This week on "You can fancy it up, but it's still shitty television"...

Watching modern TV dramas, like Deadwood, Boardwalk Empire, Trueblood, Mad Men, or any number of others, reminds of something Tex Avery once said: "Give me an opening and a closing and thirty gags and I'll make you a cartoon". These new shows seem to follow a similar formula. Opening, they set up a vague motif, then follow with a series of expository fluff, and finally close with a cliffhanger. Every episode as structurally satisfying as an earth worm: A beginning, a series of equally portioned middle parts, and an end. straightforward. Whole seasons can open and close with nothing more dramatic happening than a few "I can't believe he/she did/said that!". What do I want instead? Well I'm not sure. The alternative seems to be the tried and true crisis of the week with rising action and final conclusion. At least it has some dramatic meat, and is not all tease, but they can definitely be just as repetitively meted out.

well, I'm just going to leave you with that broad handful of statements and cop out with a "I had an idea, but I'm coming down sick, and it's 1am"

contradict me, and maybe we can find out together if my thought holds water.

Where The Asteroids Roam...

Recently I put myself up to drawing daily mini comics. I've been going strong for about a week now. This one I drew at work in pencil, at first, but then decided that a vector medium would better suit the subject matter.

Most of the mini comics so far, which I hope to upload at some point, have been gradually spiraling toward a funny but dark place, the lightest of which revolve around characters such as The Blue-Mouse, who fights crime by depressing his foes half to death with his moping stories of money woes, hospitalized pets, and dead or dying relatives.

Enjoy!

Tinkering

The color job on this drawing never looked good to me. It still feels kind of weak, but I think it works better than it did. I also finally added the gag I'd had in mind.

"leave well enough alone" is not in my vocabulary, apparently. But neither is "finish what you started".

if you had a HaHa, a Heh-Heh, over even a small eh-heh, post it in the comments! I don't just do this for my own amusement (only mostly), and I'd like to know about your reactions.