The Sundays Preview

Also at Intelligent Brian.com but now here as well! The first seven pages of The Sundays #1, written by Kevin L. Sheath. The next two pages are a double-page spread and are coming soon.

Click here or click on the big Sundays button over to the right. -->

Comics coming out this week

Not everything coming out tomorrow, obviously, but the stuff I plan on getting:

American Virgin #12, Jack of Fables #8, and The Walking Dead #35.

Q: How many naked Japanese girls does it take to fill a phone booth?

A: This many.

Google

I just did a Google search on "Flight of the Living Dead," which I do from time to time to see who's linking to me. For the first time, the comic itself is the #1 result. It used to show up on page two or three, behind posts about it on message boards, an interview with Simon Pegg, and some guy saying the movie "Red Eye" should have been called "Flight of the Living Dead."

I wonder how many pages it is before Neil Gaiman shows up? (A joke for Penn Radio fans)

New page of FoLD

Page fifteen.

I have saved one day of my life

By quitting smoking, according to this Quit Counter program. I don't know what they're basing that on... is that the time I used to take every day to smoke?

Anyway, yesterday was the four week mark, and two days from now (according to Quit Counter) is the one month mark. On March 2, I'll have saved $100.

The major thing about Quit Counter I dislike is that it says "My name is Scott, and I am a nicotine addict.
I have stopped nicotine for 29 days, 8 hours, 40 minutes and 3 seconds (29 days)." Seeing "I am a nicotine addict" pisses me off every time. Don't talk for me, computer program. I know how to uninstall.

There's a new page of FoLD going up tonight

And one next week, which is the last page of chapter two. After that, I may take a couple weeks off from FoLD to get more Sundays pages done, and to do some projects that I've committed to but haven't had time to work on.

Some photos of Studio-Like

Studio-Like as a whole
And my specific little corner of it

New nudie girl sketch... for sale!

Hey there. I just did a new sketch from Suicide Girls. This one's of Aiden, and for the first time ever I'm selling art on eBay! Let's see how this works out. If you want to buy it, head to http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320086478502 and take a look.

Also click on the below image to see the sketch bigger.

Flight of the Living Dead announcement

Recently, while re-writing the script for FoLD, I found myself needing more space and lengthened the original idea for sixty pages to ninety-six pages. My plan was to eventually start doing two pages a week in order to have everything finished up by December 31, 2007, but I see now that would be impossible. It's hard enough getting one page a week done, especially while trying to get The Sundays done as well, so I've decided I'm just going to abandon my original plan of ending the comic. Now it'll just be done when it's done. I may end up lengthening it even further from it's current ninety-six page incarnation as well, but I haven't decided yet.

Putting zombies on a plane ended up being a bigger and more involved project than I had originally planned it to be.

Mii

Trailer for The Simpsons, Year Zero

The Simpsons Movie. Looks like it might actually be good, which is surprising.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/thesimpsonsmovie/trailer3_large.html

And for whatever reason, there's a trailer for Year Zero, and it has no music in it. I don't get it, but here it is:

http://yearzero.nin.com/yearzero_hi.html

FoLD print update

Unfortunately, I didn't have enough pages done on time to get the first two chapters of FoLD printed professionally for the New York Comic Con (this weekend). I still want to put together copies of the first two chapters, but they will most likely be Xeroxed copies, and they'll just be for editors, not for people to buy.

For the San Diego Con in July, though, I will have real comics printed up, and I'll have those available to buy.

FoLD page 14

Here it is.

Flight of the Living Dead

There's a new page of FoLD going up tonight at midnight. I mean, that's when it's supposed to come out, but I missed last week's update so I'm just letting you know.

New sketch

I did a brush sketch last night of a Suicide Girl. Click to enlarge.

Oh Don Piano

You don't know me!

Take this test about me! We'll see who knows random facts about my life.


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Suicide Girls

I just joined everyone's favorite home of naked punk girls. After spending a few hours hanging out there, I can't imagine why I didn't get join before. If you, reading this, are a member, why not visit my page and add me to your friends.

How could I forget this one?

