NETTG Rants

*Ichthyosaur*

*Giant Sloth*

*Wooly mammoth*

*Squirrels*

*Tumbleweeds*

We win!

April Fools Day... and I have no witty comments to share. Oh well, I shall declare victory and move onwards regardless! ^_^

Hmm. Guess our forums aren't coming back. Good alternatives might include the Florestica Forums at Florestica.com where I recently posted a couple of NETTG:TinT chapters (but unfortunately not anything related specifically to the comic on this site). But hey, it's an idea, anyway.

Also, Esa's back from Japan. Dunno when we'll get more art, but he survived the trip.

I is on a Training Trip in Japan. Got Onsen Episode, Got Samurai Training, Got Mind Blown By Cheap Bookstores. Got Maid Cafe. Got Temples and Castles. Got Public Bath. No Get Cosplay.

Many Many Things, Will Report in Blog Later.

Must Write In AllCaps.

Happy Valentine's day.

Hmm. So it seems our forums ARE quite cursed. We've had such awful luck with them. ^^

Anyway, not sure at this point how worthwhile it would be to simply start anew. I'm just waiting to see if they can actually recover the data before moving on to a new system. Besides, we've been down to a handful of readers for the longest time--if we need to communicate, we can drop an email to nettg@nettg.com or whatnot. Esa's thawing out, but he'll be a Wandering Fishmonger in Japan for February. Having adventures, defeating enemies with his blunt trout techniques, and so on. Oh yes, he shall defeat the wicked poultry salesman. Hmhmhm. Yes indeed.

Anyway, I posted Chapter 16 of NETTG: Terra in Tokyo to the FFML. I really should post it somewhere else so that interested parties can have a look at it as well. In any case, there's no big hurry, probably.

Wow, our forum is cursed. I wonder how that happened...

The cheese speaks in riddles,

But I speak in rhyme,

The cheese plays the fiddle,

And I pantomime,

The cheese grows quite mouldy,

While I grow quite late,

The cheese smells more boldly,

Then I abdicate.

Danny made up a li'l ArbyFish card. Tis simple, but I got a li'l chuckle out of it. Merry Christmas!

You're not fooling anyone, y'know. ^_~

In any case, no sign of updates so far. Chesu's gone off and is getting somma dat 'learning' we've heard so much about. Esa's also trying to graduate from his university so he can live somewhere further south during the winter. Typical fishmongering and such until then, though.

I'm getting better...

I'm not dead yet...

You've held me back long enough! I'm going to clown college!

Also, read this. Read all of it.

*chirp* *chirp*

Schoolwork. Lots. Still, some time and thought. All hope, not lost.

*Crickets*

Status: Thinking of GDM. Writing code, like a bunny. Stuff will happen.

Writer's block?

Is it Christmas yet?

Badgers are in th' wash. Come back next Tuesday!

Seems rather troublesome, considering I am blind to my errors and typos until I post. ;)

Egad. I get emails every time somebody updates a rant - or when they typo their password or something like that. Danny just about killed me with spam while writing that post :P

I did a google search on ArbyFish. There's a lot more things out there now than when I did that before. Random people who I've never known talking about 'em. Some people calling Arby an abomination, some the best fanfic character ever. He can be quite annoying, but he'll usually try to make up for it in the end. A pack a 'shrooms on ya doorstep early in the morning, 'bit 'o fungus in ya wash.

I miss the days when stuffed animals ruled my brain.

Nostalgia...

'Course those days also sucked in their own way.

Back when we were dumb kids still in school, we'd have endless fun coming up with scenarios, quotes, and such with our characters and run them over and over again endlessly. Well, at least Ben would. Ben would start a familiar sketch and we'd go through it, refining it and such. Such things simply aren't feasible anymore. There're things that simply don't come across as well in text.

My stuffed animals sit in the side-table cubby all-but-unused: Arby, Estaban, Lepoardu, Chokoreto. They stare at me sometimes, yearning to be brought to life. Sometimes they pop up and say a few words, then go back to sleep.

Someday they will live again.

Someday...

Hmm. Nothing to report just yet. So I'm coming along and saying so. :D

Been tinkering with a Terra in Tokyo chapter, mostly. Been quite hot around here lately, which makes it difficult to think. I believe Esa's in a similar position, despite him being pretty close to the arctic circle. Ah, fun fun summertimes! ^_^

Brightness - 25, contrast + 45

The shades in latest comic look terribly light to me. It's bugging me a bit.

Yay! Esa to the rescue!

Not quite ten years yet!

...But, it's been a while. I do recommend checking a larger segment at a time, so one gets the whole picture, so to speak. Considering it's been four months once again, it's understandable if one is a bit... fuzzy on who the blond guy in need of a haircut is.

After months of hard work, practice, and coaxing, Esa has produced another comic page! Last time we were with Terra, who had been getting a major lecture from her multiple personalities on the science of what has happened to her since being knocked from the grandness of destroying galaxies. And now, we're back with Captain Laios and the damage control/recovery efforts. It's just been a few days since the Galactic Destroyer attacked and nearly obliterated the solar system. So, natually, quite a lot of buildings are broken up and they have to dwell in tents and other temporary structures until rebuilding can begin in earnest. Many died... but it seems that some whom they thought had perished actually made it!

It's like Mark Doherty once said: "Better late than never, but ten years is kind of pushing it." ^_^

A little panic now and again is good for ya! Keeps the blood flowin'.

Random panicking! Yays!

...oh, they were just changing out the server. Works for me! ^_^

So... what now? Sock-puppets?

'Tis no matter of luck! 'Tis an evil voodoo curse placed upon our gold by the heathen gods what say, "Ni!" It's because we failed in our calling to ferry the melons across the 12th astral plane where they would find their rest in the 15 stomachs of the 8-tailed fox! Plus, we didn't properly pronounce our special technique, thereby keeping our enemies completely unalerted to our intentions.

...Or gremlins.

Looks like our forums have been eaten... again. Yesterday, they'd rolled back to a previous date, and now the page redirects to some weird banner ad site in some foreign country.

The main site refers to some SQL database, so it's possible that site got hacked, but it's hard to tell.

We've had such awful luck with our forums, really. ^^;

Another week of fine flying badgers.

Esa did come up with a rendition of a specific sprite comic on his blog. As usual, he's a bit timid about sharing sketches, but I think it's nifty.

Oye declare today... Tuesday!

I exploded?

What, again? I gotta stop doing that....

He lives. He merely gestates in preperation for WORLD DOMINATION!

