Digital Overload Report

Well that was fun! I’m not a gamer nut myself –though friends and family might disagree. But then again, being older than twenty-five their sense of the true scales of gamer fanaticism are rather skewed and outdated. If I said “LAN”, I don’t think most of them would know what I was talking about.

So anyway, 400+ kids in a giant dark room, basking in the glow of their PC and TV monitors, fragging the ever-lovin’ bajeezas out of each other. It was a good time. And by the way, Guitar Hero is awesome.

Games aside, it was just great to hang out with Brian again. He’s a good egg, and we had lots of laughs. Tim Buckley was a fantastic host and meeting fellow art geek Zack Finfrock. Digital Overload was Tim’s baby and I think if you give his webcomic a gander you’ll enjoy it. If you like Penny Arcade you will. (And if you don’t like PA, you’re a stupidhead.)

I walked out of Digital Overload with my very own Sumo! The Sumo is the greatest thing in the history of forever. I’m gonna toss all my fancy furniture and redo the house in beanbag.

This is Zack and Brian. Brian is a little bipolar. That Sumo was a bitch to get into my car!

Heh.

I want to remind everyone that the Boston Comic Convention is next weekend. I’ll have Atomic Robo sketchbooks and hopefully my new Social Waste Product sketchbooks as well.

I now begin the frenzied task of getting the sixth, and final (sniff) issue of Atomic Robo done. I have to get a page a day done if I’m going to get back on track after the disaster that shall henceforth be called February.

The script looks good so I should be able to pull it off. Issue 5 had a lot of really busy pages –nothing technically difficult, just very dense stuff. Issue Six involves a lot of violent science and smashing shit. It should go a lot quicker.

I’m optomistic that there WILL be a second, third, and forth Atomic Robo mini-series. So much so in fact that I picked up this boss P-40 Warhawk thing the other day. Because, as much as I like the WWII Flying Tigers pages from Robo #2, i thought they could be better. And since issue 1 of the next Robo story takes us back to China in 1941 I thought this would be a great reference model.

“Neeeerrrroooooom! Brakada-brakada-brakada!”

Oh, and for anyone who found The Street Fighter a little too deep, I found this gem: Kung Pow: Enter The Fist. I wasn’t able to get more than five minutes into it, but maybe you’ll have better luck.