Only 1 more to go before the end of book 1! A little later than I was shooting for, but at least I made it on Tuesday like I said, right? I also plan to get up either a sketch or a work next week, so look out for that. I also have some important announcements about the site to make, but I'm saving that for when the last issue comes out, so you'll just have to wait ;) .

I know there hasn't been too much posts about what's been going on other than when I put something on the site, but that's because I can't really say what I've been doing just yet. If all goes well, I might be able to let you in on one of the things I've been working on.

I'm also going to be at Anime Expo this year, down in Long Beach, CA. I don't have a table in artist's alley, but the plan is to be at the convention from Saturday onwards so far. I might hang out at the tables of some of the people that I do know who have one, but it won't matter as most of you wouldn't know what I look like anyways :) If you do catch me down in the artist's alley and you recognize me from the site (using voodoo magic perhaps), maybe I'll give you a free drawing if you like, hehe.

Well it's been a long week, I know I didn't post anything, but this post isn't to bring more relief in the form of content, more like to let you know I'm not dead...


I'm going to be away for this entire weekend, camping = fun?, depends, usually it does, but it means I'll be back Monday night, which for you means Tuesday comic at the earliest. I don't really have much else to say, this week I've kind of been all over the place with things I was trying to do, but can't mention at this point, so I haven't been doing lots of anime watching or things like that. I guess we'll just wait another week and see what happens. Happy Memorial Day weekend, see you all Tuesday (probably).

This week's issue is a 12 page special! Two whole pages over the usual 10, amazing. Anyway the cover is a b/w toned version of the color work I put up earlier this week. We're getting pretty close now, only 2 more issues. Hopefully I'll have worked out what I want to do by then, with regards to the comic schedule and releases.

Expect at least another post this week, if not actual stuff. But not until after Tuesday. It's just like that.

So I was putting together the cover for this week's issue, and it came out nice enough that I wanted to color it, so I did, using Copics. That came out well enough that I decided to make that a Work, and so there's a new work linked from the sidebar, go check it out. The cover will probably be the same but screentone b/w instead of color.

Haha I forgot the reminder post this week. The reminder being that we're on bi-weekly schedule and there's no comic this week. Next week is gonna be a good one, so make sure you keep an eye out for it!

As opposed to the man on my left side, I really am pretty much dead.  Don't worry; Phoenix Warrior Rika will revive to defeat the evil bad dude...that has no name I can think of.  Even Rika is kind of a "Oh, that sounds good" kind of name, so I don't think that will stick.  And no, this has nothing to do with the infinite infinities definitely being infinite, unless later I just 'accidentally' merge the two, a stage that gets closer and closer in my mind every night.
Mind you, I haven't written anything down in a while. Rika might be some other name completely by the time i get home.

A major holiday going by without a comic from me? This is madness.  It isn't sparta though.  If you'll noticed, there hasn't been a comic from me since april, and that's completely the fault of me and the lack of other people.  I've thought of a few comic ideas I can put up (if I actually drew them of course), but instead I have been using my time doing things that either I shouldn't be doing, aren't productive, or things that other people should at least help with.  I don't have any real obligation to do most of the things I have been doing, except maybe to get my hard drive to back to floating above 20GB just because.  I wish my commitment to a goal was always as strong as it has been for the last couple of goals; despite the lack of help, I've been making process in my own way, and producing results past my own reasonable limits.
Just imagine, if I could dedicate myself to drawing some comics like that or if I wrote a story like that.  It wouldn't be really high quality stuff, but I mean, you would see pages and pages of stuff every couple of days instead of one or two things every month or so.  Imagine that.   It's craziness in my own mind, but if I could do that consistently, I would feel pretty good.  But, then again, I'd probably burn out in a few weeks.

Well, in the end, I don't really have that much to say.  I'd like to tell you about a conversation I had with someone I know...Maybe later once I get it all down.

