Wedding bells

Sunday 25th October 2009

This week will be the last strip for at least 2 weeks, as next weekend I'm getting married and then off on my honeymoon in Paris for a week!

I won't bore people with details (let's try and pretend we're all manly men here) so I'll just say it's going to be a quiet little ceremony in a local registry office with close family in attendance and then a meal in a favourite restaurant of ours, folllowed by drinks and cake back at our house.

So things will be on hold until I return. If anyone would like to send in a guest strip for either the 1st or 8th of November, please feel free! Send the strip to the usual address (see contact page) and I'll upload it on the respective day with full credits to the artist.

Rock on y'all.

Matthias Thulman: Lamehunter

Sunday 18th October 2009

I recently finished the phenomenal First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie, and while I wait for his next book in the same world, Best Served Cold, to come out in paperback (I hate reading hardbacks) I picked up the Warhammer collection 'Matthias Thulman: Witch Hunter'.

At first glance it seemed to have all the requirements of a good Warhammer novel; interesting front cover art; somewhat interesting intro from the writer; relevance to the gameworld.
I read the first paragraph or so before buying it (as I always do) and it seemed ok.

When I got home and sat down for a good read, I was quite surprised to find that the book is really rather weak after the initial few pages. The author, C.L. Werner, makes numerous rather amateur mistakes in his writing; overlong descriptions of character's clothing, jumping from viewpoint to viewpoint seemingly at random and adding really unnecessary descriptives to sentances.
His main character, Matthias Thulman, is also rather unlikeable really. I understand that he's meant to be a bit of an arse, being a witch hunter and all, but other authors (Joe Abercrombie and Richard Morgan spring to mind) have managed to create equally unpleasant but immediately likeable rogues.
That said, the plot for the first book, Witch Work, is rather interesting, and I'm now starting to find the poor writing of Mr. Werner rather charming, in a way.

It also gives me hope for my own attempts at writing.
After all; if he can get published writing crap like this, surely I can!

Zoggin 'Eck!

Tuesday 13th October 2009

I think I mentioned that I run a GorkaMorka-based RPG game from time to time for my friends, and that we all tend to get quite immersed in it when I do.

My friend Chris, who left the UK for the wide open spaces of Canada a few months ago, plays in this game and his character, Warboss Zog, is the leader of the ragtag band of Orks.

Chris is also an amazing greenstuff sculptor and modeller, and as he has far too much time on his hands over in the land of Moose and Mounties he's taken it upon himself to model each of the characters from the game.

His blog comtains photos of the first of these models; Boss Zog himself in all his cybork glory.
I've seen Chris's work before, and I still can't believe the detail he's got on this model.

Damn those crazy Canadians!

Lame

Sunday 11th October 2009

Sorry peeps, but no comic this week.
I must apologise for the erratic updates to the comic over the last few weeks, but with the various changes to my circumstances I just seem to have either too little time or inclination to turn out a comic each weekend.

I will not allow SotI to become one of those comics that peters out before ending its storyline, I promise you that.

Update nextweek as per usual.

Keeping busy

Sunday 4th October 2009

It feels like an age since I last posted a strip, but it's only been 2 weeks.
What with my new job, new gym regime and the wedding now looming at the end of the month, things are feeling a bit hectic right now, but I'm determined not to miss many SotI updates.

We'll see if that holds true!

What with everything that's been going on lately I've not really managed to get up to much that I can report on here. I'd love to play a few games of 40k but haven't had the time, would love to finish off painting my Chaos army but haven't had the time, and would love to have some Dark Heresy to report on, but the campaign ended some time ago!

I am slowly reading my way through Sigmar's Heirs, the WFRP guide to the Empire, in preparation for a new campaign I'll be running sometime soon.
Rather than writing a plot and then having my players gen characters to run through it (as is the usual formula for my games), this time I'm asking my players to generate their characters and come up with some interesting background for them. The campaign will then be about the characters and their stories, rather than the characters wading through my plot.

Hopefully it'll get my players a lot more involved in their characters and the other characters in the party.