(This is actually one of several blog posts I started working on at the same time, but it's the only one I'm making available to the public. Don't worry, loyal patrons, you'll have some exclusive stuff again shortly)
I haven’t done a big, rambling “here’s where I am as a creative individual” in a ...
2019-05-16 16:28:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This is another case of me planning to save an idea for the very end of the set of comics, but then several of the pages that were supposed to come in the middle didn't work out and suddenly it'd been another whole month since the last "weekly" comic, so I couldn't afford to sit on an idea without using it.
This is the ...
2019-04-28 01:05:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Last time, when we were doing Bridget’s playlist, I blathered on and on about how she’d only like some very specific breeds of heavy metal, since she’d like the speed and energy, but a lot of it would be too clean and technical for her tastes. Now let’s talk about that very exact thing! This time, our character is Sti...
2019-04-19 11:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I was even more stressed out by this little bout of the butterfingers than I'd normally be, because this was my NEW phone (well, new to ME anyway, and newer than my previous one was when it finally exploded) and that was on its first con trip this was the first con trip said new phone had been on. I'd been having 2019-04-18 15:04:22 +0000 UTC View Post
This probably isn't as clear as I wanted it to be, thanks in no small part to my inability to get a picture at an angle that showed everything clearly. The motel had two parking lots, a big one on the side of most of the rooms, and a little one right by the office. We parked in the big one, figuring that wherever ...
2019-04-10 05:14:45 +0000 UTC View Post
While the ever-mounting mechanical quirks of my increasingly-aged van probably don't mean much to anybody else out there, this DOES speak to a more universal aspect of this year's MAGFest: it wasn't very cold. Like, it was a bit chilly after the sun went down, you wouldn't want to be outside without a coat at night or e...
2019-03-27 18:49:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, so if the previous Character Soundtrack was too gentle and boring for you, fear not, ‘cos this one is ALL RAWK. We did Alphonse last time, which of course means that now it’s Bridget’s turn! And let’s get it out of the way right off the bat: with the way Bridget idolizes her momma, I could have easily just had B...
2019-03-27 15:46:46 +0000 UTC View Post
I snark, but I actually like how quickly the show moved past this moment. I see so many anime these days where all forward momentum grinds to a halt so that characters can spend multiple episodes moping through post-Evangelion breakdowns, it's very refreshing to go back and watch a show that remembers to actually have t...
2019-03-01 00:29:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, last time we talked about Tabitha, so it only stands to reason that we move on to her kids next. And weirdly enough, the two kids who are incapable of uttering sounds have perhaps the most explicit acknowledgement of their musical tastes in all of Far Out There. Alphonse, for example, is known t...
2019-02-05 00:06:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Yeah, I don't know what's up with that either. I tried to think up Atlanta-related names and logos that don't exist anymore, and for some reason, I just immediately went for defunct sports teams. And hockey teams, at that; we've got the Thrashers, the Flames, and the Knights up there. Why no love for the Atl...
2019-01-10 21:42:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I used to ride past Margret Mitchell's house all the time, just sayin'
Anyway, yeah, I know. People still haven't stopped giving me grief over this, and they absolutely shouldn't Don't worry, this really was the last time I'll ever camp out in a vehicle for a convention... assuming that vehicle isn't specifi...
2019-01-10 21:15:06 +0000 UTC View Post
No, seriously, this is what my childhood looked like. It's one of those things that never even registered to me at the time, since that's just how childhood works, but having gone on to live in other places it AMAZES me just how much of my formative years were spent sitting in the back seat during a traffic jam. I...
2019-01-10 20:42:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Every trip down to Atlanta, I'd always strongly conciser carving out some time to head downtown and take some touristy pictures with Servo and Scribbles. Inevitably, there'd never be time (plus the prohibitive logistics of both getting downtown and handling both a puppet and a plushier without help), but this is exactly...
2019-01-10 20:10:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Yes, then first "Atlanta landmark" I thought of when I started drawing these was a fast food restaurant. Look, you gotta remember that Atlanta honestly doesn't have THAT many big old visually impressive historical sites, thanks to one General Sherman... oh, who am I kidding. If I tried to do this same set of comic...
2019-01-10 19:45:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Yeah, so much of my comic notes for AWA were wrapped up in the whole van camping experience that I didn't really have much left for Patreon comics OR anthropomorphic cartoon animals. Also, with my "no more hotels or out-of-state cons" rule going into effect, this will almost certainly be the last batch of Atlanta-themed...
