Friday , May 1 , 2009

    Posted by:

    Sarah

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It means "drunk in a tree." Arboreal inebriation? Yeah. It's just being drunk in a tree.

I tried something new with the colouration today, obviously. I kinda like it. And not only because it's ridiculously easy to do and actually looks like I did it on purpose. So... yeah. I may stick with this.

It should also mention that I'm currently watching "Death At A Funeral," and that I love Alan Tudyk very, very much. I would hug him to me and put him in my pocket.

~ sjh

    Posted by:

    James

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Hammerspace shotglass!

I really like how this strip came out, with the new coloring style and all. It's probably my favorite one so far. The second panel in particular is massively entertaining to me. It pretty much sums up the strip, as Sarah said after finishing it: Kent looking worried as Brighton goes, "Glee!"

And I feel perfectly legitimate heaping on this praise because I had absolutely nothing to do with the second panel. There aren't even any words in it, see?

Although I have to say, this was one of those scripts that was just fun to write. I enjoy scripting FT in general, mainly because it's a lighthearted break from the hardcore nose-to-the-grindstone writing I've been forced to do a lot of recently. I wonder sometimes if I've found my industry niche. Having ground out almost sixty pages of short stories and exactly sixty pages of a novel this past semester, none of which I care to look at again anytime soon, the less-dense and more highly visual media of comics and movies/television are looking very appealing.

I don't know how many of you are familiar with Cracked.com, but you ought to be. Cracked.com bills itself as "America's Only Humor & Video Site, Since 1958", which I suspect may be stretching the truth like taffy. Regardless of the verity of its advertising, its content is tremendously entertaining. My personal favorites are the everpresent lists, including the recent "6 Ways That Porn Runs The World" (which I did not look at because the preview image was a brunette showing a healthy amount of decolletage...well, maybe a little bit because of that) and the slightly less new "What's Your Zombie Contingency Plan? 11 Practical Strategies".

I'll go ahead and warn you, though. Cracked.com can get pretty addictive. You know how you can go to Wikipedia or TV Tropes and get lost in the endless, organically-linked articles? Cracked.com is a lot like that. It's the hilarious and hangoverless alternative to taking a drink of bourbon in San Francisco then coming to three days later holding an empty tequila bottle in a filthy Central American alley, your head cushioned by the bounteous Hispanic bosom of a Mexican hooker you now owe half your life savings to.

Not that I would know anything about that.

-James