So I've had three conversations with guys at work about comic books and comic-based movies over the last few months, and from one of those conversations a comment was said to me that struck a chord: "You certainly do know a lot about comics." Not that that comment itself is a "bad thing", but it was more in how it was said than what was said. There was, to me at least, a slight tone of amazement, maybe even a smidgen of disbelief? That got me thinking, and a strange little thought has popped into my head. I'm beginning to wonder if being a girl (as I'm prone to be sometimes) and liking comics is something that turns guys away? I guess I tend to be a little more knowledgeable about certain comics and things than others, and I do fill in things for my sister when we went and saw Batman and the three X-Men movies (now, X-Men I know a lot about that whole world---at least until they totally overhauled the X-Men world and basically "started over" a few years ago). Or do guys like it if you're into comics and stuff like that? I remember when I was growing up, my friend Shannon and I got into comics (X-Men related titles mostly), and we had been told by our parents to some degree that comics were a "boy thing", and that young girls shouldn't buy those things.

Basically since then, I've been in and out of the comic world, buying well-known comics as well as experimenting with some off-beat comics and graphic novels, and in college there was Brian who showed me the wonderful world of Transmet, Batman via Frank Miller, and Batgirl, as well as some Authority and Planetary. But even then I was still a little weary of getting too into comics, and mostly borrowed issues from Brian instead of buying my own. It wasn't until I was with my last boyfriend did my long-forgotten passion for comics really come forth; we both had a affinity towards comics, known and more random titles, and that was one of the major things that brought us together in the first place. One night, right before we "officially" started dating, we had a late-night, multi-hour phone conversation about comics, and I think it was mostly about X-Men. Score one for comic girls! ^_^ So now I think, since I'm getting my own comic/graphic novel library up and going with main-stream comics as well as more "indy" titles, is that a... well, a turn on or turn off for guys? I mean... let's see if I can figure out the right way to word this... I'm going off on a bit of "stream of consciousness", so if it doesn't quite make sense, I'm sorry...

If comics are a "boy thing" per say, and girls tend to be tolerated for the most part in that world, is there something that boys could be interested in that is a "girl thing"? Like... if a guy liked scrapbooking or knitting? And I'm just picking those since those happen to be some things I'm interested in, you could insert anything that would be a "girl thing". Those are predominantly "girl things", I suppose. So would that be weird if a guy liked those things? Or would it be a bonus to have something else in common, like how Joe and I had comics as a mutual interest? It didn't really seem to weird him out that I liked comics, if I remember right, he actually seemed more than okay with it. I think... that if I were to meet a guy that liked... say, scrapbooking, I would admit that I'd be a little weirded out by it (and probably would question his orientation for a bit until told otherwise...) but I wouldn't be turned off from it. It would be fun to have someone---anyone, really---to do scrapbooking with. And I guess seeing a guy's scrapbooking style would be kind of fun. Since girls have a slightly different slant in the comics that they like, so would be the same for guys if they tried their hand at girl stuff.

Yeah, not sure if that paragraph made much sense. It's a little late now, and I had an impromptu 5 hour nap today that totally screwed up my plans for this evening, as well as my whole concept of what time it is. But I've been mulling over this little quandary for a while, and I was just curious. Does liking comics (or video games and RPGs and such for that matter) make one more "appealing" or "approachable" for guys? Or does it actually turn you into "one of the guys", thus hurting any chance of them seeing a girl as anything more than just another friend? But with the three guys I've had talks about comics with, overall I don't think my knowledge of comics had any adverse reaction. It was a nice ice breaker and gave us something to kill about 15 minutes at the registers during down times, and it was fun to share my knowledge (although admittedly limited compared to others') with someone.

Or maybe I just over think things way too much and I'm reading too much into this. I dunno. That one comment has just kinda stuck with me and it won't really let me be. *le shrug* And well, I've even gone into the comic world myself with my Bargain Section comics, and I even did Fallcon last year. And there were a few girls there, both selling their comics as well as buying. Even though comics still, as a whole, is a male dominated market, us girls are steadily making our way into it. I know a few guys have been interested when they found out I did the Fallcon last year and sold some of my stuff (not really, but they didn't need to know that), so, really, girls + comics = not a bad thing. The topic of the next lecture will be:

      Girls + Vid Gam3  
      Boys + PS2 + Ds                       Be ready to show your work.

