In my first blog entry I mentioned I used to make comics with my cousin Joel back in High School. Well Joel just launched a webcomic of his own in the last few weeks. It’s going to be an anthology series that takes place in Popular City. The first story is already up and the second story is a few pages in so check it out at http://www.strippedcomics.com. For helping him out with setting up WordPress and Comicpress he made me this image of Very Prone To Injury Man, the titular character of our series that never went anywhere:

I finally saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 last Tuesday evening with my old roommate Ali. I was really happy with it for the most part. I would have loved to seem the scene with Harry and his family, and hope they are somehow incorporating it into the second half of the book or in the very least it makes the deleted scenes. I found the chase scene before they are captured near the end of the movie jarring. It’s one of my biggest qualms with action scenes in the last few years, they don’t really show what’s happening in any kind of sensible fashion, rather they elude to action happening with quick cuts. It’s lazy film making and I hope the trend goes away soon. Imagine how awful the speeder bike chase in Return of the Jedi would have looked if they used there techniques?
I’ve also been watching a lot of Avatar: The Last Airbender lately. This show is amazing and I wish I had gotten into it sooner. The story is fantastic, and easily one of the best I’ve ever seen in a cartoon series. Some of the one liners are fantasticly funny.

If anyone is looking for cheap Christmas presents, check out Rancid Yogurt. Sherry’s pins are adorable and she has an awesome sale going on. I picked up an amazing Black Cat painting that she had done, I’m in love with her style, and you should be too.