No incentive sketch today, guys. I’m running WAY behind and I wanted to get the comic up and running first without messing around with a sketch.
Sorry that the comic is so late. To explain myself, I offer these pictures:
It’s a huge, 12 foot long triptych that I painted for our family room that I completed and hung last night.
Of course, like an idiot, I was working for about 4 hours in my garage painting the last panel with a heat index of 110 outside. By the time I was done hanging it up, my back was killing me and I was completely drained. So I decided to take advantage of my unemployment situation, sack out early and get up in the morning to finish the comic.
So, again, sorry for the delay.
This painting is something I’ve been “working” on since January, but could never really find the time to complete until I got 8 hours back during my day a few weeks ago. It’s the perfect solution for our family room, which is ridiculously long and impossible to decorate. We’ve spent years trying to find the right configuration and I think we finally have the room the way we want it. The triptych anchors a very long and very blank wall and I know that Cami is over the moon about it.
In fact, this morning, when Henry came downstairs for breakfast, he noticed the painting right away and said “I like your paintings, Daddy.” So I think I did okay.
As for the “let’s make Shia a bad-ass conspiracy,” obviously it doesn’t hold water. But he was really on a bender this time last year, getting arrested at a Walgreen’s and kind of flirting with the law. I always kept the idea tucked away in the most cynical corner of my brain that it was all orchestrated on purpose to distance LaBeouf from his Disney past. But, again, I’m just playing it up for laughs.
I mean, smashing someone’s hand with a hammer? Funny, right?! I’m chuckling about it even now. Thank you, Tom & Jerry cartoons for warping my sense of humor.
Not much else to talk about today except that I’m off to see a 12:00 PM showing of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Once again, taking advantage of the unemployment situation. But don’t worry. I’m also looking for jobs during this downtime as well.
I just figured that since my hopes weren’t all that high for Transformers, it would be better for me to see it during a matinee rather than try to fight the crowds on Friday. Why make an unpleasant situation more unpleasant, right?
Originally, I was going to go to the theater that’s 5 minutes from my house. But as I was looking up show times, I saw the movie is also playing at the only IMAX theater in central Iowa. So, despite my reservations, I think I’m going to drive the extra 20 minutes in the car and shell out the extra three bucks at the ticket counter to see it on the big, big, big screen. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Anyone else planning on seeing the show in IMAX? What are your expectations for the movie? Leave your thoughts in the comments below!
Oh, and thanks for being patient with me today!…
What is?
LaBeouf's "accident."
The studio concocted a cover story to make Shia look more like a bad-ass.
Remember: This was the kid that starred on Even Stevens.
So what really happened?
Who do I make it out to?
Uh, "Mike Hammer."
You shouldn’t expect the whole thing to be in IMAX format – only a few scenes/shots of fighting robots fill the IMAX screen (like The Dark Knight) but the rest of the movie is in normal size widescreen.
I don’t see how you can dislike / hate LaBeouf so much; Try as I might, I just can’t.
Great comic though!
The painting for your living room looks great. I’ll bet that when company sees it you’ll get offers for commissions. I’m looking forward to transformers movie athough it has me going why is laboufs charicter getting visions? Couldn’t they find some more reasonable excuse for a human tag along in the movie?
Yeah, I’ll be seeing it in Imax as well. In the exact same theater too. Though I’m not getting out there until Sunday. Stupid work schedule.
Caught it this morning in IMAX. Great picture and sound (as you’d expect). Idiotic dialog and brain-dead plot. Oh, and a decepticon that farts a parachute. And another that humps Megan Fox’s leg.
Definitely a flick where you go and turn your brain off.
The scenes in IMAX with Devastator took my breath away. But everything else was a total bore and a little difficult to watch in IMAX (even though I was sitting far back).
People complained that it was difficult to make sense of the action in the first movie on a regular screen. Multiply that by 100 in IMAX.
I might watch it again on DVD. But I don’t think I’ll go back and see it in a regular theater to try and catch anything I missed. It’s WAY too long and full of itself.
I watched this with somewhat high hopes…and nearly walked out. If I wasn’t required to stay to tech-screen the print, I would have. Even after it was over, I thought about going up to the booth and burning it to save everyone the embarrassment of possibly enjoying a thoroughly horrible experience…
Wow it doesn’t sound all that great. I don’t keep up on entertainment news so I had no idea it was slated as being so awful. Seems I’ll catch it on DVD and save my money.
That painting looks really, really good there.
Ever thought of selling those paintings? You might be able to create an income from that.
Those ARE pretty cool.
Those paintings are very cool.
I’ll be skipping Transformers 2. I only watched the first one because my 8-year-old nephew brought it over and made me watch it. I love Transformers, but these movies are just bad.
Looking forward to Moon, though! And the Larry David movie that I keep forgetting the name of.
Thanks for the compliments on the paintings, guys.
I haven’t thought of selling them. I guess because it was a custom job for our house, you know? I need context to paint something. Maybe if a friend asked for something specific, I’d whip something up for them. But off the top of my head, I can’t think of a design that I could sell off the back of a truck.
For me, it’s more about how the whole room works and how the paintings fit in that context.
Maybe I should become an interior decorator?
1) The painting is really cool!
2) Sorry you wasted your time and money on Transformers 2. One of the most accurate reviews I saw of the first one was that it looked like someone took two giant balls of car parts, rolled them down a hill and then filmed it in extreme close up. Haven’t seen the second one yet (and I’m in no hurry to do so) but it sounds like that still holds true.