Alright, so seeing as how it’s apparently so hard for us to meet the Tuesday weekly deadline, we’ve decided to move it to Friday now. Hopefully that will translate to regular updates. So the next comic will be up this Friday and every Friday after. Bookmark us, and we’ll see you, so to speak, in 3 days!
Hello world. Unfortunately there’s no update today but it might possibly be up on Friday or next Tuesday at the latest. I promise. Like for reals. It’s written, but there just wasn’t enough time to draw it and have it up to the new “standards” of Homebr00d. Oh yeah, so this comic? True story. “Andrew” actually did buy a purse in real life. And the conversation we had about it is in the next comic, so check back on Friday/Tuesday!
–Adam
So we went to ComiCon slash Fan eXpo and it was “teh shit”. Although “teh shit” was preceded by a tremendously long and demoralizing ticket line, it moved relatively fast considering the number of nerds per square meter in attendance. Bonus: as we were waiting in line Laura Vandervoort was talking on her cell phone mere meters away and damn, she is approximately five times hotter in real life than on Smallville. I think it had to do with the fact that she could do her own makeup and look like a hot twenty-something instead of an innocent perky Kryptonian teen.
Once we got in, it became immediately obvious that this year’s Fan eXpo was certainly not the Fan eXpo of two years ago. Hosted in another, significantly larger, part of the Toronto Metro Convention Centre, this year’s event was well air conditioned, well organized and at least two or three times the size of 2006’s. Comics, Science Fiction, Horror, Anime, and Gaming sections created a surreal and exiting new landscape to conquer. My only regret is not signing up for the Major League Gaming tournaments they had going on. That, and not getting to the mic during the question and answer session and proclaiming my undying love for her. Oh cruel fate. Speaking of which, while there Andrew manned the Canon (get it?) and got some great shots, I recorded some video with my standard def. Sony (YouTube video to follow soon). So go ahead, take a look and live vicariously through the eyes of middle class nerds with a standard one-day ComiCon pass! Seize the day, damnit!
Oh yeah and the comic has been updated with a better, cleaner art style than previously graced the pages of homebr00d. I tried to draw Scott more accurately, but godamnit he must be the most obscure featured person that I’ve ever met. His features are so general that they’re impossible to capture. You look at his face, even with a damn picture in front of you, yet somehow his weird Canadian and diluted ancestral Japanese heritage doesn’t translate to paper. Anyways, improvements will be ongoing, so if the couch changes colour a few times then you’ll know why—because it’s magic. Any weird changes or narrative inconsistencies? Magic.
Email all questions, comments, criticisms, presents, pictures, magazines, fan art, and creepy letters to armand@homebr00d.com.
Peace in the Middle East,
–Adam
FanExpo 2008 Pics Courtesy of Andrew (click to enlarge):
The love of my life with M. Rosenbaum
Cloud from Final Fantasy
And that’s all for now, come back next Tuesday!