If anyone got that, that was an obscure Starcraft reference, you know? Whenever you finished building a Terran Battlecruiser, it’d pop up and the Commodore would yell, “Battlecruiser Operational!” Yes? No? I’m lame, you don’t have to tell me three times.

Anyway, after about a month’s worth of designing the site (the layout was actually for a final project) and pushing code around, it’s up and functional, as far as I can see. I’m going to put the artwork section back up as soon as I can find a WordPress image gallery plugin that doesn’t shit on my face whenever I try to update it (I used to use NGG gallery – I wouldn’t recommend it). So here it is. I was looking at the websites of so-called “emo” bands and subcultures  and wanted to do a slight parody of their somewhat predictable styling  in my design, but I don’t think I pulled it off too well, instead of looking ridiculous like I intended, it just blends in. Oh well. I mean, that’s why I’m going to school, right.

What do you think? Don’t mind me, as an aspiring web/graphic designer I tend to get sick of a design five minutes into completing it. It sucks. So in retrospect, here’s something complete unrelated — a picture of a koala in a bucket.

Currently listening to The Offspring – Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?,  The Outfield – Your Love, Ras Kass – Interview With a Vampire, Fall Out Boy – America’s Suitehearts, and Super Mash Bros. – I’m an Adler Girl.

Anyway, cheers!

Would you rather see a Cheer Up, Emo Kid animation, or a Cheer Up, Emo Kid flash game? It’d be something along the lines of a point-and-click puzzle adventure RPG or something. We’ve actually started the concept and have actually come up with a ‘demo’ of sorts, where you take up the role of Zeke in an epic quest to save humanity. Would anyone be interested in seeing this?

We should probably be working on getting our t-shirt shop online, too. In all fairness, that’s coming soon. Like, real soon. Promise.

In other news, there’s apparently a workprint (unedited) version of the new Wolverine movie floating about somewhere online (*cough*PirateBay*cough*). While I don’t care much for arguing about the ethics of piracy, and while Hugh Jackman is totally hot, the guys over at Fox are total jerks. In case you’ve been living under a rock the last couple of months leading up to the release of Watchmen, they sat on the rights of the movie for, like, a decade or two, and after Warner Bros. obtained the rights and actually began making a movie that looked like it would be a success, Fox was all like, “yo, dudes, that’s not cool. We, like, still technically own the rights to this movie, man.” Or whatever. People are greedy, man.

But I digress. I’m sure Mr. Jackman wouldn’t mind since apparently he’s being picked up by Broadway, but otherwise, Fox can kiss my nonexistent ass.

Kim out.

The lovely Jade, the real-life inspiration for the purple-bowed girlfriend, will be coming on to write articles pertaining to some of the issues being addressed in the strip, such as commitment, break-up, and  whether or not one can be friends with an ex-significant other. Since I myself am not very good at encouraging discussion (since I tend to agree with everyone), Jade has elected to step in and spearhead exactly that. You can check out her blog here as well.

In other news, last semester in our introductory Flash class our final project was completely open-ended in the sense that we could make anything we want, as long as it applied all the things we learned during the semester. Although I already was fairly familiar with basic animation, I was absolutely illiterate when it came to the Flash Actionscript language, so it was all new to me. The end result was a short introductory ‘demo’ for a proposed Cheer Up, Emo Kid flash game. The premise was it would be a point-and-click RPG adventure of sorts, and in the tradition of Andrew Hussie’s MS Paint Adventures, I was hoping I could integrate some sort of user-interactivity where readers could continue the story by deciding what the character would do next.

Well anyway, let me know what you think of it so far — also, it ends when his mom comes into the room, just to let you know in case. . . like, you sit and stare for hours waiting for something to happen.

Animating in Flash is quite a time-consuming bitch. I know what I want to do and how to do it, but it takes up a lot of time, hence the lack of a strip today. I was attempting to do a small animated short but it ended up taking too long, and I apologize. I’ll probably have it done by the end of the week. In lieu of today’s comic, I’m going to post some artwork I don’t think many people have seen before. Hooray for me sucking.

This first image may disturb and confuse you.

This was made for my friend Rev for a Women’s Studies class assignment. The premise was basically that people in medieval times (I think? I’m not sure. Point is – a long time ago) believed that the woman’s uterus needed “feeding” (a.k.a. coitus, penetration, sex, etc.), and if it was not properly “fed” it would eventually retaliate against the body, moving up along the organs to ultimately devour its host’s heart.

Pretty crazy shit, man.

This park bench illustration was for one of my best friends, whom I never get to see anymore because she’s far, far away. I miss you.

This is an illustration of fans ProfessorKatz and doctor_desert. I like to take suggestions for drawings so if you have a request, feel free to head over to the forum and post it! I’ll try to get back to you as soon as possible.

This is what I call a digital sketchbook, which is basically doodles and things I would do in my actual sketchbook, but inked in Flash. Technology is amazing! This is pretty old, though, about a couple of months back.

Aaaand this one, I couldn’t tell you if you asked. I have no fucking idea where this came from.

That’s all for now! I appreciate your patience

Or, if you want to get technical, last Saturday. Since that day, readership of this webcomic has exploded, and I’m extremely grateful for all the amazing comments and feedback I’ve received regarding the strip. While I wish I could go through and reply to every single comment I’ve received since Saturday, it wouldn’t be practical. If you really want a reply from me, hit me up on Twitter with an @bozo32, or e-mail me at enzo@nospringchicken.net. Otherwise, I just want to give a great big collective thanks to anyone who has read, enjoyed, and commented on CUEK. You guys rock.

The site’s been due for a redesign and if all goes well it’ll be up by the end of the week. In the meantime, the comic will maintain its Sunday-Tuesday-Thursday updates. If you’re one of the people who likes to read and discuss things, check out Jade’s Blog. Jade is the girl whom Purple is based off of, and one of the things she enjoys doing the most besides kicking my ass is write. Mainly about issues pertaining to Life, Love, and Loss – the exact premise of CUEK.

In other news, I just drank a liter of Red Bull over the last 40 minutes and my hands are twitching. Is this bad?