Reclaimer - A Halo 3 Comic

Um, yeah, that was a test shot.  Had to be.  The Reclaimer was just testing them, seeing how on their toes they were.  Right?  Either way, he’s in some deep doo-doo now.  Viper knows he’s here, and that pushes the game to a whole new level.

Believe it or not, it’s actually a lot harder to write sound effects into a comic than you might think.  Hearing sounds is one thing.  Writing sounds is a whole different story.  You can have ten people hear a sound, and when asked to reproduce the sound, they will all do it differently.  The trick in a comic is to pick sounds that make sense, that, when read, serve as acceptable textual representatives of the actual sound itself.  This involves a certain amount of guesswork, particularly when you’re not completely sure what something would sound like in real life.  You’d probably laugh to watch me work on some of these sounds, sitting here at my desk making noises that you usually only hear out of a group of 8-year-olds at play.  But that’s how the work gets done, at least in my creative process, and hopefully the sound effects in this comic are at least somewhat close to what you’d expect to hear.

So, yeah, my posting schedule for this week has gotten all screwed up again.  The primary reason for this is that I’ve been tag-teamed by the flu and bronchitis since last Friday.  Needless to say, I’ve felt positively miserable the last few days.  Desperation forced me to the Urgent Care clinic on Sunday to get a high-powered antibiotic and decongestant, so I’m feeling some better now, but it’s been a rough week.  I’m finally back to work today, but even so I still have a pretty ragged cough and feel like someone steam-rollered me.

The other reason my schedule is off is because what little work I’ve been able to do around being sick has been devoted to getting a couple of web design projects off the ground for paying clients.  The one is a complete, ground-up redesign that I’ve been working on the last couple of weeks and that will hopefully launch within the next few days.  So, as much as I enjoy working on the Reclaimer comic, paying customers must come first.  I do, after all, have a mortgage to continue paying.

If all goes well, I’ll have Reclaimer back in full swing starting on Friday, hopefully without anymore interruptions for awhile.

“There is nothing wrong with your television set – Do not attempt to adjust the picture – we will control the horizontal – we will control the vertical.
For the next hour, sit quietly,
and we will control all that you see and hear.”

Yeah, sorry about that.  What is it with germs lately?  Is it just me, or are the viruses more robust this year?  I’m only just now really starting to feel somewhat normal again.

Oh, and that website project I was working on?  Nearly done.  Little fussy on the back-end implementation, of course, but the bulk of the tough stuff is out of the way now, which leaves me a bit more time to work on Reclaimer.

More goodies on the way…