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11:00 pm
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Book 2: The Home Stretch
Shortpacked!@TNI: Impenetrable without YouTube.
Shortpacked!: Beginning of a new storyline!
Confused by the TNI strip? Educate yourself. After seeing the poor dude humiliate himself over something so mindbogglingly simple, I couldn't resist. Because I'm a jackass. Apparently "Waspinator," one of the members of our forums, posted the video response! I have never been so proud.
 Here's the skinny on Shortpacked! Book 2 preorders so far. I've raised enough money to afford a print run of 1,000 books. That's how much I produced of Book 1, and I gotta tell ya, it's not gonna last much longer. I'm feeling the drain as my remaining Book 1s escape through my fingers, and I haven't been to more than two small conventions, much less a full-fledged Comic-Con. Buttloads were ordered just in the past few weeks, along with preorders to Book 2.
 1,000 books of Book 2 would cost me roughly $6500. I've gotten that plus all the money I need for postage to mail the books out to y'all. That is an amazing show of support from you folks, and I am incredibly grateful. However, for another $1000, I can order TWO thousand books. That would mean I'd have these things in stock for quite a while, and peeps won't be disappointed when they come to see me at Cons and I'm all sold out. Now, to get that $1000, I'd have to get preorders for 76 more books. I think that's possible, and I think we can do this in a week.
Call it a Book 2 Drive, if you will. I've even got the prerequisite thermometer fund raiser graphic on the right.
 To help put a dent in the numbers, I'm gonna put that Batman/Mortal Kombat original art I showed you at the beginning of the weekend up for auction, and dump whatever I get for it into the Book 2 funds. So even if you've already preordered your book, you can help this process along in another way.
It's weird, having upwards of $7,000 sitting in my Paypal account from preorders, because none of it's actually mine! I don't see any of that money. It all goes right into the book and sent to you. Some day in the future, I may make a profit from this book. Probably (hopefully) at San Diego Comic-Con, after everything's all paid off. But first, I have a duty to you folks. I gotta take care of ya. And in the weird fabric of things, I need help from you to do that.
So if you've hesitated on preordering Book 2, please take some time to do so now. It's heartily appreciated.
EDIT: Shortpacked! Extras are SOLD OUT! I'm leaving a few slots open for those who promised to pay for them through snail mail, but otherwise, they be gone. There's still oodles of the normal ones, though!
Tags: art, auctions, books, shortpacked, whoring
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10:59 pm
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El Talko
Shortpacked!: This is why we can't have good things.
Hey, look! That original art has DIALOG on it! How can this be? The answer, after the break, may surprise you.
Preorder Shortpacked! book 2 now!
Vote for Cobra Commander!
No, seriously, vote for Cobra Commander.
Maggie had the genius idea to print out dialog balloons on our handy new sticker maker. Then we adhere them to the original art, and when people buy original art, they can have the dialog, too! It'd be sweet!
First, though, I gotta test how durable these stickers are. They're printed on high-quality paper, but the adhesive worries me a little. I'm gonna roll this up, simulating me mailing it in a tube to some lucky reader, and in a few days, I'll see how well it holds up. Then I'll auction this bad boy. See you on Monday.
Tags: art, shortpacked
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09:14 pm
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Whoring two-fer!
 A few weeks ago, I did a TNI strip about a "drunk and barfy green" Iron Man exclusive. Terrible, right? Well, Jin Saotome made it reality. A custom "Repulsive Armor" Iron Man figure is up for auction and it includes a one-of-a-kind marker piece by me.
 But enough making fun of the tragedy of alcoholism.
Yesterday I put Shortpacked! Book 2 up for preorder. It is sweetness! The book is 136 pages, full color, and nice and glossy.. Included is special commentary under each strip. There's a few TNI strips thrown in there, plus some "behind the scenes" preliminary sketches showing early versions of the characters. Plus, at the beginning of each story chapter is an introduction by Robin! To the right is a sample page of one of her, um, endearing monologues.
You can order the plain ol' $14.95 version, but why, when there's the $24.95 "Shortpacked! Extra" version? SP! Extra, limited to 200, is numbered, signed, and doodled in. And in one day I've sold 70! They're almost half gone. You gotta get on this while you can.
Tags: art, auctions, books, iron man, shortpacked!, whoring
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10:51 pm
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Miscellany!
Yesterday I mentioned Mega-Rex from the classic Beast Wars fanfic, "Dinobot's Old Technology." Well, I was inspired and decided to not only draw the fucker (my interpretation thereof, anyway), but make up a page for him on the Transfanon wiki. Enjoy!
Meanwhile, there's a new site called Bitstrips in town, and it caters to the sector of would-be webcomics creators who can't draw and are okay with sharing the rights to their work. Unfortunately for them, all my ideas are million-dollar ones.
I sure am doing a bunch of small miscellaneous things these days. Feels kinda freeing. Drawing the same webcomic all the time can get a little overbearing!
If only I could channel that energy into finishing the commentary on the last few pages of the second Shortpacked! book. Hmm.
Tags: art, beast wars, transformers, webcomics
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10:53 pm
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Art day!
  These won't be new if you're an avid reader of my Twitter feed, but if you ain't seen it, it's new to you!
Yesterday my pal Dr Fang demanded I draw Hot Shot in Transformers Animated style. Because I'm a whore for both Hot Shot and Dr Fang, I obliged him. There he is to the left!
The night before that, #wiigii! had a 15-minute draw-off, with Powermaster Prime's cab mode robot as the subject. To the right is my entry, and here are the others. The gag may be lost on you if you're not familiar with Powermaster Prime's toy.
(Hint: His toy is ridiculous.)
Tags: animated, art, transformers
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