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Considering that most zombie outbreaks seem to start in the US (just as most aliens land in the US ) Australia might just be the last place in the world to get affected by the zombie outbreak. I mean, you guys were talking about fleeing to a small island. What about a big island? Or an island continent like Australia? We've already got a pretty stringent quarantine policy when it comes to bringing organic matter to our shores.

All of this is of course assuming that zombies don't swim and their corpses don't float around and infect Aussie beaches. But then, we have great white sharks (in the south) and saltwater crocodiles (in the top north) to have a snap at the zombies...

Assuming that animals can't catch the zombie virus.

Ohgohd.
In that case, Australia would be the worst place to get zombified

...Um. Hi again. ^_^;

I feel a little bit bad that I just disappeared out of the blue on you all. I was all excited about this project but then, just stopped posting. I think I owe you an explanation.

A novel-writer once told me, years ago, that life comes before art. I've never forgotten that. And what happened this summer was very much a "get up and experience life!" kind of thing.

I expected to spend my summer indoors with the blinds drawn, churning out comics. Instead I found myself outside, in the blazing sunlight, strolling through beaches and forests and exploring my own city and having a huge amount of fun, for the first time with a fun and happy guy.

Scott. ;D

And I don't regret a minute of how the summer was spent.

How we could even come together at all is a strange and unlikely story. He's from Texas, and I'm from Australia. In May last year, we met for the first time in Scotland. We were both only there for a couple days or so, on our holidays. And we met each other for one day. I was living in London at the time and took a short trip up to Edinburgh, and he was doing a quick 2-week tour of Europe.

So it just happened that we were both on a walking tour of Edinburgh. And the tour guide was telling the group about the local custom of spitting on a stone heart that was on the ground - the Midlothian Heart. Our guide said it was good luck to do this, and encouraged us tourists to embrace this local tradition and let the spit fly. Scott spat on it right away. I took like a run up and spat a big shiny streak onto the heart. No one else in the group was up for spitting on it. And Scott came up to me and was like, "brofist for being the only two to spit on the heart!"

And that's how it started. I'm not kidding you.

After the tour, the group had lunch together and him and I were sitting next to each other and eating haggis and talking about things. And in the conversation we found out that we were both really passionate about God. It was a good convo, and we hung out a bit longer afterwards to see some more things in Edinburgh that day. Then we swapped email addresses and waved goodbye.

I returned to Melbourne, Australia. He went back to Texas, and then started his first engineering job in Mexico. Over the next few months we sent emails to each other. Loong emails. And we chatted on facebook chat too. For some reason, idk why, we had this tendency to start talking about really personal things. xD Somewhere in the course of all this, we developed a mutual crush. And at the start of December I told him straightforwardly about how I felt, and what we could possibly do about it.

We considered the idea of starting a long distance relationship. He was very surprised that I would even suggest that as an option, and I was very surprised that he would be so up for it. But after much consideration, we agreed on these terms: that it would be nuts for us to start a long distance relationship after having only met each other in person for one day in Scotland -- BUT if we managed to meet up in person somehow, if at some point in life we were living near each other or could take holiday time to meet up, then we could work it out from there.

In early January we were in a bit of an uncomfy in-between state. :/ We liked each other, but since nothing's official, we were both fair game, so to speak. And that was kind of hard. And there was no telling if we would ever meet up at all. But then Scott found a window of time where he could take time off work and fly to Australia during this summer before my uni started up and we could hang out and swim with seals and go to church together and walk on beaches and explore and talk and yayyy

So. He did. He actually flew halfway around the world, like a 30 hour flight, just to hang out.

And it was awesome.



So awesome that we met and sorted out where we stand. And after he'd gone back to Mexico, he actually sent me 12 red roses on Valentines Day!

Life is good. Even though he's now back in Mexico and I'm in Melbourne and we're doing uber long distance and it was the first time I ever held a guy's hand let alone have a bf let alone a long distance bf, life is good. The summer was totally worth spending out in the sun with him.

And now uni has started again, and that's keeping me really busy with a 15,000 word thesis to write by October. But uni is awesome too.

So the comic is pretty much scrapped for now. But yeah, I wanted to tell you why. And at least you get one more comic out of me this summer!! hahaha

NTWF. ^_^ I know I don't post here much nowadays but you've always been such a great support, such a nice place to just go back and browse through to see what's going on. So happy for everything, and I hope you're happy with your lives too.

So, I asked this guy I know if he wants to come to a prayer meeting with me where there will be things he's not used to, like speaking in tongues and prophecy. He's a bit taken aback, a bit "" and unsure about whether it's best to go there or not. So he told me he needs to pray about it first. Fair enough, really.

...xD

Then I realise how ironic this situation is. He's praying to know whether he should go to a prayer meeting or not.

ah, life.

But that got me thinking. How many of you people here have been to a prayer meeting where there have been gifts of the Holy Spirit practiced (speaking in tongues, prophesy, etc.)?

Despite having been to a lot of these meetings (and a really disturbing overnight prayer meeting once ), I'm not a huge fan of going to prayer meetings where these things all happen. Where people fall flat on the floor or prophesy or interpret tongues... It's like, I know it's biblical and historical and I know these people really do have the Holy Spirit moving in them. But I don't necessarily like to see it. Happening. It's sort of... not my cup of tea, even though I'm used to it, I just don't particularly feel it helping me in my faith.

Some churches are really into it (namely, the Pentecostal and Charismatic churches, but not all churches within those categories), and if you go to one of those churches you see it a lot. Like I did. The current church I go to doesn't do so many spiritual gifty prayer nights. ...And I kind of don't miss it too much, either ^_^;;

A flower spontaneously decided to grow out of the bricks at the back of my house. How about that? No one asked it to exist. Just thought I'd share it with you.




I'm not even sure if it's a flower at all. Those "petals" look like the leaves of a weed with a very strange and very beautiful case of albinism. What it really is, or why it's so pretty, I have no answer... but well, there it is.

It makes me feel happy.

Thank you Celestial! It's great to hear that you enjoyed the comic and liked my art, I find it very encouraging. ^_^

I've nearly finished a second one. I only need to add the speech bubbles and do a couple final touches, but since my schedule has suddenly been filled up with Christmas doings I think it might be a few days before I can show it to you all.

*scootles in* ^_^

I did a drawing to kickstart those old, long-neglected, unpracticed art muscles. I'm quite happy with the result.



I'm going to be drawing comics again whee

It's called being easily obsessed And having eyes larger than my stomach... or... whatever organ it is that processes comics and spits them out finished.

Hey, actually, uni starts in March in the southern hemisphere.

Oh. Numbers.

March is in 12 weeks.

...

...yeah, actually. I think I might have to scale this down a bit. xD

• 30 comics 10 comics until further notice.
  
• website, promotion etc. I'll post them in places I already know.
  
• pre-drawings, characters etc. I'll make a small cast, do a couple drawings beforehand, then get into the thumbnailing and production.
  

If that works, it works I forgot that drawing comics takes a fair amount of time. Particularly if it's in full colours.

Well, it's nice to have a little bit of common sense injected into me once in a while.