Everything is better when you have a new iPod
My old iPod crapped out about two months ago, and in that time I’ve been pretty much without a regular and reliable source of music. Tina just made bank on a recent project, and kindly bought me a new iPod. All I have to say is that life is so much better with your complete record collection at your fingertips.
I’m currently about halfway through the first chapter of my new collaboration with Jake, “Pax Americana.” I have to say, it’s great to be working on a comic book project that comes from the same place as my literary fiction. The characters are revealing themselves in a way that I haven’t let comic book characters reveal themselves before. “Alberic Heresies” serviced a detailed plot, but “Pax Americana” is strictly about the charcters. It’s a lot looser and feels more natural.
Well, either that, or I’m just getting lazy.
The public beta of Halo 3 releases in a couple of weeks, and I can just feel myself starting to boil over with anticipation. Halo, as you may know from other posts on the subject, is my religion. Master Chief, aka Spartan John 117, is the only messiah I will ever know. There’s only two commercial properties in existance today where I am an inapologetic fan boy — Doctor Who and Halo. I imagine I will be completely unproductive during this three-week period, so I’ve got to get the first chapter of the comic done pronto, or Jake will take me as a slacker.
I doubt any references to Halo as a kind of religious pilgrimage will not be accepted.
