I find it somewhat annoying that, as the year comes to an end, December's just like "oh snap not much time left" and kicks me in the face with the boot of last-minute-stuff, then uses his other boot of sleep deprivation to grind my sorry ass into the ground. Then he takes my wallet and laughs at me. I doubt I'm the only one he victimizes.

Pretty much all I have left this semester are grading Generation portfolios, 7 finals (I don't know how that happened, I'm only taking 5 classes), Helpdesk shifts, and a few parties to go to. Should be a relaxing three weeks. I'll be driving back to Scorched Mountain on the 21st, so if anyone wants to do something, call me then.

I've been travelling a lot lately. A couple weekends ago I picked Ryan up in Oneonta and we went out to Boston to hang out with Paul and a bunch of people from home. He got stuck in a hotel room with his roommate because Emerson guaranteed him housing and the dorms filled up. Now he has a maid service, an in-room bathroom, HBO, little bars of soap, and a YMCA pool and gym just down the stairs. We pretty much trashed the place while we were there.

I went home with Allie to Long Island for Thanksgiving. It was great. All we did was eat, sleep, and chill. Allie's family was really nice. There was only one really awkward part of the trip. The night we got there, Allie and I sat down on the couch with her Mom and Dad and watched the CNN coverage of the capture of David Ludwig, the kid who murdered his girlfriend's parents. Good times.

So I'm going to do some more traveling. Paul and I are flying out to San Diego over winter break to pick up a car from his Grandma and drive it back across the country. If anyone has any suggestions for landmarks to stop at, let me know. I will have no money come school, but it will be worth it.

Been listening to a lot of the old Weezer lately. It makes me sad that that Rivers went crazy after the Pinkerton album. It's one of the best albums of all time, and I wish he knew that. Sigh. Oh Rivers. You'll always be short and angsty.

There's also a lot of the new Beck. He may not be one of the best musicians of all time, but the stuff he puts out is unique, and damnit it sounds good.

I've also been listening to this local band, from these eyes. Allie and I stopped in the dorm coffee shop for a while and listened to a couple of their guys play. So she says I need to learn to sing and play guitar. I told her I have to draw comics and don't have time. She said to do both. She should have said "wait, what comics?"

One more Waste of Time this semester, then none until late January. I've got to find a job over Christmas break, so if anyone has any ideas, send me mail or IM me or something. I'm going home with Allie for Thanksgiving, so I'm not sure if I'll be back in the 518 that weekend.

In other news, Generation editors and the public alike were shocked and amazed at the fact that I can read. Many of them fainted when I even told them I can write. What sort of cataclysms may arise when I learn to write about something that isn't excessively nerdy?

Randy's probably coming back to UBCon this year, which I'm excited about. And SA's supposedly been talking to some good bands for springfest this year. They've been doing some things ok recently, although they still spend so much money on complete crap (see see last entry on this page) and it makes my stomach upset just thinking about it.

I finalized my schedule for next year, and it looks to be a lot of instint death on whole wheat and immeasurable pain bread with a sprinkling of writhing in agony dressing. I should have gone with a wrap.

There are some pictures from Halloween up in a gallery in my facebook profile if anyone cares to see how our Generation advertising campaign went. Sadly, there weren't many people out, probably because it was a Monday, but I'd like to think we made a difference by scrawling "read Generation" on people's white boards and assaulting the kids who were out smoking.

Waste of Time episode 28. 28 = a lot of comics. I liked this one. There's even a stabbing reference. The International club label sort of confuses me sometimes.

Every time I put Dale in the strip I get all these people coming up to me saying "you put the nerdy kid in again!! I love the nerdy kid!!" I've only ever had one guy come up to me and be like "So what's going on with Mark and Kate? Do you think it's going to work out between them?" I thought it was sort of funny that he even knew their names.

Here's the fish story I was talking about last week. Not only is this one of the best covers we've done so far, but our model's pretty good looking, too. So why not head over, maybe read the article, or maybe all the articles while you're over there.

