I Use the Term "Legendary" Loosely

Some of you may have noticed the humorous, if a little crappy and temporary header I put together using someone else's work. This "someone else" is none other than legendary cartoonist Jack Chick.
This is the part where I'd crack some jokes at the man's expense, but I'm sure you'll be sufficiently amused just reading the article. Or if not, this site more thoroughly roasts him and his works more than I could ever hope to.

The picture in question comes from the "Chick tract" (the term used to describe his hateful little comic pamphlet things) titled "Dark Dungeons", which demonized the players of TSR's world famous tabletop role playing game Dungeons & Dragons. As you can tell from the image, I chose the term "demonized" for a pretty good reason.

My first experience with Jack Chick came as a boy, when at a rest stop in California during a road trip, I was given a Chick tract to read. The tract in question was the widely distributed "THIS WAS YOUR LIFE!", a tale about a man who is a colossal dick in his lifetime and cast into the lake of fire after being judged a sinner and rejecting Jesus Christ as his savior. Pretty straightforward and inoffensive for Jack Chick. As a pretty spiritually confused child, I remember this little comic freaking me out something fierce, though I eventually forgot about the whole thing and moved on.

The whole experience was one of those odd cases where you assume that something that appeared in your childhood belonged only there. I thought the comic was a local thing, not an international phenomenon as I was absolutely shocked to find out later in life.

I'll get around to making a better header one of these days.

Shameless Plug

Today's segment is a little different than the latter four, not that there was really a cohesive theme behind them to begin with. They were all pretty random and aimless, come to think of it.
Anyway, today's segment. This will serve as a plug for my good pals at 6d6CON(to advertise them to all of my readers, all four of them), and to show off my modest logo work.

                        

 

Weekly Work of Art

I've been on a bit of a Rider kick lately(dohoho), and the fixation has crept into everything. Here's a drawing I did of a Rider a friend came up with, Gambler, whose got a slot machine/playing card motif. I struggled with putting a massive heart on his chest without making him look ridiculous.

Yes his belt is a slot machine, why do you ask?

Idea for an Admittedly Soft Sci-Fi Race

Partly inspired by this, this, and a random guy on an image board.

There is a plant on an alien world out there not unlike the banana tree of Earth. It's not exactly a tree, but rather has the illusion of a "trunk" due to the large vertical stem and multiple layers of leaves that grow upwards in a spiraling cylindrical fashion. The roots have evolved into a complex system, analogous to a nervous system in animals, and resting atop it, in the trunk, is a sort of brain, protected and hidden by the leaves around it. These trees form forests, with deep root systems connecting any one tree to every nearby tree in the forest.
Now, during photosynthesis, something like glucose, or more like a crystalline cane sugar is formed and used for energy. However, the brains the trees possess can consciously direct the growth of these crystalline sugars into complex patterns, which serve as a language for communicating ideas, thoughts, feelings, etc. These small crystals are then funneled through a hollow root down into the ground, and taken up by another hollow root from a nearby tree, that takes the sugary crystal and digests it, noting where it possesses structure and does not, much like a primitive computer reading a punch card. This allows the trees to communicate with their neighbors, and pass along messages over the whole forest.
About what, I have no idea. They can clearly move, to an extent, but they'd be otherwise stationary. Maybe they migrate to follow the light. Maybe the crystals also serve as art, depending? Like, certain crystals are pretty in demand. I don't know.
Basically, stationary and communal tree people who communicate by giving each other rock candy to munch on.

Longest There Is

Imagine a standard gymnasium with plain white walls and hardwood floors. Now imagine a 5' x 100' wooden plank of the same hardwood as the flooring, set in front of the white wall at roughly a ten degree angle, like a ramp. Now imagine a line goes up from the floor to the ceiling at a similar angle as the ramp, so that when the camera in front of this whole scene is similarly tilted, there will be a perfect illusion that the ramp is the actual floor.


Now imagine the video that would be shot, of a man who stands on the highest end, runs and lands on his knees, for what will seem like the world's longest power slide.

Commemorative Plates Forthcoming

This is my blog I intend to post in daily. Though I'm tempted to go all legalese and interpret "daily" as five times a week. Be forewarned, internet, I'm a tad flaky. Just giving myself a future out.

Anyway, this isn't really for anybody. ...Well, I guess that's a lie. If it wasn't, it'd be a word document. Maybe it's for others, too, though no one's likely to read it.

The purpose, however, of this blog is to just throw my stray thoughts around. Maybe post some art, relay a joke or story idea I came up with, or just muse unintelligibly.

Here's hoping I stick with it.