The title does mean something, and I am at liberty to tell you about what it means, but I don't think it will mean anything to anyone else except for me, so I think I will refrain from speaking about it for now.
Just know that the number of infinities is now definitely infinity.  Or more.  It's just that way.

I will tell you something new did happen this week though: There is now more music in my life.  I have been telling his Eminence, Kris, about something I received this weekend (from my mom, which is odd, since it was Mother's Day, and I'm supposed to give more than I receive -- sad how that works out) which provided much entertainment to me for a few hours just looking at it.
I have in my possession what seems to be the most desperate fake of an iPod I have ever seen in my life.  That is, it looks like an iPod Shuffle, in size, shape and color, like many copycats do.  However, this one comes in a box designed to look like an iPod Shuffle box.  I mean, if you took a look at it from about 50 feet away, you might not be able to tell the difference except that there are noticeably less words on this box than the iPod.
Just looking at it makes me smile.
But, perhaps the best part is that it is a, albeit really low Memory version, MP3 player; not something that I've had the pleasure of enjoying before.
So, today, and probably it will be today only, I walked home to the background music of Metal Gear Solid 3's main theme.  I think it was the most awesome walking home I've ever had.  I almost thought I was sneaking around, just by listening to that music.  It was pretty cool when the music changed to mimic what I was doing...and then I started changing what I was doing to the music changes.

Life + Music is awesome.

Anyway, I'll see you later.  Enjoy Portals 17

Clearly, at some point in time long long ago, obviously not in a galaxy far far away, there was some kind of thing I was leading up to in the last two posts over a month ago.  Needful to say, I have absolutely no idea what that point was, coming back to it a month later without making a thought in that direction.  I lost my original bitterness and angerness towards the thing that I was complaining towards, and as such, the thought was lost.

So, as far as I know, all of my previous stuff was resolved, with no complaints mentally, physically, or digitally.  And so, my brain resolved to find a new dispute so I could write something here, and have some kind of magical relevance or something.
I mean, I was like expecting something to happen.  But not of my own doing.  Someone else is to do it for me, and I am to take credit for it.

Something did come up.  I, in fact, was going to go on about a certain thing of Pareto being used as theory that a grindless MMO would never work.  I had thought about it in the shower and had an Objection! moment where I had finally pulled together my irrefutable evidence, and was about to slam my desk and point my finger at the witness and shake it at them.  I could never do right to Mr. Wright though.  He's just too awesome.  Gyakuten is awesome.

In any case, as I was about to write this beast of a theory of statistical analysis used against statistical analysis, I had a different convo with someone else, about something different.  It's not exactly something I can discuss in full terms at all since the context of the subject is rather complex and I don't really want to go into it that far as to spill my guts on the subject.  We were talking about essentially the inefficiency of a previous project, of which the Nayrbian comics that you know and love and hopefully actually read come from.  The efficiency of that project is pretty darn close to 0, and well...he doesn't think that's very good.  And of course he's right -- I have still been looking for that project to ever be redesigned into something that might've been drawn and shown to audiences.  The problems are many, and go into many facets of many things, so I'm not going to say anything here.

But, one of the things is that I'm actually very excluded from most of the project stuff.  I don't write, I don't draw, and I think I crack a few jokes, so my impact is very minimal on the comic.  The problem is that the people who are supposed to drawing and writing kind of ran away so, in the suggestions of what I should do about it, is that I should write the story.

Truly, it's something I'm thinking sternly about.  I don't write stories that often, and rarely do I ever write something super epic that still has that good comic style.  For me, jokes don't mix well with plot, and when I do try something like that, they aren't terribly well received most of the time.  As much as I like to write a good story sometimes, I'm told that it's not really that great, or at least not as good as I'd like it to be.

Well, until another discussive discussion shows up, I guess I will draw a comic or something.
I haven't really been doing much recently because of...stuff, and that stuff isn't done yet, so yeah.

Matta na desu.