Looks like Esa exploded again. Maybe we'll hear from him again after he recovers from his evil test today. ^_^

I plead the 13th.

I know it must seem awfully quiet around here. And... it is! Lo and behold, there's not a lot of activity lately. No sprite comics (Chesu's off doing other stuff, like move boxes around), no regular comics (Esa's off stressing himself out due to a big ol' mean test on Monday), no ArbyFish comics (Danny decided he didn't want to continue doing that), and no big written Extras to read (Ben's off being a lazy bum... no, wait, Ben's okay. I blame Larry for this one. All Larry's fault. C'mon, it's only a fifty-thousand page Masters report to edit, remove all the bogus Word formatting manually, line by line, gather a bunch of random pictures from a dozen webcomics, and make presentable for the Internet, what could be easier???? ^_-).

But we'z not dead yet. We're just distracted by shiny objects. Work, games, badgers, mushrooms, toothpicks... Kind of a package deal, y'see.

And it's the Creator of the ArbyFish's birthday coming up. There shall be no party, but feel free to wish 'im a 'appy McShroomin' Day! Tis all in good fun.

Ranting-du? No ranting-du. Mmm... writing-du. Playing-du, eating-du.

Yaaaaw!

No rant again this week. That's because there's no content added since last time other than some stuff up at Esa's Blog, such as a vampire ArbyFish and such. In the meantime, random plots stir underneath. And nothing to show for it yet. ^_^

Not much easter-fu here, no. But, despair not, there are things moving, deep, unseen....

'Appy Easter and such! Hmm... No Easterish stuff to share around this time, as everyone seems to be busy at the moment.

Nevertheless, on we go. We'z not dead yet! ^_^

April 1st and nothing new, neither fanfic nor comic.

Hmm, I must be getting old. ^_^

No rants again this week. We're in the process of waffling. Er, I mean... preparing, or... waiting, biding our time... for the moment when we shall strike!!!

If ya went aroun' rantin' without nutin' ta say, what would the dingos do?

Roight, 'cos there's no pages this week, y'see. Got some sketches at Esa's Blog, though.

There are no rants this week.

Random Linkage: The guy who does Brackenwood animation stuff. His blog is a good read for those interested in animation.

I have a tendency to get very excited about things for short periods of times. It's... well, Ben said I'm easily distracted by shiny objects - that's somewhat accurate. I've done some animation from now and then - most notably the "ASK getting bashed in the head" thing, which was one of the first things I did on PC, then there's my old forum Avatar - which, while interesting, could really have tried to push things a bit more.

Oh, the version of ASK-Bashing in Florestica is actually an improved one someone did in Flash - my original one was a plain ol' Avi, with not as good timing, no sound and no stars an SFX.

It would be interesting to remake that one, and see if my animation skills have improved any.. I do have some smudgy test-animations on my computer, which looked nicer now that some time has passed since I did them.

Yay! ^__^

So, Esa's got his comic for this year done, and to follow up... Chesu's Made a Comic Too!

I kind of promised Esa I'd really start bugging Chesu about the next sprite comic once Esa made another line comic. Under normal circumstances, that'd be something like... "I'll bug Chesu about another sprite comic when the fiery halls of hades start hosting polar bear clubs." But, the impossible happened, Esa found an outlet for his angstyness (blogs do wonders for the emo-gothish types, I hear), so I started bugging Chesu. Y'know, emails, IMs, postings, thousands upon thousands of letters carried by owls shoved under the door.... stuff like that.

...and it WORKED, too! :D

Esa's got a bit of talk on his blog about The Making of the Comic. He's also got a few scraps of art that I didn't even have before, such as the sketch that became the first page. Check it out!

Esa posted a large image of the 6th frame of line comic 19 in his art blog. Since it's a nice thing to have, a copy has been added to the list of fan art in the Extras.

Ze line comic, she is up! In this episode, at last, the side effects of living inside a human brain are explained! And the voices truly start chiming in!

As Esa's noted on his blog, this page took about 35 hours of work to do. That's an impressive amount, by any standard. But you have to remember Esa's style. There's a lot of things he wants to focus on and he is, to put it mildly, easily distracted by shiny objects. ^_^

His blog's helped out a lot so far. It's been a great outlet for him. Believe it or not, there's times he doesn't feel like working on NETTG-related stuff, and the blog gives him an audience for anything he may come up with. Plus... you have to admit, blogs are the outlets for a large portion of depressed people in this world. It's absolutely perfect for him!!! XD

Anyway, I'm pretty happy with the page. Like I said to Mark Doherty (who finally finished I'm Here to Help after eight years of web silence), better late than never! Besides, Esa gets lots of good practice when we don't set any deadlines. Getting it done just, y'know, whenever, no worries, is fine. All kinds of other avenues of thought get explored. Even got some ideas played out for original projects we've got in mind. 'Tis quite good, yes.

Kevlar(bounces up and down): It makes me sooo happy! ^_^

it's not so much a preference as a... natural inclination. I'd much prefer preferring... bunnies, and... things.... Or something. Still, it's kind of amazing when something comes out of the pen that is... that I wouldn't expect to find from my brain.

I have a very physical take on consciousness, at least in the way I speak of it.

In other news, Larry updated Thalia's bio on Cast page with a new image. It has COLOUR! Brr!

Esa, as witnessed by his art blog, prefers art mixed with depression. Thus, "cute" can sometimes be foreign to his nature. Therefore, we appreciate his great sacrifice in researching cute things for the sake of the work. ^_^

Today, I had to do research on the subjects of 'cute', 'cute hairstyles', 'Milfeulle Sakuraba' and 'Chiyo Mihama'

I suffer for the comic's sake. Using some definition of 'suffer', in any case.

Why would they, when you direct-link like that, hmph!

Eh, I don't mind. Today is one of these days that remind me of the little matter of Finland being roughly an equal distance from North Pole as Alaska. Brr... Cold.

Keep checking Esa's Art Blog. He's got some nifty stuff there. For example, Terra as Super-DUPER Sailor Chibimoon! and Chiaroscuro Death! Stuff like dat. :D

Meow.

Ssh! I... Oh, whatever. I didn't want to make noise 'til there was more content. I like to at least pretend I'm too cool to care 'bout attention. Which, of course, is completely untrue.

Blogging keeps me sane-ish. Anyway, since the cat is out of the bag, to use my phrasebook, I should warn you: Part of the reason the line comic gets so easily blocked for years and years, is because of quality control. None of the pages seemed at the time of their posting like they were completely horrible. This won't be true for the blog. Be afraid.

