no real desire to spend half of my week pumping out a sub-par comic strip. I'd rather take time and make something more long form. I will start on that and it will be better then the 3 weeks of junk I rushed out the door.

6. Started gathering reference for the first piece in the Lorna Wang/Me collab. This one isn't part of the bigger series but I still want to have her hands and brushes in painting over it. I think that if it turns out how I picture it in my head then I would like to get the others done quickly and try and get some freelance work in this style. I love to draw and color isn't my thing whereas it is really her thing. I think that a group of samples of encaustic paintings over top of pen/ink drawings would really stand out in a world full of my heroes.

7. New Harvest Moon out for DS. I know that Dan McRae is jealous of all my farming and cooking games.

8. Good night.

Beaut.

1. For some reason, the newest Wii Update (I haven't turned on the Wii in at least 5 months, so there may be multiple) is taking longer than the Bioshock demo -- and that took 8 hours! I saw the progress bar move a small amount...maybe it's alright. I just wanted to check out the new videos for Metroid Prime 3. I'm sure they were beautiful.

2. Speaking of beautiful -- Beautiful Katamari demo on xblive! It's only 3 minutes long but boy is it great to have more objects and people to roll into stars. Sadly, it seems that Dokaka is gone from the soundtrack. Maybe he just does a couple songs. I dunno, but he really added a lot to the game for me. I'm not one of the super "otaku" that listens to gaming soundtracks except for in the case of Katamari. What a game.

3. The Pick Up Artist on VH1. Did I mention this yet? It's a really interesting show. Originally I thought they were using this show to pick on geeky/shy guys (ie. Beauty and the Geek) but I really feel like "Mystery" and his Wingmen care about these dudes. It is a shame that they are racked with fear and panic attacks. I know how they feel. But making them dye their hair or guage their ears seems to be counter productive. If they gave the guys new clothes and taught them how to talk then I think they would do fine being themselves around people. But sending them out and making them think that gauging their ears or something of the sort is going to help them rake in the ladies...I just don't buy it. Whatever tho. It's interesting to watch.

4. Really stumped on the recoloring of my postcard image. I kind of feel like it's hopeless and that I should just scrap the whole thing... I may just chuck all the color I have and start fresh. See if that helps. It's bogging me down from starting on a new drawing which I am eager to get to the coloring/recoloring/discouraged/bogged down part of.

otn, movies and the end of shows.

1. Back and slightly recovered from "OTN" 07. It was sort of otn and it was sort of not at the same time. No matter tho, as it was still a blast. I think I may have gotten a minor sickness out in the mountains of VA...We'll see.

Images from my camera. 80 loading all at once, so it will be slow.

2. Pre-OTN I caught Stardust in theaters and Benchwarmers on DVD as a joke. Stardust was awesome and Benchwarmers was actually not that bad. Tivo'd Mean Girls off of TV today. Never seen it before but it was also pretty good. The Mathlete/DJ Kid was awesome.

3. John From Cincinnati ended last night. I'm not really sure what I thought of the season. I can't tell if there will be a second season, so this may be the entire message of John in 10 episodes. There was a lot of cool imagery and interesting phrases turned, but they weren't clarified all that well. I like to read into things as much as the next person, but the resolution to all of this stuff was just kinda regular. Maybe on a second watching it'll be better. Who knows.

4. Bioshock Demo came out last night for Xbox360. It's a gorgeous game and really creepy/scary/spooky but there was something a little off about it for me. I think the character may have been a little too sluggish. I think I'll like it better on the PC due to mouse and keyboard being far superior to anything thus far (metroid for wii may break this rule -- metroid for DS dented it).

That's it.

Hopefully out the door...

Just some quick tids and bits so that it doesn't appear that I am dead.

1. Internet is screwed at home. Crap.

2. The postcard image is getting 100% new colors and color palettes. Great.

3. Disturbia wasn't good. Bad.

4. First episode of LA Ink w/ Kat Von D was alright but it needs more tattoos. Was only the first ep tho so it'll get better.

5. First episode of The Pick Up Artist was awesome. Funny awesome.

6. OTN @ Mt. Airy this weekend. I'm sure there will be pics galore come mon/tues.

7. Stranglehold Demo on XBLive is pretty cool. I've unlocked Hard Boiled but didn't finish it yet.

8. Puzzle Fighter HD is very soon to be on XBLArcade. I can't wait. Everyone buy it and lose to me playing as Dan! Red!

That's it. Work time.

B

The Simpsons & The City

1. Finally caught the Simpsons Movie yesterday. I loved it. It was like an episode of the Simpsons from the earlier seasons (3-9). I did have some minor problems with the fact that they tried to make it more PG-13 by making Marge "cuss" at the end, and by having Homer flip the bird. Plus, the eskimo lady and the jokes relating to her seemed out of place to me. That stuff aside - it was still great. I'd pay to watch it again if that says anything.

2. Putting up the finishing touches on the postcard as I type this. There are some minor ends to tie up and the back to be designed, but here it is at the moment. The main fix right now is masking out the lit windows so that they don't overlap the mountains.



I am working on a series of images with Lorna Wang and each of the 6-8 images is going to have multiple titles. This is because of the multitude of things they will be referencing and the people they will be about and things like that. One title wouldn't do. The same holds true with this postcard. 1 of 5 titles: "Oh, Those City Lights II". The rest will be printed on the back somewhere.

3. Joanna Newsom is going on a U.S. Orchestral Tour and coming to Atlanta in November. I really need to be at that.

4. The John From Cincinnati season finale is next weekend. They claim that everything will be answered. I hope there is a season 2 and I hope they answer things with questions (ie. LOST).

SDCC

Sent off PFS003 this afternoon. It'll be hot off the internet and ready to read this Saturday. Headed out to a birthday party in a few, so I only have a moment to rant.

If I had know about some of the things that would be exclusive to this years San Diego Comic Con, I would have scraped together the cash in a second. This alone is worth my ticket:



God. There are a few of these on EBay in the 20-50$ range. There were only 2008 released. I am hoping that means only 2008 that were signed and numbered because I don't care about that, I just want one. That is the sickest poster I have ever seen for a movie. Doesn't hurt that I love Mike Mignola.

Other than that, there were also some very awesome figures from Jamungo(a duo of which 1/2 lives here in town). I would have like to pick up those as well.

Finished 5 of the 6 episodes of Season 2 of HBO's "Extras" series yesterday. Very uncomfy and very funny. On the platter for tonight: Hot Fuzz. Hopefully it's Hot Funn-y...that sucked. Never mind.

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Pick-Ups and Peek-Ups

Picked up Warren Ellis' Crooked Little Vein: A Novel today from Amazon. I saw it in person at the comic shop, but I hate paying full price for stuff. So I found it for $14 on Amazon. That's a deal I'll take. Hope to start it next week, after Perfume.

I'm still at work right now, 12 hours of sitting here, so there isn't too much to say. But! I did get some colorin' done, so take a gander at these sneak peeks.

PFS003:



and the Postcard / New personal piece:



That's it.

Headed home now to eat and maybe watch a movie or play Rainbow Six. Or sleep.