Oh damn it all anyways.

I list quite near the top of my feeling crappy top ten that people who have Iphones just because they're 'cool' piss me off. Sure enough in the the little ad space on this blog there's an ad for downloading comics directly to your Iphone. Google Adsense is making fun of me, I just know it.

This is not the future I bloody well ordered. MY future was supposed to have robots and flying cars and people colonizing Mars. Instead I got slapped by the information age where it seems all the innovative stuff is happening to people's cell phones. Those things have more processing power than the computers that got man to the moon.

Look, I get it. There are people out there that run their lives and businesses on the move. They need gadgets like the Iphone to make themselves productive and competitive in their fields. They don't need it to makes noises like a lightsabre or the tons of other useless crap those things do.

It's all about information now. Hell, now we've got Twitter which you can let people know what you are doing at any time. Well, if I'm updating my Twitter account then I must be at my computer, so that would make for a bunch of really boring posts. And yes, I'm aware that with some of the Fancy-Dan doo-hickeys I was just talking about you can update your Twitter from anywhere. Here's my problem with Twitter and it's nothing against anyone who actually has it, and in this world of networking I'll probably end up getting it myself just to attempt to keep up: if I'm doing something, I probably don't have time to stop and let the intarwub know about it. Trust me, if it's interesting I'll let the intarwub know all about later, in detail.

I am sorely tempted to start a twitter account and have it be entirely fictitious. In fact: expect that to happen in June.

I know now what I must do. I must conquer the future. Than we shall colonize Mars.

Find me an 'app' for Mars colonization, I freakin' dare ya!

Marscon report

Well, I braved the below freezing temperatures to make it to Marscon this past weekend. Chris couldn't make it due to illness. Talked to a lot of folks and handed out a lot of cards. Did a picture for a little girl who liked Wonder Woman and was therefore good people. The whole trip was made worth it when she saw the picture and yelled "COOL!"

I also helped with a basic cartooning workshop. I hope those who were able to make it enjoyed it and got something out of it. There was a lot of talent in that room.

The above Batman pic was what I was doing in my spare time up there. Things were a bit slow at my table, but that happens sometimes.

Big thanks to Butch Allen for chairing the show. Also got to see David Seletyn, an old college buddy who seemed happy to see Night Life again.

It was a fun show. I have to say I think I broke one of the con goers while discussing Batman. The point came up about FINAL CRISIS and Bats getting hit with the Omega Sanction and is now trapped inside of degrading synthetic lives, which means now ALL-STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN THE BOY WONDER is now canon. His reaction was priceless.