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Copyright Jack-assery!

Okay, here's the story. Back in middle school, I had this friend. We'll call him "Bug" cause I know he hates that nickname and for good reason (he brought it upon himself.) He was one of those great kinda friends who would run and kick you for no reason and when you asked why he'd say "Just to see what you'd do." I think he had some kind of emotional disconnect from the entire human race and experiments like this were the best way he could think of to interact with people. He would only do this to his friends which were very few, due to his tendency to kick his friends. It's a savage cycle.

Anyway, Bug came up with great story ideas, but none of them were ever fully realized. The scenarios and action were great, but that same emotional disconnect showed through in his writing. Character interactions were mostly either collisions or evasions. They would either fight (or torture each other or have sex depending on the situation) or interact just enough to avoid emotional entanglement with each other. They were all like cold, emotionless, and, occasionally, horny androids. oh, and did I mention his hang-up on torture? Practically everthing he wrote involved someone getting raped or strapped to a table and anally electrocuted. Even his X-men and Pokemon fanfics. The following was an actual line from one of his scripts:

"Let's see what 800 volts will do---right up your ass!"

I SHIT YOU NOT! Any time you critcized his work either you were wrong or he would throw it away and sink into a depression. He didn't believe revisions unless they were his idea.

Anywho, to the point of this blog. Above are character designs I did for Bug in high school. And I did them over and over until he was happy, because he completely lack the ability to compromise. And I didn't get paid. About a year ago, as we were about to launch Destiny Helix Jake, myself, and "Bug" were working on a story together on a Radicals story which would have featured characters created by all three of us and we would all have a hand in writing it. At the last minute, he backs out, despite my having his permission recorded in IMs to use his character. This was to be the first issue and set us back months to re-write parts of the first year. Parts of it were already drawn in fact. I could have gone ahead and used his character, seeing as how I not only have his permission in writing, but he has also failed to even bother to copyright or publish anything using said character. But, I'm not going to for 2 reasons: 1.) Using his character may someday end up benefitting him in some way, and I don't want to do that. 2.) I'm not enough of a jackass to steal someone's character even if he WILL never bother to publish it himself.

I am however enough of a jackass to copyright these designs I DREW and was NEVER PAID FOR just so he can't. These guys are my visual creation will play a role soon in the Destiny Helix Universe. They will of course have far different personalities and backgrounds than he had intended for them because his sucked. I think they were all omnipotent in his version.

If you are wondering about the current status of "Bug", he has kicked (either physically or emotionally) most of his friends too often. He continues to write stories about Japanese-style giant robots and monsters and show them only to the select few he can trust to not criticize him and can stand to put up with him. He is also a binge drinker.

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Gilgamesh and Enkidu

I hate Todd MacFarlane, but I love the action figure sculpts his people crank out.

Here you see Mr. Eko and John Locke from Lost together. If I didn't remember taking the picture, I'd have to question if it was a photo of the figures or the real Terry O'Quinn and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. At last, the two warrior survivors of 815 are together in my collection.

I was both saddened and angry at Mr. Eko's sudden death and departure from the show, whith his storyline seemingly unresolved. Not that death is a certain end to a Lost character. Ethan Rom has appeared more since he died than before. But it seems the Locke/Eko-Gilgamesh/Enkidu path the characters seemed to be following got discarded before it was even very clear.

Oh, well still supergreat sculpts! Only disappointment is that Eko does not have the story about the boy and the dog as one of his phrases.

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Meh.

Gah!!! I have been buried under a tsunami of work! That's why not much bloggy lately. Not to mention, I've been working on the comics so much, that nothing has really happened worth blogging about. The first Tuttles collection is about 70% done. Man, ISBN's are real racket. I'm a few weeks ahead on the Radicals linework, which is good because, I'll need a couple of weeks to do pre-production on issue 2 of the Radicals. All this work though may mean big things for the site soon, though.

I've gotten a unwanted promotion (sorta) at my "real" job. It basically entails a lot more work and responsibility with no additional pay.

My few precious moments of free-time for the last month have been spent reading the archives of Shortpacked! and It's Walky Can't wait for my Shortpacked! collection to arrive in the mail!

Also, the New Heroclix set Justice League is out and it's pretty awesome! Finally, a Zauriel! All I want now is an Eradicator and I can die happy.

I think that's the most exclamation points I've ever used.

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Nemu-Nemu is good, clean fun for everyone!

I came across this webcomic a few weeks ago and it is the CUTEST THING EVER!!!

Nemu*Nemu

I won't go too indepth with a description because you need to go read it from the beginning, anyway! But basically, two plush puppies, Nemu and Anpan are brought to life by two little girls named Kana and Anise apparently using a magic lamp. Much comedy and cuteness follows! If you like Hamtaro, you will love Nemu-Nemu! I started reading the archives and I couldn't go to bed until I finished. It is sweet and heartwarming. This is the first webcomic I actually felt compelled to donate to, and so I did! And so should you! This I command!

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