New Years

Happy New Year everyone.

I caught Avatar in 3D with my family the other day. It was interesting to see in 3D but I don't know if the 3D as amazing as everyone makes it out to be. I've never been a huge fan of 3D, it can be distracting and it dims the picture so the colors aren't as vibrant. Avatar for the most part uses 3D the way I think it should be used, that it that it adds depth to the picture rather than throwing things out at you from the screen, And yet there are still moments where James Cameron (that's the writer and director of Avatar) seems to not be able to resist throwing something at his audience.
I didn't notice this in the 2D version, but when you have dirt, or grenade clips, flying out you it is distracting and frankly took me out of the movie. Avatar also sometimes suffers from overload of things in the foreground. I didn't notice this in the 2D version, and really most of the time it's not a problem in the 3D version, but there are times that because of the framing and the objects in the foreground that things look a bit funny. After some thought on I think that if you plan on seeing Avatar 2D may be the way to go. I was excited to see it in 3D because a number of the movie critics I read said that the 3D was amazing, and while it's good and you can certainly still enjoy the movie with it, there are moments where it's too distracting. My family seemed to feel the same way, they seemed to enjoy it but commented on how they don't like when weapons and things poke out at you from the screen.

No comic on Monday, I'll be back in Idaho and getting things ready for the upcoming semester, I suspect that I will be back to my regular schedule on the following week though.

No comic today. Check back New Year's Eve. I'm going to try to have something up for New Year's. I had a rather nice Christmas back home with the family. I received a new camera which I am excited about. I'll be able to start taking pictures again. I hope your Christmas was awesome as well.

Merry Christmas

Hope your Christmas is excellent.

Sliced Bread

Check back on Christmas Eve for another Christmas themed comic.

I went Avatar with some friends on opening day. It's good. The special effects are amazing. Probably the best computer animation I've seen, it looks incredibly realistic. The story is fairly predictable. It's similar to some stories that have been done like Dances with Wolves, or Pocahontas, but with a Science Fiction twist. Really though there wasn't a moment in this movie that I did not know where the plot was going, but I have to say I was never bored, always absorbed and this is a nearly three hour long movie. I saw it in 2D, but from what I understand the 3D is amazing and I'll likely see it a second time so I can experience it in 3D.

I also went to see The Box yesterday. The Box is based off an old Twilight Zone episode about a couple who receive a mysterious box with a button on top. The man who delivers it tells them that if they press the button then someone they don't know will die and they'll receive a million dollars. The Twilight Zone episode more or less plays out in first thirty minutes of the movie and after that it goes off in a new direction. There is a lot of strange things in this movie, and I'm sure there's some things that I missed. But it was interested in how it played out. I enjoyed the film over all but I thought the ending was not entirely satisfying. This one may benefit from a second viewing.

http://www.preilly-paul.blogspot.com/ There's a lot going on at my other blog. You'll find my latest news package on a Music Improv. class that was taught here at BYU-I. Also a supplementary video I did that goes over the improv. games used in the class, a improv. tutorial that I found on Youtube, a poll that you can participate in, and a cool widget that helps with writing music.
I also redid the video that I posted before this newest one. You'll find the new version just below the old version.

I didn't get around to recording a new podcast.

Have a great week.

Grant's Tomb

Well, it's been a busy week, but I still managed to get a Christmas themed banner up on the blog and a new comic done. Originally I thought I'd have William go through a list things like he did in this past comic but then I thought that I'd rather not and that I should just get to the point of what the joke is going to come off of. So here you go.

I'm not sure when I'll have updates on my other blogs for sure, but there will be some coming this week. I'll have links posted next week for sure. Currently I'm working on a revision of the last video I posted, as well as a new story and some supplemental material to go with it, and if I manage to find the time, I'll have a new podcast up too. It is finals week this coming week though so whether I'll find the time for the podcast I don't know.

