Thanks for the invite!

So the cat's out of the bag and the contestants have been named for the Zuda July Invitational... and Untrue Tales made the cut!

Thanks to everybody who put Untrue Tales on their top ten list and sent it in. It's been buckets of fun continuing on here in the wilderness but it's always nice to get a new opportunity for eyeball expansion and a wider audience. July should be a fun month. It's a great selection of comics and I'm very excited to see the continuation of some of my personal faves from previous comps.

So what does this mean for the Untrue Tales website? Well, not much difference really. We'll continue on to the neverend of The Loop and then new updates will go on hiatus for the length of the July competition. But you'll be served up a brand new 8 page story all in one fell swoop instead of having to endure the agonizing wait between installments. Everybody wins!

Anyway, thanks again to all the voters out there. I am humbled and grateful.

Here's a sneak peek at the protagonist of the new Zuda tale:

Yipee!

Loopday!

Monday!

Loop!

http://www.untruetales.com/pages/Loop8.html

Superlady!

Hasta!

Thursday Loop

It's Thursday!

And the latest Loop is up and at 'em!

http://www.untruetales.com/Pages/Loop7.html

Plus, continuing on with the superpeople:

























The weekend is a'near!

The Everlovin' Hulk. Hulk. Hulk.

So I went to see The Incredible Hulk last night. It was OK.

Oh, here be there SPOILERS so if you haven't seen it stop right here.

Anyway, I liked it, but it didn't get me quite as pumped as Iron Man. I'm not entirely sure why not, since all the right elements seemed to be there, but let me ramble and see what reasons I can come up with.

Let's see. Well, I'm a big Edward Norton fan and he was fine in this. But just...fine. For some reason he didn't seem to bring that extra oomph that Robert Downey Jr. did to Tony Stark. I didn't think he was any better or worse than Eric Bana in the first Hulk film (which I admittedly quite liked aside from the ending). I liked Liv Tyler too and thought she had good chemistry with ol' Ed. William Hurt, Tim Roth, actually all the actors were pretty great.

I really can't quite put my finger on just why I didn't enjoy the movie even more. Maybe it's 'cause the Hulk himself looked kinda fake and rubbery. I thought he looked more real in the Ang Lee movie.

The fights were pretty great though, the high point being where the Hulk fights a super-soldiered up Tim Roth before he's gone all abominated. That whole sequence was pretty darn keen. And the final smackdown with the Abomination was pretty cool too. I kinda think the big monsters shouldn't talk though. It just seems kinda silly.

I really think if you were to combine the two Hulk films into one, you'd come out with a real classic. Just replace all the Nick Nolte scenes with the Tim Roth/Abomination scenes and you're golden.

Ah well. I did like it enough that I'm certain to by the DVD. If only to check out the rumored deleted scene of a certain super-soldier frozen in the arctic ice...

Here's a quick Hulk sketch in keeping with today's green theme:



Later!

Looping back to Monday

Round and round we go. It's Monday again and the latest page of The Loop is up: 

http://www.untruetales.com/Pages/Loop6.html

And more from the superhero sketch vault with a little doodle of a classic moment in Justice League history:

Have a good week!

Happy Friday

Boy am I pooped.

Office party at the new job last night.

Free beer. All you can drink.

I love my new job.

Here's another pseudo-superhero sketch to send you on your weekend way...
























Have a good'un!

Loop loop loop de loop

Thursday page of The Loop is up:

http://www.untruetales.com/Pages/Loop5.html

Is there a midpoint in eternity?

Is Marv a superhero?

You decide!

Kinda looks like he's got a sour-lemon flavored smoke, huh?

Good weekends, folkens!