So as you all have seen, we finally got another comic up, our third to be exact. This time around I ended up drawing it on paper first and it was then scanned, cleaned up, inked and such, then finalized and posted by R.J. The entire process was done in about 2 days. I believe it worked out quite well. I’ve developed a semi-interesting comic format that I can be happy with and the comics themselves aren’t all that complex artistically either but still require some remote talent to draw. Hopefully we can now keep comics spewing out on a regular basis, or at least often enough to generate some sort of interest.

So I recently discovered a game known only as Red Dead Redemption…Now the title may put some of you readers off, but honestly this game looks great. When it comes down to it, it is basically a third person, western themed sandbox shooter. Just take a look at this-

I am almost certain that this game is going to be a nice fresh original games, one of the few to come out this year. Yet this isn’t the only game..There are quite a few releases coming out relatively soon that I am most interested in. SUCH AS! Lost Planet 2!! I thoroughly enjoyed the first one, but found it lacking overall. To me it showed great potential and with the awesome looking cooperative aspects and great graphics and combat I’m hoping this new sequel will more than dispel my concerns with the first game. The other releases include, Fable 3, World of Warcraft:Cataclysm, Halo: Reach, Alpha Protocol, The Sims 3 (for Xbox 360), and various other titles. All of these look like they are going to be quite amazing. And with my new computer that I will soon be purchasing within the next two months it should make the pot all the more sweet. I have even been considering buying an Xbox 360 Elite because my old one seems to be freezing on me A LOT and I think it is time to get rid of that annoyance in my life…I deserve to be happy don’t I?

P.S. Macs Suck!

Floppy disks. These 3.5″ wonders stored about 1.5 megabytes. One and a half million bytes of data, twelve million bits, all in something about half the size of an envelope. Amazing, isn’t it? That I can’t fit a single standard-quality, 320 KB/s MP3 on one of these. And yet, supposedly, these far-outdated storage units have supposedly been in production by the wonderful and all-knowing Sony until now. Which is quite amazing! Really, it is. My new computer didn’t even have an option for floppy disks (even though it was running Windows Vista, and, later (now), Windows 7). Even my parent’s cancerous computer (now six years old and running Windows XP) didn’t have an option for a floppy drive.

Can anyone else see the irony in this? The company that was and is pushing for DVDs to be replaced by the megacapacity Blu-ray format were, until recently, still supporting a storage format that has been outdated for nearly a decade. Sony is supposed to be some sort of innovative company. Apparently not. I mean, look at their PS3 controllers, at first: no rumble, but motion-control (via the “Sixaxis” system). The Wii has rumble and motion control. I won’t even go into the similarities between the controllers, including the new motion controllers for the PS3 (in my opinion, idea theft). Anyway, later on they went and got rid of the motion control and gave back the rumble. It was dumb to do in the first place.

So, what should you do with all of those old floppies, most likely simply filled with hundreds and hundreds of kilobytes of pornography? That’s easy.

Burn them.

So we are a few comics behind at this point, but we are currently working on a few other things that have been getting in the way slightly. There are a few comic ideas being thrown around and refined so that we may have a few at by the end of this week or a tad bit after. I presently have a couple ideas, and I am sure R.J. does as well. This is a bit difficult to accomplish because of our overly conflicting work schedules, but hopefully something will be figured out shortly.

Totally outside of that topic. I am quite pissed off that the movie Kick-Ass did not come out to any theater within Billings, Montana (the place where I am currently residing). Many of my other friends became angry at this problem as well. Fortunately, one of my friends looked into it a bit, and based on what he has said, Lionsgate upped the amount of money they would receive per ticket sale and all of the Carmike theaters thought it was total bull. So pretty much Lionsgate pulled all of their movies out from every Carmike oriented theater (Kick-Ass included). I found this notion to be absolutely ridiculous! At first I thought that Carmike would still make more money from ticket sales then they would have lost by giving up their rights to show the movie at their selected locations, but the more I think about it, the more I seem to realize that it may just have been a move to keep Lionsgate from “bullying” them around. If Lionsgate got away with doing that and Carmike Cinemas just bent down and took it, then who knows what sort of hold that could unleash on other theaters. Other companies may have noticed this and tried to up their prices as well, which just furthers the seemingly never ending increase in movie ticket sales. Hopefully this all gets sorted out as quickly as possible, but it may never come to pass. I may just have to wait for certain movies to get out on DVD before I even have the opportunity to watch them. Which not my favorite choice, will at least enable me to watch the movies at some point, but is still just totally stupid regardless of what anyone else thinks. Although there still remains the possibility that I haven’t heard the entire story or my information isn’t entirely correct. Only time will tell as this annoying fiasco begins to unravel itself.

