IRAGINATION

The past weekend there were already plenty of Años Viejos in the city so I took some pictures.

This time I am being more selective so I’m not posting that many.

I had plenty of inconveniences doing this post. I don’t know what changed in WordPress recently but the past year the new gallery feature was incredibly useful and set up a post like this one was a breeze. Today, after uploading all the pictures, and thank goodness they were just a few, I had to add every picture again from the Media Gallery to the post in order to show it up in the gallery tab. The gallery tab was not showing at all before the second add. That was rather counter intuitive and annoying.

I was hoping to use this feature a lot, but please WordPress developers, you had this sorted out. Leave it as it was or add some bulk functionality, otherwise browsing the Media Gallery again for every picture one by one is really discouraging.

Rants asides, Happy New Year for everyone!

I have a tight schedule today, but at least I’m publishing this one.

The little one is obviously Mega Man. The larger one is X, but is it the X3 armor or the X2 one?

Update: Now that I think of it, seems like the ultimate armor.

When I was drawing the first frame of Meet Sheep Man, I was thinking on some scene from the Mega Man X3 opening.

I couldn’t resist so today I checked out how close I got to the real thing. Here are the results.

I kind of nailed X’s stance, but Zero is way far on the right. Honestly I don’t think I’d have used that. Also in the game the image is flipped horizontally. Probably I could have done a better work by actually watching the scene while drawing, but as sudden as the whole idea was at the moment, I thought I already achieved the dramatic feeling with the ‘zomg extreme’ armors and seriousness, so I just went on with the rest of the strip.

BTW, The Mega Man Network found my comic. Neat!

http://gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=107309

I remember how I ranted when Mega Man 9 was announced because of the downgrade graphic wise.

I have to admit that I have learned to love these games. Announcing them in all seriousness with high marketing budgets and press releases is a parody on its own right of the game industry that puts a smile in my face. I have been converted to love this.