I'm not dead...

Despite the rumors, I'm not dead. Nor is McNaire or Garin. We've... uhh... been busy...? with other stuff... I guess...

We did start a Thanksgiving Special. We did mention a second season of Opti-Pessi. I think I even mentioned a few more BLU's yet-to-be-released. And all of this stuff, is still hanging out on our collective hard drives.

Speaking of hard drives. I finally got around to getting my CD collection ripped.


Now it's time to get that hard drive I've always wanted.

But that's off topic, or is it? I don't really remember.

The point is, we are around, we are working on comics and projects and such. But we are slaves to the retail world, and this being the craziest time of the year for us retail peons, it's just hard to find time.

We also lost the ability to run our own GMod servers. I used to be able to host them, but now I'm on a local network, and we've never been able to computer on a local network to host a server. I might work out a way to run a dedicated on one of the other computers, but I don't think that will solve the problem. I'm also pricing the cost of buying a GMod server, as well as web space and a proper dot com.

I also really enjoyed writing the 'Anatomy of a Comic', and want to try to do some more things like that.

Anyways, I hope to get some stuff coming this way shortly, and I am still hoping on Opti-Pessi season 2 to be released on/around Christmas, but that's still in the air a bit.

It's A Special, It Doesn't Have To Fit The Main Line

I am doing some maintenance on our stored images, some images in old posts may no longer work. At least until I bother to fix them.

We are planning an early release special for Thanksgiving, or maybe we aren't... The suspense thickens...

Have a taste:

Never tell your password to anyone.
McNaire: Cool, that worked for once
KoreRat (uc): Whoa, this is a first.
Garin: Sweet
KoreRat (uc): Are we going to use this for constructive things? Or just being ourselves?
McNaire: Hmm...
McNaire: HMM....
Garin: why does it have to one or the other?
McNaire: I give up
McNaire: What's the answer?
Garin explodes form the wrath of god
KoreRat (uc): Purple.
Garin: i shouldn't have said
Garin: yellow
McNaire: M'kay. I just thought, since Garin was asking me about Korerat replying we could save some time (And my fingers)
Garin: cool,
KoreRat (uc): Let me get my "thinking music" going...
KoreRat (uc): There, Sabbath.
Garin: anyway all I have for an idea so far is some king of character gathering,some video game reference, and a violent thanksgiving reference
McNaire is listening to Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along. "I know you guys thought this was lame, but this music is catchy.:P"
Garin listens to TSO
KoreRat (uc): What's more catchy than, "I'm going off the rails on a crazy train!" ??
McNaire: Actually a lot of Japanese stuff, but that gets stuck in your head
KoreRat (uc): But on point, I think it would be cool to do a Turkey day bit.
Garin: likse that one HORRIBLE flash song....
McNaire: Don't go there Garin
McNaire: Anyhow
KoreRat (uc): hehe
McNaire: We can, but what's the theme?
KoreRat (uc): Opti's first Antlion Day?
McNaire: let's catalog T-day themes. "Football, Turkey, eating alot..."
McNaire: Why would Opti go for antlions?
Garin: no other food
KoreRat (uc): Better yet, Opti just realizes that its a real holiday.
KoreRat (uc): And tries to seek out its history.
KoreRat (uc): But we make changes, like the antlions and turkeys.
McNaire: Nah, I'd rather have him looking for the fabled Plymouth Rock
KoreRat (uc): first settlers into Combine and Indians into refugees.
McNaire: So we get great shots of him holding a rock and talking to it
KoreRat (uc): Adopting a pet antlion, and Pessi wanting to eat it?
Garin disconnected.
KoreRat (uc): He thinks Antlion day is in support of Antlions, so he finds one, then Pessi makes it for dinner.
McNaire: Can we make the antlion smaller and cute?
McNaire: brb
KoreRat (uc): I might be able to deflate them, or see if there is something on gmod.org
KoreRat (uc): kk
KoreRat (uc): Oooh. L4D models, we could do a special with them celebrating thanksgiving in the zombie apocalypse..

