Okay, so I barely use this blog. I put all my weird stuff up on my facebook profile (its private, though a reader or two have emailed me enough to let my defenses down. Otherwise, join the theory of everything comics group.) And then I post stuff from there on foundonthefloor.net

Anyway, its 4:30 in the morning and I ought to be doing other stuff, like sleeping.
So I thought I'd try to analyze "The Devil and the Monk".

Originally, I was writing "The Devil and The Monk" as part of God(tm). The guy in line, right before or right after was supposed to be a character from God(tm) somewhere in the middle of the story. Already, I was thinking non-linearly for God(tm), I wanted it to have all these tangents like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. That sort of structure of storytelling feels like the Internet being forced to be linear and traditional.

When I write long stories, I'll work on little sections, the ones that pop into my head, key scenes, I would sketch/write them out and then work around them.

My intention of this story was to explain how reincarnation can exist in a Christian Cosmological structure, but in a funny way. When I finished my first draft of "The Devil and The Monk", I thought I had something here. I was trying to get the rust off my joints and just dived into the comic.

Page 01 & 02 - (mind you, two pages on this site create 1 page of print. I didn't like how the comic book aspect ratio required you to scroll, so I cut it in half.) So, we're at the Gates of Heaven. I wanted it to feel light. I thought a lever would be very cartoonish, plus I threw in Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln is one of those character who you can't fuck up drawing. If you were to put a top hat, suit and beard on a Chinese guy; you would know that that's supposed to be Abe Lincoln.

Page 03 & 04 - Introduction of Hell. I'll have to admit, I appropriated the Monk falling into Hell from a page in Frank Miller's Sin City (that book is why I wanted to do comics). The Devils, I wanted them to be light as well. As if they have a routine. Hell is normal for them. Hell is just as boring and exciting to them as where you live.

When I was originally designing Alavaka (yes, he's unnamed here. yes, there will be a sequel, and that's the name he will be called and that's how I think of him lately)
I was going for a classic devil look: red with horns. But I didn't want him to be the Greek god Pan. So I played around with the horns and I drew him with the horns going through his eyes. Its as if he was constantly suffering and blind: ignorant to God. And that idea of horns being more like an injury really paid off. So I designed all the other Devils with the horn-as-injury ideas.

Page 05 & 06 - The Monk breaks the routines of Hell. I wanted the reader to feel a bit of stoicism here, an oasis in Hell. As if they're looking at a statue of the Buddha. Someone on Stumbleupon criticized me for making this character a Mary Sue, a character that was much too perfect. But the Monk isn't a character to me. I didn't give him a name or history or anything. You don't even know what kind of Buddhist he is. (Okay, by the cut of his robe, he's Thai. But I'm not saying anything about Thai Buddhists, I just think their robes are the most stylish of any Buddhist monk.) To me, he's just an ideal personified.

--Back to Hell: Again, making Hell feel normal and mundane. I also used racial slurs. I'm not saying anything bad about Asians (because I'm one), I just thought this is how Devils would speak. I mean, the White Devil is racist, why not the red ones?

Page 07 & 08 - Man, I was lazy with the backgrounds. Anyway, a reader who was raised Hindu was trying to figure out what the monk was saying in Sanskrit (or Hindi-- not sure) when he said "d'oh" he figured it out and nearly fell off his chair. Anyway, here I start to establish rhythm: Torture. Ohm. Torture. Ohm.

Page 09 & 10 - I wanted the torture to be light, cartoony and childish. Warner Bros. cartoons. Milton Bradley games. Oh, and I know I misspelled "butterflies". I kept the typo because there's something funny and childish about "butterlies"

