It has been a long time!

I was super busy this month working on the prelude comic for the TFcon 2011 script reading. 8 pages of full color artwork! Really worked hard to get it all done in time, and now it’s out there for everyone to read. Check it out!

Here is the final page, without text. I will have a limited number of prints of this image for sale at the show.

TFcon 2011: Primal Perception by ~ninjatron on deviantART

Voice actors Paul Eiding (Perceptor) and Garry Chalk (Optimus Primal) will be there for the show, and will be performing the comic as well as what happens next in the story. The other characters will be played by people from the audience.

Hope you dig the comic. I really ran myself into the ground on this one. Even still, there is so much more that could have been done with it.

Looking forward to the show! It’s going to be awesome!

Sayonara.

Hey, so today was Canada Day. Canada is pretty awesome. Except when we’re having stupid pointless Hockey riots. Which is all the time. So… yeah.

I’m finished with teaching for a little while. The last term had its ups and downs. The digital illustration class went well enough for the first time with the group of teenaged students, but the younger group just didn’t really get it. Too much to remember, too much information to take in all at once. It was tough! So, some tweaking will be necessary for next time. Will likely start teaching some summer classes shortly.

Right now, I am busy working on the annual prelude comic for TFcon. Really looking forward to another year of this fantastic convention, and I think people are really going to like the comic this year. There is a lot of work to do, but I’ve got most of the month left to do it, and I’m planning on knocking it out of the park.

X-Men First Class was a really good movie. I was quite impressed at how good it really was. The buzz going into it was not very enthusiastic coming from the usual batch of angry nerds, but the final product just goes to show how little those people really know.

Will be seeing Transformers: Dark of the Moon soon. I somehow wound up already buying a lot of the toys. Hopefully I’ll like the movie enough to justify all the other merchandise I’ll probably buy!

I forgot to mention last time that I put some new artwork up on my deviantART page. So you should totally check that out, yo.

Sayonara.

So, apparently, the world is fated to end very soon. The apocalypse is scheduled to begin this Saturday. This is interesting, and I must say that I’m kind of looking forward to it. As I allow my vast imagination to comprehend the scale of this vague disaster, I have become very currious about what will actually happen. So I have a few questions that I’d like to see answered when it all goes down.

1. Will there be Nukes?
2. If so, will Godzilla approve of the Nukes?
3. Will there be Zombies?
4. If there will not be Zombies, why not? Are they too busy?
5. When Jesus appears, will he have a jetpack like I’ve always imagined he would?
6. Will we still have to go to work/school/dental appointments?
7. Will Santa Claus be safe, or will he be the first to fall?
8. If we don’t die right away, will we just mutate into hideous creatures? (Hope so)
9. How does the Bulk Barn factor into post-apocalyptic society?
10. Will this be a true test of the durability of Twinkies?

Above all, it is my hope that, somehow, the end of human civilization will eventually result in the return of dinosaurs. That would be totally cool and, to me, would make it all worth while just knowing that dinosaurs got their second chance.

Anyway, it’s been a good run and I have no regrets.

Actually, no. That was a complete lie. I’m not ready for the apocalypse yet! It hasn’t been a good run at all! There are still a billion things I want to do! I’m too awesome to die!

Sayonara.

Well, it’s not a big secret if you’re following me on Twitter, but for those of you who missed it, I shaved my head again.

2006 was the last time I shaved my head. I liked it like that so I don’t really have a good reason as to why I stopped and let it grow long. I think I just wanted to try and be a normal person for awhile. So much for that! For a short while I was maintaining it and getting my hair cut regularly, but eventually just gave that up and let it grow.

It had gotten pretty long over the years and I knew the time was coming to do something with it. I wanted to get a passport photo done and knew that I wasn’t going to keep the long hair forever. Besides that, I felt that it was time to return to what I considered my true self. The long hair was cool, but I always knew it was temporary. In my mind I was really a bald bandanna badass.

So, last week, right before Easter, my pony tail was cut off to be donated to people who make wigs for cancer patients. I wanted to make sure that I waited for my hair to be long enough to donate before I cut it all off. The asymmetrical mess that was left behind got clipped down as far as I could. It was like cutting through barbed wire with a kitchen knife. So, for the first time ever, I busted out the shaving cream and sliced it all right down to the skin. It’s been several days now so it’s starting to really grow back, but I will be keeping it at least down to peach-fuzz as often as possible.

The one thing that I can say about the difference between going from having long hair to having no hair is that the back of my neck feels really cold most of the time. I’ve got my bandanna keeping me warm up top but there is definitely something missing in the back. The other major difference is that I had to get rid of my awesome Go Nagai sideburns. I think bald guys with long sideburns look stupid, so they had to go. Hopefully my Koji Kabuto-esque burning justice didn’t go with them.

At any rate, bald Ninjatron is back. Commence with the quaking with fear!

Sayonara.

I have joined the new millennium and have started to use a BlackBerry.

It is green. It’s a GreenBerry.

Green wasn’t my idea. This is something of a hand me down. I’ve had it for awhile now and it worked fine as a phone, but now I’ve got it set up with e-mail, maps, games, Twitter, Yelp, and so on. I don’t want to become one of those tools who is always got their face buried in their BlackBerry, but it has become quite handy in recent weeks.

My favorite thing, though, is the simple “Memo Pad” application. Of course, I can use it to wright little notes to myself to remind me of things I need to get done, but I’ve mostly been using it to keep track of how insane I am. I created a list called “Secret Ideas” and whenever a strange thought occurs to me, I type it out so that I have it saved forever. Most of these thoughts are about monsters, robots, and weird characters. Some are very specific, others are quite vague, and the list has gotten quite large. Here are a select few the bizarre things I’ve come up with.

• Turkey robot
• Walrus God
• Garlic creature
• Skatebording pizza robot
• Robot space squid
• Ham super hero
• Kid in ghost costume piloting robot
• Doom Clown
• Octopus police
• Gorilla in Gorilla-mech
• Banana in Banana-mech
• Computer cake

Just think, these multi-million dollar gems could have been lost forever had I not been able to quickly jot them down on my BlackBerry. I don’t know how or why these ideas occur to me, but for whatever reason, they do. Now I can save them and do something with them.

This is a lot more fun than playing BrickBreaker or whatever.