Yeah... I'm tired now and not really sure if I'm making much sense. I think I'm going to go to bed again....

So this morning I woke up to get ready for the last day of Fallcon... and blech. My stomach was in the delicate balance of "Am I going to be sick, or no...? Let's play a game!" Then I get an email and phone call from Alex saying he was sick all last night, so he won't be coming to Fallcon. Awww. After telling him it was okay he wasn't going to show up, I started to get ready... and my stomach just didn't like being vertical. Fearing getting sick, I do what I've done in that situation for the last 17 years... go back to bed. And I just woke up because my cell phone went off.

Dammit. Oh well.

I blame the hot dogs. And the extreme humidity and heat in the building the Fallcon was being held in. I think a lovely combination of funky hot dogs, heat, humidity, heat exhaustion/sickness made me and Alex all sicky. Grrr. Oh well, I did have fun on my first (only) day at the Fallcon. I did make a few sales of mini buttons, and some friends did come by and visit me (and bought Through the Woods!!). So overall, it was a good time. Although I'm not there now.

So for anyone who I invited to the Fallcon and came today and saw that my table was empty... I apologize. I just wasn't sure how my stomach would react, or I would react to the 83* day it is right now... who knows what the humidity is? And how the building is. Ick. ***If you did stop by and I wasn't there, I will refund your $10 entrance fee, and give you a free comic/item from my inventory as compensation/thank you for stopping by***. You just have to let me know you stopped by the Fallcon, and I'll reimburse you, and give you much thanks for showing... even if I was MIA.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend! And if you did go to Fallcon, and I wasn't there, I hope you supported other up-and-coming comickers. And if you haven't gone yet, GO NOW! There's still time! And support the Antidote Comics guys next to my table. They are awesome, first time publishers of a great comic that needs support! And they came all the way from Des Moines, IA to be here! Go support them and buy Blood's Own!

Now... my stomach is hungry. Good sign. And the asshole buttmunch called me this morning... and woke me up. I have to go see what he said in that message he left.

I'm waiting for more freebie comics to print out... stupid ass printer... still going to kill you in the face. But while waiting, I looked over at Cyanide & Happiness for any new comics. And was I ever pleasantly surprised.

And slightly disturbed. But more amused than disturbed.

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

Comic Con is going well. It started off fun, but the humidity from last night's/this morning's rain made it unbearable to be in the Education Bldg of the MN State Fair grounds for long. So Filthy Assistant Alex and I left 2 hours early. We were dying. And we were suffering from evil hot dogs they had in the Fortress of Solitude (Creator/Dealer lounge)... blech. Humidity + funky hot dogs = cranky comic geeks.

Dammit. My color cartridge crapped out on me. Grrrr.

EDIT 1216am: Crap. The freebie comics look... like crap. The stupid color cartridge is done, so the black ink is now red. How does that work!? I don't get it. Oh well, they're free. People get what they pay for. If they want black ink, buy the other ones.

I'll be back Monday with tales of comic goodness!

And it's raining this morning... that last bit of thunder nearly killed me!

My printer has decided to summon upon itself the evil powers of El Diablo and be a pain in my ass. Oooh.. It decided to have a printing hiccup and stop printing when I was two bloody pages away from being done. Then I had to turn on/off my printer... nothing. Turned on/off my comic program... nothing. Turned on/off my puter. That seemed to have made it work... but now it's printing everything I had tried to get it to print before [refreshing/restarting/(un)pausing things in the queue]... *le sigh* And then a warning box popped up saying one of my ink cartridges is running low.

I'm going to seriously kill it in the face.

And now it's thundering. Squeee!