Page 11 & 12 - Page 11 is either everything I abhor about media at that time or something Christian, since this was part of God(tm). Its how Hell would be for me. Here are the shows:
1. Home Shopping Network
2. Game Shows. As a friend of mine told me, its the death of the American dream.
3. That guy from the Westboro Baptist Church. The "God Hates Fags" guy. I'm sure somebody touched him once.
4&5. Tim and Eric from Adult Swim. I really hate this show and an old roommate really loved it. This show made me nauseous. It was trying to be funny by being awful. I know there's plenty of fans out there. Now think about how you feel about Twilight and Twilight fans. This is exactly how I feel about you.
6. A Christian puppet show. Okay, a concept as crazy and mind blowing as God embodied as a human being and then suffering as a human sacrifice so that we may join God should have nothing to do with hand puppets. This is what happens when you veer away from a Liturgical and Apostolic tradition.
7. TMZ- I don't care about what celebrities are doing. Its as if they are a sort of god. Its as if the death of a young celebrity is a myth that can be analyzed by Joseph Campbell or this or that actress fits a Jungian archetype. The people who I consider celebrities make or say something powerful. Pretty faces are just pretty faces (although, a pretty face with brains, now that's awesome)
8. Jerry Springer
9. I forgot which televangelist this was, but he's obviously a foney.
10. Chris Crocker. I once went to a gallery opening he was also attending. I did not make eye contact. I don't hate on him because he's flaming. Flaming Gay Men can be really funny people with really raunchy senses of humor. I hate him because he's an annoying attention whore and he got famous for being awful.
11. The Loonatics. This was Warner Bros. relaunch of the Looney Toons. They have no idea what they're doing.
12. Jerry Fallwell (I know I spelled it wrong)
13. Flavor of Love. I hate reality shows. And I used to like Public Enemy. No, I haven't seen this show. Again, its something people watch because its awful.
14. I think this is someone attacking a midget on Jerry Springer.
15. Some Christian show
16. A Japanese tv show. That's a guy in drag.

Page 13 & 14 - This is where Alavaka's character design paid off. He's a fallen angel with swords stuck in his eyes. He's mutated and twisted and in pain. Maybe he forgot Heaven. You could sort of feel Alavaka's anger. His frustration, his regret, his ignorance. At this point he's no longer a two dimensional character. He has some complexity. In one single panel, he has a horrible past.

Page 15 & 16 - I wanted to get back into the light-hearted mood. So I drew a crappy blueprint like in a Roadrunner cartoon.

Page 17 & 18 - This was the entire reason why this comic exists. This simple scene. A monk falling into a pregnant girl. She's about 3 months pregnant, when a fetus starts to kick. And I did base her mom off of Hilary Clinton. I didn't intend to say anything political. Its just that I liked how she looked and dressed.

Page 19 & 20 - I felt sad when I drew and wrote this part. I think after I established that Alavaka was a 3 dimensional character, his emotions came out better.He had a sense of loss and emptiness. He was always empty, and he thought torturing souls would fill that. But its as if he's more aware of that emptiness by being around this monk.

Suburbia is a type of Hell.

Page 21 & 22 - When I wrote this part, it just made sense. It just seemed natural. I felt something, a satisfaction, the same sort of feeling when I finished "Speak No Evil" I originally intended it to end at page 18, but there was something about that Devil that needed to be resolved.

From some of the comments and emails I've gotten about this comic, its as if I wrote a Sutra or something. I'm not Buddhist. I might know more about Buddhism than the average American, and I've tried some Buddhist meditation. But I'm Gnostic Christian and that has a sort of "poetry" that's more closer to Buddhism than it was with American Christianity.

Labels: blog, comics, God(tm), my work, religion

http://www.deadline.com/2010/03/gods-the-star-in-3-d-creation-tale/#more-27826

Eh, sort of.

I better finish this comic fast before it actually happens.

Labels: God(tm), movies

If you've been paying attention, I had some computer problems lately.

I'm starting up a new section entitled "Citizen Kane Could Suck My ****"

This entire section will be in Flash, so if you have a slow connection, please be patient.

Also, I'm not updating weekly. At least for now. Maybe some time after I finish "Citizen Kane Could Suck My ****" but maybe not.

Anyway, if you haven't read "Joeb! Look Out!"

And if you haven't started at the beginning at all, go here.

Labels: comics, God(tm), my work, updates

In case you don't subscribe to the Rss Update feed, my good computer has hit a bad virus. So, in the meantime, check out this photoshop painting which I did on New Years Eve.


Shiina Ringo by ~theory-of-everything on deviantART

Labels: blog, God(tm), my work, updates

Vatican City, Dec 19, 2009 / 12:23 pm (CNA).- The Vatican made a declaration on the protection of the figure of the Pope on Saturday morning. The statement seeks to establish and safeguard the name, image and any symbols of the Pope as being expressly for official use of the Holy See unless otherwise authorized.

The statement cited a "great increase of affection and esteem for the person of the Holy Father" in recent years as contributing to a desire to use the Pontiff's name for all manner of educational and cultural institutions, civic groups and foundations.

Due to this demand, the Vatican has felt it necessary to declare that "it alone has the right to ensure the respect due to the Successors of Peter, and therefore, to protect the figure and personal identity of the Pope from the unauthorized use of his name and/or the papal coat of arms for ends and activities which have little or nothing to do with the Catholic Church."

