We finally got round to watching Speed Racer a couple of nights ago. I have to admit, when I originally saw the trailers – they didn’t interest me at all. I quite liked what the Wachowski’s did with V for Vendetta, thought it looked like they’d lost the plot with this release.

As far as the story goes, it’s not the most developed of plots, and the characters are all pretty 2-dimensional. In fact there are plenty of negative reviews on-line for this film (rottentomatoes = 36%, IMDB = 6.5) and I probably wouldn’t have bothered if not for reading the reviews posted on boltcity and radiomaru. It’s not surprising that the 2 positive reviews I read for this film were written by illustrators, this film is indeed a visual feast! And the whole film reads like a comic book borrowing story telling devices from manga (all it’s missing is a blook gushing nose), and fusing film with animation resulting in a distinct, yet usual blend. A must, even if solely for the visuals.

I’m gonna go watch the Special Features…

Decided to change the name of the webcomic. The strips seemed to focus on me and Criss more so than the village. Welcome to the Ste-Regular. Any thoughts?

Added a page for my other comics! Only a couple on there at the moment. The comic I drew for Hourly Comic Day can be found over there if you missed it first time round. Had a couple of chaotic weekends recently meaning only being able to update once a week, hopefully get it back to twice a week from Monday.

Site was down yesterday due to exceeding it’s bandwidth… meaning I’m getting more internet Love!

It is indeed back online now (as you can see) and will have a new strip up before the week is out. In other news, currently getting some quotes on a printed volume of The Ste-Regular! Stay tooned.

Currently working my way through all the books I bought at this years con… Highlights so far being Monsieur Cadwell’s Glastonbury postcard book, Chloe Noonan #2 (Marc Ellerby) and Greasy Joe (M. D. Penman)

We also had BIG FUN on the train finding things in ‘Intricate Dwellings’ by Philippa Rice (you can buy it here)

I’m sure there are some more gems in here, just need to find the time to READ THEM ALL!

New Years day morning brought no hangover this year, but instead… Font shopping. I took advantage of Comicraft’s 24 hour sale where all fonts prices plummeted to an affordable $20.10!

Picked up a nice slender number I thought may come in useful for those teeny speech balloons – goes by the name of ‘CREDIT CRUNCH’ also bought ‘BIFFBAMBOOM’ which I believe speaks for itself… Along with ‘SHOUTOUT’ for those balloons which just need that extra bit of volume.

Look out for them in this years strips!