in a different time

Halloween is almost here, and unlike years past, I have yet to give it the proper build up it deserves. In the past, I have tried devoting the weeks leading up to Halloween to short videos or movie recommendations with hopes to get people in the holiday spirit (pun intended.) and for one reason or another I haven't done this.  Maybe I'll make some time to do this before tomorrow.

In the meantime, I'll torture you with this bit of tripe.

I just read online that Hollywood is trying to make a PG-13 version of Hellraiser to appeal to teens. WHY?! Of all the horror movies in the world, why would anyone want to make a PG-13 version of Hellraiser? That is like trying to make a PG-13 version of Saw. These are movies based on the sado-masochistic punishments of Hell being dished out to sinners on earth. I remember very well the first time I saw a Hellraiser movie, the mental image of a body with all the skin stripped of the flesh like a Bodies Exhibit still sends a chill down my spine, not to mention the incredible appearance of Pinhead or any of the other Cenobites. It's visuals like these are the cornerstone of this style of horror... which is why those movies are popular, the things that make you squirm on the inside and your skin crawl on the outside. These are things you certainly don't get in a PG-13 movie.

Horror movies are one of the milestones of life (First kiss, first time to drive, get to see first Horror movie...). It usually happens at a friends house, the one with more liberal parents than your own. It may be a birthday party, sleepover or slumber party when it happens. The night winds down and everyone gathers around the TV to watch a scary movie and it's always, always, a rated R movie .The slumber party environment makes the perfect place to watch horror movies, it provides a certain feeling of protection from the group and yet also providing a certain level of group hysteria.

Lowering the movies rating, in a way, changes mood. It takes away the feeling of doing something clandestine, which sets the mood perfectly for watching a scary movie. The emotional response to "Mom and Dad don't want me to do this" mixed with scary and violent elements of the movie make for an excellent horror movie experience.

Of course there is the argument that these movies are something that children should not be exposed to, that it really is something that they should see when they are more mature. I can only disagree. There is nothing harmful from watching an occasional horror flick. No child has ever had bruises after watching a horror movie just as no child has ever had a stroke caused by too much adrenaline. It is merely a step out of the protective shelter that parents insist on keeping their children wrapped in.

Hollywood please (not that you'll ever read this) DON'T! Don't release another crappy horror movie like so many before. Stop making sequels to movies just for the sake of making a dime because you still retain the license (Universal Studios I'm looking at you) while disregarding any and all previous characters and canon. If you must tell the story, go ahead, just make new characters and give it an entirely new name. And don't release a PG-13 sequel to a 30 year old license because you think it will have more commercial appeal that releasing a R rated flick.... phew!




Alright folks, I'm going to hop off my soapbox. Have a happy,safe and scary Halloween...

Two Nerds and Too Much Time

Jason and I have way too much time on our hands! We were going back and forth with old hip hop songs and by the end of it all we had ourselves a pretty awesome playlist!
"1. If I Only Had A Brain - Buzzcocks
2. Proto Culture - Del The Funky Homosapien
3. Deeper Shade Of Soul - Urban Dance Squad
4. Me Myself And I - De La Soul
5. Award Tour - A Tribe Called Quest
6. Tennessee - Arrested Development
7. The Choice Is Yours - Black Sheep
8. When Will They Shoot? - Ice Cube
9. Sound Of Da Police - KRS-One
10. Bizarro Genius Baby - MC Frontalot"

** track 1 may say that it's by the Buzzcocks but that's only because Rhapsody screwed up. If I Only Had A Brain is by none other than the great MC 900 Ft. Jesus!!!!

I Tumble 4 you

By the way, for those of you that regularly read my this blog, I've just signed up on Tumblr if you'd like to add that to your feed or what ever you are using to subscribe to this... It'll be more of the same stuff, I just like the more streamlined posting Tumblr (I'll continue to update here but when I actually want to TALK about things.)

Curse My Stupid Brain!!

I'm considering getting a XBOX 360, finally after it's been out for 10 years or something to that effect (what's it been 5 years?) I just sold my car and somehow managed to turn enough profit that I can afford something small, really small, tiny really, so my thought was (and with my GF's blessing) finally getting an xbox.

The problem is do I want to get rid of the Wii to get the Xbox? There are games I still like and some coming out that I want that are Nintendo only games and I feel a loyalty to Nintendo to keep it. Plus all the games on the Virtual Console that I like. I mean sure I can just get a NES emulator but any time I've played an emulator it's been a pain in the ass (but then again I could finally get Bionic Commando, Skate or Die and a ton of others).

