Yes, ladies and gents, I did the 24 hour comic challenge. I started it on the 3rd of October and made the last few finishing touches tonight.

So no, I didn't sit down and draw for 24 hours solid. But I gave a crack at it, and I didn't spend more than 24 hours total, so I'm happy. Besides, it's not as important that I did it in 24 hours than that I now have 24 pages of glossy, shiny, happy comics to show off.

They'll be showing up on Totally Heroic over the next few months, updating Tuesdays and Thursdays. Which means that there's a Totally comic going up every weekday. Hurray!

I'll also be printing the Totally Heroic comic, should anybody wish for a real copy. I'm not doing it to make money, simply because I would like a printed copy myself and figured I should allow others the same chance.

I'm also selling ads for the comic at $5 for a fullpage ad, to try to lower print costs. Think of it as a donation so that everybody else gets the book a little cheaper.

If you'd like a copy of the comic, or want to buy ad space, check out the thread on the Totally Kotor forum, here.

Attention all! From now on, Totally Kotor updates on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays! Hurray for Runt and Candy!

In 2008, the Totally Kotor forum, found here, died a quiet death, slow, painful, and altogether rather dull.

Now, in the ashes of our beloved forum has risen a new giant! A new hall of justice which we may call our own, where the Great Ones of the universe can sit and talk about pie for as long as they want. All, hurry to the newly constructed Forum and enjoy yourselves!

(Seriously, everyone get on this. I desperately need the support!)

CA

A lot has happened over the past few days. I got a new computer, which is nice although I'm not sure I like Vista all that much. Interestingly enough, although it was slow, my old Windows 2000 PC (affectionately known as Old Clunky) was a lot more reliable and almost never crashed, whereas this new beast shut down without giving me the option of saving my work simply to do some apparently very important updates of dubious nature.

Anyway, something else new I did was upgrade to Manga Studio 4. I used to have Manga Studio 3, and at only $20 to upgrade, it seemed worth the hassle. I think if I'd had MS4 instead of MS3, I'd probably have drawn a lot more cool comics by this point. There were a lot of times while using MS3 that I thought to myself, 'if only I could do this'. It seems that everything I had thought was missing from MS3 is in MS4 - it generates speech bubbles, lets me colour art, and drawing comic frames is much easier and less taxing on the CPU.

Not that anybody cares, because it's not even a program I use for TK. But I enjoyed the upgrade.

And to prove I had fun with it, here's a little drawing I did of one of my own sci-fi characters, for a comic I might make one day if I ever deem myself good enough to do my own idea justice.


The "What off Earth?" thing is because I wanted her to be shocked, but "What on Earth?" doesn't quite work when you're in space. I hope that makes sense.

CA

Those of you who know me well (which, granted, isn't many of you, but whatever) will know that I love a good comic book. Especially Marvel comics, and ESPECIALLY Spider-Man.

So I'm not thrilled about the news that Marvel is being bought out by Disney. One can only imagine what this will mean for the future of my favourite comic book heroes - any kind of "toning down" of characters to fit the Disney family-friendly face will not be taken well by many of the fans. Marvel has a habit of being awfully serious while Captain America is saving the world from aliens four times a year.

Because I wanted a creative way of working out my frustration over the issue, I decided to draw a little comic, which normally helps to relieve tension. I posted it Here, on Totally Heroic, the Superhero version of TK that never quite went anywhere because I was lazy. But I might start updating more soon...

CA

So the first thing I did, on the way back home after being released as a missionary and formally allowed to use the internet to my heart's content, was hop on my dad's Blackberry and whip onto this very site to see how you all were doing.

The next day, with the first available internet time I had, I slid onto Google and typed in "Kotor 3". Because I want that game. Do you know what I found? This.

Well, you might notice that this isn't an official site. So I did a little more exploring and found out that apparently, Kotor 3 will in fact simply be TOR - that is, The Old Republic. Apparently all of the Knights are gone...

I just finished watching the Clone Wars animated film (more on that later) and, geared up and ready to see some more fun Star Wars CGI fun, decided to re-watch the wonderful TOR trailer, which is delightful (except for the part where it goes a little Matrix - that was weird for a Star Wars movie). This soon led me to a few video documentaries and some ingame footage. I have to say, I'm impressed.

I know that some out there might be a little cautious about the concept of a Mass Multiplayer Kotor (we'll call it a MMK for now), but I think the idea's wonderful - after all, what setting could be better? You can play as whatever you want, be it Sith, Jedi, Bounty Hunter or Smuggler, or deranged Hutt, or weasley minion, or service droid, or angry customer at the cantina, or drunk Twi'lek, or the guy that cleans up after the Rancor, or - you get the point. (And before anyone corrects me, yes I know that not many of those options will actually be available. Don't spoil my fun.)

Basically, it'll be cool. And from the looks of things, with the large element of choice and personal storyline they're talking about, I don't think you'll have to spend any more time with other people than you want to. A friend from the Galactic Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Gizka has expressed some fears about being forced to play this next chapter of the Kotor era with a bunch of loud ten-year olds for company. This seems like it will NOT be a problem. I'm not sure how 'personal' things can be and still be an MMO, but from what I saw in the documentaries, players will take their happy little Non Player Characters out for adventures just like always. So perhaps there'll be an option for those of us who prefer the cruel, cold HK-47 to a warm and fuzzy Timothy Loffhagen who is pretending to be a Wookiee. Or, if you'd prefer, take along your pals and go for a good romp in the woods outside the Jedi Temple together.

In fact, there'll probably be some kind of TK clan for anyone who wants to join. But we'll worry about that later.

The point is, I love KOTOR. And I'm excited for another beautiful chapter, especially if it means doing it with friends on the net this time, because that'll just make things more fun :)

CA

It's now 1:22am, and I finally finished making little, largely insignificant changes to the site.

The first thing you'll probably notice is the new banner. I'm not sure I like it all that much, personally, so it'll probably change soon.

The second thing you might notice (then again, you might now, depending on your screen resolution) is that TK now actually fits inside your browser. It turns out, when I designed the site, I did so around my own resolution and didn't give too much thought to how over 50% of viewers look at an awkardly large page. So that's (mostly) fixed up now.

And thirdly...

...actually, that tiny little bit of HTML work took me MOST of the time. So thirdly, I'll just remind everyone how attractive I am!

Wahaa!



I personally, am all the more attractive because I look nothing like this happy little doodle from yesterday that I figured I'd share with you all.

Love ya!

CA

Get out the party blowers and the doritos, because TK is back in action!

And it's good to be home. It's a little dusty in places around here and I found a family of cockroaches living under the sink, but for the most part, it's nice to see that the Gizka Rep kept things in pretty good condition.

Pretty much the first thing I did after I got released was check the site to see how things are doing - I used my dad's Blackberry in the car (on the way to the church camp, which was the second duty to attend to).

So I have a lot of laahp saap (as we say in chinese) to deal with over the next few days, so I can't guarantee an update on the comics any time soon. But in the meantime, spread the word. And I DO guarantee an update before this time next week. Because I love you :)

What's more, things are gonna be changing around here. I've had two good long years to ponder a little about what to do with the site. It's going to be a lot of fun.

So sit back, relax, tell ALL your friends, and let the good times roll! :D