Just finished Death Note Volumes 6-7. OMG! WTF!?!? Totally is just messing with my brain! First it goes in one direction, then another... then.... ack! So many twists and turns and surprises! Holy crap! This was a good choice for a random manga selection. I do pretty good at finding awesome stuff on impulse. Go me! To steal a phrase from akoumi, "Pancakes all around!" Speaking of akoumi, I can see why she didn't like Death Note, after volume 5 things went a little wonky and the whole direction of the plot changed. But at the last half of volume 6, things were explained, and it was actually quite a "Damn you, Jerry Bruckheimer, you delicious bastard!" sort of reaction from me. I bought volume 8 today after work, and also Sin City Volume 6. So now I have 6/7 Sin City volumes, and 8/12 Death Note volumes. Yay! My comic collection is growing! Squeee!

I'm finally finishing up printing off my comics for the Comic Con on Saturday. Oy! I wanted to do it right after I got home from work today, but I just laid on the couch, watched like 15 minutes of Spongebob Squarepants, then fell asleep for about 2 hours. Damn. I'm really not adjusting well to this new head cashier schedule. I am not a morning person... especially when I have to wake up at 545am to get to work at 7am. But I guess when I'm "officially" trained in, I won't be starting work at 7am, but 730am. *shrug* Whatever. I still don't like getting up before the sun does.

Okay... only 2 more pages to print off... then I can go watch the rest of [adult swim] and staple. Woooo.

Curse you Japanese Manga! I'm totally addicted to buying manga now. Is it manga in the comic form and anime in the film form? Or are the two terms interchangeable? I'm never sure, really. Oh well. Not really the point now. All I know is that the film/video versions cost $30+... while the comic versions cost me $9 at work... hehehe.

I finished Death Note Volume 5 tonight while I was waiting for my DBT class to start. Curses! Oh! It's totally going in a new direction now, and it's making me mad! Not mad enough to stop reading it... but mad because I can't finish it now! I want to know what happens now! ACK!! There's 12 volumes in the series, and I can't buy them all at once. Well... I could but that would be a hefty strain on my bank account. So tomorrow after work I'm buying Volume 6. Grrrr. I also picked up Claymore Volume 1 the other day, too. Good stuff, so far. Diana, from work, said she read the first 3 volumes, but then lost interest in it. Hmm. Well, so far it seems pretty good. Good art in it, which always attracts my attention. I think I'll finish Death Note before I get more of Claymore. 

I also had a bad run-in with a manga series (surprisingly) that I picked up at the Har Mar B&N, in their used book section. I got the first 3 volumes of a manga called Peace Maker, and it seemed pretty good from what I saw and read, so I picked it up. Got 3 for the price of one with employee discount. I read it at DBT, after I finished DN5. Blech! BLECH I say! It was... a big mess! I couldn't follow anything! The layout of the scene/pages was just a mess. The dialog was like... WTF? Then I check out the front page of the first volume, and see it's a continuation of another manga series. Well... if that had been brought to my attention earlier... I wouldn't have been annoyed. Well, I still have the receipt. Hopefully I can return it at the Har Mar store this weekend after the Fallcon.

T minus 4 days and counting for Fallcon! Wooo! I'm excited! I still need to finish printing off two of my Bargain Section comics, but I can do that tomorrow and Thursday. Then I can get stuff ready to go. I'm pretty set, just need to get the comics done and also get some money ready. And I need to hammer out details of transportation with my Filthy Assistant Alex. Yep, I found a Filthy Assistant. Since I got no response from people about being a Filthy Assistant, I asked my coworker friend Alex if he liked comics, and if he'd like to help me out at the Fallcon. Damn, I thought the boy was going to piss his pants he was so excited! Hehehe. Of course, this was about a month or so ago. He's been counting down the days since. Especially this week. Monday we also hung out a bit, he was planning on seeing a movie after work, then asked if I wanted to come along. Naturally, I said yes. We went to The Kingdom after work. It was good. The big selling point with us: lotsa shit blowin' up. Yeah. And with a little bit of a message in it that ties to the relationship between us and our Arab friends. But.... mostly shit blowing up. ^_^

So yeah. I get to sleep in tomorrow... sleep in until 7am! Wooo! I'm not training as head cashier tomorrow (no one told me other wise...), so I get to be at work at 9am. Two more hours of sleep! I get to wake up at 7am instead of being at work at 7am. w00t. So far training is going well. I'm slowly getting a handle on the paperwork and stuff in the mornings. Doing stuff with the register drawers and stuff is easy, I used to do that all the time when we used to count down our own drawers at the end of our shifts. I'm just worried about Friday night when I close on my own. The other head cashier, Laura, won't be there; but Ged will be, and I can always ask him questions and stuff. So I'm not toooooooo worried, but still a little anxious.

