Random, butt-kicking real life developments have slowed my posting to a slow crawl. Instead of my usual “BAW! Things are crazay right now!” routine, I’ll keep it simple: things ARE crazy. How crazy?



Yes. It’s like that and please believe it. As always, I apologize for not making my usual rounds to bring you my gifts of random, unwanted ramblings. Let me bore you with some details:

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For the record, HKFlix.com is on my list of sure-shot online movie places to order from. I bought the PanMedia version of “Kid with the Golden Arm” a few weeks ago and I just got today’s purchase of John Woo’s “The Killer” (for my sister) and a 4-disc Brentwood Sci-Fi collection that has one of my favorite bad attempts to cash in on Star Wars: War of the Robots. I’ll yak about those movies at a later date. I’ve always heard good things about the store and they did not disappoint. They’re having a huge sale on martial arts flicks including region-free discs. You’ll find a crapload of Shaw Brothers titles so don’t sleep on this sale.

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Nutroll:the Illness will be put on hold (again) right after the Teaser gets posted. Besides still wanting to find that really killer layout for page 1 that’s been lost since the move in February, I just got a request for some commission artwork. It’s some pretty fun stuff and I’ll point you to the website as soon as they get it up. Just because I’m not doing pages doesn’t mean that the Nutroll story won’t be fleshed out. There will be some additional content that may be too “meta” for some people, but I probably wouldn’t like those people either. Those of you who like the fun and the crazy may get a kick out of the later stuff.

Another reason for putting the rest of the story on pause is that I’ve finally decided that I’m going to put together a small comic. Yes, a real comic made of paper and ink and staples. Depending on how much money I have by the time the work is done, it will either be a small ashcan comic or a real B&W comic with a color cover. Expect to hear more about this in a few weeks.

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You want to know what one of my favorite new comic books is?

That’s right: Tiny Titans. Aw Yeah TITANS!

Whether you’re an average jill, a common joe, gift procrastinator extraordinaire, 5-star holiday cookiesmith, Cindy Lou Who, Wong Who, a snot-nosed punk what don’t deserve nothin’ due to being a snot-nosed punk all year, or a fictional character who is pouting for being drawn in a goofy Santa costume, may all you party people have a Merry Christmas! For all of you that celebrate other things either have happy ones or happy belated ones! If you don’t celebrate anything at all, have Happy Days OFF! If you don’t have days off, have a non-messed up time at work in comparison to other days that you have at a job that won’t let you off for the holidays.

So I’m using SpellCheck.com to proofread that last entry and Dr. Sakimoto catches an error that suggests Sakamoto. So I immediately panic and think that I’d been another stupid round eye making with the messed-up Japanese names. Her name was supposed to be a reference to something I’m not going to spoil but anyone with enough 80’s points will figure it out. Anyways, I put Sakimoto into Google and the first thing that catches my eye is a Wikipedia link to Hitoshi Sakimoto. The name sounded familiar, but I didn’t know who it was. As it turns out, Hitoshi Sakimoto was the composer for two of my all-time favorite games: Ogre Battle and Final Fantasy Tactics. I love the music from Ogre Battle and fully believe that man did more with the SNES sound chip than most gamers will ever know. So along with Passion Tanaka having her last name come from the legendary Hip Tanaka, Dr. Sakimoto is the second character of mine to share a last name with a favorite game soundtrack composer. I can’t believe that I’m now subconsciously making obscure in-jokes now. You’ll know I’ve completely flipped it if you see Twofold fighting Yuukichan’s Papa.

Anyway, this post isn’t as much for anyone else as much as it is for me since I’d forget all this f I never wrote it down somewhere..