GAD-FREAKING-ZOOKS!

I haven''t dropped off the earth again. But I swear. The real world is nothing more than a pain in my ass!
I wanted to do a little comic about how I am doing, but there is no desire to do so.My creativity has hit such a slump. This is not a burn out, this is stress. Unbridled, unmitigated unstoppable stress.
Everyday brings a new flaming bag of horse manure to my door step.
And everyday I have to put it out. Why me? Because apparently I'm the only functioning adult in a 100 kilometer radius! And if that is the case, nuke us from orbit, because ain't no one making it out of this bitch alive!
All I want is to sit, and draw uninterrupted. Is that so much to ask for? It's quite literally my job and yet I am inundated with pleas and cries for 'help' like I have a red cape and an 'S' emblazoned on my chest.
It's the worst.
I had 2 simple pinups planned with my new Hyena babes and oh suddenly, HEADLINE: CRISIS! RABIES' FAMILY DRAMA TO RUIN IT ALL FOR EVERYONE!
UUUUUURRRRRRGH.

Hey guys
Okay since my return I've been greeted by warm welcoming responses. Which have left me floored. I'm super duper grateful to still have a ton of fans and friends in this community. You guys have my gratitude.
It's really awesome! And THAT is understatement.

Okay, so down to brass tacks.
I have had a few messages in my inbox concerning commissions. Lemme just update everyone where I'm at and how I'm going to be moving forward.
Currently I am still as busy as ever, so I won't be taking on any new projects right this moment. I'm busy sorting through the last of my commissions from 2018. Also, I'm in the process of moving and getting my new work station up and running. The one I am currently working on is entirely too slow and has been a source of unlimited frustration. So any artist working on a slow rig can attest to that and how much it sucks.
So right now, I won't taking any commissions. Not until I'm settled and have a schedule in place that will allow for more fun furry work, paying gigs and commissions.
When I do take on commissions, they will have to be pinups only, maybe an extra panel here and there added to it(something future commissioners and I can discuss in great detail, if warranted). As I cannot stand falling behind on any of my work(including the aforementioned commissions). I've done that a few times in the past and I can tell you now, it leaves me with a lot of stress and anxiety to know something needs finishing and I can't get to it. I just wanna have the least amount of stress as possible.

To the folks waiting for responses to the messages in my inbox, I will be replying to you personally. I'm not a savage haha. No, I will get to you and have a back and forth on the subject.

Also going forward I do want to post more artwork, and any feedback, critique and DEFINITELY suggestions of which of my OC's or pop culture characters you wanna see me draw. I have a few comic strip ideas I want to work on as well. I also have a "choose your own adventure" style thing I want to experiment on.
But the main idea would be to just get better at my art. At the end of the day I just want to have fun and share the spoils with folks who like looking at my stuff.

That being said, I want to, again, thank ALL of you for your warm and kind welcoming messages.
Now, let's keep this party going shall we?

I just need to get this out there.
Things have been good. I have been..content. Everything seemed to gave moved in it's usual way. Well, usual for me that is. I've worked hard, tried my best to be there for people and friends. Sometimes you lose touch or you just don't try hard enough, I dont know. Life just moves on.
I'm kind of rambling here. Then what else can i do.
I went out with a friend, a girl who i like very much. Things are complicated (as usual) and we had a good time.
We picked up her sister from work, and arriving home i discovered that out laptops and her camera was stolen. To say we are in disarray is an understatement.
We sat almost comatose for half an hour. Realising that we weren't just robbed of our things, but of our dignity, our safety, my work, my art, her camera, her new life .
See she dropped out of college after dipising her choosen field and being made to finish said course by her mother. She found her true calling in photography. And she has taken to it like a fish to water. For her this camera was a new beginning. A symbol of her life finally getting on track. And now?
That was taken.
I'm not really writing this for sympathy.
I'm just..i need to put this all out into the ether. My patreon work is gone..my work files are gone. I have yet to let all those who commissioned me know about this..urgh this fucking intrusion...its utterly maddening. And it breaks my spirit. This is truly the first time i wish pure black hate on someone...

hey guys!
Okay yeah, it seems like I've been off the reservation for so long.
I haven' posted a thing for a long while.
a lot has happened in my life.
Family and love life have to be the 2 hardest things to navigate. I swear!
I mean you try to be the classic man, cold, sullen, aloof and you get shunned hard. You try to be a metrosexual male and people think that you're gay. And then you be who you are and that's the worst. Phew!
People don't know how to handle you.
They get on the defensive and next thing you know you're paying for the damages.
Okay I'm not making much sense but you know what? That's cool. I have an overactive gerbil in my brain running across an infinite keyboard and there;'s nothing one of you can do about it!
mwhahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahhahahhahahhahhahhahhahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

okay that silliness aside, those of you will knwo that I'm knee deep into Hero Tales. I am seriously loving the comic. Ota is writing up some great stuff and we are still working on the scripts. It's all work in progress but damn... I have to thank all of you who support us. Oh my god. It's so much fun.
I'm not gonna make this a 'please support us' spiel.
I just want all the people who love my art to go to http://rabidotaku1984.tumblr.com/ and get to reading our comics. We post a new page each week.
And I would love it if you guys read it.
I don't really give a shit about getting paid for it. The money is just an incentive for me to carve time out of my schedule to make this happen. At the end of the day, if you love our stuff, I am happy. After all you guys push us to make these things happen.