Okie dokie... I should get to bed. I've been up since 545am. And it's 1121pm. Ugh. Not right.

I also need to make a manga monkey icon for all my rants about anime/manga. Next thing on my To Do List.

Don't really want to dwell on my last post... I know I scared and worried a lot of you. I'm sorry. I was in a really bad spot last week. Normally I'm pretty good at keeping that crap off LJ. I just want to say thank you for your words and concern. Helped me a lot.

And on to better and happier things! Squeee! I was a bad girl last night after work. Hehehe. I bought volume one of the Sin City comics. Hehehe. I've seen the movie, and you know that not everything in the comics can be put into movies (same goes with books). But surprisingly... the first volume of the comic... was damn near frame-for-frame in the movie! O.o Wow. Impressed. Except for one 2 page scene where Marv goes to fetch his gun from his mom's house. I don't believe that was in the movie. But otherwise... the whole volume was in the movie! Neat! Now I'm tempted to go to Half Price Books and go see if I can find the next few volumes. I do believe there are 7. Hehehe. Yay for Sin City! I (heart) you Frank Miller! I (heart) you good!

I spent most of last night printing my Fallcon copies of Bargain Section. Then half way through printing... I realized that I already printed that comic. I needed to do Bargain Section: Stampeding Turtles. Dammit. Oh well. I can do something with that half run... maybe keep them as some sort of freebie thing at my table. Yeah. Then half way through that run... my ink in my printer dyed (haha!). And I just got a refill of the black ink... then the color crapped out on me! Then everything turned red instead of black. Dammit. So now I have to go back to Target and get color ink. Oh well. Not like I can't find anything to buy when I'm at Target...

And due to popular demand... by two people at work... there will be a sequel to Through the Woods. o.O I know! Hehehe. I never really intended there to be a sequel, and just leave it end the way it does... but noooo! Apparently people want to know what happens next! Well, fine! So Thursday I hammered out a pretty decent lay out of the plot for House of the Dead 2. I'm using the original title for Through the Woods as a working title for now... I'm still trying to find a title for this new book that fits it well. I've found I'm not really all that good at coming up with titles for books. Odd, no? Nothing really sounds good to me, and when I come up with one, I most likely will change it. Like with House of the Dead 1. But I was able to crank out some title ideas at work the other day, and this is what I came up with:

1. Unearthing Skeletons
2. Digging up Skeletons
3. Skeletons of the Past
4. Past Skeletons
5. Dusting off Skeletons

Notice a theme? I was strangely inspired by a Boys Like Girls song where there was a lyric containing skeletons... I can't remember it right now... I'll have to go to my car and get the CD ripped to my puter. For some reason, that lyric just stuck with me. It was kinda cool. Ha! Yay for the internet! I went online and found the lyrics that inspired me. Here it is:

I won't try to philosophize
I'll just take a deep breath and I'll look in your eyes
This is how I feel
And it's so surreal
I got a closet filled up to the brim
With the ghosts of my past and the skeletons
And I don't know why
You'd even try
But I won't lie
.... from the song "Hero/Heroine" by Boys Like Girls

So yeah. If anyone thinks one of those 5 title suggestions sounds like a kick ass idea, lemme know. I used to think #5 was going to be it... but now... ugh. Now they sounds kinda dorky. Ugh! So... if anyone has any ideas for a title, somehow involving the word "skeleton", either a re-worked version of #1-5, or something new, that'd be awesome if you'd share it with me. Yeah.

Oh, and we're also in Baby Watch 2007... jilrani and my roomie Bonnie could pop any day... ^_^

So.

