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April 2, 2002

Heh... I loved the reaction I got from yesterday's April Fools comic. Honestly, I love little joke comics like that. It feels good to break away from the main storyline to have a joke comic or two. It's nice to know that people don't mind it too much either. Anyway, I'm officially back! For now at least. And nope, I have no computer access at all in the past two weeks. Oh well.

Stuff I did in the past two weeks? Well? I was in the Mohave desert. Its hot during the day and cold at night. I drove a hummer and fixed a couple hummers. They are great toys :-p. Not my toy, but I wish they were. I painted a rock ^_^. Once I can find a picture of it, I'll show it off in the fanart section. I also added 4 new piccy's I did for the misc. art section. They are just random sketches I did while I was away. I like the alien one. They were fun to draw. When I asked the opinion of people of which one they like, they said the angel one. Go to the fanart section and you'll see what I mean.

I got another comic in the works, but I probably won't get started drawing it until this upcoming summer. I have the story down, and trust me, this one is going to be a knocker. It will take a much more serious tone and it will come out in full pages. I'm not sure if I should let them out in issues or a couple pages per week. The issues would probably be around 20 to 30 pages in length, longer if must. And, if the artwork is good and I get a good reaction with it, I'll try to get the issues actually published... that is, if there is a good enough audience for it. Although, I'm hoping to get 6 issues done by the end of the summer (120 to 180 pages?! Wow!). Ehem, anyway, I am pretty serious about this. Drawing comics is only a hobby for me, always trying to get better at it (the art style). People have already told me that my drawing style has gooten somewhat better and I'm happy about that. That is my goal after all, besides providing everyone with a comic strip to read. I honestly do try my best, trying to figure out what everyone wants.

Oh, and the upcoming story, well, it will be in black and white for sure, no color at all except maybe the cover pages. I might get a website registered for it, or if not, I'll just get a new keenspace account for it. Don't know really how I'll go about it, or even how to advertise it, to get people to read it. Right now I'm leaning to let the comic out in issues and have a couple week wait between the issues, maybe two or three weeks (I got to have time to draw it you know!!). It will be manga influenced and american comic influenced (kind of a mix between the two). And, well, honestly, while I have the story down, I don't have the title down. I'll figure out a title soon enough.

Alright!! Enough about me ranting!! I'm sure you guys are bored enough with me talking. I should let you all go to read some other comics. Go post on the message board, all of you! I'm lonely you know. I can't always be on AIM, you know. I'd like to answer questions, comments, anything! I'm not the type to beg, I just let things happen. That's why I never advertised before. Now that is going to change... as soon as I find a way to do that. And gimme some fanart! Anything!!.... I have resorted to begging, haven't I? Oh well, I'll get back to what I was doing. Maybe relax a bit. Hope you enjoyed reading this extra long message, for those people that even bothered. Go back to reading comics and I'll go back to drawing comics. Bye!!

~AJS

March 15, 2002

Alright, for those that read my news from the other day know that I'm going away for two weeks. I will be back, like before. If I had a choice, I wouldn't leave at all, but I have no choice. It's because I got used to drawing the comic everyday and it's going to be weird not tending to the site. To tide you guys over, I set up a link to an extras page which has really old comics that started me on the path to this comic. I was a real dragonball fan and that is what these comics were based on. If you like them, and want me to continue them, just tell me what you think of them and stuff. Most likely, I am just going to keep them as an archive page of old stuff, but if I get a good respose to continue/finish them, I just might.

Alright. Since this is the last piece of news that everyone will get until I come back, I'm not sure what kind of words to leave you with. I won't be able to check email, of the forum. At least I think so. For where I'm going, I don't know if I'll have enough time to go to a computer and check up on stuff. At least, in the evenings, I'll be drawing the comic. I should get quite a few pages in those few weeks, at least enough to get me a bit ahead. I really wanted to get a Saint Patricks day comic and an April fools comic, but with this haitus, I can't really do that.... sigh. I wish I wasn't taking this break. I don't know what I'll do with myself now. I have to face ::gasp!:: real life! I don't know if I can do that! I'm not ready for such a big step suddenly. Ah well. I know I'll deal with this fine.

::Streches:: I want to get somewhat of a decent rant before I let you guys go. Besides, I'm suddenly in a typing mood and want to type something, no matter how foolish and dumb it might be. Oh, if you guys want to send me email and stuuf, go right ahead, just be forewarned that I might not be able to respond to you for a while, but know that I always respond as soon as I get a message. Maybe because no one emails me. Well, I guess that leaves me to do more stuff other than internet ::shudders::. Oh yeah, I just want to say, talk up you guys! The message board is way too quiet, and I wanna hear from you people. I like talking to people and stuff. So take a few minutes of your time and start talking on the board. Unless you guys frequent on another board. Then just tell me and I'll go there and talk to you guys ^_^. As you can see, with how long this rant is, I love to talk.

Anyway, I have to go to sleep now because I have a midterm early in the morning and I need to make sure that I get up for it, along with a very long drive back home and stuff. So, for now, I will leave you all and I'll be back with a new comic on April 1st. I doubt I'll do an April 1 comic mostly because I'm comic back from haitus, but, if you want one, just email me or post on the board. I will be back in my parents home (not to my own computer), on March 31, and I'll see if you guys want one. If so, I'll draw one. If not, and I get no response, which at the moment I'm sort of expecting because its so quiet here anyway, I'll post a regular comic. Okay! I'll shut up now. Good night and good bye for now everybody!!

March 12, 2002

Phew... did some site updating. Put some news in the news archive page and got some fanart!! My first fanart! I'm so happy ^_^. It was by Hoshi. I also made another fanart for Wish. I also joined Turbocool. It is really cool and the people are really nice. So go vote for them (us) on the bottom of the page. And visit all the talented artists of it! Anyway, got to go to work right now, later!

~AJ

March 11, 2002

Hello everybody. Haven't updated in a while. This is only because I found it easier to update in the message board than here, when I'm in a hurry. All I really have time to do is draw a comic and leave for class. Listen, some very important news. I'll post this again, once on the message board and once again on the main page for everyone to see. I'm going to go on haitus from March 16 to March 31. This is because of situations I can't really control. I doubt that I would even be in the area of a computer, or if I am, I won't have time to go to one. I'm going to be training for those two weeks. Those that know me, know what kind of training I'm talking about. I'm sorry, but I don't have any back up comics for you guys. But, I will come back. I promise and give my word. The next comic after the haitus is April 1. After that, I should get back to my normal schedule, which I made a promise to myself that will keep to the best of my abilities. Alright, hope your all happy you got the news ahead of time. Have a nice day and I hope to make one more big update before my two week haitus!