Marsh Rocket Comic

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8/20/2008 1:51:36 AM
Jules: Al, you're sweet, but nobody cares about the forum. I just have a hatred for Windows Vista because it's very paranoid about installing new hardware. It forced me to reinstall my Bamboo tablet five times. For me, that's kind of a deal breaker.

8/19/2008 10:49:03 PM
Alvos: I like having 50fps in choice programs with XP versus 20fps with Vista. I also like it when these discussions take place in our much-deprived forum. (Okay, so my foot is in my mouth after that part). Now, can we go back to using this space for flames and kiss-ups?

8/19/2008 8:15:17 PM
Grey Romeo: Apple, For the same amount of money you can get a windows machine that is better. And to be fair, if you have a nice mount of ram and a decent graphics card, Vista runs pretty nice, but that in itself is money.

8/19/2008 8:12:49 PM
Durrandi: HOLY CRAP, in the 4th panel, what is up with the chicks right arm?!? the hand fuses back into the shoulder!!!

8/19/2008 4:19:36 AM
Olly: I actually like Vista. It's like linux, sans the Asperger's. The floozy of the OS world, I feel. I also really like the light-hearted feel of these interlude pages.

8/17/2008 6:44:39 PM
Durrandi: a first i didn't like Ross, but after seeing his side of things, i have grown to appreciate him

8/7/2008 7:30:31 PM
Etienne: I like Monty's solution to how hookers can help Ross with mandarin. Shows that the family intuition is shared by many.

8/7/2008 6:36:30 AM
Olly: Haha - "you ruined your grandmothers birthday party" :D

7/31/2008 7:58:57 PM
Liz: I love Ross. Brick loves lamp, Ron loves Baxter, and I love Ross. Its just that simple.

7/31/2008 3:11:15 PM
RGE: 2nd try: I remember the name "Tiburon" from that "Revenge" movie starring Kevin Costner, with Anthony Quinn playing the shark. Didn't know what his name meant at the time though.

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08.19.08
Interlude, Page 8 Up
The drama, the drama. This page is all about the drama, up front and behind the scenes. On the front end, we meet the final Tiburon to appear on this interlude's cover, Dillard Tiburon, for the first time. Dill Tiburon is a major drama queen as we quickly find, but he seems to channel his energies in the wrong direction, by telling them in an explosive fashion of his lifestyle choices. The rest of the fam? Not exactly surprised. Especially not when he's been exhibiting signs of this behavior all his life.

Of course a page with this much drama has to have an equal amount of drama going into its production. Lemme tell you how much fun I had putting this thing together. When I was working on the inks for this page (the longest part of the production process), my Windows XP machine crashed very hard on one of the saves. So hard, it corrupted the document I was working on destroying all data within. 200+ pages down and this has NEVER happened to me. It was easily five hours of work down the drain. You know what that's like to lose five hours of work? The feeling is like shrapnel to my psyche. Horrible. So, I was forced to pick up the pieces and start over. Five more hours of work. I hate you universe. The issue with my PC is most likely tied to RAM in that I don't have enough of it. That and Windows XP requires a nice, bowel-cleansing reformat. Argh. This whole fiasco has made my backup Vista laptop look pretty good. And I HATE Windows Vista. Oh, don't even get me started. I'll be sputtering bile for hours.

Oh, and if you're thinking "Jules, if your Windows machines suck so bad, why not get an Apple?" Well, I don't have the fat wad of cash required for that to happen. Such is life.

08.14.08
Interlude 2, Page 6 Up (finally)
First, I apologize for no update on Tuesday. I got sick during my prime comicking time this weekend and didn't really recover until a couple days ago. You'd be surprised how hard it is to do comics when your head is clouded with cold medicine.

Coincidentally, today's page deals with an "illness" of sorts. These last couple of pages, we've been exploring the issues of every member of the Tiburon family and today we meet Macy Tiburon, aka mom. Ah, a mother's love can be the best medicine in the world...except when it backfires and makes mom into an enabler. We've all seen it. Kid screws up royally, and mom makes excuses and bails kid out. It happens surprisingly often, especially in cases of people who need tough love over "mother's love."

08.01.08
I will be a featured artist at the Guest Strip Project to benefit the Make a Wish Foundation. My strip is coming up August 4th, which is this Monday. Short notice, I know. You know these things as soon as I do. Anyway, feel free to swing over there come Monday and see that I'm not a one-trick pony after all.

Oh, and by the way, writing a 4-panel joke is much harder than it looks.

07.29.08
Things are going to be shifting around the site a bit in the near future. We're not talking drastic changes, but more cosmetic. More on that soon.

I'm also working on getting more color books in stock. It's been a bit difficult lately because the printer I had initially used has now changed their pricing on color prints, making it economically impossible to use them any further. Fortunately, they're not the only game in town, so I should have another printer soon.

Finally, something completely unrelated to Marsh Rocket: the Watchmen. I recently saw that trailer and I am damn impressed. They even made that fairly terrible Smashing Pumpkins song from Batman and Robin actually seem good. So impressed that I forced myself to go and reread the graphic novel. Just so you know, kiddies, I am silently geeking out over this one. Why? Probably because it's not a rehash of a remake of a redo of every other superhero movie in existence. I likes my movie concepts fresh. Of course, visuals are only a portion of a movie's potential so we'll see what happens when it gets finished. And released. Near my birthday (yay!). That's all I got on that.