Ok, so I’m up late working on the ADDSPO Adventure for tomorrow. I have to take a moment to comment on the fact that El Goonish Shive just finished a storyline in which only one evening past that started in May of 2005. That’s a year and a half for about 6 hours.
Now I love EGS and I’m going to continue to read it and enjoy it, but at this rate. The characters will go to college about the time I hit retirement.
I really wish I had the energy and drive to write and draw a webcomic regularly. I’ve had three attempts at it in the past and they end very much the same way; something like work or school or some such gets me all distracted and I stop updating. I think I can be fairly funny in a webcomic, although I care very little for my art. It’s just one of those mediums that I really wish I was capable of doing regularly. Sadly, experience has taught me that this is not the case.
The GF has known me for quite some time and has seen each of my comics come and go. I mentioned the flawed and long gone “C316″ comic from my high school days and mentioned that I’d lost all the files for it, lamenting that I’d at least like to have them. She informed me that the website could still be reached now and again and when I tried, it worked. So now I have all of my first comic on my hard drive. It’s a little comforting. I had a hard drive snafu kill almost all my written word from before 2003 so it was nice to regain some of that material.
The vector art is atrocious, universally horrible. The dialog is somewhat shabby and the subject matter was such that I’m almost certain it was impenetrable to anyone who hadn’t been an Academic Decathlete. Still, it was kinda cool to run through it again.
I’m fairly certain that I can’t even get into the “In The Shadow Of…” admin site anymore, and even less sure I could upload them via the FTP app. I would be nice to have C316, Monkeez, and In The Shadow Of… all together, especially because the first and last share characters. Oh well, there is much to lament and little time to lament it in.
Scott Pilgrim
I was out with my beautiful wife and one of our many glamorous friends when the subject of the Scott Pilgrim movie came up. On a whim, I broke my self imposed do-not-see-things-in-the-theatre rule and suggested we go see it. I was very displeased to see that ticket prices had gone up again since I had last bought any, but this time the small fortune I had to part with was worth it.
I am a huge fan of the comic series. It was the best sequential art storytelling that I’d read in years. To be honest, the idea that they were making a movie of it filled me with small amount of dread. The irreverent tone and colorful[1] style didn’t seem like something that would translate to a big budget production and something with a budget small enough to avoid entanglement with The Suits wouldn’t have enough money to get the visual effects needed. I have never bee happier to be wrong.
To say that the film looked like a comic book would be a disservice; films that “look like comics books” in the past have tried too hard to do so. The film, Scott Pilgrim Versus the World, looked like the Scott Pilgrim books specifically and it did so effortlessly. The plot required shortening, of course, and the format of film neccessitate a host of othe changes. The tone, casting, and production quality all made sure that I didn’t care when changes were made.
I highly recommend it, even at theatre prices.[2]