The Darkest of the Dark

Well it is Halloween and I decided to post some thematic pics in the light of this spooky day.

Batman "The Dark Knight"

Ozzy Osbourne "The Prince of Darkness"



The Undertaker "The Lord of Darkness"



Darth Vader "The Dark Lord of the Sith"

The Comic Book Guy "The Nerd Who is Afraid of the Dark"
who is currently checking online if my "dark" references are correct and bashing my errors on his nerd blog

Hope you guys enjoy your Halloween

where am I again?

A very interesting article on CNN on Friday featured some insights on forgetfulness. Some highlights that I liked:

• There was Colliding-Planets Syndrome, which occurs when you fail to grasp, until too late, that you've scheduled a child's orthodontist appointment in the suburbs for the same hour as a business meeting in the city.


• Quick-Who-Is-She Dysfunction surfaces when you are face-to-face with someone whose name stubbornly refuses to come to mind.


• What-Am-I-Doing-Here Paranoia leaves you standing empty-handed in a doorway, trying to figure out what you've come for.


• The Damn-It-They-Were-Just-in-My-Hand Affliction leads to panicky moments spent looking for your favorite new sunglasses, when all the while they're on top of your head.


• And Wrong-Vessel Disorder results in placing the ice cream in the pantry rather than the freezer.

So, the idea I had was the absent-minded ward of a nursing home with these traits. Thoughts?

a threesome of sorts

I work at this software company where most of the staff is out of the office until next Monday for a trade show. So I've had a lot of time on my hands to do what I want. So I decided to make this awesome traffic light from this Illustrator tutorial I was trying out.



But then I got to thinking, what if this traffic light actually had three different personalities? So, I decided to add a couple of mouths and some words of what I think they would say.






And that's how I passed the time today at work.

Have you heard the word?

Watching TV the other night Family Guy was on, a good show I must say. But this one episode I was watching particularly got pretty annoying as it went on. It involved Peter singing and dancing throughout the episode to Surfin' Bird by the Trashmen. Now it was funny this first couple times he did it, but the joke was dragged probably on purpose.


Now Family Guy isn't the only show guilty of the one joke episode. South Park recently did an episode about Indiana Jones getting raped. And there one joke claim to fame is that you shouldn't shoot a guy in the dick as seen by Butters multiple times in the episode.




Now after analyzing these two successful cartoons that have been on the air for years now. There formula is quite simple, take one or two jokes build it around a narrative and stretch it to 22 mins.

i'll tell you where you can put that football lucy....

My friend and I were talking about Halloween costumes and the subject of Peanuts came up. While both of us were goo-ga-googling for costume ideas, he stumbled upon this picture. Who would've thought that Charlie could look Shaolin?

Welcome to Goodburger, home of the goodburger, can I take your order?

Well finally launching this starship off the ground. Enough procrastination and actually trying to make this dream into reality. I want to start off by determining where we should start off. I was sitting in class last night and both of my classes had a common theme of "genre." Now I know that comedy is what we are aiming for, but sitting in class made me ponder about what specifically should we write about? Something that we've seen before like family sitcoms like Family Guy and Simpsons, or maybe a buddy cop thing like Lethal Weapon or Rush Hour? Or should we come up with something original like a sci-fi western or some type of mixing of genres? I was personally thinking of having a film noir type of show, which is completely the opposite of comedy, but satirizing or spoofing noir elements it could possibly work... maybe.

up, up, and atem!

First post. Nate and Joel are finally starting up a shared lifelong dream: to start a cartoon series. What will follow (hopefully) are some mock-ups of characters, little scripts, and etc. A timeline of wasting time or of creative genius? You decide.

Just remember that we're still going to do it regardless if you like it or not.

p.s. nostalgia for comic nerds? effing aye!