Esa's got an art blog now. Negamafoozle! Or, Art and Depression. Take ya pick. Give 'em big hugs and support! ^_^

White stuff fall from sky! Make hard to drive!

No comic, but feel free to browse the Forums! Yup, they're operational and we've managed to discuss a few random subjects. We may get more comicness yet. ^_^

In other news, I've released Terra in Tokyo Ch.12 to the FFML, and I'm sure Larry'll get chapter 11 and 12 up once all the edits are made to the website. In the meantime, check out the previous chapters here.

Hokay, I've got an announcement and a request for the NETTG community. Friend of mine (one of the developers on the SIMud project) has just launched a simple little site to help folks find other like-minded individuals with which to play games.

If you've got the time and inclination, please hop on over to nearbygamers.com and register. We're hoping to get a few thousand users into the database within the next few weeks.

Given the problems that kept piling up and up, with no end in sight, we made a decision to discontinue the old forum and start over from scratch. To those who had accounts before, please sign up again. If anyone knows of a method to port over the messages from the old forum, I'd be glad to hear about it.

ZZZZzzzz...

Still no major updates. Stasis, m'boy, stasis. All in hibernation... Like hibernating bunny.

In other news, Chesu's been at it again... He made a medium-silly video called The Return of Link! Ah yes, as it says in the title, a fat, balding Link returns to action!!!

Right-o. As you were. ^_^

Hmm... No news yet. Esa's in hibernation and Christmas has occurred. We have to constantly patrol the damaged forum for robot spammers and Chesu has his Nintendo Wii. Is he playing the new Zelda game? Darn straightly! ^_^ And once he completes every last minigame, then he can move on to other ones.

How will stuff go from here on out? Anyone's guess. Onwards!

And while the windup occurs for the next story sprite comic, here would be Chesu with the New Apprentice--er, I mean, SIDEKICK! In true Donald Trump form, Link reviews the applicants for their pros and cons... and deals with their individual machinations in turn. And gotta watch those villains when they wanna join up.

And in case we don't get a comic or a special page before then, Merry Christmas! ^_^

And now the cover page for Chapter 7: Act Three of Cut Wood, Shave Bunny! More fighting, more intrigue, more bunny. Yaaw, very bunny. Like Du. Thanks to Chesu for using his newfound spriting ability. We like sprite comics. Wouldn't be proper if we didn't. The story goes on.

Work's going fine, writing is slow, game playing is ongoing in my spare time... Got into a beta of something called Dungeon Runners. We'll see if it's any good.

New page! To Be Continued Soon, In The Next Act... How will the story progress? How will ASK survive being ripped apart by love-crazed Jovian Amazons? Will Laios at last shave the bunny that vanquished his old martial arts master? What will Ameixia do after this competition? What IS worse than finding an ArbyFish in your orange?? Find out soon..............

Chesu's been off polishing his skills, and it shows. For example, he made a revised version of the Chapter 6 cover page. He's been teaching others how to sprite properly, and they've learned fast. He himself has picked up lighting effects and a few other odds and ends. He's definitely gotten better with practice. So, we'll likely have some more pages to come in a li'l bit. Whether a little bit is days or month is another question, though. People get busy. Larry's gotten busy with random stuff, I've got a job and have like... 8 level-capped characters in World of Warcraft... Esa is off doing his winter routine. He'll thaw out sometime in January or February, most likely. Y'know, when the birds make their migratory journey back from the desert sands of Nigeria. Things and stuff! ^_^

Now that's comedy. :D

Happy Holidays, all! Ahh, December. The time we visit lots with family, the time we collapse into a pile of depression and zoom off to Lapland to become a wandering fishmonger...

That's right, there's a holiday comic! HAPPY DAY OF THE NINJA, PEOPLE!! XD

And presenting this lovely occasion is our very own Knight-Zero, a ninja created on a whim. Nevertheless, she's keen to defend her proud ninja heritage, as it were. This is kind of in retaliation for the Talk Like a Pirate Day. Ahh, Ninjas versus Pirates! Who would win? Who knows. There's lots of things we can do to celebrate Day of the Ninja. We can... practice our katana skills, sharpen our shurikens, and pass the many arduous tasks that being a ninja entails. Ask a Ninja is always fun. Marathon watching stuff like Naruto and Ninja Scroll is fun... All kinds of stuff!

K.Z. looks forward to killing Ameixia soon! Thanks to Chesu for getting this one written out and sprited for today! ^_^

Nothing new yet. Same ol' stuff. Work, games, writing, waiting, dating. Y'know how that goes. Scripts? We got scripts. They just haven't been done yet. The webcomic Extra? It's done, but it takes time to properly format it. So yeah, there's stuff, but it's not ready yet. ^^

...then Oye deposited three mushrooms in the coin-box at the door and went me way.

Hmm... No comic, but Chesu has his Nintendo Wii, and so we can probably expect to see him when the living mattresses come out of hibernation. In other stuff, been getting some stuff reviewed on the FFML for Terra in Tokyo, the lastest fanfic attempt/venture/whatever. Overall, it's nice to see people that are enjoying it. ^^

More comicness whenever it gets produced.

Found Chesu again. Had to send the robots out this time. To say that Chesu is looking forward to the Nintendo Wii is rather like saying King Arthur was sort of looking forward to getting the Holy Grail. It's like saying Ranma is looking forward to getting a cure for his curse. It's like saying... Arby the ArbyFish kind of likes mushrooms.

Chesu is looking forward to the new Nintendo console. Oh yes, he's certainly looking forward....

And yes, he was wearing pants this time. Dunno what happened last time, but it wasn't pretty. I think it involved penguins and a stampede of goombas.

Roight. Got that settled, then. ^_^

As usual, we are playing the waiting game. The most stalwart fans are waiting for me to finish another chapter of NETTG. (NETTG: Terra in Tokyo's done, 'cept revisions and a proper epilogue since the ending as it stands seems to lack something important. Like... propriety. And plot. And sanity. Well, maybe it's fine as is. ;) And then there's the wait for more comics, both drawn and sprited, as well as that one webcomic extra thingamawhatsit. Ah well, this stuff takes time and motiation and plasma. Or something to that effect.

So bear with us. Might take weeks or months, but someday, progress! Someday! XD

I see your talking sock, and raise you a plushie.

I defer all questions to the talking sock.

So, anyway, I finally got a job. Only took, oh, four months or so. Not bad. Some people wait a year or more after graduating to get a job. Yaaay life. And income. :D

Meanwhile, Esa is off being depressed and wallowing in the darkness somewhere quiet. And I've been going to bed early and getting up early. Interesting how that works in contrast to what life's been like for me recently.

