A Message From The Butt-Puzzler

So I got an email from the almighty JSP today - apparently he's going to give something else like 665 a good go. Yippee!

Merry Christmas, all.

Oh God, It's Eleven O'Clock

So we had this award ceremony thing today for our GCSEs/A-Levels. It went pretty much as you'd expect, except that Sarah Annakin pretty much gave her life story on stage (and had me and Teasdale in tears over it), and Ben won an award, for reasons that only seem apparent to himself (and he's amazing, of course). I keep calling it a Special Award for Services to the School, but I'm a tremendous geek like that. Even if that is basically what he got it for.

So, uh. What else. I've been a bit ill, but I'm feeling a lot better, thankyou. Going to go to Manchester tomorrow and attempt to see King Kong, and if I can keep my stomach throughout I'll be happy.

Going to go and play on Ben's shiny new Xbox 360 now, even if he is a core-tard. I'll catch you all on the flipside.

Most Excellent

Both the strips for today's Coffee Achievers and Penny Arcade are laugh-out-loud funny. Links on the right. Go do it.

There Are No Stupid Questions, Just Stupid People

So I went to bed earlier just wanting a wee nap and had about ten hours. So now I have no time to clean the apartment before mother arrives.

And I'm wasting time on the internet, too. Go me.

Just Can't Keep It In

So I wasn't going to announce this until next week or something, but...

I'm going to re-draw all the FireBall archive, so that the style merges together. I'm at a point now where I've got enough of a comic backlog to start advertising, and I don't want it to look like crap once I do. So I've already started on them, and I've got four of them pencilled, and two inked. The second one just looks awesome, to the nth degree. I might even make it into a wallpaper at some point.

Scans to come.

The Amount Of Reasons I Love Asians Just Keeps On Growing

Clickety-click.

Brilliant.

White Here, White Now

You may have noticed that I've changed the theming of this here blog. That's because it's about to become part of willeth dot com for real, with seperate sections for the blog and the comic, and the style I've got sorted out is all black-on-white sketch stylee.

No, it's not some awful iPod colour-scheme styling. I hate how everything's somehow become white and curvy. It's just this whiteness does seem a lot more suitable.

So sue me.

Should Be Good

So I ordered a shirt from Digital Pimp, and Joe Dunn is including a sketch with each order. Check out his work here, here, here, and here. The Coffee Achievers is written by Nothing Nice To Say's Mitch Clem, and is awesome.

So, my sketch. I'm going to get Batman squaring off against the monster from Coffee Achievers. It'll be bloody awesome - like a Christmas present to myself. :)

What. The. Fuck.

I'm not surprised that nobody's bid on this yet.

Thank God It's Christmas

So I'm going home on Saturday, and I'll be out in Macc. Anyone who wants to find me, that's where I'll be.

Christmas this year is going to kick last year's Christmas's ass. I'm not even kidding. I haven't seen my family properly for ages, and I'm just waiting to chill with everybody who I haven't see for three months. I promise I'll get round all of you.

Auntie Helen's also coming up to stay with us, like last year. Everything's always ten times funnier with her cracking sly jokes all the time, and she has the power to make my dad smile, a rare thing in our household unless we're watching Billy Connolly or Richard Pryor. And on top of that, we get to spend Christmas with two of the cutest West Highland White terriers in the world. If it snows, I have to take a picture - they just end up being two bundle of snow rolling about.


On the downside, Grandma broke her wrist the other day. She struggles getting out of her armchair, and without the use of both hands it's been impossible without help. However, due to this, there's been an unexpected upside - she's being looked after in a nursing home. Now, you say, that's awful, that's not an upside! And that was my response, at first. But in all actuality, it means that she's never short of company, and I know for a fact that she was getting very lonely at home, despite living just down the road, without anyone to talk to from day to day. She's going to be with us over Christmas too, and we'll all be there together, so even if she's not completely healed by then, she'll be there.

Lily has also been readmitted into hospital after picking up the same bug she had in a different way, as I understand it. This was a few days ago, though, so it's quite possible she's out by now.


So, all in all, a bit of an unusual Christmas. But none the less excellent.

Ho ho ho, all gangsta rapper like, to all of you.

You Don't Love Me Any More

So I've handed in my reports for the end of the semester. Phewf. I did more work for that report for a single, useless module than I did for my entire ICT A-level coursework.

Ah well, at least I've only got one hour of Uni left before Christmas. The rest of it will be spent going out and getting drunk. Whoo boy.

Let The Show Begin

Is that guy who appears at the end of the M&S Christmas advert Sean Connery?

Methinks it is.

Tip Of The Day

Remember Word's lovely 'Don't run with scissors' or 'a plaid shirt with a checked tie rarely makes a positive fashion statement.'? Well, Google have taken up the mantle.

'You can make a lovely hat out of previously-used aluminum foil.'

Comedy Is...

...reading a Russian recipe, under the pretense of it begin a courageous poem.

New Mammal Discovered

So, this thing in Borneo. I'm naming it right here, and claiming all rights to its exploitation.

