It's Almost Sixty Degrees Outside

First off, the important stuff. Over on the main site (www.torcpress.com), we've added not one, but two (!) new webcomics. The first one is what was going to be the last of the Christmas strips. I'm not really thrilled with the art, but the story (short though it may be) is good (in my opinion, course, I'm a little biased) mostly because it further emphasizes the friendship between Cactus Joe and Pengy (something the previous CJ online strip didn't really accomplish. Today is fun with parenthesis day). The other strip features a character which will appear in "Strange Patterns", the soon to be notorious King Smooth. This is my personal description of what I was thinking when I came up with Smooth: "Imagine Ian Fleming's James Bond reborn as a living Viral Infection drawn by a Zombified Salvador Dali possessed by the ghost of Jack Kirby, trapped inside a William S. Burroughs novel". Yep, I need help. Regardless, really like how this one turned out (Gee, aren't I just the modest one today. Don't worry, I'll be yammering about how much I suck in a later column I'm sure).

So, in the comments on the last blog entry, my buddies Boolah and Tate were talking about the Sin City trailer and how hyped they were. Me, I'm ultra-hyped, cause I've read every issue of Sin City ever, and I know how much ass it can kick. Ironically, I've only seen a two second blip of the movie, and have yet to see a trailer. The funny thing is, I don't wanna see a trailer, cause I want to go into the movie fresh (which is what I always want to do when I'm gong to see a movie I'm excited about). Which is wierd, because since I've read all of the stories that are going into the movie, I more or less know what's going to happen in the movie. Did that make any sense?

The optimist in me is celebrating the unseasonably warm weather and the fact that I don't have to wear a heavy jacket today. The pessimist in me is terrified about what's going to happen when the bottom drops out and everything freezes again.