May 11, 2009

Not back to regular scheduled programming...

First off, let me apologize to regular Old Man Blog readers for the bitter tone of the last two posts. I stand by the accuracy of the accounts, but on re-reading they seemed to me to be unnecessarily harsh. Though I will confess to a LOT of frustration with this sort of thing over the last few months, I have been treated well by most everyone involved and so the level of bitter humor seems to me disproportionate to my actual experience and treatment.

To be totally truthful, I have been treated with much more respect by the TV and movie folks than by a lot of people in comics.

I have been, stuck, I guess, in my writing efforts and will confess this has taken quite a mental toll on me of late. Venting this kind of frustration to the internet is hardly professional, and would have been better served as being fictionalized, say in a Screamland short, than to air my dirty laundry in public.

As I kinda hit an emotional and creative dark spot over the last few weeks, I have become reminded that I have a lot to look forward to:

New art from Steven Sanders on our re-worked sci-fi concept.
Actual talk of movement on new Screamland with Mr. Casanova’s possible involvement.
New art coming in from Buster Moody for upcoming Maintaining Bohemia installments.

Again, my apologizes for letting my darker instincts run wild on the blog, and a sincere apology to anyone who may have been wronged or offended.

This, however, is not my main reason for writing. I had a phone call this morning that really is going to shake up my entire world. I am going to North Carolina for several weeks to work on a gaming project. Yeah, this is sudden. The more jarring part is that may well move from current project to relocation in a VERY short period of time.

How quickly this is all going down is jarring to ME, but it’s… like, I have what I think to be one hell of an opportunity here and I am pretty set on following it. If that means things get shook up in a very abbreviated timeframe, then I am going to deal with it. I have looking for entry into the gaming industry for some time now, a lot of the same thing that draw me to comics really interest me about this area. So I am going to NC with little notice, I am going to work my ass off, and I am pretty determined to make this work.

More soon…