New Part X update

Well it's been a bit more than a month so I thought I'd better do an update. Unfortunately I've been having a miserable time for most the last month so I haven't been able to work on the comic as much as I'd like.

Anyway I've uploaded a Part X update about Barach Gold.

The next instalments of Part IX and XI are probably somewhere between 1/2 and 1/3 done so hopefully at least one will be ready in the next month.

Part IX x update

At last another update. I know it's a part IX x update but I've been busy. I am working on updates for Parts IX and XI and have some ideas for Part X updates. You should be seeing at least one of these in the next month or so.

I don't know if you read blogs by other web site creators but they allways seem to be complaining about their miserable lives. I don't know enough about any of them to say how justified these complaints are. However my life's been terrible the last couple of years, a friend died, a family member's had to go into a home, I've been sick, even the weather has been awful! Is there a conspiracy against web comic creators or what?

People I know were recently in a controversy involving an award which is voted on by people who attend a convention (for which you have to pay) or others can vote if they pay $5. Well you can vote for my web comic at a number of places (links on the site in multiple places) but hardly anybody ever does. Why? If you don't like the comic, let me know why and I'll see if I can fix it (but not if your complaint is something like, "I want something like Peanuts" or "I use IE 8 and I'm too lazy or stupid to install a plug-in or another browser so can you do the comic in VML?"). Even if you put your complaints in the forum or something, you might get people arguing with you and getting me more publicity. You also now have buttons to share this blog on Facebook and Twitter.

Does anybody even read this blog?

New Part XI update

Yes, at last a half way decent update. Well this takes more time than a lot of other comics. Now we get to see what's happening inside the space station.

I've discovered that some objects don't show up in all browsers. Can you figure out which ones?

Another update

Well it's been a while. I've had various things on my plate. Yeah it's another Part X update but there aren't many of those left (you've probably realized that we're running out of charactors). I'm going to try to get another part IX or part XI update in the next month.

New Part XI update

Yes, at last another update and this one's worth seeing! It has a complicated space station that was modeled in Blender and still hard to draw. It also has a fair bit on animation and I've gone to some lengths to have it still be intellegable in browsers that don't support SMIL.

New Part 9x update

Yes, I know what you want, updates for Parts IX and XI. Well I'm working on them! In the meantime I've got a new Part IX x update featuring Tiffy!

Time to dur the "Ride of the Valkyries"

Yes, in this update we get to see some Mech: Van Goes actually flying. We also get to see a bit more Tiffy.



There are of course more Part X and Part XI updates in the pipeline and possibly a Part X x.

New look Part X

Now you have a new and hopefully improved version of Part X with an added bit about Hernandez. You can see the new bit by clicking on Hernandez's picture on the picture at the top. Yes cleaverly using an SVGZ image to control a different frame!

Needless to say updates for parts IX and XI are still in production so look for those in the coming weeks.

Avatar

I went to see Avatar as a nice romantic treat on Valentine's Day. I realize that this movie was already three hours long but I felt there were a few things which needed to be explained.

Were the twins identical or not? I know somebody said they had identical genomes but they never actually used the term "identical twins". Also I find it hard to believe that a scientist had an identical twin who was a marine.

How do you go to the toilet when in a pod operating an avatar (not to mention being paralyzed by a spinal injury)?

There was a brief mention of Pandora having low gravity but they never said how low. Everything seemed to fall at normal speed.

How long were the days on Pandora? Also being a moon of a gas giant, you'd expect there to be frequent, and possibly long, eclipses (from the planet but there were also other moons) and the planet shine would often make the night rather bright. Perhaps Pandora's rotation locked and all the action took place on the side facing away from the planet (I don't remember how often the planet was visible in the sky). I've thought about these things because one of the short stories Dragon Knights is based on was set on a moon of a gas giant and I did work a strategically timed eclipse into the plot.

None of Na'vi seemed to be pregnant. Isn't pregnancy obvious in them or don't they reproduce very often?

What was the toxic substance in Pandora's atmosphere (obviously it wasn't that toxic as humans sometimes survived breathing it for several minutes)?

How did those mountains float in the sky? I'm guessing it had something to do with unobtainium but I'd like a bit more explanation.

What exactly is unobtainium and why do people want it so much?

Where were the cute flying buffalos?

Omega space station

Yes, I know, it's yet another space hardware technical info page. Well you will see that I now do have a Blender model of this. This will be the last technical info page for possibly a very long time. I now have the space hardware models I need to do the next part XI update. I'm also working updates for Parts IX and X and may put up something for Part IX x. Of course it's parts IX and XI you're really intersted in (isn't it? - feedback is good people).

On a totally different subject, it seems that Obama has cancelled NASA's plants for manned space flight but given them money to do something more inovative (after all that effort getting something reliable rather than another overly complicated thing like the space shuttle). I'm not sure what that means, perhaps they'll come up with something like the Stormrider and/or the Red Bishop? It's things like this that make you wonder if there really is a Stargate program.

Finally a new Part IX update

Yeah, it's finally done. The Part IX update that's been driving me insane for months! Tell the men in white coats that they can turn round and go back to the funny farm without me! If they're really desperate for work, I'm sure they find somebody else to drag back and give electric shocks to.

Anyway this has some bikini clad elves and out last look at the Red Bishop for a while, perhaps ever!

The next update will probably be a Part X but there's also another Part XI update in the works and another space ship background info page (I know you all love those). It depends on what gets done first and how long it takes.