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THAT BITES

by Tom on November 20th, 2009
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THAT BITES

The mounting sense of pressure I blogged about with Wednesday's comic became very pronounced while I was writing today's comic.

It's been interesting tracking these last few comics about New Moon. You guys are very into it. You're posting lots of comments and submitting ranking votes in record numbers. All good things!

The ranking thing I really blowing my mind. As if this writing, 101 of you ranked Monday's comic and 92 of you ranked Wednesday's comic. When you consider the average is about 20 people, it feels really good when a comic generates over 5 times that level of interaction.

So keep it going! Keep rating the comics! Keeps submitting your feedback in the comments section. I love to read about what you guys think, so let's see more of that!

To that end... I feel a little embarrassed that I ended the arc this week with a very lame and obvious pun. But I at least hope you find it endearing. It's nice to put a bow on these things sooner rather than later before they get drawn out.

I'm wondering if anyone here saw the midnight screening of New Moon last night and if so, what did you think?

Consensus among critics is trending downward. As of this writing, the film has been given a 29% rotten rating at Rotten Tomatoes. When you consider the original Twilight averaged about 49% positive, that's a red flag. Obviously Twilight has a contingent of die hard fans. But now with New Moon, nearly 25% of the people who were on board with the first movie have jumped ship. Why?

I've read that star Robert Pattinson isn't in the movie much - really only at the beginning and at the end. Co-star Kristen Stewart ends up carrying most of the movie.

Of course, this shouldn't be a surprise to fans of the books. And certainly the movie has hit upon a piece of choice casting by adding Taylor Lautner as Jacob. So there must be something that's keeping it from connecting with the critics.

Of course, this is entirely moot. The film will do just fine at the box office this weekend. Entertainment Weekly is already predicting an $80 to $100 million haul. Obviously they'll film the next two books as well. It's just food for thought. I'm all about realistic expectations, people!

Time to leave your thoughts in the comments below! Are you one of the Twi-hards who saw New Moon last night? Let us know what you thought!

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MORE INFO

by Tom on June 27th, 2007
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First, I wanted to say thanks to everyone who has sent e-mails or left comments in support of my computer problems. I'm getting lots of great feedback.

Truthfully, though, I'm having a little trouble sorting out what route to take and I thought it might be helpful if I offer you guys a little more information.

Right now, my desktop has two hard drives. One that is 120GB that houses the operating software and all the other software like Photoshop, Dreamweaver and the like. The second internal hard drive is 20GB, came from my last computer, was wiped clean and now only contains Theater Hopper information. I have a third hard drive that is external and houses all of my MP3s, photos and video. If I ever get this sorted out, I'm going to move all that Theater Hopper stuff over there, too.

I'm starting to wonder if my OS hard drive is starting to crap out on me. My machine is about 3 or 4 years old and I noticed it was making some strained whirring sounds in the last month or so. I've had one person advise that I replace the hard drive with Windows XP already installed and then bring over all the old software. This might be a more costly solution, but might be more viable long term if it is the hard drive physically failing.

Anyway, that's a little more information to go on. I still haven't decided what I'm going to do, but maybe some of you who have left suggestions can take this information to help me devise a more specific course of action.

Thanks again to everyone!

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ONE MONTH DOWN

by Tom on August 30th, 2002
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I thought it was worth it to mention that today marks the one-month anniversary of Theater Hopper. It may not seem like much of a milestone, but I'm partial to such occasions.

With only 12 strips under my belt, I consider it a freakin' phenomenon that the site has accumulated over 1,700 unique hits and nearly 4,400 page views. This may seem like small potatoes to some people, but it means a lot to me.

I wouldn't have gotten this far without the help of other cartoonists in the community. There are too many names to mention, but if you head over to the links page, those are the strips you should be visiting on a daily basis.

Thanks also to the readers who visit the site and keep coming back. Hopefully I will be able to provide the kind of content you like and look forward to reading.

That's probably enough gushing for now, but I had to let it be known. I'm having too much fun doing this not to say thanks every once in a while.

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