The Site
Here we go! For those of you who didn’t read the last post, there’s a new organization at work!

The Comic
English is (as you might suspect) a constant source of intrigue and interest for me. The “bathroom” is one of the last vestiges of formal, polite society left to the language; thank God. I could do with a little more formality on occasion–especially when it saves us from having to go to the urinatorium. Having said that, I wish someone would come up with a traditional-sounding verb for “sexual intercourse” that didn’t need a helper verb (“having sex”) or exist as a blunt, crass curse (the “F” word). Since you cannot “sex” someone it seems as though another verb is needed to convey that particular experience.
The Living
I spent a good deal of time yesterday working with my family and trying to streamline some of their computer needs. I’m not an overly tech-savvy person–which should tell you something about the technical skills of my parents. Alynne, my parents, and I played a game of Settlers of Catan last night as well. It was the first game of Settlers we’ve played in probably four months and we had fun with it.

The Gaming
I beat Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 since the last posting. Once again: impressive and enjoyable. At Frozen and AzureFire’s behests I am looking into the single-player demo of Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War 2. I’ll give a full report on it once I’ve played it.

–Evhelm

The Site
I’m going to try something new in this post: I’m going to organize it! In the future (assuming I still like this arrangement the next time I look at it) you’ll see headings in bold in the posts. Each heading will have various bits of information you may be interested in. Read each one at your leisure, or skip around! We’ll see how it goes. Please feel free to comment and let me and Thronos know what you think (not just of this organization but of the site and comics in general!).

The Comic
I don’t like to start off a post with an apology but I feel this time maybe I should at least offer an explanation for the post delay. The idea for this comic “came to me in a dream” (literally) last Thursday. I started working on it the morning I woke up, but didn’t see anything solid come of it until Saturday night. From then until now I’ve been struggling with the art-work and art-style.

Normally I try to employ a single, clean, crisp style (usually markers). In this comic, every attempt I made the markers seemed too bulbous and cumbersome–the lines blurred, the shapes clashed, and the colors were too bright and didn’t have enough depth. So, while I started with black markers and pencil I ended with colored pencil and about a half an hour of work on Photoshop.

Oh, and for the record, the “extended Mega Man theme” definitely came from an Arm Cannon album.

The Living
The Easter holiday was a good one for me. Thronos and I got to see each other in person and play some games and hang out. Some family came in from out of town and we did what we always do when the family gets together: we ate, rested, ate, then ate some more. After that we ate a great deal more and then had some food. Did I mention the eating?

The Gaming
I haven’t done anything terrifically new on this front, but I did get the opportunity to play some cooperative Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 with Frozen. Tim Curry and George Takei are the only actors I notice as “big names” who make appearances in the general storyline, but they’re sufficiently awesome to captivate me. The plot is appropriate, fun, and suitably laced with good actors acting badly; all in all, a tremendous achievement. The gameplay itself is reminiscent of the best aspects of Warcraft 2 and Warcraft 3 with the speed of a game of Starcraft. (Note: I have yet to have played any other games in the Command and Conquer line–I only picked up this one because of the golden word: co-op.)

Of course, I’m still enjoying myself on AstroEmpires (Delta server).

Finally, a few four-player games of Starcraft rounded out my Easter weekend. Thronos, Alynne, Jamesoven, and I had a great time stompin’ the comps. I can’t wait for Starcraft 2.

–Evhelm