Megacon

summery of Megacon
Day 1:
i get there early and find the line for preregistered tickets. i then have to sit around until 10:30 when they let everyone in and then 11 when they let people into the dealers room. I'm near the front of both these lines. at 1:30 i head over to the Crime noir panel in room 222A. I will spend a good amount of time in that room over the course of the weekend. I'm one of the people who asked questions and at the end i got 3 signed comics! after that i head back to the dealers room and look around some more. after getting some food i head over to the comic writers on the art of writing for comics panel again in room 222A. where i get my New Frontier dvd signed by Darwin Cooke!!!!!! after that i head over to the Fallout Larp.

End Day one.

Day 2:
i get up early and sneak into room 222a for the Green lantern panel.(room 222a) (outside the line for the dealers room is so huge it's sucking the air out of the hall) the panel is amazing and everyone has a wonderful time. after that i get some food and walk around until the Spotlight on DC panel. ( lots of people will be doing things they can't talk about, but it sounds amazing.) after that i stick around until the Art if the cover (222a) panel which was informitive but not as interesting as the other panels.

end day 2

Day 3:
I get to the con in time for the future of comics and new media panel ( guess which room) which i thought was fascinating. I then hang out in the dealers room and get a few more autographs and some food. around 1:15 a surprise announcement cancels the short film festival (which i wasn't going to go to) and replaces it with a Batman Beyond Live action trailer. i race over there as fast as i can. ( not in room 222a for once)the guy who did the joker was amazing. at 2:50 i could be found once more in room 222a for my last panel of the con the do's and don't of comics.

refrence stuff

plot one

Overall plots

Arsonist:
the first overall plot is that of the arsonist. Adam and Ben are the only members of the YHA when he starts becoming well known. During Ben's first solo he fights a fire started by the arsonist. Then Criss joins them and she is the first to see him. That's when she learns how she can be helpful to the group. During this time the police (and Dylan) are trying to figure out how to deal with the YHA. Who are they? They are young and don't have licenses but are being helpful and the public knows about them and most people like them. Dylan is trying to uncover who they are and what their purpose is and is shown as someone in opposition to the YHA. After the YHA capture the arsonist and turn him over to the police they limp back to the McNamara building. Dylan follows them. Miss M. has been monitoring the police and realizes what she's been up to. Dylan sneaks into the building only to discover that She is expected. Miss M. speaks to her and they blackmail each other until Dylan agrees to join the YHA. There is a short arc (three volumes?) showing the others response to her joining the team and the first fight they are all involved in. At the end Dylan speaks to the police and works out a deal with them.

Yay DC

a while back i made a big fuss about DC not keeping up with Marvel
i have been proven wrong.
ever since then i have been finding tons of animated movies that have come out since 2000 add to that the green lantern movie, a third batman movie and a superman reboot (since lets face it no one liked the old superman movies) on the way plus a possible flash movie to be confirmed. then there's a new animated series Young Justice. the new Blue beetle series and a green lantern series (rumored) to start after the movie comes out.



thank you DC for restoring my faith in you.

Batman comics

i went out today and bought a bunch of comics.
top of my list was The Return of Bruce Wayne #4 and #2 both of which i was able to snag so good times. i didn't manage to get batman beyond #2 but i'll find it...
the return of Bruce Wayne is good, but i wish it was a bit longer or something. the whole thing seems to be talking about the world ending if he makes it back to the present. WE ALL WANT HIM TO GET BACK TO THE PRESENT. or at least i do. not to mention that nothing can stop him. he is batman after all. he'll either remember or superman will catch up to him and tell him the whole story but if they try to stop him physically he'll either go into another time slip or just be bad ass enough to defeat them.
there has to be a twist.
i will be very disappointed if there isn't a twist.

Blambot

http://blambot.com/fonts_design.shtml
great place for fonts

DC. vs. Marvel

it had to come up some time.
i am so a DC girl. but you know what? DC has disappointed me. i went to their website and you know what i found? a very well planed, well organized, white page. you'd think with so many amazing artists out there they could manage to come up with something interesting for the website. animations, cover shots of the newest comics (ok they might have those) bios for all the heroes. there are quite a few you know and many are not well known.
so then i think well maybe they don't need a fancy website they are very well known maybe they are using other forms of advertising. so what do i do? i look to their biggest competitor Marvel. you know what Marvel has? a site full of color with heroes lining the walls, slide-shows and movie-clips.
and now that i think about it Marvel has pulled way ahead in the movie scene as well.
first there was X-men then Blade II, Spiderman, daredevil, X2, hulk, the punisher, spiderman 2, blade: trinity, elektra, Man-thing, fantastic four, X-men: the last stand, ghost rider, spider-man 3, Fantastic Four: rise of the silver surfer, Iron Man, the incredible hulk, Punisher: War Zone, X-men origins: wolverine and Iron man 2
count them: 21 movies just since 2000.
DC movies: the league of extraordinary Gentlemen, Catwoman, Batman Begins, V for Vendetta, Superman Returns, the Dark Knight, the Spirit, Watchmen, and Jonah Hex to come out later this year.
the number: 9
plus Kick-ass to come out later this year again by Marvel so the number is really 22 to 9.
i mean come on DC you're letting Marvel kick your ass.
on the good side the overarching plot for the Marvel comics got terrible reviews (honestlly who turns Captain America into someone who hates America?!) so DC is still ahead on that front at least, well, sort of. ( no one kills off batman and the only saving grace there was that they are bringing him back (along with the rest of the heroes who got killed off needlessly ) )
anyway, i had a point here. in the website battle DC was crushed.

