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by kyle on January 25, 2012 at 12:00 am

Yup.  This is the last non-epilogue panel of Ricky Thunder.

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Hunger Games

by kyle on January 24, 2012 at 11:16 pm
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I just finished the Hunger Games Trilogy.
Yes, I’m an adult.
It was really solid. YA is a weird genre. Not a lot of flourish-y writing, not a lot of metaphors, sort of direct and to the point. And for something aimed at a younger audience there is a lot of gruesome and tragic (and awesome) death.
Anyway.
I just finished it. A character shows up in Book Two named Finnick. I just realized that, in my head, I read him the entire time as looking like Ricky Thunder. No wonder I liked that bro so much.

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SOPA/PIPA

by kyle on January 18, 2012 at 5:47 pm
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I was seriously jealous that all the awesome webcomics did something in regards to educating about SOPA/PIPA, especially since it will affect all of us webcomic creators and they have large enough readerships to actually educate people.

I thought, that I had something that went along perfectly with today’s comic post, so I just did some pretty fantastic (I think we can all agree) photoshopping on it to make it timely.

I took this from Nedroid.com:

Here are a few easy things you can do:

  • Educate yourself about how SOPA and PIPA work. (Reddit: What is SOPA?)
  • Print and mail letters to your state’s senators and representatives, urging them not to support this. Physical mail is harder to ignore than email. It piles up. You can find representatives’ addresses here and senators’ addresses here. Remember that PIPA is a Senate bill and SOPA is a House of Representatives bill.
  • Call your senators and representatives on the phone and urge them not to support the bills. See above links for phone numbers or click here to get a quick list of representatives based on where you live.

Let your elected representatives know, as inconveniently as possible, that censoring the Internet is something you do not and cannot support. Congressmen care about getting reelected. If everyone reading this plays their part, these bills will be killed.

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Manta-Man

by kyle on January 13, 2012 at 9:46 pm
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just found out about Manta-Man webcomic from comicsalliance. links on the side bar super fun. this is a “in a hurry” post.

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My spambots

by kyle on January 3, 2012 at 5:13 pm
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I love my spambots.  They comment on everything I post.

I bet 100 of the last 200 spam comments I got were from Ugg Boots.   I don’t know what that means.

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN???!?

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The End of 2011

by kyle on December 29, 2011 at 7:30 pm
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2011 for Kyle Starks wasn’t all that terrible.   It was almost alright.

But, in a lot of ways, it wasn’t enough.

There was a lot of good for me, notably some solid websites pimping Ricky Thunder (which I appreciate in a way I can’t voice), along with maybe the best year of discovered entertainment for me in a long time (Community, Misfits, the Song of Fire and Ice series, and the comic Locke and Key).  Maybe the best most exciting stuff I’ve came across in a very, very long time.  I impress you folks to go check them all out.     My little girl grew up into an adorable little lady, my baby grew up into a charming little girl.  I had my first (group) art show.   Me and the wife got along for an entire twelve months.  Astounding stuff.

2012 is going to be better.

I’m going to get serious about making stuff and hopefully that can get people serious about wanting to see it.    I’m going to change two of my bad habits.  1)  I’m going to quit smoking, hopefully, finally, for forever.   2) Instead of, when I come home from work, plopping down to watch something I don’t really care if I watch or not I’m going to draw.   I do most of my drawing “on the fly” these last several years.  Squeezing it into when I can at work and then rushing to get it completed on Mondays.    Now I’m going to draw or paint when I get home.    It has to be done.   I’m not young anymore and I want to make a lot of things before I’m done here.  Oh, and 3) not post everything to tumblr and ignore this place.   I love the simple access to tumblr, but I’ve definitely left out the opportunity for you guys to know me better through other (stupid) stuff I do.

Also, 2012 is absolutely going to be the ending of Ricky Thunder.  Maybe by the end of January.  I wanted to have it done for the end of the year, but that clearly didn’t happen.  By January.  Then something new.   The whole point of this site was to be an anthology of stories I’ve had dancing in my head for years.   Ricky has been such a great learning experience – to finally post something beginning to end in a moderate long form, I really learned a lot about what worked and what didn’t.   Sadly, this has hurt some of those previous stories because, frankly, they wouldn’t be good enough anymore.   At least not in present ethereal form.   Hopefully, what comes next (after posting the Adventure Wizard strip in it’s completed entirety) will be awesome.   I’m definitely going to be doing some shorter stuff.

Anyway, I just want to say thanks so much to anyone who’s reading this or has read Ricky to this point.   I hope you’ve enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoy what’s yet to come.

 

Sincerely,

Kyle Starks

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