For those who love Galaxy Jaunt, it will be on a bit of a hiatus. Entropy is working on a new business model to help get comics out there. Oh, be sure that Galaxy Jaunt 3 is coming out. It's all sketched out and begging to be made. Even if I have to do it myself. Shit is way too hot to not continue it.

Okay.
Lets talk about something much more important than feelings. And emotions. And wenches who squish your heart like the overripe tomato you have in your fridge because you swear you're going to use it for a stew or soup but never get around to it because I don't know how to make soup.
I kind of want some soup now..brb...






Okay. I have soup.
Wait I don't like tomato soup.

MOVIES! movies are more important than all that other stuff!

SO I've been watching a slew of movies lately,
Some good. Some Bad. Some decidedly Star Wars. Yes, Star wars gets its own category on the scale of good and bad.
Out of the gate Star wars is clearly my favourite of the season. Watched it 3 times. Yes, it has it's problems.
But we're not here to discuss them. I feel people have discussed it enough and therefor..I won't...in this journal. Oh we are going to talk star wars. I guarantee it. just not now.

The movies I want to talk about are the stinkeroonies!
The bad ones. The ones that make you puke only slightly in your mouth and make you go "what? WHAT??"

Let me list them off.
Fantastic four(because you just have to!)
Hitman: Agent 47 (why wouldn't you?..what's wrong with you?)
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (this one is just sad)
San Andreas (The rock lured me in with his..non acting)
Maze Runner: the Scorch trials(WHAT?)

Now each movie has it's own article length review that I'm not going into so I'll do my 3 faves.
FF, Hitman and Scorch trials. And I'll try to keep it short

Fantastic Four:
Look, we all knew that this was going to be bad. But see in the world of bad movies we have a few categories. I'm not going to list them, but the most popular is the rebound bad movie, which is so bad it goes all the way round and becomes amazing. And then we have this movie. The car crash. A gruesome horrifying incident that you cannot turn away from. FF is an interesting movie, because even if everything worked. NO ONE WANTS TO SEE THIS CREEPY ASS-FEST! FF at their core are adventurers. Not super heroes. They don't go around saving the world..they explore undiscovered civilizations and if a threat just so happens to pop up, they deal with it. They should have more in common with Jurassic Park, thematically than Spider-man! Everything is shite! They don't even write Ben Grimm and reed as if they're friends. They don't even look like they like each other!...they don't even talk to each other, except to give exposition. BUT...you need to see it. It fails so hard..I can only recommend it to you!

Scorch Trials:
What the Jesus was this movie?
I won't lie, I'm a fan of the first movie. Not in that die hard Star Warsian way where I would cut you and your mother if you make fun of it. More in a 'I'm a fan of dingey Chinese restaurants because I like to see if I can taste the cat in my meal'.
It's more of an experiment(no I don't really do it. It's a joke..you sick bastards)
I was fan because it posed so many questions and left so many things unsaid that my curiosity was piqued. So i couldn't wait for number2(that's what this movie was a number 2 alright). They promised to answer those herpes-like burning questions. Did they? Did they answer my questions?
Allow me to cut through the mystique to its subtle answers...ahem..."FUCK YOU! There's your answer! I gots yo money, bitch! Whatcha gonna do? NOTHING, BITCH! Here have a buncha zombies and a cute hispanic chick to jerk off to!" Fuck this movie right in it's ear.

Hitman: Agent47
This. This fucking movie.
I can't help but smile when I say it's title. Because WOW.
Remember how those games were intelligent? Asking it's player to think outside the box to assassinate a target in a way that would appear most like an accident? Remember how the first movie attempted to bring that into it's world, it tried to pretend it had a brain? This movie? ho HO! This movie ..I can't be angry with it anymore..because as it's plot progresses you don't know what you're looking at anymore. Is he an assassin? Is he a super soldier? Is he fucking Neo? Is this a dream? This movie has had so much thought poured into it, it has like 5 different twists in it. And the way it delivers those twists is like when your mom finds your porn stash and yells it from the other room and you just sit there yelling back "I have a dick, I masturbate, you know" and she yells back " well now I will masturbate too!". No dramatic tension at all.
This movie isn't bad..it's so so SO FUCKING DUMB! When you get to the end you'll be laughing your ass off. Tears...tears were streaming down my face! Oh Oh how I love this stupid, brain numbing movie.

