... but you can find Karen on the latest page of Karen Comes Clean!
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Enjoy the last day of August!
Monday, August 31, 2009
This is not Karen...
... but you can find Karen on the latest page of Karen Comes Clean!
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Enjoy the last day of August!
Monday, August 24, 2009
What Comes Around
Karen! That's what!
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And a lidda bit o' sketch action for ya on this fine Monday morn:
Been a good weekend. Did a little writing. Did a little layouting. Ate some fine food. Drank some good beer. And all sorts of stuff is starting to come together nicely.
Also, started watching that show In Treatment with Gabriel Byrne. Good stuff so far. Lots of characters that need a good old-fashioned smack in the kisser. And of course, I have a certain fondness for folks named Gabe.
Have it good!
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And a lidda bit o' sketch action for ya on this fine Monday morn:
Been a good weekend. Did a little writing. Did a little layouting. Ate some fine food. Drank some good beer. And all sorts of stuff is starting to come together nicely.
Also, started watching that show In Treatment with Gabriel Byrne. Good stuff so far. Lots of characters that need a good old-fashioned smack in the kisser. And of course, I have a certain fondness for folks named Gabe.
Have it good!
Monday, August 17, 2009
Still Coming
It's Monday again, so it's time for the latest page of Untrue Tales:
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And here's a simple sketch:
So this weekend I culminated a journey that began in 1982 when I was a merely a wee lad. I finally finished playing Ultima 9, the final game in the Ultima series.
These were my favorite games when I was a kid and I have fond memories of banging through Ultima 1 through 4 on my old Apple II+. These were Dungeons and Dragons-style roleplaying games where you played a hero called the Avatar and wandered around a fantasy world called Britannia (well, Sosaria first, Britannia later) with a group of warrior/wizard companions fighting orcs and various other nasty D&D type beasties. I sure did love 'em.
But time moved on and I didn't play much videogames as a teenager and I never even had another computer until about 1996 when my wife finally bought one for school. At the time, I told her I had no interest in a computer and would probably never use it. Duh.
But lo and behold, I was browsing through the Virgin Megastore and came across Ultima 8. So I picked it up on a whim thinking I'd spend a few hours revisiting my childhood fantasy world. Well, I was blown away by this new game. It was miles ahead of the last game I'd played over a decade before. So then I picked up a collection of the entire Ultima Series up to that point and played through the whole shamoley again - 1 through 7. Ultima 7 was just about the coolest thing I'd ever seen. There was an entire world to get lost in. I was hooked.
So then, Ultima 9 came out. But it didn't work on my computer. I couldn't really justify an upgrade to play one dumb computer game so that was that. When it finally came time to get a new computer, I wound up with a mac and unfortunately the Ultima series stopped being mac compatible after the first 4 or 5 games. So I was shit out of luck.
Until last year, when my wife came home with an old laptop PC she bought at work for 100 bucks. At last, I could finally complete my quest.
So now I've been playing Ultima 9 off and on for a few months (I don't really have much time for videogames). It's a great game. The thing is like ten years old, but it holds up pretty well against what little I've seen of the current stuff. An entire seamless world that you can run around in without load screens or anything. And I mean an ENTIRE fully rendered round world that you can sail a ship on from pole to pole. And last night, I finished the game. So now I'm done. The world of Britannia is saved at last and somewhere an eleven year old me is happy as a clam.
Now I'm gonna play Fallout 3.
Geek out.
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And here's a simple sketch:
So this weekend I culminated a journey that began in 1982 when I was a merely a wee lad. I finally finished playing Ultima 9, the final game in the Ultima series.
These were my favorite games when I was a kid and I have fond memories of banging through Ultima 1 through 4 on my old Apple II+. These were Dungeons and Dragons-style roleplaying games where you played a hero called the Avatar and wandered around a fantasy world called Britannia (well, Sosaria first, Britannia later) with a group of warrior/wizard companions fighting orcs and various other nasty D&D type beasties. I sure did love 'em.
But time moved on and I didn't play much videogames as a teenager and I never even had another computer until about 1996 when my wife finally bought one for school. At the time, I told her I had no interest in a computer and would probably never use it. Duh.
But lo and behold, I was browsing through the Virgin Megastore and came across Ultima 8. So I picked it up on a whim thinking I'd spend a few hours revisiting my childhood fantasy world. Well, I was blown away by this new game. It was miles ahead of the last game I'd played over a decade before. So then I picked up a collection of the entire Ultima Series up to that point and played through the whole shamoley again - 1 through 7. Ultima 7 was just about the coolest thing I'd ever seen. There was an entire world to get lost in. I was hooked.
