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Darths

admin — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:54:03 +0000

An exciting bit of publicity for Darths – a review by Fantasy magazine, and an interview with most of us Comic Irregulars.

New life

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:34:27 +0000

I’ve been adjusting to new life with Veronica over the last week and a half. We’ve now combined most of the kitchen stuff (and thrown out a lot of old crockery and pots & pans etc), and done some cooking together. I baked some barra on Sunday night and marinaded some tuna steaks for last night, very nommy. The kitchen is pretty much a smoothly running machine now, and I’ve done more cooking in that kitchen in the last week and a half than in the previous two months!

We’re still very much in organisey mode, carried over from the wedding preparations. The house is benefiting greatly, but our relaxing time is mostly just playing guitar/piano, watching Arrested Development, and playing games together. I predict, however, that in another couple of weeks I’ll be back into projects – Dave’s wedding video, the Cars short film, and a DVD of our wedding, not to mention my MMORPG design. Archery is going to be a little more difficult now that Veronica and I share a car, but I should be able to manage it on Saturday mornings most of the time (not this week though; got a “Shards of Allara” magic tournament on Friday night.) And pretty soon I’ll be running “Horror on the Orient Express” for my Wednesday night D&D mob, just as a change of pace.

I’m really luxuriating in the freedom my new guitar is giving me. Every time I play a piece nowadays sounds like the best I’ve ever played it. It’s amazing the difference the guitar makes – the Teresa has a much better dynamic range, a richer bass, and a brighter high end. The fretboard is slightly lower, so barre chords are easier to do, and the combination of lower fretboard and brighter high end means that any hammer-on/pull-off sounds better too.

And getting back to work hasn’t even been too bad. Von and I drive to work together and she teaches me bits of Cantonese and we listen to classical music. We were listening to Rodrigo’s Concierto de Arenjuez this morning. Amazing the power the piece has (especially the Adagio) despite how many times I’ve heard it! I must have five or six versions on my various classical guitar CDs.

The lunchtime gang are approaching the end of episode 1 of Darths (about 205 comics worth) and thankfully it’s still thoroughly enjoyable, so we’re going to continue. Hooray!

Jar Jar, you’re a genius!

admin — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:21:30 +0000

I’m a little late to the party, especially considering I’m one of the people to come up with the phrase, but “Jar Jar, you’re a genius!”, a phrase that could not be detected on the interwebs until the recent Darths & Droids strip, has prompted a wee bit of a trend. First time I’ve ever been on the inside of one of these!

Darths & Droids: it’s up

admin — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:16:01 +0000

That cool thing that I was talking about a little while ago is now up. Very happy with it.
In other Darths & Droids activity, I did another strip last weekend (number 86) and we have now illustrated up to Episode 95 and written up to Episode 106. The run of strips over the last few weeks have been building up to this, and I’m (if anything) even more proud of it than of yesterday’s strip. It sometimes feels like a very extended Film Forensics, and as such, has somewhat taken away from any progress on Film Forensics in a good while now. Oh well.

Awesomeness

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:11:10 +0000

I’m very, very pleased with something we just did for Darths and Droids. But it won’t be visible until next month. So I’ll just note now that what we did today and yesterday was awesome, and I’ll talk about it more later.

Darths & Droids

admin — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:45:24 +0000

Another review! And it’s very positive. I got a big thrill from having one of my lines quoted, too – â€œlong floppy bunny ears and a tongue like an anteater.â€ We’ve been compiling traffic statistics for a while now, and the comic is *still* growing in popularity. Our writing sessions have really settled into a healthy dynamic – everyone cares, and is willing to fight for what they like. Nothing gets through without being justified, in one way or another. It’s easy to dismiss committee writing (as I had) until you’ve seen what it has to offer.