Also there's the problem with the Red Ring of Death. Do places like Gamestop offer warranties on their refurbished systems in case it dies? I mean come on, I'm a cheap-ass and if I can find something cheaper used I will usually get it. Should I be forced to buy a new system just to get the Mircosoft Warranty? That just doesn't seem that appealing.

And of course my biggest problem of all: Am I really being a whiney little bitch over a GAME system? I mean really, when there is stuff like this coming out:


oh and I saw this today

Mazzy Star - "Fade Into You"

Man, I love this song. I heard it the other night and it just stayed there.

I had this song stuck in my head all night

More playing with the inudge

Caninecleanup

I saw this on a tweet earlier and it hasn't left my browser since... every couple minutes I toggle over just to stare.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it
would be a merrier world. - JRR Tolkien

The Clash @ Demonhead

I KNOW, I KNOW, you're sick of me talking about friggin' Scott Pilgrim, and I am too, but I am OBSESSED with this song. I was trying to find a good copy of the full song but apparently embedding is disabled via youtube, but you can check it out yourself here.

mass mexplosions

It's been a while since I've posted a proper blog and an even longer time since I've posted anything artsy. It's not that I haven't been working on anything, I just haven't had much time for scanning and coloring but I managed to pic up a brush recently and tested some of my painting skills.

I actually did two paintings recently but sadly I only have a picture of one of them. The first I did was another monkey for my daughter's room. The second was for my cousin's son of a Pterodactyl but sadly I forgot to take a picture of it before I gave it away... I swear I should charge for these bad boys... oh well.



Since the arrival of The Kid I've been spending a lot of time on my butt with a bottle in hand, which leads to a lot of TV watching. The majority of the days have been spent watching Law and Order: SVU and Angel on Netflix, but at nights when Dad is awake we watch more cartoons, samurai movies, and whatever streaming MST3k episodes Netflix has available. So a few days ago The Kid and I watched the first season of Ducktales on YouTube. Between Mc Chris tweeting about it and the Launchpad McQuack ref in Scott Pilgrim I was subconsciously driven to it. I'd forgotten how great the show was... So I felt inspired to draw Scrooge McDuck!


(NOTE: I won't draw Disney characters in my own style. I've been conditioned to draw them as they have always looked... sorry if that's unoriginal for the fickle interwebbers)

Now that blogging is out of the way, I'm off to play more Pokemon and Warioware DIY, and find another Christopher Moore book to read.
(by the way go read one of his books too, they're good you won't be disappointed.)

BEEP-BEEP-BOOM!

Been a while

Ok, so I haven't posted a drawing in a while... I know, bad me! I've just been busy and haven't drawn anything I've felt like posting. So I'll talk about something instead. Last summer I came across a post, while surfing the net, about a movie being made inspired by a manga/anime. No I'm not talking about Scott Pilgrim again. No this movie, from what I've heard, actually inspired Scott Pilgrim. I'm talking about Beck (Mongolian Chop Squad). If you've heard of it awesome for you if not... DUDE, seriously!

The series is epic it covers the entire life from beginning to end of a bands journey to stardom, with some personal drama thrown in for spice.

Rather than give you the whole story why don't you just take it from me that it's good and watch it... If you really must know everything beforehand then here read the wiki.



Here's the trailer for the upcoming(?) movie.

AVATAR: The Last Airbender

In HIGH anticipation for the movie coming out this week I felt compelled to draw Aang from Avatar: The Last Airbender... Does it bother anyone else that the movie is not given the full title of the cartoon?

Super Awesome Funstuffs

The Rad people running the Scott Pilgrim movie site have an awesome Avatar creator try it out for yourself!

Scott Pilgrim Game

Some video for the new SP game has hit the interwebs!!! It looks good, real good, like all my favorite Arcade four player Fighters (TMNT, Marvel), River City Ransom, Double Dragon, and Pirate Baby Cabana Battle! Don't like my comparisons see for yourself.

Some days I wish I were a little more Crafty

Lately, I've been playing a lot of Warioware DIY so I've been doing some image searches of old NES sprites for game references. As I search I've been coming across a bunch of craft sites that use the pixel art for cross stitching. One of these sites is called Spritestich.com and I've spent the better part of an hour going through their archives. Why I've never come across this before I'll never know but I'm really impressed much of what I've seen. From cross stitching to crochet and perler beads to legos. It's really making me want to learn other forms of art beyond pencils, pens and paints. My brother years ago introduced me to iam8bit.com which has always impressed me but the crafts here seem a little more do-able... well maybe, I might just do a search at Etsy and see what I can buy. Some of this stuff could be useful with a baby on the way...

