Wonderful timing

Today was jersey day and school, and since I don't own a jersey I got a lot of glares, mainly from one person whose name starts with a J and ends with oel Tallerico. He is the quintessential high school sports fanatic, to the point of dementia.

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Sorry it's so faint. I think my scanner really sucks, I may have to hire a new one. I should start looking on monster.ca. Great place to find up and coming scanners.

Anyways.

I have to memorize some lines for my audition tomorrow and fight a Jhen Moran, so I must be off.

Be brave, be strong.

That Could be a Pokemon

As I said earlier, all of the new pokemon have been forced upon us, despite Nintendo's best effort to stop people from sharing information on a game that has already been released. It seems like the people in charge of thinking up new pokemon were running out of ideas, at least, until one of them went on a faithful walk.

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As you can see, I have made use of box people, in order to clearly distinguish my art from the far superior chainsawsuit. I was planning on getting a tablet today, but due to me thinking that there was an apple store where there clearly wasn't, I was disappointed. No worries though. I shall get it in the next week or so *crosses fingers.*

Okay now for something serious.

...

I got nothing. 

I am going to start blogging a bit more often, going for a "whenever I feel like it" style schedule to compliment my already existing M/W/F one. 

Now I'm off to- OH CRAP I HAVE TO LEARN SPANISH CATCH UP ON RELIGION AUDITION FOR A PLAY DO MY EXTENDED ESSAY AND WRITE THREE ARTICLES FOR THE SCHOOL PAPER. 

I may be busy these next few months.

Sick as a slug (a sick slug)

I've been pretty sick the past week, and believe me it has not been fun. Have you ever tried running a 4k race while sick? You shouldn't, it leads only to despair.

Which in turn leads to the dark side.

So for halloween this year I'm going to a rockin' party and I am thinking of dressing up as Gandalf. Originally I was just going to buy a costume but since it costs $80 and looks like crap I've decided to make one. So in the next couple of weeks I will need to buy/find:

• A grey bath robe
• A grey blanket
• A pair of grey gloves
• A fake beard
• A hat, which will probably have to be the officially licensed Gandalf hat

So yeah that isn't too bad. It should be a bit cheaper and most likely look infinitely better. On a side note, my birthday is on October 31st, and the party is on the 30th, so as soon as it turns midnight I will declare myself king of the party and ascend to my icy birthday throne.

Basically this.

In other news, our school is doing a performance of Makebeef by Bullion Snackspear, a charming culinary parody of Macbeth. 

Actually no we're doing Macbeth. 

I am auditioning, and although I would be happy with any part, I would very much like to be someone who uses a sword, preferably a claymore. I mean this IS Scotland we're talking about here. 

That's all they use.

I understand that this post has been a little all over the place, please forgive me. I will have a much more coherent (and perhaps serious?) one prepared for tomorrow, along with a fresh comic, picked straight from my brain tree.  

Mmmmmm. Fresh brain fruit. 

Reach for the Stars

I am currently playing Halo: Reach and it is pure fantastic-extract. Everyone should play it or be thrown in space jail (don't space-drop the space-soap in space-jail or you'll be space-raped). The armor abilities are a great addition, but who would use anything other then jetpacks. I mean, come on.

It's a jetpack.

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So I started drawing the rough draft of this but I liked it so much I just decided to clean it up a bit and use it. It's still pretty messy, but redrawing it would've taken forever and I am a busy man. Hopefully when I buy a tablet things will be easier and the comics will be nicer and more plentiful.

Hopefully.

All of my two other friends with blogs have been doing "serious" blog posts recently, which I find pretty dry but I guess I have to be popular so here it goes:

My dream is what many, many people would call a silly one.

To make a career based around webcomics.

See? You probably laughed. And you have a right to. I have never told this dream to anyone for multiple reasons. Among these reasons are my lack of artistic prowess and the difficulty of making it in the webcomics business. I realize that these are both valid issues, but to my credit my art is improving quite a bit, and it will continue to improve as long as I keep working at it. As for the whole "making it in the industry" thing, well, that's completely accurate.

It is after all a dream, and dreams don't often come true, but if I can keep making comics on a regular basis through university and afterwards, I have a not-bad chance of picking up a decent base of followers and a steady stream of income through advertisements and prints. This will in no way be my sole source of income, but even being mildly successful in this field would be fine with me. It will just be a thing I do on the side while I'm out fighting pirates on the back of mighty eagles with a great sword forged from the bones-

DANGIT. 

Well look at that. I almost did two whole paragraphs about something serious. New record?!?

Now I have to get back to thinking of a product for my Junior Achievement group. I still think we should sell bags of these, but apparently selling terrifying hairless rodents to office workers is a bad idea. Their loss.

Voice Communication Activated

I got my friend a headset for his birthday, so now hilarious banter during Starcraft and TF2 is much more convenient. Also, yesterday I realized that immortals are my favorite unit, and combining them with stalkers makes for a wonderful ground force. I mean, just look at them. Look at what they do.

Our cannons shall sing.

In other news, I just finished a political cartoon for social class.

And here it is.

I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out. I like the professor. 

In other other news:

• I think I shall go as Gandalf for Halloween this year, but I will make my own costume. I will not pay $80 for a piece of crap store-bought one.
• I want this. I want it so much.
• All of the new pokemon have been revealed. Mostly hit and miss, my favorite is the bug that is also a knight. 
• I recited the Black Gate speech at club-day. Read about it heeeerererereeee

+2 Strength

I have been working out a lot.

Like a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot.

It is not uncommon for me to run in cross country and lift weights on the same day now, and the results are just starting to show. I'm still horrendously skinny but literally every inch of fat has been replaced by muscle, which is actually terrifying. I have a lot more self-confidence now, which is good, and maybe I'll finally be able to tank Onyxia (WOW REFERENCE LOL).

On a completely different topic, if I had to live in one topographical location for the rest of my life, it would be mountains.

The rocky mountains to be specific.

LOOK AT THEM

I love Canada. I love the cold. I love raw, untamed beauty. PERFECT

Also I am currently more busy then I have have ever been, its eight at night right now and I still have to draw a comic, write stuff for social, and work out. WHAT HAVE I DONE

POSTERS EVERYWHERE

I am the Master of Propaganda of my school's executive committee so I had to do some posters for club day. LOOK AT THEM

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JOLLY GOOD

Anyways, tomorrow I shall be talking to a rowdy bunch of grade tens, telling them what high school is like and not to huff paint and all of that. Hopefully I don't accidentally utter a dark incantation that drives them all mad.

I've done it before.

AND I SHALL DO IT AGAIN (Metal starts playing)

Time for bed, I have to wake up at 5:30 tomorrow so I can run and be miserable.