| Ch-check it out kiddos! |
[Oct. 14th, 2006|02:45 pm] |
It's fastly approaching...that's right, my independant comic book debut! Check out this link to ACRONYM Comics...I wrote issue two of Last Writes, their on-going horror anthology. It's a short piece called "You think you've seen everything..." Matthew Zeilinger did the artistic duties. You can see sketches and the first page (sans lettering) at the link. Did I mention how excited I am? I've been waiting for this day! I'll keep you all updated on the exact release date, but rest assured, you can savor this booka nd all its gory glory this holiday season!
http://acronymcomics.com/lastwrites.html
BAM! |
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| As I crash and burn |
[Sep. 17th, 2006|03:29 am] |
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It's been a very long first two weeks of school. It's going to continue to be a long, long, looooong semester, but it is my deepest belief/hope that when it is over I will emerge somehow stronger despite what I'm guessing will be a mental and physical exhaustion that I've never experienced. Things are going well, but already things are taking their toll. It is a fear of mine that I will completely fall apart, a fear which I would go into further detail about , but I just dozed off while typing...oh well. Now to sleep. |
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[Aug. 21st, 2006|12:56 am] |
Churned out three articles today, started illustrations and confirmed my hatred for Tom Goes to the Mayor. Remembered how amazing Michael Keaton was in Beetlejuice and put all fears for this season of The Venture Bros. to rest. Now bedtime approaches, but I'll probably finish reading my Y-The Last Man tpb before I crash.
Still waiting on the big news. Haven't heard back either way, still trying not to get the hopes up but who am I kidding... |
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| though lots of folk think he's a poon, i kind like cyke... |
[Aug. 10th, 2006|06:09 pm] |
 | You scored as Cyclops. Codename: Cyclops
Full Name: Scott Summers
Mutant Powers: Optic blasts of intense light-beams.
Scott Summers was an early follower of Xavier's dream and a mutant that suffered all his life.As a young boy, Scott and his brother, Alex Summers, were with his parents on a plane of his dad. But then, a SHIAR ship destroyed the plane, capturing both Scott´s mother and father. Just before being kidnapped, Scott´s father, Major Christopher Summers, gave a parachute to his sons and dropped them out of the plane. The ´chute didn´t open, and Scott first manifested his mutant powers, as he used his optic blasts to slow down the fall. The boys were found in a forest, sleeping. Alex was adopted by a family, but Scott was sent to an orphanage, that was owned by Nathaniel Essex, a.k.a. Mr. Sinister. Sinister discovered the genetical potencial that lied within Scott, and began to make experiments on him. Many years later, Charles Xavier found Scott by using Cerebro, and took him away from the orphanage. Before he left, Sinister took away Scott's memories of his time there.
Cyclops was a member of the original five X-men, and there he fell in love with another teammate, Marvel Girl, or Jean Grey. Eventually, he met his brother, Alex, who now went by the name of Havok, and later his father, who now called himself Cosair and was leader of an alien vessel that fought in space.
Cyclops | | 70% | Nightcrawler | | 65% | Professor X | | 65% | Iceman | | 65% | Banshee | | 60% | Jean Grey | | 50% | Colossus | | 50% | Rogue | | 50% | Wolverine | | 50% | Shadowcat | | 50% | Beast | | 30% | Archangel | | 25% | Storm | | 25% | </td>
Best Comprehensive X-Men Personality Quiz. Non-cheatable!
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[Feb. 11th, 2006|03:48 am] |
a chick broke a toilet tank tonight.
having seen that, i can die a happy man |
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| yet another dwicked update |
[Jan. 31st, 2006|09:07 pm] |
www.dwickedcomics.com/news
check out the first page of "Erin Go Braugh"
enjoy! |
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| so, to elaborate on the other day |
[Jan. 28th, 2006|08:09 pm] |
So, to start off, me and brian went to the star wars exhibit at the museum of science. it was great, we took the train in, walked to the museum and BAM! were emersed in star wars props, models and costumes. a large part of the exhibit was comparing real world technologies to star wars stuff. for example, next to the display case that housed Darth Vader's suit were several dislpays of artificial limbs and organs (fake hearts, stuff to restore hearing and sight, etc.) Shit, they're even developing this device that is surgically installed into a diabetic and it will automatically secrete insuline into the body when it's needed! i dont even have diabetes and i want one! also, did you know that anti-matter engines are a real thing and not just from TV? and that a starship with an anti matter engine could go 2/3 teh speed of light but would be more than half the length of texas!? anyways, the exhibit was awesome, and we managed to escape the gift shop with our wallets still full (though our hands were each short one lightsabre).
