Thread "The 2009 Rant, Vent, and Share thread" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 3:10PM, Oct. 4, 2009

Oh god i'm so sick of people not getting that and passing it off because they don't. It did make sense because it was to make mankind think the alien squid was from another planet, i.e. something worth looking out for and fighting together against instead of blowing each other up in religious wars. A bomb would have implied it was from earth and just spurred on another war, that would be forgotten and watered down in time just like Ozymandias had seen in Alexander the great and so many other times. Ozymandias wanted to be like Alexander but fix how his ideals/empire didn't carry on long after he died. The whole psychic projection was so everyone could be effected and remember it 'first-hand' instead of some biased news feed (like 911 or katrina for an example, people not there get sick of it after the 300th newsfeed).

I like bone so far, but i'd love to have the hardback of watchmen on my shelf since despite flaws, age, and the fact that the plots not spelled out for you on the first read-through, i still love it. So yes, it is a fair comparison.

No, I got it. I just still think it was pretty dumb thing to do. It was the one thing that just screwed with the suspension of disbelief to me. The psychic projection part would be fine, but I see no reason to bring the giant squid into it. Heck, even the movie writers figured out that they could easily take something from within the existing world and get a similar result from it. I just think there are far more effective plot devices out there that don't seem half as outlandish.

Wrong, the term "graphic novel" is older than that and it was used previously for Will Eisner's A Contract With God and for Bloodstar (illustrated by Richard Corben). Both predate Watchmen by several years.

So it's just a decent novel then, without as much historical significance. Doesn't change what I was saying.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Watchmen is utter crap, but I think it's gotten over-rated for what it is in the comic community. I think there are better stories out there.

Posted at 4:10PM, Oct. 4, 2009

Ugh… what a morning…

I just went out to take a whack at a tree outside. It was pretty thick and it wouldn't go down easy. Now I think I've injured my left arm and hand while doing that… darn near broke my machete too. Maybe I should've invested in an axe instead…

Posted at 7:10PM, Oct. 4, 2009

I've heard this argument before. Like when the world realized that Americans eat 3x more than they should. Being a "starving artist" in this day and age really more equates to just eating what we're designed for.

I think you're right. I even think skipping a day here and there can be good for you, though most people (let alone Americans) grow faint at the very idea.

If you think about it, the conditions we evolved in were of the feast-or-famine variety. Eating when we could, and tightening our belts as sought out the next lion kill.

(At least, that's what I've been telling myself all these lean years.)

Posted at 4:10AM, Oct. 5, 2009

I had the worst fucking weekend.

I had to go back home to get a load of stuff I forgot to bring with me, like half my fucking clothes and such. Getting there was fine, but when I got back, my mother informed me that the water had been completely turned off, the result of this being that I have now not bathed in. . . three days? Then on Saturday night while I was asleep, my legs started hurting for no apparent reason. I don't mean they just ached a bit, I mean both my legs full on fucking cramped, and then I made it worse because I obviously panicked and smashed my head on the corner of the radiator.

And then I had to go back. This is a pain because I decided to forget my rucksack, so I had to take everything back in this laundry bag sort of thing, so now both of my arms hurt like hell and feel at least five inches longer. And, carrying on from the lack of water problem from above, I had to trek the entire way back reeking like a cesspit.

Right, enough of this shit. I'm off to have about five showers.

Posted at 4:10AM, Oct. 5, 2009

Brrrr. We installed a swamp cooler in my room but now that it's getting colder the air is leaking through the vents and making me freeze my butt off. I covered it with my curtains but it's still pretty cold, no clue where my heater is either (it always smells horrible after i let it sit through the summer too-burnt dust is worse than it sounds)

I really miss when dad used to light the fireplace though, you just can't get that nice toasty heat from an electric heater or stove. It was always a huge pain to clean and maintain so they stopped. Lol i never got how my cat could lay under that thing, maybe it reminded her of sunbathing.

