Random Heroes Fact of The Day: The video store called earlier, which usually means we have gotten a random free rental. That is always good, especially when you are broke and there is something you really, really need want to rent. Of course this is the same store that mocks me by having the Heroes placards up despite never having actually received the DVDs, so it really could be a win/lose situation.

Anyway, now that Big Boom time is fast approaching, (the first story went up today!)  I have to decide just how exactly I want to go about formatting this stuff. I see that there are going to be issues with the sheer number of images in one post. This is officially No Good.


Also, if you keep seeing something moving out of the corner of your eye, and you jump, only to see that it is your hair, that's kind of funny, but you should comb your hair. If this happens many times over the course of a week or so, it's no longer as funny, and you should really comb your hair. 

Today's mission: Peter on paper! I can't keep letting him drag along not done well, eventually becoming the weak link in everything. Nope, today Petrelli's going down! I've got a brand new pack of paper, a handful of pencils, some new Pink Pearl erasers and more screencaps than you can shake a stick at! I am, as they say, loaded for bear. Plus, with the race having been rained out, I have nothing going on 'til the Sunday night TV starts.. and that's not 'til 9:00. So until then, it's me and you, Pete! Only one can emerge victorious.. and I am thinking that since I am real, and you are fictional, I have the pencil, and you exist only in pictures, I have to have some kind of advantage. Don't make me have to use the "Failure" icon again! This goes for you too, Future! Peter!

Man, it's like the world is conspiring against my plans to, you know, get stuff done. First there was the totally necessary trip to the local Barnes & Noble to get that Z!NK magazine. (What? It was necessary!) I have not been awake at 10AM in I don't know how long, so that was a mess. But some sacrifices have to be made!  They did not have the "Heroes" cover SFX, and that angered me. But I did get the new Esquire double-sized Fashion Issue! I really can't get enough pictures of guys in nice suits.

So, in the midst of my evening drawing/picture snagging time, I keep getting bombarded with IMs. I thought my response to being called a slacker ("no way.. serious drawing.. in the zone, boss.. the zone!") would have gotten me off the hook, but no. I kept insisting that I was busy, but to no avail. And then I lost my rhythm. I was doing good there for a while, and now I can't get back into the groove. That may officially be "the worst". *

I have yet to hear just heard back from my author. Excellent. I can't be allowed to run about unchecked... or I'll end up with more pages of art than there are pages of story. There's just so much in there, I can't decide where to start. Plus, some of my sketches have story text around them (such as one from today) and I don't know how she feels about that. But without them, how can I get any feedback on if they actually make sense together? So, today's focus has been on scenery. That is always the last thing I do, so most of my drawings are people standing in some crazy nondescript space. That will not fly this time.

Tiny details that amuse me: The Gray & Sons door has big metal bars on the outside, for safety perhaps. No one is going to break into that place.. unless, you know, they happen to notice those enormous storefront windows. The cabinet that would be immediately to your right when you enter the store has not one, but two clocks shaped like the Eiffel tower. And finally, even though the shop seems to be on the front of a building, and you have to turn into a little corridor to get to it, the back has a sloping sunroofed area, indicating that it's a one story building, even though everything across the street is skyscraper-height. A tiny little unassuming, yet incredibly interesting, place tucked back among all of the skyscrapers. Sounds like a watchmaker I know.

So I got my Big Boom story yesterday, and it is good. Real good. I am very excited. I can't reveal any of the plot points (first, because it is against the rules. Second, I have not yet read it yet.) But it involves Gabriel Gray, which is never not a good time.

Out of the 18 pages I have (I print everything in a tiny font because I don't like to use good drawing paper on printing stuff.) and the 15,074 words, I have marked 34 passages that interested me visually. That's a lot. [What's scary is that this is just a draft, and there are at least 5000 more words to go. I mean, Mohinder is still in India and has only spoken one word! ] So now I will start working through them to see which ones will actually work on paper. I have a few really rough sketches done (maybe I will post some of them later) so things are getting off on the right foot. Of course, that is often the easy part.