Convention Report

by on March 15, 2010 at 3:51 am
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Well I just got back from this years Emerald City ComicCon and I feel very drained. I had a lot of fun and passed out a whole lot of promotional materials but unfortunately as far as sales were concerned the whole thing was a bust. At the moment I’m blaming the location. While this was a pretty central spot in the convention perhaps the traffic was a little TOO good. Like having a storefront on Aurora. While I don’t want to do one of the greener pastures whines, perhaps Artist’s Alley is better suited for my needs. At the very least people who are going through it are better prepared to try something new. The other thing this brings up is my recurring concern that a comic book convention might not be the best place to market a comic STRIP

Anyway, while I know it’s all about spreading the word, fifteen dollars in sales still feels more than a little demoralizing.

But otherwise I had a good time hanging with friends, networking and getting some books signed.

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Fourth Rhapsodies Collection Now Available

by on February 27, 2010 at 5:49 pm
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Hey everybody! The Beancounter, the fourth Rhapsodies collection is now available for purchase! Get your copy here. As always you can get the rest of the Rhapsodies books here.

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District 9

by on September 27, 2009 at 2:25 am
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Well I finally saw it. Not all that bad. I don’t think I’ll be going giving it a gold star or anything. While I am glad of a Science fiction that is not just an action film with accessories I need them to do more a film not following formulae.

Anyway as it as been said many a time it’s essentially using aliens in Johannesburg as a metaphor for apartheid and I suppose refugee camps as well. As the film starts with a nearly identical premise to Alien Nation only they take it from the South African Perspective, which means put all of the alien refugees into a camp, that quickly turns into a slum.

They explain away why culture stays mostly unchanged is that one all of the technology that the aliens have only work with their DNA, and two all but two of the Aliens we encounter seem to be a marginally sentient drone caste. Based on this you wonder how the heck they got so much tech (that wasn’t working) down off the ship.

Anyway it does the usual things about corporate greed and man’s inhumanity. It occurs to me that a nice clean professional laboratory in the right context would be far more terrifying than the borderline abattoir they drag the protagonist too once he gets infected by the “prawn” dna.

So anyway for a dramatization to our first exposure to an alien species (technically two species as there are these scorpion creatures that the “Prawns” use in cock fights) It’s pretty well done, and uses the documentary format very well.

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