Got some NETTG Classic in the works still. As usual, it's slow as freeze-dried molasses, but it is progressing bit by bit. Anyway, onwards!

More like if we could get the email response system back, it would be better. People can't sign up for the forums because they can't get the email confirmation process done.

As for your project... I'm working on it, although it's a slow process. Just cleaning up the garbage MS Word stuck into the code is a job and then some. ^_^;

Yay, Chesu's Back! Yes! I was hoping he'd come back, as I am totally useless without people to carry out any grand designs we may discuss. He tried out some semblance of a normal life, but he has too many pixels in his soul. Sprites ooze out from his very blood! Prick him, will not a Nintendo cartridge emerge gradually from his skin? Despitefully accuse him, and will he not retort with vast stockpiles of video game trivia? Whaddaguy! XD

Dunno how much more comic...ness or how often we'll be getting, but he has not disappeared. He has been training pupils at the Secret Monastery of Sprite Comickry!!! Anyway, he's back. Cool.

Now if we could get those silly robots out of our forums we'd be doing better. ^^

Ranty-du? No ranty-du? Uuf! Rant like bunny. How-du? Hmm... whiskery-du. Carroty-chewing-du.

Have not heard back from Larry, but I expect he has been busy with his job, much as Chesu has been busy (or will be busy) camping out for his new Nintendo console. Guess we really did go into a huge hiatus. :D

Well, I edited my masters project writeup (at long last!) and sent it off to Larry to see how well it lends itself to a web setup. So, that's something! ^_^

When I was a badger, I looked like a bager, sang like badger, danced like a badger. Now that I have become a squirrel, I have put away badgerish things. But I brought them back out for weekends and holidays.

Still working on that webcomic project adaptation for a web-postable extra. The thing is, it is rather large, so part of the challenge is getting it split up for different linked subsites so people can find what they want to know quickly, or be able to just go through the whole thing from start to finish.

Meanwhile, Chesu is waiting in ravenous expectation of the Nintendo Wii (due out in another month and a half). He has already compiled a list of things he will need to camp outside the store when they open up for sales. He even has his LoZ Link costume ready. Now THAT is dedication. ^_^

Mush-mash, me boy! Mush-mash.

Fall is the time of depression and drawing.

Still no comic. But I am working on (finally) editing my masters project report for web posting. Only took me, oh, four months to recover from the mental trauma of agonizing over it for two years.

In the meantime, our number of users on the forum continues to grow by leaps and bounds. Yup, we've got about 250 or more users that registered. Unfortunately, our last legitimate user registered at about number 56. Wow, good thing our mailback system's broken (and has been broken since our transfer from the server from last, like, September). Otherwise we'd be totally loaded down with spam from spammy users that actually managed to register. :D

On the other hand, that means that we've gotten no new people to chat with on the forums, what with them not being able to activate their accounts. Alas, no one new to encourage us, to berate us for our mistakes, or to stuff our pockets full of random bits of cash.

Esa's still Esa (and winter's closing in again), and Chesu seems to have caught the noncommunicative depression bug too. Guess that means we're on standby until somebody (me, Danny, any respective artists or programmers) do something creative. It'll happen, eventually.

In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day, Esa's produced a li'l pirate Terra drawing. Quoth the ArbyFish, "Ey, lookit me! Oye's a parrot! Tweet tweet!" Some who know me might note an occasional usage of "Yar!" as a greeting. Oddly enough, it's something I tend to only do in public, since there's no need to impress family members or strangers with my somewhat offbalance personality.

Esa's lunged back into darkness and depression, but that's no reason not to enjoy talking like a pirate. Here's a good video that teaches you how to talk properly as one. Here's a song about it. Here's that song actually being performed. And here's where space pirates actually appear in the sprite comic.

Roight. Me civic duty has been fulfilled in recognizing farcifal holidays. Yar-har! :D (Thanks to Esa for the on-request pic!)

This Soup Needs More ArbyFish! Danny was kind enough to come up with a proper filler while we're waiting for Esa to draw something and while we're waiting for Chesu to decide that his skills are once again adequate to the task of sprite comickry, and while we're waiting for Ben to come up with something original so we can 'ave something tew market or somesuch thing.

Onwards and upwards, backwards and forwards, to the left and to the right--stand up, sit down, fight fight fight!

Chesu's been busy dealing with his funk. (Link doesn't have anything to do with Chesu, just funk in general.) He's been spriting, which is good. Perhaps he shall re-emerge from the temple of webcomicry more powerful than ever.

In the meantime, Random Cuteness. ^_^

It's Official! It seems that Pluto is No Longer a Planet! And the associated factors have been retconned to suit the new revised history. It's revisionist history, y'see! Much betta' than regular history. Alas, Sailor Pluto... lowered in prestige! How can she stand it? ^_^

Thanks to Chesu for hammering the comic together! Was beginning to think he had resorted to moving to Lapland to become a wandering Fishmonger. But no, he lives, and is still among us. Onwards, then! :D

Status on comicness? Well, still waiting. We've had scripts, but artists have either been busy, depressed, or working on something else. Even Larry's been busy with long hours and long trips. Y'know, overworked, underpaid, no control over one's life. How depressing. Mmmmohhdear. T_T

But all is not lost. I'm still tinkering with story ideas and such. Not sure when anything'll be presentable, but it'll happen someday. ^_^

furifuri mawatte pon!

/*advertise*/

My cousin

/*advertise*/

Elsewhere, movement.

Hmm. Still no Chesu comic nor Esa comic. Perhaps they've gone off to become wandering fishmongers together. ^_^

Esa's drawing some conceptual stuff, and I think Chesu's off sharpening his skills in the secret monastery of spritery. That, or he's replaying all the Zelda games back to front three times in anticipation of Twilight Princess. ;)

Yay?

Yay!

Eep! Touch the "Prev" and "Next" buttons at your own peril! O_o; Basically, I've been trying to draw at least _something_ to keep in practice... A lot of it can be rather awful, so be warned.

No comic yet, but Esa's been drawing some more. We've been doing some character design discussion for power upgrades or changes in the next NETTG Classic chapter. Here's a look at what we have in mind for Terra's power swap. Basically, Terra finds out a bit more about her past, and gets another device from Arby's mid-series replacement to help make her a bit more useful. While she has had some basic Sailor Earth powers, she apparently decided not to do much in the way of offensive maneuvers to take down youma. She did use an "Earth Sunshine and Happiness" thing, but all that does is make people feel like a million bucks. The Negaverse people will be getting an upgrade as well, and they really kind of need it. Besides, gotta have both sides get pushed up absurdly in an escalating power struggle. Wouldn't be proper if we didn't!