Who'd like to proof-read some stories for me? I'm working on my short story anthology Thessla Moon and I'm almost done with Part One of Two, and I was wondering if anyone was interested in doing some proof-reading? I'm bad at figuring out what parts need a little tweaking (run-on sentences, grammar issues, wrong uses of they're, there, and their, etc.), since I know what it's supposed to say, my brain tells me that's what it there.

So yeah, who's interested? You can get it in one of two formats: electronic via email, or hard copy that I've printed out for you (whatever works best for you). Thus far, it's about 50 pages in Microsoft word, single'd spaced. Yeah. If you're interested, lemme know! I'd be most grateful and I just might give you a free Bargain Section button! Hehehe. Or a free copy of the completed Thessla Moon book.

So, I just ordered Sullengrey because I randomly saw it posted over at bratty_princess's LJ... curse you comic book authors for suggesting good comics to read/buy! And curse me for being way too impulsive! And I just looked up Inverloch Vol 3, which I want to get soooooo bad! I actually had to mentally kick myself to stop myself from buying it! I've just been in this comic buying mood lately. Not that that's bad... but I need to save my money. I was worried I'd do this once I got the inheritance money... I'd spend it because I can. Grrr. But I've been doing good not going insane with the purchasing.

I was also on a hunt this morning for I Feel Sick by Jhonen Vasquez... I've been on a mad search for the ever elusive graphic novel/trade paper back version of I Feel Sick for years... ever since college when my friend Brian introduced me and my roomie Bonnie to Vasquez's comics and Zim. Apparently... there is no such thing as the graphic novel version of that comic series... since it's only two issues long. I did not know that. I could have sworn that Brian had the graphic novel version of that comic... he did! Well, hell. I guess I'll have to buy it on a break while at the Fallcon. The Source will be there... and it's only a block away... so I can buy it from their booth there, or from the actual store.

Speaking of Fallcon... I've purchased copies of Through the Woods and Next Weekend to sell at my table, as well as buttons. Yep. Buttons! I went over to CafePress.com and made some fun merchandise things for my Fallcon debut: buttons, stickers, and magnets. The cool thing is... the little mini buttons will be free! Yep! Free! Stop by my table and you get a free mini button of fun little things related to Bargain Section and my comics! Squeee! I know, way cool. So given all that I've just purchased for Fallcon... oy! A lot of money spent for probably not a lot to show for it. Oh well. I'll get my name out there... and people remember you if you give them free stuff.

I'm heading to the 2007 MCBA Fall Comic Con in October! Woooohoooo! I got the table request form in the mail today!! I'll have a fun table there with stuff and everything! Selling comics, and books, and maybe buttons if I can make that happen... I need to find that one website... however I can't make it happen without you! I need some Filthy Assistants (apologies, Warren Ellis!) to help me with stuff for the Fall Con.

Duties would include, but not limited to...

• Help me print and assemble comics for selling prior to Fall Con
• Organizing product to be sold (comics, books, prints, etc.) and pack them for transport to Fall Con
• Help set up table at the Fall Con location
• Hang out with me during the Fall Con to make it look like I have friends and I'm not pathetic(doesn't have to be for the whole day if you don't want)
• Take care of money box and inventory
• Other duties NOS (not otherwise specified)

I can only (sadly) have one Filthy Assistant with me at the actual convention, but that doesn't mean I can't have more than one FA before hand, helping me with the preparations. If you want to be my one FA at the con and/or a FA for the pre-Con stuff, let me know! Comment here on LJ or email me at ladytrebuchet(at)gmail(dot)com.

If you want to be my Filthy Assistant for the Fall Con, you'll get fun compensation in form of a free item from the inventory of your choosing, as well as foodage, your admission into event paid [O.o], and the benefit of my company. ^_^  The MCBA is October 6-7, 2007 at the MN State Fair Grounds, Education Building. Each day (Sat-Sun) 10am-5pm.

