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June 29th , 2009
Well Sunday I finally got the chance to see Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. And .... just wow. Super entertaining, tons of robots... It had a lot of the same feel of the original G1 cartoon.. it was freaking awesome guys. For some reason the reviews are slamming it when quite frankly, I thought it was above and beyond the original movie. Sure Michael Bay has the subtlety of a rampaging dinobot and there were a lot of human scenes/dialogue that were unecessary and/or that I thought were in pretty poor taste. But all that aside the robots were awesome. The fights were awesome. The robots actually had personalities - and Megatron and Starscream talked... and had the same G1 relationship. I won't ruin it for anyone by giving away spoilers but there were moments when my inner fan was ridiculously happy. If you are a fan of Transformers - please go see it. It gave me hope for the movie franchise.
June 25th , 2009
Sorry this is going to be a bit short as I need to get to drawing Monday's comic! I'm all psyched about it I've shut myself off from the world for the evening. Whenever I don't get a chance to draw for a couple of days I get very twitchy.
Oh yes and the vampires and robots was an actual suggestion I received... though I doubt it's sincerity.
I am feeling much... much better today though. I actually went to the doctor's (First Aid) and got some medicine.
June 22nd , 2009
Well I felt like I had to do it, what with the movie coming out in just a few days now I felt a bit of a pre-movie comic was in order. The inspiration for this comic came from a good discussion I had where the other party was trying to reason that maybe Michael Bay wasn't the huge jerk everyone thought he was, just what he was building himself as in the media. The reason for this statement was because he sent a couple letters to Paramont complaining that they weren't promoting Transformers 2 enough, and sent a previous letter complaining that the new Terminator movie also featured giant robots...
Now apparently he has recinded his earlier letter to paramount and sent them a new one rethanking them for their work. While it would've been extremely easy to point fingers and laugh at Michael Bay along with everyone else, I decided to give him some slight credit... after all, he is making a movie for us and he never promised it would be inspiring or a documentary, or even good. It's just entertainment. ...And it has Peter Cullen. (And Frank Welker I believe)
On an unrelated note I have quite the cold so I am signing off early. (Well early for me... which is quite late... I sound like Christian Bale in Batman: The Dark Knight)
June 18th , 2009
Thank you Silverbolt! It's very late so I'm going to make this brief, update and head to bed. Went to an Offspring concert tonight - was awesome. I think my ears are going to be ringing for a while.
The comic tonight was originally going to be split up with the last one, where Sunstreaker and Bee have a conversation beforehand, how Sunstreaker caught TC's reflection in Blitzwing's eyes, thus dodged out of the way. But it seemed sort of unecessary and slowing things down, taking the focus of TC and his internal monologue. Feel free to say differently, I always enjoy constructive criticism.
June 15th , 2009
Very tired... slightly concussed from hockey (so I hope today's comic makes sense). Accidently getting hit in the head with a skate is not a particularly pleasant experience, but I think I'm all right. But the comic is completed, I apologize for not having it inked, I wanted to keep it to myself for this update because of the complicated flash backs. Bee's speech at the very end is sort of resonating how I feel about the whole 'till all are one' slogan that I think was first used in the 1986 movie? Otherwise it's just sort of depressing thinking of it as 'until all are one with the matrix' (and presumably dead).
June 11th , 2009
Ok, so after reading the forums these past couple of days, I had some renewed inspiration to draw today's update and thanks to Silverbolt inking and colouring I think it looks pretty good. I had some really good suggestions like a plot synopsis (I've been thinking about using it in the archives, dividing up the archives into the storylines.)
Thanks everyone for reading the comic and making it so much fun to work on. Even if my co-worker who continually makes fun of me for it mentioned today at the office that he thinks I don't update it enough... lol
June 8th , 2009
This comic is sort of dedicated to one of my co-workers. He is usually making fun of me and often brings up the comic to further make fun of me at the office when he is bored. Except something he told me on Friday: "Whenever I look at your comic, it's deep into some story line where I have no reference for it and I have no idea what's going on." Although I generally don't pay attention to this co-worker, this actually made me think a little. It's true that if a new reader looks at the current storyline during the story updates it could be pretty intimidating to go back and read all the way through. There was always a good line that someone at Marvel said where every issue of Spiderman would be easily integrated enough if someone was reading it for the first time. Now naturally because the comic goes page by page instead of issue by issue this is very challenging and if I explained everything each page it would also get very monotonous. So I decided to kind of meet it half way and put in more one-shot comics while boosting the storyline to pull it along quicker so that new readers would have enough mini comics to read while they caught up with things. I am always trying to make sure the readers get the best experience possible.
