Another blog bites the dust..

I should've written this awhile ago. For those of you who subscribe to this feed, or look at the blog, you may have noticed that it seems to be a little quiet in here. I mentioned a couple of posts ago that I was moving to a wordpress blog. Well the move has taken place and I stopped updating here. The main goal is to create a new webpage that combines the blog, homepage and comic all in one page. Now I've accomplished most of that, I transferred the site feed on the current home page to accommodate the new blog. So update your bookmarks, this is the new link to the blog: http://tomcatltd.com/wordpress/ It's a little rough around the edges so far, so I haven't launched it yet, but you can browse Same Apartment and read the news, so it's in the final stages. This will be my final blogger post and eventually this blog will be unavailable to view, but fear not dear reader the posts you've read and loved are in the new one. In fact I've amalgamated all the blog posts from here all the way back to 2005 for your viewing pleasure.

Same Apt Listen with Me..

I don't own the lyrics, I never said I did, you can't prove anything!

This started out as an MJ memorial piece, but since some people seem to be sick of the subject I thought, why not make something for music in general? So here I am, with a giant picture that took a crapload of layers. Kinda reminds me of this I did way back when. I've been trying to do a Gar and Mac pic to go with the Posey and Mort pic that I did last year. I think this is as good as any. I definitely like the way it came out.

Leetle White Rabbit..

Posey is pale. What can I say? That whole blush thing started long ago because I was trying to add color to her. Anyway, sorry for the delay in uploading this one, but it's been a shitty week. I don't mind saying that, because it's not just what's in the news, but here at work too (new managers trying to impress people always work against the peons doing the actual work). So all in all it's been a shitty week all around. Who knows, maybe with a new month coming in we'll be able to turn this around (justkeepswimming..). But enough about that. What good news is there? Well here you go, I finally got started making a new site. A couple of weeks ago, I started up a wordpress blog and am working to convert the site, from my own bubblegum and string code into something that is not only easy to update, but easy to change if the thought strikes me. I'll have you know, I had things to change about the current version of the site as soon as I put it up. I'm actually typing this up on Wordpress as we speak. So that's one of my goals. I'll have the feed ready asap, but for now the posts are going up simultaneously on blogger and wordpress before the blogger version of the blog (both of them) go down for good (and don't worry, all of that ranty goodness isn't going anywhere, because I've already gotten the archives from both blogs going back to 2005 already on wordpress).

Also, you know what else is a good thing? This comic, by coincidence, goes up on the third anniversary of Same Apartment! I like that because I wasn't able to celebrate the second anniversary because of the blackout last year when my computer died. And let's not forget the fact that I've been a part of this wonderful deviantart community for three years AND this is officially my 300th deviation. So I guess good things do come in threes, even THREES (unless you count the wordpress thing.. then that's four..)

Oh, and Faded-Myth, this Gar shirt is for you!

No Trouble Dougie..

What can I say about Dougie? Does anybody get this one? I barely do and I wrote the thing. We bought Terminator 2 Judgement Day a couple of weeks ago and they have the extended special edition in there where there's more scenes in the asylum. One of the creepier moments involve something in the theatrical version though. It has Dougie the creepy orderly licking Sarah's face while she's under her medications.

Nah, nothing will come of it. It's just me drawing some funny pictures. Honestly, how many onomatopoeia are there involving tongues? I just had to go with "LICK"

Oh, and look another arbitrary milestone!

Edit: Apparently it's in the theatrical version too.

Denver Braineater..

It's a couple hours late, but I don't care. It's not days (or weeks) late, and it doesn't look like crap. Someone the other week mentioned that Denver was introduced like he'd been there the whole time. And no, I'm not picking on you, I love that kind of critique. It's because it makes me think of things like this. That last panel was a lot of fun. It's been too long since we've gone to Gorey's. And look! A Gar shirt. Haven't seen one of those in a long time.

Bub..

You know what, I almost forgot about it being Wednesday. The comic on the site's been up for three hours.

Really what can I say about such a simple comic? It was a funny idea that popped into my head recently. What I liked is that I got a chance to fiddle with the background a couple of times. I originally was making the lines for the walls and what not with vectors and it was coming out too sterile and that made any fault in perspective really glaring and I wanted nothing to do with it. So I lost the lines and started painting free handed. Sure it's not as detailed as all get out, but it looks nice. Takes me back to the early strips somewhat. I also had a bitch of a time getting the pacing right with those word bubbles. I spent all of Monday morning putting that together, but hey that can be entertaining too! Look at them dance!

A Newcomer Approaches..

Introducing a new format in this one. I originally made the horizontal comics to save time on the thing and it worked for those little comics like say this one, but unfortunately for a comic of moderate size like say this one or this, required more space and got crammed (I even had to make that last one a little bigger to accommodate all the words in there). So I thought why not instead of trying to cram everything in a small space like that, why not just do what Penny Arcade and PVP do and just extend the comic down a little. So I took my 11x6 comic and extended it down into an 11x12 comic. And in doing so, shot myself in the foot. Because, like I said, I made the original horizontal comics smaller to save time. Maybe I just don't know the term streamlining..

But enough about me.. This comic's about Mr. Ashley Denver Gorey. He's a professional gamer, and I don't know if there are too many of these guys running around, but let's say in the Same Apartment world there are. It's pretty self exclamatory, he tests games and on the side plays in tournaments. He and Mac work well together don't they? This comic was done because while we had some wonderful jokes to go with the guy, we had no way to introduce him. We thought about doing another comic like Mac's introduction, but that seemed like a retread. See Denver is what Mac was originally. When she was first thought up she was going to be this antagonistic gamer to contrast Gar's more zen-like perspective. So the only things we could think about for his intro was Mac's story.. But hey I thought, why not just put him in there? And then we thought about the intro to the comic and the three main characters (it burns to look up those hyperlinks, you'd better appreciate them). So here's Denver. I hope you like him. Or hate him. He's just that kind of guy.

Same Apartment Treks On..

That was a wonderful break. Well break implies that I took one, but you get the idea.

I saw Star Trek last Thursday. It was a blast. Sure there are some naysayers out there, but I'm easily pleased (let's not forget my opinions on Speed Racer). A successful reboot if I ever saw one. You should go see it. Anyway, this continues the tradition of the movie comics, started way back with Spiderman 3. Last week (the one that got cut) was ironically the Wolverine comic (and no it wasn't because the movie wasn't up to snuff, just the comic), and no, Gar wasn't dressed as Wolverine in that one either. About midway through the inking process I just started to think to myself "This isn't working." Maybe something will come out of it, but if it doesn't then I'm not too broken up about it.

Oh, and just about everything from this comic is from something. I'm not going to say what. You should already know. And if you don't.. I'm taking away your nerd license. Just in case you need a hint?