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Feb 16
Well, after a long absence I finally finished this page. A friend of mine had said that Gilrec should have some kind of cool weapon. But I wasn’t sure about actually giving him a gun or anything. At least not in this version of TFR. So I thought what better than to give a little shout out to one of my favorite scifi shows and give him a multi-tool that looks like it could be sonic. This will actually become more important later when we learn more of the Green Chicken (remember the Dark Lord of the Sheep said the Green Chicken had Gilrec’s scent.)
Sorry this one isn’t in color. I barely finished this page as it was and didn’t have the energy to color it. I’m still going to be looking into how I can do the comic in color and more simply. We’ll have to see about that.
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Mar 10
I don’t know if any of you are familiar with Wind in the Willows. I was thinking about the old British stop-motion movie and tv show that were so beautifully done and have always been a childhood favorite of mine. We recently listened to the audiobook and it was very good and so nice. But that’s not my point. If you’re familiar with Mr. Toad he was always going from one obsession to the next. First a race car driver, then a photographer, then a flier, then a playwright, etc. Well, that’s like me. I’m always going from one craze to the next which is why it’s so hard for me to settle on something. Thus is why I have yet to get anything further done with TFR. I still have my other comic strip I want to do, and I know that TFR needs some serious writing done for it. I just haven’t felt up to doing the writing. I know the story but I’m just not feeling like writing it. But I will. Just as soon as I get games out of my system. 
Edit: To be clear it’s not just playing games it’s this obsession with wanting to make a game. I’ve always had this obsession and it’s hard to get out of my system. But I’m trying. 
Feb 03
Hey, everyone. Just wanted to first of all let everyone know that Wowio.com has finally improved now that they’ve landed the support of Top Cow comics, and they’ve changed their agreement. It’s now a more straight forward thing where you can preview the first 15 pages and then buy the full ebook for $3.99. I actually make a bit more money on the Wowio ebooks now that they’ve changed their agreement, so if you’re interested in getting the ebook check out the link on the left that says Wowio.com.
Also, I just wanted to let everyone know that right now the big hold up on any new comic pages is the writing. I’ve been feeling like crud the last few days, and just unable to do much. But I need to do an official outline of the whole story and then each chapter. Then I need to write the full script for chapter 7. I’m going to continue more or less where we left off but there will be some changes and refinements. But the writing comes first and I can’t do anything without writing the next chapter and outlining out the whole story. That’s a lot of work so don’t expect it to happen over night, because I’ve been pretty sick. But that’s basically the big hold up right now. But thanks to everyone who’s been supporting TFR for so long. You’ve been awesome.
Jan 30
Should I reinvent or refine TFR, or start a new comic?
By Outlandish on January 30th, 2010Posted In: News
I’ve just added a new search feature to the site. If you want to search for a particular page or blog post it should help. Also it allows me to use Google ads without pasting them all over the main screen. So feel free to use it and so on.
Now to something more interesting. I’ve been toying with the idea of reinventing or reinvigorating TFR for a while. I’m not sure if I want to reinvigorate TFR or else do a new comic or game project called Legends from the Void, which might be described as a futuristic cyberpunk Diskworld-ish story with elements of Star Wars (when it was good) and special agents, spies, hackers, battles with huge fleets, on so on. But the thing is that TFR already has a lot of devoted readers who’d like to see more. Besides that, I don’t see why I can’t take all the ideas from the Legends story and fold them into TFR to make it more exciting. Personally, I can see how all those things could add to TFR. Interestingly, the hero in Legends is very much like Brin Thade so it wouldn’t be hard to add that element into TFR.
One of the biggest things to me is that Gilrec needs to be reworked into more of a hero, a bumbling but somewhat courageous hero. He should be more like Bertie Wooster who had a lot of wit and gumption but was always messing everything up, seemingly beyond hope, and then Jeeves would come in and save the day. That was actually in my dream. I was trying to type it out in the dream while I was watching the story unfold like a movie before me. Funny that. So I’ve added a little poll. Please don’t feel constrained by that, however. Feel free to comment to this post with your thoughts.
I may as well tell you I’ve caught the game designers bug and have really, REALLY wanted to make some little games or experiences. Or interactive comics. The problem is that it’s all a bit overwhelming, what with my disability. So I’ve been thinking doing a comic may be more therapeutic, not to mention simpler. However it’s still possible to do more interactive things with the comic. How about having a poll on what action Gilrec or the hero should take next? I don’t know, just throwing out ideas. It would be possible to use Flash to make the comic more dynamic. But then maybe not. I’d like something that’ll work on the iPad and Flash doesn’t work. So give me your ideas. I’m starting to feel the need to do some epic sci-fi story-telling
Jan 29
It’s been a while since I’ve updated and I was looking at the site and loathing the bland white look of it. I like something a little more dark and dashing. I’m not sure I achieved that, but it finally looks more like what I had in mind. I’ve been wanting to fix the look for ages. And I didn’t just want to leave it in generic white agony. So there we are. We now have a header for the blog so that it stands apart from the comic post. I even added a few nice graphical touches. It’s still really simple, but should be easy to load.
You may wonder why I spent some time to update the poor neglected thing. I’m not sure other than it was bugging me. And I haven’t forgotten TFR. I’d like to reinvent it and make it more fun and exciting. Gilrec always was a wimpy, whiny guy and it’s hard to make a good hero out of a character like that. If you’ve read my dream post (the one with Doctor Who and the comment I just made under it) you’ll know that my subconscious has been thinking about and reworking TFR in the depths of my brain. Unfortunately, I’m disabled and not feeling much up to writing a new story just yet. Still, it’s in my head so maybe I should at least get it down in writing. For some strange reason, moon ninjas entered into my dream…and speeder bike chases. Not sure where they come in, but they’d be fun to draw. I will keep you up to date on whether or not I write anything. In the updated version though, Gilrec is much more like Bertie Wooster, more full of confidence and beans, and more willing to help a friend out-even if it means trying to out think moon ninjas, or bounty hunters, or corrupt imperial Admirals and what-not. Anyway, hope you like the new look.
