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davemerrillWeather is still blessedly nice, and I mean that in the sense of it is a blessing that the trees are green and the sun is shining down and smiling on us poor creatures. It's a cliche that you appreciate the good weather more after a long winter, but it's a cliche because it's true.
Went out to the Cowan yard sale yesterday - they block off the road and a lot of families have yard sales with all kinds of stuff. Picked up some mics, a crazy Korean fake-anime DVD, some fifty-cent CDs (not CDs of 50 Cent, but CDs that cost fifty cents each), and found a box of never-used goauche paints in somebody's "didn't sell, it's now free" pile. We went out for ramen because we're sniffly; Kenzo Ramen on Queen West is pretty good. Cleaned the place up, did some shelf-building to make more room and move books around, had North Of Brookyln pizza for dinner which is my favorite pizza in town and watched the newish anime shows "Kill La Kill" which is a crazy clothes-focused school gang fighting show with wacky cartoony animation and over the top in your face attitude, and "Attack On Titan", which is a Stephen King story without the Maine or the boomer references about a humanity surrounded by giant cannibals (hence the "Titans") desperate to survive and maybe fight back, and then we watched the horror movie "Oculus" where Karen Gilliam from Dr Who, with a new American accent and an unfortunate hairstyle, tries to destroy an evil cursed mirror with her newly-released-from-mental-hospital brother. It's from the 'Paranormal Activity' people and shares the obsession with technology, the fussy, contrived setups, the fakeout 'did it happen or not happen' shocks, and the unsatisfying ending.
All in all a nice quiet gettin' outside Saturday which is what I needed after the hectic past few weeks. Today it's cartoon strip drawing time and maybe a movie.
These are the Zero Fighter original pages of the past few weeks; they're just ink on 8.5 x 11 copy paper. I quit using bristol board when we started living like freaky beatniks. Honestly it's helped my inking a lot, I'm more confident laying the stuff down when it's just copy paper and not expensive materials. It's not the most robust platform, though, and major problems require starting over rather than scratching out or painting over, but that's OK.
There was a new Stupid Comics starring the Golden Age Angel, about which we have already recieved one informational FB message concerning Important Facts We Should Know About The Golden Age Angel, which is a trick as there are NO important facts about the Golden Age Angel. He was a second banana in a legion of second bananas. No Behind The Blue Door or Georgie Girls this week, sorry.
Went out to the Cowan yard sale yesterday - they block off the road and a lot of families have yard sales with all kinds of stuff. Picked up some mics, a crazy Korean fake-anime DVD, some fifty-cent CDs (not CDs of 50 Cent, but CDs that cost fifty cents each), and found a box of never-used goauche paints in somebody's "didn't sell, it's now free" pile. We went out for ramen because we're sniffly; Kenzo Ramen on Queen West is pretty good. Cleaned the place up, did some shelf-building to make more room and move books around, had North Of Brookyln pizza for dinner which is my favorite pizza in town and watched the newish anime shows "Kill La Kill" which is a crazy clothes-focused school gang fighting show with wacky cartoony animation and over the top in your face attitude, and "Attack On Titan", which is a Stephen King story without the Maine or the boomer references about a humanity surrounded by giant cannibals (hence the "Titans") desperate to survive and maybe fight back, and then we watched the horror movie "Oculus" where Karen Gilliam from Dr Who, with a new American accent and an unfortunate hairstyle, tries to destroy an evil cursed mirror with her newly-released-from-mental-hospital brother. It's from the 'Paranormal Activity' people and shares the obsession with technology, the fussy, contrived setups, the fakeout 'did it happen or not happen' shocks, and the unsatisfying ending.
All in all a nice quiet gettin' outside Saturday which is what I needed after the hectic past few weeks. Today it's cartoon strip drawing time and maybe a movie.
These are the Zero Fighter original pages of the past few weeks; they're just ink on 8.5 x 11 copy paper. I quit using bristol board when we started living like freaky beatniks. Honestly it's helped my inking a lot, I'm more confident laying the stuff down when it's just copy paper and not expensive materials. It's not the most robust platform, though, and major problems require starting over rather than scratching out or painting over, but that's OK.
There was a new Stupid Comics starring the Golden Age Angel, about which we have already recieved one informational FB message concerning Important Facts We Should Know About The Golden Age Angel, which is a trick as there are NO important facts about the Golden Age Angel. He was a second banana in a legion of second bananas. No Behind The Blue Door or Georgie Girls this week, sorry.
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Date: 2014-06-04 07:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-04 11:53 pm (UTC)Some of the artwork & animation in AoT gets a little rough at times, and it's certainly a show full of millenial kids who second-guess everything and would be totally outclassed by the worst platoon in the laziest unit in any army you can name, and who should probably be wearing helmets while doing all that leaping around rooftops, I think.