[05/08/2007]

Well then, Sandstorm picks up where we left off. Um, it’s night, in case it’s hard to tell.

Anyhow, a somewhat serious rant topic. Those of you here for fun, go ahead and skip to the next paragraph. Now, anyway, I recently read a letter to the editor in the paper. The writer was complaining about how George Bush and Karl Rove are dancing while … and then the author went on to rant about the general state of crisis in the world. I’m not so sure that the writer knows exactly what politicians have to put up with. Some of this (Dubya’s dance is a better example) is simply a matter of being the head of state; he’s got to act the part. But the other thing he/she (I don’t remember, and I’m too lazy to go look) is forgetting is that the people who serve in our government are people too. We can’t expect them to be serious all the time.

Anyway, technical aspects of the comic: I had an interesting time drawing those propellers in panel 1 with no references. This was the way I started drawing them in junior high, and as I don’t really draw propeller-driven vehicles all that often I haven’t really honed my propeller-drawing skills.

I also like the random flourescent bulb just dangling there. I figure, this is set in the future, light bulbs are imported to the colonial planet anyway, so they might as well make long-lasting flourescents so you don’t have to buy imported stuff so often.

But yeah, that’s my rant. Until next week, Holman Projectors!

[070506]

Errr… well, let’s see, I was talking about the Sakurazaki in my last entry. But I’ve forgotten what I was going to say and I’m actually trying to do some drawing now, so I don’t wish to write anything. But since I’m doing that it means we might have comics for next couple weeks. They’re pretty sick too starting from 426.