Stomach Flu Elmo
Today’s guest comic by Mark Ashworth. He’s also a monthly sponsor with memesink.com and doing a project called “One Panel Case Files“. Check him out!
Wow, we’re official homeowners now with a real mortgage. Well, it’s actually our second house, but the first didn’t “count” legally since we bought it with cash straight up. Anyways, yeah, we have a big ass house now waiting for carpeting, a new kitchen sink, some kitchen cabinets and some fresh paint. So, that mixed with everthing else I have going on… I’ll be a busy boy for awhile. We’re really excited though.
In other news… hey, remember Life’s a Bluff? The poker webcomic I was drawing until Hero By Night came along? Well the writer, Frank Frisina is now working / partnering up with the World Poker Tour! The comics are appearing on the bottom of their main website, and he has some bigger deal in the works I believe. Damn! I wish I could have stayed on that, ( I know there’s gold in them thar poker hills!) - For non poker educated folks like me, that’s the equivalant of me drawing a comic about football and signing with the NFL! I’d say that’s interesting news for webcomics as well, and shows there is definitly another avenue for creators to take in serving niches. Right now, you have a flood of “video game” type comics or clones of PVP or Penny Arcade– but there are several niches out there if you love them enough to do a comic about them. Me? I’ve always fancied doing a comic about ukuleles and being THE comic about ukuleles… but… yeah. Heh. Anyways, congrats to Franky! I knew that bird had wings.
The person I picked on yesterday, thinking it was a 17 year old boy (because of the avatars and such) turns out to be a 17 year old girl. Do I feel bad that I picked on a “girl”? No. Hey, she wants to put her opinion out there, I can reply in kind or at least clear up some misconceptions she had. And for the morons out there assuming that I sit around and google my name to find criticisms like that. DUH. If you link to me, my Wordpress engine catches it, and when I pop open my main “POST NEW TOPIC” screen, there is a list of people linking in… so I found it that way. Please… I don’t have time to sit around and search my name on google, and honestly, I’m afraid of what I might find. Heh. Anywho, to each his own on opinions over super hero webcomics or otherwise… I’m having a hell of a good time, lots of people are enjoying it, and that’s all that matters to this bigfoot looking mothercrunker..
Back to the Drawing Board!
Pssst… New Hero By Night today. Enjoy it, won’t you.‘
November 16th, 2006 at 11:05 am
I took a really good look into Hero By Night.. Very impressive
Keep up the great work DJ… Can’t wait to see what is still to come!
Blueindenver
November 16th, 2006 at 11:35 am
DJ, regarding you picking on a 17-year-old girl and the comments that Derek left about it yesterday.
You can bitch about Derek’s assumptions, but the fact is, he’s right. Picking on someone with a blog because they say they don’t like your work and then say why they don’t like it is really kind of pathetic. This isn’t someone who said you were a bad person. This is someone who said that they don’t care for your work or your concept. That’s life. Deal with it.
You’ve turned a corner financially and professionally, and you’ve lost the right to lash out like you did in the past. Every time a celeb lashes out at a paparazzi, it isn’t the paparazzi whose name is associated with “acts badly.” You think Michael Bay bitches in public about everyone who gives him a bad review? By doing this sort of thing, you not only reflect badly on yourself, but on your new company.
He’s also right that you’ve thrown overboard everything except HBN. That’s your right, but don’t expect every Yirmumah fan to follow you there. I used to visit this site every day, but I have no interest in HBN and I have no interest in 90% of the guest strips that have been posted while you’ve been focused on HBN. A couple of the guest strips have been fun, but you’ve gone past Steve Kurtz level of guest strips and have posted — on the Yirmumah site — a level of art that you made fun of a mere two or three weeks ago when you left the Iron Man competition.
Ironic.
November 16th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
Ah…the old “when you achieve a certain level of success you’re no longer allowed to be human” argument. I would roll my eyes but I’ve done it so much in the past few days I fear they will pop out of my skull.
I find it very odd, to say the least, that a “fan” would submit a comic to a website they supposedly like and then (with fantastic timing! Don’t you think?) proceed to jab holes in said creator’s works in their blog.
Personally, I read through both blogs, and all the comments and saw an opinion expressed, then someone disagreeing with that opinion. No “lashing out” as you put it.
Even if that were the case and DJ had lost that right, he still hasn’t lost his right to stand up for and defend the work that he believes in.
November 16th, 2006 at 3:20 pm
I meant he was assuming I sit around and find these things by googling my name. That was lame.
I haven’t lost my right to say whatever I want. This is my site, if you don’t like the comics here, the new stuff, the guest strips– or anything you read for FUCKING FREE everyday, you can get lost. For the thousands of other people enjoying it, and appreciating the fact that I’m happy and maybe taking a little break to work on projects that bring in more money, well, THANK YOU to those people. To anyone else who wants to criticize that, you can grab a truck to fuck you town.
November 16th, 2006 at 3:28 pm
Nothing of worth to add except:
Gotta make a move
To a town that’s
Right for me
Town to keep me movin’
Keep me groovin’
With some energy
Won’t you take me to
FUCK YOU TOWN!
Won’t you take me to
FFFUUUUuuuUUUUUCK YOOOoooUUUuuu TOWN!
November 16th, 2006 at 4:52 pm
Did you know they built this city on Fuckyou town?
November 16th, 2006 at 9:38 pm
You owe us, DJ! You OWE us! Without us, you’d be NOTHING! We DESERVE to get all your work for free!
November 16th, 2006 at 11:19 pm
I can’t stand it. I just can’t fucking stand it. Yet another longwinded, perfectly spelled, totally wrong diatribe. This one happening to be about how DJ apparently “wronged” somebody.
Who cares. WHO FUCKING CARES! Take your sense of right and wrong and tell it to someone who gives a shit. Maybe in Abstractville there’ll be a grinning Cheshire cat who’ll say “have a hit of my hooka and tell me at length of internet wrongings, my friend.”
You know what’s wrong? Taking up Coffman’s time when he could be making comics. For US. For FREE.
November 16th, 2006 at 11:35 pm
Uhrm, I don’t have anything to say about snotty people or free art, but I would still like to say thanks to DJ for the links. My pageview count appreciates it!
November 17th, 2006 at 2:35 am
#2 most read DrunkDuck comic right now. At the very least, if THIS is what HBN associates with, it’s BOUND to look great in comparison.
Good luck.
November 17th, 2006 at 2:35 am
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