I've been suffering from one of the worst bouts of insomnia in the history of mankind.  It's been making me real sick, so production on commissions and various projects such as "Opey the Warhead" have been extremely slow.

Regarding "Opey the Warhead", I've had a crisis of faith in the series of late.  I fear I've been working on the series for two and a half years and don't have much to show for it.  I do know I'm lucky to have the readership the comic possesses but, for all the time I spend on it, it still remains an obscure comic.  With each issue of Opey I complete, I always ponder whether or not it should be the last one, mainly because it takes a long time to complete an issue (6 or 7 months).  This time, though, I really just don't know.  It's a labor of love but, perhaps, a futile one.  

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Friday night, though, I did get some sleep, probably because my body finally crashed from two weeks of little to no sleep (I didn't sleep at all again last night).  I had the strangest dream.  I was the 6th Doctor from the original "Doctor Who" series (played by Colin Baker) and
I was in a supermarket trying to prevent an invasion by the Daleks on Earth by beaming lumps of bread into outer space.  Why there was a transporter in a supermarket and how whole grained goodness could send the mighty Dalek empire to its knees I'll never know.  

Anyhoo, I stepped outside the supermarket and the parking lot was gone, replaced by what looked vast desert-like archaeological excavation site.  I could see what looked like the remains of walls belonging to an ancient city long since extinguished.  Digging up the walls from the sand were these giant monsters.  One has the fiery red fur of an orangutan, massive clawed hands, and an elaborately ridged head with enormous tusks jutting from its mouth.  There were some other giant creatures, too, but I can only remember the red furred one.  It talked to a nearby creature and, in English, it told its friend that it intended to eat me.  For good reasons, I ran away and hid.  As I did, I noticed this enormous futuristic portal that looked like it belonged to a spaceship sticking out of the sand.  Apparently, these monsters were digging up some ancient ship or, perhaps, a portal to another dimension that had been lost to the sands of time...and replaced with a supermarket.  Holy Lovecraft!

Then I woke up.  I can thank my cat for that.  Maybe I was about to learn about some ancient secret man was not meant to know and my cat wanted some Purina chow at 3:00 in the morning.

Have any of you guys and gals in DA land had any interesting dreams lately?

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Cartoon Network sucks.  I kid you not.  Not only do they show live action stuff that defiles the very premise of the cable network, but the cartoons they do show are mostly animated in flash.  Now, Flash animation, mind you, has its uses.  It's great for solo animators who can't afford a studio to animate their work, for internet games and advertisements, and as a tool for enhancing cartoons in general.  But it's an outrage to see multinational companies cutting corners and using for their cartoon series when they could, I don't know, spend a little money to produce a cartoon that doesn't look like its characters are suffering from a nervous twitch.  I hate jerky flash animation used in what's supposed to be a major cartoon series.

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Speaking of sucky, have you seen the Sci-Fi channel's new logo, "Sy-Fy"?  It looks incredibly bland, like the logo you might see on your local supermarket.  The old symbol was classy, but now the Sy-Fy channel (as it's now called) wants to be original and futuristic with it's own supposedly cutting edge emblem.  Bah.

I also caught the beginning of one of their "original" Sci-Fi Productions late last night.  It was "Caved In", a movie about giant prehistoric cave-dwelling flesh eating beetles.  There can be nothing good said about a film that not only shows you all of the monsters in the first 5 minutes of the movie but how they work and act.  No need for suspense or build-up, alas.  

In addition, there's unnecessary gore.  After the scene where the beetles attack and munch on a bunch of miners, we go to some totally unrelated scene located somewhere else involving a bald guy and an Old Wheel-chaired guy.  This evil bald dude tries to get this old wheel-chaired guy to sign a contract.  Old Wheel-chaired guy doesn't want to.  Bald guy then sticks a pen into old wheel-chaired guy's hand, telling him to sign the contract.  Old Wheel-chaired guy still doesn't want to.  Bald guy then cuts off Old Wheel-chaired guy's hand.  This really annoys the Old Wheel-chaired guy.  Now he really doesn't want to sign the contract.  Old Wheel-Chaired guy is then stabbed to death.  At this point, you're really missing the beetles...

The Sci-Fi channel is really messed up anyway.  A cigarette ad in a old Twilight Zone episode is blacked out by the network, nipples are blurred out, and curse words edited out, but having someone's intestines wriggle out of their chest cavity at 1:00 on a Sunday afternoon is not deemed too offensive.  What a wacky world we live in.

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Although you've probably seen it before, check out MacDoninri's ( ) masterpiece, "Welcome to Deviantart World:



Besides a veritable army of dazzling compositions all centered around this virtual world we inhabit known as DA, it features in one panel a certain nuclear warhead (and note his tattoo).

MacDoninri is an excellent artist and I'm honored he allowed my creation to show up in his art.

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Zsunstragedy ( ) wondered when I'll mention her in my journal again.  I'll think about it, ZSuns.  Maybe I'll mention your name, Zsunstragedy, in a future journal. But not this one.



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Twin Peaks is an amazing show.  I love that evil Audrey.

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