Transformers meeting The Avengers? Wow, never saw that coming.

Can't say i'm really much for comics.... in fact whatever I know about Batman, Spidey, The Hulk, etc. I learned from the various 1980's movies, tv shows, 1990's Fox cartoons, and various video game (both arcade and console) adaptations. Not to say i've never picked up a comic and read one... I actually have an old Ren and Stimpy comic hiding away somewhere (probably in storage.) Plus I used to read (though at the time I didn't comprehend as well as the cartoon... I was like 6 years old.) the old
Transformers comics back when the Bookmobile used to park right in front of my old house.

Transformers-wise: It's pretty much well-documented (here|here also) that i'm pretty crazed when it comes to the topic of the 'Formers. Sure, i'm not the most-crazed (Matt's much worse. Heheh,) but i'd like to think i'm up there when it comes to the topic...

Last year at Comic-Con, I dragged some of my buddies to the Hasbro panel... thinking it was of interest to anyone remotely in to TFs. It was rather boring for about 30 minutes... then after half my buddies fell asleep, while the others "went to pee," they showed footage the soon-to-be-extinct (Sony killed their "kids" DVD department.) 20th Anniversary TF: The Movie DVD. Funny sidenote to that story: as soon as I was finished with the panel and back downstairs I ran into Dana Snyder, who was also with Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer.

Anyways... and this seems to be a recurring theme now (long-winded story, then to the point.) I just saw this a short while ago....




Haaaaawt. I might actually need to get those comics. :D

My 4th [as] website. (well, techincally my 5th)

I was going to try to post this last night, but my cable went haywire and stopped working... probably from the rather warm spell we had. Anyways....

For those who aren't aware, i'm the head designer of all of those Central sites you see popping up for various [adult swim] shows... with the exception of Aqua Teen Central. My buddy Jeff redesigned it a few years ago (and then a 3rd time when we wanted to make it more interactive) after another less popular and obviously jealous ATHF-based fansite decided to send their resident hacker to exploit the code in the original Aqua Teen Central (BTW: Never use PHP-Nuke if you're looking for an easy cookie-cutter PHP website. It sucks... way too many Brazilians and Turks know how to "hack" your site.)

Anyway, in the past 2 years i've used my various HTMLing skills to design more [as] related sites such as:

Perfect Hair Central -- http://www.actionhotdoggo.com

12 oz. Mouse Central -- http://www.corndogcentral.com

Months before Ozmo Central went into pre-planning, Matt and I started thinking of linking all the sites to one hub... which would eventually become [adult swim] Central. Basically, the idea was to make the sites similar to GameSpy/IGN's "Planet" websites. I.e.: PlanetDoom.com, PlanetHalfLife.com, etc.

It started off slow... mostly because I let Matt do it himself (like he requested) but then I received an e-mail from some DVD company who offered to send us free DVDs of Harvey Birdman V2. Naturally, since it would seem kind of dumb to post a review to a Birdman DVD on an Aqua Teen website, I decided to finish the site on my own in order to post my own review for the site. About a week later I was finished throwing all the necessary content up, as well as the review. I got the free DVD for my troubles... Matt did not cause he was busy humping his X-Box as usual. x_x

After the [as] site was done, I started putting up notes that any site we hadn't yet made COULD be made, and if anyone wanted to come forward and start one (granted they had the appropriate skills) could start one as long as they got our blessing/approval. The first (of hopefully many, so far i've not really gotten anything else requested.) of many came from Ozmo Central staffer Nikki: Frisky Dingo Central -- http://www.babarshouse.com with Nikki doing virtually all the content and your's truly doing the initial html design (plus fan art... that's mine! :D)

At the same time Nikki started planning for FD Central, I had plans for the Squidbillies website... and that's pretty much what I wanted to talk about today (since I already have this up on my LJ.)

Here's the progression of the concept design "sketches" that I did in Photoshop:

Original Design -- January 2007:



I did this with the little screen captions I had from the rough cut I have on ATC.com, plus some random screenshots from eps on YouTube.

Latest Design -- March 2007:



So basically it pays to ask someone within Williams Street if they have a hi-rez version of the Cuyler House. :)

So that's where it stands right now... Nikki asked if she could help, naturally I accepted... her graphics are kick-ass (if you've seen her Antagone fan art on FDC, you'll know what I mean.)
Hopefully the site will be up soon and I can get cracking on the content. We'll see what happens.

Completely forgot I had one of these Blogger things.

One of those days I guess... kinda bored at work, can't get to MySpace or LiveJournal and you think "Hey, I should create a Blogger account since they haven't blocked that here." only to realize you already had an account that was linked into something you haven't done in almost 3 years.

Anyways, I think i'll try to utilize this more often since again, the other 2 are blocked from here... and so it seems i'll be here more often than usual now... Fun stuff, though so I won't be too bored... just at times.

L.A. Times called me yesterday for an interview about Aqua Teen Hunger Force: The Movie, The Show, my site, fan perspective stuff, etc. Hopefully it'll be circulated soon... I won't spoil anything... hopefully it'll be a good read and make some people happy.

I'll try posting some good stuff soon.. if I can think of it. :)