Only yesterday I was remarking that I'm sick of getting links to Achmed the Terrorist clips on Youtube, so today I was quite happy to find I'm not alone in my opinion.
Naturally, this just means I'm late to the party as ever - first in not knowing about Jeff Dunham, and then about wishing I didn't know about Jeff Dunham and the braying, unwashed, beer-sodden, furrow-browed inbreeds he calls an audience.

Bah!
Bloody Christmas!
Bloody flu!

Watching:
Farscape. A good show taken on its own terms, with a nice line in pushing what it can get away with on account of being niche sci-fi no-one who wasn't a fan cared much about at the time. The 'who can take more hallucinogenic mushrooms and still walk' competition was still funny, mind.
Muppet Christmas Carol. A great take on an already classic tale, it's eerily harrowing to see the image of Kermit and Miss (in this case Mrs) Piggy as grieving parents, but not half as harrowing as Michael Caine's singing.

Watching: A Christmassy Ted - a revisit of a Christmas standard that in Ireland is akin to the rest of the world's It's A Wonderful Life or The Great Escape, and a daft bit of whimsy tinged with self-awareness it is, too. One of my favorite lines oddly doesn't even get a chuckle from the canned laughter machine: Ted checks the newspaper to see if he's averted disaster and remarks that there's nothing about it in "the Catholic scandal supplement", and Dougal doing a funeral is always fun to see.

Otherwise just aimlessly doodling away, wrapping prezzies and playing GTA4, which I'm finally getting around to finishing well over a year since I actually got the damn thing.

Friday 17th July 2009

Sketching the height of reasoned debate between Marvel anklebiters Molly Hayes and Katie Power as they discuss who's cuter - in fact I'm pretty much sketching anything at all that doesn't have a deadline attached. Some days it just ain't happening and you need to just doodle to remember why you like drawing in the first place and not sweat mistakes or whatever. Time enough for deadlines when the OGN has to be drawn.
Watching: 10 Things I hate About You, CSI Miami, Dark Blue, Hung.
Reading: Marvel Heroes, 2000ad, Star Trek Crew
Listening to: Perfect Circle, Big Lebowski OST

Friday 3rd July 2009

JAPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN! #100

Random doodle, poor film, hothothot

Doodle: an alternate version of the Fantastic Four comprised of Franklin and Valeria Richards, Molly Hayes and Katie Power. Can't imagine why they'd be the Fantastic Four off the top of my head - maybe the real deal are off in another dimension when trouble arrives on Earth or something - but the basic premise is that each issue would have the characters encountering different heroes from the Marvel universe and eventually punching them in the balls, learning a valuable lesson about trust or friendship along the way.

The doodle came about because I was watching Silent Venom, AKA the film that pointedly isn't called Snakes on a Sub and is all the worserer for it. Luke Perry stumbles around a leftover set while snakes sort of amble around in the background somewhere - it's just not very good: let's leave it at that.
I'm stuck why I thought it would be, or why I watched it in the first place, but it was sweltering today, and I felt suitably guilty being indoors at all.