I wanted to share this with you guys. This is a rough sketch for the “There Will Be Blood (poptarts)” comic. It’s partially inked. I thought you might like to see part of what goes into creating the comics.

We managed to record the podcast last night. I’ll have it up in the next day or so. Oh, also a picture Eli took of a Portal Cosplayer at All-Con made it to the front page of Digg. Neato.
-Joel

Here’s a link to the first Tom Cruise comic on Digg. Digg it like Tom Cruise digs aliens out of people’s souls.  Did I mention this is shaping up to be a 3 part comic? There’s just so many nooks and crannies of Tom’s unbridled craziness to explore.

Monday will see Tom making his way into the city, perhaps on an ice sled or riding a giant bird.

Friday night saw my first front page Digg for a comic (the previous one was for the Guitar Hero III video). Special thanks to EvanStapler for submitting the story, and to everyone that Dugg it. As can be expected the traffic crashed my server and asploded my site. I was on the phone for 3 hours with my host trying to get it back up. I finally had to move to a more robust box (more robust = more $$$). Digg comments are a hard thing to read when they are concerning your own work. They range from innocuous to outright hateful. This was the best one:

I don’t have words for that. It’s poetry.

We were (this) close to seeing Cloverfield but got to the theater and saw this:

So we saw Sweeney Todd instead. My wife gets seasick easily and I have an inner ear/vertigo condition so I figured it best to see C-Field at home where I can sit in front of a puke bucket. Sweeney Todd was fantastic. Beautifully shot and excellently performed. The score was formidable to say the least. I enjoyed the movie even more when, in the first 15 minutes, two different sets of teenagers got up and left. “What’s all this gay singing and shit? Let’s get out of here and go have unprotected sex.”

Tom Cruise’s particular brand of crazy has been all over the net this week. In light of his galactic revelations I wanted to share this happy little accident I saw in Barnes and Noble a few weeks back:

!!!DIGGDIGGDIGG!!!

Click and Digg to help spread the message… of… whatever I’m doing here. There’s a message?

Apparently Josh liked the movie:

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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:52:19 -0600 [12:52:19 AM MST]
From: Josh
To: Joel Watson
Subject: OMG OMG OMG

MAXIMUM LIBERTY FACE RAPE

SERIOUSLY IT WAS AWESOME HOLY FUCK BEANS

–josh

Potentially thanks to my plee for your link affections in the last post, HE reader and confirmed bad ass,  Ty has submitted The Omega Directive to Digg.

If you’re a Digger, please help support the comic with your Diggs, and clicks and loves. Spread the word and I will reward you with more delicious desktop wallpapers. How about a desktop with the Omega Directive symbol looming over the city?

Somebody Dugg the HD DVD Comic.

Share in the fun times and Digg it if you like.

This is an HE first. Boing Boing has picked up the Doug Morris comic. That’s basically the coolest thing ever. Thanks Cory D.!

It also just showed up on:

Digg and Reddit.

This should be a very exciting afternoon!

UPDATE:

It just keeps happening!

WIRED picked it up too. I think that means the cosmic circle is complete.

UpUPDATE:

Valleywag (from Gawker Media) are on board. Thanks, Internet!

UpUpAndAwayDATE:

Digg made the front page around 6pm. 248 Diggs and going strong.

Idolator and Gizmodo (also from Gawker).

NY Mag.com got in on the action.

Seriously, a link on Gizmodo is a geek achievement. It’s been a really good day.

A reader submitted the Guitar Hero 3 Cheater video to Digg. Lend a hand and Digg it up!

http://digg.com/xbox_360/VIDEO_How_to_Cheat_at_Guitar_Hero_III