You may (or may not) be wondering why I’m doing a “Programming Note” early in the day, perhaps even noting that this is when the daily comic review, Saturday article link, and this week’s The Clutter Reports goes. I usually only do these to have the weekly site update when I don’t have a Jake & Leon comic for the week. Well, I don’t have a NEW comic this week, but today happens to be the end of year sixteen for the comic, on time and on the same day the comic usually comes up. So tonight I’m doing the annual “best of”, showing off my favorite comics that I made this year for whatever reason they stand out for me. Sometimes it’s the subject, sometimes it’s something I did with the art, and sometimes I just nailed something so good that I’m really proud of it. So I’m posting that in the usual comic spot and giving the cast the week off.
Speaking of The Clutter Reports, the latest “quick report” has me getting the “artputer” organized and backed-up, which was easier than I thought, so I added a minor assessment of how I’m doing this year. Still not where I want to be but I seem to at least having a chance to get my act together.
I don’t know how it comes up on email, but if you come here from The Tronix Tumblr, which I really need to do something with beyond site promotion, you might have noticed I goofed up twice this week and didn’t put a summary of the post. Instead the first paragraph showed up. Basically, I goofed, and hopefully that won’t happen again. Meanwhile, we have the penultimate installment of the Chapter By Chapter review of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image and the final section of the first of two pitches for putting the Transformers cartoon on CBS. I have changed the category of “Story Bible Review” to “Story Bibles & Pitches”, which is a better reflection of how the writer’s guide reviews expanded to successful and failed sales pitches. We aren’t even close to done because after this one failed, Marvel Productions and Sunbow took notes and tried again, but now we get to see planned story ideas. I love seeing what made it to other incarnations and if the ideas they had were any good, so this should be fun.
As for the rest of the week? In the–no pun intended–spirit of Halloween, all of this week’s Daily Videos will have a spooky time theme to it. As for the remaining feature articles, we’ll see what happens. Sometimes what the corporate entertainment industry hits us with is scary enough.
Have a great week, everyone!
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