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.


Create your own Friend Quiz here

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.

I just beat Final Fantasy XII

I started playing a day less than three months ago, on October 31. My final time was 92 hours, and my characters were at level 69/70. I completed the license boards for Balthier, Fran, and Ashe. I killed every Mark except for Ixion, Shadowseer, Fafnir, Behemoth King, and Yiazmat. I did not get the Zodiac Spear.

This makes the seventh Final Fantasy game I've beaten, along with I, II, IV, VII, IX, and X.

Flight of the Living Dead in print

I've decided for the New York Comic-Con I'm going to have a preview issue of Flight of the Living Dead printed up, so I can hand them out to publishers and other creators.

I'll also have them available to anyone who wants one, for around 2 bucks or so. Within the next couple weeks I'll have info for anyone who wants to buy a copy.

I'm having them professionally printed, so they'll be good quality, but it's going to be a pretty low print-run (I'm thinking 50-100 copies), and it'll have the first sixteen pages of the comic. I'm also thinking I'll do a second issue with the next sixteen pages for the San Diego con in July.

I'll also... probably... do a new cover for it. I shall keep you abreast of any new developments.

Flight of the Living Dead

Page twelve is up.

FoLD cover

Well, I was already considering redoing the cover of Flight of the Living Dead for when it gets published, since a lot of people told me it's not as good as the interior artwork. Now I'm certain that I will:

The Sundays link

I forgot that the Sundays link over there --> doesn't work just yet. It's going to be a preview of the first few pages of the first issue, but I haven't put the preview together yet. If you want to read them anyway, go to http://www.intelligentbrian.com/sundays.htm.

Finished the new layout

Everything should be switched over and working now. If something is broken, please let me know.

Restaurant group offended by commercial.

A restaurant trade group says it is insulted by a Super Bowl ad that stars Kevin Federline as a fast-food worker.

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co.'s spot shows K-Fed, Britney Spears' ex, performing in a flashy music video. It turns out he's daydreaming while cooking fries at a fast-food joint.

The ad amounts to a "strong and direct insult to the 12.8 million Americans who work in the restaurant industry," National Restaurant Association President and Chief Executive Steven Anderson wrote in a letter to Nationwide. The ad "would give the impression that working in a restaurant is demeaning and unpleasant."

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!

Flight of the Living Dead

Page eleven.

Page twelve goes up in about thirty-six hours.

FoLD: Two pages this week

Page 11 is going up tomorrow (Sunday) and page 12 is going up on Monday.

I promise.

FoLD Merchandise?

The idea was brought up to me a few days ago of making Flight of the Living Dead t-shirts. I'm just wondering if it's worth my time to put something like that together. If you'd be interested in buying one, you can reply to this message by clicking on "comments" underneath this (if you're a Blogger member) or just email me at ewen.scott@gmail.com. Or email me ideas of things you might like instead of t-shirts, and if I get enough replies, I'll see what I can do.

More of me in Old Bones

Two more pages of my cameo appearance in OLD BONES, art by Killer Rian Miller. On page 11 I appear to be checking out Joanie's ass. Click to enlarge.

FoLD

I'm almost done with this page, but one reason I've been dragging my feet on this is because it kind of sucks. I'd rather put up a page late than have one I'm not happy with, so I've completely re-written the page and the next few pages, and I'm going to redo this. Hopefully I can get it done soon, but it might be another couple of days.

I'm confused

The pageviews on my website shot up over the weekend. Sunday I had more hits in one day than I get most weeks. And I didn't put up anything new. What is going on here?

In other news, the new Shins album is pretty good. I like "Oh Inverted World" and "Chutes Too Narrow" more at this point, but it could just be because I'm more familiar with them. I'll decide how "Wincing the Night Away" stacks up with more listens.

FoLD

Well, it looks like the new page will be going up tomorrow. I had to work today and didn't have time to finish it before the midnight deadline. I'm still working on it right now, but it won't be done in time to get on Serializer for tomorrow, and I need to get some food right now.

I've also spent much of the last couple hours in an Internet argument about PETA. Which sounds dumb, but it's how I spend my time.

FoLD

Still working on the new page. It'll be a little late.

Web Sight

Okay, the main page is done, pretty much. I'll start moving the other pages over to the new layout soon, but right now I gotsta sleep.

