Why yes, the characters are alive and well inside my skull, writing their own dialogue now. Which is always unnerving, as much as it is awesome.
Just got word: We’re not doing Dragon Con this year after all, which means we will be at Animefest this year, once again! And if I really crack down on it, I can have the first Failure To Fire book done, and for sale at the con!
Has it really already been almost a year? The strip launched during Animefest last year. Holy fucking shit.
Music! So at CCSD, I ran across the CENTURY Media booth, which was a first – I’d never seen them at the con before. I cannot speak highly enough of this label, for all the great music they’ve let me discover over the last decade and a half – I ran across the Identity II Sampler about 15 years ago, and it introduced me to
The Gathering, Sentenced, Moonspell, Sammael, Stuck Mojo, EyeHateGod, to name a few. I’ve picked up as many of their samplers as I could over the years – although they sign a few pop rock acts like Buckcherry, most of their lineup ranges from power metal to black metal to doom metal. The shit I love.
They were giving away a sampler at the con, so of course I snapped it up and put it in tonight while doing the comic. And surprise surprise, just found a new band that I dig the shit out of: In This Moment. Check this shit out. Sex and dark metal. Gotta love it.
The comic has not autoupdated in three days, and gives only an error of “missed schedule.” I intend to find out WTF is going on here.
Considerable spike in readers over the last two days. Hi there, new readers!
Alex Boxer: Genre Savvy.
Mick Berdan is getting…
Primed.
Had to.
I like some of In This Moment’s stuff, but at the same time, some of it trips a little edge and turns into something that doesn’t work for me.
Mind if I shared a band one of my old friends is in? https://soundcloud.com/chains-of-burden/come-november
So… she *knew* about the nanny-cam picture frame?
apparently. but she seems to think HE put it there.
I still think there might be other cameras…an exhibitionist with money like that wouldn’t put up just one.
Yeah, she probably noticed it on her previous visit when she put Mick to bed, and assumed he had put it there. Which…I can’t imagine how, if she found the camera, she wouldn’t end up assuming that *Mick* wasn’t the kind of dick who was into taping sex without his partners’ consent. Only thing I can figure is that she has a FetLife account, too, and saw Heidi’s account and recognized Mick’s bedroom by way of Chekov’s AK-47 poster.
… A comic I’m loving AND the same music tastes? Awesomeness. You sir need a good ol’ british knighting!
That’s a ma’am, sir. I think. I know a ma’am does the writing and a sir does the artwork. I wonder which one does the post-comic banter ….
Ma’am/sir, are you a ma’am or a sir?
I think Mel writes Two Lumps, but I didn’t think she wrote this?
Mel and I work as a team. She writes and I draw. But there is a major imbalance. She takes charge of Two Lumps, I’m the one driving FTF for the most part, with her help.
That is pretty damn amazing that it’s been a year. Good stuff from the start.
Unrelated: I’ve been repeatedly punching myself in the face for just recently discovering Two Lumps. As a Cat person for almost half my life, it’s dead on.
Wow, that’s backwards; seems like most people learned about FTF from Two Lumps. That said, it raises a question I’ve long had: why isn’t Two Lumps linked in the links above?
In this moment has some great stuff. Listen to lead singer Maria Brink’s song GUN SHOW. Totally worth it. That chick appears to be giving it all she has.
Ya know it’s still weird for me to see a band that opened for me as a no-name who we got the gig, being the Hot New Thing. don’t get me wrong, They are awesome, and In This Moment was one of the openers I really enjoyed, but it’s still odd being an older musician from a failed band…
In this moment have some decent stuff, but do not see them live. It is literally just the lead singer mincing behind a curtain for half an hour and even the fans were booing them at the end
More importantly, Alex knows about the cam, *and wants him to turn it off*. She plans on being in the bedroom later, and doing stuff the cam isn’t welcome to see.
Oh hey. In this Moment – Blood. They’ve been playing this on my local rock station for months now. Love that song.