Another idea we've been bouncing around for a while involves a kind of "Goth Girls With Swords" concept, though we've only got one goth girl in mind, and she's not gothic in appearance or attire, but rather in attitude and angst (she's the one on the left). Esa likes angsty things. ^_^ So, naturally we'll be tossing in a sidekick that's anything but depressing. Gotta keep things counterbalanced. Who knows where that'll go, if anywhere. We shall see, and we shall something. In-deed! Merrily mumbling wombats in combat with flyling fluffy 'shrooms!

Apparently, I'm going to start drawing ten hours a week. That should help.

Due to Ben's recommendation, I've recently began watching Lyrical Nanoha. So far, it's been interesting-ish. Has a lot going for it, actually.

- It's a basic magical girl show: transformation sequence, cute talking mascot and all. However it's rather realistic

- Property damage is property damage is... good.

- Nanoha's both parents are alive and she's not the only child! OMG!

- The whole technological vibe on her "magic" is very keen.

EDIT: I think I've got it. More on this later.

Chesu's been back, but he hasn't been much for comic-ness just yet. And neither has Esa... So we just waits a bit longer then. I know, patience is a virtue, but to get stuff done is even better! Larry's been busy too. Looks like we've all been driven mad. Actually, we're all mad here.... :D

Chesu made it home from his long road trip. All the way from Florida to Oregon and back again. Here and there again, a sprite artist's holiday! He faced the might of the dragon Smaug, he slew a thousand goblins in an intense campaign... and he returned home to his tea and crumpets! Or was that mushrooms and pie? Oh, poke it in yer oye!

Now the greatest challenge ever told will now commence... That of putting together another comic page after so long has gone past. Can he make it? 'Course he can! Filigree and jumble-fee soup, and a cake of rice upon the mop! Onwards and backwards, here we go, forwards toward the jack-birds, to and fro! To England my young man! To England! :D

When the artists are angsty, no one can hear you scream. ^_^

Aaaaaaahhhh!!!

Indeed. It's good to be bugged. Bugs in code, on the other hand, are not much fun.

Hmm. Today, from 8PM to 10 PM will be drawing time. 10 PM to 11 PM will be... probably gaming time. The rest will be sleeping-time.

Indeed, the suspense, it is killing us! ^^;

Ahhhh!

Still waitin' on Chesu. He'll still be gone for another li'l while. Been bugging Esa to draw something in the meantime. I haven't put together anything else entertaining, so guess we's waiting then. :D

Yaaw! Lock S-foils in attack position!

... I... Am...

Chesu's going on this big ol' long road trip. I imagine he'll have stories to tell when he's back. Maybe there'll even be a comic in it. It's from Florida to Oregon, so I imagine it'll take at least a week, maybe two. Meanwhile, Chesu will be without an Internet connection unless I miss my guess. This apparently means a break from the comic unless either Larry or I (or, say, hmm... Esa perhaps? Nudge-nudge-wink-wink!) come up with something to post in the interim.

Meanwhile, writing, plotting, meditation, torture, and job searching for me! That's right, I still don't have one. Been lookin' too. Shall have to continue looking. But it's not all bad, yet. A friend of mine commented that it took him two years after he graduated to get his first job. I... don't plan on my search taking quite that long, but I won't stress out too bad if it takes a bit longer. Onwards! :D

And now... The Bunny Strikes Back! It's a big bunny, but with no grand master of Usagi-dou around, who will shave it??? O_O

Thanks to Chesu for getting this done. He got it done at around like 4:00 AM his time. I don't think he sleeps at night anymore. ^_^

Onwards!

Yay comic! As far as the tournament goes, Congrats to the Winner! Yes, the little green-haired girl whooped everyone else in the competitions. Except for a couple, she came in first. Still, Ameixia and Lynn did pretty good, really well for their first time, securing second and third places. Chesu deviated slightly from the script in describing how things went on, but I'm glad he did. Some stuff I put in for action doesn't always translate well into a sprite comic.

Also, I tried helping DW with a Nanoha/Full Metal Panic fanfic. It was so incomplete I had to practically rewrite it before I could figure out some comments to give him. The discussion thread about that is here. Includes my rewrite. It's quick and has errors in it, but that's what happens when I don't proofread my own corrections. ^_^;

Second comic for the week! Turns out the announcers were having Delusions of Fame. It was Chesu's idea, and I decided to make it an actual script.

Moving right along, then. Gotta use up them scripts faster than I can come up with them (even though Chesu and Larry frequently come up with the scripts as well). Wouldn't be proper if ya didn't!

And now, to start the week off right, we've got Iolanthe's Reaction to the rankings. She's sad that she lost, yes, but... that certainly won't keep her from continuing to look. Even modern-day Makoto / Lita / whatever-they-call-her-in-Sweden wasn't kept from getting regular crushes. However, Princess Iolanthe might take a more... proactive approach given the society's heavily matriarchal leanings. In any case, it did surprise us who the next target of her affections ended up being.

Drill Sergeant Tacticus has something of an affinity for things that are tough and can take orders. If he sees someone acting like a pansy, he feels an overwhelming urge to whip 'em back into shape. But when all's well, why not smile about it?

Chesu is just bound to discuss some of the travails he had with this page on his blog! ^_^

Chesu lives! He's been busy lately with various things, but he's put together Knight-Zero's Reaction to the events at hand. Well, Lynn doesn't have much of a reaction, but Laios is rather disappointed that their plan for taking away their fugitive kind of fell through. KZ did make Laios a new outfit. One wonders how she managed with all the business of the events, but I guess it's kind of an innate and powerful skill. Like... she's interested in fashion or something to that effect.

In any case, onwards! :D

Hmm... Well, we've had scripts, but this time it's Chesu that's been busy. Ah well, always something. :D

In other news, the FFML seems to have revived somewhat since people were worrying so badly that it was dying. People are making a special effort now, looks like. Somewhat comforting, really. :D

Got a new sprite comic up finally. It's Ameixia's Reaction to the whole event thing. She did quite well, especially since this was her first time competing, but she didn't win the grand prize they were all so earnestly seeking. ASK doesn't feel down about it though. I mean, it would have been nice if she'd gotten him out of it, but since she hasn't, that just lends itself to ASK's ego about how he'll get himself out of it somehow. Despite the fact that he's been taken down repeatedly by a bunch of Jovian Jungle Amazons (from outer space!), he remains confident. Of course, his track record for getting out of cells and cages without help from female companions is somewhat nonexistent.

