Hey Folks,

It’s Monday, time for the blog and I have no idea what to write about this week. So I’ll just wing it and talk about a variety of subjects.

First off, the projects. There are a number of ideas I wanted to deliver this year, like the AoAvFnF crossover and Kerfuffle Shuffle. It’s already April though and neither has advanced as much as I wanted. Each weekend, by the time I finish drawing the Funnies I no longer feel like creating, so I don’t get any work done on anything else.  I have a month’s worth of comics drawn though, so I could choose to NOT draw Funnies on a given weekend, but I feel compelled to draw them. Until I find the proper motivation to get me moving, let’s just say the projects are on standby.

I suppose you could blame LOTRO. I’ve been spending a LOT of time playing these past couple of weeks. This really is the best MMO I’ve played yet. Even better than Age of Conan! There’s all the little touches that they put into the game, like being able to give names to the artisan level equipment you get critical crafting successes on, playing musical instruments and the engaging storylines (well more engaging than most other MMO storylines at any rate). Maybe when I get bored with LOTRO my creative output will increase again.

I finally started reading A Dance With Dragons. I’ve had the book since it came out last summer, but I just haven’t felt like reading it. A coworker is reading it now though and it kinda pushed me to start. I’m reading super slow (only on the bus rides to and from work for now) so I’m not very far in. I still don’t agree with George RR Martin’s decision to split books four and five by geographic location. Especially given that by the end of book five he apparently starts telling the stories of the characters that were featured in book four because he realized he didn’t get them where he needed them to be for the start of book 6. It would have been a lot easier to read everybody’s stories concurrently rather than trying to place what’s happening in book 5 against what happened when in book 4. But it’s his story, so he can do as he likes. If we don’t like it, we can stop reading…which I won’t because I have to find out what happens next.

I’m getting closer to drawing the new Funnies cast member’s introduction. Of course, since I’m a month ahead you’re all still over a month away from seeing it. Still, I’m looking forward to using her in the strip. Her first “story arc” is with Big Oonch. He does love the ladies after all.

Well, I think that’s it for now. I’ll try to think up a more focused subject for next week’s blog. Have a great week everybody!