It's called the Smorgleblarn.

Smoke And A Pancake

So, James Blunt.

What a fucking retard. He can't sing for shit, and I'm not even joking or sending him up to try and be funny. Every time I hear that weird twisted voice of his on that advert I just want to scream at the TV.

I mean, the guy mutilates his vowels. We can't let him get away with that.

Flawed Muscle

There's a lot of ambiguity between the bands on that picture - The Monkees or Gorillaz? White Zombie or the Grateful Dead?

So I've given up. Gah.



Oh, and Ben - it's the B52's, not Jet. Because otherwise there would be one.

Exercise Your Music Muscle

Find the 75 bands in this picture:

http://www.oldschoolmp3.com/images/Music.jpg

So far I've got:

50 Cent
Alice In Chains
The Beach Boys
The Bee Gees
Black Flag
Bloc Party
The Blues Brothers
Cornershop
Cypress Hill
Dead Kennedys
Dinosaur Jr.
The Doors
Eminem
Guns 'N' Roses
Korn
Led Zeppelin
Matchbox Twenty
Queen
Manic Street Preachers
The Monkees
Nine Inch Nails
Phish
The Pet Shop Boys
Pink
The Pixies
The Police
Prince
Radiohead
The Rolling Stones
The Sex Pistols
Scissor Sisters
The Streets
Smashing Pumpkins
Talking Heads
The White Stripes
Yellowman

Which is a pitiful amount. If you spot any more, let me know. Some of them are probably really obvious, like the zombie, or the giant spoon, but nothing comes to mind.


EDIT: Siân's just pointed out:
Blur
Seal
U2
White Zombie
Iron Maiden
Hole
Garbage
The Roots
Red Hot Chili Peppers
White Snake
The Eels

It's amazing what a pair of fresh eyes can see.

Bet You A Fiver

Charles Xavier dies in X3.

The Advantages Of Doing A Game Development Course At University

Free shit!

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The Challenge

So we've had a few entries already. Ben and Adam have already got some stuff up, but by far the winner so far is Ant.

Check the progress of the entries here.

Now It's Dusted

And finishing touches have been added - colouring and text, of course. here;s the sketch that I did (with a bit of outlining on it, for clarity, but not cleaned up, because I can't be arsed).



Little activity for you. Add your own speech bubbles and whatnot, and see if you can come up with some sort of storyline. Entries to the usual address.

It's done...

So after that post I (pretty much) immediately got onto drawing that comic. It's taken me this long, and I'm really proud of how it's turned out. I got a bit lazy near the end, I guess, but I think it works fine anyway. And there's plenty of time to redo a few panels before it's finished.

An hour of drawing! Amazing.

Breadicles!

I had the best idea for a comic yesterday. Unfortunately it's going to be quite a while before I can use it, but I'm going to sketch it and scan it so that I don't forget. Sandy's personality is really starting to come through, too.

Ugh, back to work. Fucking C++.

Rebuttal!

Yeah, so this assignment thing. I did one, and then the others kind of trailed off. I'm hoping to get another one done tomorrow morning, but whatever. I just took a nightcap to help me sleep. This massive bed is actually rather uncomfortable sometimes.

Shrinkage Is A Good Thing

...at least when you're talking about comics. I decided that a shortening of 150 pixels wouldn't damage it much, and then even people with 800x600 resolutions (those archaic fools) can view it in its entirety.

One of my assignments is half done. Yay.

How It Went

I think it went quite well, all things considered. She was very positive, and said that she was looking for a keyholder. I said that it shouldn't be me, because I often give in to tempation, and having keys to a game store would be too much to bear. We laughed, shook hands, and then I left.

I've been waiting by the phone without eating since.

Prioritisation

So I spent today drawing and inking the comics for the next two weeks. What I should have been doing, of course, is writing a report about the XBox 360 and coding an application to emulate the game of craps, as that's what my lecturers expect - rather than Chad and Pete in a variety of poses (and no, that's not an indication that 'FireBall Comics - XXXTreme Yaoi Edition' is going to be released any time soon, because it won't, you disgusting people).

It's good to know that I'm still my old procrastinatory self, I guess.

Back Around Again

So I've got an interview at Game tomorrow at half past ten. The main question is, I suppose, whether or not I can wake up in time. I'm going to go to bed at half eight to make sure that I am, seeing as I got up at 3pm today. Blah. I'll probably get turned down because of the hours I can work, but whatever. At least I gave it a shot. Still, I'm sure that I've got more knowledge than most of the people out there. not only that, 30% discount, yay. If I get it.

Wow, my emotions are in turmoil. I'm not sure whether I should quickly go and buy a tie or not.

Spendin' Mah Monies

Ctrl+Alt+Del is going animated. It costs $30 a year to subscribe (or $20 on their SPESHUL INTRODUCTARY OFFAR), and I've already gone ahead and done it.

I mean, whoa. CAD in motion? For just over a tenner? With extra stuff like wallpapers and exclusive shirts? Fuck yes.