Swings

Well even though in Idaho it's pretty much winter (temperatures here have been having trouble getting above freezing) I wanted this comic to look more like fall. I noticed I hadn't really been showing any sort of seasonal change in my comic so I decided it was about time I did that, especially since I did a Thanksgiving comic. So here we have Amy and William dressed for chilly weather, and William gets a different shirt, putting his shirt count up to two. Though it's really more a sweater, 'cause he's wearing his regular shirt underneath.

http://preilly-paul.blogspot.com/ I'll have my next project finished and up later today. I interviewed my roommate who works as a TA, for a physics lab.

http://preilly-paul.blogspot.com/ My next podcast is up. It's about possible trouble for the planned fourth Jason Bourne movie.

Gym

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I know I did. Thanks Uncle Dennis and Aunt Sharon!

I saw two movies over the Holiday. I'd recommend both. They were The Blind Side, and The Fantastic Mr. Fox.

Thanksgiving

Bonus Thanksgiving comic. So, its up Tuesday since I've got it all finished why wait longer. I hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving.

But She Knows Everything

Well nothing much to report with me this week. Since Thanksgiving will be coming up next week I think I'll try to get a bonus Thanksgiving themed comic up. I won't be in town on Thanksgiving so likely on Tuesday or Wednesday it will be up.

Fat

Things are getting pretty busy around here as Thanksgiving approaches. But things are good, I hope things are good for you as well. I went to a pretty good concert on Friday. I saw Allred, a guy that I like a lot, who opened for We Shot the Moon, a band I wasn't really too familiar with but they put on a good show and I'll likely be checking out more of their music.

http://preilly-paul.blogspot.com/ I'll have a new video up tomorrow (That's Monday) it's about students here on campus that are planning on teaching seminary.

http://preilly.podbean.com/ I have a new podcast up about the planned movie based on Monopoly. Yes, that Monopoly. The board that no one ever finishes. You can also now subscibe to my podcast via iTunes. Just search the podcasts for preilly.

No Comic

No comic this week. I have some drawn up, but I need to scan them in and draw them. So next week I'll have one up for sure. No sketch this week either. Sorry.

Free Hugs 2

Another "Free Hugs" comics. This one wound up entirely different than my original idea which involved Jenny Gomez and William having an argument and the Penguin showing up as the argument ended. Well I suppose the end of the argument is still there, though William isn't seen the Penguin still shows up. This'll likely the be the last of the "Free Hugs" that I do.

http://preilly-paul.blogspot.com/ I have a new video package up. It's about International students that attend school here, at BYU -- I. There is also a poll up on that blog that is related to the package, so if you wouldn't mind participating that would be awesome.

http://preilly.podbean.com/ Another podcast is up and it has to do with the Coen Brothers and their planned remake of True Grit.

Free Hugs

I've noticed a number of students with "Free Hugs" signs around campus for the past couple of years. I thought it was something for a class, or a BYU thing or something. When I thought up this I had no idea that "Free Hugs" was an international movement that was started by a man in Australia that calls himself Juan Mann. (You can read a bit about it here) So I was planning this "Free Hugs" idea not sure if anyone would be familiar with it at all. Then I saw that Oct. 14th was national Free Hugs day when I was watching the Oct. 14th edition of the campus news show I-News. (I wasn't on the crew that day so I didn't see the story until I dowloaded the podcast on the 21st. You can subscribe to I-News on i-Tunes if you want) So I'm late I missed National "Free Hugs" Day, but hey I'm still doing some "Free Hugs" comics.

I had the chance to catch The Great Kaplan with a friend this weekend. Kaplan is a magician, who does sort of a comedy show along with his illusions. He had some good tricks, some good jokes, and a thing for bowling balls. He started the show by making a bowling ball appear (by shooting a spitball towards the cieling, where upon a bowling ball dropped through a bag he had just opened. Later on that ball and another floated to the cieling. The balls stayed there for the rest of the show) It was a good show and I'd say that if you see him passing through somewhere near you it would be a fun show to go to.

