NZ #0111 has been posted at Negative Zen. It’s a little something extra for the holiday. Happy Halloween/Samhain!
NZ #0111 posted
Friday, October 30th, 2009NZ #0110 posted
Thursday, October 29th, 2009NZ #0110 has been posted at Negative Zen. See the notes below the comic. Ah, to do comics for a living 
NZ #0109 posted
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009NZ #0109 has been posted at Negative Zen. There’s strange things afoot. First bodies, now color, plus a pumpkin?
NZ #0108 posted
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009NZ #0108 has been posted at Negative Zen, with the stick guys (who are strangely, no longer stick-like… don’t ask me, sometimes these things just happen…) still attempting to pierce that darned veil.
NZ #0107 posted
Monday, October 26th, 2009I’ll be posting less rants on this particular page, but pointing you to the Good Stuff<tm> where the rants actually are germane to the work you’re partaking of at that moment.
For example! Today, Negative-Zen #0107 “Dubious Unveilings 2″ is up over at the (cleverly designated) Negative Zen web page.
Teh Stuff
Friday, October 23rd, 2009Striptastic
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009No bones about it, I’m a fan of strip clubs. The good ones, mind you. Yeah they’re more expensive, but if you go to the “discount” strip clubs gentlemens’ clubs (is that a plural or a singular possessive when employed in common usage? i’ve honestly never noticed…) you never know what you’re gonna get. And I’m not talking particularly in the “hangers on in the groinal region” sense, but rather in the “ummmmm” sense. I once went to a strip club where the dancer not-so-subtly hinted that I should give her some money, but neglected to, y’know, put on a show. I’m not really sure if she realized that one can walk down the street and see strange women fully-clothed for the price of a good pair of sneakers. It’s performance art, my dear lady, and I while I might pay Iron Maiden’s ticket prices beforehand, I also get 2 hours of entertainment (at least) for half the price of three songs at this fine establishment.
Okay, so maybe I like strip clubs when I’m not thinking about them very hard.
I do, however, tend to give them actual, valid currency as opposed to the guy referenced by the StickGuys today. If ya can’t afford the strip club, just stick with the Internet, dude. It’s like a small room with all the strippers you could possibly ever need, and you don’t end up smelling like you spent Monday Night Football at Baby Herman’s place.
So incredibly tired today, not sure why. Tired eyes, stupidly, led me to experiment with fonts in NZ before I concluded that the current font is perfectly fine. Someday I’ve gotta get one made out of my own handwriting.
See you Friday!
Of E-Readers and E-rotics
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009As you may have noted on your favorite tech sites, Barnes and Noble now has its own e-reader with downloads, e-ink screen, all that jazz. It’s generated quite a debate on /., since B&N was in this biz once before, and left their users high-and-dry when they stopped (with a buncha useless ebooks and readers due to the DRM). Of course, these days the whole portable computing application device market is totally different, and everyone’s got some sort of real-life “tricorder” of one sort or another. Nearly ubiquitous Wi-Fi and cellular network coverage make getting books trivial.
Someone mentioned that they thought the iPhone was a perfectly good platform for reading e-books, and that it made the Kindle and the “Nook” (Nook e-book reader… Nooke-Book reader…. Nookie Book Reader… and you thought the stick guys were just being random pervs today…) irrelevant. I assure you, this is not the case. The iPhone does many things well, but it is a horrible device for reading long works. The screen is too small, the form-factor doesn’t really fit into your hand in any way that resembles long-period ergonomics, and the glossy screen makes reading anywhere but a dim-to-dark room very difficult. No thanks.
Hopefully, this will result in some competition in the e-reader market and lower prices for everyone. Of course, for my part, I’m still waiting for manga to show up on the e-readers. That’s my killer app. I don’t think it’ll happen though (even though the e-ink has a high enough DPI to make it worthwhile).
Outtie.
The End of Vacation
Monday, October 19th, 2009Alas, my week long vacation is over 
Ah well. Only a couple weeks until Thanksgiving comes around, y’know?
There was some ironic violence going on in Iran last weekend, with some Revolutionary Guard commanders getting blow up by a suicide bomber. But my main concern is whether or not you’ve noticed how hot Persian women are. The bettas certain seem to know, anyway.
In other news, the release schedule for this site (including the story sub-sites with the short stories and TGD) will be one publication per week. There will be posts announcing them with links to those new published works, so make sure to subscribe to the RSS feed or email notifications for stevenmwalsh.com so that you don’t miss anything.