I was asked to create some images for Nocturnal Academy (a book available through Amazon Kindle and Lulu). (I created the interior images while another artist created the cover).

For two of the images I recorded my progress and then sped them up to fit under 10 minutes (I am not this fast). The last of the three videos is a sequences of images as I worked through the very first image (I didn’t think of recording it at the time). (more…)

The blombos continue their journey away from their village. Where are they headed I wonder? Let’s find out.

So, here is the beginning of a story. Not like before, not just sequential series of boxes with some semblance of continuity and an attempt of a punch-line every week. An actual story that will be able to be read from one page to the next and so forth.

As I’d tweeted about on occasion, I was unhappy with the overall product when I went over the old stories. The short-version is that I realised had I written the story in it’s entirety I wouldn’t have written it like I did.

So here is the first page of my “Canon” Fodder (or something like the Director’s Cut), where I’ll pick and unravel an unseen story sprinkled with moments where I rewrite some facets of Blombo Saga thus far.

BONUS! See if you can find these in the first panel:

• Scurvy Joe (Eye patch)
• Ninja
• Chef
• Grandma
• Monobrow
• Beanie
• Pigtails
• Lovers
• Monocle\Tophat
• Stargazer
• Cool jacket \ sunglasses
• A bald blombo
• Braids
• Kitten ears
• Baseball Cap
• Skateboard
• Teddybear ears

I have updated some of the dodgy hand-drawn scribbles I made when I was away into digitals.

There is also now a shirt available based on #104…

Today’s (Jan 10th – the Sunday before this post goes live) maximum is 35° Celcius (95° Fahrenheit) which is not the worst so far (Summers are often over 40°C here) but it is too hot and humid to much feel like doing anything… especially after being on a short “holiday” off where it was raining for two thirds of the time.

Now it is time for me to listlessly wave my hand in the direction of this comic for the internet to see. The internet should count itself lucky.

Apparently I’d rather be typing about what I’m going to be doing in this new year rather than actually doing it.

I had been tweeting last year about how I disliked how the Blombo Tales storyline “fits” together when you read them all at once so I’ve been planning on writing that into a short issue so it makes more sense. I’ll be calling this “Canon Fodder” as you’ll discover I’ll be making some changes to the established story.

After that… well I have plans. Secret secret plans.

But I will finish Canon Fodder first.

Now back to the drawing board.

Well it seems we’ve reached 2010. We are officially in the future. I am in the middle of compiling the following list (incomplete), so I can tick off each year as it fails to live up to expectation and disappoints me.

Unless Cyberbrains pan out I may have to bequeth this list to my great great great etc children so that they can be disappointed on my behalf when it is time to cross off the last few.

I’ll update it as more Sci-Fi comes to mind. Suggestions welcome.

2010

• You are here.
• MAGI Super Computer System constructed (Neon Genesis Evangelion)

2011

• Skynet is activated (Sarah Connor Chronicles, we’ve already missed the deadline set by the movies)

2015

• Deadline for Hover boards and Flying circuits (Back to the Future)
• Deadline for EVA robots (Neon Genesis Evangelion)

2018

• Los Angeles Skynet node destroyed by the Resistance (Terminator: Salvation)

2019

• Deadline for Human and animal Replicants (Blade Runner)
• Neo-Tokyo, Psychic Superpowers (Akira)

2026

• The Ark, a portal to Mars, is discovered (Doom – Film)

2029

• Deadline for Cyberbrains, Cyborgs, Robotic augmentation, Fuchikoma, Tachikoma, Personal Invisibility (Ghost in the Shell)

2063

• Warp Drive (Star Trek: First Contact)
• Proof of the existence of the USS Enterprise as it arrives from 2373 (Star Trek: First Contact)
• Vulcan contact (Star Trek: First Contact)

2097

• Deadline for Human pilots inserted into large Human Assisted Robots (HAR) to fight each other in public stadiums. (One Must Fall 2097)

2100

• The first Matrix is created and fails (The Matrix)

2101

• The second Matrix is created (The Matrix)

2119

• Deadline for Starfleet to be in full operating capacity (Star Trek)

2122

• Alien Xenomorph eggs discovered (Alien)

3978

• Talking Apes (Planet of the Apes)