Web Site Redesign

I'm going to start switching stuff over to the new layout. Things here might look screwy for the next couple hours.

More of me in Old Bones

Rian Miller has drawn me into "Old Bones" as a supporting character. Click to see the whole page. From Rian:

"It would appear that your job in the book, as well as in real life, is to make funny faces. You can also find Steve, Von Hook, Joanie, Yezek, and Joel on this page. "

Rian has also done this week's Intelligent Brian strips, and done a fine job at that. Go check 'em out.

Old Bones starring Scott Ewen

Here's the final inks for my cameo appearance in Old Bones #1, art by Killer Rian Miller. Also appearing are Steve McBride (far right) and one of my roommmates, Joanie. Click to enlarge.

Flight of the Living Dead

Page ten is up.

New FoLD page going up tonight

This one, much like the last one, features a zombie, and a flight attendant. There may be blood as well. Expect it around midnight or so.

Working on a new layout for the site as well. Hopefully it's prettier and more user-friendly. Should be finished with it in a few days.

I'm totally radical.

My political leanings, at least, according to a quiz on the Internet, which as we all know are always right. I attribute the extreme-ness of the result to my picking "strongly agree" or "strongly disagree" for pretty much everything. I've got no time for shades of gray.

Links

Here are places I visit every day, or at least once a week:

It's the Cat's Ass Forum (private board, no link)
Angry Naked Pat Forum
Flight Comics Forum
PencilJack
Digital Webbing Forum
Serializer
Penny Arcade
Penn Fans
James Randi Educational Foundation
Warren Ellis
Homestar Runner Wiki
The Phoenix Project
deviantART
MySpace

In no particular order. I also tend to spend way more time than I should reading Wikipedia.

FoLD

Still working on page ten. A couple weeks ago I started re-reading all the Harry Potter novels in order to get ready for book seven. The first two books are good, but I'm able to put them down and get on with my life when I need to. I started reading Prisoner of Askaban yesterday, though, and... man, I'd forgotten how great this one really is. I'm about halfway through it now, and even though I've read it already, I can't seem to put it down. I really need to, though, and get back upstairs to the studio.

This comic is hilarious

Dinosaur Comics

Flight of the Living Dead has joined MySpace

You can be a friend of a webcomic.

http://www.myspace.com/flightofthelivingdead

Serializer is officially caught up

Serializer.net, which also is running FoLD, is now caught up with the comic here. For the past week, it's been one or two pages behind, but now they're all there.

FoLD pg. 9 reference

Click to make big.

I'm in a comic book

Rian Miller has drawn me into the comic book he's working on. Click for a larger version:

Flight of the Living Dead Hour Two

Hour two begins. Next page goes up next Monday.

Flight of the Living Dead

Page nine is about halfway done. Going up tonight.

Flight of the Living Dead

Page eight

Comic Book Recommendation of the Week

THE SPIRIT #1
By Darwyn Cooke

I have to admit up front that I've never read a single issue of Will Eisner's original run of The Spirit. It's something I've always meant to get around to and just never did. But my love of Darwyn Cooke's art and detective stories meant picking up the new Spirit #1 an easy decision. I know this comic came out, like, a month ago, but I haven't been to the comic store in a while so it's new to me. It's a great set-up to the character and premise, and tells an entire story in one 22-page issue, something that's pretty rare nowadays.

Also picked up:
All-Star Superman #6: Fantastic. I've never been a fan of Superman, but Morrison and Quitely make me care about him, even while using characters from the forgettable "DC One Million" crossover from six or seven years ago to tell a touching personal story about Clark's last minutes with his adopted father.
American Virgin #9 & 10: I'm liking this comic even more the further it goes. Becky Cloonan only did a few pages of art for #10, though, which is kind of disappointing. Not that the fill-in artist didn't do a great job, but I love Cloonan's art.
Astonishing X-Men #19: Faaaaaaaaaaaaaantastic.
Ex Machina #25: Great, as always. This issue focuses on Bradbury, and I was surprised to realize that we never really knew that much about Bradbury's life before the events of Ex Machina #1.
Fables #56: Fuck, this comic is so goddamn good. A stand-alone Christmas story dealing with Santa Claus visiting Fabletown that manages to set up events to come in the war against the Adversary, while rewarding readers who picked up the recent 1001 Nights of Snowfall hardcover with details that people who didn't read it won't necessarily get.
Nextwave #11: This issue blew me away with its string of double-page splashes. Love it. I understand Immonen won't be drawing it anymore after issue #12, which makes me very sad.
New Universal #2: Haven't read it yet, actually. I liked the first issue, although I don't really like Salvador Laroca's art. I do like that he obviously drew one of the characters to be Sawyer from Lost, though.
The Vault of Michael Allred #3 of 4: Self-explanatory for those who know me. I can't pass up anything with Mike Allred's name on it, unless of course it's about the Book of Mormon.

