Some free advice that I urge you to take to heart.
And with that Season One of Robot Game Squad comes to a close. It’s been very fun and fulfilling but like a British TV show I’ll be back when I have more stories to tell. Thanks for coming along for the ride and I hope to be back at it soon.
-mh
I spend Sunday and Monday at PAX Prime in Seattle. It was my second PAX and this one was very special because of the Strip Search artists being there. As I said in my first comic post I would not have started this comic without the Strip Search web reality show and the awesome artists that participated. This year’s PAX Prime had a full cast reunion with a awesome panel. Then a lot of my day Monday was spent along artist row where the strip searchers were set up doing sketches and selling merchandise. There was a fairly big crowd and I wanted to meet as many as I could so I decided to try to get them to sign my first comic. Since I do all my work on my Surface I brought it to get them to sign right in Manga Studio. Here it is:
Thanks to the artists:
Abby Howard @AbbyHoward
Alex Hobbs @AlexHobbs_WK
Amy Falcone @AmyTFalcone
Erika Moen @ErikaMoen
Katie Rice @katiejrice
Lexxy Douglass @Lexxercise (Lexxy is the only signature I missed – she had really long lines!)
Mackenzie Schubert @macschubert
Maki Naro @sciencecomic
Monica Ray @montiray
Nick Trujillo @MyntyFresh
Tavis Maiden @tavismaiden
Ty Halley @tyhalley
The Hosts and Editors:
Graham Stark @Graham_LRR
Kathleen De Vere @Kathleen_LRR
And Tycho!
While I was waiting in line Jerry Holkins stopped by the artists area to meet with attendees and I got his signature as well.
As I said the lines were long so I only asked for one sketch. Here is Abby’s drawing of my daughter’s robot from Robot Game Squad:
Thanks Abby and thanks to everyone involved in Strip Search.
I just hooked another friend on the Honor Harrington series. I don’t feel bad about it at all. It’s one of my favorite Science Fiction series with an awesome main character and cool hard SF tech. Here is my first shot at some Honor Harrington fan art.
I’ve always said that I’d love to see the Honor books done as an HBO style TV series but one of the issues is what the ships look like. They’re a bit weird, but that’s necessary as part of the tech world building. The blurred areas are my attempt to show what the powerful gravity bands of the ships wedge would look like.
I started doodling some science fiction ideas and ended up with a full blown establishing shot. And it helped me think through some of the world building details.
I wrote a comic about Monopoly but didn’t mention Monopoly in the post. For those really into board games Monopoly has a bad reputation. The game does have a lot of problems that more modern games have alleviated. But it is partially unfair. It turns out that pretty much no one plays by the actual rules of the game! That whole “put the fines in the center and the next person who lands on Free Parking thing”…not in the rules. Most of the common house rules for Monopoly make the game last much much longer than it should. I’m sure a lot of these came about to alleviate one of the main problems with the game, early player elimination. It turns out it’s not much fun to play a game if you’re no longer playing. But if you embrace the theme of the game – vicious capitalism – and go by the actual rules, the game is actually OK. My son like to play and asks for it from time to time. It’s hard for me though. I have over 900 games and a lot of them are better than Monopoly, but I don’t mind playing from time to time. I’ll be moving Cory up to Settlers of Catan pretty soon which is more fun for everyone.
-mh