after we left the museum we called steve...but he was out of town and wouldn't be back till later.
so we called alex...but he was at work and wouldnt be out till later.
so we decided that at a little after 3, we'd head home. We got to north station and saw that teh train we wanted was leaving in 10 minutes. lucky us! what timing! only here's the thing...it WASN'T the train we wanted.
assuming that the commuter rail worked like the subway, we saw a train bound for beverly. beverly is on the way to rowley, so it probably runs right through. it didn't. we got off at beverly.
so we called dan. he didn't answer.
we called jamie. she didnt answer.
we went to dan's apartment, he wasn't home, and we left a message with his room mate.
and so we continued to wander. after a little bit, we called lynn and asked her to come get us. then we bumped into jamie briefly on her way out of class. then dan called us back, which was nice cause we hadn't heard from dan in a while and were starting to wonder "should be hang posters up all over down town beverly? HAVE YOU SEEN THIS BOY!?!?!" so we met up with dan, went to a coffee shop and waited for lynn. then lynn took us all home and lnn and i headed to to networking night in allston.
en route to allston, my cold switches from cold to flu-like and i get VERY pukey. i was okay for a while, it came and went, but when it hit, it hit hard. i also got us lost. it seems i can't drive anywhere to further our comic careers because i always get lost. funny story actually, we were heading to the new england comics in allston. when we got lost, we some how managed to find a DIFFERENT new englad comics (there are several branches) and waste four bucks on parking because in my infinite wisdom i saw the store, looked at an unsure lynn and yelled "It's GOTTA be it!" it wasn't. my ego is still tending to its bruise.
FINALLY, after asking the clerk at the wrong NEC how to get to teh one in allston, we got to teh one in allston. it was neat, a lot of people, the ACRONYM guys...a good time by all. We introduced ourselves and people remembered teh name of our book! some people, total fucking strangers even recognized the artwork because they had seen our site! itw as a good feeling. Eric, for ACRONYM, was really psyched tos ee some new artwork and when he said "Man, i can't WAIT to see this book!" i was on top of the world...then the flu hit. HARD. for a while i was dizzy, thought i was gonna pass out, wanted to barf, you name it. none of this helped me pitch any ideas, or build up "Erin Go Braugh." One dude asked me what it was about and i TOTALLY tanked on selling it to him because i though i was gonna drop dead. needless to say, i didn't get any artist interested in either of my other two scripts...mostly because i didn't talk to many people. I did talk to one artist though, and she was interested in a writer to do dialogue for an idea she already has begun working on. i told her i'd be interested in something like that and we exchanged e-mails. that was as productive as i got, but oh well...maybe next time i'll be in better health and can make better use of the situation. until then, i have a zombie survival guide to go read. |
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| UPDATES YOU GOOBERS!!! |
[Jan. 27th, 2006|11:02 am] |
here's some news from the comic world!
www.dwickedcomics.com/news
go there.
read it.
and some...third thing!
now if you'll excuse me, i have to go plug my orange juice IV into my arm...i'm battling scurvey, me thinks, YAR! |
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| star wars and train stops and comic nights, OH MY! |
[Jan. 26th, 2006|11:44 pm] |
| [ | mood |
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| [ | music |
| | my ears are ringing/burning | ] |
okay kiddies, here's the long and short of it...
-went to the star wars exhibit at the MOS today. in a word: really fuckin' cool!
-brian and i got on the wrong train, ended up stuck in beverly. in a word: really fuckin' fun! (no, really, it was great!)
-me and lynn went to a networking night for indy comic writers/artists in allston. in a word: i got lost, HA! but we got there and i felt sick and almost barfed on numerous occasions.
expect elaborations on all these and more tomorrow(ish).
also, D'WICKED UPDATES!!! D'WICKED UPDATES!!! (COMING SOON! PROBABLY FROM LYNN, BUT I'LL POST 'EM HERE ANYWAY. LYNN IF YOU READ THIS, WANNA DO THE UPDATE?)
