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Jenna & the Fanclub from Planet Heart Throb- page 36

Okay, so page 35 was rather obviously written up specifically to the "the first new page" and reference the lengthy hiatus.  This page, on the other hand, was what was always supposed to go next... and it's been waiting a LOOONG time to actually be seen by anybody.  The original penciled draft was sitting in a folder for so long that, when it finally came time to ink the thing, I had to actually re-draw it from scratch because the original's sheet was too messy and faded to be scan-...

Far Out There Character Soundtrack: Lynne-3

Lynne is a character perpetually covered in neon pink and pastel blues, often with squiggly 90s patterns. What kind of music do YOU think this kid listens to? Clearly, the answer is ANGRY GROWLING ATONAL DEATH METAL. Get ready for lots of umlauts and blasphemous band names! No, but seriously, Lynne likes Vaporwave. Of COURSE he likes Vaporwave. Even aside from the omnipresent color scheme, he’s the one “cool kid” in a crew of noisy children, the one standing calmly in the back while eve...

Jenna & the Fanclub from Planet Heart Throb- page 35

GET IT?  IT'S META!  BECAUSE I'M SO LATE WITH EVERYTHING!

But yeah, to reiterate what I said earlier, do NOT expect these to come out on a weekly basis again.  I mean, you almost certainly WEREN'T expecting it to happen, whether I promised it or not, and that's all the more reason NOT to promise it.  Every other week is the VERY best case scenario, and it probably won't even be quite that frequent.  Because this isn't the ONLY project I want to re-introduce to P...

Far Out There JENNA COMIC INDEX

Can it be?  Is it real?  Will it last for longer than a week?  MAYBE!  At long last, after a loooooong time of saying I want to do it, I'm FINALLY updating Jenna's Patreon comic again!  And it really has been a LONG time, so long that even the most "recent" page of the comic predates Patreon's tagging system.  Yes, if you wanted to go back and re-read the old stuff here on Patreon, you either had to manually scroll back down the feed yourself or maneuver through ...

Conventional Wisdom: My First Japanese CDs - Cowboy Bebop: Blue

First of all, let’s get the single biggest nitpick out of the way right off the bat: the cover of Blue is REALLY boring. Cowboy Bebop and No Disc both had covers that looked like old school Jazz records, but Blue just looks like a generic New Age album. It’s especially insulting because the album booklet contains a MUCH more interesting alternate cover that continues the old fashioned aesthetic. I think that one would have captured the spirit of both the music o...

Conventional Wisdom: My First Japanese CDs - Cowboy Bebop: No Disc

First of all, that is one trollish album title, even more so in the age of MP3s. With that out of the way, I must reiterate something I said in the previous blog: Cowboy Bebop felt like an album, No Disc and Blue feel like soundtracks. That’s no slight on the quality of the songs themselves, but No Disc in particular feels like a collection of songs that just happen to be from the same source rather than a cohesive unit. It’s also got WAAAAAAY less Jazz...

Conventional Wisdom: Ichibancon 2020 - page 4

Don't get me wrong, after how groggy I got on the drive back Saturday night, not even leaving Concord until around midnight would ABSOLUTELY have been the wrong move.  I still stand by heading on home instead of doing a whole separate thing that night.  But even knowing that, it's still hard not to look at how this year has shaped up and regret passing up an opportunity to gone to one more live event of ANY kind back in The Before Time.  And heck, that's just looking at the who...

Far Out There Character Sountrack: Marshall

Okay, this is another soundtrack I was a little iffy about whether or not to do right now. I THOUGHT that by this point in 2020, Marshall would have made enough appearances in the comic for everybody would have a clear idea of, ya know, who he even IS. As it happens, though, everything everywhere went and fell apart RIGHT as he was starting to make regular appearances. Of course, “regular” is the key word here. Late 2019 may have been the first time Marshall was addressed by name, but it ...

Conventional Wisdom: My First Japanese CDs - Cowboy Bebop OST 1

So I WAS going to cheat right off the bat here, and lump four CDs into a single massive blog post: the generically titled Cowboy Bebop, No Disk, Blue, and the Vitaminless single/EP/mini-album/whatever it is. That’s not even the whole of the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, of course, (hello Cowgirl Ed and the Box Set and the Knocking on Heaven’s Door soundtrack) but it’s what I bought in one big, expensive bundle at my very first Animazmemen...

Conventional WIsdom: My First Japanese CDs (intro)

So I just finished going on about how I couldn’t come up with any more ideas for blog posts, and immediately afterwards I had an idea for a whole series of blog posts. Then again, the only blogs I HAVE been consistently making lately were music related, so I guess this is just a variation on a theme. I like music, in case you haven’t noticed, and it bleeds over pretty heavily into the other stuff I like, such as anime. There’s a reason I try to squeeze at least one Japanese song into as...