So there were meteors falling and all kinds of plagues this week when I finally got a cell phone. It's pretty, and I'm still figuring out how to use it. I need to find a Weezer ringtone. I think that'd be sweet. I feel this vibration in my pocket, and I'm like "oh, sweet deal, Weezer time," and then out of nowhere Rivers Quomo sings "WOO-EEE-OOO I LOOK JUST LIKE BUDDY HOLLY..."

Fixed up the links page so their working again. There's even some Take Steve to School banners in there, if you want to stick one on your site. I'm going to work on cleaning up the author and character pages next, but it's pretty much going to be the same thing arranged differently, so no big deal. Oh, and I'm going to work on a Steve comic... maybe...

Yeah, my job's cool like that.

So Something Positive got itself a fan movie. I never really thought about how the characters would translate to real life. It's pretty cool. There are a lot of things I would have done differently (Aubrey and PeeJee are asian, assholes), but it blows my mind someone thought to do that, and it makes me excited for when someone with experience and money decides it would make a good feature-length. And then, you know, hollywood will start picking up other webcomics, and Take Steve to School has been read by a few people...

Another Waste of Time. I'll post the next one on Tuesday, when the new issue of Generation comes out. I also added the guest comic for 8-bit to the pics page under fan art. He didn't put it up or anything. Better luck next time, I guess.

Updated the layout of the pics page. I'll put some new pictures on there in the next few days.

I forgot to mention that there was a half strip posted before the "Weee I'm naked" strip last time. Nothing special, just a continuation of the previous strip. I'd also like to mention that in the streaking strip I might have made a reference to another keenspace strip that was discontinued in January.

Old news. UBCon was a few weekends ago. I didn't hang around too much. Went to the vending room a couple times, watched some people play videogames, played D&D with Randy Millholland. And I bought a picture, but Randy had to go and write on it. Now that I think about it, it kicked a lot of ass.

Generation's done with for the semester. I'll probably have to go back to Buffalo for an interview in June, but otherwise, I just need to play around with Quark for a few days before I go back in August.

It's gonna be nice being home for a while. I've already done a whole comic since I've been home. It isn't either Take Steve to School or Waste of Time. Hopefully, it will show up within the week on some other well known comic site. The next Take Steve to School should be up in a few days.

So yeah. Last Waste of Time until September, probably.

Don't worry. I'm going home for the summer. Nobody panic.

So some of my art ended up on t-shirts T-shirts...without my permission. I have seen none of the profits (the whole two dollars they're probably making). Watch your back, Todd Natti.

UBCon is this weekend, and I will hopefully be gaming at least once in the next few days. Perhaps with the famous R.K. Milholland himself. ::crosses fingers::

Comic Nation was kind enough to put my comic on their line-up of over 700 comics. It's a pretty sweet site. You register, and then you add your favorite comics to your "comic lineup." You can go back to check on the line up, and it will let you know which comics have updated since you last checked your line-up, so you don't have to go to every one of the comics you read to check for updates.

I think I'm the only one who thinks that's novel...

So you know what are badass? Dinosaurs. You know what's gonna be even more badass? Making dinosaurs. There needs to be a dinosaur farm near my house in the next ten years or I'm gonna start my own.

I've been reading a few different comics lately. I like a lot of the stuff on the Daily Grind. (If only it was going on during the summer, then you might have seen some updates.) This girl's comic is cool. So's this girls and this one. And there's also this one that I haven't started reading yet, and this one, which I relate to pretty well. It's a cool idea. He's been doing a journal with comics for like three years or something.

Been debating whether I should stay in Buffalo over the summer or not. At least here I'd have a relatively well paying job. I keep seeing flyers around from people trying to find roommates for the summer. I don't think I'd have transportation, really, but there's always shuttling services. Courtney would have wheels. She'll be here for most of the summer. I could get a another job to supplement the help-desk job, maybe take some summer classes. It wouldn't be too bad of a deal.