So then, Ultima 9 came out. But it didn't work on my computer. I couldn't really justify an upgrade to play one dumb computer game so that was that. When it finally came time to get a new computer, I wound up with a mac and unfortunately the Ultima series stopped being mac compatible after the first 4 or 5 games. So I was shit out of luck.
Until last year, when my wife came home with an old laptop PC she bought at work for 100 bucks. At last, I could finally complete my quest.
So now I've been playing Ultima 9 off and on for a few months (I don't really have much time for videogames). It's a great game. The thing is like ten years old, but it holds up pretty well against what little I've seen of the current stuff. An entire seamless world that you can run around in without load screens or anything. And I mean an ENTIRE fully rendered round world that you can sail a ship on from pole to pole. And last night, I finished the game. So now I'm done. The world of Britannia is saved at last and somewhere an eleven year old me is happy as a clam.
Now I'm gonna play Fallout 3.
Geek out.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Karen Comes Again
Hi folks!
I'm back and so is Untrue Tales. Check out the latest page:
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So I had a perfectly lurvely time lounging around on the stony sands of Grekenland. Nothing to do but drink beer, eat tzatziki and read books.
Read four really good ones:
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Hill is the son of Stephen King, one of my all-time favorites, though you wouldn't know it from the book cover. Seems ol' Joe is making his own way which is to be applauded. However, I gotta say the kid writes just like his old man. Heart-Shaped Box is horror in classic King tradition and reads like it could have been written by King himself. Way I see it, that's all good. I can't get enough of creepy thrillers. This one's got well-drawn characters and a terrific villain. It even kicks off with an Alan Moore quote. Looking forward to more from Joe Hill. I heard somewhere he's got a comic book out too...
Hollywood Station by Joseph Wambaugh was the next book I read.
Highly entertaining, kinda disposable novel about Hollywood cops. Fast-paced, light, with a bunch of engaging good and bad guys. Nothing memorable, but a fine beach read.
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane was the best of the bunch.
A truly epic novel centering around the Boston Police strike of 1917 and thereabouts. Labor unions, racism, romance, anti-communist witch hunts, riots, bone-crushing violence and Babe Ruth. What's not to love? This book reminded me of nothing less than The Godfather. It's that epic. Martin Scorcese will probably make a movie out of it. I just hope he doesn't cast DiCaprio as the hero, who's supposed to be a 6 foot-four barrel-chested Irishman. But he probably will. Anyway, this one's not to be missed.
Finally, One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson is the sequel to her celebrated Case Studies mystery centering on the character of Jackson Brodie.
This one's set in Edinburgh and is kicked off by an incident of Road Rage that sets all the quirky characters spinning onto their intersecting paths. Hugely funny and intricately plotted. Another keeper.
So that's what I did on my vacation. Hope ya'll had a good summer too!
Oh yeah, here's a sketch:
Toodles!
I'm back and so is Untrue Tales. Check out the latest page:
Karen Comes Clean page 4
So I had a perfectly lurvely time lounging around on the stony sands of Grekenland. Nothing to do but drink beer, eat tzatziki and read books.
Read four really good ones:
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Hill is the son of Stephen King, one of my all-time favorites, though you wouldn't know it from the book cover. Seems ol' Joe is making his own way which is to be applauded. However, I gotta say the kid writes just like his old man. Heart-Shaped Box is horror in classic King tradition and reads like it could have been written by King himself. Way I see it, that's all good. I can't get enough of creepy thrillers. This one's got well-drawn characters and a terrific villain. It even kicks off with an Alan Moore quote. Looking forward to more from Joe Hill. I heard somewhere he's got a comic book out too...
Hollywood Station by Joseph Wambaugh was the next book I read.
Highly entertaining, kinda disposable novel about Hollywood cops. Fast-paced, light, with a bunch of engaging good and bad guys. Nothing memorable, but a fine beach read.
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane was the best of the bunch.
A truly epic novel centering around the Boston Police strike of 1917 and thereabouts. Labor unions, racism, romance, anti-communist witch hunts, riots, bone-crushing violence and Babe Ruth. What's not to love? This book reminded me of nothing less than The Godfather. It's that epic. Martin Scorcese will probably make a movie out of it. I just hope he doesn't cast DiCaprio as the hero, who's supposed to be a 6 foot-four barrel-chested Irishman. But he probably will. Anyway, this one's not to be missed.
Finally, One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson is the sequel to her celebrated Case Studies mystery centering on the character of Jackson Brodie.
This one's set in Edinburgh and is kicked off by an incident of Road Rage that sets all the quirky characters spinning onto their intersecting paths. Hugely funny and intricately plotted. Another keeper.
So that's what I did on my vacation. Hope ya'll had a good summer too!
Oh yeah, here's a sketch:
Toodles!
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