my recent activities

I haven't posted much lately aside from "please buy my things" posts, so here's a bit of what's been going on. My on and off depression thing has been rearing its ugly head lately, and I decided to take an unplanned vacation to visit family and old friends in Kentucky. My dad visited here a couple of weeks back for an event he wanted to attend, and I hadn't taken any time off to see him, so I went back with him and stayed for close to a week. I saw my nephew for the first time, I reconnected with many friends I haven't seen in years, I bought some original art I'm rather shocked didn't sell on eBay from my friend Hayley Young, I found a Milli Vanilli cd and bought it because if felt like the right thing to do (I am amused by spectacular failures for some reason and collect examples of them), and I shipped about twelve boxes of collectibles from my storage facility to post on eBay and try to turn into money. I hope most of it sells. Otherwise I might find myself being pursued around the apartment by an attractive female wielding either a rolling pin or a frying pan. I also shipped myself 200 or 300 copies of Fatalysia #1 that had been floating around in the ether since I was almost out of them. I spent most of today doing eBay-related things such as shipping, posting, photographing, and hunting down prices. For the first day of doing this as an all day thing, it was sort of fun. I hope it stays that way and actually generates a little money (says the guy who just fought off hundreds of nerds for an SDCC exclusive Doctor Who figure). Anyway, just the feeling of being productive seems to take a bite out of the depression, just like seeing friends you've had since second grade and lots of cats, which are hard to come by here. I started poking through my friends lists today on LiveJournal and am afraid I might not be able to make it back to where I temporarily dropped off. My apologies. How is everyone?

It feels so weird having to go back to work and having life all scheduled away after being totally free from it all for a week.

Oh--we got a review!

http://indycomicreview.com contacted me and directed my attention to this. I'm pasting the whole thing here because it sounds like the site's demise is on the horizon.

Fatalysia #1 Average Rating: The average of all the ratings given to the book by the review panel. Year: 2006 Writer: Liam Kemp Artist: U! Letterer: Chris Tabor Publisher: Self-Published Website: http://www.fatalysia.com Genre: Fantasy Description of book: From the Web-site: "'Fatalysia' follows the adventures of Susan and Christan, best friends who live in a small village in an imaginary time. Susan escapes her abusive home life by secretly spending time with a scarecrow she meets on the other side of the forest." Price: $3.00 Review: Fatalysia opens with a flashback that has more to do with dreams than actual events. The remainder of the comic seems to follow this pattern, one foot on either side of the line dividing the concrete from the more surreal. The story threatens to be a retread of the "Beauty and the Beast" tale with more of a tragic edge, but this opening leaves the reader with more questions than definitions. That is likely the title's biggest asset right now, although it is disappointing that it has only moved on to its second issue as of this writing. Bottom line, there are hints in Issue #1 that this is a project that takes more traditional ideas and, courtesy of a unique meeting of minds, mashes them together in a new and (hopefully) less than predictable way. Overall: 4 stars. Alex Haas

Review Legend Ratings Wouldn't give to my worst enemy! The best I can say is that it wasn't horrible. Decent book, could be talked into reading the next issue. Enjoyed the book, wouldn't mind spending some more time with the characters I'll be sitting at the comic store waiting for the next issue!!