Posted at 4:10AM, Oct. 5, 2009

I had a girlfriend for a while. But then a week or so after my senior prom she went crazy and accused me of being a rapist.

My life's just great.

Oh, and I haven't gotten to start college yet and feel all worthless and whatnot.

Posted at 5:10AM, Oct. 5, 2009

me being a rapist.

Heh, just like I always suspected. ;)

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Eh, I have drawing to do, I just wanted to comment after Shplane. back to comicing now, bye.

Posted at 7:10AM, Oct. 5, 2009

School is boring.
I was just looking at the outline for this course, and I'm pretty sure we're way behind… apparently the unit we're doing now was only supposed to take two weeks. I hate when teachers do that.

Also it's too cold for me to sit outside during spare or lunch. :( Now I just have to stay in the smelly hallway.

Posted at 11:10AM, Oct. 5, 2009

So I'm browsing a forum while waiting for class, and someone just posted a picture of a dude with a head wound. Heres the thing, he looks exactly like me. Down to the beard's half-shaven thickness, eye width, face shape, hair on his hand, freckles on his neck, I'm pretty sure I own a shirt a lot like his. In fact that only thing that doesnt look right is the hair cause I would never cut it that way.

Either I have a fucking twin out there or suffered some horrific truma to my head at one point that made me forget having my picture taken. And I seriously dont remember ever getting into such a horrible accident.

This is blowwwwwing my mind.

EDIT: there is one way to check, he has a freckle above his lip on the right side. Time to look in the mirror~

EDIT EDIT: Gghafuck holy hs hit

I had a girlfriend for a while. But then a week or so after my senior prom she went crazy and accused me of being a rapist.

Posted at 1:10PM, Oct. 5, 2009

I juuuust finished Bone. I was expecting a little more pizazz but the artwork and charm were incredible at least. I probably would have liked it more had i cared about the characters, Phoney and the villagers just got on my nerves too much to pity, though I actually felt bad when Kingdok turned into a decaying slave. The ending felt really anti-climatic too.
I guess if i had to rank those 'all-time' graphic novels it'd be;
1.Maus
2.watchmen
3.Osamu tezuka's Phoenix(fucking incredible)
4.Bone

I haven't read jimmy corrigan yet or many others though.

Posted at 2:10PM, Oct. 5, 2009

I juuuust finished Bone. I was expecting a little more pizazz but the artwork and charm were incredible at least. I probably would have liked it more had i cared about the characters, Phoney and the villagers just got on my nerves too much to pity, though I actually felt bad when Kingdok turned into a decaying slave. The ending felt really anti-climatic too.
I guess if i had to rank those 'all-time' graphic novels it'd be;
1.Maus
2.watchmen
3.Osamu tezuka's Phoenix(fucking incredible)
4.Bone

I haven't read jimmy corrigan yet or many others though.

I liked Bone quite a bit, I wouldn't say that I felt bad for Kingdok so much as it creeped me the hell out! For some reason I liked the ending. The beginning of Bone was really upbeat and lighthearted and later started turning dark and epic, then back to the same upbeat lightheartedness in the beginning for the end.
Jimmy Corrigan was good too, maybe I just think this because I secretly an awful person but I thought it was funny.
For a good short graphic novel you might also like Goodbye Chunky Rice.

Posted at 3:10PM, Oct. 5, 2009

Fun fact: Maus was required reading at my high school, failing grade for English if you didnt finish it. That automatically makes my high school the most rad high school ever.

Why is that?

Only because Maus is one of the best books pretty much ever.

Posted at 3:10PM, Oct. 5, 2009

i have more homework, and i'm finding more reasons to not do it. even tho none of them are even remotely relevant….or even good…

why did we invade iraq? freedom fries, my friend….freedom fries.

see what i mean?

