The Cow: Three Thrilling Tales of Something-or-Other
on February 20, 2012 at 12:01 amYup. Comic. I’d say more, but I’m exhausted and need to sleep.

Yup. Comic. I’d say more, but I’m exhausted and need to sleep.

Okay. Haven’t updated all week. I apologize. I have been sick as a dog. I basically slept all day on my days off, and only woke up long enough to go to work the rest of the week.
I still have a nagging cough, but I’m furiously working on getting comics done for next week.
My apologies.
So, a few months ago I had an idea for an ad to promote the comic. And because I’m eternally distracted, I didn’t get around to it. The ad was poking fun at the totally unnecessary redesigns for virtually every character in the DC Universe this past September. But once November hit, the outrage over the trashing of iconic costumes had pretty much died down.
Now, I like Jim Lee. He drew the first comic book I ever bought. He’s been a huge influence on me. But this design is terrible. It’s taking a classic design and redoing it for the sake of redoing it. I’m not opposed to redesigning heroes or villains, but what is the point of this one? What does it add to Darkseid? I mean, the old Darkseid was pretty impressive and intimidating, while this new one . . . . well . . . .

I almost expect him to be taking on the Power Rangers. (Sorry, Trev. . . . ) So long story short, it’s totally the perfect time to use this ad. (And if you’ve found the site via that ad, thanks for checking it out! I hope you think it doesn’t suck.)
I should just off on an all-out rant about what I like in comics. But I’m hungry, so I’m going to go eat something.
-Mike
Quote of the Moment:
“This is a hobo suit, darling. You can’t be seen in this. I won’t allow it. Fifteen years ago, maybe, but now? Feh!”
“Wait, what do you mean? *You* designed it.”
“I never look back, darling! It distracts from the now.”
Okay, it’s been a crazy few weeks. Illness, work, Halloween, all that stuff. I haven’t updated the comic as much as I should, but I’m making progress.
One thing I’ve been working on is adding some graytones to the comic. I’d love to hear feedback on if that’s making the comic better, or just looks weird.
I finally got the archive pages back up and running. I also discovered that issue 7 was missing about ten pages in the middle. Whoops. That’s all fixed now. I also added a few pieces of fanart to the gallery, as well as last year’s 24 hour comic I did, The Cow vs. Don Kong.
I also finally remembered to add Google Analytics back to the site, which really doesn’t mean anything to anyone, but it’ll be neat to start getting info on just how many of you read this.
I’m tempted to make a blog post about my Halloween costume (CM Punk) and my first attempt at a solo pumpkin (Tron,) but I’m really tired and I still have to letter the comic that’s supposed to go up in about an hour. So perhaps tomorrow, or over the weekend.
Until then . . .
“Spider-Man works in mysterious ways, Shelly.”
Okay. Listen up. I’ll be at InterventionCon this weekend in Rockville, MD. If you’re going, it’d be really cool if you wanted to stop by my table. And it’s really easy to find me! If you go into the Artists Alley, look to your left. I’m right next to the door. It’s gonna be fun on the bun! Also, Friday night I’m gonna be a part of the Super Art Fight event! Come on and cheer me on. (Please?)
The other cool thing that happened this week? I died. Well, I died in Dominic Deegan. At Connecticon, I was the highest bidder in the Webcomic Charity Auction for the “appearance in Dominic Deegan” thing. And, as per tradition, I was promptly killed off by Mookie. And he totally went all out and made references to The Cow and everything. (Seriously, Cao’s Cows is brilliant. I love me the puns.) Sooooo, yeah. You may be reading this because you followed the link from DD. If you are, I’d like to thank you for checking me out and hopefully sticking around.
And finally, would you like an insight into what a horrible friend I am? The kind of stuff I do to my roommate? Well, this Youtube video chronicles an elaborate series of pranks I pulled a week or two ago where I hid velociraptor hand puppets of varying shapes and sizes throughout the house for him to find when he got home from work. And my iPod was blasting the Jurassic Park theme song the whole time. Enjoy!
So, Connecticon was last weekend. It was the best convention I’ve ever been to. So much cool stuff happened, so many cool people were met.
And then there was this week.
Long story short, I caught con-crud, which can be summed up as “really nasty head cold and general sore\acheyness.” I pretty much woke up every day this week, went in to work, came home and went back to sleep. I’ve got a few half-penciled comics lying around, but nothing I can really post.
I actually called in to work today and went back to bed. I think most of it’s out of my system now, even though I still feel exhausted. So what does that mean for the comic? It means I’m going to bust my ass over the next 53 hours to get comics finished. Monday will have a comic posted, regardless of how complete it is. Even if I have to post the half-finished pencils, it’ll be up.
My apologies to everyone who reads this comic. It’s been almost a month now since a new comic when I should be updating three times a week. It should all be coming together now, though. I’m getting my act together.
–Mike
–(Currently a zombie)
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