I talked to the boss yesterday, and he likes the idea of me having a variant costume. Note that this is besides the previous idea of me having a more formal version for events in which I represent the Department of Superhuman Studies.
What we are talking about here is a variant of my regular everyday costume, this time with more of an emphasis on the brown of my white/brown/yellow color scheme. We both decided that we don't want simply a brown version of my current costume, but not necessarily something completely different, either.
Anyway, he said he'll work on it. If he gets something going, I'll let you all know. :-)
If this all works out like I hope, then I'll have 3 different costumes! :-D
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
New artwork by Marietta Delene Williams!
New artwork time! YEESSSSS!!
This illustration of me is by the artist Marietta Delene Williams, whose site is linked here.
Isn't this great? I just love it! Thank you so much, Marietta!
Each artist adds something different to the costume's appearance, and in this instance, Marietta added some little touches. For example, rather than have solid leather boots and gloves, they are segmented in an interesting and fashionable way.
And I don't know if this was Marietta's intent or not, but it looks like I'm wearing brown "hotpants" under my skirt instead of the usual white. I hadn't thought of how that might be logical in a fashion sense to do that. I'm going to give that some consideration. Maybe I can have variant costumes in which I sometimes wear white hotpants and at other times I wear brown hotpants.
Anyway, this is a great piece of work just on its own merits, but I especially like the fact that Marietta gave me something to think about in regards to how I might change something about my costume. :-)
You are now in my Cool Links list, Marietta! --------------->
This illustration of me is by the artist Marietta Delene Williams, whose site is linked here.
Isn't this great? I just love it! Thank you so much, Marietta!
Each artist adds something different to the costume's appearance, and in this instance, Marietta added some little touches. For example, rather than have solid leather boots and gloves, they are segmented in an interesting and fashionable way.
And I don't know if this was Marietta's intent or not, but it looks like I'm wearing brown "hotpants" under my skirt instead of the usual white. I hadn't thought of how that might be logical in a fashion sense to do that. I'm going to give that some consideration. Maybe I can have variant costumes in which I sometimes wear white hotpants and at other times I wear brown hotpants.
Anyway, this is a great piece of work just on its own merits, but I especially like the fact that Marietta gave me something to think about in regards to how I might change something about my costume. :-)
You are now in my Cool Links list, Marietta! --------------->
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Upcoming character description: Lucky Shot
Okay folks, before my real life work load overwhelms me this week and prevents me from posting any more until next week, let me go ahead and give a bit of news. Coming soon will be a character description of my usual working partner, Lucky Shot. Basically, it will be a brief history of her, plus a description of her powers. One outward sign of her powers is her glowing eyes when her power is activated. As an example of how they glow, attached below is today's strip of the webcomic Wapsi Square. Lucky's eyes glow exactly like Monica's eyes are doing in this stip. It's kinda freaky.
The reason I want to tell you about Lucky is because the boss just informed me that rather than scan an old story for me to post here, he's creating a whole new story, and Lucky is in it. I also won't be able to read it until he's done, so I have to wait to see what happens, but he promises a shocker! Holy cow! I can't wait! Just understand that this won't be a full-blown finished and colored work that I'll be posting, it's just going to be one of his rough draft "story sketches", but at least you will finally see one of my stories. Still, I like reading those anyway.
I had to do a bit of persuading to get him to post even that, but I gave the argument that if others can read at least his rough drafts, they can see what kind of writer he is, and perhaps he can find an artist to do the story. Another thing I hadn't mentioned is that he also writes stories of a 1940's private eye named Benny Baloney. Yeah, you would think that the tough guy private eye genre has been done to death, but I really enjoy these stories, and he's been in the process of getting a website put up of those stories. If he gets that going, then it's definitely going to the "Cool Links" sidebar of my blog!
Anyway, I MIGHT post something Friday, but if I don't, then you'll know why. I'll try to post something, but the odds don't look good right now. Real life can be like that sometimes. :-P
If I don't see you later this week, then have a great weekend and see you next week!
The reason I want to tell you about Lucky is because the boss just informed me that rather than scan an old story for me to post here, he's creating a whole new story, and Lucky is in it. I also won't be able to read it until he's done, so I have to wait to see what happens, but he promises a shocker! Holy cow! I can't wait! Just understand that this won't be a full-blown finished and colored work that I'll be posting, it's just going to be one of his rough draft "story sketches", but at least you will finally see one of my stories. Still, I like reading those anyway.
