submitted by dave: (0256 15.11.02)
  I discovered at some point when I was drawing today's comic that the characters actually had the potential to be drawn from multiple angles.  I got sick of them looking like they were poorly drawn imitations of Real Life Comic characters.  They were sort of stagnant and I got irritated and somewhere about halfway through here I granted them the ability to move their heads on their necks.  I like the effect.

Ben Banks
  A shout out to Ben Banks who pointed out to me that I was missing a key component of comic typography: randomly bolded words.

Vice City
  I am up to my eyeballs in games right now, but the one that spends the most time in my system is GTA: Vice City.  I almost felt bad buying it, since I'm not done with Devil May Cry or Turok: Evolution ('course, I don't intend to finish playing Turok, since Turok is the single least enjoyable excuse for a game I've had the displeasure of spending my own money on), and I bought it concurrent to my playing of Red Faction 2.

  Vice City is more of the same from GTA3, but that's not a problem from my perspective.  Whenever I finished playing all the missions on GTA3, I went on forums and did missions that other fans had made up.  I couldn't get enough of that game.  It's not that I was infatuated with it (like Marathon), it's just that GTA3 is fun to play.  And so is Vice City.

  Actually, the "least fun to play" new component of this GTA's gameplay is probably the motorcycles.  Taking damage when I am thrown from one for whatever reason (ie: a car bumps me, I bump a car, a skid into a wall), is not my idea of fun.  Nevertheless, it is so friggin' nifty that you can even steal a motorcycle (or vespa, or dirtbike, or chopper), and it is done well.  I especially like how when you try to jack a bike from the front, Tommy does the flying kick, knocking the goon off the bike and placing himself in the seat all in one motion.  So I don't really know what I'm complaining about.

J5 - Power in Numbers
  I picked up the new Jurassic 5 album at my local record shop today, and played it whilst the comic was being drawn.  Normally, it takes me a few hours to get all this stuff together, so when the CD ran shorter than 60 minutes, I was a little miffed.  I just let it repeat through again, though.  That's how sweet this album is.  Thin Line is an especially well-crafted track about friends becoming more-than-friends that I would recommend.  I got this disc for 13 bux, and it was worth every penny and more.

  You are all beautiful for reading this comic and telling your friends about it.

submitted by bowen (0328 15.12.02)
Red Faction 2
  Read Jason Cassidy's review of the newest shooter in my system.  If you choose to email him, bear in mind that he is generally misanthropic and specifically dislikes people.

submitted by dave (1827 15.11.02)
Editors
  I corrected a spelling mistake.  Thanks for the heads-up, MB and Jason and Ben and Jen!

  Letitia points out that the word balloons get a little jumbled.  This is my fault: I haven't the foggiest idea of the conventions of comic typography, since it's the sort of thing you don't seem to notice unless it's wrong.  If anyone knows where I can get some pointers in this or other related areas, give a holler.  Your feedback is muy importante to me