Step right up, step right up everyone. Whether you’re good or bad, happy or sad. Whether your an emotional wreck, or a blissful speck in this back hole of an existence we call ‘life’. Step right up and witness something you’ll be soon to never forget. Feast your eyes on the most exotically impressive work I have ever created. The horribly wonderful bastard child of Kevin Smith’s ‘Clerks’ with the pure unadulterated awesomeness of ZOMBIES!

I do apologize to everyone at the 2010 Supanova Melbourne convention two weeks ago for the delay, but it’s finally released. Free now to wreak it’s havoc upon society.

In case any of you are wondering what inspired this… my mate Chris Booth has long been a fan of B-Grade horror movies. So it should be no surprise when he mentioned that I should do a comic involving zombies walking into a 7-11, that it was immediately obvious to me that it should be set in the universe of Clerks. His idea was essentially that Zombies could be much less of a plague and more of a hindrance upon society. It’s never been done. At least not that I can tell.

In every zombie movie as far as we’ve both seen, Zombies are always portrayed as an outbreak, an uncontrollable mass that destroys society in a matter of hours. What if it wasn’t so rapid? What if they roamed around aimlessly? Never talking. Never dying. Just moaning. Hordes of the dead just standing around. On street corners. Under bridges. In parks. Seldom ever attacking people, and even then most people can easily avoid them. They’d become part of everyday life. Normal.

Sure some people might simply ‘kill’ them. But if this happened in real life perhaps some people wouldn’t want them to be exterminated. After all how could you KNOW for sure they didn’t remember being alive? They feel hungry. They can remember the word for ‘brains’. How could you know that they wouldn’t feel pain? In short I think this would be an awesome movie if it were done in a style similar to District 9. So if there’s any interested directors, feel free to write me!

Well we’ve had another long, tough haul to get here to another completed Shinyverse issue and let me tell you it’s been hard on the whole team. I mean how many times can I nag, prod, push someone into getting the next issue done when they don’t even have their own home internet atm?

Yup. That’s right folks. The troubles of the last few years have caused the team to spread right across the face of the earth in order to get decent paid employment in order that we can afford the internet. Though after spending some time here in Japan I’m once again disgusted with the flagrant price gouging and under-servicing we are forced to endure in Australia as a result of the non-competitive, modern business model whereby one company only introduces improvements to it’s customers in the event that their competition has already gone and done it. Which they will almost never do.

But I didn’t start writing in order to rant.

Let me tell you about this Japanese guy i’ve seen around here in Tokyo on rollerblades wearing cosplay and dancing in the streets. But wait there’s more. That’s not the full extent of his depravity. Oh no. It’s about the cosplay. You see, he’s not just in regular Otaku cosplay. Rather he’s cosplaying as a maid. No not as a butler. I do know the difference between a butler suit and a maid dress. No this guy is standing there on the street side in broad daylight and lamplight (he’s there at night too), with rollerblades and maid cosplay on, hairly legs protruding beneath the short skirt and all doing the twist, the watousie, the bird, you name it he’s dancing it. What’s worse though is that he didn’t even have the decency to wear a Kamen No Maid Guy mask. Bleeeagh…Oh the humanity of it….

Now let’s move onto something less disturbing.

Ah who am I kidding, I’ve got nuthin’. Other than some cool cosplay ideas…

See you all next time Risky-Sama can manage to finish a strip.

It’s 4 a.m. and I’ve only just finished my latest comic after nearly nine months on hiatus. Normally after such an arduous task I’d immediately save my progress, shut-down my computer, and go to bed to crash. The weird thing is that instead of doing that I feel like drawing some more. It’s a very hard urge to resist, and I wouldn’t if I wasn’t so tired. I’m having to tear myself away because I can’t WAIT to start on the next comic, and not just because it’s got zombies in it, or that it’s got the guys from clerks in it, but because I have these awesome ideas for how the comic will look.

Normally my comics are pretty strait and narrow, nice a sharp edges, each panel completely independant or the other, with only the words intruding on the black space. The idea is that instead I’m going to experiment with torn paper edges, something I’ve never done before. I’m going to try, at least in part, to echo the raw textures in Left 4 Dead 2, and give the comic a more desperate, earthy appeal.

I’m not at all understating this when I say it’s quite a challenge. Due to the lack of words in the comic I have to rely almost entirely upon my artwork to convey the message, which could be quite a tricky mark to hit. In addition to this I feel like trying to draw the characters for this more realistic, more like the style of a western comic by Marvel or DC. I don’t usually have this kind of focus on a project, or zeal for trying new stuff, or impatience to start on the next project immediately after I just finished the last. I’m having force myself to get some sleep. I am only human after all.

