Tagged me and like a tool I'm going to do this. He's lucky I haven't spoken to him in some time and I'm feeling generous. Or not. I dunno.

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1 - Post the rules.
2 - Each tagged person must tell 8 things about themselves.
3 - At the end you must tag 8 people and put their icon in your journal.
rules 4-6 will not be applied here.

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1. I carry things in my mouth. No seriously. I do it all the time, even on the street. Carrying shopping in two hands getting too much for me? Pop a bag in between my jaws. Got a knife I need to hold whilst I get out a plate and various other utensils? In between the teeth it goes.

2. I get absolutely no love whatsoever from any company I send off to. Job hunting is hard when everyone turns you down before even getting an interview. If any animation or illustration companies are reading this right now(shyeah right), I am more than willing to work for you.

3. I am currently still working on an animation with a friend. This week it's been super disappointing when I discovered I forgot how to animate. Well done me.

4. I flirt too much. I'm engaged now, and I'm still doing it. Most the time without realising. It's pretty problematic.

5. I got to play the Crash Course campaign on Left 4 Dead(probably my favourite game of recent) and actually really enjoyed it. A rarity in the Valve fanbase. Enjoying content that is. I didn't even mind paying for it.

6. I HATE turn base. Ironic, I know, since Pokemon is what I'm known for and what got me into video games in the first place, but I HATE turn base. Like, literally loathe it. What is the freaking point in letting your enemy hit you by standing around like a jackass? DEFEND YOURSELF! That's not to say I hate RPGs. I love the unwraveling stories, and even the level up system, I just can't STAND the standing around crap. I may try the Tales series. I hear that's pretty good.

7. I don't watch a lot of movies. Ask me about a famous movie, actor or actress and chances are I've never heard of them. The last film I saw in the cinemas was Transformers 2. It was pretty horrific. Did you hear Megan Fox is going to be in the next Batman, as Catwoman? She's going to make it suck. Horribly.
But who cares, right? She's hot and that's all that matters, right?

8. SpringLoaded is actually my 5th Comic series;
-"Strolling in the Park of Psychotic Hobos" was the first, a collab comic with Erin(of AoA fame), Brad(whom hosted three of these comic series) and Brass(who's a p. cool guy). Starred four characters(one for each of us) and was pretty random and thus couldn't last.
-"Cel Struck" was a comic I did back when I started university. Basically about four animals that lived together. Rick(badger), Sho(beaver), Beefy(Rhino) and Ilex(Squirrel). Was pretty good, but suffered from lack of structure.
-"Museless" started as a joke, about how I was struggling with comics to do for Cel Struck, but ended up replacing it. Starred myself as a struggling comic maker and my friend Sniper Kitty. Was scrapped when Anime Arcadia basically did the same idea. But better. Jerks.
-"Ace of Abra" probably what I'm best 'known' for. A comic about an apprentice of Saffron City Gym in the Pokemon world, and his Abra. The series has been on and off since I got into the Pokemon franchise, but was scrapped last year due to various things. Potentially may make a few one offs. We'll see.
-"SpringLoaded" the comic I'm doing now. Go check it out if you can.

oh boy...8 people to tag...

Fine. Sponge, Destinie, Mort, Blaze, Captain Awesome, Don, Davis and...Power Dan. You're up.

Oh hey guys. Why not support my silly comic about nothing by visiting my website to see the two new SpringLoaded comics?

[link]

I'd be pretty grateful, ya know?

YA KNOW?!?

thanks guys ;D

Recently I've been reading a little book by Charlie Brooker(quite a brilliant comedian masked behind a level of child like silliness), and I can't help but feel he may be on to something regarding the awful drop in television quality of recent years. You guys have noticed it too right? Lots of programmes aimed at the fairer sex, but less aimed at us fellas.

Despite the fact I'm male, I don't quite understand certain aspects of the male psyche. Football for one thing(british kind, not the psuedo-rugby american version) absolutely baffles me. Running around in shorts in the freezing cold(or blistering heat), chasing a ball around a patch of dirt with other sweaty, and often violent men for an hour and a half?

Screw that. Screw that hard until it screams and concerned neighbours peek through their curtains whilst frantically dialing 999 with their spare digits.

Men seem to love watching this too, which is probably why TV execs have gotten fed up with trying to appeal to the male audience. I rarely watch TV these days, except a few comedy shows, because mostly all that's on are a.) horrible reality TV shows designed to torture the contestants(I'm a Celebrity) or the viewers(X factor) with the catawalling from the previously mentioned contestants
or b.) Self help shows designed to humiliate the person they're so supposedly "helping". These range from anywhere between mocking the persons lack of fashion sense to convincing them to take a blade to their face in the hopes that someone can slice them pretty.

These shows, it has to be said, are aimed at women. It's a proven fact that more women tune in to the reality TV shows, and are often the one's voting for their favourites. This in turn is encouraging TV networks to continue to churn out this bile.

And you know who's fault it is?

Us. The male populace. Yes, myself and anyone else with a Y chromosone is to blame here. If we weren't so preoccupied with sport, or drinking down the pub(or in my case simply playing Xbox or playing in Flash), maybe the execs would try a little harder towards producing something aimed at male audiences. Perhaps something that doesn't fall into one of the lame catogaries we're usually pinned with: Booze, Babes and Balls(of the sport variety).

Or maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way round, and it's actually women who enjoy the idea of interactivity in what they watch. If this is the case, guys, I urge you to encourage your wives, girlfriends, fiances, sisters, mothers, aunts, nieces, cousins and grandmothers to start video gaming. In the long run £40 for a game that'll last you hours of entertainment is cheaper than texting in at £1.50 per text for half a seconds worth of interactivity.
Maybe then we'll get something good on the box again.

-Ace

If you've watched me this past year you know full well I have the hardest time with starting a comic. I mean, sure, I start out with the best intentions, but usually the comics end up with either;
a.) too many characters in the first few pages(like SpringLoaded v.1)
b.) a lackluster start which doesn't seem to lead anywhere (like Ace of Abra...also SpringLoaded v.1...man, I really messed that comic up).

This is strange because I have been writing stories for long enough now to know how to write a decent narrative, which makes me wonder what the heck kind of problem I have when it comes to making a comic...

That is until now. I think I worked it out. When I start a comic I get excited, and half plan the thing to death...for example, Ace of Abra was meant to travel throughout the entirety of the Hoenn region, until we got to the Jay fight which both sapped my love for the comic and most of your attention. It was a fun fight, but it was loooooong and I had no scene planned for after.
Accepting so many people into the comic surely didn't help either.

SpringLoaded the original was also planned to include all kinds of sexy stuff...so what happened? I planned the ENDING and not the beginning. This was p. stupid of me.

Long story shortened down, I'm restarting SpringLoaded for sure with less characters and more to the point stuff.

The REAL point in this is to ask if anyone is still interested in Ace of Abra? Yes, I'd probably do a new Ace of Abra story too guys set a few months or so after the first. Opinions are welcome.

-Ace

You know what I hate? When you're just too busy to get everything you want to do within the week. Granted, being busy usually consists of me wasting a fair few hours online doing precisely sod all.

Of course, there are some things I make time for. I make time for friends and loved ones(but then again, you ARE meant to), I make time for checking up on people, seeing if they're alright.

I'm currently ALSO making time to put some effort in with animation work. I know it's hard to believe, since I never upload any here(that silly Abra dance aside), but I can animate, and animate well. Time to rectify this before I'm stuck in a dead end boring job my entire life.

Also, oh hey. SpringLoaded started: [link]
Where have you been? D: