took a bit of a break from posting any rants lately, life stuff gets in the way from time to time. but now that i’m back from life, i suppose that means i’m dead. well rested and ready for a rant. AND art. sometimes i kinda feel like a zombie art machine. devoid of life with a single minded lust for design. hide your intellectual material, this shambling corpse hungers for brains….
i remember as a kid, enjoying the antics of john cleese in faulty towers. at the time, you could only watch that on PBS, which would always cut into the middle of an episode to have a pledge drive. so infuriating. i remember what a bother it was that the thing i was enjoying being interrupted, so someone could stand blankly with their hand out, begging for cash to keep airing content. where was i…. i lost my train of thought….. can’t remember why i brought that up….
anyways, check out my patreon page if you get a sec. always uploading new drawings and what not. with your continued interest, we can keep bringing you the content you desire. and as a special gift, pledge now, and the first 50 people to contribute get a tote bag. but it’s like ONE tote bag. you have to share it. work it out amongst ourselves.
just discovered ‘Colony (2016-‘
don’t you live finding a tv show that you can binge watch a few seasons of, newly discovered to you, but already running for a few seasons? you can even forgive a little things that would have irritated you were watching it currently, cause of sheer volume. which a feeling i should count on with the comic, as i’m writing this, on page 270 or whatever.
anyways, the jerk wife from walking dead is back, and she’s still a jerk, but it works. maybe that’s just the actresses only move. jerk wife. i imagine her character range head shots are just 4 pictures of her scowling with a hint of emasculation. her and her husband, and the rest of humanity are enslaved by an unseen alien who pit humans against one another in a sort of vibe as if nazis had rolled over europe, but hadn’t actually showed up, and instead just awarded badges and guns to the first people who wanted to be armed hall monitors.
it’s a different concept, and it sort joins the ranks of the other shows on these days that are up for the same plot challenge. the challenge being, ‘now that the political climate is what it is, how do you write stories that will still shock or even grip people who were following you a few years ago?’. as in, reality almost jumped the shark, so how is ‘house of cards’ gonna make the president seem corrupt, how is ‘veep’ gonna make politics more outrageous and insane, and why is ‘archer’ still trying? that last one wasn’t about this, i just….. i just can’t even anymore…. archer…. such a hot mess of nonsense.
as always, join the discussion. unless you disagree with me or make me cry.
I’ve been reading for more than a year, and will keep coming back as long as you keep posting; not just for the art, which is great, but also because you have presented WAY too many questions and not nearly enough answers – I’m not good with open questions. In any case, it seems to me that you are doing this for the reasons that matter, and as long as you can move forward with that mindset, don’t sweat the rest. It may not mean much, but B&B is one of my favorite web comics (I think it would make a great movie). At some point, I’ll send some cheddar your way. I read a lot of web comics so I have to spread it around.
well thanks for saying so. it means alot to know i got some connoisseurs hooked. but you’re right, can’t sweat the small stuff. and keeping to a schedule and a story has been really good for my drawing.
as well for the cheddar, i appreciate that. and of course, if cheddar is scarce for anyone out there, just tell a friend instead. a rich friend. haha
You will get the recognition you so richly deserve eventually. I’m sure of it!
haha, well thanks for the vote of confidence, but i should just focus on my drawing, and not being the anakin skywalker of art. i mean, the whiney punk, not the bad ass in black pvc.
Heeeey…your TWC button isn’t letting loading for me. Did you move it? Is my tech screwing up? I can’t yell at people to vote if I can’t tell them there is a simple button that makes it easier than going to the Top Web Comic page and stalking you. Either way, right now you are at #206. VOTE PEOPLE!
yeah, i killed it. i think when i started the comic, in my naivete, i thought ‘if i build it, they will come’. my grade nine english teacher made us read field of dreams…. and that’s not how shit works.
my TWC rating is synthetic. i cheated, voted for myself, and i don’t feel bad about that for 2 reasons. 1, it’s all only to get new readers. my ranking means nothing to me. and 2, as of writing this, the #1 spot on TWC is held one of the many fluffy manga-ish anthro comics with about 4k votes, dwarfing the other ranking comics by the thousands of votes. i’m in no danger of taking the spotlight away from any other comic or artist. maybe their ranking is real, and not cheated too…. who knows. there’s also a feeling of futility with a ranking that resets every month, making topwebcomics both worthless and perpetual at the same time.
so, removing the button may have a ‘taking my ball and going home’ vibe, but really. i’m just paring down to the essentials. this isn’t going anywhere aside from a fun little story, and energy focused on anything else is wasted. oh, and the money! having a B&B button on TWC cost me $, why give them a free button to their site? haha, i guesstimate that for every dedicated reader i have, i paid about $5 in ads to rope in. it’s an expenditure i can ill afford. but i appreciate everyone who is sticking with it, i don’t want to sound like i don’t.
i want to see the comic through, and to do that the way i want to, it might take a decade, or more. i’m committed to it, but i can do that in a vacuum. constantly checking my dwindling stats is a distraction, and, for some reason, they aren’t what they used to be. probably cause i don’t advertise the way i used to, but, like i said, that’s a distraction from what i wanted to do in the first place, which was to draw, and tell a story. a story about robots, who wear hats.
I had a really shitty day today. Your reply made me giggle like crazy. Thank you for that. And damn that ho bag Debra, with her one-glass-of-wine-a-day drinking problem that she only use some for attention on FaceBook.
sorry to hear, but happy to help.
and yeah, she a ho.
“Scowling with a hint of emasculation” seems to be a look that is catching on. I hate it so. Glad to see you back and ranting again, but what do you have against Archer? The only answer I will usually accept is “It isn’t Frisky Dingo,” but you have a special way of breaking things down that makes me want to hear you out.
I’m…not anonymous. I’m just a dummy who forgot to enter her info.
well then, ms WHOEVER you are…. yeah, it’s a good look. may not be the same as a strong female protagonist, but close enough. it ‘hints’ at it.
it’s true, it isn’t frisky dingo, which is a tragedy in and of itself. but i think my issue with archer stems largely from the heights of which, i feel, that it fell from. first 3 or 4 seasons, laugh riots. smart plots, great writing, brilliant inside jokes. they they did ‘archer vice’. i get it, the writers were bored, and wanted to shake it up. also, they couldn’t keep calling their spy agency ISIS, for some unknown reason. but you know, i stuck with it. it was still pretty decent. then they did ‘archer CIA’.
the reasons for having the HR lady and receptionist keep tagging along got weird funny, and not haha funny. then ‘archer private eye’, and now ‘archer dreamland’, because at the end of the last season he slipped into a coma, and this current season is a coma fantasy. as in, not real. which is kinda like telling your viewers ahead of time that nothing is important, so don’t get invested.
if i had just discovered the show, mid season, i’d be fine with it, and let it be what it is. but i got invested early, when it was something else, 5 versions ago. i suppose i just miss it like you might miss a friend from high school, before he got all lame, and got a real job at JC penny, and married that ho bag Debra. and you drift apart. you stand still, he drives off in his Hyundai.