The declaration alludes to attempts to use ecclesiastical or pontifical symbols and logos to "attribute credibility and authority to initiatives" as another reason to establish their “copyright” on the Holy Father's name, picture and coat of arms.

"Consequently, the use of anything referring directly to the person or office of the Supreme Pontiff... and/or the use of the title 'Pontifical,' must receive previous and express authorization from the Holy See," concluded the message released to the press.

I need to finish writing God(tm) because it seems that reality will write it for me.

Labels: God(tm), religion

I was also interviewed about the project. Check it out!


http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2009/12/unbound-elan-trinidad-on-god-tm/#more-29247

Labels: blog, God(tm), my work, review

At The Holy Land Experience you can watch reenactments of the death of Jesus Christ. Its a great photo op!

Since when has Jesus Christ become Mickey Mouse? And as I've said before, this is what happens when you don't have a Liturgical tradition. It just cheapens this 2,000-year-old tradition!

(Yes, I plan to visit for the sake of sarcasm and irony.)

Besides, they don't even use real nails and that's not real blood. This is why I'm proud of being Filipino.

Labels: God(tm), religion

[sauce]

LONDON, 10 APRIL 2007� Hibernator, a new site-specific work by London Fieldworks, takes as its starting point the myth of Walt Disney­ cryogenically frozen at the point of death and put into cold storage until technology can bring him back to life. On this foundation, the artists engage in multilayered riffing on Disney's animate, animatronic and animated creations.

The artists have created an animation studio within the Upper space at Beaconsfield and, for the duration of the seven-week exhibition, are engaged in the making of an animated film, Hibernator: Prince of the Petrified Forest.

Labels: animation, Art, God(tm)

Burbank, CA and New York, NY, August 31, 2009 —Building on its strategy of delivering quality branded content to people around the world, The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) has agreed to acquire Marvel Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE:MVL) in a stock and cash transaction, the companies announced today.

Under the terms of the agreement and based on the closing price of Disney on August 28, 2009, Marvel shareholders would receive a total of $30 per share in cash plus approximately 0.745 Disney shares for each Marvel share they own. At closing, the amount of cash and stock will be adjusted if necessary so that the total value of the Disney stock issued as merger consideration based on its trading value at that time is not less than 40% of the total merger consideration.

Based on the closing price of Disney stock on Friday, August 28, the transaction value is $50 per Marvel share or approximately $4 billion.

"This transaction combines Marvel's strong global brand and world-renowned library of characters including Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, Captain America, Fantastic Four and Thor with Disney's creative skills, unparalleled global portfolio of entertainment properties, and a business structure that maximizes the value of creative properties across multiple platforms and territories," said Robert A. Iger, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company. "Ike Perlmutter and his team have done an impressive job of nurturing these properties and have created significant value. We are pleased to bring this talent and these great assets to Disney."

http://corporate.disney.go.com/news/corporate/2009/2009_0831_disney_and_marvel_entertainment.html

http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2009/08/31/live-blogging-disney-marvel-investor-call/

Well, this just gives me more material and somewhat fulfills my prophecy.

Labels: blog, comics, God(tm)

When October rolls around (I'm being hazy, maybe mid, maybe late, maybe even early) updates on God(tm) twice a week.

There. I set a goal for myself.

I'm sorry, I've been busy juggling things, moving, and designing the colors on what will hopefully become a new animated TV show.

At least I've been writing and re-writing the second half of Chapter One of God(tm). I might post up a rough draft of part of a script or something via the Theory of Everything Comics Facebook Group.

Until then, I'm going to see about posting old stuff I keep in boxes that might entertain you.

Sorry to be dormant.

Labels: God(tm), updates

http://twitter.com/T_of_E_comics

I don't plan to tell you what I'm doing every single minute of my life.

But I do plan on tweeting every minute when I'm at conventions, signings or other events.

Think of it, if you want to see if I'm available to do a sketch or something, you could find out if I'm at the table.

Or maybe I'm heading to a panel discussion, and instead of walking around the floor at Comic Con, you think-- that sounds like a good discussion.

Maybe I'm completely hung over, and instead of going to my table expecting I'd be there, you'd know that I'm vomiting into a toilet.

Labels: blog, comics, God(tm), my work, Speak No Evil, updates

Just look at all the comments people have left on the shout box [most likely for God(tm)]

Olia Hoshi says "Nice, I like it."

