Horatio Caine = Duke Nukem

I was in HMV in lakeside queueing, when Chelle pointed out the CSI boxsets. It suddenly hit me…the trailers of Duke Nukem Forever have arrived, and now this?

This is a sign. David Caruso is to be cast in the UPCOMING DUKE NUKEM MOVIE!

…except there isn’t one. And there probably never will be, as awesome as it would be. Well, thats all for now.

Settling In

Some of you know this already, but coming back home from university after spending roughly 2-3 months living independantly is a mind numbing experience. Not in the EXTREME way, but in the “what?…wait, where am I? whats going on?” way. I’m happy to have some time with the house to myself for a day or so now, as parents have gone their seperate ways until Thursday. But seriously, when I came back on Saturday, everything was driving me nuts. People wanting to talk, cramped space, dogs and cats wanting in and out and feeding…I snapped a few times. It takes some real getting used to being around people again. On top of that, coming back has made me appreciate the luxuries of my uni room. There, I have a bigger bed, a shower, HOT RUNNING WATER, and is an introverts dreamland in terms of rarely needing to leave the room (not including lectures). We really need a new boiler here. I know theres people out there in a situation FAR worse than this house, and I’m not calling for sympathy by any means, but you’d think a parent made incapable of most kinds of work, and with proof, would be capable of getting help with having a boiler replaced (y’know, maybe one that actually heats water, and doesn’t leak CO). There we go, thats my complaints on returning over.

As for the goings on with the comic, well it looks like I’ll be getting a nice big (but suprisingly cheap) graphics tablet for christmas. it’s wireless, which is kinda good and kinda bad. Batteries being the bad. It’s made byTrust, so I wouldn’t have touched it with a 20ft barge pole if it wasn’t for the 3×5Star review that had been left for it (and before someone pipes up, I’m well aware of companies ‘bumping’ their less succesfull products. I trust MicroDirect enough for now to think they haven’t sunk that low). Actual comic production however, has ground to a halt. Inspiration is actually rife in Portsmouth, what with the working on computers every day, mental stimulation, and talking to likeminded people. Here, sitting around, I’m not picking much up. I still have those 4 from before to draw, but thats really it.I’m blank for ideas and unless I spend a nice long time focusing on it I can’t see more popping out of the woodwork for now. Rest assured, I’m by no means giving up, it’s just that there is another factor of the environment change that I hadn’t thought of.

DAMMIT. Somehow I lost an entire paragraph in posting. I’m not up to typing all of that again, sorry. I’ll do the key points.

Something I’ve been watching is ‘Cromartie High’. It’s an anime. It’s funny, surreal, and has a relatively fast pace, but it’s not that hyperactive epilepsy inducing stuff that you might be currently thinking of. It involves a school of delinquents, one normal guy, a robot student, a gorrilla, and Freddie Mercury. This should be more than enough awesome to make you google to see the intro or something. If you’re looking for something light hearted and amusing, but not silly, I recommend taking a quick look.

Aaaaaand thats about it.

Uh-oh…

DEADLINE! TOMORROW!

Ooooooooooooooooooooh Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!

I think I might JUST get this done in time. Editing the final result will take about half hour, thanks to MS Office getting pissy with OpenOffice formatting and line breaks ¬¬. This will conclude my CORGI unit, which is work with logic gates (using SEQSIM) , UNIX shells (Using PUTTY), and Assembly level programming (DOS and TASM/Turbo Assembler). Of course, I still have the exams when I go back, but there’s time (and 4 other projects) in between me and them.

There was an emo themed pub crawl tuesday night, and although it involved very little drinking and only two pubs, it was a nice evening nonetheless. A chance for the Anime Society to all meet up once more before the holidays. So black clothing, straightened hair (as best I can) and black nail varnish, a few emo themed one-liners and I’m ready to go. Darlizzle was equiped with a black tear on one side of his face, and a star on the other. I doubt that would have been possible were it not for Danni . Anyway, after her making some comment about a depressed emo being too poor to eat food, and broken glass, I said;

“Eating these pieces of broken glass feels like regurgitating the shards of my shattered heart”.