IF YOU WANT LYNN TO DO THE UPDATE, PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT SAYING SO. |
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[Jan. 22nd, 2006|01:04 pm] |
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my new favorite sandwich is roast beef and cheese on a toasted onion bagel with spicy brown mustard. |
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[Jan. 10th, 2006|05:09 pm] |
i think what made 'lost' so awesome was the star wars reference in the last episode (of season one. i'm playing catch up here!).
also, the crazy old bald guy and the hot australian chick who was instantly a size nothing after she popped her baby out onto a rock |
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[Jan. 7th, 2006|01:59 am] |
i just spent the last 6 hours hunched over a keyboard. over the course of those 6 hours (maybe more) i trucked through 3 movies and some twenty pages of new writing. i finished the first draft of 'pizza and soda #1' (if anyone remembers my livejournal from high school, this comic is a re-writing of that loooooong story i posted there so many years ago). it clocks in at 24 pages of artwork and i'm in talks with an artist to work on it.
I also wrote 14 pages in a screenplay i'm co-writing with someone. a very very rough 14 pages, but i'm still glad i got to them.
next on the agenda is to revise 'prodigal #1' (another comic script i've completed a draft of) and bump it up to 24 pages (as of now its at 17). After that i'll try an hammer out 'pizza and soda #2' while i'm on a roll with that one, besides, it shouldn't be more than two issues anyway. of course continuing any work on this screenplay as well.
and now for the night's play list...
1) The Big Lebowski
2) Pulp Fiction
3) Chasing Amy
i'll have to try and top that again next week, though the coen bros., tarantino, smith hat-trick seems to set the mood nicely |
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[Jan. 6th, 2006|10:50 pm] |
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i feel like a man on a mission |
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[Jan. 1st, 2006|11:19 pm] |
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| | GET OFF MY TRAIN!!! | ] |
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| | That song in 'ghost' when demi and whoopi make out | ] |
I feel obligated to write a "2005 retrospective." a lot happened and, actually, little of it was bad. i don't really know how exactly to express a lot of things here, partly for lack of better words, mostly because some stuff i'd just rather keep to myself. the lame year end quiz i keep seeing people post tempts me as an easy way out, but i don't think they'd do the year justice. 2005 was a very good year. It was also a very frustrating year at times, though not in a while. I don't know. I restarted my love affair with books. I can't stop reading, and I got a shit ton of books for christmas just begging to be read. I've done a lot of writing, one particular yarn i'm very proud of, and have a lot in progress. made some great new friends. I don't know...what else? How does one really get all of the happiness, heartache, laughter, crying, vomiting, rage, adventure, excitement, horror, intrigue and total awe of the last 365 days across to an audience? it;s too broad a canvas to paint a picture on that would be easy to take in with one quick glance.
hmm...I suppose I could be specific if anyone care to ask anything specific.
otherwise, I'll just mull over it a while.
now i must leave before i crack and fill out a stupid quiz. |
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| i like a good crack at someone's short comings as much as the next guy... |
[Dec. 23rd, 2005|01:02 am] |
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| | power of love-huey mother fucking lewis and the news | ] |
...but I think I hold a special place in my heart for Michael J. Fox (E.T. as well, but that's not the issue here). Rotten Tomatoes has a news blurb about how Fox is in talks for a Back to the Future 4. So there's that. He also said its not an option unless he can play his own age as Doc. So there's that too. Odds are, this won't happen. BTTF and Indy have so far dodged the revamping/rehashing bullets (see anything star wars since 1997 and the E.T. special Edition) so this would be a huge step back. Sure they're talking Indy 4, but at least that story was open for more. BTTF had a conclusive ending, but that's not the point here. The point here is one of the Rotten Tomato forum people's comments to this possible sequel...
"the first is a classic, the other two are good on an "ehh, alright" level. come on Fox, don't do this. leave it as a trilogy and that's that."
...so far, so good, right? here comes the mean part...
"besides, you should try out as an Agent for the next Matrix movie instead, since you're probably shaking so fast you can dodge bullets."
