WTF FRIDAYS: STILL A DOLLAR SHORT!!

This lateness keeps up and I'll start calling it WTF Saturdays!

More odd thoughts from this monkey mind:

So, what exactly causes an economic depression? Someone tell me ‘cause I’m pretty sure my local area has been depressed now for about the last three years. Gotta LOVE Flint! At least the local political soap opera stays humorous. You count the insane federal government wheelin’ and dealin’, the states constant B.S., and the locals arguing over a constantly shrinking pie, you got a real three ring circus around here at times.

I’ll tell you more about Flint when the subject comes up-which should be about any time now. We JUST got the GM Volt engine plant, which won’t ADD anything to our economy, just MAYBE keep most of the money here from all the attrition the shrinking auto industry is currently going through, Maybe a little construction work, if that stays local at all, but frankly we’ll be getting more noticeable economic benefits from our new bio-fuel plant they’re talking about making. “Shit to energy” that sure smells like Flint to me!



On the personal front, this week has been a little light, or at least in the latter half of the week, but I intentionally pushed back some work a few days to try to concentrate on doing something a little more creative. Weighing options and searching out opportunities in the comic market in a system SO broken I’m no longer sure I even want to try to make a mark in it.

I did put Spank The Monkey #2 online at Literate Machine .com (http://www.literatemachine.com) for folks to buy and electronically download. If I sell any up there them issue #1 is about 90% ready to go up there as well, we’ll see. Arrow Comics has pulled their material from wowio.com, and I was SO looking forward to planting some original material up there- but most of the creators currently up there have yet to be paid for their second quarter, so it’s turning out to be a good thing after all. Kind of had that impression when they stalled so long paying Arrow for the first quarter, but at least they DID eventually pay. I’ll keep you all posted and let you know if they ever pay me for the second quarter. I’m not counting on that money at all.

I’ve been looking at submitting to Zuda.com, just to do something creative. Problem is I won’t really “own” the property, and it has to be more “General Audience” oriented. Not that I don’t have properties I can spare for them to look over and possibly own and run for awhile, I just haven’t decided if I should create something “new” just for them and just what it would be.

Also on the DC news front, DC announced this week that they are canceling their MINX line, which to me called to mind a headline that one would find on Fark.com (also a great site btw), “DC cancels their MINX line, a line of manga style comics aimed at girls, IN OTHER NEWS; DC had a MINX line”. There are SO many other ways for DC to cater to a female audience than to try to copy a few female oriented manga things. Man, would I love to have that kind of opportunity. Look for a female oriented edition of Comics My Way coming SOON, I have a LOT of suggestions for them.

Cutting today’s column a little short because I need to get a few things done, so a bigger column on something tomorrow, till then…

WAKE UP!!