Chesu has been somewhat ill lately, so that's one reason we've been a week without comic. The other reason was that I was writer's blocked on the scripts for a while and now we're managing to push through that. I just have to not be afraid of doing a bit of the not-so-funny-but-still-advances-the-story kind of script. The "onwards!" concept I kept stressing when I started. Onwards indeed! :D

Well, I got a sort-of-okay bland script written, but everyone else has been busy too, looks like. We shall have another page up... when all once again blends in perfect synergy, or something to that effect. Sorry about the delay. ^^;

Continuing in my brain's absence, Chesu's put together The Door, Part Two! It's a good li'l something completely different. Fortunately, sprites were available, pre-ripped by lots of other faithful KH fans. With any luck I should have some sort of script written up sometime tomorrow. If interviews don't get in the way. But... I like interviews, so it'll be a good thing if it does happen. :D

No story comic, but we've got filler! Been playing Kingdom Hearts 2. I finally finished that and yet proper scripts still don't seem to occur to me. And now for something completely different. The Door! Similarly, the rest of us (I.E. me) sometimes have difficulty coming up with the blatantly obvious. Onwards! ^_^

Hmm... No new page just yet. It seems I got distracted over the weekend and totally forgot to make the new scripts! ^_^;

It's plotted, and we know what direction the story's going. I simply have to write it down in a coherent dialogue/action format. Thanks for bearing with us!

So while everyone else is freaked out about the last competition, Lynn is off packing away Souvenirs for the Mistress. Some people might be somewhat unnerved by people packing away monsters for transport back to another world. But then again, this is a weird fantasy jungle area, so this sort of thing happens all the time. Or it might. Either Jupiter has no customs officers or Knight-Zero knows how to smuggle things.

In addition to that, we've tinkered with the forums a bit. Guests can no longer post, and we got rid of the obvious spammer accounts. By we, I mean Danny. But the job's done. Ammon's moving some stuff around so that the forum's emailer system should work sometime soon as well. Looks like we're moving toward operationality. Still no ArbyFish comic yet though, since there's some quirk in how Ammon's got the hosting situation set up. I figure we could just do something like an /nettg.com/arbyfish/ comic thing, but we haven't discussed it as of yet.

And, thanks to those who have voted for us on Topwebcomics! We were at rank 166 as of the end of May. Thursday is a new month, so vote and keep us up there as we gain more operational...ness, and we'll be able to get more readers as time goes by. We like our readers. ^_^

Skipping ahead to the final bits of that last event, we have a winner. Meanwhile, Tacticus is off Watching the Girls Go By. It turned out to be a fairly difficult event, what with the princess-eating snails, traps, and pitfalls to the center of the world. So this concludes the events portion of the subchapter. We're not done with the characters, but we can at least move on to some more exciting climax material. Thanks goes out to those who made the suggestions for the events! We'll post the names and events as soon as we can dig up who suggested them. ^^

New comic! When considering all of the possibilities involved in an event, especially a running event, one might worry about people trying to eliminate the competition. So, when Lynn/Knight-Zero finds an exploitable rule, she'll be sure to use it to her greatest advantage. Traps? Call it Proactive Competition Management. Hmm... we've had a few characters change their appearance or attire in the comic, such as Laios during the Tsunami incident or Ameixia for practicing Way of the Bunny... but Knight-Zero does have a knack for changing clothes. This time, it's mostly to allow her to move more freely, similar to how she could with her kunoichi garb.

And thanks again for the people who've continued to vote for us on Topwebcomics! Keep it up! :D

Hmm... We're also sorting out the room descriptions for GDM's three parent alignments. The discussion thread is here. Basically, good gets bunnies, neutral gets wood, and evil gets spikes. We're trying to figure out what else an artist needs to get the concepts down. It probably doesn't help that I haven't figured out all the aspects of the game yet as it pertains to what kinds of things are needed in a room. ^^;

Just one last bit with the announcers before moving on. They're having Event 5: The Hundred-Mile Survival Trek through untamed wilderness. As is par for the course, it's chock full of untold horrors... which may or may not include Guu. One might ask... if it's never been explored, how do they know it's so dangerous...? Because the explorers never came back? They could have been having a party.... Ah well! Onwards! :D

And thanks to everyone who's continues to vote for us on Topwebcomics and elsewhere. We appreciate it! And we've managed to stay within the top 200 for the past few months, which has been great!

The results are finally in for the sprite comic's fourth event for that one Jovian Tournament thingamawhatsit. A Single Perfect Score. The final competitor seemed to have enough self-mastery to both convince an evil twin projection to cooperate and to avoid all the terrors from the deep. Makes one wonder if she was cheating somehow. Lynn got disqualified, on account of her "evil" twin getting eaten by one of the monsters. Though she didn't win that one, it will hamper her ability to win the grand prize and take ASK back to the Moon Kingdom for execution or some other unknown purpose. It looks like there'll be a different winner.

Hmm... seems like the tournament events have gone on about as far as they will, so I'll try to wrap that up in the next comic and make things fall apart and explode as they have the tendency to do. There shall be scriptiness soon....

Hmm... All the graduation stuff's been taken care of... I'm currently looking for a job that can use my degree, a few prospects here and there, been writing more NETTG Classic, been waiting for comments back from Larry... been getting permission from various comic authors to post their interviews for a web version of my masters project thesisamawhatsit... Thinking out how to describe the girl's room for each alignment in GDM, that sort of thing.

But mostly waiting for Chesu to get his internet connection fixed. You know how that goes. Can't get stuff from the artist, can't post the comic. Well, he had it up and running, but I guess he was busy. It happens. :)

Back to story comics! More Synchronized Evil Twin Swimming! The contestants have managed to convince, fight, or mind-control their evil twin projection things into doing some synchronized swimming, to the tune of One-Winged Angel. Don't know how they got that one, maybe they got it off a Venusian recording device or something. Ameixia's managing, however oddly. Iolanthe is getting the job done in her own unique way, and Lynn... doesn't seem to have any problem at all with misfortune happening to her "evil" twin. Even if it comes to disqualification, I guess there's something about the twin that... gets to her. :)

Thanks goes to Chesu for getting it done! Been a busy past while for us all, it seems.

