Last Thursday there were some issues with Keenspace Comic Genesis. The comic didn't update until Friday I think. I'm not too worried/upset or anything, but I did have an update. Go look if you missed it.

I've been pretty busy lately with things. I agreed to draw a CD cover for my friend's band (There are two high-schooler rock bands in my town now--Dethroning Bucky and... Dissonance, I guess? I'm drawing this CD cover for Dissonance). Anyhow, it's a bit awkward at the moment I think, but it isn't looking quite horrible. I might post it up on the Comic Genesis forums, but... I'm scared. I don't want to be called a bad artist, even if I am. :(

:P

The other project, I will present right now. Joel--the Joel featured in two of my comics so far (and I think I forgot to put him in the cast page--oh no!)----ANYHOW: Okay, so Joel typed with me the other day via MSN in regards to Mac'n (Incidentally, that's one of the comics he was in):

Joel: that was the coolest comic i have ever seen
Josh: Was it?
Josh: That's good I think.
Joel: yeah if only it was in 1024 768 form
Josh: Why would it be?
Josh: Why wallpaper form?
Josh: so i could put it on my desktop

Yes, Joel wanted a wallpaper of Mac'n, and Joel wasn't the only one. Oh, poor Macinley Holtan. He gets so much crap from me. But yeah, a wallpaper in giant-size!:

It sucks, honestly. I was too lazy to clean up the line art so I colored over it, and that just made it look worse. Sorry, dear readership. Oh, well--Joel seemed to like it. He wanted poor Mac to be more bloody though.

And we come back to the problem with that strip, or the general idea of needless violence. On one hand, it's kinda mean to Macinley, who is in fact a real person and still a kid. Mom thinks that if he saw the comic he'd cry. I'm not so sure about this. Still, I see where she comes from. On the other hand, some people (Joel and maybe one other kid) thought that this was the best comic ever. ~sigh~ I just don't know. For now, it's staying published because I think I've made it obvious that I did it in good fun...or something.

So how 'bout this comic, eh? Umm... I put a lot of work into those three panels, I remember that. Also, the planarians there are all cut and paste (obviously if you look close up). I hope the effect worked.

Also, my brother commented to me Friday about how my art had noticably improved. How kind of him! Makes me feel all warm inside. :) And I think it's true, to a degree.

Finally, the parents have been away the whole week. It's pretty crazy!

--Josh