Bowen pointed out to me today that getting me to do ANYdamnTHING is like pulling teeth.  Evidentiary of his point is how the comic is never updated before 7AM the day it's due.  Well, it takes a lot of "impending deadline doom" to motivate me.  Is that so wrong?

  I've done a lot of talk about how I intend to spend the coming week playing GTA Vice City and otherwise committing myself to a crap-ton of not a GD thing as we in the industry call it (what industry? I dunno....).  This is not entirely true, as intend to do a whole story-arc to fill the space in which I will be at home, far from the reach of a scanner, etc.  It's a little different than the brand of humor you might expect to see here, but it's still gonna be me and Bowen, and it'll still be motivated mainly by making you laugh, and by giving us a chance to rant.  Watch this space.

Love you all -- HalKilla

submitted by dave: (1336 18.12.02)
  My computer hates the idea of me doing the comic.  Perhaps it wasn't a good idea to work in the newest photoshop in a super-high resolution on a machine with a less-than-usual amount of RAM.  I'm gonna drop a couple of nukes on this machine and try to have something up for you all soon.

submitted by bowen: (0355 18.12.02)
  I have a big problem with Christmas specials on TV, especially the new ones. It seems like everytime I turn on the tube between Thanksgiving and New Years, all I see is "The Christmas That Almost Wasn't But Then Was Again Because Mortimer the Talking Christmas Rat Saved the Snow Queen From The Abonimable Snowman." What do talking animals have to do with Christmas anyways? Did they find Bessie the Cow wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger, because if so, I must have missed that Sunday School Class. At least our parents had the benefits of intelligent Christmas specials like 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' or 'Rudolph' which has to be applauded merely for the fact it featured the first human/elf claymation homosexual relationship (you can't tell me there wasn't something going on between Yukon Jack and that dentist elf kid.) If the cartoons weren't bad enough, the movies are even worse. If I see one more TV movie where the mysterious stranger saves that saved the town turns out to be an angel, or a grumpy old guy experiences the true meaning of Christmas because some snot nosed neighbor kid brought him some cookies, I'm just gonna snap. To say Christmas is commercial is blase, but I'm going to go so far as to say it's stupid as well. All the media's portrayal of Christmas has taught me is that sometimes the Holy Savior apparently needs to be milked.

Epininions:
These epinions are available for your perusal.  Be forewarned, Bowen hates everything.
Sly Cooper
Rygar:  This one's especially harsh...
Ratchet & Clank
All Bowen's E-pinions... check out the "They" review.
If you do anything like this, send me the link and I'll throw it up here. We want to see what you hate.

submitted by dave: (1621 19.12.02)
  Just a couple of thoughts here.  One is, at a certain point, my brain shut down to the degree that I was forced to look up the word "square" more than once, just to be sure of the spelling.
  The second is, AWRy pointed out that the logo at the top of the page here is kinda crappy.  I thought so too, but I can't think of what might look better there.  If you have an idea, send it along.

Job Hunting
  Ben appeared in the comic with a "Hire Me" nametag last week.  He was given a job within a couple of days.  Magic, my friends. Magic.  Congratulations, Ben.