March 21st 2007
New face on the page

 

Greetings all you happy people, It is I, Tylor, the third Magi. I think I can call myself that. But that would depend on whether or not Jason and Mark consider themselves Magi. Anyway if you read Jason's post below, you'll understand the changes you see on this site. That is unless you are new here. If so let me be the first to say welcome. Please take some time and look around. If you like what you see then you're in luck, because there will be a lot more real soon.

Now on a personal note: When it was first decided that I would start working on the web site, Mark filled me in on how to do it. One particular point he made to me was, when adding to the site, always check what has been added by the other two. "Cool" I thought. "I can do that." So the first actual thing I did was edit the GHOST RIDER review. Now you see Mark is a very good writer, normally he's always sure to spell correctly, have good punctuation, and the like. However he sometimes misses things that don't count to a spell checker or would get flagged on punctuation. For example, Mark likes to write all instances of movie/show titles in capital letters. Sometimes though he overlooks one and it gets typed normally. Here is where I come in. I spent a bit of time going through the GHOST RIDER review to fix such things. After I was comfortable I had done such, I saved and posted. Now I find As of Jason's update, my "hard" work is no more. So once again I must go and fix it. So as of this post it should be better. Funny huh.

Anyway that's enough for now hopefully next time you here from me I will have something more interesting to say. POOF.

P.s. Isn't the new banner cool?

 

March 21st 2007
We're out of Mountain Dew

 

I just read over the Ghost Rider and Punisher reviews and I feel like in those reviews I'm the guy in the background of that audio D&D skit. You know what I'm talking about. "Can I have some Mountain Dew?" That guy. Cuz I'm alway like, "We're all out of Pepsi" or "Ooh, Ultra Relief Tylenol." My point? None really.

But in answer to your question over the phone earlier, Tylor, yes. You do make an ass of your self in your very first post, but that's not much different than in person. However, that is just one man's opinion. You see, "happy" people, when I neglected to download Tylor's update to the Ghost Rider review, I assumed he would be smart enough to take his saved version, save it as something else, then download the one I uploaded and copy and paste the text from his. (Ignore the fact that I could have easily done the same with mine.)

Okay, I don't mean to make Tylor out to be totally incompetant. He is a hard worker and fits in with Magi quite well. I mean I admired his determination when he just couldn't accept that Janis came up with the final design for the Magi logo and just had to tenaciously persue a better look. Gee, I hope I'm not making you look like an ass, Tylor.

No, but seriously, he is a good addition to Magi and brings with him some creative new ideas and a "refreshing" personality. If not for him, Avatars would not exist. Well, I guess to those of you out there it doesn't exist yet anyway, but still. He created one of the better characters for one of my stories, and he has sparked the drive to revive an old project of mine that I had utter abandoned.

Oh, and lastly; Did you know that Mountain Dew spelled upside-down is MaD uigfunow?

 

March 24th 2007
What's Missing?

 

It's great to see you two getting along so well. I love it when a plan comes together. There's just one thing missing: a face. Jason was correct, my face does not look like a sausage. But it is there. I suppose I can see through those mysterious holes in my head, but how am I supposed to eat?

Anyway, yes, this is the new look. These are the avatars from Avatars. Gone is the sausage of beady-eyed Mark, and come is the hairy hair-covered hair... guy.

Just wanted to let Tylor and anyone else not understanding my motives to understand, I don't simply like to put all titles in caps, I complex-ly like--no, that's too lame. It's the rules. They're titles. Gotta put titles in caps. That's an important detail to those of us who wanna stay on the up and up. Can you stay on the up and up? Wouldn't you be going up and up? Why up and up? Why not just up? Those of us who wanna go up... Up where?

But I love how "in the loop" I am. (note to self: stop obsessing over the vernacular.) Tylor made his first public contributions just in time for him to disappear. Very convenient, I think, that he managed to do it just before I had the chance to set the score straight.

Tylor: 2 points.

Mark: 1 point.

That's the truth. This is important. I may have to appeal to make it known, but I did get a point.