So yeah. I suggest you take a look t these movies, if you haven't yet.
Also has anyone seen the Krampus? It didn't come down here and I really wanna see it!

So this seems to be the place where I dump my emotions on the subject of love and how it goes wrong in my life. Not that I like whining. I don't it's rather cathartic to just blurt it out.
read it, don't read it. It's all good me mateys.

And now with that out of the way. Let me begin a tale.
A tale most have gone through and all have heard.

T'was the night of Christmas and all through the timezone
I was not stirring til I realized I got FriendZoned.
But should you not have seen this coming? In hindsight yes...but still it was very sketchy
at least. See this tale starts about 3 months ago...

I have been attracted to a friend of mine. And she too was attracted to me.
We hung out for a while until I told her I liked her and wanted to do more. She said couldnt..she was indeed fresh out of a relationship. So I swallowed my pride and left it at that. And we were good friends for a while and things were back to normal.. but one night we had a fling. And afterward we made out. Now yes we had a fair amount of drink. So I decided to bring it up and sort it all out. So that no one would get hurt.
We spoke anfd came to and agreement thatwe were curious where this would lead but we would take our time so not to just jump straight into a relationship.

all through the weeks we got closer and closer. And she daid she wanted to have a new years bash with me. Could it be? The New years bash might be where we get together? No..dont get ahead of yourself I'd admonish.

Weeks go by and she has asked who I was bringing. I invited a friend or 2 and from her side a friend as well. A guy. A guy she was interested in.
What? Wait. What?
After digesting this news I looked back and realised The truth. I was blinded by my own delusions. She was not growing closer but moving further away. My guts roiled and turned as realisation washed over me, drowning me, I wasnothing more than her friend.
So I brought it up with her, told her again this is what I wanted, but no more. I can be her friend but not in the way we once were. That I needed space from her to like her as only a friend(which is nigh impossible but I have to give up on this assumption of mine.
she tells me she never thought of me as more and never brought it up because she didn't want to hurt me. That she was worried about me and that I shouldnt think of her as my one true love.

Well, needless to say I was flabbergasted. All this time I operated under the assumption that there was a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, when there wasn't a rainbow to begin with.
I am upset now.
2 months of this strange courting and none of it was real. Hurt and humiliated is all I felt.
But before I could launch into a tirade I realised I was surprisingly at ease. It's okay now. Where I was waiting for her to make a move I made my own decision and followed through.
I won't be stuck under this rock anymore and I wont allow myself to be hurt by something that now isnt real. I chose to move on and find someone truly honest, whose job it is to worry about me not because they are afraid to be found out but because they love and care for me.

She is upset with me because I brought it up and cries because I'm upset with her.
She moans that I should not expect her to pretend that everything is alright when I see her again.
I tell her, I know. None of it will ever be the same again
it simply cant be.
But I still remain her friend. Not as close as we once were..but just her friend.
So after the most trying moments of my life in a circumstance I've done my best to never be caught in, being Friendzoned. I thankfully came out marginallay scarred with my head somewhat held high.

To all out there who are friendzoned and are doing the friendzoning;

There's really only one way out of it. honesty.
Real friends are honest and talk about everything. Including any attractions.
It's that simple. And then have the courage to move on with your integrity intact


Well thats about it, thanks for reading all this..
Sorry, that there wasn't any funny slapped in here.
I'm sure I'll laugh at it on another day :)

Okay guys!
For all those who are interested in hot alien on alien sex, Galaxy Jaunt is on sale!
That's right SEX and nudey bits as far as the eye can see!
And as you've seen, green ladies with massive hair are the subject of this adventure.

Sci Fi has never been this sexy. I know that that's quite a boast, but would I lie?

No. I wouldn't, I'm honest. I was even a boy scout.
And do you know what the first rule of the Boy Scouts is?
-Deny EVERYTHING!



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Thanks to all of you for your support

For all those who are interested..
Here's the preview for Galaxy Jaunt #2

http://www.entropycomix.com/?p=183

Thanks again for all your support, be it monetarily, emotional or in the bleachers waving a big "LET'S GO TEAM" flag while our cheerleaders tumble, roll and somersault, cheering us onward and forward to create better comic porn for the glory of all the internet.

Fap one, Fap all. So that we can Cum one, cum all.

I may have gotten a wee carried away...okay..I'll leave you alone now..
It's okay I took a cab here. No, no. He's waiting for me...the meter's running... He said he'd wait 15 minutes before starting the meter again. So...I better get going....

.......

.....I don't wanna go...Don't make me...His cab smells like feet.
And he licks the palm of his hand when he thinks I'm not looking. He's seriously unsanitary.