FOUL! As a person who considers Marty McFly to have been one of my principle role models growing up (He taught me how to be cool, E.T. taught me how to love) I was shocked and offended by this remark. OFFENDED! And I think that any such Fox bashing should be inexcusable and any such Fox bashers should be shunned by Western society. For shame, you vile minded internet troglodyte. For shame.
speaking of offensive, i took a shit so foul smelling today that, no fucking joke, i started to gag and almost threw up on my lap! |
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| don't mind me, i'm still drunk |
[Dec. 16th, 2005|02:29 am] |
| [ | mood |
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three fall semesters down, one to go. sparing you all the boring details i'll just say that it was really something. a lot of laughs, a lot of...well...i just really enjoyed myself. i look forward to next semester with the exception really of scott leaving...i know i'll see him and talk to him, so i'll skip that whiney "oh man, this is so totally good bye forever" shit, but it's been nice to be able to just walk upstairs, cut a fart in his room, walk away, then come back later and just talk a bit. we threw him a party tonight and i think he enjoyed it.
i saw kong yesterday. i shit myself with excitement.
i saw narnia today. it was okay, i was entertained, but more than anything, i enjoyed the circumstances around seeing it more than the actual movie.
the break will be interesting. i'm both looking forward to and dreading it, but i have my reasons and i'll make the best of it. i'm actually going home tomorrow...or saturday weather depending. either way i'm packing after ihop.
stay tuned for comic updates...there be writing on the horizon, even if just for the sake of writing.
i really liked tonight...really really liked it |
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| d'wicked sweet news, dude! |
[Dec. 8th, 2005|11:44 pm] |
since i got complaints about not letting the livejournal world know when my website is updated (cough tom cough) i figured i'd let all of you know...my website is updated.
www.dwickedcomics.com
click on the projects tab, there's a link to artwork at the bottom. this isnt art for the actual comic, but part of a side project lynn did to test out a new style, which we both like better. let us know what you think...and email your comments! i'm not paying monthly for e-mail addresses so i can brag, god dammit! (well...okay, maybe a little) |
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| i've been up for 22 hours! |
[Dec. 7th, 2005|05:16 am] |
| [ | mood |
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well, there it is.
one semester (13 issues) down, one more (x issues) to go. it was a good run, some ups, some downs. neither laura or I quit, which given our titles is somewhat of a big deal if you look at the last few years. the month off is well deserved, and very VERY needed.
good job on the paper so far, any of you torchers who may be reading. give yourselves an ol' pat on the back.
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[Nov. 27th, 2005|11:39 pm] |
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such a great ending to a good, long weekend |
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| before I geek out for a bit, an update |
[Nov. 16th, 2005|11:37 pm] |
So, while I would rather be reading The Silver Chair right now, I thought I'd drop a few hints as to what the good word is these days...
COMICS (MINE)
-"Erin Go Braugh" is getting back on track after a brief hiatus to find a new visual style. In addition to the new look, the 5-issue story arc has been spread out to 9 issues. Note how I said spread out, not beefed up. It's still the same exact script and story, just over the course of 9 shorter books. Crazy me thought five 32 page books was managable for a first attempt. Anyways, the target for the first issue is March '06...granted, that's just the pencils and lettering. We need an inker, so if you stumble across one, let me know.
-"Prodigal" This is a new one. At the con I attended a few weeks back I pitched an idea to ACRONYM Comics, a local small-press outfit who have been showing me the ropes a bit. They likes it and told me to work on a draft and find an artists. The first draft of issue 1 is done and will be posted on the website soon(ish). Eric (the head honcho at ACRONYM) seems to really dig the script, now I just need an artist. I've talked with Dan Merluzzi and he wants to give it a go. We both agreed that if he can't pull it off by the end of Christmas break, he'll bow out with no hard feelings and I'll start the hunt all over again. This one is also short (17 pages) and could see printing by early summer '06.
COMICS (REAL ONES)
-"Invincible" Read it. It's awesome.
-"Fables" Read it. It's neat.
-"Powers" Brian Michael Bendis, I love you and it looks like you've stopped jerking me around after Issue 14, but if you start pussyfooting around Deena's little secret for another 7 issues, I might kill myself.
SCHOOL
-I'm shooting par for the course so far, though I expect Spanish to be a thorn in my side this semester and the two that follow. My schedule next semester is awesome. Journalism 2, Desktop Publishing, Screenwriting, American Lit. 1, Spanish 201. Fuck the last one, the rest I can't wait for.
THE TORCH
-For those of you who work there, I won't bore you with the repundant details. For the rest of you...I won't bore you with the details.
LIFE IN GENERAL
-Long story short, I am very content with my current state in life.
Okay, that was fun, but if you'll excuse me, I have an appointment with a talking lion. Check back in another month...maybe I'll have something else to say. |
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