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Okay, so I've got most of the character designs finished and a good chunk of the setting tweaked. I decided to scrap the alternate Earth thing because 1)the standard Earth is fine as is, and 2) I'm a lazy b*****d. I've been playing sections of story in my head so I don't forget it, and started doing rough sketches of the first few panels.

Though, to be honest, I might try and enlist my friend to do the actual comic. She's way better at it than I am, and I know. I've seen her little manga projects and compared them to my own. Then again, I'm not the most persuasive person in real life, so I might as well just go solo.

I really, REALLY wish I could show you my sketchwork, but my scanner is still a little haywire, and I don't want to risk damage to the system.

All right, so the story that I had kicking around wasn't going to work out; it was too complicated, too long drawn out. I wanted something fresh. So I got to work, and began to piece together this little diddy.

The story is as of yet unnamed, though for now I'm calling it The Mercenaries. Here's how it goes.

It takes place on an alternate version of Earth (it's only alternate so I can fiddle with the geography). The undead have become a very real problem. Zombies wander aimlessly across the land, attacking and killing innocents, and their victims only add to their numbers. For the most part, they are contained. Each country has an area known as a Bastion. This is the area where the zombies have been rounded up and contained. However, occasionally, zombies break through the blockade and cause havoc for the local populace.

Each countries military is putting almost all their effort into containing the zombies, so there aren't enough to go after the ones that get out. Thus, mercenary troops who specialized in zombie hunting were in huge demand.

This story follows one of those mercenary troops, and the trials they face both on the field and at 'home'. They will eventually get caught up in a plan to deal a significant blow to the zombie population, only to find that it is spiraling down to something more sinister.

The Good guys: The mercenary troop at the center of this story has yet to be named. But each character is based off myself and people I know IRL. I just find it easier to design a character around someone I know.

The Bad guys: Necromancers are people that have found a way to influence or even outright control the actions of the undead. The number of known Necromancers has yet to be determined.

Neutral: The military and other mercenary troops will have a near constant presence throughout the story, not to mention the people who offer the contracts.

It's still in it's infant stages; I've got to work out the geography, finish character desgin, ect. But when I've got this thing running full swing I'd like to make it into a web comic. =D

Then go ahead. Send me a chain letter. Send me two. Hell, send me all you got. Bring it. I will pummel you right off the internet.

We at FG-4-PG have set in motion a plan to hunt down and remove each and every one of you. Hit us with a chain letter, and you will pay for it. Count on it.

I have not yet recieved a chain letter, and I don't wish to. But if you feel you must, I won't stop you. It's your funeral.

That is all.

ARGH! scream

I want my MSN back! I haven't spoken to any of my Gaian friends in EVER! crying

Two-friggin'-months, it's been! TWO!

The guy who's using our tower, his computer was supposed to arrive two weeks ago!

I'm angry!

And such!

scream

Thus endth my first semister. As of now my Geography 12 Government Exam is complete, and next week I will begin my new semister.

I'm half-way there!

The holidays, they have begun! And I can feel in me bones that this year will yield particularly well.

Unfortunatly, I have an assload of Geography homework for the holidays. Read about 43 pages of material and summarize each paragraph in a single sentence. Then draw a bunch of diagrams AND read about Kyoto for some reason.

But, in completing this, I'll be able to take the final exam AND go through with our biggest project (designing a continent. I feel like Slartibartfast already xD).

With naught but 14 days before Winter holidays, the siege upon my spare time has begun. I must now work harder, in Geography in particular, so that I may take the finals, graduate, and leave this place.

...when I feel like it.

Just thought I'd poke my head in, remind anyone who reads these that I'm still around, aaaaaaaand, that's it.

Pointlessness! xD

I have of late - but wherefore I know not - lost all my mirth,
Forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily
With my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me
A sterile promontory. This most excellent canopy, the air, look you,
This brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with
Golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul
And pestilential congregation of vapours. What a piece of work
Is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and
Moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in
Apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world; the paragon
Of animals! And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man
Delights not me...
-Hamlet-

My favorite speech from one of the most plays in the world. It speaks to me; really nails it on the head with my feelings toward humanity today.

Yey for snippets!