...fine..I'll go. God look at him. God failed mankind and himself when he allowed the genetics to combine to facilitate his existence. NO I DON'T WANT TO SHAKE YOUR HAND!!

Okay so out of the gate, I have to apologise to everybody who has sent me notes, emails or skype messages and have had sparse or no replies.
Normally I'm so good at replying to any or all messages but the last few...weeks...or 2 months..I've been most sucky at it.
Mainly because I've been busy with 3 comics and a weird life. I've said it before and I'll say it again my life is being written by a sitcom writing staff. Filled with retarded scenarios, insane people and painful jokes...okay that last one is mainly my fault. I can't help myself. Seriously...wow..I have no control.
So yeah, it's now the end of the year and i am so emotionally beat I just have adopted an apathetic view towards life. Oh look a kid in a wheelchair, let's kick him! Oh a blind man, let's lead him down a busy intersection. Granted that's a terrible exaggeration but you can see that I've not been in a good place.
Save for a few moments of fun times.

Anyway. It's not all that bad.
I still have my humour...I think..right? Oh god I traded my humour for unbearable insecurity! Right?
GAh!!!!!

Still life for me always seems to be a runaway train on a roller coaster track. Not that I should ever complain. It's just a fact worth stating. I have been born under a star of great inconvenience and emotional turmoil. And the interesting thing is I've become so accustomed to this farce that I really expect more drama over the horizon.
Just as the sun rises over the horizon bringing forth a new day so do I expect new troubles to seat themselves next to me and poke and prod my sides, with glee painted on their flat ugly faces.

Wow.
This got long. I'm just blurting out whatever comes to mind.
And believe me guys there's so much more to write.
But for now, This was an apology to all those who sent me messages in the recent past.

Rock on guys! :)

Hey there!
To all of you following the Galaxy Jaunt Comic it has been put up for sale!
So for all those interested click here: http://www.entropycomix.com/?p=155
on the page are the preview pages for your viewing pleasure!

Thanks to all for your love and support!

Just a quick Journal to let ya'll know I'm closing commissions for now.
To all those who I have yet to begin on their commissions, fret not I'll be on those very soon...
PLus..I might be coming down with the flu...yay me!

Hey guys.

As of late I've been suuuper busy with Website work and more recently animation for a games company.
Lot's of new skills being learned and so on and so on.
But most of which has started me thinking of either doing my own site or my own books.
Up until now it's all been talk. But I am now going to be pushing forward in December to start not one but 2 patreon projects.

PATREON PROJECTS

The first will be for my RangerZ comic. I just haven't found the time nor the energy to finish the book to full colours for my deadline, which was the end of this year. So now I am going to be turning it into a B/W webcomic, and once I've reached the end colour it and compile it into a book. In this format, RangerZ could very well become an ongoing strip. And it will be mostly Sci fi adventure.

The other Patreon will be, of a most saucy nature. :D
The idea will be that I will do various sexy adult comics. Once one comic is done I will either create a sequel or move onto another comic. Since I have many ideas, this one will most likely have a voting system to see which comics my patrons would like to see first. So it could range from Anthro to Itterracial to fantasy.

So that's going to be my plan going forward for next year.
Expect many journals updating you on news with sketches and sites that I'll be trying to launch.
Bear with me.

COMMISSIONS

Okay, so it's time to flex those commission muscles.
I will be open for Linework/inked commissions only.

$30 for a single character
BUT 40$ for a 2 character commission. So 2 commissioners will go in $20 each for a pic.
I'd like to do colours, but I think that when colours becomes involved I end up taking less people on for commissions. So for maximum Commissions and sauciness, Inks will be all I can do.

If you do want a picture commissioned, please link me to ref of your character and a small description of what you would like it to be, reference pictures of position, composition and so on will make it run smoothly.

Thanks for all your support
Love to each and every one of you!

hey all
I am now suffering a new pet peeve.
Movie franchises!

Good lord, how many franchises must I suffer??
Yes I am a MCU fan and I'm looking forward to the new Star Wars movies.
But now with the DCU being put into motion and Fox slowly dragging it's carcass back into the running. It's all too much.

Personally, I'm reaching my own limit.
It feels like there are so many out there, especially with the new trend of Shared Movie Universe Franchise, which almost quadruples the amount of movies on circuit.
I think I wouldn't mind so much, if it didn't feel like it's all motivated by money.
And yes I know sequels by their very nature are motivated by money, but atleast they could push the idea that there are more stories to tell.
With franchises it feels like, story be damned watch this dude smack the bejesus out of this other dude. I feel that if they wanted to give these movies legitimacy, they need to give us more varied stories, more interesting stories.