Then again, Buffalo sucks. So maybe not.

Sadly, I'm pressed for time tonight, so no further text or updates. I've got an electrical engineering midterm tomorrow. This course is like what it would be if high level Calculus and abstract EM Physics conceived and birthed the anti-crist.

T'was trying to outline some strips for Take Steve to School and Waste of Time recently (i.e. when I should be paying attention in class. It's when I do my best work). I thought of a few strips for Waste of Time, then tried to nail down a sort of point or theme or something for the comics. The best thing I could think of is that Waste of Time is how I feel here and Take Steve to School is how I feel at home.

Cue gasp. Surprise, surprise.

Waste of Time is sorta like Buffalo for me. A little emotionless, lacking color (har har), and it incorperates a lot of the thought I do here. Something about this cruddy little city makes me think way too much.

Take Steve to School sorta makes me miss home, mostly because I pretty much based the strip off my friends from back East. I miss being easy going about everything, having a low-stress sit-around-and-do-nothing job, and hanging out with my friends every evening. Sooo summer vacation can't come soon enough. Febuary is such a cruddy little month.

I think I'm just gonna skip out of anything big this summer and get a Stewarts job. Maybe I'll keep working at SPAC or something. Working construction would be sweet. If anyone knows of any good jobs opening up this summer, let me know.

Anyway. Updated some of the site. I updated the pics page with some of the drawings I've done since I've been here. It was pretty sad when I looked back over my sketch book and saw that 95% of what I've done is for Generation. Oh well. I'm getting paid. Yeah. More pics on the pics page.

I really want to thank you guys. Especially Ryan Andersons and the old BH crowd who still keep tabs despite me being a huge slacker and the comics only coming in black and white. It means a lot.

In other news, I'm getting back to work. Sorry the comics up late.

Dane Cook performed free last Friday. I bow my head to this comic genius. He's funnier every time I see him. A master of improvisation and "the ha-ha" as he put it. SA started giving out tickets at 9am on a Friday a few weeks ago. I got there at 8:45, and the line stretched across the top floor of the student union. All 1700-something tickets were gone by 10:30. The Student Association had no idea Cook was so popular. I bet Burgio is kicking himself for not charging every student $20 a head. Oh well. Guess that's $20 from each student you won't be spending on personal cellphones, sport's car rentals, and redundent trips to San Diago. Maybe you'll actually have to show up to meetings now.

Any way, political griping and "Dane Cook is a silly bitch" aside, I'd like to say that the site has passed 1000 unique hits (woot!), more than 2000 hits with reloads (double woot!) and has recieved it's first reference from a search for porn. That is indeed a big step for this site. Usually we just get hits off of searches for dominic the donkey. I know it isn't really much (Allie's site gets about that many hits in one day), but yeah. It means a lot to me (not the porn thing, the hits thing). So thanks.

In other news, Randy Milholland's friggin' coming to UB CON in April. How sweet is that?

To all those people at UB who aren't too shabey with a pencil or pen, there's a informational meeting for Generation Wednesday the 26th. If you like seeing your stuff in print, feel free to drop in to suite 315 in the Student Union around 6pm, and we'll be glad to take a look at your any example of you work and try to take you on for whatever staff you feel like participating in. Graphics staff has surprisingly accumulated a bunch of people over the past semester, so it might be a little tight in that group, but we're short photographers, and I know nothing about writers, so whatever.

Just finished up classes and a couple finals. I must say it's been a relief to not have any real work due until next year. With my free time, maybe I'll have some time to catch up on my art. Or maybe it's just more time to lounge around with the girl and not do anything. I'll probably be happy doing either.

