Black Rabite

Imagine me sitting in a wall closet scribbling this note on a scrap of paper, looking tense and just waiting for the zombies to find me. There is little light and the ominous moaning is growing ever louder. Only I’m typing this now. On my PC. And there are no zombies around. But I may be looking tense.

Still, a zombie apocalypse would have been a great excuse for me not posting again. But what the hey, this is the internet. I don’t need to explain myself. It’s not like you’re going to come to my place and beat the living crap outta me for not updating, right? RIGHT? Okay, definitely looking tense.

Basically, I had the next ep of Murphy’s Law finished at around mid-July, but then I remembered… I had wanted to make a nice chapter-title-heading-page-thingy. Even before I posted the first damn thing. So, to fix this, I decided to put it in just after the first big bang. Just like in the Bond movies.

And here’s the actual story-laden page 3 of Murphy’s Law:

After I added the punchline, I suddenly realized I’d already heard that somewhere. Took me ages to figure out: Fight Club. So, don’t consider it stealing or recycling… consider it an hommage. *coff* ;<.<

It’s strange… back in the days I didn’t really mind not having an iPod. Might be because I had a CD-Player. And a Walkman before that. Might be a reason that a week without having music at the ready all the time… was horrible. There is no motivation in getting up and taking the bike somewhere outside when you can’t have some beats to get you down the road.
Now my Pod’s finally back and better than before! Well, slightly anyway.

Anyhoo… second ep of Murphy’s Law! If you haven’t been expecting it like a child waiting for Christmas, you’re not worthy to read it. Don’t say I didn’t tell you when your eyes melt in the sheer awesomeness that is…

… COLOURED CRAYON GOODNESS! Thought I’d add a little colour to the comics after all. I did mention I still liked using crayons, didn’t I? ;D
Must have been ages since the last time I did, tho. Somewhere back in school, I suppose. Nice to see they finally added a skin-coloured crayon to the pack. Makes stuff much, much easier. And pinker. ._.

(Bullet to the head.)

Yeargh. Gharbl. Grrr. One would think there are people able to actually fill in a table. A very simple grid saying “name”, “e-mail address” in the first line of the first two pillars. One might even think you could find them at a university. Where all the smark peepul hang out.
Yeah, it may have been too complicated telling them to fill in their names and e-mail address in said grid, without explicitly telling them which pillar to use. Or to use them at all. Might have been too confusing to tell them to put down their desired time into the pillar titled with a date or just make a fricken cross for the whole time.
Yet, I am sick of always having to be ready to deal with everyone’s stupidity all the time, ever! Well, guess that’s what I’ll have to do now. Decypher what’s left of the table. Yay.

Apart from little issues with humanity, what’s mainly fuelling my rage is that my iPod’s broken after two and a half years of devoted service. Well, basically it’s not really broken, the audio jack just seems to be a bit shaky, so that the sound on my right speaker goes haywire. Feels like a bullet to the head every time. I sent it off to repair, which means I can’t make the world around me shut up at my command anymore.

On that note, I played through a lovely Square-Enix RPG called The World Ends With You. With the hero being an antisocial kid who’s got headphones on all the time to shut up the world around him… how could I resist? What I can say about it without spoiling too much of the nicely twisted (and sometimes a bit too cheesy) storyline is that this game finally manages to use the Nintendo DS input system to the max. Where you would usually just concentrate on one screen, this game puts combat action onto both screens. The upper screen is controlled via the D-Pad, while the lower one makes you fight with a multitude of touch commands to activate “pins” (your spells). Keeps you quite busy for a while with lots of ways to upgrade your characters and about a gadzillion of pins to collect. Another thing I came to love is the slightly stylized Japanese artwork, which really adds to the game’s atmosphere of 21st century urban design.
So, if you’ve got a DS you might wanna look into this one. Quite the best game for the system in a long time.

Now, back to ogre-mode. Gwarghl. Raaaagh.

This is Slacker-5, do you read me? Ha, see what I did there? Seems I’m really not that cut out for all this blogging stuff…

Buuuut being a man that stands up to his word, I hereby present to you, only half a year’s wait after the teaser (that’s a good bunch less than on any major blockbuster!), the first ever episode of… Murphy’s Law. Hurraaaaay!

Well, since I didn’t really get down with tablets-and-sketching I went back to my good old buddies pencil and paper. To make drawing the boxes suck less, I drew them once and copied them a couple of times. So smart. Only problem seems to be I drew them a bit askew. So dumb. Finally, I slapped a bit of Sepia onto the whole thing to make it more… um… mellow? ;<.<
On the upside, this gives the comic a rugged look which personally I like very much. On the downside, this gives the comic a rugged look. *shrug*

Punchline too obvious? Drawing too crude? Handwriting too… handwritey? Want more colour? Tell me what you think, I’ll promise not to yell at you. For now.