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Requiem of Sanity

by Major Sheep on January 25, 2008 at 6:16 pm
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Huzzah for new updates!

Hopefully, a few of you stumbled across the new main page on your way to this blog. It was a labor of love and the first lurching step along the path of realization in the King Sheep philosophy. What philosophy is that? Why, it’s a zen philosophy of course. That means that it cannot be directly explained and must be discovered on your own. Amen.

The material covered in the previous week’s comic is a fairly accurate depiction of the creative processes here at King Sheep Productions, at least in its resolution. We may one day give you a glimpse at the dart gun warfare and poker trash-talking, but those are a different worlds entirely. However, I don’t mean to imply that we have the kind of malicious cooperative environment enjoyed by other web comics. We definitely participate in far more Bondage than actual blood-letting.

I’ve also posted a new voting incentive on Coming Distractions in the comics section, so check that out and help us get our score up so we can get “the word” out! Speaking of sketches, I got a new sketchbook a little while ago. Normally, I only go through one sketchbook a year, but freelance jobs are increasing, so I’ll hopefully get back to my adolescent pace of one sketchbook every fiscal quarter.

Choosing a sketchbook for myself is a long and drawn-out (haha!) ceremony similar to the part in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where Indy’s staring at the vast collection of cups, trying to pick the Holy Grail. Only, instead of a small chamber in the Valley of the Crescent Moon, I’m in Michael’s. And instead of a thousand-year-old crusader and a couple of Nazis, my companions are slovenly employee with colossal dandruff and a couple of Microsoft engineers. I’ve for some reason developed the need to decorate my books over the last couple of years, so when I saw this certain sketchbook, there was simply no other choice.

Yes, that sticker says “I love Cuties.” My wife put it there, but that doesn’t make it untrue. I believe cuties are one of life’s great joys. As for the rest of it, I did not position the golem in the photo and can thus not be held responsible for my interpretation of its pose. Inspiration struck like an arrow, and I simply followed.
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01/25/2008

by Major Sheep on January 25, 2008 at 12:01 am
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Working through the title

by King Sheep on January 24, 2008 at 8:20 pm
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When I was hip-deep in my English major lifestyle, a trusted teacher once told me that an effective title can help save a bad thesis statement. The notion is that if you are struggling to sum up your paper’s goal/main point into one sentence (the thesis), you should work on having a catchy or detailed title to help share the argumentative load. The reason I bring up this example is because producers have just unveiled the title of the next Daniel Craig James Bond movie and, after reading it, I’m confused. I’ll let you read it for yourself. Here are the titles of the last five James Bond movies.

GoldenEye
Tomorrow Never Dies
The World Is Not Enough
Die Another Day
Casino Royale

and now, Quantum of Solace

Okay, so ‘Quantum’ meaning an amount and ‘Solace’ being comfort from sadness, so the title is The Amount of Comfort or Dr. Wussypants: or How James Bond’s new title makes him sound like a whiner. Perhaps my knee-jerk-to-the-groin response is too harsh. Maybe the title will look great on a poster. I have to admit that one of the strengths of Casino Royale’s relaunch of Bond was making him human (with faults and feelings) rather than a cold war terminator with two settings (hump and kill). So perhaps a movie based on Bond’s depression following the events of the previous installment, will add more layers to Bond’s previously-shallow narrative. But.

It’s still a little weird. Thoughts?

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01/18/2008

by Major Sheep on January 18, 2008 at 12:01 am
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Tornados, ice storms, and other cuddly weather disasters

by King Sheep on January 15, 2008 at 6:44 pm
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The last part of the title was really just me copping out on creating a full list. When writing (especially blogging) I have a habit of wanting to describe things in blocks of three. Perhaps its an unspoken commitment to ancient patterns, or maybe it’s just me being anal, regardless I’m a tri kind of guy. Anyhow, I really only have two cuddly weather disasters to discuss. First, tornadoes. I’ve never seen a tornado outside of Hollywood depictions and it’s not on my bucket list anyway. The reason I bring it up is because one touched down near my parent’s house last week causing a path of destruction through my old neighborhood.

Looking at how close it came to ripping the roof off my old stomping grounds, I was hit with a combo of sadness and helplessness (and a smidge of coolness). Since when does Vancouver Washington have a tornado problem? Then, last night, my current stomping grounds (Pullman WA) was hit with a severe ice storm that laid a nifty blanket of ice across the Palouse. This morning, my 5-minute bus ride to campus took an hour because the bus couldn’t get up a hill.

Is it just me, or does nature seem to have a grudge against the world lately? Severe weather in the English Channel sank a ship yesterday and several people froze to death in the Middle East after getting caught in a cold sap. I don’t want to make the obvious connection that these severe weather patterns seem like something out of a Hollywood movie, but don’t these examples seem like something out of a made-for-tv movie? While a rationalist may address these examples with a simple explanation (hey, it’s winter), the extremist in me is left to watch the skies. Be wary gentle readers, weathermaggedon is upon us.

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