Grape-Chimp

Well Folks, it's kind of been a while since I've posted anything (well it feels that way). Since moving to a new apartment I haven't had much opportunity to sit down and draw... That is until tonight.

Lindsay and I have been kicking around the idea of me painting something for our daughter's room. So this is it: Grape-Chimp. I think it's pretty apparent that I need an easel, since it's very off center. Also I'm thinking I should probably invest in some new brushes and paint while I'm at it... But although flawed I'm happy with the way it turned out. My little personal gift to my child. Hope you like it.


PS. Just a funny side note. While painting this I was watching Every Which Way but Loose. Just a bit of unintentional inspiration since I started watching it because of Clint Eastwood and not the Orangutan.

Mid-aged Mutant Ninja Turtle

(I'm pretty sure that this means I hold nothing sacred!)

Alright, Jason this one's for you! (heartless bastard!) You asked for a Mid-aged Turtle well here he is. As you can see I imaged Donatello as this corvette driving turtle. I figured after years of being the tech guy and computer wiz, he'd be the one to go soft. (let's face it Leo and Raph are more disciplined for fighting and Mikey is a perpetual child.)

Let's point out some of his distinguishing features:
-Double chin
-Comfy shoes
-Socks pulled up WAAAAYYYY too high
-Cardigan sweater (the sewers are drafty)
-Knee-brace (from years jumping off of buildings)
-Cup of tea
and
-Glasses

So there you have it, folks, the death of my childhood. Like I said:

Jason, you're a bastard! (Hope you have fun learning to be an Astronaut!)


P.S. I originally did a full color version but when I went to save PS died on me... so this is the quicker lazier version.

Leonardo

I just bought a new sketchbook and 9 times out of 10 when I get a new one I draw a Ninja Turtle. So to celebrate my new sketchbook... Leonardo.

New inudge

I'm calling this one The Fatfuck Cha-cha

Hit Girl

I drew this last week after the best character in Kick-Ass. Seriously, Hit Girl is like the mini version of the Bride from Kill Bill.

I did the movie version because I haven't read the comic yet, but I just got it so this will soon be remedied...

Scott Pilgrim

I drew this a few weeks ago and finally got around to posting it... I seem to remember having some issue with it, now I can't think of what that was. Enjoy.

BPRD

I had not posted a drawing in a while, so here's the B.P.R.D.

HMMMMmmmmm

Has anyone else noticed a STRONG (ha!) similarity between Lou Ferrigno and Jillian Michaels? Seriously it's like father/daughter...


OK, look at the left eye same shape same color. The noses are the same, even the jaw structure is the same. Looks to me like Lou in his body builder days went a little Johnny Appleseed and planted some trees (probably with some body builder lady at the local gym) and the product was Jillian.

Of course I am COMPLETELY talking out my ass, but the similarity is there. For all intents and purposes I'm just playing the National Enquirer and noticing odd things.

Is it weird that I notice this shit?

Atheist Barbie

I came across this in my adventures via the interwebs and found it HI-larious. Since it would seriously insult and piss off half my friends on FB and it deserves to be passed along... Follow zis link to Athiest Barbie

A highlight of the pic is the Flying Spaghetti Monster necklace, where do I get one?

Books Check 'em out!

Hey you, yeah you with all them kids, stop making babies long enough to read this.

Since I recently discovered what an awesome place the library is (why don't people recommend going there more often?) I wanted to point out another good book, this one directed at children. I recently got "Odd and the Frost Giants" by Neil Gaiman. I have to say I really enjoyed the story, which translates to your kids will really enjoy this story. I got the Audiobook, narrated by Gaiman, from my Library's digital download site (RAWKS!) so even if you are too lazy to read this to your kids someone will. And Neil Gaiman's delivery is as he imagined it being read, all very matter of fact. Now that I think about it unless you know how to pronounce Mjǫllnir get the Audiobook it'll be both exciting and educational for your kids as well as hearing the dulcet tones of Gaiman's voice!