No comic just yet. Chesu's working to get back into the groove after OD'ing on new games from E3. What we have is a Recycled Self-Infliction comic reflecting how Chesu feels about the situation. Not Self-Insertion, mind you. Self-Infliction. Ahh, I remember the Revengefic years! I hadn't even started writing fan fiction back then. A lot of 'em were a bit violent, unneccessary, and OOC, but they were certainly interesting. Nowadays, people are so worried about being in-character or having consistent characterization that they never get anything done. Or perhaps they just ran out of time and have to work and program for a living and such. ^^;

Ah well, life goes on, and the comic still has a heartbeat. Going into it, I never thought it had to be exceptionally high quality (though Chesu's improved a LOT with practice), but it just had to continue. The heartbeat of the site as it were, and squelching it moves on! :D

Sorry about the lack of comic last week. Had no warning for it, really. Chesu has... Absolutely No Self-Control when it comes to previews of various Nintendo games, especially Zelda games. It seems he overloaded on information. ^^;

So I, like, graduated on Saturday. Still pending grades on the masters project, which I finished. Hopefully I did well. Larry and I are going to work on making a public version of it that's more interesting than the dry academic presentation. I'll have to check with the various authors to see if it's okay to post the interviews with them as a matter of interest. I think it should be okay as long as we properly link and reference and praise 'em and stuff, but it's best to ask first or else there's a chance for complaints. Wouldn't be proper if we didn't!

オオ、死んだ...

Graduation today, graduation Saturday... and final papers to grade. Looks like a busy few days ahead. ^^;

No comic just yet. We've had scripts, but Chesu's been busy.

While Ameixia appears to be having trouble with her evil clone, Lynn seems to be doing okay. Now we've got a couple More Evil Twins to worry about. Iolanthe isn't the sort to cooperate with evil twins, even when the prize is as grand as this one. But that last girl doesn't seem to be having any problems at all. Does that mean she's evil? Only evil people have an easy time cooperating with their opposites? I wonder....

Mmm... burning eternal pizza. Eternal burning pizza might be better. I like my burning on top of my eternal rather than the other way around.

Lynn's evil twin? Hmm... Wouldn't it be something akin to this?

Or would Stylin' be actually more like a niece? Hmmhmmmhmmm

Setup for our main characters' Event Four still goes on. For now we have Lynn and Ameixia's Evil Twins. One wonders how one might convince one's own evil twin to cooperate, at least on a temporary basis. Ameixia might have to struggle with her and beat her in combat, or trick her twin to follow along. Lynn has a more no-nonsense approach to getting an "evil" twin to cooperate: mind control. But while we're talking opposites, if Knight-Zero/Lynn is evil/amoral/etc., what would that make her "evil" twin? Hums indeed.

Larry's reviewed chapter 9 of Terra in Tokyo, that experimental piece that I wrote without any C&C of any kind. But now that we've got opinions, I've got words to tweak and a scene to add and such. Ahh, revision! I remember when I used to bounce ideas back and forth with Jason Hanks (yup, the one of Heart of Sugar fame) and we got stuff put together scene by scene and it got weirder and weirder each time we did that. It was a lot of fun. But life catches up with you. Jason had to work, and was consumed by the burning eternal pizza.... I had to finish college (which should be over soon, I hope ;_;)... But I'm glad the comic's running and keeping ideas going. This is actually a pretty nice setup.

No actual story comic today. The problem was both Chesu and I did More Than One Hour of Physical Labor, so we're totally zonked out. Chesu built a shed and I helped move my brother and his wife's possessions to their new house. You never actually know how much stuff is packed up until you have to transfer it to a new location.

Got a big week ahead of me. By Wednesday, it'll all be decided. I'll be turning in _something_ for my masters project, or explode trying! 'Tis time. And graduation is next week. ._.

Things and stuff!

Chesu came up with an unscripted Insane A.I. Filler Comic. With the fourth wall properly broken still, li'l side conversations can take place without the pesky worrying about continuity. Ahh, the good old days when I just advanced scenes by tossing in random Monty Python humor. ^_^

This time, there's been scripts available, but not the actual sprites. Chesu still has to work, y'see, so sometimes he gets home and doesn't feel like making new sprites. Has to make the Danny sprite too, and we haven't even consulted Danny....

Hmm. One way or another, for good or bad, my masters project is due by next Wednesday. That means I get to share the results with those who want to see what I came up with. It's not, like, doctoral research quality... but that doesn't have to be a bad thing. I don't have to put it in full-on-academic-dictionary style, so it should be readable by the curious. I got to ask people like Brian Clevinger and Caroline Curtis about their comics, which was cool. Didn't get to ask the Penny Arcade or other really ultra busy people, but apparently 13 interview/survey things is good enough for a project of this scale.

Concerning that same Event #4, having to convince an evil twin to swim in synch Wouldn't Be So Bad if it weren't for all the creepy crawlies and buggers from the dungeon dimensions they tossed in there. Spices it up, makes it dangerous and more interesting and stuff. Makes it worthy of a grand prize if someone can actually succed. :)

Chesu's been hammering together his own backgrounds some more. Looks like some of it was done freehand, and it's turned out quite well. I'm glad we've got the artist/writer/editor/etc. team we've got here. ^^

Next up, we've got Preparations for the Fourth Event! The fourth event is Synchronized Evil Twin Swimming. First, they have to make magically-projected evil twins for competitors to sync with. That's probably the hardest part because what most evil twins are likely to do involves attacking the "good" twin, or running off to ruin her life. But such is the risk of the Jovian Grand Tournament! No risk too great, no sacrifice too huge, no injury too severe! Moo-haa-haa-haa-haaaa! :D

And, yeah, Japanese marketing. Alas, I'm a fan of Final Fantasy, but unfortunately their definition of fun has recently gotten too closely-mingled with their traditions of self-inflicted pain and agony. Like they're Klingons or something, where their idea of a good birthday party involves zapping one's self with a pain stick or somesuch. Ah well, perhaps they shall learn someday! ^_^

http://atuin.simud.org/~ammon/ffxii_potion_battle.wmv

Fear and tremble in the face of Japanese marketing.

And now, The Second Part of Event Three! Turns out, you can get points deducted for subduing a monster before throwing it. Throwing a conscious Predator would earn you lots and lots of points, as would tossing a giant fire gigas. But throwing something freakishly heavy will do in a pinch, too. ^_^

Hmm... Some discusson about Terra in Tokyo has been going on in the Fukufics forum. This NETTG alternate universe apparently started medium/mediocre/normal, but then got serious right around chapter six. Chapters 1-6 are at my Florestica site. I'm releasing about two per week so that people can have time to soak it up before proceeding.