Empty Pockets

Just a sketch today. I had a pretty full weekend, and I actually need to draw up a whole new batch of comics. This sketch is somewhat older.

I saw Where the Wild Things Are this weekend, and I gotta say I was disappointed. Visually it is a very good looking movie, it's interesting to look at the creature effects are very nice, and there are some very admiral qualities to the movie. There were things I liked, but it was not what I hoped for. I remember the book being a fun book, I could not describe this as a fun movie. There are a couple of chuckle worthy moments, but surprising few, and rather than fun in tone the tone is melancholy. Frankly there was too much of that too much of the melancholy for me. I thought I was going to a fun kids movie and instead I got a melancholy and rather adult movie. Not in content at all, but in its tone, its pacing, and ultimately what it is about. I doubt kids would enjoy this movie and the kids in the theater seemed rather restless. My sister went with me and she disliked it rather strongly. I liked it more than her, but I can't really recommend it.

I have some new projects up on my other blogs.

http://preilly.podbean.com/ A new podcast this time I talk about Toy Story 3.

http://preilly-paul.blogspot.com/ A new video on the schools Cross Country program.

Hope your week is awesome.

Tells

My other two blogs should be seeing some updates the end of next week, maybe early the week after.

So they redid the road in front of my apartment complex and it has got to be the shoddiest job on a road I've seen. All they did is put a layer of gravel on top of the old road, which I do not think is the standard policy for redoing roads but then again I'm no expert. The end result -- now that I'm sure what we have is the end result; it has been lined -- is that the road is quite rough, and rather uneven as in some spots as the new top has been stripped away to reveal the old road underneath. The gravel that was stripped away as clumped up forming small bumps in the road. I thought about going down to city hall and seeing if I could ask if this was standard procedure for road repair, but then I decided I would rather complain about the road in my blog. Though maybe I should find out how the city feels about the work that was done on the road. . .

Normal House

Just a single framer today.

Things here are going well, although it got cold really quick. It has yet to snow yet thank goodness. I still am hearing predictions that snow is coming soon though. Can't say I'm looking forward to that.

Nothing really too exciting going on right now. I had two assignments for my multi-media journalism class come do which means that my other blogs were updated.

http://preilly-paul.blogspot.com/ Here you'll find some video. The assignment was to interview a classmate. I had some technical difficulties that kind of hampered my original plan for this video, so it's not quite what I hoped for. I've also linked to the interview done of me.

http://preilly.podbean.com/ Here you can catch the second podcast that I've done this semester.

Maintenance

I had a pretty good week, and I hope that the same can be said of you.

I had a chance to see Jason Hewlett the musical impressionist with some friends on Friday and the show was amazing. He was quite funny. If you see that he'll be doing a show near you anytime I would highly recommend going and seeing it.

Rain

I'm back at school now and have a number of things going on now. I'm taking a Multimedia Journalism class now so I have two new blogs that I will be posting class projects on when they come due. Whether or not they'll last longer than this semester remains to be seen, but if you're interested you can check them out. This first will hold video projects the second will have podcasts.

http://preilly-paul.blogspot.com/

http://preilly.podbean.com/

I had a random idea the other day which is now a comic and can be seen here.
http://rerunofmyself.deviantart.com/art/Like-Fish-in-a-Barrel-137587238

I think fall is officially on the way as it was a bit a chilly outside today.

Thirsty

Labor Day

No comic today. I'll be heading back up to school. Instead here's a rather old doodle of Ben and the Penguin. I have no idea what's going on in the scene really. I did do a single frame comic a bit ago that I did not link to so you can check it out here http://rerunofmyself.deviantart.com/art/Shark-Repellant-134338789. I don't think I linked to that one yet.

I hope that you Labor Day is awesome.