And as an added bonus, if the lucky Filthy Assistant wants to, we could also go splitsies on a hotel room to go to and crash and/or party in Sat night/Sun morning; instead of trucking all the way back to wherever we're originating from. I might do that, anyway, since I'm not a big fan of the hour drive from Chaska to the MN State Fairgrounds. So yeah, just throwing that out there for the lucky person to think about. I need volunteers ASAP, since I'm going to be sending out my table request form 9-1-07.

You have a week people. That is all.

I'm gonna do it! Sometime this week I'm going to email them and get a form to fill out to request a table at the MCBA Fall Con. Cool beans, huh!? I know! I thought about doing it last year, when plasticframes had a table there, but I dropped the ball on that one. For one reason: I didn't have a lot of stuff to sell/offer. Now I do. I have 5 comic titles, a book in print---soon to be two in print (working on Thessla Moon to join her big brother Through the Woods).

How sweet is that? I'll also see if I can't get some of my sketches printed up and sell them too. Yeah. So keep an eye out for more info about me at the upcoming MCBA Fall Con! Mark your calendars! ^_^

X-posted to draygns_lair

X-posted to draygns_lair

Guess what I'm doing now!?

I know that's a hard question to answer, especially when you're talking about me. But... after my last post... a few short minutes ago... I decided to put into action the Decluttering notions of the current session/module of my DBT group. It's called "Distress Tolerance", but it's basically about decluttering and reorganizing your life so that you can function. Get rid of the old crap (things, thoughts, people, memories) that may be holding you back and keeping you from moving forward and healing. So what do I do, at 1130pm? I start decluttering my desk. And I mean decluttering. I tore that thing a part. I threw away old bills, scraps of paper that have been accumulating on my desk from my pockets after work, old letters, just... crap. So I straightened that little corner of my room up, and it felt good! I actually did something, and it felt good to get rid of that old stuff that really serves no purpose anymore. I think that either tomorrow [if i have time] or next week before I go camping, and basically every day, I'm going to tackle a new section of my room and spend a few minutes just clearing that space. Maybe I can finally tame the evilness that is my room... aka Mount Craptuvious... or the Evil Twisted Vortex of Evil.

Then, that somehow gets me to think about scanning my new comics to my computer. I've got quite a few, so I've been doing that for the last half an hour. It actually isn't taking me that long to scan them, but I'm distracted by organizing and throwing crap out. So yeah. It's exciting! I have a new Bargain Section comic that's going to be coming out soon, called Bargain Section: Stampeding Turtles, with a whole bunch of new stuff that no one's seen before (unless I've shown it to you at work in little sneak-peaks). It'll be exciting! And I'm also going to be working on a brand new Bargain Section comic project called...

Project Bargain Section Omnibus.

I love that word. I do. It'll be all all four Bargain Section comics (Bargain Section, Bargain Section: Holiday Edition, Bargain Section Presents: The Gospel According to St. Slurpee, and Bargain Section: Stampeding Turtles) and a new mini-comic project that I've been working on in secret. Yes! I know, exciting, no? But the only catch is, that the Bargain Section Omnibus is... not going to be free. It includes stuff that I haven't posted here on LJ (to my journal or over on draygns_lair), or included in the comics I've left in the break room at work. So... it's kinda special. It will cost $$. But not a lot, don't worry! It's priced to sell! I'll get more info out to you when it's coming closer to it's debut. I'm excited for the Bargain Section Omnibus! Squeee!

I just splurged and bought the new CD from Linkin Park, Minutes to Midnight. Good good. I've been waiting a while for them to come out with a 3rd album. So now I'm getting my rock on. Squeee! It's a little different than their other two CDs, not as rock-rap-combo, but still good. I must listen more... I'm really digging this song, "Bleed It Out"... hells yeah!

The countdown to my sister's wedding is drawing to a close! According to the counter I have on my Myspace page, it's 3 days and 23 hours until my sister gets married!! Holy crap, Batman! I'm excited. Friday I'm going to go pick up my dress at the dress place, since they pressed it for me to make it not wrinkly; and I'm also going to get a few hair magazines from work so that I have an idea of how I'm going to do my hair Sunday. Yay!