Meanwhile, the comic's moving along, and I'll need to come up with more scripts. I like scripts. And comics, so yeah.

In other stuff... I only have another couple weeks of class left, so one way or the other, the webcomic masters project must be done by then... or else. It's going to be fun. :D

In addition to making today's filler strip, I'm happy to announce the unveiling of the sprite comic archive page. The link's right up at the top of every page.

The renumbering of each comic strip to match the corrected file names is an ongoing project that won't be completed for a long time yet. But you can now find any given strip much, much more easily than before, and we won't let it get out of hand again.

...Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I'll go collapse in exhaustion. ^_^;;

Filler comic by Larry: Giant Gumball Tiebreaker! Basically, it's an idea of what might happen if the competitions came so close that there'd have to be a tie-breaker. A no-holds-barred, last-one-out-wins situation. ^_^

And now... Event 3: The Monster Toss! Larry came up with this one and others helped develop it in the forum and in other areas. Thanks for the idea! Points are given based on ferocity of the creature, as well as weight and distance. Poor Miss Teela! She tries so hard and goes to every event. ^_^;

We had a rather large script for this one, so we had to split it into two pages. Other half of the event continues tomorrow. Thanks for reading!

And now we have the next event: High-Density Gas Wakeboarding! A contestant has to surf along the airwaves to get from one continent to a finishing spot over on the next island. Thanks to one known as Epsilon who came up with the idea. He stated:

"Contestants get a flimsy fiberglass (or equivalent) board and are then

tossed over the side of one of the continents. They then have to wakeboard

on the roiling superdense gases across to one of the other continents/a

nearby island. The catch of course is that this far down the air is getting

very thick (hard to breath) and that if they fall over... well, plummeting

into the acidic gases and superdense gravity of Jupiter in a one way plunge

towards the core is hardly considered a good way to start your day.

Plus, as a bonus, bikinis."

No bikinis in this one, but there is a destructive spell used as propulsion here. It certainly does live up to being an extreme sport, as it were. Thanks to Chesu for getting it put together, and thanks to Larry for getting it edited!

Chesu's going to Orlando tomorrow, so he wasn't able to do the page Larry and I got worked out yet. So... maybe tomorrow we'll be able to get back to the filler pages. Sort out what happened with the absolutely freaking insane A.I. ^_^

It was my idea, but some of the interesting details were suggested by Fatherz, from the Philippines. Thanks, guy!

And now, we have Event #1: The 100-Meter Pitmonster Dash! Thanks to Larry, who suggested it. I mean, we didn't vote or anything. I sort of just picked the ones I thought would be comical enough or seemed proper. We only get five of them, and there's some rather interesting ones coming up. The results of this round? 'Mixie came in first! But Iolanthe came in third. Not all the entries are doing every event. I'm not sure how the scoring system works to define one big winner, but that means that it'll be any character's game until the very end.

Chesu spent about six hours on this comic, since his computer spontaneously rebooted when he was about to finish it the first time around. We're glad Chesu's got lots of perseverance! ^_^

Bah, children... I was 26 months ago :P

Happy Birthday to me! I'm 26 years old! ^_^

Larry's renumbering stuff, taking pages out, putting them in, struggling with the PHP code for an archive page, but... we still have a new comic page! Chesu has put together the Grand Opening Ceremony for the Jovian tournament thingamabobber. We're glad Chesu's around. What'd we do for comics if we didn't? ^^

Well, there is Esa, but he's rather busy and stuff. Ah well. Later!

Good news! Chesu Has Been Found! This time, we at least didn't find him in the back-room closet acting out Zelda-induced delusions. The answer? Apparently, Chesu quitting was an April Fools joke. Work's busy, but not all THAT busy for him. So he decreased the posting schedule, intent on pulling a prank on us. He told me beforehand because I guess I was being my typical distracted, apathetic self, but Larry was caught by the joke totally unawares. In the end, Larry got some nice sprite comic editing experience. He proved he could do that in the previous several comics. I, meanwhile, remain blissfully ignorant of the process, though I did make up a photoshopped thing from previously available art once.

Hopefully back to the comic schedule on Monday. We shall see. ^_^

Oh, and we had my sister's wedding yesterday and the reception today. It was kind of time-consuming to get everything set up. False ceilings and food and cakes and transportation back and forth. Things and stuff!

And now we have the second guest comic by Larry, Toys From the Attic. I suppose it could have gone all weird and had lots of doll toys and other stuff attacking peoples' minds, then we could have called it "Toys In The Attic," a metaphor for going insane. Looks nice, though Chesu's our local expert and may have a few comments for Larry.

Still working on my masters project. Got an extension to Wednesday. Just have 3 or 4 major sections left, analyze the data, that sort of thing. Ah, well. It'll get done someday. =D

*Edit* Oh, and to get to the now less-memory-encumbered forums, go to this page until the link up at the top of the main page gets changed. Or if something else happens.

Chesu crawled out of bed long enough to notice my comic, and raked me over the coals about how lame a job I did with his sprites. So I remade it, and the new version has replaced the old.

Hey, I'm just learning! ^_^;;

I would like to take this moment to say... nothing.

Well, since Chesu went *Kaboom* for the time being, we'll just keep posting random junk as we either make it or dig it up. Chesu sent Larry his sprites, so Larry whipped up a little filler comic named Unheeded Warning. Really, we're just doing what we can to keep the site alive for the time being. ^^;

Pot, kettle? Glass houses? What? Dunno what you're talking about. ^_~;

And Esa should know. He goes *kaboom* on a fairly regular basis.

AAAH! Chesu went *kaboom*!!!

What to do, what to do... @_@;;;;

Astounding! We have a new page of the main comic! It's still in the exposition phase, but I felt it was best to get some of the explanation out of the way and the story established. That way we know what's going on before we jump further into the action. The REALLY good stuff is yet to come. ^^

Big thanks to Esa for getting that done!

Aaagh! Exposition!

Still busy. Aiming to have a rough draft of my masters project done by Monday. Got the data and stuff. Just have to, like, write the report now. ^^

April 1st is coming up too. I wonder if I'll have something ready to present by then....

Hmm. It seems work isn't the only thing going against us and the comic. And So It Begins... Again. I mean, Chesu's not a total obsessive Zelda fanatic... oh, wait, yes he is. Not much that can be said contrary to that, really. ^^;

Hmm... Looks like Chesu's still quite busy. Not to mention we gave him a very sprite-intensive (as opposed to dialogue-intensive) page to do.