So I've been checking my "extreme" tracking periodically. It's the little icon at the bottom of the index page. It's pretty neat. Gives all kinds of stats, like what browsers/operating systems/resolution settings are used to access your site, how many users have seen the page, and where they were referred from. Yesturday 31 people loaded the site. That's the most ever. It's a little pathetic, but it's sort of a big thing for me. I think the most disappointing piece of information I uncovered from the tracker is that, of all search queries (like on Google.com), the keywords that led people to my site on the most occasions were "dominic" (9 instances), "the" (11), and "donkey" (10). Curse you, Sean, and your god damn stupid Christmas songs about Italian Christmas donkeys.

I've been reading a lot of comics lately. I've been trying to draw a bit of inspiration from some works of Bill Waterson. The 10th Anniversary treasury has a lot of written word, about his work, his characters, etc. I've not had the time to work through it yet, but my schedule just opened up. Been reading Bunny every day. I was also referred to this little known strip called the Perry Bible Fellowship by Sean. It's one of the most sadistic strips I've seen. Very humorous, but it's the kind of humor that sorta makes you feel dirty for laughing.

Halloween's in a couple days, and Generation made me do a Halloween comic, so here's that. There's also a Halloween wallpaper in the pics section (I ran out of time, so I just colored Kate in her witch costume).

I've been trying some new things with the sketches recently, and I've sorta been half satisfied, half less than. I guess I've been trying to draw stuff that looks interesting, as opposed to Charlie Brown-esque "Heads on a wall" sorts of things. And it's starting to feel repetitive, but whatever. Only so many ways you can draw one thing. And I like the Peanuts.

The thing that's been giving me trouble lately is fitting art and words into the the little Waste of Time boxes. There's never enough room for what I want to say, or there's never enough room to make the art large enough to see. I'm still tweaking that. I've been drawing everything bigger, so that it looks more detailed when it's finally scanned and put in the comic. That and everything that I've been coloring recently has looked really nice. So hopefully the next Take Steve to School will look good.

. . . you know, if I don't quit drawing before it's done.

That would be the third Waste of Time this year, so that's the 19th comic that I've done total, including the Take Steve To School I did for my High School paper which I keep misplacing and the Waste of Time I turned in today. It also marks about a year and a half of making comics. The new Take Steve to School is sorta sitting on the back burner, mostly because the script is giving me troubles. I've also sorta been toyng with this idea I've had for some epic fantasy. I don't think I'd like to go through with it until I go to art school and actually learn enough skills to do it justice in comic form. But it's nice to think about.

I've found I'm more productive when I turn my computer off. I don't understand why . . .

Christmas is coming soon, and I know it's a pretty useless system, but the site's pretty cool, and it can't possible be any worse than virtual boy . . .

So Courtney and Allie decided it would be cool to put highlights in Allie's hair. Heh heh.

Paul's in friggin Europe for the semester, land of small cars, fine works, and a rich history. Lucky bastard.

Buffalo's been a bit boring. Nothing to do but hang out with people and torment eachother. Sean has begun his taunting (the written part has been scrawled in the back of one of my textbooks), and Colin was eager to retaliate by desecrating Sean's homage to his idol, but after that Sean rubbed his bare ass on my office chair, so it really wasn't worth it. Now he plays the Dominic the Donkey song, and it makes me want to rip off my ears.

. . . and this is the most pointless update ever.

First Waste of Time of the school year. Woot.

I'm back at UB, living in the mighty DAS ROOM!! Dan spends most of the day with his girlfriend, but the Sean and I are having a relatively good time. The big problem is that there's absolutely jack to do on north campus.

Anyway, there's a new character description page, and I finished the ezekial picture I was working on, so that's up in the pictures section. That's like three things to keep you busy for a good 4 minutes. That and I added the link to applegeeks in the links section a while back, because it's such a beautiful sight. Or site. Whatever. That should occupy you for at least an hour.

I'm gonna file this comic under "learning experience." Or maybe "Everyone makes mistakes."

I've been screwing around with the character designs. They can't wear the same thing every day. I sorta like Zeke's new hair, although it looks better in the first redesign picture. His clothes are sort of obnoxiously mall goth fabulous, though. And I'm just not sure if Dave is the same without his hat.