True Loves 2

I saw this comic on Serializer.net and I like it a lot.

http://www.serializer.net/comics/trueloves.php

Re: Serializer again

The Serializer page looks the way I want it to now, and I think we've gotten the update situation sorted out. The pages are going up one per day, so by next week it should be caught up with this page. Page four went up today at Serializer, and page seven went up early this morning here.

As far as new pages go, page eight is going up tomorrow, and page nine is going up on Monday. From that point forward, it's one page per week, always on Monday. Page nine probably won't be done in inkwash, although I'm not sure yet which medium I want to do it in. I know eventually I want to do a chapter in color (probably chapter four), and I want to do a chapter with a dip pen, since I use a brush for almost everything, and a chapter using only my Wacom tablet. But I don't know yet what chapter two is going to look like.

FoLD

Page seven is up.

The Sundays

It occurs to me that I've been getting a lot more visitors to this site recently because of Flight of the Living Dead, so maybe I should post these pages again for those that may not have seen them. Flight of the Living Dead is a "spare-time" sort of project, something I'm doing when I'm not working on my main project, which is a comic book called "The Sundays." It's written by Kevin L. Sheath and I'm handling the penciling, inking, and lettering. We don't have a publisher yet, but I do have the first seven pages for you to read.

Serializer

Okay, upon closer inspection, not all the comics at Serializer.net require a subscription. Flight of the Living Dead is free there, and will remain free here as well. Still trying to get the layout of the site to match the way it looks here, and for some reason only the first three pages are up there. Hopefully pages four through six will appear soon, but you can always read them here.

FoLD

Page seven is going up tonight.

Regarding Serializer.net

While setting up my Serializer page, I just realized that this is a pay site. You can read new strips, but only subscribers can read the archives. I feel kind of bad about making people pay to read my silly zombie comic, so I think I'm going to keep the comic going on this site as well, for people to read for free. So... if you want to pay $3 a month to read Flight of the Living Dead, you certainly have that option. But you don't have to.

FoLD at Serializer.net

I've been invited to host Flight of the Living Dead at Serializer.net, an online anthology of webcomics. Right now it's basically a mirror site for the comic (meaning it's exactly the same as what you get right here), but eventually I may just make that the main page for FoLD. Here's the URL, although the layout's not exact yet and only the first two pages are up so far, although I've uploaded pages four through six and they should be up soon.

http://www.serializer.net/comics//fold.php

FoLD

Page six is up.

This is awful

Why should skeptics go after psychics, and faith healers, and alternative medicine practitioners? What does it matter if what they do is real or not, as long as they are giving sick people hope, and making people happy, who are they hurting? Here's the answer:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1981151,00.html

"His children, Bryan, Justin, Olivia and Christian, have issued a lawsuit for wrongful death against Mrs Bishop because they claim she persuaded Perry to stop chemotherapy and rely instead on God's healing. "

That sentence makes me angrier than I can put into words.

Blurb about FoLD at Newsarama

I just saw a blurb about Flight of the Living Dead at blog.newsarama.com :

"Scott Ewen has launched a webcomic, Flight of the Living Dead. I really like the art, and you can probably guess from the title and cover image what it’s about. It’s set to update each Monday."

And also a blurb at poormojo.org :

"Beautifully drawn webcomic that seems like it'll be about a zombie outbreak on a plane."

P.S. Sixth page is going up tonight

FoLD

Page five is up

FoLD

About Flight of the Living Dead pages 5-8, I was hanging out with friends last night for New Year's, got a little drunk, and didn't finish the pages for the first update, then passed out until 4 o'clock this afternoon (oops). I am sitting at my desk right now though, finishing them up, and I will have them up soon. Page five will definitely be up tonight, six through eight soon after. Next week the comic will be back on track.

