This is one of my more experimental pages. I wasn't too happy with it after inking it, but while I was coloring it I had the idea for all the slightly over-the-top sound effects, and that was what sort of pulled the whole page together. Sorry if it seems cheesy or anything. I just didn't want to leave the page silent. (Also, how about that explosion in panel two? How about the last five panels? Did those come out nice or what?)
In sort of but not really comic-related news, I only have five more days of exposure to the horrors of our public educational system left, and eight days of office work. After that… summer. Doesn't that sound nice? Let's say it again. Summer.Summer. Music to my ears. …Of course, I'll be going on not one, but two vacations almost directly after I get out, so I don't know how well I'll be able to update TEO, but I will try my hardest to keep updating. Not only for you guys, but for me, too. Trying to gain momentum after a break (as I did this week) is always kind of a pain in the ass.
In regard to all those CDs I got last week: Menomena's Friend and Foe I bought solely for the intricate Craig Thompson-drawn cover art, but the music on it turned out to be awesome, too. The Ditty Bops' eponymous first release is fun summertime music, although my mom hates it for some reason– she says it sounds "like a kids' album". The Avett Brothers' new release Emotionalism struck me as kind of depressing at first, but after listening to it a few times I think it might actually just be very sincere, which is awesome. Of Montreal's Icons, Abstract Thee EP contains five songs recorded during the Hissing Fauna sessions, and they are all super classy. Klaxons' Myths of the Near Future is squawky scream-along Brit rock with references to the occult and to post-modern lit mixed into the songs, though it doesn't have nearly as much "rave" qualities as the press makes it out to be. David Byrne & Brian Eno's My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts is a seminal 1980 record that sounds like ethnic music from a forgotten civilization; this was also the first record to use samples of evangelical preachers in some of its songs, which is something of a hackneyed practice today. Andrew Bird's The Swimming Hour is just fantastic, fantastic, fantastic, indescribably good, and it is a shame that this guy's albums are so hard to find where I live, because otherwise I would just go on a Bird-induced frenzy. Phew. There you go.
Next week: Probably less blood and violence, though I can't guarantee it. For those of you who object: Sorry! That's just kind of how the story is going right now! I don't really know how to tell it any other way!
In conclusion… KC Green shows you how to draw, for those that haven't seen it already. Christ, I should have put this up here a long time ago.
Who is KC Green? KC Green lives in Oklahoma, I think, and draws a whole mess of comics, most of which are so wonderful they will make your eyes tap-dance in giddy celebration. Although I'm pretty sure I've told you about him before. Probably. He's pretty famous anyhow. Anyways, go check his stuff out if you haven't already, 'kay?
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