Ok I've spent all this time hyping the book that I haven't told you what it's about... The Story is about Odd, the son of a dead viking, who runs away from home and meets a bear, a fox and an eagle and discovers that they really are Thor, Loki, and Odin. The three Æsir had been tossed out of Asgard when Loki was tricked by a frost Giant to steal Thor's Hammer (say it again with me) Mjǫllnir [myol'nir] and it's up to Odd to help them reclaim their rightful places in the universe.

And there you have it good fun for all, there is some suggestiveness but that will fly over kids heads until they get a little older. It's a short read, the audiobook was over in a couple of hours, and the chapters are long enough for bedtime stories. Now, go raise those kids to be decent human beings already!

inudge

A Little Too Late.

A couple weeks ago I went to the Phoenix Library and picked up a couple of audiobooks by the author Christopher Moore. I'd read a book by him called Fluke and liked it so I thought I'd check out a few of his other stories. I picked out two titled The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove and A Dirty Job and I've got to say I think he's my new favorite author. Irreverent and witty kind of dirty too, he could write the book on non sequitur and I really enjoy his imagination (come on a giant lizard that makes an entire town horny!).

The sad thing is I went on his website today and learned that he'd just been in town for a signing last week promoting his latest book. It's a shame, I would have found that interesting...

So in closing if you find yourself in need of a good fun book check out Christopher Moore, he hasn't let me down yet.

If there's a funnier writer out there, step forward."
— Playboy

Searching for Familiarity

So for a long long time I was really into music... loved it, ate, drank, slept it. Then it stopped. I don't really recall the chain of events that lead to it but I've found I just don't care for anything new anymore. 98% of the bands I listen to are bands I've been listening to for years... and years, and years! What the hell is wrong with me, am I just that much of a snob of tastelessness or what?

Now for most people they listen to punk when they are young then as they grow up they discover new music that makes them happy then they discover something new and mature and become adults and trah-la-lah. This never happened with me. I've listened to punk for years and although I've gotten somewhat bored with what I've listened to for so long, I haven't grown much further than what I've listened to since I was 17. Sure I've bought [or downloaded] new released CD's but it's always been the same old bands.

The sad thing is if I download a new CD it's only because it's new to me, most of the time the record is something old that I've come across. Alternative radio doesn't exactly help either. They are just as guilty of playing the same 100 tracks from the last 20 or so years. They don't exactly branch out either. For instance: Alice in Chains have released a new CD with their new singer, instead of playing the new singles they play the same old tracks from Dirt. The only saving grace for the local station [re]named X103.9 is the Punk show that's run at night, well maybe... if you ignore the fact that "Never mind the Bollocks..." and "Ramones S/T" are both older than I am...

So what do I do? Cave for music I don't like and hope it grows on me? Continue to look around and hope I find a track that I like? I don't know. Well I have had two songs in the last year that I like (one I just can't get enough of) here they are.



and my absolute (current) favorite.

the latter reminds me of the energy of early Voodoo Glow Skulls and just makes me happy!

But WAIT there's more... Scott Pilgrim

Just found out more awesome Scott Pilgrim news. Images and sounds for the Scott Pilgrim Game have come out of PAX East! I was stoked to learn that Paul Robertson is doing all the game design! I've been a fan of Robertson for a while since I stumbled on a video he did called Baby Pirate's Cabana Battle Street fight...

and the first images are fan-freakin-tastic!

more pics can be scene here. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for this one!

The music is by a band named Anamanaguchi, who I've never heard, but after looking around YOUTUBE found a few videos. And their sound makes me want to play some old school 8-bit videogames! Actually I starting to dig them...

and here's the Scott Pilgrim game theme...

Hank and Glen

A friend of mine posted this on his Facebook page, I thought it was hilarious! If you've ever listened to any of Rollins' spoken word cd's (I HIGHLY recommend that you do!) he's brought up the question of his sexuality, and although he says he's straight, he just seems a little too excited at the thought of male on male action not to be a little gay...

SCOTT PILGRIM!!!!

I have a confession, nay a proclamation, I love me some Scott Pilgrim. This book series appeals to every little facet my beta-male ego could possibly enjoy: comics, video games, kung-fu, sci-fi, music, and romance.

If you aren't up to speed on the series yet let me catch you up. The Scott Pilgrim series is the creation of Bryan Lee O'Malley about a young man who must overcome adversity for the heart of the woman he loves... not buying that? OK. Scott Pilgrim is a loser, a loser with a band, and he falls in love with a girl (Ramona Flowers) who, in order for him to date must defeat her seven evil ex's (much like a video game with 7 boss levels). Pulling from many an anime or manga story in both style and substance. Scott has many a few admirers himself, as he's dated just about every other girl in the saga. As the story (over 6 books) progresses Scott battles each Ex in order to continue to date Ramona Flowers.

