Geek Week
It’s been a good week. Got the comic up on Monday, and the vote incentive up on Tuesday. Wednesday my guest strip at GWS went up and garnered a lot of positive comments, which I appreciate, I read them all! That guest strip is only slightly less dirty than the previous one I did, which borders on NSFW depending on the sensibilities of your workplace. (it has a big vibrator in it).
Today, known locally as Quatro de Mayo – I say locally when really I mean that I say that and no one else does, is also known as “May the 4th be with you,” which slowly seems to be turning into an internet geek holiday. That suits me fine cause it’s also my birthday. I only mention it cause I turned 40 this year, and I only mention that, not because I want you all to have the image of me in a wheelchair with an IV drip and an oxygen tank, but because I randomly realized I’m only a few years younger than Sydney’s dad, which is… weird. I guess because I’ve never had adult hobbies like watching sports and… I don’t know… drinking beer, I’ve never felt like an adult, but realizing that I could have a kid that’s old enough to drink is a little jarring.
Don’t worry though, I’m not a decrepit old man quite yet. In fact if I can find the time I’m going to try and get into the 1,000lb club, (combined bench, squat, and deadlift)
Saturday is free comic book day, swing by and support your local retailer.
Today is also The Avengers day, at least for Americans. Mostly I’m posting this because I thought it’d be fun to have an Avengers thread. Don’t spoil anything! You can hide spoilery comments by using the spoilers tag: <spoiler>Spoilers go here</spoiler> It will look like this The Hulk is Bruce Banner Click to read it.
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Happy birthday! You’ve had a busy year with marriage, turning 40, and all. May you next year be at least as good as this last year.
I haven’t seen The Avengers yet, but I’ve heard great things about it from many of my hard-to-please geek friends.
Saw the Avengers on the weekend and absolutely loved it. Best Superhero movie I’ve seen in a while. The audience broke out in spontaneous applause when Hulk went all Whack-whack-whack on Loki. Loved the Helicarrier, too.
Well you have had an eventful year. Bravo! Saw “The Avengers” and found no flaws that I could see. Also one of the best super hero movies ever made. And that includes the previous leader “The Incredibles.” So good to see them all in the same universe. But considering what happened in New York I must ask about the Fantastic 4 and Spiderman. Where were they? Not even counting Dare Devil. I suppose they were either out of town or had other adventures while it was going on in the Big City. The original Grey Gotham.
I was really hoping Spiderman would show up since they’re working on the Spiderman reboot movie, even if he just saved a stroller from falling debris. That’s the problem with any comic book though, especially Marvel. New York is so chocked full of superheroes that they should constantly cross over.
Avengers was great but I still say that Incredibles is a better movie overall, not just a better superhero movie. Tighter story overall, better emotional moments. I think The Avengers is a great movie, but I also think everyone secretly had low expectations since a project like this would be so easy to screw up, so we’re not looking at it with as critical an eye as we will in a few years. Incredibles, IMO was seriously Oscar worthy, I’m not sure Avengers is.
Just one question…..who in the hell is the guy with the M choker and why wasnt he in the Who’s Who section???
Cause I haven’t actually introduced him in the comic yet. The Who’s Who is there to remind people (especially people that read a lot of webcomics or only stop by on occasion) who everyone is, not for me to use as a writing crutch.
I wish all the comics would have character listings on the page. It is hard to remember them all.
I must agree that over all as a serious movie, with comedy, family life, alternate world, super heroes all that makes “The Incredibles” the best even though “The Avengers” is bigger, more complicated and is live action.
Well with the exception of characters I haven’t introduced, that is the case. Granted I’m a little behind on the cast page. :P
That’s okay you are very busy. Have you sketched out backgrounds and personality types for all your characters yet? Or do you go by who you are going to introduce as they come in? I shouldn’t be bothering you on this but I am curious.
With so many characters I have to have their profiles with me when I am writing because I can’t keep them all straight in my head.
No it’s pretty much all in my head. Some of these characters have been with me for years so I’m well acquainted with their personalities. Ideally, every character I put in the comic, even tertiary ones should be fleshed out an interesting enough to do a spin off comic. :)
I’ve tried to create grids of character attributes and favorite music, food, whatever, but instead of using it as a control document, I just change it whenever I come up with a better idea. Though, now that they’re on paper as it were, I do need to make spec sheets for the characters so I can attempt to be consistent with them.
I can understand that. You know that someone somewhere will be calling you down if you get or they think there is some inconsistency here eventually.
Everyone knows this was truly the story of Tony Stark becoming a hero. I mean, he started out just as the Cap called it, and ended up willing to sacrifice everything. LOL
But seriously, the Avengers was the best comic book movie to-date. The Invincibles may have been the best superhero movie, but it’s not based on a pre-established comic book. Josh Whedon and the cast had to work with what Marvel already had out there, and they did the best job anyone could have done with it. You really can’t compare the two to each other, or expect the same ideas to count.
* Incredibles. I meant the Incredibles. Not the Invincibles. TOTALLY DIFFERENT THINGS. XD
Yes “The Incredibles” had to be constructed from the beginning. So that made it self contained in its history. Still if you divide between live action and CGI movies I still consider them both at the top of the best in their genre.
(They were called “The Invincibles” in some other parallel worlds.)
You may want to fix panel 4. The arm is looking as it if it attached to the back of her head.
Jus’ sayin’, I like the comic, wonky eyes&arms or not :-)