I originally told myself I would stick to story arcs because otherwise I would be putting up unfunny comics (when I would run out of ideas) and I didn't want to bring down the quality just because "I needed the joke" or I felt like updating was too much of a chore. And I enjoy writing so the storylines are perfect for me and I like doing the more serious stuff with them. But I also like doing the joke comics instead. I mean come on, just watch the original cartoon for one episode and you'll see how 'serious' the show was. That being said, it's up to you if my stuff is actually funny or maybe it's a hopeless case, but either way it's always a good learning experience and we'll see how it goes. I love getting feedback and I know I am behind at answering some fanmail >_< but I do read everything and I do intend to answer as soon as I am able. Feel free to send me anything :) I love hearing from people. Ratchet out.
June 4th , 2009
I really need to do another week soon, I have a ton of new screenshots. Those were always a lot of fun I'd just need to plan in advance. I think personally kool-aid week was my favourite, although Autobot falling week sort of kick started the whole thing. Thanks a ton to Silverbolt for deciphering my scribbles and notes to ink/colour the comic. I would not have had time for it otherwise so thank you!
All these action scenes are pretty labour intensive to draw but I like it, I'm finally able to draw the comic more to how I've always wanted. (And get hopefully a little more sleep in the process)
Have a great weekend everyone!
June 1st , 2009
Well June 1st... How time flies. Sorry for the out of continuity comic this week guys, but this is something I've been wanting to do since I saw Terminator last weekend and I was busy this weekend so I didn't get a chance to do any drawing. (Well not to the level I'd need them at) So I shall aim for a continuity update this Thursday. In the meantime, enjoy!
May 28th , 2009
Can you believe it's almost June? ...The weather hasn't really been nice enough here for me to believe it so it sort of snuck up on me. I tried to at least shade this comic a little since none of it is inked. I think in a way that gives it its own 'style' so to speak... It's not inked because I find Thursday are a little tight to give Silverbolt enough time to ink/colour the whole thing during the week.
Anyhow, I better upload and head to bed, it is pretty late. Ahhh the summer.
May 25th , 2009
I really don't know how I could ever keep up with Twitter - a lot of people seem to love it but I have a hard enough time just keeping up with my own website to want to dictate my life to my computer. Anyhow, technology rant off... I'm going to get myself a decent cellphone this weekend, people have told me my current one is a bit of an antique.
It's been a bit of a crazy week actually, but writing/drawing/colouring this comic has actually been really relaxing. It keeps reminding me why I do it. Well that and it's a good outlet for me. Thank you again to Silverbolt for inking/colouring the Smokescreen/Ratchet scenes. I thought it would be a good constrast to have the Bee/Sunstreaker parts in a different style to differentiate to go back to the previous panel with both scenes going on at the same time.
Oh yes and welcome back to the storyline T.C.
May 18th , 2009
So it's Monday (well it will be when most of you read this probably) and I'm most likely sleeping. I had a fantastic small trip, it was really great to get out of the city for a couple of days and just sit around and talk to people and relax. I've always wanted to post Silverbolt/Zatnik's comics with the flavour text they send me before I wipe it out and put in the real text and now that there's enough of it and everyone's seen what the real comics are, I thought it would be funny to put up since I just got back and haven't had any time to draw. I hope you guys find them as funny as I do. It almost seemed a shame that until now I was the only person to enjoy them.
May 14th , 2009
Whew it's been a bit of a long, tiring week. And because I don't want to disappoint my co-worker, I gotta do some more work too before I head to bed!
...whew....
Thanks Silverbolt for inking and colouring the comic on such short notice!
I was originally going to have a lot more to this scene, but didn't want to clutter it with peripherals, because it really is about Smokescreen and his breakdown. I probably could've followed up with more Sunstreaker in the background but didn't have the time for this update >_<. I'll be out of town for the long weekend, so expect an out of continuity comic for Monday :)
May 11th , 2009
Two months later... I finally get the news section fully up to date. (Separating the months as they should be) Thank you again to Silverbolt for inking and colouring the Sunstreaker panels... I wonder if you had any idea what was going to be going on in the rest of the comic? Usually of late because of time constraints comics are approx. two pages each. This one was four. I wrote out the entire scene in advance because I really wanted to give you guys something good to read after a few in-between comics that were necessary to move the plot along. I hope you like it, I really enjoyed writing/drawing this one.
I try to sometimes give the comics a little more than just surface deep meaning, so I was going for a parallel between Ratchet and Smokescreen's conversation and Sunstreaker's actions.
May 7th , 2009
Very late again and I'm also very tired... Thank you Silverbolt for inking the comic, I'm sorry again I got it to you late yesterday, it's been a bit of a busy week.
This comic is dedicated to everyone who at one point or other, has been called out. (And in front of people)
May 4th , 2009
Must.. separate... news....
Very tired right now though as it is quite late. Hopefully I will have a more insightful news post up tomorrow. It reminds me of the 'good ol' days though' of when I used to do everything by myself how late it would make me stay up. (Have I mentioned how much I appreciate the help I get?)
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