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Archive for April, 2009

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Adventure #264: Pain Mail

by on April 20, 2009 at 12:42 pm

Posted In: Comics

So basically, whenever I’m given a specific day to wait for something, I go ahead and make sure I stay home all day and wait until said object arrives. In this instance I had been told that a friend had ordered me a DSi, and placed it on “Overnight Shipping” on saturdat night, and wouldnt be able to get to me the next business day, which would be monday.

Well golly you can imagine how peeved I was when I find out that “overnight shipping” requires an extra day for shipping if done on a weekend. Gee shucks, that doesn’t sound like it’s overnight at all!

Bah, I’m just peeved I kept running to the door everytime I heard a large truck trundle by like some sort of sick pavlovian dog. Damn my need for cool things.

└ Tags: aggrivation, brett, DSi, Mail

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Adventure #263: Thimble Theatre

by on April 19, 2009 at 12:00 pm

Posted In: Comics

The odd part about this comic, not the fast that it seems hastily thrown together, is that it was 100% manufactured in a dream. Literally I remember quite well dreaming up the entire thought process, including random commentary from people I know who Im sure werent in the bed with me at the time.

I’ve read through all of James Kochalka’s book and theres been times where he’s written entire paragraphs simply in his dreams, I suppose I’ve been doing these for so long, they’re starting to seep into the very depths of my brain.

Frightening.

└ Tags: dream, thimble

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Adventure #262: Flat Answer

by on April 18, 2009 at 11:18 am

Posted In: Comics

Sometimes a simple question deserves a simple answer.

└ Tags: barnes & noble, brett, cafe, work

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Adventure #261: Burnt Out

by on April 17, 2009 at 1:23 pm

Posted In: Comics

So, since I got an overwhelming amount of feedback to start Brightleaf as a webcomic, I’ve made a small descision:

Sometime in the summer I’m going to cut my dailies to five days a week, and then on sundays I’ll post a page of Brightleaf, so I can keep my daily comic audience and test the waters with Brightleaf for a while. I’d like some feedback on this idea, but I think it’s a good way to feel my way into this storytelling medium.

Hooray!

└ Tags: brett, comics

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Adventure #260: Brightleaf and The Sojourn into Web2.0

by on April 16, 2009 at 10:05 pm

Posted In: Comics

Adventure #260: Brightleaf and The Sojourn into Web2.0

So I was looking at a few webcomics my friends have been running, and just webcomics in general, and I just got to thinking that, perhaps with the discipline I’ve built up with The Daily Odyssey, that maybe I’d be able to actually pull off a full fledged serial webcomic!

My only fear is that I’d also be writing a full story, and that I might miss the ability to play around and experiment with my style and colors, like today for example! I just had this idea out of the blue, to see how fast I could churn out a comic of this size. I think I pulled it off relitively well.

So here’s the question I pose, what do you guys think of dedicated story webcomic VS. journal webcomics. YOU DECIDE!

└ Tags: brett, brightlead, comics, drawing, eyeball, webcomics

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Adventure #259: The Faceless Caterpider

by on April 15, 2009 at 12:16 pm

Posted In: Comics

Normally I don’t remember my dreams but this was preeetty vivid! For a while I was stuck in that half awake/asleep mode and thought that Cat/Spider/Catepillar was trying to gnaw off my legs for reals.

Why can’t I remember the awesome sexy dreams?!

└ Tags: brett, caterpider, dream, sleep

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Adventure #258: WKRAP – Home of The Z Morning Zoo with Mark & The Doctor!

by on April 14, 2009 at 8:06 pm

Posted In: Comics

Adventure #258: WKRAP – Home of The Z Morning Zoo with Mark & The Doctor!

Alright, so I’m normally not up this early to even listen to it, but morning drive talk radio is the most acidic thing to listen to. Such phoney attitudes, shitty jokes and just pretty much a big case of trying to damn hard.

And since I’m a long time fan of Howard Stern, it really, really hurts. Yes I know, its low-brow humor, theres alot of poop jokes and goofy bits, but it’s the human drama and off the cuff improvisations that draw me in. I mean who couldn’t be interested in that lovable heroin addict Artie Lang? Or the continuing marital problems of Sal the Stockbroker? Compare to the Stern Show, every other radio show just sounds completely rehearsed and tired.

Wow, I’m just preaching to like… .001% of my audience, sorry about that!

But seriously that’ll teach me to charge my iPOD before heading off to work..

└ Tags: brett, ipod, morning show, poultergiest, radio, the big show

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Adventure #257: Achey Breakey Heart

by on April 13, 2009 at 11:41 pm

Posted In: Comics

I suppose this would seem trivial to most people, but they’re probably my closest friends from back home, and this is such a super tough position to be in, they’re both close friends, but it was a pretty messy break off, so it’s gong to be touchy trying to communicate on both sides.

Why probably upsets me even more is that I feel completely helpless, I can’t comfort my friends, pretty much all I can do is talking with them via the internet or phone, and the trickle of information is very slow. I don’t want to be quick to blame either side, or anything like that.

Argh, why can’t I have a magic teleporter to join my friends on Long Island in their time of need? I’ll admit, that since I’ve lived in Savannah, communication has been slowed, and I just feel like a terrible friend when I get news like this, like I’ve missed so much of their life, and alot of the good times, it seems now…

└ Tags: brad, break-up, brett, dana, problems, sadness

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