Taking a photo is not O.K.

Posted on January 31, 2008 by Zatanna
Tags: Comics, elektra, greg horn, morons, Real Life | Categories Comics, Rants, Real Life

Ecccck, my friends can be so annoying sometimes.

It started yesterday when I brought a few of my drawings to school, I wanted to ask the few who can draw(too) what they think; does one part need improving? What looks fine on it? Anyways, I showed one of my guy friends and he took one look at it and said.

“Anne’s a better drawer, her drawings are sick.”

Um ok, I did not ask you to compare my artistic skills to hers. Not to mention that (unfortunately) a lot of my friends are into anime/manga and most of them who draw draw manga, Anne included. I draw my figures realistically and proportionate and she draws hers cartoony, you can’t compare the two.

Anyways, I mentioned that I like drawing realistically and then I took out “Elektra: Introspect” which has an issue where Greg Horn rendered the interior pages. I showed my friend and Anne this, and Anne just said:

“Drawing realistically is stupid, just take a picture. It’s better cartoony.”

I was just like

“…….”

That was just an idiotic comment. She then went on to say that they should just get some girl(friend) to put on a costume and pose. I wanted to call her a fucken moron very badly.

So it’s easier to find and buy a good Elektra(or any hero) costume, find a female(or male) that looks similar to them, find co -characters, locations, drive there and pay for gas, hire someone to Photoshop imperfections out. Yeah, it’s a lot cheaper to edit out some acne, make the hair perfect, make the costume look perfect, give the hero( your girlfriend) bigger boobs and a more toned body on every single bloody panel she appears in.

Seriously, so she was saying to waste money (and time) on all those resources instead of just hiring a professional artist to draw and paint realistically on (a few special edition) comic book issues. And we all know that most comic book issues don’t have deadlines and editors don’t care if you take your sweet time taking all those photos.

*Sigh* some people are just morons.

[EDIT]Off topic but, does anyone know how much it costs for buying DVDs overseas? I’ve herd the shipping and handling is what’s expensive but does anyone know (from experience) just how much? can anyone give me an amount?

I don’t want my parents buying the DVDs for my birthday if it gets expensive [/EDIT]

I know what I want

Posted on January 26, 2008 by Zatanna
| Categories Celebrities, Real Life

OK since my birthday is coming up next month, I decided to look into stuff that I would want for my birthday. I decided that I wanted to get two out of the three DVDs there are of Derren Brown. It wasn’t really a problem that they only sell the DVDs in the UK because you can order things from the UK Amazon site if you’re from the states.

The thing that was bothering me is if the DVDs would work, I know that Europe makes electronics different from the U.S. and after doing a little research, I found out the discs wouldn’t work in the U.S. because they’re region 2 discs. This discouraged me from wanting me to get them. However, I still kept on looking, maybe they had the DVDs in region 1 format, or there could be a way to make the DVDs work in the U.S.

After doing some Googling, I found out that you can buy region free DVD players that allow you to play DVDs from any country and any region. The bad thing about it is that most are expensive and I don’t want to ask for an expensive one for my birthday since my dad already bought me the tablet at $300 dollars.

So after all that, I found a good reviewed mutli regional DVD player. This makes me so happy because it’s $20 dollars and can be bought at Walmart; so I can just buy the DVD player and ask my parents for the Derren Brown DVDs!

This makes me so happy! Have any of you gone through something like(or similar) to this? Maybe there was a book a movie that was difficult to find and buy?

Heath Ledger dead

Posted on January 22, 2008 by Zatanna
Tags: Actors, Death, Heath Ledger | Categories Celebrities

Academy Award nominee Heath Ledger, 28, has died of a possible drug overdose involving sleeping pills in New York, police have confirmed.

The guy was an amazing actor, it’s so sad to see someone so young and talented die, I hope the paparazzi respect the families’ privacy. I also feel really bad for them.