Test

Jenny Gomez

Too Lax

Smells

So I didn't have a comic posted last week, and I have no good excuse for it. Here's this weeks though and as a bonus here's a link to another comics that I did do last week. http://rerunofmyself.deviantart.com/art/Frank-the-Dinosaur-132261292

I was asked if I had someone say just what Amy says to William before and the answer is yes.

Elephant in the Room

Workplace Lounges

Does anyone remember that part of Steve's government job was supposed to be that he would lounge around on the job? Here's a reminder if you don't

I colored using a softer brush this time around which is why things run out of the lines a bit. I think I'll be back to harder brushes next week.

I saw Harry Potter yesterday, and I thought it was great. Definitely one of the better movies in the series.

After the movie my sister and I went to a church activity that we were supposed to be helping with. It was supposed to be a concert and dinner in a park. It was threatening rain as the band was setting up. By the time they started playing, it was sprinkling. There was also quite a bit of lightning in the distance. Half way through their fourth sound there was a bright flash, and a loud crack, I spun around and I kid you not I saw orange sparks fly up from the ground probably about 100 yards away from us. The activity ended real quick then. And we managed to get good and wet getting things packed up.

Sing-A-Long

I like to sing along with the radio. I also like songs like "Brightly Wound" by Eisley which have a more feminine sound to them. Which singing along with a song like that (or I'm Just a Girl by No Doubt, or I Feel Like a Woman) can't be very manly. So that is what inspired this comic of Ben singing along to Brightly Wound.

All Dressed Up

Just a quick drawing. Hope your fourth of July was excellent.

Sad Looking Penguin

I don't much care for my drawing on the first panel. I really have no idea why the penguin would want Ben to walk him around but it seems funny to me.

Crowbar

Steve and his HAL ancestor computer again. If only Dave had thought of using a crowbar when HAL wouldn't admit his mistake then maybe all that getting locked out of the airlock type stuff wouldn't have happened.

Park Benches

Whoops, I'm late at posting. I really shouldn't have been this week was not any more busy than my usual. Here's a quick drawing to make up for it. I need to fix a bit still, but at least it's up in something of an incomplete draft.

Punting an Armadillo

I have no idea if this armadillo will be making any future appearances. I drew the first Armadillo comic, and really had no idea where to go with it. I guess we'll see if the Armadillo ever returns.

I saw Up this weekend, in addition to working, and coloring comics. If you haven't seen it yet you should. It is really a magnificent movie. I will be buying the DVD when it is released, and if anyone asked me to join them I would see it again in an instant.

An Armadillo

So the frames aren't straight and the art isn't really as good as some of the past stuff I've posted. Reason being? I actually drew this comic before any of the others. My original plan was just to use the original comics that I had drawn in high school and work my way up to posting this one, but I really didn't like the art in the old ones, and I think my writing is better now as well. This comic is rather sloppy though, the frames are kind of weird and nothing is straight because I didn't have straight edge at the time that I drew one. I later fashioned one out of a card that had the Sunday school lesson schedule that my bishop gave me. I have an actual ruler now that I use. Also I don't really know what armadillos look like, so I drew based on how I remember them looking in cartoons. Man, maybe I should buy supplies and research a little before I start drawing stuff. . . nah!

Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day! I hope that you are all enjoying the long weekend.

So you probably noticed that I haven't really been posting on Saturdays even though I said I would be. So how about we just forget the whole Saturday thing and stick with Mondays. There will be something here for sure on Mondays, and I will try to get it up Sunday night if I can.

2001-ish

Ever seen 2001: A Space Odyssey? That's a good movie. I'm not quite sure where the idea came from but somehow it came to me that Steve's computer would be like an ancestor of Hal 9000, or something.

Learn to Fly

Just a quick one shot, and it's late. It's been a busy weekend.

Meet Steve

Back when I originally started this comic, my friend was working an internship at a government lab. He made it sound like all he did was copy and paste information from one document to another and when he finished that he. . . well lounged around. I did some comics poking fun at this and well I've decided to bring them back in.

