Erm... Re-Re-Intro?

Howdy!

I'll eventually get good at keeping this blog truly updated. Heh. I'll get some posts up soon to share more thoughts, experiences, and hopeful get to a point of more meaningful schedule and content.

Lately I've been discovering lots of podcasts and music while working. I have gotten back into reading books for a little bit each day. Just this year I opened a card and board game development company with a couple partners. A couple years ago I bought a house, and a few years before that I married.

Look for many more updates, for realz this time. I'll sit each time I have time and type away my thoughts to this blog here.

Cheers!

David Wellington

I'm currently hooked on the author David Wellington. The book I'm reading now is "23 Hours" which follows a vampire hunter/cop, Caxton, after she transforms from cop to inmate after being charged with a kidnapping that ultimately lead her to the vampire she was after.

I bought my first adventure with Mr. Wellington years ago; while looking through medical nonfiction at a large bookstore chain, I found "Monster Island" among them... Obviously not nonfiction, though interesting enough to pull my attention.

Since moving I haven't read much, though recently gained a library card and have been finding time among classes, studying, and job applications to chew through other books by Wellington, including Monster Nation, Monster Planet, and 99 Coffins. So far Monster Nation and 23 Hours are my favorite, but I'm not done yet and I hope David Wellington stays ahead of me with his writing.

Monster Island, Monster Nation, and Monster Planet are all amazing books. The characters and story lines are all very well developed and new theories are applied to explain monsters in a whole new way. I really appreciate this author. Check out his books to go on your own adventure with him!

Online Comic Strips

     Lately I've been trying to pick up comic book reading. I'm not able to through money around and easily as I'd like, though, and have found that many comic artists these days post their strips on teh intarwebs. I've read many comic strips online, but only two have really grabbed and kept my attention: Questionable Content and  Misfile. For my first "official" post, I've decided to promote these two of the strips.

     First is Questionable Content, my current favorite. When I first found it months ago, I sat for hours each weekend trying to catch up, and now I can't wait for each new strip. This comic strip updates every weekday and has over one thousand strips so far. 

     Questionable Content has really come a long way since it's beginning, both in story line and the drawing abilities of the artist. It's main story line follows Martin--an indie boy--who owns a quirky little robot, and meets Faye--the new girl in town--that quickly moves in with him, but refuses to date. The two other main characters are Dora, who owns the coffee house everyone hangs out at and many work for, and Hanners, an OCD young woman that lives in the same building as Martin and Faye and ends up hanging out with the others. Many other characters make several appearances, but keeping track of them all is quite a task. 

     I like this strip for it's awesome art, well thought out strips and odd humor. I really can't convince you with just words, GO READ IT! : )

     Second is Misfile. I check this strip just as often as the first. It also updates five times a week. The main story line is based on the odd thought that each person has a file in heaven that contains all they are, and one angel accidentally messes up two of the files; the file of a teenage boy that turns into a girl from the "misfile" and the file of a teenage girl that looses the last two years of her life. The two learn of each other through the angel, are not allowed to tell any others, and quickly become friends. The angel plans to correct the files once he is allowed back in heaven, but is currently sentenced to Earth to do good deeds to counter all the trouble he's caused throughout the years. 

     Sub-story lines include: Ash dealing with his overnight sex change, Emily having second thoughts about going through her last two years of high school exactly how she had the first time, them both trying to help the undisciplined angel in his good deeds, and the street racing that Ash is involved in before and after the misfile, and Emily entering and learning about the racing culture through her friendship with Ash.

     This strip has come a way with it's art, too, though not as far as Questionable Content has.