The Collective

I just joined this group courtesy of the awesome Sarah Searle. We shared a table at last year's MECAF. Kudos to her for following through on developing a group of comic book self-publishers in the area! Check out the banner and bio. Post to come soon!http://www.swinsea.com/collective

Whoa alright

It is crunch time in a major way. No more room for "I wish" it's all down to I do. We all have lots to do in this world, but the tough thing is just sitting down and getting it done. After that the tough thing is staying there and working it out. You aren't an artist, you're a prize-fighter. It all comes down to exercise, good food, and lots of rest. That's the only way you're going to knock it out of the park son. Once you do that, then you are truly a comic book star.

oh sigh.( in a good way)

Hard work takes a long time and I'm glad about it. It means that I'm really taking a bite out of life. It will make that vacation some day seem so much better and already it makes any downtime whatsoever feel like a slice of heaven. The biggest part of it all is taking care of your body and getting rest and eating right. Love helps a lot too. Do hard work and love a lot and good things happen. sigh.. (in a good way)

time pockets

I wish that I could sleep and get all my sleep in and then wake up and have a full morning like Sunday morning, but every morning of the week and during this time I could tidy up the house and make a nice big breakfast and after breakfast nothing had to be done and I had 3 hours of downtime before heading into work. While at work the work would be easy and focused. I'd have time to relax and eat lunch and then work a little more and be finished. Then I could work out and have a nap. The nap would restore all my strength and then I'd be ready for a nice big dinner after which I had 5 hours of down time again and then I could read a book for an unlimited amount of time before finally going to bed again for as long as I wished. When will this be a reality? sigh..

Mad Science

It takes an awful lot of effort after a good long day to muster up the strength to do a couple things for yourself before hitting the hay just to have it happen again tomorrow. So thank goodness the weekend is almost here. It is extra chilly tonight and although I'm jazzed by the news that this years MECAF (Maine Comic Arts Festival) is going to have Scottie Young, I'm just too tired to keep inking lightning duck. Dr. Finn wins again! Tomorrow we will fight again!

chilly duck

IT is COLD! It is tough enough to draw late into the night knowing I have to wake up soon enough to be tired again tomorrow but how very difficult to add cold on top of all that. Next year there is definitely going to be a wood stove downstairs. I'm going to bring my art work upstairs. It is the only choice. A space heater is good, but warm hands are better. This is Dave- he is Lightning Duck's best friend and I'm wondering about the story of how they first met. More to contemplate. How did they meet? I'll think more on this while I drift off into sweet slumberland.

obsessed xfan

I pulled this from my commentary on XmenFilms.net Last commentary on the new movie. I swear. for now. My name is Charles Xavier and this is Erik Lensherr. I agree that it sounds like it will be heavily influenced by the Magneto movie that they were attempting to get going. The cool thing is honestly a bunch of new actors. Wouldn’t it be cool if Bobby were like 6? Ice-boy? I want this movie to have a heavy inspiration from Giant Sized X men #1 and make the aspect of “mutants of the world unite” from all these different nations. Roll Call: Xavier, Magneto, Cyclops and Havok, Storm, Beast, Ice-boy?, Dazzler, Banshee, Thunderbird, Psylocke (reclaimed!), Sunfire Bad Guys: Genoshan magistrate. Sentinel Program beginnings. Sebastian Shaw, Henry Gyrich, Cameron Hodge, Donald Pierce, and the Shadow King Starts with Xavier freeing young Storm from the Shadow King, killing Farouk’s physical body. Next he meets Erik and they have a friendship and decide to recruit the first group out of Europe. After the most recent adoption of the reluctant member Sunfire in Japan they are shot down and incarcerated on Genosha to be enslaved. While incarcerated with power dampeners they use their smarts and devise an escape. Once freed, Magneto begins to suffer PTSD and kills a lot of the enslavers. Xavier then realizes that the organization behind this has a puppet master in the form of the Shadow King on the astral plane. To defeat the early model sentinels in the real world and save human lives Xavier joins forces with Jean and Psylocke on the astral plane to fight an Astral battle with the Shadow King. They win but just barely and when they get back to the real world Magneto has killed a bunch of guards who Xavier realizes now may be completely innocent and they have a big argument. Foreshadowing: Before Shadow King admits defeat he states that he has seen the future of Mutants and it is dark and that Xavier is a fool to shepherd his flock because an Apocalypse is coming….