On a side note, feuds freaking suck!

Live streams! Those fantastic times where you get to see us (me, primarily me, wait, just me, because Cameron doesn’t stream) and chat with me while I chat with you. I’ve been doing streams for several months now, ranging from working on Glabnak products (like the [in]famous “Did Somebody Say Yiff?!” t-shirt), drawing random bull crap (such as the Super Octokitteh), and talking about things in general ranging from artwork to Horundul. These are really fun to do, though only the people I know on forums ever come to them. For now.

Some might ask what the point of doing these streams are. Well, I like to connect with our fanbase (lacking though it is) and this helps. A bit. Secondly, you people who like to pronounce Horundul names in ridiculous fashions get to hear the grand master that am me pronounce them properly. You know who you are.

Live streams will become larger parts of what we do in the future, so stay tuned. Especially when Cameron finally gets a decent webcam so that he can stream, too.

Other updates! I’ve started using last.fm. If you want to see what I’m listening to during the streams, you can check it out at my last.fm page. I managed to confangle something to work with the Zune software so I don’t have to use Windows Media Player or, Google forbid, iTunes to scrobble to last.fm. Cheers, mates, we’ll be seeing you in another stream soon.

The iPad. An… innovative Pad. An interPad. A maxiPad. This full-sized tablet is not the first of its kind by far, but because it was made by our lovely friends at Apple, it is doomed to sell fairly well. Steve Jobs is good at selling shiny products for vast amounts of money; for this, I envy him.

Would I consider getting an iPad? Yes. If I didn’t have to pay for it. ~$500 for the basic model is a bit much, don’t you think? When I could spend $400 for a netbook and a Bamboo Fun tablet, which offers much more capabilities, especially running Windows 7. Its apps are cool, sure, but its limitations–especially price–limit me from actually wanting one. When it comes to touch screens, I would prefer a Cintiq, though the price for that is even more staggering (~$1000 for the 12″, $2000 for the 21″, which is far and above better than the 12″). Although less portable, I would really use it more.

The iPad is innovative in that it’s the first true tablet to actually sell. And it is selling very well. Good job, Mr. Jobs. You’ve managed to sell a fixture of plastic, metal, glass, and silicon to the masses. Congratulations. Now if you could only come up with something that will truly sell me on your plan for the Mac line (i.e. proprietary software installed on propriety hardware) then we’ll be all good, but until then I refuse to purchase your first party products.

Then again, I would probably buy something similar if it ran on a Window Phone 7 Series/Zune HD-type interface. It’s just that good.

The iPad’s one mission is to destroy the Mavericks, a group of “evil” (they prefer “misunderstood”) robots who want nothing more than to kill the entire human race. With the help of iP0d (get it? The guy’s name is Zero, and I put a “0″ instead of an “o”, hyuck hyuck hyuck) he travels across the land, searching far and wide for those nasty Maves. And blows them up. Luckily, nothing is there to stand in its way (save for the HP Slate, the Joo Joo, and any other tablet that might come out; more on that later) save for cwazy cats and Tom Dickson.

Yes. The iPad will blend. If you break it in half.

The HP Slate (AKA Vile AKA the Real Slim Tabley) is an enigmatic being produced by HP, those lovable, bloatware-friendly monkey-screwers that are Hewlett-Packard. I’m unsure for it for two reasons: 1.) Sketch details, and 2.) It’s freaking HP. My family still uses an old HP which they paid a good amount (way, way too much) of money for it. While still having the potential to be amazing, Apple’s press power will most likely leave it in obscurity. Then again, HP computers do not exactly reflect on other HP products. Their printers, scanners, etc., tend to be fairly reliable. Time will tell, I suppose.

The Joo Joo is a failure. Just read this.

Courier? I barely know her!