Willetta Markham raved "Nice, I liked it."

Guntar Sheffield cried out with sheer joy "Very nice, I loved it."

Fionna Boland whispered in girlish glee "Very nice, I like it."

Agosto Kuruppillai yelled out of a fiftieth floor window "Very nice, I loved it."

Leona Willhoff communicated in sign language "Very nice, I liked it."

Hakeem Bress forged a neon sign using his knowledge of noble gases and talents in glass blowing exclaiming to the world "Nice, I liked it."

Granger Herod developed a new system of mathematics which uses nothing but prime numbers and fractions in order to formulate the simple and elegant idea of "Very nice, I like it."

Harbert McColl murdered a drifter that only exists in his mind and used the imaginary blood to spell out "Nice, I like it."

Dyane Farmer lost two colleagues during her climb to the top of Mt. Everest and planted a flag that states her feelings about Theory of Everything Comics which spells in Sanskrit: "Very nice, I love it."

Elli Capes was a 16th century sea going Captain who had mystical visions of the 21st century. One of his visions was of Theory of Everything Comics and in his memoirs, which, at the time were deemed evidence of his madness, gave a positive review of a web comic that did not yet exist and it said in remarkable handwriting: "Nice, I love it."

Kelly Buggie, through her psychic link with her male half-breed Chihuahua expressed, without words or facial cues, in consummate canine brainwaves "Very nice, I love it."

Wang Reiser had a car accident that left half of his body susceptible to the elements. Through a secret Canadian Government Project, that missing half was recreated, but as a robot. It took fifteen years for the Canadian Government to find an adequately realistic voice box. And as soon as his new voice box was 100% functional, he could only respond to the new and interesting web comic created by Elan' Rodger Trinidad. And in a voice that uncannily synthesized the tone and tamber of musician/actor Tom Waits, he said "Nice, I liked it."

...and then gave a pretty good interpretation of Tom Waits "Chocolate Jesus."

Thank you, all of you for your love of my work. If anyone would like to continue the tradition liking and loving my work, you are very welcome to. Just go to our homepage http://www.theoryofeverythingcomics.com/, scroll down a bit, and write in the shout box.

Labels: blog, God(tm), my work, review

comicbookreligion.com Is a nice long database logging the religious or non-religious affiliations of several comic book characters and characters of other media that have appeared in comics.

They just updated their site to include Joeb Kim, Mormotron and Mormobot.

Its one of those sites that you look at in two in the morning and you use it to impress the guys at the comic shop when you make the counter argument: "Batman is Episcopalian! He'd never say that!"

Labels: comics, God(tm), religion

This is the fastest I've done a section.

...Well, technically, I didn't draw it.

...No, correction, I just didn't draw it at all! (except for the coke can and the bowl of matzah ball soup).

I have a new respect and jealousy for clip art comics.



Check it out from the beginning.

Labels: God(tm), my work, updates

I've started a new section, Section 5: The Marketing Strategy. We're working with Guest Artist, Tom Tierney who happens to work for a very affordable wage.

If you haven't finished reading the last section, or just aren't sure if you finished reading it, or just feel like reading it all over again, its still available online.

And also, today is the last day to vote for the Eisners. If you are webcomics creator or comic book creator, you are eligible to vote.

As I've been making a big whoop about it, Speak No Evil is nominated for Best Digital Comic.

If I win this award, I guarantee you that I'll give a very memorable acceptance speech.

Labels: Eisner Awards, God(tm), Speak No Evil, updates

So, Memorial Day I was busy, had to do photoshop booger people for a pre-visual for a commercial (basically, none of my work will be shown in the commercial, but my work is being used to help develop the 3D look and make a test commercial for test merketing) and I voraciously emailed several sites asking them to review God(tm)

Check out the review at Fleen.com, he gave me a thumbs up.

Labels: God(tm), review

here's the right one.

http://theoryofeverythingcomics.com/updates/rss.xml

Labels: God(tm), updates

Usually, I don't blog about the newest page of my comics until I'm finished with a section. But by popular demand, I'm making an RSS feed available.

This RSS feed will let you know of the tiny updates and other news. I'll still let you know of updates on this blog, but this RSS feed is created for people who have feed readers.

http://theoryofeverythingcomics.com/rss.xml

http://theoryofeverythingcomics.com/updates/rss.xml


I have no idea what the difference is between the two links, but I'll make both available, and put nice little RSS icons on my comics.

By the way, I'm sleepy right now. I'll get around to making a nice RSS icon and generously post it around my website.

