Mysterious Girl

Bonus Thursday Night Strip

I defy you to not love New Girl.  I don’t know what it is but every time I watch it I end up with an idiotic grin plastered across my face. I’m powerless against it’s power to enchant. Seriously, it’s like the guys who made that killer video in The Ring were commissioned to make a sitcom and watching it results not in a hideously disfiguring death but in an experience so care free and enjoyable that your teeth try to escape from your gums. In three short weeks it’s become the highlight of my Friday night which either tells you that it’s something that you need to be watching or that I’m an incredibly sad and lonely man who’s only form of companionship comes from the cat that lives two doors down and can occasionally be bribed with milky bar buttons into stopping by for coffee.

From the ashes it rises

Well, this is it. Today marks the official launch of the all new Apathy in the UK. True the site has been up for about a week or two now but unlike the Death Star it was nowhere near being fully operational. It’s still not 100% complete and I will probably be tweaking things for some time yet but it has a header now and I can post new strips so that’s good enough for me. But why is today the official launch? Why not Saturday when the header got added? Well, simply because Monday is the day that I’ll be adding new content to the site. Hopefully every Monday. I ran a comic under the same name a few years back and managed to post around a dozen or so comics, so lets hope this incarnation has a little more staying power.

My intentions for the site are quite simple, each week I’ll post a comic that relates to that weeks events in the world of film/TV/comics or all the around geekdom that is my life. The strip could be about a tv show that aired in the states that week or about a show that’s three years old that I’m just discovering on box set for the first time, it doesn’t matter. If it’s happened to me and I think there’s a strip in it, then it’s relevant. I’m using this site to develop my some what limited artistic skill set so there will be a lot of experiment with style and technique as I try to find the best way of working that suits me. This might mean that from one strip to the next the art might change dramatically but hopefully for the better. If I try something and it doesn’t help the art, then I wont do it again. Case in point, I’ve been using a wacom pad to ink and colour the strip and it’s been hurting the art big time, making the lines look a lot shakier and childlike than they should be. So, I’m going to go back to paper and ink for a while and see if that helps. I might even throw some colour down with some markers to see if that improves things.

I know that it’s going to take a long time and a lot of work before I get the strip looking anywhere near how I want it to, in fact I expect it to be a year or so before I expand the potential audience of the beyond the two or three people I told about it, but hopefully if I stick with it then in a few years time it might actually be something quite good. In fact, that’s part of the plan. In five years time I want to look back at this first post and think “My god that’s shit. I’m so much better than that now”.