Winter is leaving

This was the week of Superbowl XLVII, the hostage crisis in an underground bunker in Alabama, and the Applebees social media faux pas.

Monday: read Conservatorium: Le Président, Solstoria prologue, returned books & dvds got Channel Zero.  Got groceries for sandwich wraps & chili.  Read Finder: Talisman.

Tuesday:  thought about focus & intention all day.  thought about adaption, personal empowerment, inspiration.  Dreamed up Altered Egos: Matt Murdock, Batman (Selina Kyle, Elektra; Bruce Wayne, Daredevil, Elektra Natchios, Catwoman; Scott Summers, Guardian; Madeleine Pryor, Guardian II/Vindicator) Drew Dylan Dog Draw a Dog Tuesday.

Wednesday:  Off work early.  Had a nap.  Did taxes.  Paperman short released.  Started reading Channel Zero.

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Thursday:  Off 2 hours early.  Began book 5 of Pluto, halfway through.  Queued Saga 1-6, Adventure Time 1 & 2, Marceline & The Scream Queens 1, and AT Fionna & Cake 1.  Natasha butt hurt comic.

Friday:  Worked on hourlies from 4-11:30.  Got beer.  Ate sausage & eggs & rice.  Watched Archer ep. 1& 2.

Saturday:  Inked, toned, and posted hourlies.  Watched A.T. ep. 7 & 8. Ryan Estrada's Winter 2013 collection was funded and released today; read Plagued. Watched some Law & Order & Burn Notice.  7-year maze on Spoon & Tamago.  Annie Awards, Johane Matte (rufftoon) wins.   Queued Ninja Turtles ep. 1

Sunday: Early in the morning read a bunch of hourlies on tencentticker.  Caught funny country mansion episode of Keeping Up Appearances and part of Charlotte Gray on tv.  Drew a super bowl comic, watched the superbowl & tweeted.  Read Spera late into the night.

And just like that the first month of January is over.  In another month or so Winter will give way to Spring.  At the moment I'm sitting on delivering my 30 day notice to my apartment manager and doing my best to suppress reservations I have about living with roommates.  I'm moving into a nice place with a good friend and his wife & son.  I'll also be living closer to work so my bike commute won't be as dreadful anymore.  But what concerns me most is compromising my privacy and becoming enmeshed with somebody else's pattern of life.  Families have a habit of encroaching into every inch of space, altering the rhythm or harmony of a place.  It's just the nature of the multi-headed beast.

I read a lot of comics in January, and this weekend I put in more time in creating comics than I have in a long time.  This past month I was reading: Dark Angel, Daisy Kutter, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Cross Game, Pluto, Finder, Batwoman: Elegy, Hellblazer: Pandemonium, All New X-Men, Ghost, Comeback, Avengers Vs. X-men, Marvel 1985, From Eroica with Love, Cyber 7, Attack on Titan, One Punch Man,  Welcome Mats by starexorcist, Solstoria by charmwitch, Adventures in Angst by Sarah Graley, Help us, Great Warrior by Madeleine Flores, Ian Andersen's Spell Casting, Monster Pulse, Crumpet Fighter by Rebecca Head, Knights Errant by theyoungdoyler, The Big Trip by Nate Neal.
 

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Purple & Gold

It's January 13, 2013.  This was the week of the murder charges on the 5 suspects in the Jyoti Singh murder-rape case, President Obama's appointments of the Director of the CIA and the Secretary of Defense, the shooting at a Taft highschool, and AIG's teetering decision on joining a lawsuit against the U.S. Government concerning the bailout.  Peter David had a stroke and the comics community gathered around to help him recover.

Early in the week I was looking at Loish's art.  One of her older paintings was ripped off by some Chilean book publisher.  I watched Jake the Dad, and perused my new library haul:  The Dylan Dog Case Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 vols. 1 & 2, Batwoman: Elegy, and Finder: Talisman.  The shorty awards nominations opened that day and I had some fun with it.  And then I got lost in another one of my quixotic quests to find the name of an old Pinwheel cartoon, before I gave in to weariness.  Oh, I also read the first chapters of Babel II and Giant Robo: The Day The Earth Burned.  I read some Johnny Wander and discovered Welcome Mats.

On Tuesday I watched Looper and it was only okay.  For time traveling movies starring Bruce Willis, my bet is on 12 Monkeys.  I made cous cous again that night and had some pretty alright mock Indian food that I would continue to mangle throughout the week.  I drew a dog for Draw A Dog Tuesday.

On Wednesday I learned a little about the color purple and human perception.  Comic Book Resources released their favorite colorists of 2012.  I also found out about this guy who does magic mostly in fast food chain drive-thrus.


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On Thursday Rachel posted a bunch of her sexy drawings and I tweeted about them.  The Bravest Warriors cover gallery was spotlighted on Comics Alliance.

On Friday I started watching Mesrine Public Enemy No. 1 and drank some beer.  Geneva wrote this great post about going to art school.  It was Lacey's birthday, and I finally changed my avatar and header.

The weekend was a blur as I was watching football, doing laundry, cleaning, and occcasionally faving cute drawings such as Caroline Ramsey's cute Unico doodles.  I backwards read a bunch of Cucumber Quest & downloaded all of Hellboy & BPRD and the two issues of Rachel Rising I hadn't read.  Other things that happened this week was pc weenies review of the Yiynova 19U, I watched WOTE's cover of Taylor Swift's Trouble, saw a Kid President video finally, teared up at the Rosie the dog & puppies Iphone rescue, researched the 2003 year in film, and pulled the trigger on an ebay listing for KC Green & Evan Dahm's B9 art books.  Tonight is the 70th Golden Globes.  I'll probably watch it or read tweets about it, and that will be my final pop culture education for 2012.