 

March 28th 2007
New Developments

 

Gentle readers, rejoice at our newfound ability to make frequent updates. What with Jason moving, Tylor going off to Hawaii, and my just getting fired from my day job, I think I'm quite impressed with us.

Not to worry, I'll be back among the employed before any harm can come to me as a result of it. I'm given to landing on my feet, and I happen to live in the capital city of a province experiencing an encouraging boom. The downside of that is that housing is scarce and therefore expensive as all hell, particularly because the majority of people can afford it. That's their theory, anyway.

See, the price of houses are up, as the demand exceeds supply. The unfortunate thing for those of us experiencing the impact of this on the rental and new-home communities is that the people who employ us mostly own their homes, and have for more than the last two years. This means they're paying pre-boom housing and mortgage rates, and not understanding why we whine about not getting enough money, since what they give us would have been more than enough for them when they started.

I'm really getting sick of it. Fortunately, I have a plan.

More on this later, when enough people ask what it is.

 

July 24th 2007
I wanna bowl with the gangstas.

 

Groan... So, they finally dropped the three worst strips in the local Sun comics. However the replacements are hardly an improvement. Dog eat Doug, I believe it's called, is a lateral move from Heart of the City and I'm okay with that. But the other two... sigh. Six Chix and, uh, pajama something are not good. They are just obvious observations that aren't even delivered in a humorous way. And they are both rather neo-feminist. Not that I have anything against women's rights, I believe the genders to be equals in just about every way. I'm simply stating that when the main theme of a comic strip is to empower middle-aged women, they tend to forget that the point of a comic strip is to make people laugh.

Six Chix replaced Close to Home which was a sore attempt at a Far Side clone. Not gonna miss it, but I wish it could have been replaced with something better. Garfield is the other one that was dropped. Jim Davis has lost his touch and should have retired a long time ago, but I would still rather continue reading his regurgitated, tired jokes than suffer the boring, trivial topics of pajama something another day.

So, now that I got that off my ass, How are you?

 

July 31st 2007
They're Heeeere!

 

Work, work, work. I need a drink.
Hi. I'm back and I present to you another installment of the saga of the Avatars. Over the last week and a bit I've been reconstructing the website and that is taking up a fair bit of my time. That is why I haven't uploaded a new drawing in quite a while. But I promise you this; I will have the new design complete and posted before the end of August. After that I will establish a regular routine of weekly drawings and Avatars.

You may have noticed that Avatars is popping up a day later each week. This is because I am gradually moving it over to Thursdays which will end up being its permanent slot. So, this means that when I'm not at work playing with highly caustic chemicals, I will be in my home office drawing and clicking the hours and days away. By the time I'm done... I may just lose my marbles... I can't WAIT!

 

August 14, 2007
Ponderous minds

 

Today, I had a few interesting facts to consider.

#1: I am about to see two people who are interested in the room for rent. One works at a health club. This has excellent potential for me as a Housecall Massage provider.

#2: When writing the aftermath of a traumatic fictional event, the emotions of all who are affected are more present than during the event. Also, some characters may react differently than originally believed.

#3: A computer will generally work better if you remove the programs you don't use, like all my Space Quest games and Myth and Myst and stuff. (Yeah, I already knew that, but I finally did something about it.)

#4: If a piece of furniture comes from a certain mega-chain, some part of it is probably/will probably end up broken. (But I'm a man. There's nothing a hammer can't fix.)

#5: Near the end of the credits in the Chipmunk Adventure, they have listed someone as the "Chipmunk Masseuse." How about that.

and #6: Jason will have to use the index file on his computer for archives if he wants them right away, because that stuff doesn't exist anywhere else anymore.

Chipmunk Masseuse.

Huh.

 

August 23, 2007
Motivation through fear is still motivation.

 
Wow, lo and behold I'm finally updating again. I don't have alot to say at this point but I have added my comments to the Avatars strips. I fear this will result in me getting slapped by someone *cough*JANIS*cough*.
 

August 30, 2007
That's original.

 
Well it would seem my update is late. But that's because I have been busy. We here at Magi have recently started a special project that we're all pretty psyched about. I have been working on it for the past little while and that's why I'm late. I finally get to use my real power. Creating. Stories.
 


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