For instance Superman Returns.
While not the superman movie our generation wanted, it was a good movie. It was a slow paced movie about a once loved hero who returns and realised the world has moved on from needing him. its really cool, I liked it. I feel that after the disaster movie that was Man of Steel (note: I'm not calling Man of Steel a disastrous movie, just a genre of movie like 2012 or Day after tomorrow) Superman Returns would be exactly what people would have liked to see.
A hero learning to be lighter, to take life as the precious thing and to risk his own life to protect the people who feel he is no longer welcomed.

Franklly, I'm just tired of all the franchises.
Hell, I might take a break from them...
you know...except MCU. That's still my jam!

What do you think about the growing amount of franchises?

Well last night I found out about the passing of Robin Williams.
Well it was one moment where I felt the world grow just a little darker.

Now I will be the first to say I never expected a celebrity death to ever elicit much of a response to me.
Not because I'm a cold hearted bastard, but because most have this barrier between me and them. I can't truly relate to a singer or an actor. Eventhough I would have loved to be one of their ilk.

But for my young self, Robin Williams the one person who inadvertently taught me that growing up was overrated. No parent is going to teach you that, no teacher is going to tolerate my clownish behavior because, hell maybe that's who I am and to squash that part of me would be the reason why so many of my teachers and adults in my life looked like sour faced lemons.
Robin Williams was a license to act like the fool and know that it's not my fault if other people didn't understand me. Like every writer, comedian and artist in general you will inevitably find your audience.

So, too, if you are a certain person you will find your people.
I am sad to hear that Robin Williams is no longer with us. His movies and comic shows won't be the thing that stays with me forever, but the lessons I slowly learned over the years.
Everyone is who they are and add to this massive spectrum of mankind. The worst thing anyone could truly do is to ell you not to shine as brightly as you do, to stop being so childlike, to grow up.

Well, that's pretty much it from my side.
I'm going to try and not dwell on it too much.

Have a good day, ya'll

Well shit.
My laptop is now giving me more problems than i wanted. I had to reformat it because it crash dumped twice. And when i took it to a repair dude he told me everything is fine.
So clearly it HAS to be conflicting software. So format ans reinstall everything frim scratch.
The nuke it from orbit policy worked before, should do it again. Now my usb's arent working and thus i cannot plug in my tablet.

All this is just giving me undue stress. I dont know about you guys, but HATE pc stress. one minute things look dire and the next its fine.
At any rate i might have to take it in to get fixed. Really the only thing i can do about it.

urrrgh!

I really do hate technology sometimes. ....but only sometimes.

Okay So we all know the sad sad trouble Ant-Man has been going through right?
To Catch up, it's been in development for nigh on a decade now. And as we reached Principal Photography the great and talented Edgar Wright relented and parted ways from Marvel.
Yeah. 8 years on a project? That's gotta sting.

Anyway, Marvel realises the backlash of this departure it has been doing it's utmost to put AntMan into a favorable light. Sadly, it's not enough to win over some fans of the yet to be filmed movie. For me I tried to remain positive, I was upset with the whole thing, but it's not like we aren't ever getting another movie from Wright, so there's that. I'm in a bit of limbo over the whole affair.

Then this came to my attention:
http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-conten.....Con-Poster.jpg

And WOW. I laughed my ass, balls and rabbit ears off! This looks so far off onto the ridiculous scale it worked it's way back through awesome and back to Ridiculous! This is glorious.
I 'm sure most of us are semi clued up on Hank Pym, and how underutilised, yet always cool he has been in the comics. Except for the time he bitch slap Wanda's teeth out of her mouth and the Ultimate's version of him. Then again, no character is safe from the stupidity of Marvel comics, remember that time Spider-Man swapped his smoking hot red headed wife and their future daughter for the crypt keeper..I mean aunt May. Yeah. Welcome to Disappointmentsville.

At anyrate, This poster has so much charm and I-don't-give-a-fuckilits that I'm back on board! I hope the movie will have the same charm and Attitude that this poster has. Because I can't wait to see this ridiculous psuedo 50's style sci fi in action!

Hey all!

Yeah, I know I haven't posted in a while. I'm coming off of a horrible art block and a God awful flu, that seems to be hitting all corners of the globe. Man, if the apocalypse hits mankind, it'll come in the form of a flu virus.
But I'm getting back into the swing of things again

But the main reason is that a friend of mine is moving and kind of needs extra cash. So he's selling his goodies on Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aag/main/r.....A1MT36U3QSJ8I6

I went through the list and there seems to be some choice Tradepaper backs, Games, anime and TV series to pick up.
So feel free to look at his stuff, link him to other friends and so on.


Thanks Dudes and Dudettes

Hey all!

A few peeps have been asking "oye you with the porn, when's you opening commissions again?"
That was actually said by a fisherman about to head off to sea to, in his words, "wrangle some fish and not the kind you stuff down your pants" I hope he finds these fish and I hope never to eat them because clearly he's not fishing out of some sort of civic duty to feed the masses but out of a sexual need on his part. The thought sends shivers down my spine.

