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And tediously predictable in many ways...

Why couldn't they bring back something less abhorrent? Like say, Smallpox?

Have you ever got anything positive to say about anything?  At all?

I've got loads of namesakes and, annoyingly, one of them is in more or less the same business as I am, so I keep getting his fan-mail. Grr!

//http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Carroll

This one's you, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ca ... ery_winner)

"Dear Tharg..."

It's the one where his respirator fails and has his photo taken without his helmet.

I know a lot is down to personal preference but this is one strip that made me go 'Jeez...that's bad'. Even if it's styalised to me it looks like a first year art students efforts and is such a contrast to his other work. Just not a style that works for him I feel.

-Bouwel-

I believe you're talking about the story 'Howler', which is, in my not very humble opinion- a work of artistic genius!

Me too- I thought it was a fantastic style and would like to see more of it.  There's a BIG difference between drawing badly and making stylistic choices (which is my gripe with the Siku haters- you might not like it, but there's no way it's badly drawn).

Okay, I got to finish it sometime so I wrapped it up there. The keen eyed of you will notice me trying out a few Matt Timson ideas, black border, color burn etc. Well, its all a tutorial.

Ideas that I knicked from other people, I must add!

You design types with your soulless corner cutting ideas...
 

Long story short- I don't just want the original lines- I want some of the smudgy grey area between the lines and where I eventually paint the white back in again.  If you look at the vamp's left hand, you can (hopefully) see what I'm talking about.

I do see what you mean, although I still maintain that some jiggery-pokery with the selection (which you can edit in Quickmask mode using all the usual painting tools) will get you pretty damn close in a lot less time.

It might be quicker- but I wouldn't get the effect that I'm going after.  There'd be no randomness to any of the edges for a start, and, no matter how you jiggered and poked, you'd still end up with a white layer that looked like it had bits cut out of it, rather than a white layer that's been painted on.  Be told!

Jim - if you look at the 2nd batch of linework after the 'scuzzing' of the images, it's more detailed, tighter and more accurate...

that's my theory anyway

:-0

Mmm. Not convinced. Just had a bash using the images on the site. Obviously, at screen resolution, selection operations are going to be a bit haphazard, but I think with some experimentation, you could certainly get close using my technique.

Cheers

Jim

Long story short- I don't just want the original lines- I want some of the smudgy grey area between the lines and where I eventually paint the white back in again.  If you look at the vamp's left hand, you can (hopefully) see what I'm talking about.

Besides, your way reeks of Photoshop trickery!
 

I don't understand very much at all about this whole business, but it seems there's an awful lot more credit in circulation than there is wealth to underpin it, and our whole economy appears to have been built on spending tomorrow's money... today! Have the banks been lending us money that won't even exist for a few decades? That would seem to be the case. I had supposed that when I took out a mortgage, the bank was lending me money it actually had: the money its investors had entrusted it with. But it seems that in fact, they were lending me money they had borrowed from elsewhere (other banks that don't actually have any money either), and eventually the 'elsewhere' the money ultimately comes from is the future!

So apparently, the banks are being propped up now for our convenience with money that will be repaid by future taxpayers who haven't even been born yet. But this is how we've always done things, and Britain hasn't been out of debt any time since the Second World War, if ever. Because after the war we borrowed a lot of money from the Americans to rebuild our country with, and we're not finished paying it back yet, and we've gone on borrowing ever since.

No, I don't get it, and I have absolutely no idea what the answer to it all is.

All money is debt.  Every pound in your pocket is owed to somebody else- it's how the system works.  Interest is the biggest con of all as you're basically paying interest on money doesn't even exist in the first place.

Here's an interesting place to start:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 2583451279

The system will fail eventually- this is just delaying the inevitable.  I predict catastrophic failure of the monetary system about three days after I win the lottery.

Which would be just about typical.

I really like Grant Morrison and his work- but his Zenith stance really irritates me.

Yeah- somebody else just pointed that out to me as well.  I thought that an American billion was a thousand million and a UK billion was a million million?

As you were, Gordon.  I feel far less aggrieved now that I know you're only spending 87 American billion...

[That's £87 BILLION]

UK taxpayers to shell out another £50 Billion to bail out the banks.  That's on top of the £37 Billion we've already given them.  That's £87 BILLION.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090119/tuk ... a1618.html

Unless my maths are wonky (and they might be), for a mere £60 Billion, the government could've chosen to make every man, woman and child in the UK a millionaire instead.

Just sayin'...