2019-01-10 19:10:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, it’s a new year, so I guess it’s time for a new splurge of indulgent self-examination and vague speculation about the future. Don’t worry, I won’t go so far as to make any resolutions or anything like that, but there are some definite changes in store for 2019 that I want to keep everyone in t...
2019-01-02 00:23:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, we talked about the musical tastes of Avatar last time, so this time around let’s discus one of her biggest fans, Tabitha! Between the giant boots and black gauntlets and general Hot Topic vibe she generates, you may have already guessed that Tabitha’s something of a metalhead. But, if you’ve be...
2018-12-28 15:41:36 +0000 UTC View Post
You thought I'd forgotten about this stuff, didn't you? I wouldn't blame ya, I was hoping to get a few extra pages of Patreon stuff done before the December crunch started... but you just need to take one look at the AWA comics to see how that went.
But on to the point at hand: yet another reason I'm so glad to be...
2018-12-12 03:30:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Well now, this a challenging one: what kind of playlist would Avatar have? As a person who’s supposed to posses the entirety of all recorded human knowledge, wouldn’t she be sick of every song ever by now? But seriously, what DOES a person like Avatar listen to? Really complicated and disorienting math rock? Seven or eight c...
2018-11-19 14:56:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh, Japan, you and your wacky xenophobic racism.
I mean, dude on the boat here isn't even the worst case of "ways you really shouldn't be drawing black people" in the first episode, Yuu's trip through New York has several even more cringe-worthy examples. It's just that he's literally one of the first things we see in th...
2018-11-08 11:50:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Last time I made a big, huge deal about how innocent and naive Trigger is, and how he’d listen to bright, happy music as a reflection of that. Well, now we’re talking about Layla. Layla is many things, but “innocent and naïve” are not among them. Smart, sarcastic, clever, ruthless, and slightly terrifying, maybe, but no...
2018-11-02 08:20:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, so I'd PLANNED to not start up the next set of anime comics until after the last of this year's convention comics were finished, on the assumption that dividing my attention would drag that update out longer than it ought to take. Well, guess what? It's dragged out anyway, to the point that I really NEED to tak...
2018-10-25 03:38:28 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m glad I didn’t have the idea to make character playlists until after I’d decided Trigger would crush on Skye and go all flower child. I can’t even imagine what I would have had him listen to when he was just a kid who smiled a lot and liked to break things. A bunch of technical audiobooks, maybe? As I s...
2018-10-19 00:02:26 +0000 UTC View Post
(First off, some housekeeping: since posting the intro, I’ve been clued in on a VERY helpful site that checks the geo-restriction status of videos, so I’ve been able to start going through and swapping out stuff that’s blocked in half the world with stuff that isn’t. That’s turned out to be a lot, actually. See, wh...
2018-10-11 03:11:54 +0000 UTC View Post
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I’m a big ol’ dorky nerd. This is well established. But while Far Out There contains numerous demonstrations of my geeky interest in science fiction and anime, my ravenou...
2018-10-04 15:16:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Poor Yoink. Since I generally try to avoid directly referencing other people's jokes these days, she tends to get the shaft way more than the other Mascots. This was a HECK of a lot of fun to draw, though. In fact, I may need to do a full color version of this in the near future.
Well, that's all the O...
2018-09-30 01:05:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Because, you know, coming back a week later really isn't an option.
And I exaggerate SLIGHTLY. I did take a ton of background pictures over the weekend... I just suddenly remembered a ton more I needed ...
2018-09-30 00:57:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Insert reference to previous examples of how hard it's always been to find people at Otakon.
First - <...
2018-09-30 00:48:27 +0000 UTC View Post
For those who don't know, Otakon 2018 was sort of DBZ-con. They were hyping the ever-loving CRAP out of the new movie, and a part of that publicity blitz was a big ol' exhibit in the Dealer's Room full of Dragon Ball memorabilia. Or, more to the point, there was a few elaborate ads for DBZ figurines surrounded by MAS...
2018-09-30 00:40:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I mean, it's not like I didn't do ANY con stuff this Otakon, there was still Awesomely Bad, but besides that, 2018 was sort of a pallet cleanser Otakon. And boy, did it work wonders. This seriously was the first Otakon is years where I was genuinely excited at the prospect of coming back next year, and not just looki...
2018-09-30 00:28:37 +0000 UTC View Post