Posted at 3:10PM, Oct. 5, 2009

i have more homework, and i'm finding more reasons to not do it. even tho none of them are even remotely relevant….or even good…

why did we invade iraq? freedom fries, my friend….freedom fries.

see what i mean?

"Mr.President tryin' to make a little money, sendin' people you dont know to Iraq. Mr.President I dont like you, you dont know how to rock! - Dick Valentine, Electric Six" - Lefarce

Posted at 5:10PM, Oct. 5, 2009

Nice weekend. Went to the doctor and I now have the chance to renew my acquitance with my physical therapists.

I walked in to set up my first appointment and the therapist's eyes went wide, he extened his hand and yelled "Willa-bogie!"
I replied, "Well it took me a while but I finally managed to injure myself enough to get myself back in here."
"Was it one of your figures?"
"No, I just took a walk."

And the fee for the website came due and I didn't have any money in the bank. I forgot to read the calendar again. Yep, there's the note about keeping money in the account for the fees.

Oops. It's those traumatic brain injuries. The contents of my head are comparable to vanilla pudding. Very frustrating.

Posted at 10:10PM, Oct. 5, 2009

I went to Costco today and I got a $60 top sirloin steak pack for $22. They've definitely made a typo error on that one pack that I picked up because the rest were priced $60 and up and they all weighed the same.

I had an awesome dinner later.

Posted at 11:10PM, Oct. 5, 2009

That's badass Joel :)
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So i saw these 'rules of city lesbians' earlier and got a kick out of it:

16. I'm not sure if there is a rule that states that at least 90% of a city's lesbian population must be overweight or not. If there is, Cincinnati definitely meets those requirements.

17. If you were offended by #16, you are a lesbian. If you thought it was funny, you're bi (and therefore shallow).

18. If you laughed at the ending remark in #17, you're a lesbian. Everyone knows that lesbians have it out for the bi girls. You've probably also assumed that the mystery author of this post is a shallow, narcissistic, bi girl. Nope. I'm just a lesbian with a sense of humor.

19. The activist in you refuses to laugh at any of this and is tempted to flag it.

Ahhh good stuff.

I'm actually working on a comic i abandoned a few months back, yaaay i may actually finish one for a change~

Also i don't get why my mom won't get me a 300$ wacom for making artwork(which she's always saying i should make my career and other motherly delusions) but then wants to get me a 300$ xbox + 50$ games when they're released.

This was for a Christmas present discussion, and the only explanation i can think of is she's got nostalgia from when she first bought my ps2 the day it was released (there was one pre-order that had an hour to be picked up by the deadline and she waited around for it). If not then…idk wth.

Posted at 11:10PM, Oct. 5, 2009

Also i don't get why my mom won't get me a 300$ wacom for making artwork(which she's always saying i should make my career and other motherly delusions) but then wants to get me a 300$ xbox + 50$ games when they're released.

This is not a problem. And she probably just wants to play games when you are not around. >:)

I think i'm the only one whos happy with my cheap little wacom bamboo tablet. Best 80 bucks ever <3 Everyone always wants the huge super most expensive wacom tablets. : 0 I can never figure out why.

Posted at 1:10AM, Oct. 6, 2009

I think i'm the only one whos happy with my cheap little wacom bamboo tablet. Best 80 bucks ever <3 Everyone always wants the huge super most expensive wacom tablets. : 0 I can never figure out why.

I don't understand that either. Maybe the expensive ones have features that my cheap $80 tablet doesn't have?

Posted at 1:10AM, Oct. 6, 2009

me being a rapist.
Heh, just like I always suspected. ;)

Just like your ancestors amirite?

Posted at 1:10AM, Oct. 6, 2009

I think i'm the only one whos happy with my cheap little wacom bamboo tablet. Best 80 bucks ever <3 Everyone always wants the huge super most expensive wacom tablets. : 0 I can never figure out why.
I don't understand that either. Maybe the expensive ones have features that my cheap $80 tablet doesn't have?

