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Happy Halloween!
I’ve got a special treat today, a one-off, full color, Konamis caper. It’s never a dull moment when the ghosts and ghouls are out to play. Steve makes a faux pas by coming as a familiar Super Villian.
I was just going through all the spam in our comments, and amongst all the standard comments entirely in russian and “soma soma soma soma soma soma” stuff, one comment stood out from the rest. “Where can I fish round here,” the author of this comment asks. Nothing more, not even one of the generic ‘it sounds like I’m commenting on this actual blog’ type of sentences. I almost left it, to be honest. Perhaps it wasn’t spam? Could there be a chance that this entrepid young man (or lady!) is actually in desperate need of place to fish? Where is the Here he wishes to fish ’round? But then, of course, my suspiciouns rose anew. Could the fishing he desires be of the PH variety, tricking the naive out of their most private information? I must conclude that this is most likely the case, and this makes me sad.
Well, 24hr comic day is here. Never heard of it? don’t worry it’s exactly like it sounds. Starting at noon the goal is to draw a 24 page comic in 24 hours.
Yoinked from Wiki to help explain some things:
“A 24-hour comic is a 24-page comic book written, drawn, and completed in 24 hours. Scott McCloud originally came up with the challenge for himself and Steve Bissette as a creative exercise. McCloud drew the first 24-hour comic to prove it could be done on August 31, 1990, and Bissette did his on September 5.”
I’ve never done this before so the whole idea sounds very exciting and challenging. Unfortunately I won’t be able to take part in it today, but I may set up some time later on this month and do it unofficially.
Check out these links:
Holy shit, it’s been an entire year since we started this up. It’s hard to believe, but there it is. All in all, I’d have to say I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished so far, and excited about how much we’ll achieve in the future.
We couldn’t do this without the support of our readers (well, we could, I suppose. It just wouldn’t be nearly as fun), so we’d like to give a few of you something special: the first 5 people to send an email to jack@thekonamis.com will be sent an original sketch signed by TJ and myself. Get to it, and here’s to many more years of The Konamis!
So, my first attempt at today’s post just ended up less funny than it was angry, and I really don’t want to subject you all to that sort of thing. Instead, we will talk about dinosaurs. For example, did you know that you’re supposed to grow out of being into dinosaurs at 12 years old? I know, right?! The people who decided this must be robots or something (the boring kind, not the awesome kind). Did they not see how huge and awesome dinosaurs were? Did they not see Jurrasic Park?
If the first storyline didn’t help you figure it out (or the last paragraph), I think dinosaurs are rad. In fact, my favorite activity when I’m bored is to think about dinosaurs. And wouldn’t you know it, less than 5 minutes in I realise that I’m not bored anymore. Dinosaurs are magical.
Addendum: Does anyone know if that TGIF show Dinosaurs has been released on DVD yet?
Addendum Addendum: I’ve since been informed by TJ that it has.
