Good News, Everyone!

- as Professor Farnsworth is fond of saying.

Well, there is good news for any of you out there still waiting patiently for me to release the graphic story I promised a few months ago: I got a new computer! Why is that good news? Well, my penis envy does not extend far enough to make me want to brag about the size of my new CPU. I'll leave that to Jack on one of his blogs. However, my new computer is so incredibly faster than my old one, it's well, just amazing to me.

I use Poser 7 to create the basic images for my comic. My old computer took about ten minutes to render one scene. It was very frustrating to wait that long and then find that the lighting was completely wrong and the rendered image was useless. I tended to accept the first decent render I got without trying to fine tune it. Even then it would take me days to get one or two pages done, so my natural procrastination and ADD would kick in and I would avoid working on it for up to months at a time.

Imagine my joy when I rendered my first scene on my new machine and it took only 45 seconds! That is at least an order of magnitude faster. I could now actually write the dialogue and story board while creating the images, then even play around with them and render them over and over till I was satisfied. Just over this last weekend I was doing five or six pages a day! When I finally finished the story with all the pages last night, I was so excited I hardly got any sleep.


So thanks to all of you (both of you? anybody?) for waiting patiently. I don't want to put it off any longer. I don't want to keep going back and making little changes. That could go on forever. You may notice as you go through the pages that the writing style and even the narrative voice changes as you progress through the story. Sorry about that. Those first pages were written two years ago and I like to think I learned some things and evolved as a story teller since those early days. I hope that is not going to be a problem now that I can produce a story almost as fast as I can think of it and write it down -- now that I am not hampered by ancient technology.

I hope you enjoy it. Thanks.

Here are the first three pages to get started: