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Forbidden Love

by inky on September 16, 2011 at 11:33 pm
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Forbidden Love

Okay I confess, it’s true, I like Cyclops. I really do think he is the best X-Man. It’s hard to admit this. I don’t know why, but it is. Mainly because of all the great X-men that have been around. It’s easy to over look him. It’s also hard to stack up to Wolverine in general. Cyclops has it rough, but I have a few good reasons why everyone should move Scott up the list of best  X-Men characters.

First, it’s hard to be a leader. It’s hard to be a leader in a military unit. The X-Men are a military unit plus so much more. He’s a teacher, commander, ambassador and warrior. It’s hard to wear all those hats and Scott Summers has been doing it a very long time. Marvel has plenty of teams where leaders have come and gone. Cyclops has stood by the X-men for a long time. He’s lost his wife several times, his son has traveled through time in different incarnations and he’s kept plugging along. Commanders in militaries don’t know every solider by their face, but Scott has watched kids he taught grow into adults and fight beside him only to fall in battle. The pressure to perform must be intense.

Secondly, Wolverine and Gambit are cool, Colossus  and Rouge are strong and most of the others have a physical edge in one way or another. Scott is always in great shape and that alone is worth noting. You don’t see him winded running into battle with the likes of Wolverine. He has taken beating from being much much stronger than him and survived. It’s a small wonder he’s alive at all. I know he’s not flashy, and suffers from not being very relatable. (Like Superman) He’s got it where it counts, though, and I for one think everyone should give him more love.

I will talk about how his mutant ability on Monday. That gets it’s own blog. Stay tuned for part two.

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Money Matters Pt. 3

by inky on September 9, 2011 at 11:49 am
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Money Matters Pt. 3

Today’s the final strip of the story arc.

 

Rob and I discussed the value of comic books in the field of animation last night. I thought I would share some of the high points with you. (First, I am referring to classical animation, not computer generated. Second, the comparison is to feature length comic book animations, not television shows.) We started talking about the history of the Disney animation studio. Eventually we wound up talking about what we would like to see. I said I would like to see Disney put their animation efforts toward a major comic title. Yes, animated films have been made about some comic characters, and they are fairly solid. The only thing is they seem to lack that polished Disney look. They are not bad, but they could be better. Disney could make them better. With Disney owning Marvel it should be fairly easy to see them grab up Spiderman for an animated film. Disney does what they do best, and you have an action-packed Spiderman story. Live-action films are great, but animation is without limits. Angles camera’s can’t get and total control over the environment. Comics are the cousin of animation so it’s only natural this step should be made. Comics are, after all, fully functional story boards. They are just waiting to be animated. It might be just a wish, but “When you wish upon a star it makes no difference who you are. Anything your heart desires will come to you.”

 

(Speaking of good animation, if you are not watching the new Thundercats, you are wrong.)

 

 

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The Bear Went Over The Mountain

by inky on August 26, 2011 at 9:26 pm
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The Bear Went Over The Mountain

I am bad to play Monopoly with. How does that relate to today’s strip you might ask? Well, I tend to devolve the game to the point where I play with the pewter figurines. I’m bad enough with regular Monopoly. Heaven help you if I have the themed-based Monopoly version. If I start to lose interest I make things happen with the figures not being played with. My imagination sometimes spills over into the game. It doesn’t happen all the time, but sometimes the boot stomps down on a hotel. Or the Scottie dog robs a bank. Sometimes games are more fun without rules.

 

 

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Dinner Music

by inky on August 15, 2011 at 3:34 am
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Dinner Music

We’re a little late this evening. Had some unexpected delays, but better late than never. My wife is often embarrassed by the things I say in front of her boss. I tend to blurt out awkward things to people in authority. I don’t have that mysterious thing called tact. At any rate I try to avoid opening my  big mouth too much. I’ve never shown up in her office dressed like Burt from Mary Poppins, but mostly because I can’t afford the rig.

 

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Something about wet beds?

by inky on August 10, 2011 at 8:45 pm
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Something about wet beds?

The one after a milestone doesn’t seem to have enough of an impact.  101 doesn’t have much importance unless we’re talking about spotted dogs. It was nice to do something different the 100th strip.

We are trying to step up our work by changing layouts and other dynamics. We don’t want to be stagnant. We want to want you to be entertained, but also interested in the artwork. So we want to change it up here and there.  The best comic strip artists manage to be funny and creative. It’s not an easy thing and an we want are really focusing on it for the upcoming strips.

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yippee ki yay

by inky on July 29, 2011 at 6:11 pm
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yippee ki yay

After Wednesday I feel much more put together. Sometimes you need time to digest books, or movies. Dresden always takes me a little bit to digest it. Now it’s time to get back to reading Game of Thrones

Rob has been good to tolerate me for so long, I have never put a bit in his mouth and rode him like a horse. I have, however, made him carry me places piggyback style. He’s a good friend.

