Hi

So I've been messing with the layout of the on-line version of the comic trying to get it to look consistent.  The problem is that "Metropolis" exists firstly in the Fold-Your-Own-Comic version.  The layout of the panels and pages in that format don't jive with a consistent layout for the on-line version.  It could be consistent if I make every chapter 8 full page panels, but I don't want to do that.  I wouldn't be able to make any groovy double page spreads.

After lots of work and experimenting, I think I've come up with a reasonable solution.  Over the next little while, I'll be updating the past chapters to the new layout.  Anyone who is collecting the on-line version will now have a nice clean layout to view them through.

Hope you're enjoying the story.

Have a good day.

Joao

Metropolis - Chapter 18

Here is the latest chapter.  I've really don't have too much to say other than that.

Except that I been showing my son how to build catapults!  We've been launching this stuffies across the living room all day!

Enjoy the chapter.

Click image to enlarge.

Download the F.Y.O.C version here.








Joao

Roger Calico Bunny! The Assonance Song.

Hi

Here is a song I wrote about Roger C. Bunny. 

My wife named him.  I suggested that Calico be his middle name. 

I always thought that Roger was a peculiar name for a bunny.  It was only weeks later that I realized that my wife never intended his name to be Roger Bunny.  The name she had in mind was Roger Rabbit.  I'm can be a bit vacuous sometimes....

Anyway, Roger C. Bunny became his permanent name mostly to remind me of how I sometimes miss the point.

Assonance is when you rhyme the vowel sounds but not the consonants.  Assonance was given some notoriety in the film "Educating Rita" when the title character described it as "getting the rhyme wrong".

Here is the Assonance Song:

Roger C. Bunny
He likes your tummy
He thinks your nice
And he know what he likes
He thinks your fun
And he has cotton on his bum
Cotton on his bum

Have a good day.

Joao

PS: you can see Max in the background of the picture.  He's pushing buttons on the DVD player again.

Metropolis - Chapter 17

In this chapter we learn the dangers of not properly grounding yourself during computer repairs.

Download the FYOC version here.








Have a good day.

Joao

I can finally keep up on Prince Valiant!

Creating my Metropolis comic has reignited my interest in comic strips.  (Metropolis is modeled after the Sunday adventure comic strip format). Unfortunately newspapers are becoming rare and newspapers with comics rarer still.

And if you are a fan of Prince Valiant, The Phantom, Spider-Man (the comic strip version) and Flash Gordon, then you've probably been on the search for where you can read them on-line.  A very frustrating search. 

If you own an Apple product you can shell out $20 for a subscription for an app called DailyINK.  That will give you access to all of King Feature's strips for 1 year.  I'm only interested in about 3 or 4 of their 60 strips, so I didn't do that.

Fortunately, you can get access to about 1 month's worth of all the strips at a website called http://www.oregonlive.com/comics/.

Now I can keep up on all my adventure strips on-line.  I hope you enjoy them too.

Joao