Keeping It Going

By my counting, I have passed 434 real comics (excluding holidays, one-shots and a poorly disguised filler. I have updated (post-updated) this comic every MWF without exception. There are days where I dread making the new comic. There are days when I have three ideas ready to go all at once. Yet it never gets old. After nearly three years, the hardest part? Writing the strip. I have to tell a story, advance the plot and tell a joke - all in four panels. There is nothing in my life that take more time and and more concentration.

Oh, and the word balloons are a major pain in the butt.

Can't forget that.

Back on schedule means a little late.

Had some unforeseen hardware issues tonight. I have to be at a screening for a United Way video which I shot last week early tomorrow so I'm turning in. Vexxarr will be up and running on schedule this week...

...which is to say only mildly behind schedule.

BRIGHT house?

My Cable Internet provider - Brighthouse - is busy demonstrating why American companies are losing their competitive edge overseas (I'll give you a hint - most Americans don't know the difference between theory and hypothesis). As such, I have no internet. Should The situation regarding Brighthouse change, I'll alert you all without delay.

Should the situation with the American education system change, I'll be making snow angels with Lucifer.

Even odds as to which will happen first.

What one can accomplish in 24 hours.

About twenty hours of work.

That's it. Despite my best efforts to the contrary, apparently one needs to sleep. Funny, it happens whether you want it to or not.

SO

I'm doing strips and trying to get them finished and posted but I am allowed between fifteen and thirty minutes a day to devote to my craft. Tonight I'll post a new strip. Monday's strip. It is likely that I will have time tomorrow to get two strips done and caught up by Friday.

Oh what dreams...

Avast ye!

As this be INTERNATIONAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY, I intend to confound and bewilder any and all folks with whom I parlay this day.

Yee Hardy! Hoist that Main sail! Look lively ye scurvy dogs! Bring us about and set us into the wind!

Perhaps I be needin' an eye patch!

Maybe two!

Yeeearrrr...

When done isn't DONE.

So my deadline was met. Then in a burst of inhuman cruelty, I was given not a paycheck, but another week to achieve additional goals. Based on the work I had completed, the scope of the project...well...was expanded.

So now I have a larger task to be completed in less time. Having already given up sleep and food, I find that the only area left to cut out of my time includes Vexxarr.

So as soon as I finish destroying my life with ACTION SCRIPT, I'll upload some Vexxarr for you. At least I get to double my rate for this...

It's not enough.

Vexxarr later today

I'm still laboring under the onus of Action script. I lost what amounts to a day to inaccurate documentation. You'll have to ask the (extremely young) boys over at Adobe for me why all of their official tutorial information reads:

"select the keyframe in the Interactions layer that contains the
question preceding the interaction you are about to insert,"

While an amateur third party site offered the more helpful and more specifically accurate:

"Select a frame across all layers of the timeline (except the layers with items
that are supposed to appear only on specific frames such as the opening
graphic)"

I took away from this that Adobe doesn't actually know a great deal about FLASH. The giveaway for me was the posting of instructions which are specifically and functionally damaging not only in print but and across several individual pdf documents from their official site.

I'll say this: it's the first decent argument I've encountered against piracy of Adobe products - don't steal Adobe. You'll loose your F_____G mind!

I have a beard.

I've been working in FLASH action script for nearly five days now.

Straight.

Without breaks or interruption.

I find that action script is poorly documented and that FLASH has a tiny problem with displaying any script associated with a given frame, instance or movie.

I long for death.

I bought the FLASH 8 professional Bible Sunday. It said only one thing.

Repent.

Late, Late, Late

I'm teaching myself FLASH (again). So I'll have a comic up tomorrow. Things progress on the shirt front and a new archive is on its way.

In other news, I'm told that that the Sci Fi channel is distancing itself from Sci Fi programming. See, the network is actually part of the USA family of networks. The programming executives don't "get" us and think we like Megasnake and cow patties of its ilk. I am told that any treatment involving spaceships, time travel or robots gets directed toward the circular filing cabinet.

I'm thinking that we may need to let them know that we watch shows about spaceships, robots and Aliens and unless they start showing us a little love, our DVD dollars are all heading like guided missiles over to the BBC.

by the way, been watching Jekyll?

It's called Daily for a Reason

But not because I update it Daily - Certainly.