Well I’m ranting again which can mean only one thing….. Risky has made some progress =D. Though i don’t have any real subject matter to talk about I’ll see what i can do…

PROTOTYPE has and still continues to take up a portion of my time doesnt matter how long I play the novelty of such stupid power and senseless destruction of life and property is just greatly entertaining for me (and I like to jump around NY like a tard) though the storyline line is a little schyzophrenic as you jump between Alex’s utter confusion and merciless rage It plays out rather well. Unless you played no attention to your ‘Web of Intrigue’, in spite of my fist impressions of him being a little whiny, has bullied and butchered his way to one of my favourite anti-heroes worth a play if you dont mind running back and forth across a city for a few hours.

On another unnecessary note just today, Risky has put me onto this program used to view celestial maps, which is very cool (though im not going to link, you can ask Risky =P) and I’m currently playing with, only half focused on ranting, so excuse my distaction.

The other somewhat important thing to me at the moment is trying to obtain a copy of Syntactic Structures. It’s a linguistic text written by Noam Chomsky, though it’s not hard to find, so finding one my ultimate goal, particularly a first edition, although it appears to not exist. I’ll most likely have to settle for a second edition, that or continue to look for a little while longer… wish me luck.

PS: anyone that knows where a 1st edition of Syntactic Structures can be found let me know ^_^

Sorry for the delay in the new Dr Who comic everyone. Me and my partner haven’t been terribly well these last two weeks, and as we all know it’s not very easy to draw comics while sniffling, suffering headaches, and holding back a torrent from a runny nose. Fortunately though we’re starting to feel a little better, so hopefully I can get back to drawing soon and it shouldn’t take me much longer to get it done.

It’ll be good, because when I’m unwell I tend to just play games for hours. The problem is that playing games can only distract me for so long, before I have to move on. So, in a desperate effort to escape feeling crap, and despite my earlier doubts about it, we decided to give the new Star Trek movie a shot and went to see it.

In a few words it was absolutely fantastic, only if you were able to excuse the needlessly silly plotline. It’s a given that I’d agree with the other fans and say the choice of actors was brilliant, and that the brand-new look they’ve given the starships was also good, because for the first time ever in Star Trek they actually looked huge. So would I say that the movie gets a perfect 10 on its review? – hardly.

This could be considered nitpicking, but my problem was with the bullshit ‘Red Matter’ element. As a fan I can forgive the fact that it couldn’t really exist because, afterall this is science ficton. But the thing here is that I’m a story writer too, and I maintain the opinion you shouldn’t needlessly create something unscientific where something perfectly reasonable would do just fine in the same storyline. I mean sure, a WHOLE planet getting crunched in a black-hole looks very spectacular, and that might be very good for the box-office, but there was no reason why it couldn’t have just been a large asteroid, or even several, thrown at Vulcan instead – it was a mining vessel afterall, and it certianly would have been just as catastrophic. 

That might sound like a bit of a winge, but I was hoping that would finally change things and remove the ‘tasty cheese’ smell that every Star Trek series and movie has shared. Given that warp drive is in fact theoretically possible, and given that they spent such a huge amount of time making the scenes look super-real, and given that they spent a huge effort making the actors look and act uncannily like their older counterparts, I was hoping this would extend into the standard Star Trek storyline. Unfortunatly as it seems this has been neglected yet again, it’s a real pity because they could have done something amazing here. But a truely earth-shattering (no pun intended) storyline has once again been missed, in perference of more drab nonsense.

Aside from that it was great – nice job Mr Abrams.

Once again I find myself cleaning out more of my stuff, and it shocks me to find that I have gathered so much useless junk over the years, but in this pile of odds and bobs I found a rather pleasant surprise a box of old games from my first two years of high school, needless to say I quickly abandoned my grand ideas to feverishly install them on my PC.

A few days of nostalgia and sleep deprivation later and I was a very content gamer to be playing through some of my favourite old games,  Afterwards I was compelled to track down one game that I had owned but could not find in the cleanout a copy of Age of Mythology and The Titans expansion. There is something very few people know about me (and now more will know I guess) but the reason I play very few RTS is I get very addicted very quickly and so surely enough for the last week I have been playing it only venturing out for work and showers, and this is not good.

It has been a nice change though from my time (life) consuming addiction to World of Warcraft >_< so I’ll enjoy this while I still can, because in the end it is very hard to ignore the things you have to fork out money for. So,  the moral of today’s rant look back and try those games you enjoyed when you were younger and dumber (or smarter like me) you might be taken by surprise and really have fun.