As soon as school gets into full swing I'll be posting Waste of Time comics again, and seeing that I don't have too many credits, I'll be trying to up the Steve updates to at least twice a month. It's not as ambitious as once a week. Hopefully finding a job won't keep me too busy, although I'm sure mad partying with Buffalo peeps will take up quite a bit of my time.

By popular demand: the infamous picture.

The next post will be from Buffalo. Good luck to all those heading to school, either for the first time or for returning semesters.

Hurray! New comic!

I've been trying some Flash bitmap tracing techniques with the outlines after inking the sketches. It's a lot less tedius than photoshopping the outlines, and in the end I spend a lot less time in front of the computer, which is a great thing, because I can already feel my dorkiness level dropping. I'm still getting used to the program, so it might take me a few comics to get the hang of it.

Went downstate to visit Sean and Dan this week. We didn't do much. Just cruised around. Went and saw Ben Folds and Guster at Central Park in New York. Damn good stuff, aside from getting drenched in the afternoon thunderstorms (which really wasn't too bad). I just don't have any money left. Less eating out and more working the boxoffice, I guess.

Hey there, sports fans.

Did some site recoding. Put up an about the author page and fixed some of the main navigation bar links. Been working on the next comic. It should be out pretty soon.

Saw Farenheit 9/11. Great movie. Doesn't seem as phoney as a few people have told me, but I'll have to see it again, and maybe check out michaelmoorehatesamerica.com, before I can form a better opinion. A lot of that stuff is pretty scary, but it really solidifies the fact that Bush is a moron.

Also saw Spider Man 2. Craig hated it, but I enjoyed it. Didn't blow my socks off, and Sam Raimi pulled some really corny shit, but there's this scene that pays homage to Evil Dead which was highly amusing, the action was great, and Bruce Campbell was back. It also solidified a very important point: Kirstin Dunst goes from pretty to amazing in the blink of an eye. Just add water.

Time has come.

It was 6 months ago this day that Take Steve To School Episode 6 was posted. Steve has made his triumphant return. Enjoy.

Keenspace has requested I lower the file size of the comics. They won't look as pretty as they did when I finished them on Photoshop, but at least it won't take an hour to load them. I'll fix up a bit more of the site sometime this week. It's late, and I have work tomorrow.

Put in a livejournal link at the top of the page, and you can post comments or leave messages there.

I'll finish site updates later this week.

Going home around the 7th. College has been a blast, but it's gonna be good to be home for a few months. There's a lot of people I need to see and a lot of things I need to get done.

This is the last Waste of Time until next year. Generation had it's last issue last week. Hopefully there will be more Take Steve To School around in a bit.

There's one more pic in the art section, just the flower I entered into LeFont and then into Generation for the art issue. Physicists don't have time to do real art every time somebody asks us, so we often reuse old stuff. But alas, I have to switch majors. They apparently don't offer physics in the fall at UB. Go figure. So I'm gonna try that whole computer engineering thing. I believe it may be a purer form of nerdiness. The computer science department seems a lot friendlier than the physics department. And they seem like they can teach, too, which is always nice. And most of them speak english. So all I have to worry about are stupid nerds asking dumb questions on a regular basis, but all you really need to keep them out of your hair are some pokemon and yu-gi-oh cards strewn about down the hall.

Dirty nerds give us cleaner nerds a bad name.

p.s. - April 20th - Waste of Time #5 is dedicated to Sean. Without his misfortunes, I wouldn't have a punchline.

Saw Hellboy tonight. Didn't really like it much. Otherwise it was a great weekend.

Yeah. Good news. I have a week off in between my finals, so I'll have plenty of time to finish Take Steve to School. In the meantime, I think I have maybe two or three issues of Generation left to draw comics for. I think one of the issues is supposed to be a "real art" issue, so maybe I'll have to draw something that isn't a cartoon. Or, like Kris said, just draw an epic comic.

