Ok, so I was going to have this done last week and hand it over to Kilian so he could upload it (which, technically I did, oh, say, late last night- which is still part of that week… I tried). At any rate, the short end of the story is that I got incredibly bogged down with a bunch of stuff from the video-game day job that all suddenly had to be done right then and there – no sleep for you or going to this mythical place that you call “home” or spending time with your lovely girlfriend and these other figments of imagination you say are “friends,” no! No, token white (although, really I’m not white) man of the Trickster office, you must stay, strapped to your desk, your waccom pen crazy-glued to your hand, an IV drip full of a sick combination of Monster, Rockstar and Subway sandwiches and pound out page after page and design after design of new characters, stuff and animation breakdowns! Go man, go! We doth owneth thy soul-eternal!… I balked until they offered me smokes, for free(!), which combined with free range-matches of Mario Kart DS pushed me over the edge.

Yes, that really was the short version – in fact it is still on-going, I will not have one of these mythical things known as “wee-kands” for another 2 weeks. But in the meantime, and actually as of arse-crack-thirty on Friday morning, I get to go to PAX ^__^ ! Yay! Sorry Kilian, sorry April >_<… I will bring you guys back stuff. Later this week, before I leave I will be making a major personal announcement, but I wanted to finish a piece of artwork for it, which I haven’t had the chance to get to yet. So, basically I was busy, and or swamped, and I did have the comic finished oh say Monday or Tues, and only had a few more hours of work left on touching it up and finishing it, which were unfortunately left until yesterday. Somehow, the week simply got away from me… *sigh* But here it is, straight from Kilian’s brain, through my hand, down to my waccom, and through the digital ether to your organic-visual-receptors yaha!

The gods they must be lazy

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So, there it is, I will now lead the rest to Kilian, who has a great deal to say about this I am told ^__^. Apparently, my IV drip needs changing, please excuse me.

–Aleister

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You know what, some days I’m really glad I don’t work for a video game company anymore…I remember the 80 hour weeks. The 4 hours of sleep a night. The fact that you spent nearly every waking moment working and still didn’t make enough to pay bills…

Anyway, let me talk about said comic strip.

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was, possibly, the film I have anticipated the most in my lifetime. Certainly Episode I and Stardust rank quite high, but I had wanted to see a film version of HHGTTG for something like 15 years before it came out. Now I did not become familiar with Terry Pratchett until some six years ago, when a friend lent me a copy of The Color of Magic to read on a late night bus trip from Anaheim to San Francisco. Sadly, I finished the book about halfway through the bus ride, but that is a testament to the greatness of the writing (and shortness, in all honesty, since it’s barely novel length).

Since that fateful early morning I have been under what you might a fanatical spell for all things Pratchett related (in a sidenote, I did read Good Omens in high school, and that was the book that made me want to be a writer, but for whatever reason I didn’t pick up any other Pratchett until 7 years later). In fact, I would class my life into two general time periods, the pre-Pratchett dark ages and the Pratchett Enlightenment. Now I have not been waiting as long for a Pratchett film as I did for HHGTTG, but my wait has burned with even more fervor.

And yes, Sky 1 did already produce a mini-series adaptation of Hogfather, but Color of Magic is where the series begins and also where my undying love and devotion for Pratchett also began. Plus, this one actually has some actors I can recognize.

I’m, perhaps, a bit of a pessimist by nature, but my life has tended to play out my fears more often than not. In fact, I believe it is a totally reasonable assumption to think that this whole Color of Magic mini-series is only a complex plot hatched to give me artificial hope before crushing me with the reality that the production will never be complete. Either that, or I get hit by lighting the day it airs. I’d say odds are 50-50 either way.

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