Just letting you know that I'll be updating Vexxarr tomorrow on time. Monday too even. WHO KNOWS? Today, I am at war with the SPIDERS in my little subterranean kingdom. My weapon of choice is a one-quarter horse power shop vac. At least I'm not living in Texas.

I am in contact with my shirt printer. I may have the goods by next week. Now would be the time to place orders. Look for a shirt orders link at that time. The shirts will be print on demand so once I have twenty orders (any size) I'll forward them to my clothing guru and soon after, you will be sheathed.

Updates as they unfold...

Yes, Late Again,

But updating soon...today in fact. Had a job out of town and a meeting this morning and now some invoice corrections and other nuisances. The end result is that Vexxarr is late again. But fear not - he is on his way.

Working as fast as I can...

New comic is under way. I'm recovering from strep throat, which as you all know is a JOY. It should be stated that because of my hermit-like lifestyle, no one on Earth is in danger of contracting my illness. The only mystery is how I got strep in the absence of actual human contact.

I suspect the US Postal service.

I have enough Diet Code Red to last me another week. After that, I'll have to make a supply run. To Walmart at midnight of course. Can't risk actual exposure to daylight.

Hssssss...

Daaaaaaylight...

Strip Delay Due To Addled Brain!

I just about finished Monday's strip when I realized that I had done Wednesday's strip by mistake! I'll have them both finished in a few hours and post Monday's strip then.

Forgive me, I have a streptococcus infection and I'm not quite myself. Who I am...it is not quite clear.

One thing I do know is that if you guys keep hitting my site Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I need to be here to greet you!

So here I am!

Check back soon for a comic. And guess what?

Wednesday's is in the can so...Wednesday update will be ON TIME!

It Happens

I wrote the script. I drew the comic. I updated the website. Yet I forgot an important player. Those of you just joining us have NO idea what I am talking about. Those of you who tuned in earlier may have noticed Carl speaking about himself in sort of a creepy third person. I have, in classic Soviet style, retroactively inserted the correct speaker into his appropriate tableau.

Pravda!

OOPS!

It has come to my attention that clicking on the comic will take you (as if by way of flying carpet) to Rockethost. This is not an ad. This is an error. It happened because I use Dreamweaver to manage my web page and Dreamweaver makes web design pretty easy. It concurrently make adding links - especially unintentional ones - pretty easy as well.

Sorry.

And, be sure to visit my host on the way out...

Something Nice...

I promised and now I have delivered!



Er...somewhat. Behold the wondrous Dancing Vexxarr via my new time waster PICTAPS!

And I had to add this! And This.

And Whatever THIS is...

HELP! I can't stop!

And finally, from Ratzmandious I add this non sequitur...

Another Job...Another Excuse

Prepping for a Discovery Channel shoot. New Vexxarr to follow. I'm lucky to be working I guess...

Tomorrow, I'll do something nice for you guys...I promise.

Who wants pie?

Where's My Vexxarr?

Eldergod - my PC lost it's C drive Saturday. None of my Vexxarr Comic files were lost - I'm way too anal for that. But I spent the past 24 hours getting back up to speed. Having recently lost a system drive on my Mac G5 to the mysterious invalid node buggaboo, I can tell you that the effort it takes to get a PC back on it's feet vs reinstalling God, Heaven and Earth on a Mac is no big deal - only by comparison mind you.

In fact, the major difference between trying to recover files from a dead drive on a PC vs on a Mac is that on a PC, it's at least within the realm of Newtonian Physics.

So...

Eldergod is back and I'll get the Vexxter up and atcha' as soon as possible. When I do, you'll be the first to know!

Yes you!

The funny looking one in the back!

Caught Up At Last - Summery Post

Work...schedule...sleep...none...sandwich...comic...Diet Mt Dew Code Red...Antelope...Asteroid...pizza...

Three Vexx Monday!

Three Vexxarrs to post Monday. Details Wednesday!

Nay, but seriously brethren, All caught up by Monday. I'll be posting them Sunday evening untill we are all on the caught-ups. Yo.

Isn't funny that Yo, went from being a Sting-ism (per the POLICE) to being hip gansta' slang? I want to tell the hip young-uns at my gym that when they say "yo" it makes me think of the 'POLICE the videos' VHS I still have at my house.

Another industrial ugly morning...