Labels: God(tm), updates

Geez, my unique hits shot from 100 to 500 hundred this weekend. And now I'm up to 3400 in just three hours.

[sauce]

...I think I'm a real comic book artist now.

Labels: God(tm)

I drew this for one of my fans, Nic from Georgia. He's the first fan to drop some cash into the paypal.

I'm thinking I might do commissions for fans soon. But I'll get to that when I get a bunch of things out of the way.

Thanks again Nic!

Labels: Art, God(tm), my work

I was just reading Paul Sloboda's review of God(tm)...again (I'm much too lazy to cut and paste the complete title right now, and at some point I ought to memorize it)

One of the things he likes is the pixellation of corporate logos.

The usage of low-resolution pixellation in the comic is a brilliant touch. I'm sure more than one person will think it's a problem with their browser. He employs this approach on a number of corporate names and logos, and it seems to walk hand in hand with the contractually obscured nature of the comic's title. Legally, I'm sure Elan couldn't stretch the copyright concept of "Fair Use" far enough to use the real St*tb*cks logo in every instance he has it obscured in the comic... but artistically, why would he want to? If copyright laws don't allow him to do it, it's their shortcoming he's illustrating, in their bold and clunky pixellated matrices.

There are several reasons why I do this:

1) I don't want anyone to sue me but I do believe in fair use. Its weird that modern media has to be a little careful to use corporate logos in order to artistically comment and express the realities of our modern world. After all, these billboards, t-shirts, banner ads, etc. etc. have invaded our world are part of the flora and fauna of our modern world. And depicting this or that fast food logo or this or that erectile dysfunction ad should be natural when we contribute to this culture.

I mean, I could use the real logos. But when this book sees print, I might be over using the logos so much that I could get sued.

2) I find it distracting when artists use fake logos. Look at Geof Darrow's work on Hard Boiled. There's familiar red cans that say "Cola Cola" in nice friendly letters and fake advertisements that whirlwind into the visual noise of urban life. I'm not criticizing Darrow's brilliant work, but you tend to pay more attention to the ads than you would to the ads in your everyday life.

I wanted something familiar, like when you see a guy on COPS and his t-shirt is all blurry. Or when you're out and about, past bus billboards, and you only give the ad half a thought because you realize your date stood you up (you know who you are).

There's something impressionistic about the cacophony of advertisements these days. And I chose to make it literal.

3) Some ads are just squiggles I draw in Photoshop and then I hit the mosaic filter. Making obscured ads is less time consuming than drawing fake ones. I'm also a very lazy artist.

4) One theme that is apparent, or will become apparent, in this story is equating corporate entities to deities. Corporations have the same rights as people. That's so the individual(s) who own a corporation don't have to deal with the fuss about paying taxes or buying pencils or going to jail.

But corporations have sort of become our pagan gods. We pray to them by buying their goods and services. They employ middle management and accountants as their priests. When we appease them, they make our economy prosper.

And when we say their name in vain and slander, they send their lawyers down from the heavens and hand us a cease and desist notice.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not some liberal who hates anything and everything corporate. But I am a moderate who looks at corporations with a weary eye, just like I look at the guy who asks me for change. I have benefited from corporate goods, services, and employment (especially employment) over the years. I'll be good to them if they shower me with electronics and movies and processed food. But corporations aren't gods. They're more like a cow that has walked into your living room. You want its milk and meat, but you don't want to have to plan your life around a cow that is in your living room.

And that's why we should vote for leaders who will (hopefully) take the cow outside and milk it for us, or in some cases, take it to the slaughter house.

Corporations are creatures that will do anything and everything to eat money. If what they do is helpful to us, we should reward a corporation for making our lives easier. They will tell us lies and half truths to make them believe in their brand, but in the end, you'll realize that this deodorant isn't helping you get laid, despite what the magic box says. But you like how it makes you smell because its a better option than how you'd usually smell.

5) Pixellation looks really cool. I wonder why it isn't used more often.

6) By obscuring a logo, since the colors were chosen to be associated with that brand, you still understand what that brand is.

Anyway, I hope this all makes me sound really smart and that I never get sued. If I ever do get a cease and desist notice, then that cease and desist notice will be used to obscure that logo.

Labels: blog, God(tm), my work, religion, review

Finally, after months of work, Rev. Joeb Kim CPA has finally stepped out of the coffee shop!!

We start a new section, or "part 4" as we call it.