flash buttons

a while ago i spoke of a comic called the city of reality, it had buttons. now i know hoe to make buttons in flash. i am happy. now i just need to figure out what to do with it.

chess

this should have been an average page for the comic but then i started drawing that chess set. it is amazing no matter how annoyingly long it took to draw and then color and then shade. it totally rocks, and i love how it came out and so it gets a special mention.

Drifters

I've been working on my own GN on the side. so far I've been calling it Jumper, but i think i might change it to drifters, the problem with the title is that for the first chapter i want it to seem like the characters are normal and something is just slightly off. So i don't want to give anything away with the title.
the overall plot is that this woman Ivy appears on this planet that is referred to as the garden. she can jump between dementions and when she leaves Drake the other MC follows her to a new world. she teaches him to jump while trying to stay away from the Planeswalker organization.
the first chapter consists of four parts and it's basically just Ivy, Drake and rakes friend Hige running around. Drake and Hige don't know that Ivy is from a different planet and nether does the reader so things seen a bit strange around her.

inspiration

recently I've been reading A Drifting Life by Yoshiro Tatsumi it's his memoir and it's full of facts about Japan when he was growing up. He's called the father of Japanese alternative comics, and i can kind of see it where i am in the book right now.

City of reality

today i was going through my comic list and rediscovered the City of Reality http://cityofreality.com/
it's an amazing comic. they do some wonderful things with flash that i really need to figure out how to do, at least i think it's flash they use.

the idea behind the comic is basically summed up with the first page and yet the author manages to keep the reader (me) hooked with interesting characters, a fascinating world and a unique look at the way things could be.

I recommend it to everyone.

Rant

Ok i need to rant for a bit so go ahead and ignore me.
it's the comic, in the beginning it was really fun because i was working on a webcomic with my friend and i was chalenging myself and all that jazz. but now it's getting to be a chore. I'm two years in and I'm not getting any help anymore and Kira is turning everything around story wise. She askes for more heads up and she wants me to start getting a buffer but she's not putting in any work. Each of her scripts is maybe half a page, she'll write a handful of them pass them over to me then ignore the comic for the next month or whenever i come asking for more scripts. then she complains about how it's not like she wanted when i post the pages. I put hours into these pages. sure I'm no longer spending 6 hours on a single page but 3 hours a page is nothing to scoff at especially when it's twice a week like clockwork for the past 2 years give or take. the closet was originally a joke it was never a story idea that i wanted to follow for this long. I keep thinking that this is going to end and i'd rather it be sooner then later.

Self portrate

I actually did this a while ago, i needed a new image of me for the author page of the comic so i took a photo and turned it into this.

i have been doing things i swear.

i haven't been posting here that much mainly because what I've been working on for the most part has been the comic and that get's posted on it's own site. the good news is that that's done now or at least the Halloween arc is i still need to figure out when i'm going to start the next chapter. I've also worked on Flit though i don't have any pictures. it's coming along nicely. though now that it's November and Nano is taking up my time as well i don't know how things will go.

responsibilitys

the thing about collaborations is that you have no control beyond your own part in the project. this can get stressful when people agree to do more then they can actually get done.

some scans for Halloween

some scans for the Halloween arc.

The comic Plan

Ok for the comic class i'm going to be working on a collaborative project with two of my friends.
the finished project will be a ten to twelve page comic centered around Halloween. I will be designing the characters as well as doing the formatting and line work. my two friends will be scripting and coloring the arc.

Characters:
the main character is a young girl, she is seen in the beginning in a frilly dress but most of the time she is in an overlarge sweatshirt, rubber boots and a bird mask. she has long wavy hair and curls framing her face.

the next character is a little boy with black hair. his costume is a crocodile suit that is reminiscent of Dino pajamas. the hood hangs down his back and the tail drags behind him on the ground.

our antagonist is a tall man is a smiling mask. his body is overly long. he has long matted black hair and is wearing tails. he is smiler to Jack Scelington (sp?)

the other characters are all children dressed in various costumes, A knight, a flower, an angel, a witch, a ghost, and others. the personalities of these children are contradictory to their costumes. the angel is mean the which is nice ect.

a page for my comic. Actually this is a page for a filler arc. see i only draw the comic, i don't write it. so occasionally the writer will fall behind, and I'll take up the slack by putting in one of my filler pages. this is one of those. still i was looking at it and it's just, well. It's so much better then my art in the beginning. I started drawing the comic just about a year ago now and looking back i can see how much I've improved even though it doesn't seem like I've done anything different. some of my first pages didn't even have shadows, and now look at them.

One of the comics I read is done with figures. This is a page they did describing the process, or one of them. the comic is called the Dreamland Chronicles and can be found at. http://www.thedreamlandchronicles.com