Too many secrets. I’m starting to think of Colonel Haulley much more sympathetically as this thing goes on. Am I nuts?
I don’t know what it is, but I always somehow seem to be looking forward to the next season, whatever season it is. Summer is only a few days old, and I already find myself longing for the autumn. I have friends who somehow manage to take off for entire seasons at a time, and go on biking tours of exotic parts of the continent I’ll never see, and here, I go on extended hours to make sure I get houses built before Hurricane Season. When did I grow up? God.
Yeah, well, inasmuch as I don’t have a whole lot to add to this page, which pretty well speaks for itself, I do have some new developments that I’m going through that I thought I’d lay out for you all, to make sure you all know what’s up.
First, I think I’m basically going to be wrapping up Vicious Print in the next few weeks. For me, it’s served its purpose, and is now kind of a drag to maintain. Originally, I never thought the comic would be more popular than the blog, and then, I never thought the blog would be popular at all. Now, granted, “popular” is a pretty limited term when it comes to a long-form science fiction comic that draws maybe a thousand readers a week, worldwide. However, over the past few weeks, I’ve been slapping down a large number of brute force attacks on that blog as people in certain inclement parts of Asia have been trying to take it over, probably for spamming and malware purposes, and I’m pretty much sick of doing that for a blog I rarely have the time or energy to update anymore. And with summer coming around, we’re entering a typical lull in readership as people go on vacation and such, and so it seems a good time to make these changes.
So, the first thing you’ll notice is that my independent blog up at the root domain at viciousprint.com is going to fold up over the next few weeks, and I’ll redirect the traffic here instead. After that, well, we’ll see. I’m taking it one step at a time. I will, however, be bending every effort to ensure that there is no undue interruption to the lovely 6-Commando service you’ve come to know and cherish. Except maybe for next week. But I’ll get to that later, if it happens.
So, anyhow, that’s where we are. Be ready for some changes, but don’t expect them to happen too soon, or be terribly major for a while.
As for me, it’s time for another long week. Whew. What a thing!
All the best, folks.
OK this is getting to the climax now 🙂
Am betting Rucker is going to put his 2 cents in and further paint the colonel into a corner.
Great job on this chapter so far, looking forward to how it wraps up.
Thanks, man! God knows,mom looking forward to wrapping it up , myself! The thing with drawing long form comics is that you always find yourself wanting to draw certain things, but all the buildup and background has to go first. But we’re getting there!
–M
It sounds like there are some conflicting orders, 2001 style. HAULLEY WHAT DID YOU TELL THE SUPERTANK?
Mike: Daiiiiiiisyyyyyyyy…. Daiiiiiiisyyyyyy….
Hey sexy momma, wanna kill all humans?
……. AAAAAAAAUGH D:
My instructor was Dr. Gemmill, and he taught me to sing a song. If you’d like to hear it, I can sing it for you.
😀
–M
Incidently, I always imagined Mike having the HAL voice, adding that unsettling quality with those incredibly precise, yet emotionless and pefectly level inflections.
You’re not the first. At the moment we’re split about evenly between Douglas Rain and Kevin Spacey when Mike hits the big screen. Which will, of course, be, like, never.
–M
And Samuel Jackson to play Haulley
On a different note: That hazmat mask looks great. Not too overdone with hughe filters or too bulky. Just about right.
I have to agree with that. It looks very good.
Thanks, guys. It’s odd to be reducing Haulley’s whole expression to eyes and body language, but there’s method to my madness. 😉
–M
Now answer this question. “I am a liar.”
“Clock is ticking and a wrong answer means death.”
Answer: “That’s not a question, sir.”
😀
–M
So, we’re dealing with a ‘Conflicting Order Paradox’ from 2001?
Shit.
Yeah that didn’t go so well for the Jupiter mission, did it?
–M
The trouble started when they violated the 11th commandment – “Thou shalt not build a machine in the likeness of a human mind”
Oh, the Orange Catholics, eh? They knew a thing or two. Of course, that commandment set the tone for millennia of economic and political monopoly by a caste of drug-addicted brain-mutants, which was not such a great thing.
Frank Herbert, you so crayzeh.
–M