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Jan. 18th, 2010 11:28 amEvery week like clockwork!!
I finished another page this week too, so that means I'm breaking even. Yeah, I know we took a few weeks off and that should have provided ample time for me to build up a backlog, but you can't really do effective work while in the car or opening presents or watching fireworks or trying to avoid plunging into a snow-filled ditch on the side of the 401. That's just not conducive to good comic book work.
Also yesterday I put up the last shelf that needed to be put up, put up a shelf in the bathroom, painted and installed boards on top of the mirror frames in the bathroom so that they may also be used as shelves to display old plastic toys, moved the coat hooks, and put up a little blackboard thing by the front door. In other words I EMPTIED THAT JOB JAR AND SMASHED IT INTO A HUNDRED MILLION PIECES. Then I swept up the pieces.
Watched the last episodes of Vifam last night; was pleased by Muller's exit and the way they worked a little downer into what was essentially three episodes of "Hooray!" Everybody should go download this show and watch it, the whole thing, it's good solid entertainment. It's one of the few series that can really be called "all ages" - it stars children, but it doesn't talk down to its audience or take short cuts or easy ways out. There's nothing faddish or contrived about it. Well, it has giant robots in it. That's kind of faddish. Naturally it will never get released here, so go download away, kids!
Last week we also watched the 2-part Dr Who holiday specials, which by and large were faddish and contrived. I mean, come on, the only thing that radiation suicide booth lacked was a slot labeled "insert quarter" and Bender standing there with a quarter tied to his finger. You can tell the writers are struggling when characters start shooting magical lightning bolts at each other (see: Return Of The Jedi, Dragonball Z). Important deux ex machina characters are trundled in and paraded around without ever giving the audience an explanation as to who they are, or what they are doing, or why. I don't mind mysterious characters, but at some point you should let the audience in on their little secret, that's why they call it "story TELLING". And yet it was better than the last season finale, because it didn't involve Every Single Character Who Ever Appeared On Dr Who Ever. And it's at this point that I realize criticizing Dr Who is pointless, because a show that lasted 20 years while frequently starring antagonists who were presented on screen as chromakey'd bits of brightly lit cellophane is likely immune to criticism. So I should chill.
We also watched some really terrible movies courtesy one of those 50-movie public domain packages via Best Buy: The Manster, Terror At Red Wolf Inn (aka The Folks At The Red Wolf Inn, Terror House, Red Wolf Inn, and Terror On The Menu), and Doomsday Machine. All in all I think The Manster is the one to go with, though Doomsday Machine has Mike Farrell and Casey Kasem in cameo roles and lots of footage lifted from other movies, and Terror At Red Wolf Inn has some quirky amusing parts amidst the shrieking and horror and ends with the movie literally winking at the camera. Okay movie, whatever.
I finished another page this week too, so that means I'm breaking even. Yeah, I know we took a few weeks off and that should have provided ample time for me to build up a backlog, but you can't really do effective work while in the car or opening presents or watching fireworks or trying to avoid plunging into a snow-filled ditch on the side of the 401. That's just not conducive to good comic book work.
Also yesterday I put up the last shelf that needed to be put up, put up a shelf in the bathroom, painted and installed boards on top of the mirror frames in the bathroom so that they may also be used as shelves to display old plastic toys, moved the coat hooks, and put up a little blackboard thing by the front door. In other words I EMPTIED THAT JOB JAR AND SMASHED IT INTO A HUNDRED MILLION PIECES. Then I swept up the pieces.
Watched the last episodes of Vifam last night; was pleased by Muller's exit and the way they worked a little downer into what was essentially three episodes of "Hooray!" Everybody should go download this show and watch it, the whole thing, it's good solid entertainment. It's one of the few series that can really be called "all ages" - it stars children, but it doesn't talk down to its audience or take short cuts or easy ways out. There's nothing faddish or contrived about it. Well, it has giant robots in it. That's kind of faddish. Naturally it will never get released here, so go download away, kids!
Last week we also watched the 2-part Dr Who holiday specials, which by and large were faddish and contrived. I mean, come on, the only thing that radiation suicide booth lacked was a slot labeled "insert quarter" and Bender standing there with a quarter tied to his finger. You can tell the writers are struggling when characters start shooting magical lightning bolts at each other (see: Return Of The Jedi, Dragonball Z). Important deux ex machina characters are trundled in and paraded around without ever giving the audience an explanation as to who they are, or what they are doing, or why. I don't mind mysterious characters, but at some point you should let the audience in on their little secret, that's why they call it "story TELLING". And yet it was better than the last season finale, because it didn't involve Every Single Character Who Ever Appeared On Dr Who Ever. And it's at this point that I realize criticizing Dr Who is pointless, because a show that lasted 20 years while frequently starring antagonists who were presented on screen as chromakey'd bits of brightly lit cellophane is likely immune to criticism. So I should chill.
We also watched some really terrible movies courtesy one of those 50-movie public domain packages via Best Buy: The Manster, Terror At Red Wolf Inn (aka The Folks At The Red Wolf Inn, Terror House, Red Wolf Inn, and Terror On The Menu), and Doomsday Machine. All in all I think The Manster is the one to go with, though Doomsday Machine has Mike Farrell and Casey Kasem in cameo roles and lots of footage lifted from other movies, and Terror At Red Wolf Inn has some quirky amusing parts amidst the shrieking and horror and ends with the movie literally winking at the camera. Okay movie, whatever.