I have a Graphire 4 that I take to work with me because it's hardy, light and portable and it works beautifully!
My big expensive 21UX Cintiq works ok, it's really nothing amazing, not for the cost anyway. And it's got a whole lot of little scratches in the middle now from the pen. -_-
I looked that up online and found that it's a common problem with Cintiqs that Wacom denies and charges mucho monnies to fix.
I'll get a CD polishing kit and polish them out then buy some of that special film to put on the screen and stop further scratching.

Just like your ancestors amirite?

Well I have a great, great, great grandfather who was captain of the Cutty Sark (ship's Master), Belgian royalty and other things on my mum's side, mostly Anglican English though. On dad's side they were poor starving catholic Irish who came over to make a better life for themselves during the potato famine and also to escape persecution from the protestant English during the 19th century.
I don't know toooo much about them, but it seems that most of the ones who first came to Australia did so during the gold rush and gold mining is what they spent time doing, trying to make their fortunes- On dad's side mainly, but some on the maternal line as well.

On my dad's side I think they were all working class and lower middle class, catholic, hard working small town country types, with jobs cutting down the giant karri tree, gold mining, sheep farming, working in small shops in the country…?
On mum's side they were more middle and upper middle class, living and working in the city, in white collar jobs.

Man, I wish I knew more about my family history… Sad since all my grand parents are dead now. :(

Posted at 2:10AM, Oct. 6, 2009

I haven't read jimmy corrigan yet or many others though.

That book is depressing as hell. After I finished it I spent 3 days dragging around thinking 'Is my life like that?' I've not reread it since. Also the binding on them is horrible and falls off.

If you like depressing, Goodbye Chunky Rice is the way to go. Or Laika. Uzumaki/Spiral is kinda depressing (but awesome all the way on the trip). Rice Boy is charming and sad without being depressing. Castle Waiting isn't anything like any of those and is my favorite.

I make up my meal plans a week in advance so I know what to buy at the store. This week after I went to the store, I thought of some stuff I want to eat next week. Well now I want to eat next week's stuff but only have the food for this week's. :[

Posted at 2:10AM, Oct. 6, 2009

On tablets:

Back in the day I wanted to buy a graphire4, but there was no way I could afford one so I ended up with a new Volito2. Wasn't very happy as the thing worked with a slight lag… which I recently found out is actually photoshop related, ugh.

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Skullbie's list of graphic novels:

I think mine would be more like 1. Watchmen, 2. Bone, 3. Maus. Mostly because I've read Watchmen three times, bone twice and Maus so far only once. I have yet to read Phoenix, but I did read Tezuka's Buddha volumes 1 and 2 and that thing was also damn good.

Don't know anyone with the rest of the series and I can't afford it at the moment though so I can't read the rest (or Phoenix) :(

(maybe if I'll sell a lot of my own book, haha)

Posted at 4:10AM, Oct. 6, 2009

Everyone always wants the huge super most expensive wacom tablets. : 0 I can never figure out why.

The larger surface allows you to keep your wrist/fingers still and use more of your whole arm to draw with. If you don't use that style then you don't need the big tablet. I think for a lot of people it's just a status symbol - "yeah - I got a massive one and I can prolly draw better than you too" type thing.

Posted at 4:10AM, Oct. 6, 2009

I think for a lot of people it's just a status symbol - "yeah - I got a massive one and I can prolly draw better than you too" type thing.

Personally, I blame the little technophile voice in the back of my head. Always urging me to buy the biggest, shiniest, and most expensive variety of whatever it is I'm looking for. I'm planning to get an extra large Intuos4. I don't need it, I can't afford it, and it's size will only get in the way and make it a pain to transport. In fact, a medium one would probably be perfect for what I need it for. Hell, the one I've got now is just fine, but there's just no way I can truly accept that.

Edit: I always laugh when I see someone use the word 'retarded' as an insult and they misspell it.