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There's nothing subtle about my procrastinations. Some days I need to be chained to my desk.

I feel your pain.

[Rise of the Mekkos]

Rise of the Mekkos: I guess I can see now the major major downfalls of anthology comic reading - and it should have been more apparent to me, because the couple of times I've fallen off 2000AD and come back I've suffered this same way. This is part three - so there's no way (or maybe there is) you could know that there are no true "caption" boxes; there are actually two G127's, the robot and the man. That bit on the first page had been led up to. There's more to find out. Of course if you came away uninterested in that 'more', that's my fault. And if there's no way for a new reader to penetrate what's going on, that's my fault too. Or maybe I've written a stinker, which is my fault most of all. This certainly isn't the first bad review the strip has gotten - and reception has been so bad that I've really felt like I've let Davey and Paragon down. Several times I've told him I'd write a quick ending so he can be rid of it (or even told him I wouldn't be offended if it just disappeared).

Jikan: I've honestly never read Samurai Jack, so I can't really comment on that. As for my captioning being dry, there's nothing I can really say to that. I attempted to echo Roy Thomas' Conan stories, so I guess I blew that! Ironically, the original script had zero dialogue or captions...

Anyway, nice in-depth review. Thanks for reading.

I find it mind-boggling that twice my work elsewhere has come away with dazzling reviews from Colin at Too Busy Thinking About My Comics yet my Paragon stuff is derided (though I went back to the FPB review of the Jikan chronicles and the fellow who constantly rips Mekkos gave this Jikan nice marks, so...I guess just mostly bad, not ALL bad, ha).

I've put up a longer preview on the El Bigote facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/El-Bigote/268079929911650.

In other news, El Chivo now has in his hands, 'El Bigote: La Noche De Los Muertoads' the second El Bigote adventure! In other other news, we're moving closer to releasing 'A Tequila-Drenched Reckoning'!

Broken glass, cats or posters?

That'd be the cats  .

The posters that fell victim to the rascally little runts were my German 'Tombs of the Blind Dead', 'Return of the Blind Dead' and 'Ghost Galleon of the Blind Dead'. Posters were okay, though.

Other posters I have (all are original movie one-sheets): 'Zombie' (Zombie Flesh Eaters for you guys), 'Suspiria' (American Video Release Poster), 'The Beyond' (Grindhouse Rerelease), 'Night of the Seagulls' (4th Blind Dead Film), 'Horror of the Zombies' (Ghost Galleons American Video Title) 'Cannibal Holocaust', 'Return of the Living Dead', 'Meet the Feebles' and 'Re-Animator' (half-sheet).

[smashing the glass]

I collect vintage horror movie posters. I had them all framed very nicely, and they'd been in the same frames for years.

In my move from the States the glass in several of the frames was broken. The movie company paid for me to get new ones, so I decided to reframe the lot of them (even the ones without broken glass).

Today I picked them up from the framers and had them all leaning against the walls as I decided how to arrange them. Took a quick lunch break - while I had my head in the fridge, I hear a bang and a smash and look up in time to see my two cats run past, tails poofed up.

Sure enough, while playing they ran behind my frames, knocking three over and smashing the glass.

Sigh.

And to think I went through all that trouble to bring the from England with me. Any of you want them?

Queen are heavy metal now ? odd.

I was thinking the same thing!

No apologies needed, CL2000.

Nah, I remember who it was too, and it wasn't Locusts, (though he did make his feelings known).

I'm sure I did. I know I did. So let me take a moment to get all gushy and give you a big man-hug, CL2000.

That was absolutely not me. You were annoying to me, yes, but you annoyed everyone. I remember exactly who you bothered most but he doesn't frequent the forums any more so I won't name names. I didn't plan to post in this thread again, but I don't appreciate being accused of something I absolutely did not do, cyberleeder.

[huffy]

The odd thing I've written has never been reviewed and there hasn't been feedback of any kind, (except it not being mentioned when everything else was!)

Ye're all a bunch o' huffy-pantses!

That'll teach Proudhuff to open his mouth.

But the soundtrack fit. So it's got to be an exception to the "crap rock score" rule, right?

Maybe ok buried in the background of street atmos but not for the full sound score.

No, I don't think Meshuggah (the evil Archies) would make for a good score - but when I listen to it, I feel like the music is an 'aural dystopia'. I think a (dark) classical score is more in order for the film.

[woman]

It's too hard to choose. I loved them all for their own reasons but if I had to go with just one it would be Kaylee.

Kaylee is my kind of girl, but Inara is my kind of woman!


EDIT: We're all such nerds.

[pooped]

Yawn inducing until Bruce popped up at the end.

Read this as: Yawn inducing until Bruce pooped at the end.

As for me, I like the old G.I. Joe cartoon  .

Kaylee Frye is my favourite.

She is soooooo cute. But...

for me it's Morena Baccarin as Inara. Stunningly beautiful, just breathtaking.

(and the character is a great spin on the 'Whore With the Heart of Gold' archetype)

Every time Mal started fumbling around instead of telling her how he felt - when she was right there wanting him - I would scream at the tv like a teenage girl watching Twilight.

But I have never taken a creative kicking so I'm not sure if that's worse, I would imagine I would find it hard not to take it a little bit personally.

This same reviewer once thoroughly and utterly took one of my scripts apart and I felt completely empty inside for days - I even questioned whether or not I should keep writing comics!

I didn't take it personally, and even took a lot from it (that review actually offered constructive criticism) and I think got better because of it. Sometimes he adopts a tone that seems to say "give it up, you've got nothing to offer, you're terrible" that's tough not to take personally...but looking back I do feel it was good that he pointed out what the problem was so I didn't make the same mistake twice.

I requested the back issue after enjoying the Jikan web strip -

I'm glad you liked it! I'm writing another one for Paragon right now; I hope you'll keep reading.