On Comic Books

I feel proud of my geekhood when I scan down IGN's article Building the Ultimate Bookshelf, which is basically a really big list of must-read comics and graphic novels, and find that I know of most of the selections, and have read an average of at least one per page (at only 4 or 5 a page, this is pretty cool). In case anyone was still wondering, it turns out I am, indeed, an enormous dork. Now I just have to read all the comics on the list that sound really cool that I haven't gotten around to yet.

This is the blurb for Nevermen, which I'd never heard of:

Monkey butlers. This book has monkey butlers. Were that not enough, the two Nevermen trades combine sophisticated noir and sci-fi adventure with a dash of the esoteric. When Midnight City is threatened, the Nevermen assemble to battle the League of Crows. This is truly one of the most off-the-wall books you'll read. But it's grounded by phenomenal art and stellar writing. Also, it has monkey butlers.

I am totally enticed. Also, I find that I know a pleasurable mix of mainstream superhero comics, as well as the darker, more hipsters-read-me-to-show-off kinds of books. Soon, when I have read enough of both worlds, I will be able to outgeek any fan boy and smack hipsters upside their well-coiffed heads for only reading comics that make them sound deep.

Now in glorious Stereo-scopic Colorization!

So I woke up around 8:30 today (a relic of my new work schedule) and lay in bed for a bit before getting up to work on /dev/random stuff. I was intending to just start drawing the next comic, but I thought I'd play around with today's post (which was already cleaned up and ready to go) to see if I could seperate the lines from the background, for future reference. Well, I ended up being able to figure it out, and added some test color just to see what it would look like. Well, long story short, I continued with the color, and three hours later I had a fully inked and colored comic ready to be shown. Gorgeous!

That's pretty much all I got currently. Now to work on Friday's post! (Oh lord, how I wish this was my full-time job).

Holy Popes! It's another /dev/random update!

More updates here. This one was inked and colored exclusively in Photoshop on a sexy, sexy Wacom tablet. It's been a productive day at work.



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/dev/random goodies!

Here's two new, full-color versions of the character sketches. You can see them in their new home at devrandom.mogunate.org. More goodies later today!

Attention!

My webcomic, /dev/random, has moved to a new home, and a new web address! So set your phasers (bookmarks) to http://devrandom.mogunate.org and blast up some fun (geek humor)!

I cannot believe I used that metaphor.