Anyway that smelly man did bring up an interesting query, one many people have asked.
So today I'm open for commissions

Mainly for lined work(inks) and sketches and a few full coloured works. All based off of a first come first serve basis.

I'd like to fill up about 10 spots with both Lined work and sketches and up to 5 spots for colour. (which I will then post in, either a journal or my profile box--thingy)

PRICES:
Sketches(shading included) : $25http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13209400/
Linework: $30 http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9333909/
Colourwork:$40 http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13101636/

RULES:
No scat(unless its the music..but I can't scat I end up sounding like a chipmunk yelling gibberish)
No Lolicon
No Guro
No Vore

And lately I've been on a bit of a Herm hiatus(but that's quite unfair to some of the awesome people I have met here on FA) So due to my own personal feelings I've decided to do Herm, however when in couplings; no herm on herm, or Herm on male.

Thanks again for all those who support, you guys really rock and deserve the best work I can give you.

Okay.
So from the start, this is a spoilerific journal post about the How I Met Your Mother finale.
You've been warned.

Let me just say that I am....WAS an avid fan of HIMYM. Did I think that the show was spinning it's wheels between season 5 and 7? Yes. Was I barely interested in season 8? A resounding YES! But through it all did I believe that the cutey-pie introduced as 'the mom' could be Ted's one true love, who would make all other women pale painfully so in comparison? Yes indeedy feed the needy!

So was I surprise when the final 2 episodes weren't about Ted meeting her, but basically telling us that Robin, the woman who rejected him 3 times, married one of his best friends and is harshly uncompromising in every important life decision a couple would have to make, is in fact the love of his life? FUCKING WHAAAAA??????

Yeah, who could have forseen that if you want the girl of your dreams, who doesn't want the married life you want, wait til she becomes depressed and alone and you, son, you got yourself a shot! I couldn't believe that the creators gave Ted his perfect woman and that was never enough for him.

The fact that all this was planned since the 2nd season is a testament to their creativity and planning. And we should all be grateful that the creators and writers stuck it through. But literally all they did was reinvent the "will they/won't they" tv trope. It doesn't work because it negates Ted finally letting Robin go, in a scene that I thought was so touching. It works in real life because life can be long tedious and painful, and we surround ourselves with people who can make ours a better life. In tv it doesn't work, because that's not what we want to see.It's as simple as that.

But every HIMYM fan will say how irretated they got with Ted and his obsessive compulsive behavior with Robin. And Robin, honestly, never did a single thing to deserve him running back to her. She never tried to compromise once with Barney, she was a jet-setting news anchor who went after every job with him in tow.
Now I might sound like I'm hating on her, I'm not. Robin is by far one of my favourite female tv characters of all time. this I blame on lousy fucking writing. Because you can't have Barney Stintosn, a comic relief, misogynist give up EVERYTHING that makes him who he is and not have her character meet him half way. It's bad writing because if they had her learn from her mistakes from Ted, she and Barney would still be married, because honestly( and I know it sounds like I'm siding with the males I'm not) they didn't make Barney out to be a bad husband per se, then again we give him a lot of leeway because he is a comic relief.

And to end off my rant...Tracey...the one woman who gave Lilly a run for her money in the ultra cute department. Relegated to nothing more than a substitute baby machine to counter Robin's barren vajay-jay. Yeah I fucking said it! That's it! All she did was marry him and give him all he's ever wanted and that still wasn't enough! You can't do that in a space of 40 minutes in a show that does nothing more than recap 15 years into the future. Again bad writing.

Would this ending have worked after, say, season 5? Mayhaps. But after 9 seasons worth of build up? No. Why? Because I don't care about Robin and Ted. What I care about, is finding out how he met the mom. END!

You, Darkness is a poem written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Now I'm not one for poetry. I wish I could write poems, their beauty and expression is something I haven't been able to capture. I do my best with images and comics. Most are happy with what I have done so far.
But when one of your all time favourite artists so eloquently adds beautiful images to an existing poem well then you either throw in the towel or try to elevate yourself and your work.

This is something Stuart Immonen put up in honor of the poet whose work he loves: http://immonen.ca/post/81229221843

And it is so beautifully imagined. So I'm going to sit here for a couple of hours enjoying it.

Okay I'm something of a fan of both Aliens and Predators. And who wouldn't be?
They are the quintessential movie monsters. Standing toe toe with legendary literary monsters like Frankenstein's monster, Hyde, werewolves and vampires.
I'll be talking about Predators for now.
I went through the predators movies recently, not counting avp and it's sequel. And I have to say I'm a bit of a purist. And as much as I wanted to I just couldn't bring myself to say "Predators(2010) was a worthy entry".
I liked everything except the script. It was too stiff and ridged in the mythos of the first movie. now say what you want about number 2 at least it knew that the Predator was a character in it's own movie and had a personality. I love predator 2 as much as predator 1. You realise wow Predators are not to be fucked with, but the more you add to a movie they suckier they become. Take avp. The predators were pathetic. Even the final celtic predator was very 'meh'.

