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Doesn’t anyone know the meaning of the word “paraphrase?”

Seriously, I watched about three hours of this before they broke for a House vote around 1PM. There’s quite a few clips floating around the Internet and I could make this post about a mile long with the various things that made me angry, excited, or proud. Do yourself a favor and go watch as much of this as possible. It’s really amazing at what was said by whom and how the summit was approached by all involved.

BTW, I know this is from MSNBC, which is hardly unbiased, but their video player lets you pull out a segment for sharing. While I’m not an Internet expert, I don’t know of any other news outlet that lets you pull your own segment for sharing out of practically an entire episode of their programming. If there’s another, please direct me to it.

If anyone buys a comic directly from me, either at a convention or through the store here at my web site, I do a sketch in them, just to add some value. Tomorrow, I’m mailing out four mini-comics and in each of them, I did a sketch as a “thank you” to the buyer. Along the way, I put together a couple of sketches that I really liked.

I don’t get to draw Bad Bette much anymore, but I’d already drawn Jet-Pack Jenny in a copy of Bunkee #4. The Darwin drawing means nothing to the comics, but was a little gift for the buyer. I screwed up on the letter spacing, but it’s a great sketch idea, and I’m thinking about making it into a T-shirt design, wither with ka-blam or Cafe Press. Let me know what you think.

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In last week’s strip I casually mentioned that I would eventually be re-drawing Flight of the Virginia Dare. I’ve planned to re-draw it for some time, if for no reason than I just don’t like a majority of the artwork that I did 8-9 years ago. I also don’t like the way the romance between Jenny and Officer Duett just kind of happens. In the revision, we’ll get a tour of the Virginia Dare and a real sense of why a conventional bomb in the ballroom will damage the ship past the point where it would be space worthy, since it’s a BIG ship.

There’s also a bit of science that needs to be cleared up. The effort with Jet-Pack Jenny, despite the absurd name she goes by, is that the science fiction is supposed to be scientifically accurate. It’s just something that really irks me when science fiction gets science wrong. Of course, it’s one thing if the science fiction is from an era and the science that’s wrong simply wasn’t known, yet. Getting the atmosphere of Venus as habitable is fine if you’re writing a story in 1952. but it’s bad science if you’re writing it in 2002. Ignorance doesn’t count, either. That’s why I’m redrawing the story.

Well, as I’ve been updating on Twitter, I’ve been doing the heavy job search for full time gainful employment here in warm and (very importantly this month) snow-free Orlando. The success rate has been zero and a very promising lead from Monday has not progressed past the point that I left it. That’s discouraging, but I’ve tried not to let it get me down and I’m still hopeful that something may happen in the near future. If so, then this plan of action is moot (Hopefully, it doesn’t materialize after I’ve executed this plan). Now, let me explain the plan of action.

I’m moving back to North Carolina. I’ll continue to scour want ads in the next week just in case a last minute option comes about, but for the most part, I’ll be watching North Carolina want ads more than Orlando ones. Hopefully I’ll have better luck in the Lenoir/Hickory/Charlotte area, but the further I have to travel for work, the more it needs to pay. I’m really looking for office work, as that’s what I’ve been doing for the past nine years. I’ll also set up the web site to showcase a little more design work and maybe get a little freelance work. That part is a loose plan, but let’s go back to firmer parts of the plan.

I still need to talk to my friends here in Orlando to get a sense of the exact date that I’ll be moving. I can’t afford to stay in Orlando long, and once I move the real pressure is on to get full time employment as quickly as possible to avoid prospects worse than having to move to North Carolina. I am trying to look on the bright side of the move, if for no reason other than to avoid thinking about moving all of the books I own again. I do look forward to attending Sunday meetups with the Gastonia Society for FreeThought. I hope to be able to attend HeroesCon, which is something I may not have been able to do from down here. I do look forward to being close to my family, since they are growing older. I most importantly look forward to making my life better. The past four months have been hard, and next few weeks will be harder, as I have to leave good friends that have supported me as I made a huge transition. They also got me drawing again, and that is something that I will not let ebb away from the drawing sessions.

The drawing being brought up, let me assure you that I’ll try to keep the strip on weekly Monday updates. A week may get missed in the near future, but not in the next two weeks. The great thing about ComicPress is that I can pre-load the updates. I’m also going to reprint Jet-Pack Jenny and the Flight of the Virginia Dare with Ka-Blam, in one volume with annotations at the back of the book. Bunkee #5 will be coming as well, again, with annotations towards the back of the book.

In the meantime, please check out the commissions page, the shop page and my Etsy store if you want to help out in any way. Commissions may take a little longer as I’ll be spending a lot of time packing up boxes, but I will get to any requests as quickly as possible.