Anyway, this is probably when I start to get angry letters. You'll get a better idea of what sort of story this is when things develop, far far into the future (with the way I'm going). Trust me, I don't plan to write cheap and shallow material on the expense of others.... unless I'm getting paid a lot.

Labels: God(tm), updates

Down at Fool's Gold Press Paul Sloboda did a review of God(tm). He says many nice things about it. And I say many nice things about his book. Lately he's been putting up comics online (partially because I told him to).

Also at Webcomics Overlook I'm reviewed along side all the other Eisner Nominees. This is a much more unbiased review. I'm not El Santo's favorite. But also he doesn't get that this story was a comedy and a tragedy all at the same time.

...either that or I can't make up my mind what genre to stick to when I write stuff.


At least he makes reasonable arguements.

Labels: awards, Eisner Awards, God(tm), my work, review, Speak No Evil

So, I had this print comic I did a while back ago which I put on the shelf. I thought it was pretty good.

Now I realize it needs a major overhaul.

Since the Eisner nomination, since this is the most completed comic, I thought I could just show this to a publisher say, "Look at me, I'm a nominee!" and it'll get published!

But. damn. shit. I promised myself I'd finish "A Dream of Conscious Thought"

sigh

I've promised myself that I'd work on God(tm) on Sunday.

Damn, I gotta put it to the side. There's that part of me that's a heartbroken angry 23-year-old who needs it.

Well, I promise that I'll have other content posted. Some written by me. Some a bit simpler.

Labels: blog, God(tm), my work, updates

I have finished two sections of God(tm) (c) 2XX8 *** ***** ****** ******* Incorporated. All rights reserved. God and all related characters, titles, names and documents are trademarks of *** ***** ****** ******* Incorporated. No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons and/or institutions in this deity with those of any living or dead person or institutions is intended and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental.

Or "God Trademark" when referred to orally.

Unfortunately, my site is horribly designed and you can't tell where part one ends or part two begins. So here's some help:

Part One.

Part Two.

At least, set-up wise, I've taken care of the back story. I just need to get Joeb Kim out of the cafe. (Now I can work on redesigning my site)

Labels: comics, God(tm), my work, updates

From now on, we'll just refer to this comic as God(tm) or "God - trademark" when referred to orally. The title is still God(tm) (c) 2XX8 *** ***** ****** ******* Incorporated. All rights reserved. God and all related characters, titles, names and documents are trademarks of *** ***** ****** ******* Incorporated. No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons and/or institutions in this deity with those of any living or dead person or institutions is intended and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. but none of you are sharp enough to remember that.

Anyway, Part 1 of "Meet Joeb Kim" is completed. As far as the story goes, nothing still makes any sense. Although, the next part will start to make sense.

But I have to rewrite it. And you won't see anything from the second part for a while.

So I suggest that you e-mail me at elanrodgertrinidad@gmail.com if you want to be updated. Although I don't expect too many e-mails because I haven't gotten to the really good part yet.

Labels: comics, God(tm), my work, updates

2008 was an interesting year, but I'm glad to see it go because most of it was spent "funemployed". Although I am thankful for several things, like people who actually read my comics and the high profile job which looks good on a resume.

But I should gear up for this year and try to create some nice goals for myself.

1) Publish A Dream of Conscious Thought on Lulu.
Some years ago I started a comic book company with some high school friends. This company failed miserably. At this company, I started a full color comic book called A Dream of Conscious Thought. It was a metaphysical sort of love story and was a way for me to deal with some love-life drama. Since that time I've gone through a relationship, gone on a few dates, and have found ways to make Ms."Love-life drama" feel very uncomfortable. So I'm not as emotionally motivated to finish the book, but its something I ought to finish. So probably after I'm done with the first part of God™ (and its only a few pages away from part one from completion, I'll prep A Dream of Conscious Thought: book one for Lulu which can be ready by spring or even earlier.

2) Finish my Tarot Card set
Maybe a year and a half ago, I started to redesign the Rider-Waite Tarot with symbols of my own (a lot of Star Wars and Kung Fu). I want to finish it and actually do readings with it (because it impresses chicks).

3) Take Yoga classes and maybe a dance class
I'm thirty and I don't exercise. Besides, I heard people who took Yoga have a better awareness of their body and doing that would probably help me with animation and some weird stage performances that I'm involved with. I wanna take a dance class because I don't want to dance sarcastically like a hipster when I'm drunk.

