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DBMD-Man News and Info
what’s going on
So the updates stopped… sorry. Here’s what’s up: Basically, a whole bunch of strips which I thought I had have gone missing. So, I’m just thinking about what to do with this site now. Re-draw the missing storylines? Leave things at this point? (at least a story arc came to a conclusion here) Just jump ahead and draw some brand new strips for you all? Start an entire new comic series with a fresh idea?
Suggestions?
A special gift for me, from all of you!
I know, I know, I missed 2 updates, last Friday and Monday both. But I know just what would help make it better: YOU doing something for ME! No, wait… I said that wrong. How about this: I give you all a very special (virtual) gift and all you have to do is do something (actual) for me! Sounds great right?
Here’s the deal. You click on this link and vote for my comic strip at this “Top Web Comics” site, and then you’ll get to see a super-special, top-secret, deleted DBMD-Man strip! When you click on this button, it takes you to Top Web Comics and then you have to click another simple quiz thing to prove you’re a human being and the secret comic will appear. Here it is, CLICK!:
But seriously… I really, really, really appreciate anyone checking out this comic. It is especially nice and heart-warming when people leave nice comments or best of all, spread the word! Lately I’d noticed the ranking number on this link creeping upwards and figured someone else besides me must be clicking on it! (In fact the “culprit” fessed up in the comments recently)
The Top Web Comics site actually does send some visitors my way, so voting here improves DBMD-Man’s visibility and hence, helps to spread the word! If anyone who sees this could click and vote – that would be very cool. You can vote on any day, and in fact EVERY day (once a day) if you want to, and it always helps. The link is on the right side of the webpage under the ads.
Top Web Comics also lets you add an “incentive” so that’s the above-mentioned deleted comic. I think it’s not a good one, which is why I never posted it, but for the curious and the fans you may find it interesting. It would be strip #27.5 – just before DBMD-Man was left with the psychiatrist. I left my handwritten text and hand-drawn frames in place. The joke really came out lame – there was something there but it wasn’t working, then I ran out of time… whatever. You get to see it once you vote.
Thanks anyone and everyone!
I’m now writing about comic books for the Pray For Resurrection blog
Brian of the Deathbombarc record label and several cool noise-rock bands (like Foot Village and Gang Wizard) created this comic book review blog, and now he’s added me and a few other underground music type peeps to the writing roster.
http://prayforresurrection.blogspot.com
So it’s become some kind of music-kids-write-about-comics blog, and I just wrote something there on the comic book INVINCIBLE, and the recent (shocking?) events therein. Check it out.
Ads: How much do you hate them?
I’ve added a few more ads to the website here, partly as an experiment. Here’s your chance to speak up. Please add your comments to this post. Let’s discuss. How much do you hate ads?
Personally, I don’t really hate the kind that just sit there very much at all. If the ad doesn’t pop up over the top of what I’m looking at or start making noise, I don’t really care. I almost don’t notice. Besides, if the content is free, why should I care? You may observe that I do, however, try to keep the website title, navigation, and comic top-left, so those are always the first things you see.
I figure if I were using a free web-hosting service I’d have to deal with ads, so I may as well put up some of my own and make a little money off of them. Right? But I’m not kidding when I say it’s a LITTLE money. Right now I’m making maybe a dime a day, on good days. Hey, it’s more than I’m earning from my savings account. Is it worth it?
I also decided to put some more ads up becausse I’ve been so happy with the Project Wonderful system. It attracts DIY-type advertisers and is big with webcomic artists, so most of the ads are for other webcomics. In fact, I would ENCOURAGE you to click on the Project Wonderful ads and check them out! They are paid for by the day, so the more clicks they get the happier they are. Most of them are other webcomics and if they advertised here, then maybe you’d like them.
On the other hand, I can NOT encourage you to click on the Google ads! that’s the banner at the very bottom and the text ads on the right. I mean, I don’t want to DIScourage you, but I am contractually obligated not to encourage you to click on them, because the advertisers pay per click. So don’t do it. Unless you already were going to. You know what? Just forget I mentioned it…
All the new ad boxes might make things a little too busy now… We’ll see. You tell me. How much do you hate them? There are even ads in my RSS feed. Do you hate them also?
director’s commentary 56-66 (or so)
First of all, new comic updates will resume this Monday, October 19th. Chapter 3 begins. That hole in your life will once again be plugged.
Before that happens, why don’t I share some more thoughts and comments on the end of Chapter 2? (Read up through strip 66 or risk spoilers) I renumbered some of the strips to reflect that missing one, but all of the links should remain constant.
Strip 57 here is where things start to get a little “plotty.” I have mixed feelings about this, because I always had a bit of a balancing act going on between being a “gag” comic and a “story” comic. Sometimes I do something to advance the story, and feel like I’ve sacrificed the funny. That strip doesn’t really have any punchline to speak of, but hopefully the events at the beginning are a little humorous. In fact, the thought of a new reader coming in and this being the first thing they read is pretty funny to me.
So the next strip, 58, is the one-and-only guest-drawn, guest-written one, as explained on that page of the website. I didn’t really plan on moving straight ahead to the showdown fight between DBMD-Man and Really Good-Man so quickly, but my guest comic artist, Devin T. Quin, left me no choice. Which explains why that showdown scene goes on for so long.
One of my complaints with other story- or adventure-based comic strips is the exremely slow pace they can move at. Sometimes you realize you’ve been reading for over a month and the main character still hasn’t made it to the bottom of that staircase, you know? I figure in a month, at least as much should have happened as in one issue of a monthly comic book. Actually, I think comic books today move too slowly also…
So I got stuck stretching the final events out a bit, complete with 2 epilogue-style strips. Thinking on it now, I realize there’s plenty more of the Dark Knight Returns I could have gotten around to parodying. I’m imagining that instead of the mutant punk gang, DBMD-Man could have gotten into a feud with a gang of juvenile skateboarders down the street or something. Maybe he’d have to have a grudge match in the sandbox with their 12-year-old leader to establish his dominance.
So, moving on, making fun of the handicapped… uh, yeah. You see, there’s this character who showed up in the Dark Knight Returns called Green Arrow. I guess his super-ability is that he can shoot green arrows, um… really good. Hey, I didn’t make him up. But anyway, in that story he has lost one of his arms, so Devin introduced the Green Plunger here, who has apparently lost both of his arms, yet still keeps his plungers strapped on his back, much like a bow and quiver of arrows. Hey, I didn’t make him up either. So you see, this is just what I got to work with here.
There are some direct jokes about very specific scenes from the Dark Knight Return that make me laugh personally, and then… the DEATH of DBMD-Man! Yes, at the end of Chapter 1 he quits, at the end of Chapter 2 he dies, and you won’t get any spoilers out of me here. You’ll just have to wait and see how it all plays out!