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Has it been a year already?

IT HAS!

arr! The ITLAPD website is right there at the side

- So how is everybody? Good! Today I asked myself ‘what’s the logical progression from a ninja pirate?’ and found this to be the answer:

the dreaded pizza ninja!

well I’m pretty tired just now, I’m gonna listen to some of that good ole haddock ska while I write this post then I’ll crash. Deal? DEAL!

First, new stuff: this is the initial sketch for a new tattoo design (not for me this time), which will probably have to be re-jigged owing to my drawing pad springing a leak - it was the weirdest damn thing, I used this pad for inking a couple of months back and it was fine, I ink the spacegirl and it felt like I was using a sponge. But anyway, here she is:

I’m not sure if the gun is phallic enough for that 50’s vibe, we’ll wait and see… In other news, I have ballsed up, already joined the amazing Kate Beaton’s new supergroup livejournal community thing it is time for history, which could be a good place for me to make stuff up off the top of my head and see who falls for it. Was that last bit meant to be struck through? Guess not! For the terminally lazy my comic-based contribution is right here:

Okay that was the new stuff, here is some of the old stuff:

this is the real reason they outlawed hobnobs at sea. I’ve been looking for the sketchpad these drawings are in for *months* now, it’s been so long I have absolutely no idea what the hell was meant to be going on here:

best suggestion wins a prize*. Next up, yes I know this is a slightly bloated post but there’s just one more then you can go, I promise:

Am I going to hell yet? YES! This cartoon was brought to you by people who think other people should just shut the hell up sometimes

*Prize may not be very prized.

- I’ve managed to distract myself with two choice nuggets this time round. First, one possible answer to humanity’s greatest question: What Would Brian Blessed Do?

This actually happens a lot - mere mortals cannot cope with Brian Blessed’s voice being directed solely at them. Changing the subject completely, here’s Timothy:

aw yeah! Get them drums!

In other news: I went to see Anti-flag the other night, and have some lovely fresh bruises cropping up mm hmm, I couldn’t really walk when I got outside which will teach me about wearing my oh-so-flimsy baseball shoes then spending their whole set in the pit. Sploooch!

- I happened upon a kids’ book today, for some reason the bad guys were ‘ninja pirates’. Or maybe pirate ninji, I forget. I didn’t read it, but I’d imagine their ninja skills would be severely hampered by their irresistible urge to get drunk all the time and go ‘arrr!’. But the main question the existence of ninja pirates raises for me is this: everybody knows these two are mortal enemies*. What could possibly get them together?

I have here a historical reconstruction of the fateful event:

Sorry giant crab, your attempts at romance have backfired disastrously.

* or is it cowboys and zombies? I forget…

- you ask what is going on here?

HASSLEHOFFS!

that is all.

- well the monkey is still there, this advice it’s still terrible:

In other news: there is a new hamster in the house. She is called Faffy and she is after my blood:

Not a lot going on just now. Waiting for more days off so I can get stuff done round here. And I need some sun, where the hell did the sun go?

- well as a result of being completely knackered from work* I thought I’d better wait till I could at least hold the pen properly before I inked the competition winners. Then I realised that the fly in his evil chair, well because of scanning it last year I can’t find the damn original anywhere to alter it (sorry Jane) so here’s the first, from Craig:

and Jood!

*announcing the results today as part of a huge april fool’s scam to keep them for myself was the initial plan before I realised it would be way less hassle to just vandalise the Wikipedia on chickens* like everybody did last year

*because everybody already knows all about chicken.

- Oh dear god it’s friday already? It must be time for the last part of the caption dealy:

No-one ever expects the giant panda! It’s the same rules as before, best caption somebody posts either here or on the myspace before the closing day* wins me pot o’ gold and some kind of godawful drawn mess of mine. I’ve been told they turn into completely awesome paper hats yeah?

*I’m away next friday-saturday, which means you lucky dogs get till a week on sunday to completely pervert what I’ve been posting here. Life’s great ay?

- Well this would be thursday, which means it’s time for this:

any caption ideas you have, stick ‘em in a comment - best one each day wins something that’s been drawn on.