the cat has fallen. the situation is at a loss.

Inhuman update!
(and the inks are over yonder on DA)

sometimes i wonder if i'm doing something too obvious with the comic, but then nobody notices and i think to myself 'yes, nailed it.' but it'll be a few pages before i can reveal exactly what that is yet.

in other news, i finished the solla pinup wallpaper finally. i'm not sure who the next will be, some have suggested chovek again? i guess i'll have to see what happens.

next week the comic might be late, as veestah and zarla are both coming over for HALLOWEEN ANTIIIIIICS. still need to figure out when we're picking vee up, now that i think about it.

and forgive me again, but the last week of american voter registration is approaching. so once more...

AMERICANS!

here's your state voting deadlines for this week.

MONDAY'S DEADLINE STATES
California
South Dakota
Utah (you must go in person)
Wyoming

TUESDAY'S DEADLINE STATES
Connecticut

FRIDAY'S DEADLINE STATES
Alabama
Nebraska (you must go in person)

SATURDAY'S DEADLINE STATES (the 27th)
Iowa
New Hampshire


and enough of that, how about some pokemon?
Pokemon art?
( pokemon art! )

that's all i got. til next week, folks!

Inhuman update!
(and there's inks over here if you so desire)

sorry that this is a day late. it was actually finished early on sunday, but i got derailed by real life stuff and so it just sat on top of my scanner until this morning.

i suppose the first thing you will notice when you go to look at this week's comic is the enormous banner urging americans to register to vote. you can actually register online now! how cool is that, you don't even have to go out or spend a stamp! you can do it from my site (the white house developed a code that can be plugged into anywhere - blogs, sites, whatever!) or you can use the official white house registration site at gottaregister.com.

which probably leaves you with some questions about voting/registering/parties/whatever. i'll be glad to answer them if you leave a comment on this entry!

so anyway, back to the comic. i did talk at length about what i was trying to do/not do with parts of this page. it's not one of my best, i probably should have just made the first six panels larger and junked the last four all together. OH WELL. next week we'll do better, yeah?

and i guess i should take this time to say goodbye to comicrank.com :< i will miss you, comicrank. it was the only comic listing system i really liked, because it didn't request readers to click links or vote to tally numbers. it just passively collected stats and based your rank on that. since codes can be written to artificially climb ranks on voting sites, i just liked that better. i'm sad to see it go, it was a good site.

anyway in terms of fanart this week there's art by keetah, Eluvion and a newcomer named Claire! go check them all out, all three pictures are p awesome.

that's really all i got until next week. remember to register to vote if you're an american! and if you have a few spare bucks, please remember that LLK still desperately needs your help.

and as for me, i'm going to draw a bunch of zombie aliens. later!

Inhuman update
(and the inks are on DA)

i'd write more but i'm utterly beat. the washing machine malfunctioned and poured water everywhere instead of into the basin. and since it never filled the basin, the water just kept pouring until i came down to check it. had to clear 2in of water out of the basement in the middle of winter. cool. and our clothes are still all dirty. awesome.

know what sucks? ACTA, which is the UK version of SOPA/PIPA.
i'll have some links for you to protest it tomorrow. can't type very well now, hands are frozen and covered in oil/dirt/snow/detergent

aaaaaand the sites are back.

really, SOPA disgusts me. it's like using a hammer to remove a brain tumor. yes, piracy is a problem, but allowing such a blunt and powerful instrument to 'solve' it won't help. piracy will soldier on. my prediction is that if torrenting websites are destroyed, filesharing programs will make a resurgance. piracy will persist no matter what you do, and destroying half of the internet on whim isn't a solution.

look, horrible fanfics and mash-up videos are horrible. no question. so are horrible fancomics and fanart. but that's part of the internet. that's what the internet IS. that's like new york city without the filth of the subway, tokyo without the rush-hour train cram, louisiana without bayous, the wild west without injuns. half of what makes a place is the things you learn to sidestep, survive, accept and joke about.

i wouldn't WANT terrible fanfiction about harry potter to be a thing of the past. i wouldn't WANT loud profane 'reviews' of games and tv to vanish. where am i going to get my belly laughs then? certainly not the movies with the crap they've been spilling out. i LIKE my internet as a wretched hive of scum and villiany. it's a place where in spite of the pulp and piracy, everyone is free to say what they truly think about stuff. if they truly think spock and kirk are totally boning, that's okay. nobody can stop them. if they truly think twilight is the best thing in the whole wide world, they're utterly out of their minds, but that's okay. they're allowed to be. and i want it to stay that way.

if you're an american you can ask the president to Veto SOPA/PIPA - and i urge you to do so.

if that's not your speed - or you're not an american - you can sign Google's anti-SOPA/PIPA petition

the day of protest didn't destroy SOPA/PIPA, it only raised awareness. now people need to actually get up off their butts and take some action.

for some reason this is hard for a few people to grok, but look. we live in a democracy in this country. that means our government is SUPPOSED to be for the people, of the people, and by the people. if our lawmakers aren't making decisions that are in THE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE then they can be REMOVED from power. and they tend to not want to be removed from power. if you call and tell them 'i'm not voting for you next time unless you oppose SOPA' they actually notice. they do. none of this 'one person never makes a difference' bullshit, because you're NOT one person. you're one of (according to google) 4.5 MILLION americans who oppose SOPA/PIPA.

your representitives do not, contrary to popular belief, have a list of names of who voted for them last election sitting on their desk to cross-reference against calls. they don't know if you didn't vote for them last time, and they don't care. they care if you'll vote for them NEXT time. and if your vote hinges on their response to PIPA/SOPA (or so they believe) then they'll change their stance.

this is how democracy works, by the way. if you don't PARTICIPATE, it's not a DEMOCRACY.

so do something about it.