captain's log; RE: my absence

hello everyone who reads this. (which i don't imagine is that many people..)

i know i haven't done a comic in a month.

i could make up all the excuses i want, but that's not gonna really help. the truth is, i have been very busy with this new family business starting up, and my life is just a huge clusterfuck that i don't even want to deal with right now.

not to mention this horrible mental anguish i seem to be going through everyday these days.

i don't know. i'm hating life more than ever right now, and that just screams bad news.

i need to disappear from the world for a little bit; no blogs, no twitter, no msn. there will be no box. either until the new year at least.

happy holidays.


-rhee.

captain's log; RE: box. got reviewed!

click here for the review!

this is by far the best thing i've ever experienced while working on box.

someone actually thought the comic was worthy of a review.

i know it's not really a big deal, in larger scheme of things, but it's definitely an accomplishment for me. =) check out the review and leave a comment maybe? or just read it and move on. i don't really care.

the next comic should be on thursday. =)


-rhee.

nine thumbs-up? what the hell is that?

The New Comic

I'll start by thanking those of you who emailed rhee about the new comic. It's always encouraging to hear that someone really enjoyed something you've done. I think rhee had numerous emails telling him how his newest strip was their most favourite. So, thanks ;) I wrote it late one night and re-wrote it the next morning after a good rest, maybe I should do that more often. Hopefully we have the next one up on time, it's being written as we speak (well, I'm on break right now).

But with the calming of one shore starts the tsunami to another. My script that I am writing for school is suffering the effects of my inability to stick with a decision. I haven't touched it in days and it's because I've been thinking of ripping out ALL the flashbacks involved in the script. First, I read it over and it didn't seem as if the flashbacks were adding much to the film. Then I erased all the flashbacks and read it again. Other than a few spots where the continuity doesn't match up (which is a nice thing to notice), the script seemed to flow a lot better and I only have to deal with two storylines instead of four. I always hate cutting scenes, I have to get over that and understand that cutting things can actually add to the script.

Ever since I've stopped smoking weed, less people come over. I'm not saying there's a correlation, because maybe time is just passing slower now. Tick.... tock.

Kind of like that.

captain's log; RE: NaNoWriMo, FFXI, box.

wow. simox. actually posted.

as i looked at the main page of the blog, i realized that i have yet to make a post in november. so here it goes.


today, i signed up for NaNoWriMo. for those who don't know what that is (i didn't know until just about fifteen minutes ago,) it's this thing where you write a fifty-thousand word novel over the course of november. i had never even heard of this before, but Neko with a Katana (of smackjeeves,) talked me into signing up.

i'm not a very good writer. as most of you know (if you are a box. reader,) the reason i went on hiatus the first time was because i couldn't write anything interesting for the comic. so going from, "not being able to write a comic" to "writing a fifty-thousand word novel,"... well, it's pretty scary to me.

i'll keep updating how my novel is going on the blog as i go. for those intrigued, you should sign up too. =)

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i quit WoW recently. blizzard was starting to treat their customers like handicapped two year-olds, and personally, i don't like being treated like a handicapped two year-old. it was fun for a while, i met some cool people, etc. etc. but i left it all behind because none of those things held any real meaning in my life. it was "good-bye azeroth" for me.

i went through this "dry" period for two or three weeks, then something was triggered in my brain as i was driving home last week. i started thinking about FFXI, (aka Final Fantasy 11.) i was a launch player back in '02, but i never got very far. why i started thinking about it randomly, i don't know, but in the end (impulsively,) i ended up resubscribing for a month.

and like all games that is updated periodically, FFXI has changed quite a bit. it's still very difficult, but it's not impossible anymore. it looks very pretty, and aside from all of the minor issues, the game is still very very good. i pretty much left azeroth, only to land myself in vana'diel. i like vana'diel. i like it a lot. it earns big points for not treating me like a handicapped two year-old, (it actually feels like i'm being treated too much like a real man.) it earns big points for not being overrun with ten year-old kids who think they're hot shit.

if i had friends who played the game, that would make my experience complete.

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box. box. box. the halloween strip was pretty good right? we've been receiving a lot of good feedback on it, (thank you,) especially about the ending.

funny thing about the ending though, we came up with the ending literally ten minutes before it was drawn. that's how we roll. we give off the illusion of preparedness, and professionalis--*

wait, no we don't. never mind. either way, i'm very glad everyone enjoyed the belated halloween comic.

over the past couple days, i've been thinking about shirt designs. box. is still very young, and it has no catchphrases. so how does one make a good shirt without an eye-catching hook? hmm hmm hmm.

i believe simox. is writing the next book as i write this blog, so given that my tablet doesn't go limp on me, the strip will be up on thursday.

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well that seems to be it for now. =)


-rhee.

when i write, i almost feel important.