I had to do a bit of persuading to get him to post even that, but I gave the argument that if others can read at least his rough drafts, they can see what kind of writer he is, and perhaps he can find an artist to do the story. Another thing I hadn't mentioned is that he also writes stories of a 1940's private eye named Benny Baloney. Yeah, you would think that the tough guy private eye genre has been done to death, but I really enjoy these stories, and he's been in the process of getting a website put up of those stories. If he gets that going, then it's definitely going to the "Cool Links" sidebar of my blog!
Anyway, I MIGHT post something Friday, but if I don't, then you'll know why. I'll try to post something, but the odds don't look good right now. Real life can be like that sometimes. :-P
If I don't see you later this week, then have a great weekend and see you next week!
Monday, June 21, 2010
Is the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico "Obama's Katrina"?
Over the weekend, I was asked yet again the same question that I am going to answer here: Is the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico President Obama's "Katrina"? I say yes.
Here's the reason why: Obama had no more to do with the oil spill than President Bush had to do with hurricane Katrina. As far as I know, presidents still can't control the weather. Also, the tragedy in New Orleans was due much, much more to the failures of the mayor of New Orleans and of the governor of Louisiana at the time to do the proper and necessary evacuations procedures than it was to Bush's eventual reactions.
It's no secret that left-wingers not just dislike Bush, they actually hate him, and the tragedy of Katrina was something for them to hang around Bush's neck, this despite the fact that he can't control the weather and that the chains of command in these kinds of emergencies runs from the city level and the state level before it gets to the federal level. Could Bush have done more? Yes certainly, he could have, but it's easy to judge something like this in hindsight. But also in hindsight, the mayor of New Orleans and the governor of Louisiana at the time could have done a lot MORE.
After all, if you're going to judge the actions of someone in hindsight, you have to consider ALL the parties who could also have done more - and not just the actions of the person you happen to hate. The mayor and the governor failed more because they failed to act sooner. They were in a much better position to judge conditions "on the ground", because they were closer to the catastrophe than Bush was many states away in D.C.
Now let's look at President Obama and the oil spill. Could Obama have done more? Yes, certainly he could have - but just as with Bush, we are looking at this from hindsight. However, just as Bush can't control the weather, Obama can't predict when and where undersea oil lines are about to rupture. And just as Bush had to work with the mayor of New Orleans and the governor of Louisiana in order to get things done, Obama has to work with BP in order to get anything done about stopping the leak.
Obama can have the BP execs dragged to the Oval Office and he can talk about whose ass to kick and so forth, but he is dependent almost exclusively on BP finding the means of stopping the leak, because there are no readily available government sources to perform this task. There really aren't any alternatives at this time, because even if we tried to go with another oil company to fix the leak, they would need time to study the problem in order to get it done, which means even more oil leaking in the meantime. So for better or worse, we are stuck with BP.
So to answer the question of whether the oil leak is Obama's "Katrina", then yes it is. If Bush can be blamed for a hurricane that he had no control in bringing about, much less being able to stop it, then Obama can be blamed for an oil leak in which he had no control in bringing about, and who is just as helpless in stopping it as Bush was in stopping a hurricane.
Here's the reason why: Obama had no more to do with the oil spill than President Bush had to do with hurricane Katrina. As far as I know, presidents still can't control the weather. Also, the tragedy in New Orleans was due much, much more to the failures of the mayor of New Orleans and of the governor of Louisiana at the time to do the proper and necessary evacuations procedures than it was to Bush's eventual reactions.
It's no secret that left-wingers not just dislike Bush, they actually hate him, and the tragedy of Katrina was something for them to hang around Bush's neck, this despite the fact that he can't control the weather and that the chains of command in these kinds of emergencies runs from the city level and the state level before it gets to the federal level. Could Bush have done more? Yes certainly, he could have, but it's easy to judge something like this in hindsight. But also in hindsight, the mayor of New Orleans and the governor of Louisiana at the time could have done a lot MORE.
After all, if you're going to judge the actions of someone in hindsight, you have to consider ALL the parties who could also have done more - and not just the actions of the person you happen to hate. The mayor and the governor failed more because they failed to act sooner. They were in a much better position to judge conditions "on the ground", because they were closer to the catastrophe than Bush was many states away in D.C.
