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Status report: 28 Jan 10

January 28th, 2010 | by Shannon
Posted In: blog

I’d like to talk a bit about the comic.

You may have noticed that there’s a lighthouse in the top banner. You may have also noticed that Wighthouse’s selling points within the banner mention both a lighthouse and a ghost. You may have keenly noticed that almost three months in, besides the first three comics, neither of these things have appeared in the strip.

These are the byproducts of being a fledgling storyteller. When I started Wighthouse, I planned this opening funeral gambit merely to lay the foundation for the rest of the story. It’s taken me longer than I thought. Rest assured, ghosts are waiting in the wings, ready to perform their eldritch duties. All will come together. I also intend to improve the site sometime soon, especially the comments system, of which I’m not fond, and better typefaces. (File this under “famous last words,” as I’m still fussing with my comicking schedule and have issues with PHP.)

And even if the above has not rustled the merest feather of your composure and you haven’t even noticed the plot, it’s been bugging me, so therein lies my justification.

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Long and winding road

January 28th, 2010 | by Shannon
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Long and winding road

PS – Drawing winter trees from above sucks. ♥, Shannon

└ Tags: death, family, philosophy
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If looks could maim

January 25th, 2010 | by Shannon
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If looks could maim
└ Tags: family, funeral, phoot, sfx
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The sound of one nerve touching

January 21st, 2010 | by Shannon
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The sound of one nerve touching
└ Tags: family, job, jorb, refill
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Napping with the fishes

January 18th, 2010 | by Shannon
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Napping with the fishes

Note: I get no small amount of satisfaction with starting a sentence with “As a scientist…”

└ Tags: cement shoes, family, frosty
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Lone wolf

January 14th, 2010 | by Shannon
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Lone wolf

Re: salads vs. burgers. Think you’re eating better by skipping a 1/4 lb. Single and tucking into the mandarin chicken instead? Think again. I love how fast food calorie calculators smash our perceptions, not to mention our scales.

└ Tags: family, frosty
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The limits of patience

January 11th, 2010 | by Shannon
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The limits of patience
└ Tags: family, funeral, retort, uncle
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There but for the grace of God

January 7th, 2010 | by Shannon
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There but for the grace of God

I really hope I’m never, ever in this situation. As anybody involved.

└ Tags: funeral, sexting, smexting, texting
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Which class would be best at RB2?

January 6th, 2010 | by Shannon
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So over New Year’s weekend, I went down to good ol’ Huntsville, AL (home of the space museum I have managed to not see twice now) and hung out with members of the Team Fortress 2 community known as Control Point. Some of the higher-ups requested I do a comic for a newsletter that would print daily for the duration of the convention. Unfortunately, there seemed to be a mixup when my turn came on the final day, so I never saw my strip run and I presume no one else did either. That’s what the Internet is for: to give to the audience what is rightfully theirs! (And to not feel like I wasted an entire Saturday doing the thing.)


(click to zoom in) (a lot)

I was asked to do something Rock Band related, since there was going to be an RB2 competition, so what’s more RB2 than TF2 characters hamming it up? Makes me wish we’d had a keg at our own celebration.

└ Tags: beer, cougar, cp, drunk, duran, engineer, heavy, hwguy, medic, mom, nog, rb2, scout, shame, soldier, spy, tf2
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They’re real, and they’re spectacular

January 4th, 2010 | by Shannon
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They’re real, and they’re spectacular

Behold. A mite expensive, but worth every penny. While searching for the link I also noticed there exists bacon chocolate chip pancake mix. How far we’ve come.

└ Tags: bacon, chocolate, funeral, texting
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