Ess Tee Ay Ell Kay Ee Arr

Spent a good portion of the evening working on getting the Credits page updated. I think I have everything on there now. Even added a few things to pop in with Opti-Pessi: Season Two.

McNaire and I did some shooting tonight also, then he managed to spend two hours messing up and fixing GMod. I don't think he fixed it yet, just gave up due to fatigue. A few jolly good laughs.

Still planning on posting those last few BLU's. But there is a lot going on in both the McNaireHood and the KoreRatHood. So, may be a little longer.

One of the reasons might have something to due with the fact I bought S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl the other day, and have already logged a good ten hours in it. Sadley, I don't think I've done much of anything yet...

Anatomy of a Comic is completed. Part five was written in about two minutes, and when I re-read it a few hours later I didn't feel like it came across how I ment it too. So I re-wrote it, so give it a second look. And if you missed it read the whole thing.

Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five

Polish are Cooler than Irish

Seeing as there are no Irish that view my site, according to my stat records.



But those Polish, they rock it out at number 2! And Latvia came out of nowhere. Sucks that Germany is so low on the list, I like them.

Okay, to be honest, it's late I'm kinda tired, just not sleepy, and I felt like I should make a post for a Update. So here is an update:

Anatomy of a Comic will continue, I'm waiting for McNaire to write his bit for the editing and he has a bit busier of a schedule than I. I had planed to post it today, but hopefully tomorrow or Wednesday. Wait, it's after midnight so today is tomorrow and... *sigh* So maybe it will get posted today or tomorrow...

We have a couple more BLU's in the que waiting to be posted. Then we will be unofficially canceling the project. It was a temporary gig from the start, and we need to focus all of our time on to the upcoming Opti-Pessi Season 2. However, if the mood sparks us or we get a good idea, we might still toss some out randomly.

Opti-Pessi is running smoother than planned. Although, I had wished to get a good 10 episodes in before releasing the first and it isn't looking that way just yet. We have almost the entire season written, albeit we are missing the beginning and the end. Plus we haven't posed anything or shot anything yet, so currently I'm unsure if we will make the December deadline. I might play the VALVe card and push the release back, plus season 1 started on the 25th of December so why not season 2?

So there is the update.

In closing, Russians loves me more that Irish.

BLU - Dishonorable

BLU - Spy

BLU - Train

It's a safe bet that this was inspired by some of the happenings over at the Ubercharged.net fourms.

Not living under a rock.

Well, no. BLU wasn't canceled, just that issue. It's kinda confusing, I know. But it's been kinda hectic as of late for McNaire and myself. There are a bunch of issues waiting in the edit que, but I'm not sure if McNaire has had a chane to work on any of them.

There has been some work placed in the Opti-Pessi storyline development. A lot of ground work has been done on the plotline. We got a lot of great episode floating, just working on the startup.

Stay tuned for more.

BLU - Cancelled

ID-10-T ERROR

There would be a BLU comic here, but I forgot to upload it and all that stuff before I left for work...

BLU - Leggin

There would be a new BLU comic here, but blogger is giving me crap and I can't get it uploaded. I'll see what I can do to get this thing working.

Fixed

BLU - Melon

BLU - Movies

BLU - Sandvich

BLU - Race

BLU - Patch

BLU Fridays

BLU begins it's run tomorrow. It's a strictly TF2 comic that follows three members of the BLU team. If you saw the announcement six weeks back you already have an idea as to what it is. If not, read on.

BLU will be the next challenge set forth by myself to create a humorous and remotely successful webcomic. The challenge I have given myself with this project is to create a new comic weekly without a continuous storyline or arc of any kind. In concept this seemed an easy idea, in practice it has proven more difficult than originally believed.

This is also a far more involved attempt to pose with the models and props from TF2. While most things are handled the same as the HL2 props, some are more difficult and have extra joints. As seen in the sneak-peek release of the Heavy update issue I still have some tweaking to do both in my ability to pose and write.

With practice, hard work, and a lot of luck, look for BLU tomorrow and every Friday until I rack my brain dry. Then after that, when I run though all the cliches and over-played jokes.

Enjoy.

BLU - Crazy

BLU isn't being released yet, but here is a sneak peek.

Something new? In BLU?