Darrly backed away. Rather quickly too. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him that scared of me. But yeah, general lulz ensued. The only bad thing is I CAN’T GET ALL THIS DAMNED BLACK VARNISH OFF! I’m getting dodgy looks now :/

A picture of emo-Jiggens (I can’t say ‘after the jump ) right here.

Your thoughts on the matter

Woo and yay, I managed to recover a domain name I bought back in 2006, so you can get here by MentalPhysics.co.uk now

Thanks to that, it’s really made me think of getting this hosted properly, if and when the content makes it worthwhile. I’m hoping to start getting some strips up after christmas, but this all depends on whether or not I manage to get my hands on a graphics tablet, as scanning my little book wont provide very good results, and a lot of them need a re-draw/think anyway. I finished a couple ore last night, and jotted down some more ideas, counted everything up. I have 23 so far (though I might squish a couple together into one bigger one), but I want about double that before I start posting. I have a few concerns though, which I’m hoping some of you may address in the form of comments…

1 – Its just not funny: I guess if this turns out to be the case, It’l all be over rather quickly. When I start posting, totally honest comments will be critical. I do NOT want to be making a fool of myself, but the only way to figure this out is to give it a shot.

2 – people won’t ‘get’ them: this is pretty much the same as above…a lot of them involve my obscure sense of humour, or little things you might not understand unless you know me well in person. Again, just got to give it a shot.

3 – how to start?: Some of them are about me or my life at university, others go the way of recent events or odd technical jokes. Some are more upbeat than others.What feeling should I start with? Or should I go to hell with that and post them in drawing order?

4 – just another xkcd clone: This is one of my biggest worries. People get awfully territorial when it comes to webcomics they read, and I’ve taken rather a lot of inspiration from xkcd. Another guy has done a set of comics with similar reasoning to me, inspired by xkcd, and the lack of need of amazing artwork skills to make a popular and humorous strip. I am NOT COPYING. This is just something I’ve wanted to try, and now I’ve seen a way I can. Don’t hate this (or ignore it) just because of what I’m inspired by.

There were more, but I’ve forgotten and now need to leave for lectures anyway.

Comments on what I’ve said above, your thoughts and reasonings on the matters will be GREATLY APPRECIATED, so please leave me a note, positive or negative. I’ve got plenty of time as yet to work on feedback I’m given, before I start

What am I doing?

sitting here wasting time on a new blog when I should be working, thats what. Seems the pressure is getting to all of us now. There’s a lot of work, very little time, and we all want to put it to the back of our minds. I, personally feel sick currently. Confronting that work is scary shit. I can do it, probably easily, but its the fact there’s 10 or so pages staring back at me, makes my stomach (and mind) churn like mad.

Well, I’ve gotta do it eventually I’d have lost already if it wasn’t for the fact they screwed up, resulting in an extra week for us. 4 days till deadline.

On the other hand, theres some goodness on the way. This is the LAST WEEK! Which means I go home. It’s odd how I hadn’t been looking forward till now (till the panic), not able to wait to see Smudge, Amber, Jazzmine, Smudger, …oh, my family too. Most importantly though, my friends. As much as I wub the fact I have a good chunk of them here, we all need to be together every now and then. Watch out Thurrock, ‘The Group’ is coming home.

Lastly, WEBCOMICS! I have been drawing. They lack any form of detail, the drawing is poor, but I might get better with time. For now, stickmen. Hell, if there’s one thing XKCD / Cyanide and Happiness taught us, its that you dont need good art to be funny…and obscure. I have about 15 so far, but as expected, some aren’t suitable, and some just outright suck. Once I get a good backlog of (what I consider to be) decent webcomics, I’ll start poasting.

And so ends a nice lengthy ferst poast

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