I've been wanting to talk about this for a while but I kept waiting and waiting. "For what?" you ask. For the trailer to finally be released. Yes, Scott Pilgrim is now a major motion picture brought to you by the director of Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead, Edgar Wright. And my desire to talk about SP has been harder and harder lately first with the Teaser poster

Then came the release of the cover to book 6


But I had to bide my time and wait... until today. Today marked the release of the Scott Pilgrim vs The World movie trailer! And all I can say is (after picking my jaw up off the ground) WOW! Edgar Wright is a genius and anyone who disagrees is a nihilistic, philistine, both color-blind and tone-deaf, and their mothers dress them funny!



I can't wait until July 20th for book 6 and can't wait until (Friday) August 13th for this movie to be released. My world looks to be getting a lot better by the end of summer!

Skeletor!

I've been wanting to draw Skeletor for a few weeks now, and I finally took the time to sit down and do it... then I got lazy and didn't finish. Over all though I still think he looks bad ass!

I Can't Get Enough

Sorry, I know this is on my other blog, but I'm just so entertained by the lullaby cover songs that I just want to share them with the whole world... or the two people who might stumble across this blog. (hi.)

Zombieland

HAHAHA, I love Zombieland

FU King Cock

I haven't done a doodle post in a while so here's a good one... the FU King Cock!

argh!

stupid inudge didn't save the tracks after all. I came to tweek them some more and low and behold they weren't there... stupid thing!

As I RISE with the tide with a lust for life

If you don't already read Jason's blog why the hell not? And if you do then the only reason you're here is because you followed the link... Let's assume you don't so you haven't heard that there could possibly be a film version of RISE. That's right, well sort of, not a feature length film (it's not that long, seriously) but a short film directed by the guy who does The Last Stand. We are still in the early stages of talking about it but it could very well happen, which is awesomely exciting! I'll keep you posted as things progress. I hope this turns out well!

The Sexual Predator

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I was talking to my friend yesterday and he told me about his friend Marco Mazzoni who is an incredibly talented artist. This is hilarious and creepy all at the same time!... like birthday clowns

Wow Really!?!

Yahoo has a language translator that is a nod to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? I can't express how awesome I think this is and why I haven't found out about this sooner...

Greater than, not Equal to... Spaced v McSpaced

Today let's talk about Spaced. A sleeper hit television show on the BBC, showing the lives of two 20-something strangers forced to play boyfriend and girlfriend in order to rent an apartment whose guidelines state "for couples only". Not only was this show good it was the spring board that lead to my two favorite movies Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz bringing Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Director Edgar Wright together for the first time.

The Show was extremely well written by stars Pegg and Jessica Hynes (nee Stevenson) who based the characters and their interactions with others, hobbies, obsessions and hates, off themselves and their friends at the time and during college. Put in short as a show about 20-somethings for 20-somethings by 20-somethings. And it worked, connecting with an audience who knew about current trends, and pop culture references. And Edgar Wright would compliment the writing by mirroring the homages visually to the Pop Culture sources it referred to, from Pulp Fiction to Evil Dead, when not displaying his own style of quick pan and fast edits. If this show was made in America (10 years ago) it would have been done justice to have been made by Kevin Smith...

Had it been done 10 years ago.

Instead it was remade in 2008 by McG, not to say McG makes bad movies, I thoroughly enjoyed Terminator: Salvation but he's rode the coattails of others to continue his career instead of creating original work. So a pilot was made but the networks didn't see any potential and it has remained hidden away from the world. That is until I found this via Edgar Wrights Twitter feed. I won't comment about the acting, I actually like Sara Rue as an actor quite a bit, But the US version (dubbed McSpaced)lacks both the energy and the heart of the original... but maybe I'm biased.

So for your comparison here's McSpaced.


now the events of that happen about a minute into this verson



So I've said all that to say this: Go watch Spaced! The original UK show can be seen on Hulu.com watch it and be enjoy and feel blessed that you are privy to such greatness!







P.S. How would Tyres have translated into the US version in 2010?

RISE! Is live

Check it out here!

Lone Wolf and Cub

Since I seem to be on a roll with this, here is my Lone Wolf and Cub drawing.

Usagi Yojimbo

OK, I know what I said... I'm just really happy with the way these drawings turned out.

