Okay, a few cursory things to get out of the way.

That comic status thing over to the left of the comic … I’ll do my best to use it and make it accurate, but I’m a dial-up kid, so most of my work on AG gets done offline. Apologies.

I wrote in earlier this week that I had screwed up the colors bigtime, and I had. I had already colored panel 3 when I decided to scrap the whole color job - in addition, I re-inked panel 3, because the inkjob was, in a word, crappy. The whole ordeal actually taught me a good lesson: don’t screw around when you’re doing something that you’re committed to, and that you enjoy. Er, the lesson goes a bit deeper than that, but … haha, that’s why it’s a lesson for me.

The subject matter of the comic … uhmm, it is supposed to be a little sobering. Call it an experiment - I sorta wanted to see the reaction I get to writing something out of the norm here at Applegeeks. Writing AG is of course a blast, but somewhat limiting in terms of content and the kinds of messages, mood, and content that I can convey. Call it trying to explore my horizons. If you guys really hate it and would rather see nothing but the funny, surely drop me a line and we can talk about it - as it is, I have some side projects I’m working on that are in a more serious tone. Anyway, I hope you like it.

Appearance-wise - I hope I managed to save it, anyway. Let me know what you think. ^_^

I’ll say this honestly right now - I can see how Hawk manages to put these together (for the most part) in a day - and I have to admire the concentration with which he works. I think I could probably create one of these in a day as well, but my attention tends to stray very easily.

Oh, I’d like to recommend a comic book to anyone who tends to stray away from superhero books - it’s a Vertigo title called The Last Man. It’s basically about … uh … something kills everything on the planet with a Y chromosome, except for this guy (the main character) and his monkey (not the main character). Yeah, yeah, it sounds wierd. It is. It’s also pretty good. There’s some scenes that will have rolling in the aisle, and some scenes that will hit you with a “Holy jeez”. For those of you who check this book out, credits go to Emily Adamo for lending it to me. The first collection can be found at your local comics store.

That’s all for me - I’m actually at Emily’s right now, and we’re about to go watch Cowboy Bebop. She hasn’t seen it before. ^_^ Take care, and lemme know what you think of the comic!

‘Til next time.

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