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 habit of dropping vowels from a language has been tried (unsuccessfully) before by Ancient Hebrew.

Apparently, as contemporary Americans we have generated a lust for short, direct, and less-than-200-character communication and have spawned anew this archaic, outmoded, and near-forgotten form of linguistic butchery.

I thought about putting this post in this “English lite” as an example but my soul was rended by the attempt and I had to withdraw from the endeavor.

As for the art style of the comic itself, I was doodling in Photoshop 6 to test out its abilities and see how capable I might be of sketching out my work directly on the computer in the future. This excuse for a comic was the result. I’ll make more attempts (maybe even better ones!) later.

Happy Tuesday!
–Evhelm