This is the first eels song I ever heard. Now I can't get enough of them. This isn't my favorite song of theirs (that would be "Last Stop: This Town" from Electro-Shock Blues), but that video's kind of lame and this one rules.



eels - Novocaine for the Soul

I lied, one more video

This one's so great. Made up entirely of clips from El Santo films.



Danger Doom - The Mask (feat. Ghostface Killah)

One last music video

Finally, my favorite White Stripes song, and my favorite video of theirs coincidentally enough.



The White Stripes - My Doorbell

Another great music video

This is the song that turned me into a Radiohead fan, and to this day it remains my favorite Radiohead song. It's also got a great video, and it has some of my favorite Radiohead lyrics. The last verse is simply Thom Yorke singing "Phew, for a minute there, I lost myself" over and over. It's almost as good as "I don't know why I feel so tongue-tied, I don't know why I feel so skinned alive."

Best verse:
Karma Police, arrest this man, he talks in maths
He buzzes like a fridge, he's like a detuned radio
Karma Police, arrest this girl, her Hitler hairdo
Is making me feel ill, and we have crashed her party


Radiohead - Karma Police

Second best music video of all time

This one's by Belle and Sebastian, one of my favorite bands. Unlike the Leonard Nimoy one, I love this one in a completely unironic way. The lyrics are great and I love the artwork they used in the video.

I'll make a rough plan to sleep around, I'm in a rut
I need a change, I'm a lazy rat, if I am honest
But my bold change of tact will fade out with the summer
I've got no appetite and all the girls are bummers

I love it.



Belle and Sebastian - Your Cover's Blown

The best music video of all time

Leonard Nimoy - The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins

I beat Final Fantasy III for Nintendo DS

Started playing in November '06.
Final time: 42 hours, 30 minutes.
Final level: 68/69
Final party:
- Luneth: Ninja (job level 42)
- Arc: Magus (job level 32)
- Refia: Sage (job level 31)
- Ingus: Dragoon (job level 75)

This is the eighth Final Fantasy game I've beaten, along with I, II, IV, VII, IX, X, and XII.

I love PennRadio

I listen to Penn Jillette's podcasts regularly, although I haven't listened to any of his shows this week for one reason or another. Just now I went to iTunes to get the new episodes and I see two episode synopses that blow my mind:

Joe Rogan debating the "moon landing hoax" with Phil Plait

And an hour with James Randi discussing phony psychics.

And although I haven't listened to them yet, I am literally giddy with excitement now that I've seen the episode titles.

I am such a nerd.

An addictive game for fast typists

QWERTY Warriors

I go 30,000 points on "impossible."

Kubert School being demolished

FoLD Characters

When writing the script for Flight of the Living Dead, I came up with nine main characters that the story would center around. I just realized that with the new page that went up this week, we've seen every one of the nine characters that will shape the story over the next eleven months. I will not tell you who they are, but I will tell you their names:

Kat, Mandy, Geanna, Matheson, Peter, Chloé, Ed, Marie, and George.

June is the second flight attendant we've met. She was not in my original cast of characters but she has become a major character in the script that I've been writing for the story. So you can count her as the tenth main character.

Français

It has been brought to my attention that the French spoken by a new FoLD character on page 13 (who will have a little more prominence in pages to come) is complete gobbledegook.

This is what I get for trusting Babelfish.

I'm going to correct it for the print version of that page, and try to figure out a different way of translating English into French for future scenes involving that character.

Flight of the Living Dead

Page thirteen!

Holy shit! New Nine Inch Nails album!

Did anyone tell Trent it's only been two years since the last one?

Album five: Halo 24: Year Zero.

April 17, according to NIN's MySpace page.

Flight of the Living Dead cameos

On the left is Killer Rian Miller, and on the right is Chris Yezek.

Flight of the Living Dead

Page 13 shouldn't be too late this week, but it will be late. I'm not going to be able to finish this page before midnight.

FoLd

I wrote some more of the script tonight. A lot more, in fact. I'm up to page forty now.

Sam Jackson shows up on page twenty-three, and the snakes on page thirty.

A thought concerning FoLD

Flight of the Living Dead may not end up being sixty pages, after all.

Right now I'm thinking more like ninety-six.

I'll let you know how it's going to work.