Website daily report for December

Here's a chart showing the number of hits I've been getting on this website every day over the past few weeks. On the right is the oldest date, and on the left is December 31, the day Flight of the Living Dead started. I average about 200-300 hits a day here, and yesterday there were over 3,000 hits.

Holy shit.

Now Boarding

Flight of the Living Dead starts right now

The Best of 2006

My picks for the best stuff of 2006, in response to a poll at ANP:

: 1. Top 5 movies

5. The Departed
4. Borat
3. Pirates of the Caribbean 2
2. A Scanner Darkly
1. Little Miss Sunshine

: 2. 5 worst movies

5. An American Haunting
4. Eight Below
3. The Hills Have Eyes
2. Final Destination 3
1. When a Stranger Calls

: 3. Top 5 TV shows

5. Heroes
4. The Office
3. Battlestar Galactica
2. Lost
1. Dexter

: 4. Top 5 comic books

5. The Walking Dead
4. Wet Moon 2
3. Fables
2. Flight 3
1. Strangers in Paradise

: 5. Top song

"Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley

: 6. Top album

"The Life Pursuit" by Belle & Sebastian

Diary 12-27-06

FoLD pre-reviews

Here's what people are saying about Flight of the Living Dead before it's begun!

"..from what i've seen of the pages every time i enter our studio space, it is fantastic... " - Joe Frontirre, studiomate and Kubert student

"..it looks like such a great idea. Just from the cover design you know just what the book is about. I think you could sell it as a film just based off of the poster for it." - Mark Smith, writer of Amazing Joy Buzzards

Hopefully they don't retract those statements when the comic actually premieres.

Flight of the Living Dead is taking off early

Rather than putting up the first eight pages tomorrow night at midnight, the first FOUR pages will be going up tonight at midnight, and the next four pages will be up tomorrow night. The rest of the year will be going ahead as scheduled, one page per Monday until December 31, 2007. So check back in... about six hours forty-five minutes for the start of Flight of the Living Dead.

James Randi lecture from 2001

New Grind House Trailer

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/grindhouse_hd.html

Go Away Pac-Xon!

I've just realized that while I posted the Pac-Xon game on my blog so that I could play it easily whenever I want (at least until it disappears into the archive and I have to search for it), the theme music plays every time someone goes to this page. So I've changed it to a link. It's worth playing, though, if you haven't. Check it out two posts down from this one.

New Version of the FoLD Cover

Go Pac-Xon Go!

Go Pac-Xon Go!

Twenty-five

That's how many years I've been around now.

Grind House Trailer

I don't know how this movie escaped my radar until now, but I'm very excited about this: Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez are directing two feature-length horror movies that are being shown together (with fake movie trailers in-between) with the title Grind House. Here's the trailer:

http://mftm.blogspot.com/2006/10/
grind-house-2007-scream-awards-trailer.html

Rodriguez's segment will be a zombie story (and we all know how I feel about zombies), and Tarantino's segment features Rose McGowan with a machine gun for a leg.

I feel like this movie was made just for me.

EDIT: Rose McGowan actually appears in both segments, but only with the machine-gun-leg in Rodriguez's story. Which also features TV's Naveen Andrews (Sayid from "Lost"). Whee!

Dexter

"Dexter" is such an amazing show. Well-written, well-acted, interesting plots, twists and turns, tension, and all the stuff that makes great television shows great. Apparently the first season (which is twelve episodes long) is based on the book Darkly Dreaming Dexter, which I bought today from Borders along with the second book in the series (upon which the second season will apparently be based), Dearly Devoted Dexter. From what I understand, the third book in the series, Dexter in the Dark, is coming out this summer. I hope they never stop making them. In the absence of new episodes of "Lost" (at least until February), "Dexter" is my favorite show currently on the air.

And I think this is the first time in my life I've ever bought a mystery novel.

New Jam Strip

New jam strip starring the Joes (Frontirre and O'Brien, respectively), and Kyle Haase.

Flight of the Living Dead Update

Did a new page today. I really love this comic and I'm enjoying the hell out of drawing every page. The main purpose of doing FoLD was, well, mainly to get back into doing webcomics, since it's sort of where I got my start and I enjoy the structure of a serialized story where feedback is instantaneous. But the purpose was also to push myself over the next year into doing some more experimental stuff and figuring out what works about my style and what doesn't work, and getting faster at producing pages on a regular deadline while still trying to maintain a standard of quality.