4) Re-design this site
I forgot what my hit average is. But it isn't bad for a horribly designed website. Sure I know Flash and I'm sure I could take a class, but I really don't have the time for that. I'd rather put my energy into making comics and art and have someone else worry about scripting. I would really like a forum for this site because I've found on reddit.com, people having interesting discussions about The Devil and The Monk and Speak No Evil that can potentially go in interesting directions. But this is something I could probably worry about when I'm on hiatus. I'm not sure when that's going to happen, and really, since my pockets were emptied out last year, the later the better.

These are the main things. I might quit smoking this year, but then again I've been saying that for the past couple of years.

Labels: comics, God(tm), holiday, Life, my work, Speak No Evil, updates, Work In Progress

Right now, I have a day job to contend with and some other projects I made promises for. At least God™ © 2XX8 *** ***** ****** ******* Incorporated. All rights reserved. God and all related characters, titles, names and documents are trademarks of *** ***** ****** ******* Incorporated. No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons and/or institutions in this deity with those of any living or dead person or institutions is intended and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. is at a certain part of the story where you can at least have an idea of where I'm going with it comedy-wise.

But to ensure my readers will come back when I finally do come around to working on the comic, here is the basic summary:

A well-known (but unnamed) multi-media and theme park corporation owns the intellectual property of God. A Deacon/accountant named Rev. Joeb Kim, CPA has to stop the Apocalypse.

I know, its a major web comicker faux paus to have a hiatus. But I'm sure that this can all be forgiven since I have been working as an animator (Character Layout is my official title) on a major prime time television show. Plus I'm coloring a creator owned comic book. Plus I'm working on a little Christmas surprise. Plus some other projects I promised for Coachella.

Let's hope I don't flake out.

Anyway, I'll still be posting things up on this blog. I've decided to try to have more of a focus on religiousy sort of things and not just Japanese Girl Rock Bands.

BTW, the first episode I'll be working on will air Spring 2009, most likely around May. I'll let you all know exactly when when I find out.

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As stated in an email from Arno:

"You crazy man. I'm glad that my face, or faces, are being used for the good of the people, in the name of art and uncensorship. This does mean that I have rights to your face for any upcoming project. Don't worry, I'll let you know when it's used. "

I told him as long as it wasn't porn.


A few years ago there was a Photoshop War and he did this great pic of me.


And he also did this collage, for some reason:

(By the way, neither me nor Arno know who the Asian guy waving his hand is, but he was just an Asian guy standing next to Richard Gere in a photo.)

Arno is an Armenian-American Filmmaker (www.therearno.com) and also runs a bookstore specializing in Armenian literature, culture, etc. (abrilbooks.com) Also, he has somehow inspired this music.

I hope my face appears with something involving a lamajune.

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Okay, two mo' pages kid. (yeah, its getting on a weird tangent)

...still haven't gotten a reaction from Mister Arno yet.

http://theoryofeverythingcomics.com/god/01/GOD01_09b.htm

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...at least in the foreseeable future.
So, check out the update for God™ © 2XX8 *** ***** ****** ******* Incorporated. All rights reserved. God and all related characters, titles, names and documents are trademarks of *** ***** ****** ******* Incorporated. No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons and/or institutions in this deity with those of any living or dead person or institutions is intended and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental.

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I've colored some previously uncolored pages and added a few more pages. Hopefully we'll see a couple more pages this week.

And if you're new, start here.





And now ladies and gentleman, Miss Macross herself, Lynn Minmay:



And now, ladies and gentleman, Ms. Reba West:



And now ladies and gentleman, an exceptionally cute fobby girl with a video camera, a microphone and too much time on her hands:



I think I'll court her some day.

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At CBC's Ideas they have a great show about copyright. The history of it, the original intentions of copyright laws, and how that idea has changed/deteriorated over the years.

Basically, copyright was intended as a temporary incentive for artists to contribute to the culture. Nowadays, artists don't always seem to benefit from it.

Obviously, from the long long title of God™ © 2XX8 *** ***** ****** ******* Incorporated. All rights reserved. God and all related characters, titles, names and documents are trademarks of *** ***** ****** ******* Incorporated. No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons and/or institutions in this deity with those of any living or dead person or institutions is intended and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. copyright will be a theme in the comic.


Check it out.

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On the Project Shadow Podcast The Award winning "The Devil and The Monk", winner of the 2008 Elan Rodger Trinidad Award in Comic Book Excellence and Bad-assery, was mentioned.

This is a sort of metaphysical Wily Coyote story, and the end is classic.