Thoughts and Questions for the Future

Okay, time to talk shop. Like, for real. It’s no secret that I’ve done a pretty miserable job running my Patreon for the past… well, EVER. Just look at that list of stuff you’re supposed to be getting: a new, exclusive Far Out There and Conventional Wisdom comic every week, special blogs related to both those, MORE weekly comics based on anime that higher-level patrons get to choose, extra Far Out There comics that those same patrons get to help write, all SORTS of ...

Far Out There Character Soundtracks: Tarkus

We’re back to the Short Pants Squad again for this soundtrack, and to a very specific sliver of the world’s population, this is going to be the most misleading character soundtrack yet. For reasons long lost even to myself, Tarkus is named after the Emerson, Lake & Palmer song. That “Tarkus” is a dense, twenty-minute prog rock epic about an armor-plated armadillo-tank that fights a manticore, with lots of unconventional time signatures and intense keyboard solos. Anyone expecting ...

Conventional Wisdom: Ichibancon 2020 - page 3

It helps if you understand that 90% of the directions for the drive between Raleigh and Charlotte is "Don't spontaneously drive off the side of the interstate."  As long as you're pointed in the right direction, you can just keep going straight and not get lost... MOST of the way.  The flipside of that straightforward drive is that it all starts to blur together after a while.  So, really, I didn't so much need directions on which way to turn when I got there, just a proximity ...

...and then I wrote a public blog for June

The last time I did a “general update” type blog was back in January. It’s currently late June. That’s a loooooong time where a loooooot can change in even the best of times, never mind the actual reality we’re in right now. I HAVE done a few blog/update/recap/rant things over on blitzthecomicguy.com, but I’ve gotten a bit lax on those too, assuming anybody even saw them in the first place. So let’s have another quick “state of the comics” recap of what’...

Far Out There Character Soundtrack: Astrid

Okay, this is the soundtrack I’d started writing for last month, before I decided to give myself a present and did Aunt Domino’s instead. It’s also another entry on the “Seriously? You gave THAT character a soundtrack?” list, especially since it’s been YEARS since she’s appeared in anything other than a holiday comic or bonus incentive. But still, she’s been in more of those than some characters have actual comics, so it’s not like there’s nothing to wor...

Conventional Wisdom: Ichibancon 2020 - page 2

So, fun story:  I've mentioned that I had to drive out to Ichi super early to try and avoid getting stranded without a parking spot.  One of the numerous side effects of arriving so early was having a LOT of down-time between arriving at the hotel and when things actually started happening at the con.  Thus, I actually managed to get at least a few pages penciled out while actually at the con itself... including this one.  Yes, this comic you're looking at now, in late Jun...

Far Out There Character Soundtrack: Aunt Domino

WHAT? A soundtrack for Aunt Domino? That one weird side character who’s only appeared in, like, six pages so far? Why the crap does SHE get a character soundtrack? Well, I’m not gonna lie, there are still other characters with MUCH greater relevance who could have come next. In fact, I’d actually started writing the blog for one of them already, when I realized something: my birthday was coming up! And you know what? I decided I deserved a little present to myself, and switched gears to...

Conventional Wisdom: Ichibancon 2020 - page 1

With hindsight, part of me wishes I HAD gone ahead and tried to make the show, just because I'm not sitting in a world where doing ANYTHING in front of a crowd might not be a thing again until next year.  But aside from the fact that I really DIDN'T need to be waiting until midnight to even start the drive home, there's also this little issue.  Every time I look at footage of a post-smartphone wrestling crowd and compare it to the sea of signs in any 90s-era crowd, I feel like somet...

Conventional Wisdom: NC Comicon 2019 - page 3

As if all my various cosplay stories over they years weren't proof enough, here's yet another example of how my personal comfort and enjoyment is the absolute BOTTOM priority for me at a con.

I have a rather embarrassing behind the scenes confession to make here, this page SHOULD have come out weeks ago.  I got all set to work on the next Patreon comic, went to get all my stuff out... and couldn't find the pad with all my convention notes.  It was just gone.  Obviously, w...

Far Out There: Character Soundtracks - Avi

Okay, I mentioned in May’s blog that I’d had her soundtrack more or less worked out YEARS before any of the Little Rich Boys showed up, even though she’d had way less screen time than them. Obviously, this implies that the four boys have soundtracks as well, but that they’re still nowhere near as fine-tuned as the other characters. This is indeed the case, (since I wouldn’t bring it up otherwise) but out of the four, I think Avi’s the closest to being “right.” I’m still fidd...