What this means is that sometimes I try stuff in FoLD that I wouldn't do normally, just to try it. There will sometimes be stuff that will look out of place or awkward, because I'm trying it out for the first time. I might decide to do a page in a stark, black-and-white Frank Miller style or incorporate photos or try other things that I might normally shy away from. I might even do a page or two in color. The first eight pages are all being done in inkwash, which is something I've tried before but have never really embraced fully. These pages look good, though, and I'm liking the way the gray tones complement my line work. It's giving my stuff a Ross Campbell feel that I really enjoy.

The comic starts three weeks from tomorrow, and continues every week for the next year. I cannot tell you how excited, but also scared, I am about this. I fully intend to meet every deadline and make sure each page goes up when it's supposed to. For someone like me, who is used to missing deadlines and shirking responsibility, that's terrifying.

And if this goes well, I've recently come up with a name for the sequel, which (like Flight of the Living Dead) is another zombie title I can't believe hasn't been used already.

ComicSpace

MySpace for comic creators, I guess. Here's me: www.comicspace.com/scottewen.

Bookworm Adventures

Found this game through Penny Arcade, the writer of which describes it as a "Scrabble RPG." You create words from tiled letters, and the better your word, the more damage it does to your opponent. Insanely addictive. Here's my top ten word list:

Both "Lex" and "Scott" are me; Lex is the default name and I just played through the demo twice. Even though "nuisances" is worth more points, I cannot tell you how happy I was to pull out "juxtapose." I don't know what a "vocabular" is. I was trying for "vocabulary" and didn't have a Y, but the game took it anyway. I suppose it's someone who vocabulates.

The Lost A-Team

I like this comic strip

Found a link to this over at the Intelligent Brian board. It's one of the strangest comics I've ever read, and it's hilarious.
Ged by Kyle Baddeley

New Sketch!

In the sketches section, there's a drawing of Kat Cooper, main character of FLIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, as a zombie. Done for my buddy Dave.

Kyle at desk

Pennies abound.

Read the first seven pages of THE SUNDAYS #1

Right now! More soon.

Comic Book Recommendation of the Week

Acme Novelty Library #17
By Chris Ware

This is my first experience with Chris Ware's narrative work, having been impressed with his art after seeing it last week at the New York Jewish Museum. His art is very simplistic and clean, and he writes the kind of comic stories I love to read, the "slice-of-life" type stuff seen in Daniel Clowes and Guy Delisle's work.

Also read this week:

The Punisher vol. 6: Barracuda - Possibly my favorite of the Punisher MAX stories so far.
The Punisher X-Mas - One of the first non-Ennis written Punisher stories I've liked. Definitely better than last year's Christmas special.
Supermarket - I liked this story a lot until the ending, which seemed rushed. The artwork is very good, though.
The Walking Dead #32 - Really good. I'm glad the story's starting to pick up again after a few issues of not much happening.
Batman/The Spirit - I loved Darwyn Cooke's artwork, but Jeph Loeb's story just seemed cheesy and unnecessary. It seems this book was made for no reason other than to team up Batman and The Spirit, not because there was a good idea for a story. I'm looking forward to Darwyn Cooke's ongoing Spirit comic, though, since he's writing it himself.
Criminal #2 - Tops even the first issue. This is a really great series. I'm going to have to go back and pick up Sleeper now.
Gorillaz: The Rise of the Ogre - Being a huge fan of both the Gorillaz' music and Jamie Hewlett's artwork, this was a no-brainer. Haven't read it all yet, but it's definitely a funny and beautiful book.
David Boring - The second act of this three-act book by Daniel Clowes seemed a little out-of-place, but overall it was very enjoyable and beautifully drawn.

Audiobooks are fun

Oftentimes while at my desk working, I like to listen to podcasts such as The Ricky Gervais Show, Penn Radio, or Party Truck USA. I just discovered audible.com, which lets you download audiobooks for much less than they are in the store (usually less than $20).

So far, I've listened to about half of Eragon, which is shit. And I've just downloaded David Sedaris's Me Talk Pretty One Day. I'll let you know how it is.

Photos from Studio Like

Reference for THE SUNDAYS:




A few weeks ago, we started leaving pennies anonymously on Kyle's desk because he got annoyed when he found them there. A few days ago we started taping them to the underside of his desk. He has yet to find them:

Scientology: TR Demo