So today I told the ASM that I wanted to put in my official request for a transfer to one of two B&Ns down in St. Louis. We both thought that I need to tell the SM, so I'll wait until Rodney (the Store Manager) is in later this week, to tell him the information about the stores and stuff. I wonder if he's going to bring up the last transfer request I made last year, when I thought I was going to be going to Concordia Seminary. And now more people are hearing that I'm leaving for St. Louis. My work mom Lynn knows, I think Annie and Diana know. And my DBT group knows that I'm moving. And it's really sad... because everyone is saying how much they are going to miss me and stuff... and I'm like... aaawww... I never really knew how much I was loved and how close I've actually gotten to some of these people at work and at the DBT group. However, only my dad (and Carolyn) knows from my family. Since it's so close to my sister's wedding, I'm going to wait to pop the big surprise on them until after she and Luke get back from their honeymoon, and when I get back from Portland with more information [that Kim and I are going to hammer out!]. Otherwise that's just going to be too much for my sister to handle and digest right now. And I don't want to detract from her big special time right now.

So yeah. My chips are uber salty. Damn. My mouth and lips burn from the saltiness of it all. And my computer is slow loading things and webpages. I even turned it off this morning before I went to work to let it relax. I've had it on non-stop for a few days now... maybe it wasn't sure what to do with itself when I turned it off and now it's all confused. Huh.

Oh, and I'm now getting requests/suggestions for comic ideas from my coworkers. Which is really funny. And they've been asking when new comics are going to be coming out, since they've been seeing me draw and doodle in the breakroom. My friend Erin and I had decided that it's really my coworkers' fault, since they're not doing anything really interesting or comic worthy to give me material, since that's where a lot of my comic material comes from. So, really, it's their fault. Erin and I decided that they need to be more interesting. "Well... if you were more interesting..." Hehehe.

I've been stumped over what to name one of my main characters in my new story. It's annoying and frustrating, because you have to have a good strong name for a character that will fit them personality-wise. I'm stuck for a name for my werewolf character in my new story that was once named Over the River. But it has a new name, that I came up with at work. The new name is Magic & Moonlight. It'll be awesome. It's the second volume in my The Coven series that I just concocted at work. Hehe. See, what you've known as The Coven will also go under a name change, since just calling it that hasn't really struck a chord with me for a while. So it'll be a series called The Coven and each subsequent book after that will have another title. So The first Coven is now The Coven: Magic & Madness. Yeah. That title reaches out and grabs ya by the juevos! Hehehe. And that title will make more sense once I get going on Chapter 10. Sheesh! I hope to get it started (if not completed) before I go to Portland.

Anyhoo, back to my werewolf. My sister and I actually went through my two baby naming books to find a good exotic sounding name for my werewolf character. The name we came up with him was Thane. But now... I'm not digging it too much. It doesn't really roll of the tongue for me. Then I thought of Cyrus, but that kinda sounds too ethnic... and sorry, my characters are mostly white (they say that authors should write about what they know, and I know white people!). But I like Cyrus. Then I thought of maybe spinning off the Cyrus idea and stick with a C name. I thought of Cyan, Cayn (but that looks too feminine), Cain (the non-feminine-looking spelling of Cayn), Creed (to stick with my theme of naming characters Creedence), and then I ran out of ideas. I thought maybe naming him Zane. But then... eh. Nothing. So I'm stuck on a good unique sounding name for a deliciously handsome, rough-and-tumble, werewolf. Any suggestions? I'm kinda leaning towards Creed. But as I just typed that last sentence, I was reminded of the character Victor Creed from X-Men, the guy we all know and love as Sabretooth. So... hmmm. I dunno. Lemme know what you think? I'm open to suggestions right now. I'm not really in a hurry, since I'm not going to start that story until I get another chapter or two down for Coven I'm in the process of working on now. Cuz what happens in that story will set up events that will happen in Magic & Moonlight. So, gotta have my facts and story lines straight before writing more!

I'm super thirsty... so I'm gonna go grab me some beverages!

x-posted to draygns_lair

I just like this comic so much... so I'm going to post it here too! Squeeee!

And now I'm off to bed...

X-posted to draygns_lair