So Waste of Time now has some continuation. Go figure. It sort of just popped up. The last comic, this comic, and the one after this (up this week sometime, has to go through circulation first) have something in common with eachother other than characters and style. This comic sort of weirds me out because it's so different from Take Steve To School. There's no plan, I never think ahead for it. I don't have the mass of character sketches and plot outlines for Waste of Time that I have for it's former. I don't think it's as well done as Take Steve to School. Has the same dry, wordy humor, but less color. It only has 2 characters (so far), and I didn't even think to name the girl until the third comic. I just usually wait for the last minute, thursday nights, and I just draw whatever comes to my mind. I guess it shows, I try not to be as much of a perfectionist for it, mostly because I like being awake on Fridays.

I have so many plans and so many character sketches and plot ideas for Take Steve to School. I pretty much know how the characters are going to be and act for the next 20 comics (20 comics might happen in just as many years). All I really have for Waste of Time is a vague idea of the boy and the girl. The character designs are pretty much based on two people from my science class that I had the thursday night before my first comic was due. I just have no idea what I want from the characters. They're not as close to me as the Take Steve To School characters, they're just a couple kids I saw in my science class that I've never really talked to. I guess I'm really just uneasy because I put only a fraction of the thought I put into Take Steve To School into Waste of Time, and the latter is seen by a greater mass.

Anyway, too much thinking.

Apparently they had a shortage of comics for the magazine last week, so Angry Scott had to improvise to fill space. It sort of made do a double take when I first read it. The art editors apologized, but I thought it was funny. Sean says EMAIL at random times now, being the impresionable youth that he is. While I'm on the subject, he really enjoys it if you IM him (SheathOfTheMind on AIM) and type GOD DAMNIT in really big letters.

And then there were three . . .

Put up the third Waste of Time, and there are new pics on the pics page. Beens spending a surprising large ammount of time with my sketchpad in the last few days. I still need to sketch out the last two panels for the new Take Steve To School. Drawing is hard.

I'm still sorta mourning the loss of red thunder. I'd put up the pictures of the crash, but I always get really really sad when I look at them. I've got to make a shrine to it or something. Poor car. She was taken before it's time.

Things are getting back to normal here at school. We've been gearing up for room reservations and class scheduling for next year. Sean's been himself. Dan's been helping him. The frozen winter has subsided, so we've been outside more. If you enjoy being outside as much as we do, you should support the cause and buy a frisbee.

Alright. Second Waste of Time comic. Third will be up whenever.

I'd like to make a shout out to the boys at Olliver and That Other Guy. The guys sent me a nice e-mail telling me they liked my comic, and I never got back to telling them I thought their comic was cool.

I'd finish the new Take Steve to School comic, but I've been supporting the revolution.

Hey. It's been a while. I know I should have updated sooner, but I've been swamped over here. There's been so much going on, and 19 credit hours really feels more like 26 with the courses I've been taking. But I guess I can't blame everything on my schoolwork.

The truth is . . . this is hard to say . . . so I'm just going to say it. I've been seeing someone else.

It's not that I don't love you, I do. It's just been a completely different and new and exhilerating experience, and college is a time of experimentation . . .

Anyway, yeah. Been drawing comics for the school's student run magazine (the one that doesn't suck). It's a weekly thing, and it's been a lot of fun. The other artists are really cool, and it's been keeping my art skills tuned.

The new Take Steve To School has been delayed until I can catch up with missed schoolwork, probably not for another few weeks. so until then I'll be posting my other comic. It's smaller, and it's black and white, but it's not too bad. I'll put the next one up this weekend. I'm also thinking about messing with the site itself. Doing some reformatting or something. But I guess I should really wait to do any of that until I've caught up with my schoolwork.