According to C. E. Dorsett, Project Shadow guy and blogger on Dash Punk.

This is probably the first response where someone found the story more funny than they found it spiritually enlightening. At least he understood the Wily Coyote part, although he seemed to have remembered the beginning all mixed up. He wasn't a fan of my other comics (and strangely, Speak No Evil doesn't seem to get much attention, even though I feel like it was superior in artwork and story structure, plus the first part of God(tm) (c) 2XX8 *** ***** ****** ******* Incorporated. All rights reserved. God and all related characters, titles, names and documents are trademarks of *** ***** ****** ******* Incorporated. No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons and/or institutions in this deity with those of any living or dead person or institutions is intended and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. has way better art, despite its incompleteness) that means, you ought to fast forward to 40 minutes in the podcast and skip everything else!

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Don't worry. I'm building up to something.

I've gotten a new job and its been taking up a lot of my time right now. I've finished some pages, but I haven't colored them.

Check out the two new pages.

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I've added two new pages to God(tm) (c)2XX8 *** ***** ****** ******* Incorporated. All rights reserved. God and all related characters, titles, names and documents are trademarks of *** ***** ****** ******* Incorporated. No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons and/or institutions in this deity with those of any living or dead person or institutions is intended and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental.

I finally get to draw some robots. Although, after the next scene, you won't see them for a while.

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I usually don't blog about the ins and out of my life unless I'm drunk and then I delete it. But things are gonna shake up personally for me very soon.

I got the call today. I got a really sweet day job starting next week. I'll let you know what it is at the appropriate time. Plus, I got a nice side gig which I'll also tell you about on the appropriate time.

The synchronicities are starting. I just had one tonight. Things are gonna start moving. I'll do my best to update my comics.

In fact, I just updated last night.

God(tm) (c)2XX8 *** ***** ****** ******* Incorporated. All rights reserved. God and all related characters, titles, names and documents are trademarks of *** ***** ****** ******* Incorporated. No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons and/or institutions in this deity with those of any living or dead person or institutions is intended and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. has two NEW PAGES. Plus, I added a joke to one page.

Okay. It's a full moon.

No wonder.

--onward!

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The first six pages of "God(tm) (c) 2XX8 *** ***** ****** ******* Incorporated. All rights reserved. God and all related characters, titles, names and documents are trademarks of *** ***** ****** ******* Incorporated. No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons and/or institutions in this deity with those of any living or dead person or institutions is intended and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental."
have been completed. Yes, that is the title. No. I haven't even memorized my own title yet. It's a science fiction satire about... well, you can guess by the title.
http://www.theoryofeverythingcomics.com/god/01/

I plan to update it little by little and then have my formal announcement that a scene is finished. I feel the story doesn't hit its stride around page 11 or 12.

And I'll get around to sprucing up the website since people are actually visiting it.

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This is a model sheet for

God(tm) copyright 2xx8 *** ***** ****** ******* Inc. All rights reserved. All characters and the distinctive name and likenesses thereof and all related indicia are trademarks of *** ***** ****** ******* Inc. No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons and/or institutions in this story with those of any living or dead person or institutions is intended and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental.

(You can see these characters in this story or jump to the pages that they appear.)

He (or they) start off as a minor character. I was doing an homage to classic Floro Dery designs.

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So, my next big comic project is this sci-fi satire comedy where Christianity corporatized. ( I'm trying to make this one beautiful as well as witty (I'm tired of dick & fart jokes. They're too easy and very predictable), making model sheets, doing exploded views of backgrounds, colors, etc. Unlike Speak No Evil and The Devil and the Monk this is not an exercise in drawing fast. I was trying to develop a rhythm and speed. By the way, "The Devil and the Monk" is part of this story.

Right now, the working title of this humorous opus is:
God(tm) copyright 2xx8 *** ***** ****** ******* Inc. All rights reserved. All characters and the distinctive name and likenesses thereof and all related indicia are trademarks of *** ***** ****** ******* Inc. No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons and/or institutions in this story with those of any living or dead person or institutions is intended and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental.

(2xx8 is pronounced: Twenty-ex exty eight. Plus I can't seem to do that trademark and copyright symbol on Blogger.)

I think the title is too short.


Anyway, here is a model sheet of one of the lead characters.

Asians are very easy to draw. All I need to do is find a mirror and I have great reference. (C'mon, Jim Lee draws Wolverine a bit slanty-eyed and no one's complaining!)

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