I just signed up and decided to try google+. It should be interesting, to give it a try. We’d like to here what you think of google+, if you get it.

 

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Fresh Meat

by inky on July 25, 2011 at 1:03 am
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Fresh Meat

We’re a little late today.  Rob just got back from cape cod, and sent me the strip. I’d be mad, but he got all the strips for this next week done. Rob worked his nubby fingers to the bone. That puts me in the hot seat to come up with some new scripts, but I enjoy the challenge.

 

I saw Captain America and I liked it.  It was good, but I didn’t think it was as good as Thor. It was too much of a war movie for me. I don’t really like war movies, but that’s just a personal preference. It’s not a reason to skip the movie. Chris Evans does as good a job as he’s ever done in a move. (Except Sunshine, he was great in Sunshine.) Tommy Lee Jones was great, and I can never say enough good things about Hugo Weaving. As far as comic movies go it’s above average, but not an A+. Go watch it, to have a good movie experience.

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He Has His Good Days

by inky on July 18, 2011 at 5:38 pm
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He Has His Good Days
Flash is mildly oblivious to everything. He’s aware of Missy, but not Zack’s interest in her. Sometimes he hears only what he wants to hear. We all do that sometimes. Me more than others. (Flash and I share this similarity a little too much.) I wish I could say that I remember things about people. However, I will forget your name as soon as you’re introduced to me. It’s not on purpose. I just don’t care. No, I am not “working on it,” and before you get all offended, I didn’t remember my wife’s name for the first 2 weeks we were dating.
 

Berkley Breathed. Seriously, click the link. I am not going to give you a rundown of his history. I will say that when it comes to influential comic strip artists, he would be number two in my book. He would follow Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes) in that category. Five and Dime is a web comic for comic book fans, but we should not forget we’re still a comic strip. It’s a powerful art form to dive into. It is hard to be funny… it is harder to be funny on a constant basis. The sad thing is that Rob and I have it easy. We  only do three strips a week. I can’t imagine trying to do 6, and still being funny.

It’s a challenge for the best of artists. When my darling wife, Lisa, (whose name I now know) mentioned going to the gallery, she only told me about The Green Lantern exhibit. I’m sure she didn’t give a moment’s pause to the other exhibits. I, being oblivious as I am, didn’t take the time to see what else was at the gallery. That brings us back to Breathed. When we walked in to the Gallery I was greeted by the inks of Berkley Breathed was shocked. The surprise of seeing the hand drawn illustrations of one of my favorite artists/writers was a huge treat. I was expecting all Green Lantern and got so much more. It took the excitement for this gallery to a different level. Here I am writing and struggling to maintain a comic strip, and here is a man who did it for a living. Seeing his ink work and pencil marks. The sharp dashes of quickened strokes emphasizing his pencils. The blue lined under-drawings. The pasted over text and the whiteout showing that the best can make mistakes. I may never meet the man, but his work says it all. It showed me that when the joke doesn’t have them rolling on the floor, it’s okay, there is always tomorrow. That or they read Garfield.

Shameless plug: If you have never read Bloom County or Outland, you should.

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Hello My Friend, Hello

by inky on July 13, 2011 at 8:54 pm
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Hello My Friend, Hello

Finally, we have a name. This is Missy. She’s always been Missy to us, but we want to make the name something worth it’s own strip. Most people, normal people, just introduce themselves. I know some very social geeks. Zack is not that type. Hopefully Missy will help him to become a normal person.  So today we welcome her as an employee of Five and Dime and a main character of our strip.

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Humna Humna Humna…pt 4

by inky on July 11, 2011 at 5:05 pm
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Humna Humna Humna...pt3

I’m back from San Francisco. It’s nice to come home and see that the website is still up. I can understand the fear parents must feel leaving the kids home alone all week. It’s not that you expect the house to be burnt down. You just hope it doesn’t happen. That is what it was like putting the site in Rob’s hands for the week. However, let’s give him a round of applause for handling the site so well this past week. He did all the work and deserves a tip of the hat.

 

I hope you are enjoying the introduction of our new employee. It is nice to have a complete “cast. It frees us up to tell the story we started out to tell. Rob has covered the basics in his blogging adventures. I will leave it at that.

 

Today’s strip is Zack getting out of his shock coma. He’ll have to get over his issues now that his dream girl is working at the store. I’m sure he’ll manage. That will mean that Zack will have passed Rob’s current skills with women. Sometimes art doesn’t mimic life.

 

Vacation was nice, but it’s good to be home.

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