My heart sincerely goes out to the victims and their families in Colorado. I have family in Colorado, and my cousin said thats the theater he would have gone to to see the show, if he didn't prefer Marvel to DC (The first time I've ever been glad to hear that). This is an absolute horror. What would cause a guy studying to be a neurosurgeon to flip out like that? And if I continue to follow this news story, am I validating him, giving him what he wants? Is he the type to kill because its a way to immortality?
When the police apprehended him, he said, "I am the Joker". Not to trivialize this absolute tragedy but I am not looking forward to the anti-Geek backlash thats going to bring. It'll be like "Dungeons and Dragons: Satan's Game" all over again. Also I'm pretty sure he misunderstood The Joker completely. But thats a rant for when this is not all so fresh.
In other news, Batman Rises was an okay film. The other two were better. The ending was stupid. Catwoman was cool though. I liked her ear-goggles.

GOD DAMN IT why do I continue to search rule 34 of things I DO NOT WANT to see rule 34 of? AM I A MASOCHIST? These are images I CANNOT UNSEE. damn my curiosity! I am burning holes in my childhood this way!

I wish I could show you guys this completely badass drawing I just did but I left my scanner is Olympia.

is... is that what that was?

Geez, I had a messed up dream last night. It was like a Japanese horror mystery. I guess this Japanese high school girl died and some unspecified amount of time later, her body showed up in the school art room- in three neat piles. One for her bones, one for her skin, nicely folded, and one for the rest of her. Everyone in the class was wary but strangely unalarmed. In a carpool after class, the van driver asked if anyone was freaked out and wanted to talk about what had happened at school that day, and this goth chick hesitates and then throws up her hands and shouts "Okay okay!-" and I'm sure she's gonna admit shes scared shitless but then its five in the morning and my alarm goes off and for half a minute I seriously contemplate quitting my job so I can see what happens next.
But then I got up.

SO here's the werewolf I've been working on but I'm not sure I like it. I messed up his hair and looking twice maybe theres too much black? The whole thing was done with a fountain pen and black inkwell so its a bit sketchy sometimes because I'm not too familiar with that tool. Any thoughts or respectful critiques- including "this could be great but it needs a complete do-over"- are welcome.

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O HAY GAIZ I just discovered something awesome- I HAVE WHITE INK. I forgot I bought it. So any suggestions that involve more white can TOTALLY happen.

we went on a field trip yesterday. We stopped by Fantagraphics in Seattle, the first indy publishers to showcase such legends as Lynda Barry, Charles Burns, and Matt Groening, who all graduated from the same school as me (in case you've not heard, yes, Charles Burns and Matt Groening graduated together and were friends). They also published Love and Rockets, and the chick who did Persepolis but she'd moved in by the time she drew that one. So, as a comic book artist, I was naturally sort of stoked to go visit this place. I ask the guy giving the tour what the odds are of me making it in the publishing industry with a slight anime style. (you know me, its not an overt anime style, but it certainly has manga influences.)
He said that anime was a fad that was waning in interest, I'd probably never be successful with manga styled art and I shouldn't even bother to try.
Fabulous.
It took ten years to learn to draw like that, it'll probably take ANOTHER ten years to develop a NEW style. So the last ten years of my life have been a waste.
Thats good news.

In less depressing news its Friday the 13th, and Matt and I decided to have our Valentines Day today, so that we can celebrate by watching... Friday the 13th. SHUT UP WE'RE ROMANTIC.
Its a little strange to see that the director who dumbed down Leatherface to mindless killing machine would smarten up Jason Voorhees. Before, in all the other Friday the 13th movies, it felt like Jason was killing people for not much more reason than they were in his way. I'm not even entirely sure he realized that they're dead, just that when he puts his machete here, they stop screaming and running and have sex. But now he was setting traps and actually seemed to show some signs of a thought process. In the trailer (it didn't make it into the movie) they even showed him sharpening his machete, which is more initiative than he usually takes.
He can still teleport, though, so that was fun XD "how'd he get on the roof? WHY is he in the house? How'd he get back outside?!"
Overall I liked it. It was sort of like a combination of the first three movies, including in the beginning a scene with Jason's mother killing people, and Jason switching from the pillow case to the hockey mask. It was just too bad they made some characters totally adorable: like the Asian kid and the guy singing "Sister Christian" at the top of his lungs- and you sat there KNOWING they were gonna die, and being depressed about it because they're so likable.

I hear they're also gonna remake Nightmare on Elm Street but if it doesn't have Robert Englund, I don't care. (OMG Johnny Depp should be in it though! XD XD XD coming back to star in the remake of the film he first debuted in!)

Perhaps this will destroy your childhood AS IT DESTROYED MINE.
AND IT TOOK SO LITTLE TO DO SO.
BECAUSE HE WAS MY FAVORITE.