So when you get to Predators I was so optimistic, because I want it to do well. And there you go the predators were underwhelming. Did you honestly need 3 super Predators to hunt down Arnie's crew ver2? One Pred made short work of them and now apparently 3 super predators can't manage it? I think not.

Which brings me to avp.
Avp broke the one rule...the ONE GODDAMNED RULE the predators had! Was it the honorable hunt? Nah. Was it non acid resistant weapons? Psh! The cold!...they put everything in the cold! All we ask is just adhear to the movie rules set up by the creators and followed by the countless writer that followed. Predators hunt in the hottest times of the year!
There are tons of incan temples in south america. Weyland is a company that can fly you anywhere!
Needless to say that PG13 pile of crap killed it for me. So when my friend told me AvP:R was much better my first reaction was a raised brow and "well it certainly couldn't be much worse".
So I got my hands on the unrated version. My. God. It was awesome! Clearly nowhere in the league of either predator1, alien or prometheus in terms of filmmaking.
But that is what I can only assume to be the most fanboy-like movie a franchise has ever allowed. Not only was the predator NOT a hero and a merciless monster(many yays!) but the multiplying threat of the aliens raised serious concerns for the human characters. At some point you care for the humans (more out of a pitying sympathy). The new addition with the Pred-alien made me wince at the end of AvP, but was used to its fullest! Applying a new more sinister and soul searing way for a queen to lay eggs. When I first saw it a lump came to my throat and I ran cold..."Those poor pregnant ladies...FUCK THAT ! THOSE POOR INFANTS!!!"

I'm just happy that a movie with this much love for the source material was made. And yes the hot climate argument can be toss to the side as this was not a hunt the Predators planned, it was a culling!
Obviously the film suffers from serious pacing issues in the beginning and felt like a comic book. But towards the end it started wising up and became a better AvP movie.
It made me so much a fan, I've picked up a few AvP comics and I'm about to get an education!

To most my friends I'm known as a major Star Wars nerd. I love everything about THE saga, from the music, to the design work, the grandiose landscape and the beautifully crafted characters and yes even the prequels.
To me Star Wars reminds me of the romantic era of cinema (the prequels more of a homage to that). They just felt like the first movies to be directed from the art department storyboards and matte paintings all the way through to the screenwiping editing process.
And in between these movies anticipation! Oh the anticipation! I cannot wait for the next one. After every new viewing I end up reviewing the movie in my mind. Analysing and analysing it til I can't anymore..and that never happens to me with any other film, except the matrix but that's for another journal.

So that brings me to episode 7. Am I anxious for it? You bet your ass I am. But what I don't think I'm ready for is the aftermath. Disney wants to release a SW movie every year and model the franchise after the Marvel film universe. I don't know how I ready I am for it. Frankly it freaks me out. Marvel has put out some innovative and great looking movies so far( what do you expect from the house of ideas). Star Wars on the other hand always felt like the giant franchise that owed no allegiances and compromises to anyone and could take you where ever it wanted. But now Emperor palpatine answers to a hire authority, darker than the dark side of the force...commercialism. Now before you start yelling "pot" and "kettle". SW is commercial as fuck, but never once did it stifle the creatives in imagining a galaxy far far away.
For me things have changed, Star Wars may never be the game changer it was once, even the prequels did some stuff technologically that have forwarded hollywood eg full CG and believable characters. If you want to argue that point with me, pirates of the caribbean's dave Jones was a superb CGI character, look at his pirate croneys...they fucking suck! Say what you want about the prequels they look really good, goofy but good.

At any rate I'll have to wait and see if lucasflm can make it work. Fingers crossed.
What do you guys think?

So I'm back in my home country of Namibia visiting my folks. And let me tell you it hasn't been without incident.

Upon arrival I found that my aunt would be staying with us and my brother would be in tow too. My bro broke a bone in his hand on a plane door he was helping to fix( he's an aircraft mechanic). So his right hand is bandaged up. Not a good sign for me.
For as you see, my parents are DIY folks. Yup. Full on. My dad rewired, nailed and soldered his drill together. I swear to you it's a monster of a machine and fire hazard.
My mom believes on a clean house the point of it being an Obsessive Compulsive Behaviour. Anyway, this is a problem because my dad and mom have had me running around making an outside sink for laundry, gardening, rebuilding a pot plant shelf and god knows what else. My bro can't help out because...well..fucked up hand and all that jazz. Now I'm not complaining, I'm actually enjoying it, sitting on my ass drawing all day makes me realise how much I missed out doorsie work.

