Mostly because of the racial slurs that aren't really slurs, just bizarre puns.
Lots to do this week.
The books should be coming soon, but I'll be starting in on the ink commissions sooner than that. If you're one of the twenty-odd people ordered a fancy ink drawing from me during the Pre-Order Project, expect an email confirming your choice in subject matter pretty soon. Also, I'll be asking if I can post your commission in my DevArt gallery, if it turns out especially nice. (Feel free to say no.)
Also, I'll be updating the Project's blog with such fascinating details as Templar's official Pantone color, prepping for two-color printing and how to do it completely wrong, and how glad I am that Baby's First Print Run is behind me. It was irritating and riddled with speedbumps, but the payoff: The next book will take half the time to prep and print, if that. I feel significantly less dumb about the whole process. That Confucius quote really is spot on: I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Oh hey, and another thing: I won a Glyph award! Good for me, huh? I wasn't there to accept it, though, so they have to mail it to me. This is my first meatspace award, so it comes with something I can actually frame, or possibly put on a shelf. I'm not sure yet. But whatever, I'm in the same company as Kyle Baker and Keith Knight. Not bad.
Congratulations on the award, Spike! :D
Congratulations!!
How do I love Sunny? Let me count the ways...
"Meatspace." Heh-heh-heh.
Way to go sister!
Strike a blow!
Congratulations! And is it just me, or is that a Heart of Darkness reference? If it isn't, then their whole relationship is just one waiting to happen.
Sunny's dialog had me in tears. Good tears. Laughing type, y'know.. tears.
... keep in mind I had been thinking, for the last week or so, that they'd been overheard accidentally by Red Eric himself, who was about to come up there and bust heads. So I come in expecting to see them try to sneak out as quicky as they can, but no, Sunny's screaming right at the guy. Words fail me. I love your comic.
.... in other news, many people have used the nickname Red Eric on me, in college and before. In college it evolved to "The Mad Russian" because I often took a fake accent and talked happily about throwing people into the Gulag.
It was kind of a schtick, y'see.
Also.. there is a rumor, partly based in truth, that I chased someone down my dorm's hall in college with a hammer, filled with psychotic rage, when he woke me up using a suction cup gun. I am told that rumor has become a legend, and is still told in that dorm this day, three years after I graduated, and six years after the event, whatever part of it was true (I'm not telling).
So. If I didn't know better, I'd think we went to the same college. But I know we didn't. And I bet I'm much more charming than your Red Eric ;) Less brain damaged too!
... though, one of my friends from college was from Chicago.. hmm..
Congratulations! It's too bad you couldn't have been there (try to go next year, it's an awesome convention) but I have a fun photo of Jerry Craft opening your award envelope with a dagger (and more photos of the award ceremony in general so you can see what the certificates look like):
http://flickr.com/photos/mikhaela/sets/72157600242423111/
http://flickr.com/photos/mikhaela/508951811/in/set-72157600242423111/
Congratulations!
Also, "dark continent." snickersnortgiggle
You named Sunny after his disposition, right?
Congratulations!
Sunny's dialogue is beautiful! It's got such a rhythm to it!
"Fat slandering fuck..."
It's like poetry! Sunny's my new favourite bit-character.
Hey Spike.
Yeah, I hosted the awards, and I was happy when you won! I shouted you out to the crowd, and said a few kind words on your behalf. You make me proud!
Jamar
Congratulations again on the award! Today the Glyph, tomorrow the Eisner! Hey, y'never know :p
Is it a good or a bad thing that it took me a second viewing to get the "dark continent" joke?
HOLY SHIT!!! Sunny & Mo are in Borndown!
Is it just me or is Moze based on Woz?
Man, I hate this skinny popup comment box that you can't resize so when someone posts a long URL or something you gotta start scrolling sideways. Just hadda get that off my chest.
Congrats on the award, Spike!
I was thinkin' Sunny was part Vizzini:
"And don't forget this - never forget this! - when I found you, you were so slobbering drunk you couldn't BUY BRANDY!
And YOOOUUU! Friendless. Brainless. Helpless. Hopeless! Do you want me to send you back to where you were - unemployyyed, in Greeeenlaaannnd?"
From memory. Heh.
Anyway, Borndown! I was wondering how those guys fit in! And, uh...did you mean untermensch, or is Sunny just being sarcastic again? Actually, that seems more likely, so scratch that question. Poor Gene. He's not retarded, you know.
I had to read panel 3 twice before it sunk in that Sunny was actually complimenting Gene and Moze. That is excellent.
I love writing too :))))))