I've been on a ninja/samurai kick recently. It all began when I started reading the Lone Wolf and Cub books, then the whole TMNT thing, which lead to me reading the amazing Usagi Yojimbo tales. So here's my tribute.

The Unborn!!!

So my offspring (I don't say this to be cold, I just don't know what it is yet) is due to be born on August 18th, and if by chance it's a boy and is five days early, I've asked my girlfriend if we could name him Scott Pilgrim or Jason. Needless to say I was denied twice.


I don't think it'll help my case if I said that Jason loved his mother...

COMING SOON... RISE!

OK,ok! I know I've done a lot of artwork posts and I never intended this to be an artwork blorg but that's just seems to be what's going on with me.

Way back last year, Jason and I were talking about creating a webcomic. Nothing huge and on going but something just to get some creative juices flowing. Jason had the story points kicking in his head and told me the bullet points and so I took a stab at a script. We both kicked the script back and forth a few times before coming to a story we agreed on. Then came the task of drawing it.

(ahem)

Then came the task of drawing it.

(AHEM!)

Ok so I took my time to create sloppy coloring book styled art(ish) and VOILA!
RISE! Currently we're going over some editing and whenever Jason gets the time he's creating the website. As soon as those and a few other tiny things are ironed out we'll premiere it for the world. Till then, and to appease my excitement, I'm posting this to get word out in the world... not that anyone reads this.

Kong vs Krakken

I drew this a few months ago, and was reminded about it today

One Step Forward or One More Coffin Nail? The End of Mirage Studios...

I recently found out that the ninjaturtles.com which has been the home of the TMNT and Mirage Studios on the world wide web has closed up shop. It turns out that the recent acquisition of the TMNT by Nickelodeon has left Mirage with no rights to the heroes on the half shell and thus the last 25 years of Mirage and the Turtles has come to an end. Mirage being the studio that Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird first published the TMNT with in 1984 and once the release of the last few issues of the new comics are out, they are done.

This is really kind of sad, the website was taken care of rather well, and was the best place to go for current updates on the goings on with the Turtles. This is where I could find out about the latest issues, any changes with the shows whatever. They even hosted a monthly art contest for fans of the turtles, which three contest winners would be chosen and their drawings posted on the site... including art by yours truly. And those whose art was chosen received a prize (mine was a signed companion book to the 2003 cartoon). But no more. I just checked the whole site through and all artwork submitted has all gone away. OK, it's a little more sad than previously stated...

I can't say I've been a life long turtle fan, but I can say that I've been a fan ever since that week in December that they ran the marathon... that lead to the series... that lead to the toys... that lead to the movies and so on. I've got stacks of comic books collected over years and years and put out by several different publishers. Every different publisher had a different take. Mirage and it's indie roots had a dark tone, while Image had an even darker tone, and on the opposite end of the spectrum Archie brought the happy go lucky, pizza eating turtles of the cartoon to print and Dreamwave Productions' the most recent cartoon. And now that I'm thinking about it, I don't think I would have gotten into comics or drawing (which I still find myself doodling a turtle from time to time) as much as I had if it weren't for the Ninja Turtles... which brings me to Nick.

I really don't know how I feel about this change, Nickelodeon has had several great shows throughout the years Avatar the Last Airbender, and Invader Zim being just two of them. Whether they wind up rerunning the past shows or revamping and creating a whole new show either way it could be equally bad or good. But as I've heard after the fall out from the aforementioned Invader Zim Nick could just up and cancel the show after one season an the world could be left without the Turtles and nothing but crummy merchandise... and nothing to appease the fans made over the last 25 years.

I think the recent tv movie Turtles Forever was a great tribute to all things TMNT

So as a lesser tribute to the end of Mirage my picture for the monthly art contest...

Utterly Ridiculous

A year ago I had a the silly idea about creating a web-comic. I work nights and when you're bored and by your self, you end up with a bunch of dumb ideas going through your head. So I took these "funny" thoughts and added a cartoon to it and voila... Utterly Ridiculous. Every two weeks I'd update a new strip over at the Anomalousradio.com blog. Sadly, I don't think it ever became a favorite read to anyone and so I decided to call it quits. Here is the complete collection of strips including a few not seen before.

blahg...

So I've decided that maybe I needed a blog too, but unlike most people I know who have blogs devoted to music and movies etc, I've chosen to Jerry Seinfeld it and have mine be about nothing. Well not quite, just this won't be about anything more than me, a place I can speak in more than 140 characters...