Girlfriend

I kind of wonder who the penguin girlfriend is, and what she looks like. I haven't a clue honestly.

Abnormal

I came up with this idea one day and thought it was so funny that I got started on it as soon as a I could. My getting started involved drawing the first panel. It wasn't until a couple of days later that I was able to sit down and finish this comic, and much to my frustration I couldn't keep the characters looking all that consistent. Not that I've been all that consistent on my drawings from frame to frame in the past, but it was especially difficult this time.
I get questions about how I draw these comics. And the answer is that I draw everything by hand. All the frames and the action in the frame I draw out and ink. Then I scan the drawing into the computer, and I use photoshop to clean the scanned drawing. When I'm drawing and inking I sometimes make stray lines, or don't form a hand particularly well, or I may even misspell a word. I use photoshop to clean all that up, deleting unwanted lines fixing hands or on occasion fixing spelling. After that I use photoshop the color the comic.
As I was coloring this comic, my sister asked my if William has only one shirt. My answer is yes. Yes he does.

Deep Thoughts

I've often had thoughts along these lines. I mean really why are they called red onions?

I'm changing my posting schedule. I'll be starting my summer job here soon, and since I did the same job last summer I know generally what my hours will be like and Mondays will no longer be a good day for me to try and get a comic up. I'm switching to Saturday, which means that you can check back on Saturday for another comic.

Proof

It's late I know. I don't even have a good excuse for not posting on Monday as I promised I would be. I simply forgot. But at least I got it up early today.

Funny thing about the last comic is people I showed it to before I put it online often said to me that the refrigerator light really does turn off. I know that, I think everyone knows that but I thought it would be fun to play with it staying on. It's part of the joke I suppose. So this is what came out of those comments.

One of Life's Big Questions

Mind blowing stuff.

Bigger Than it Looks

I can remember a news story that my Mom told me about years ago about a man running from the police that hid in his refrigerator. The police couldn't find him until his daughter told the police that her dad was hiding in the fridge. That really has nothing to do with this comic except that a refrigerator and being in the refrigerator are both involved. But really how could you live comfortably in a refrigerator? The only answer I can think of is that it is bigger than it looks.

Not really all that funny this week I know. I actually have to scan in the next batch of comics that I've drawn but haven't been able to get around to scanning in and coloring them yet, so just a quick drawing this week.

Pick-up Lines

It's later than I usually post I know, sorry if you checked earlier. A friend of mine actually had someone use a line like this on her when she worked at Coldstone.

Where would you take a penguin?

Ice cream sounds good right now.

He's paying to be there?

It's March -- Happy March! The weather around here has been warming up, the snow is starting to recede a bit, and yesterday could only be described as a nice day. I'm liking the change in weather.

Penguin in the Frige

Hey, look at that, I fixed the image size so that when you click the comic you don't have to scroll around to read it. Honestly if I discovered a previously unknown penguin in my refrigerator, I probably freak out too.

A penguin

Happy Presidents Day! If I had a penguin it would live in my refrigerator too.

Becoming a Landlord

I've had maybe one or two landlords in the past that seem to take this approach, of ignoring problems reported to them, until I just got tired of waiting for them and took care of it myself. For the most part though my landlords have been pretty good.
I don't think this is the funniest thing that I've written but it is setting up some things to come, so don't stop reading now. ;)
I think I'll try to make Mondays my regular posting day. We'll see how long that lasts but for now we'll say that checking on Monday will be a good bet for finding something new here.

Post the first

So my brother is using his blog to post a comic of his. (check it out here http://www.quentin8.blogspot.com/) That gave me the idea, to steal his idea, and post my own. So this is it. I've actually been drawing comics with these characters since high school, but the ones I did in high school didn't look good, and frankly weren't scripted all that well either. So I've restarted, and I'm taking all my best ideas from then and mixing in new ideas from now, and frankly I am much happier with it. I hope you enjoy it too.