I love drawing cartoons. If I never drew this webcomic, I'd be drawing on every scrap of paper that was set in front of me.

But, drawing alone doesn't make a complete webcomic. I wish it did.

With each separate incarnation of this webcomic (this being the fourth), I've struggled to develop, not only the characters that inhabit it, but a strip with a definable humorous voice.

After creating over 500 comic strips, neither of those have happened.

That problem was illuminated yesterday when I created a strip that failed on several levels, number one of which was the fact that it was incomprehensibly unfunny because it used meanspiritedness as a method to deliver a joke and not humor.

What I learned from yesterday's strip was that I need to correct some bad habits that have gone on for quite some time.

But they're not simple habits that can be corrected with a couple of new strips. They're habits that completely define how to create a mediocre strip.

That being said, starting immediately, I am taking the strip off it's five-day-a-week update schedule and puting it on a temporary hiatus.

I am not planning an official return at this time, because I want the changes to be dictated by real change and not ones that are created for the sake of a time table.

With the thousands of webcomics currently jockying for viewer attention on the web, simply slapping something together isn't enough to maintain viewers.

And without viewers, I might as well just draw on those scraps of paper.

I hope to see you soon.

JUL 12, 2010

Before I get my hiney "whooped", it should be thoroughly understood that the "real" Pamela had absolutely NOTHING to do with the fact that a character with her name has made its appearance in today's strip, nor has she ever bugged me to include her whatsoever. In fact, she was never contacted prior to the artistic construction of the strip to be informed of its existence. I did try to call her several times to let her know it was coming, but she wasn't available to answer.

If that doesn't keep me alive, I was never meant to live!

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According to "Total Film" magazine, here's a few upcoming theatrical releases you may not have known were on the way:

Hop- Russel Brand stars with Kaley Cuoco (Big Bang Theory) in a CGI/live action feature that stars James Marsden as a slacker who runs over the Easter Bunny and has to nurse him back to health.

Dracula- Horror director Dario Argento wants to film a "faithful" adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Oh, yeah, it'll be in 3-D, just like Stoker intended!

Sanctum- James Cameron produces an action film about a team of underwater professionals who get in trouble during a cave expedition.

Surrender Dorothy- Drew Barrymore directs the story of Dorothy's great, great grandaughter.

Hobo with a Shotgun- Rutger Hauer returns as...a hobo with a shotgun!

I, Frankenstein- The monster in question gets his anger in check and works as a P.I. in Victorian London to protect the world from supernatural creatures.

Machine Gun Preacher- A former drug dealing biker (Gerard Butler) finds God and heads out to Sudan to rescue kidnapped children forced to become soldiers.

Who says Hollywood's out of ideas!

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