Happy New Year and all that! By the time some of you read this I will be back west starting the 2004 semester and trying to fulfill my New Years Resolution to talk to people who don't live in my dorm on a regular basis. It's ambitious, but I figure that if I say hi to people, and they don't look at me like an idiot and run in the other direction screaming something about the crazy stalker in the 74 hat coming out of his room, I should be okay.

So I'm looking for a decent summer job/internship, and any suggestions would be well appreciated. I've been looking around, and right now I've got a couple places I'm turning applications (they're sorry little applications. you should see them, you'd laugh) and I'm thinking about applying at EB so i can be a game nazi and point my nose up in the air every time someone buys something with a PS2 label on it. Box or Cubes, folks. We don't need no Stations.

And if you have not found your soul mate in the little fold out box that is the Gameboy Advance SP, I highly recommend you invest the money. It's such a lovely piece of machinery. I picked up my own over break with a couple rpg's, and it's kept my fingers in great shape.

I also got this great canon A70 digital camera for Christmas. It's such a pretty little machine. I can take pictures of random people, or use it for more useful things, like taking pictures of action figures that I've stolen from my roommate so I can post them on my website to spite him.

The day is mine, ass.

This cat is cool.

Sean has pestered me about the Berserk Black Swordsman Millennium Falcon Action Figure again. This time, he has defaced my computer with his silly taunts by putting this as my background while i was in the bathroom.

He will pay. Oh lordy, will he pay.

New comic. Backgrounds and I have officially stopped speaking, so I called in my good friend bi-tone gradient to help me out this episode. The title will help you out with the setting.

Went Christmas shopping today, and all I bought was a t-shirt for myself. Sorry folks. Looks like you're all getting pictures this year. Christmas is too comercialized anyway. Much to my surprise, Buffalo has been getting relatively little snow. All the blizzards are visiting everybody else in New York, but they get to Buffalo and they're like "Hell no! Nobody wants to go there anyway. Too many canuks."

On a positive note, Sean, my tall skinny funny-looking roommate, found a Berserk Black Swordsman Millennium Falcon Action Figure while we were at the mall today. On a negative side, he bought it, and he didn't let me have it. So I want all of you faithful readers out there to IM him and tell him to give his Berserk Black Swordsman Millennium Falcon Action Figure to me. His AIM address is SheathOfTheMind.

Anyway, enjoy the holidays, everyone. I'll see you at home, or I'll see you next year.

No comic. Been about a month, but been concentrating on my studies . . . ehem . . . ::attempts to keep straight face::

I did add another picture to the pics page. I've been working on some redesigns for the characters, but i'm not sure if i want to implement them yet. It's sorta hard for the characters to go through big personal changes if they don't have any more than four comics of character depth. Dave only has one. I'll have to work on that. I haven't even drawn them out of high school yet. I was planning on waiting at least twelve episodes for that, until the characters have a bit more depth. I was gonna do a large, interesting graduation arc. But hell, at a rate of three and a half comics a semester, i think id be out of college by the time they got in. (Sorry, Matt, i'm a perfectionist and i work hard on my art and don't put out over-emotional self-glorifying bullshit three times a week.)

I've actually been sorta busy as of late, what with homework and tests. This is the last day before i go home for Thanksgiving, and I've been doing some sketches for the next comic. They suck, but i'll think of something. I'm going to track down a copy of the first "take steve to school" comic and put it up as filler. I've got the art, but no text, so if anyone has a copy of that issue of the school newspaper, it'd be really, really nice of you to scan me a copy. Thanks a lot.

In response to people complaining about not being able to read everything diane is saying in the fifth comic: you have too much free time.

Alright. Less rambling, more drawing.

If you're reading this, this mo-fo is up and running. ::slams the fist of victory:: Woot! ::victory dance::

Alright. that's enough of that. I'm still working on adapting the old site to the server. I'm designing a new logo and putting ads on all my old pages. Least I could do for those kind keenspace people who took me in. Not all of the links work, and the guestbook is gone. Still working on recoding.

More comics soon. Fear not.