I really enjoyed Phantom Hourglass. Its probably the most fun I've had with my DS so far, I mean DS unique games of course. Sonic and mario are just platformers, phoenix wright didnt really NEED the touchscreen [the tapping on clues could be done other ways, and skiping text gets tedious.] But Phantom Hourglass seems to be the game that the DS was made for. It uses every function and uses it well. There is some decent character development in the form of Linebeck and the oldman/fairy. And its split up into a nice plot, instead of the standard save the princess fare, they inject some nice humour into the old standbys [Link holding up an item going DA DA DA DAA as the old man snatches it and link falls over was great] and the ending which i'm not going to ruin, but it was nice to have a bit of a more unqiue plot. Of course Im gonna say it was too short, that was my same gripe with windwaker and twilight princess, but Its pretty much the only series I wait for new releases on so I kinda want a game that'll last me in replay till the next one comes out.

I hope they do make some more windwaker DS tales in this vein though, its brilliantly suited to it, and I can see it being quite quick and efficient to do [as opposed to one zelda per main nintendo console, as seems to be the developing standard]


And naturally I've already got my assumptions when it comes to where this fits in the timeline, but I'm not gonna bore you with those here, I've already got a massive zelda timeline worked out in my head linking all the games. Love the little references to windwaker and links awakening in this though. And of course I think the Ocean King and the Windfish are related.



End Ramble.


Nice to have a game where the badguy wasnt Ganon or Vaati though!

Yeah a mario joke, I went for it, cheap I know. BUT IT DOESNT MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!


I dont need a reason, it just DOESNT.

This is of course a lie, so far we have 20 people signed up to go. And the premise is deceptively simple, I've wrangled up a bunch of artists from a forum who all want to start a comic, and we're all going to start together. Update at least once a week, comic is whatever they want to do, just as long as they update regular.

We're all gonna get together in a community and egg each other on to keep going and generally give each other ideas and keep each other motivated to do what we can and on a regular basis. Its kinda like starting your own comic, except you're not on your own and you've got all these people starting at the same time you can relate to.

Either way, its gonna be awesome, Cant wait!

two in one day. can you tell I just bought a tablet? :D

5 months is a long time. Longer than it used to take machall to update, THATS how you know its a long time.



and this is all you get for your loyalty.









today.

Caution, Emo ahead.



Actually, I'm just gonna go ahead and blame it all on the job and Uni.

Uh, yeah. I have a job, DONT TELL ANYBODY, its only part time.
[colours by the illustrious Lady K]

oh fun sidenote, I started working and junk [rico=wage slave? who saw that coming?] its only part time though, hopefully wont ruin the comic too much! Not everyone appreciated SKUU code humour! XD
But today rico made more money than any other dude in the shop [sadly, For the shop, not for his wallet. BOOO.]

So yeah, Not happy with how this came out, but at least Im producing! I've gotten a fair few ideas in my sketchbook for more RML strips but for some reason all the tiny pen scribbles are better than the bigger pencil redraws! Oh well. At least putting the date on these things lets me know how I'm doing, and Its been almost a month since I last did an RML! Man thats not cool!

Based on a true story.

I'm starting an anthology book with a collection of artists and comickers that have the mistfortune of knowing me. The Theme is "Singles" as is the title, and so far a fair few people have expressed interest in putting out a short [10 page] story for the book, and Its shaping up to look quite impressive [going by the quality of some of the guys who have signed on]
Cant wait to see how it turns out, and of course, its gonna be fun doing my own entry and stuff to go in the book!

heres hoping I can kinda get a little community building going on! That'd be awesome! I'd love to see some crossbreeding between some of the comic making teams I know!

anyways enough for now, its almost 11am and I've not been to sleep yet!

I made this a lengthways one at 1200px, and this is the only way it looks good. Im not cheating blowing up a 3 panel comic to a 4 panel size! =/

Whoa okay, today something pretty awesome happened.
So yeah, prepare for a BIG post. [they're numbered wrong because I thought I'd lost the original 2 when I did 02.]



I was talking with my buddy george and it turns out I sent him the original pages to show him over msn a year or so back [whenever I drew these it was ages ago]



and since he doesnt have my reputation for exploding computers he STILL had the original 3 pages I did.

It all started with a slow day at uni


Then a slow lecture.


So I'm due to give up and veg out, when I post them on a forum and get a demand for more, and I managed the first two pretty quickly... so maybe today is a good day.


And then I finally found a pen!


aand now I'm gonna get some sleep.

During the times when LifeWaltz [the webcomic I started with mitch in 2004] was rough, I toyed with my own autobiographical comic called Ricos Modern Life. [I loved Rocko!] this was one of the pages, Its pretty awful since I drew it all with a marker without thinking.