Been a while, hasn't it? Couple things.

First, some of my thought on the movie Hellboy, which I saw last Friday:


I enjoyed the movie, despite never reading the comics. Actually, I never really heard of Hellboy until recently. But I was intruiged by the visual style and effects and off I went.

Even though I haven't read it, it certainly felt like they captured the look and feel of the comic on the big screen. Did a good job of moving the story along...enough character and backstory to interest some, and enough fight scenes to interest the others.

One of the women in the group I saw it with described the movie as "cute". Which I felt was an interesting way to describe a movie featuring demons and giant tentacle monsters.

All in all: thumb's up.

The only thing I was really disappointed in was the final boss fight. Felt like, with something of that magnitude, it shoulda been a little more drawn out, or at least a little more "epic" - instead of "oh, just one more big thing to blow up".

I did find Rasputin's rebirth interesting: Let's see, here's a guy who was once hooked up to some technology, then disappears, reawakens in another world from a puddle of goo, and now runs around in a slick suit and designer sunglasses doing magic tricks. HMMMmmm...


Also, I should mention something about the appearance of Roman Dude last week. In case you haven't figured it out, (or in case I forgot I mentioned it somewhere before), Roman Dude is my brother. He gets up in Roman Legionaire attire and makes presentations at the Higgins Armory Museum. It's official, too...he really is "Roman Dude" according to some kind of presenters/role-players society he's joined, the name of which escapes me.

So, this marks two events. First, it's the official appearance of my brother in the comic. Whether or not he, or Roman Dude, or him as Roman Dude, make in into an actual storyline remains to be seen. Secondly, it also marks the first of my comics to be actually inked. Brother's volunteered to try his hand at inking my comics. He's even got the proper tools to do it with, with those Micron pens everyone seems to have.

I know it's difficult to see any difference, so perhaps sometime soon I'll set up some kind of comparison thingy and see how the comic looks. It seems to me the only reason to ink is for the lines to stand out better when I scan...and even then, when I tried scanning that image, it's didn't look all that different; it basically needed the same amount of computer tweaking. Even so, maybe we'll give it a shot and see how it looks. And then maybe we'll try a "real comic" test, trying to acheive a professionally inked look like PVP or Angst Technology.


Oh, and my new job is going well, that's for asking...if anyone asked. I'm liking it, anyway.
posted by Tim at 3:17 AM