My dad then decided to pull a Clark W. Griswold on the house and strap christmas lights everwhere! Did we buy a christmas tree? Fuck nein! My father built a tree. YES, he built a tree. He took a thick tree branch, drilled holes in it then made me wire and stuff it with foliage from our pine tree. This is a colossal monstrosity of a tree. The weight of the 'branches' is digging it into the living room floor. I think we may have actually planted this sonovabitch there!

I then met my brother's girlfriend of 3 years finally a week ago. He lives in a different city from me. He and her fight like unto cats and dogs. I mean there isn't a month that goes by where they haven't broken up for like a day. And when I met her I knew exactly why. This ign'ant m'th'rfuck'r went and found a girl exactly like our mom. I laughed my balls off when I first saw this calamity.
But..to each their own. They are a cute couple and I'm happy for him.
Personally, she reminds me so much of my mom, I can only take so much before I start whining "mooommm!". Lol.

Anywho, I just wanted to keep ya'll updated. The passed few months have been a rollercoaster of emotion, attitudes, ideas and change. And next year I'm planning on finally producing those books I've been writing. Exciting times are ahead for me. I hope I'll get to share them with ya'll.
Scratch that, I will be sharing them with you.

Merry Christmas to one and all! Have a most festive season with all those you love. :)

Hey all
No doubt you've all noticed my lack of posts and artings. I apologise for that. I had hoped to slapped together more stuff for everyone watching.
Lately I've been concentrating on my own little business with a friend. It's frustrating and people don't seem to want to give concrete answers about anything financial or business wise. Needless to say I've felt rather despondent with the entire affair. But I'm not giving up. I just don't give up on anything.

I am also starting with a large 100 page comic book at the end of the year. It's my first full on book, illustrated and written by me, with an intro chapter written by my friend ( the same friend I'm doing the whole business dealio).
So I'm excited to start on that. I'll be posting prelim work, probably in the scraps section of my gallery.

And finally...the single worst thing that has happened to me, lately. My girlfriend of almost 2years broke up with me. For the most part she felt that she really wasn't ready for how serious we were getting. We had a long, long chat about it and well, I can't and don't want to blame her.
The surprising thing is how well I'm taking it..yes, I'm broken up about it, but it doesn't feel like I'm dying inside every second of the day. So I guess that's a small consolation. I could wax tragic poetic about how this always happens to me and yadda yadda but I feel like I need to change that 'hard on myself' attitude. As a friend said, "I should just have fun and not beat myself up" so I'm going to try to do that.
She says maybe we could try again, that would be great, but I am not going to hold out for a maybe. Life is filled with many maybes and possibilities, us together again is one of them and that's cool. But for now? I'm taking a long vacation from women and love, I've been on a massive 5 year love rollercoaster where all I've been doing is searching for my 'Mrs Mosby'.

I'm going to be selfish and think about me and how I can be happy as an individual. Which is something you neglect when you're searching for love. You tend to strengthen your selflessness in the ultimate quest and end up losing a large part of yourself. And if you've lost a part of yourself how can you love anyone fully?

At any rate this is what's new with me. So hold thumbs for me as I make my way through the pain.
Thanks :)

This was a surprising little trend I've noticed.
Most of the main characters in this year's blockbuster movies at some point become hobos. Shall we go down the list? Why yes we shall!

Man of Steel: Clark is El Hobo Grande!
The Wolverine: that beard alone makes him a hobo...even if he had a mansion!
Pacific Rim: Go watch that movie again, he's so unkempt!
47Ronin: Keanu Reeves is a dirty flea bitten half breed gaijin, with the beard to match!
The Desolation of Smaug: they have 12 hobos in the film they just call them Dwarves! Gandalf also counts.
Riddick: what else do you call someone who was king one day and marrooned the following? HOBO!!
Honorable mentions:
Elysium: everyone is so damned poor they may as well be hobos!
The Hunger Games: Again...dirt poor people are the stars..poor bastards

That's right the homeless are given a voice this year. It's cool to have no one place to call home, to have everything you own tied neatly in a rucksack, backpack or bindle. To live free in the open and carefree world of forests and abandoned railway cars, as they work day to day doing menial labour for the few pennies that will yield them food or shelter for the night. This year these brave urban ruffians are our heroes. These are the men and women who we look up to. For when we cry out in suffering,when the children are scared for their lives, for when our oppressors—er--oppress us...the Hobos will rise!!!


Why aspire to be a billionaire playboy with scores of women and gadgets at your feet when you can now be a Hobo with nothing!!
Uh-okay yeah that didn't quite work out the way I planned, but Hobos godammit!!! They're hip! They're in! Guys, become a Bum let that beard out, never wash again become the man your mom was ashamed of..the man..you were meant to be! THE GODDAMNED HOBO!!