Billi 99 has been reviewed by the Kipster, a man of better taste and quicker wit than I. Good things are said eloquently.

Updated the Oz Comics page again this morning. Wow that’s ugly. And it will only get uglier before it gets better. I’ll be able to do a little yuck factor adjustment once all the images and text is in place but it will still be an ugly child. Poor thing. Maybe, someday, if I go to finishing school I can pass on some refinement.

I think I’ve found all the Oz comics I’m going to find on the net. I suspect that Classics Illustrated did a Wizard adaptation. I’ll have to look. I’m going to contact some of Oz fansites and see if anyone knows about any, more obscure comics.

I spend time at the computer in mornings – coding, scanning, photoshopping, writing. This as the caffeine shifts me to what I consider more or less normal for now. Artwork gets done in the evenings and weekends after chores. When the caffeine is wearing out. Fortunately, once I’m on an art roll, I usually perk up. Sort of. The challenge is getting the energy to get out the drawings and make myself start working.

Loaded images to the Oz Comics page. More images and some text to come. Probably tomorrow.

In other news – it’s raining in Seattle. But only a light drizzle.

As you were.

Okay, maybe without the heroin drag. But basically I know a few simple codes and I find myself typing them over and over. And then correcting the darned things when they don’t work. Unless I’m working with a template my webpages all look very plain. Plain is good because plain isn’t as ugly as complicated bad design. I’m not a good designer. Not a horrible one, just not a particularly good one. What little design sense I have comes from hanging out with people who are good designers.

All of which means nothing other than I spent the morning working on the Oz Comics page and then didn’t post it before I had to go to work. It’s still a sloppy mess. Better (at least wordier) than what’s up now but so what? You can’t see it.

Blah blah. Happy Tuesday.

Finished posting all the sketch images to the Oz Squad sketch pages. Created an Oz Comics page – mainly because I couldn’t find a webpage anywhere that was dedicated to Oz comics. Same reason I created the Oz Squad page to begin with. Just a first half assed draft so far. There are some links that need fixing. Lots of images to hunt down.

I should also go back to the sketch page later this week and add some more text. I do most of my writing during dull spots at work or before seven o’clock in the morning so I’m sure it will be brilliant.

I’m in the process of updating the Oz Squad page over at my Keenspace site. Nothing huge. A jpeg of the first cover for Oz Squad #1. A tweek of the text. A link to a sketch page. The first draft of the sketch page with the first sketches.

I’ll post again when I’ve made more changes.

From the Killing A Few Seconds Online Department – the Wu-Name Generator.

The Perry Bible Fellowship

Nizzibet has taken to herding geese. Most mornings we drive down to Golden Gardens, park, eat some sort of breakfast and stare at Puget Sound. The parking lot and lawns have a small flock of Canadian geese wandering on them. After breakfast, if it’s not raining, Nizz picks a goose, usually one of the males, and chases it. It’s not much of a chase. Nizz can’t really run. Neither can the goose. If it were a seagull it would just fly away as soon as it started getting annoyed. Geese would rather walk away from trouble if they can. So Nizz walks a couple of feet behind the goose. The goose walks away, swaying back and forth and twisting its neck to keep Nizz in sight. A very slow ambling sort of chase ensues.

Nizz usually ends up boxing the goose up to the edge of the sidewalk where the land turns to rocks falling down to the Sound. They poke along, back and forth for a time before she decides to let him slip past. Once he gets back to his mate he puts on show of honks and hisses and neck bobs. Victory over the human!

There’s No Place – another one of those grim Oz stories, this one with a rhyming psycho Scarecrow. I’d probably buy the series if I ran across it at a con (because if I could afford to go to a con I could afford to buy stuff, especially stuff that puts its hooks in my completist collector mentality) but I just can’t see myself making the effort to order it.

Oz/Wonderland Chronicles –

Says the promo copy – “Oz/Wonderland Chronicles takes Dorothy and Alice (now college students) on an adventure, back into the realms of their childhood. Even though Dorothy spent time in Oz, she has forgotten about it. Alice attributes hers to daydreaming, or childhood dreams. But what neither of them realizes is that Oz and Wonderland, and the creatures that inhabit those lands, are real. The Oz/Wonderland Chronicles is set in modern day Chicago, it will be a blend of the 3 worlds as Dorothy and Alice set out to find the cause of the disruption. Somehow, creatures from OZ and Wonderland are finding there way into downtown Chicago.”

Um. Blah.