Now let's look at President Obama and the oil spill. Could Obama have done more? Yes, certainly he could have - but just as with Bush, we are looking at this from hindsight. However, just as Bush can't control the weather, Obama can't predict when and where undersea oil lines are about to rupture. And just as Bush had to work with the mayor of New Orleans and the governor of Louisiana in order to get things done, Obama has to work with BP in order to get anything done about stopping the leak.
Obama can have the BP execs dragged to the Oval Office and he can talk about whose ass to kick and so forth, but he is dependent almost exclusively on BP finding the means of stopping the leak, because there are no readily available government sources to perform this task. There really aren't any alternatives at this time, because even if we tried to go with another oil company to fix the leak, they would need time to study the problem in order to get it done, which means even more oil leaking in the meantime. So for better or worse, we are stuck with BP.
So to answer the question of whether the oil leak is Obama's "Katrina", then yes it is. If Bush can be blamed for a hurricane that he had no control in bringing about, much less being able to stop it, then Obama can be blamed for an oil leak in which he had no control in bringing about, and who is just as helpless in stopping it as Bush was in stopping a hurricane.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Update on my own comics
It's been awhile since I gave an update on my own comic, so here we go!
I've convinced the boss to scan and post at least one of the stories that he has in rough draft. Basically, he sketches out his stories with images and text for usually several pages. He'll build around an idea for a storyline of a conflict or complication that he puts me or one of the other characters under, then he goes from there. Sometimes it's enough to complete your standard 22 to 24 page comic, but most of the time it falls a little short, so he'll complete it with something else for however many pages it needs to reach the 22 to 24 page goal.
However, in recent years he's gone through some financial struggles that has limited his ability to pay for artists. Don't worry, he hasn't lost his job or anything, it's mainly a sudden increase in bills that he had to deal with - not so much to bankrupt him, but certainly enough to force him to adjust his finances accordingly. Man, I wish I was a millionaire so that I can at least fund the comics part of this arrangement! LOL
Fret not, because I'll keep blogging so long as he'll have me. :-)
Anyway, he'll go through some of his rough sketches of stories to scan and post, and when he does, I'll post them to my blog. Other than one other person that I can think of, I am probably the only one who has seen nearly all the stories he has done, and I really want you guys to read what I've enjoyed, which is why I suggested this idea of at least running the rough sketches. One of my fans also hit upon the idea of making text stories of my adventures and posting only a few, single panel artworks. He liked that idea, so he will try to convert some of those stories from artwork into text to see if that will work. I'll keep you updated on that as well.
Have a great weekend!
I've convinced the boss to scan and post at least one of the stories that he has in rough draft. Basically, he sketches out his stories with images and text for usually several pages. He'll build around an idea for a storyline of a conflict or complication that he puts me or one of the other characters under, then he goes from there. Sometimes it's enough to complete your standard 22 to 24 page comic, but most of the time it falls a little short, so he'll complete it with something else for however many pages it needs to reach the 22 to 24 page goal.
However, in recent years he's gone through some financial struggles that has limited his ability to pay for artists. Don't worry, he hasn't lost his job or anything, it's mainly a sudden increase in bills that he had to deal with - not so much to bankrupt him, but certainly enough to force him to adjust his finances accordingly. Man, I wish I was a millionaire so that I can at least fund the comics part of this arrangement! LOL
Fret not, because I'll keep blogging so long as he'll have me. :-)
Anyway, he'll go through some of his rough sketches of stories to scan and post, and when he does, I'll post them to my blog. Other than one other person that I can think of, I am probably the only one who has seen nearly all the stories he has done, and I really want you guys to read what I've enjoyed, which is why I suggested this idea of at least running the rough sketches. One of my fans also hit upon the idea of making text stories of my adventures and posting only a few, single panel artworks. He liked that idea, so he will try to convert some of those stories from artwork into text to see if that will work. I'll keep you updated on that as well.
Have a great weekend!
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Power Girl by Paul Taylor!
Now on sale on eBay is an original artwork of DC Comics' Power Girl, as done by Paul Taylor, who also does the webcomic Wapsi Square, of whose strips I have posted here previously. It looks as if Power Girl is becoming what I still hope to be - the busty superhero chick that artists draw when they draw a busty superhero chick.
Maybe I can convince Mr. Taylor to do one of me as well. :-)
Maybe I can convince Mr. Taylor to do one of me as well. :-)
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