Comic: Con-grad-ulations

This weeks comic is dedicated to all our classmates from University. It is also dedicated to the people who motivated, inspired and who are ultimately the sole reason I personally went to University in Coventry. Without you, I would not have my degree, so I owe you a lot, and it allowed me to meet some of the best friends I could hope to know:

JB

Epic hat-hair

The Usual Suspects

So, as a 'thank you' to our lecturers - instead of giving them gifts, money and sports cars - we thought they would prefer a nice drawing:

From left to right: John Filippas, Anna Feng, Alastair Railton, Hisbel Arochena and Peter Every.

If we missed anyone out from this line-up (and we know we did) then apologies to you. Yes, you.

Terry has agreed that, if you appear in this image, and you are slightly insulted by it, you can personally take it out on him. He honestly doesn't mind. Make him cover a bunch of lectures, or something.

...I mean, a beret Peter?! How utterly condescending. Punish Terry appropriately.

JB

(...I mean, T/K)

Comic: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations

Apologies for the delayed post:

...and the excessively long title. Yes, were back to Sonic bashing - its how we seem to roll.

JB

Working hard, or hardly working?

Apologies everyone out there in dotGif land, a combination of hardware, illness and time issues have prevented this weeks comic from being finished in time.

It will be posted on wednesday and following Johns magnificent début at writing last week (well it wasnt exactly his first, but we don't talk about THAT one) I will be returning to pen this issue.

Oh and if you want someone to blame for the delay this week, blame whoever wrote the latest SSH worm on the iPhone, neither of us have an iPhone but we've been too busy laughing.

T/K

Comic: Modern Mindfare

This week, I wrote the comic. Okay, so you know that now. So.. Here goes:

Due to Terry's sister hitching up with her guy (gratz Jemma & Rich), he didn't get one written. Well.. I say he didn't - he did - but I wasn't so keen on it, and he wasn't around to bounce ideas off. So, I made this, on account of being sickened by the unending mentioning of this goddamned game, which, I have decided, I won't play unless forced upon me - out of principle.

Mr. Kotick, the CEO of Activision made something stupid, like $30 million from this title. That might be the value of his stocks in Activision - or something like that - but you could basically say, that he made a fair bit. Added to that, is the games' ~$300 million sales in the US alone, from the first 24 hours. THEN, partner that with Activision-Blizzard thing (Blizzard make WoW, WoW makes $infinity per month), and 2009 becomes a very happy time for the shareholders of either company.

Anyway, rant over, money was made, publicity was rediculous, and I wanted to express the sort of insanity that might be brought on by someone not knowing what a 'Modern Warefare 2' is. Turns out it was all a rouse.

JB
I think, in the same way I was once quoted as saying "I'll never play Super Monkey Ball.", my will power may wane, and the possibility of bandwagon-jumping could be high. On account of my love for Super Monkey's in Balls.

Comic: There Will be Blood

And lots of it, it seems:

A quick look at Bioware's new game show cases a wonderful texture rendering, where you and your party can be caked head to toe in the crimson macabre. In the comic, we question whether or not this was raised with the department responsible. It seems not.

And, if you do not directly recognise the person sat at the far left of the table, then some viewing may be required. Yes, him.

Also, this is the first comic drawn on the new and improved Bamboo tablet from Wacom - yes, one friend described the Bamboo line as the 'Wacom Poverty', but I sadly cannot justify dropping £300 on an Intuos4. Having said that, the new Bamboo feels good to work on, and, although I speak for myself here, is a massive improvement over the standard/old one. I go into detail here.

JB

Comic: Budgeting

Our slightly late Halloween comic. Oops:

We wondered what life would be like in an financially-attuned summoning chamber, where assets and consumables were closely monitored by 'that guy'. We all know every office or workplace has "that guy" -  they are either saying no to new flatscreen monitors and quad-core PC's, or rationing paper-clips but they are everywhere, and they are legion.

We also liked how the recession could even affect the dark arts.

JB
Interesting fact: this comic is based on an e-mail conversation between myself and Terry... Don't ask. Its always best if you don't ask.