I’ve been reading about how to effectively build a community via blogging and the common theme that keeps coming up is that a blog needs…well, a common theme. Put simply, if you write about something that interests you, people who have similar interests will find your blog and connect with what you’re writing.

It’s an idea that I think holds up if I think about the blogs I read the most, so it’s something I want to apply here.

The first thing I need to do is figure out what my interests are and OH GOD MY LIST LOOKS LIKE I JUST HIT THE ‘RANDOM’ BUTTON TEN TIMES I MEAN LOOK AT THIS

1) Commodore 64 damn I love the Commodore 64 so much it’s the greatest gaming system of all time and anyone who disagrees is just flat out wrong, you know it and I know it. It had Elite and Wizball and Sim City and Stunt Car Racer and Great God Damn Giana Sisters which is better than Super Mario Brothers any day of the week. Look I can see you reaching for the email button but. Just. Don’t. Bother. It’s a fact.

2) Alyson Hannigan is tops. Yeah!

3) So is Ricki Lee Coulter.

4) CRACKDOWN Lord almighty do I love me some CRACKDOWN both games are great in their own right and every day you should play some CRACKDOWN and jump off a building because that just can’t be beat. YEAAAAAAH CRACKDOWN

5) Chocolate milk, boy howdy you can’t beat drinking a tall frosty glass of chocolate milk at the end of the day.

6) Ella Morton is also cool and funny.

7) COMICS yeah how good are comics. I’ve recently been reading Axe Cop which is genius. Nedroid is also great. I like silly comics that don’t take themselves seriously.

8: Little Golden Books are also cool and fun to read. They have really nice art and the stories aren’t stupid and complicated and never-ending like Spider-Man or the nightly news. Read a Little Golden Book today don’t pretend you have something better to do.

9) Early ‘90s music is the only type of music, if they’ve made music since then I don’t care to hear about it thank you very much.

10) Did you know that every single video game should be more like Rainbow Islands? Well now you DO. How much better would your favourite video game be if the main character shot RAINBOWS and defeated enemies turned into FRUIT? SO MUCH BETTER.

See? How the heck am I meant to put that into some semblance of normality. Can’t be done. I’m off to go read comics while drinking chocolate milk and listening to some Breeders.

I haven’t updated this blog in forever so instead of trying to play catch up I figured I’d just write once a week about whatever pressing concern is on my mind. Today I spent mostly outside doing Suburban Life things and my arms are sore and I have a headache so the last thing I want to talk about are the trees I chopped up and how to tie them up properly.

So instead I’ll talk about the most important thing on my mind, the simple fact that Sandra Bernhard is an evil bitch.

I mean look at her. No I’m not going to include an image here because let’s face it the comics aren’t much of a looker either so why make this site even uglier than it is already. But geez, that horrible permanent sneer, that scraggy hair, that “for Pete’s sake eat a freakin’ cheeseburger” frame…ugh, I just hate that looking at her.

But that’s not the worst of it. She represents the absolute worst aspects of the ’90s AKA best decade ever.

Case in point, Hudson Hawk. God damn do I love me some Hudson Hawk. I don’t care what you say about Hudson Hawk I thought it was an awesome movie. Heck even the Commodore 64 game was great, so great that I actually bought it and let me tell you hardly anyone ever bought Commodore 64 games. You should try it sometime. ANYWAY Sandra Bernhard was in Hudson Hawk and she was easily the worst part of it. That stupid scene where she’s on the bad guy’s desk singing that stupid I GOT THE POWER! song just clinched it.

I hate that song, I hate that scene and I hate Sandra Bernhard.

Then she was in Roseanne and I hate that show too, though Darlene was cute as all hell in it.

The viral power of Unwritten Man Rules #21 made it by far and away the most popular Funny Webcomic I’ve ever done, by a good lunar mile.

Thanks to everyone who posted it around and hello to everyone visiting Funny Webcomic for the first time, I hope you like the other stuff I’ve done here and you check out some other comics.

Um I guess every comic I’ll do from here on will involve boobs now

What, nobody remembers Webcrawler? I thought that thing was the bees knees back in the day. Then Google came along and made the internet actually usable. Thanks, Google!

Man, some of these ideas would actually work. I know the red or white thing would work pretty well as an iPhone app. Call me!

Wow, talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel! This must have been a really good idea on a Sunday night as I saw the deadline looming. The results were not that spectacular. Still, I got in a couple of decent strips. I like the one about me going past the bakery, it’s a True Gazunta Story really.

This was one of the good examples of me using Funny Webcomic to just vent about whatever is on my mind. I think the “Something Else” vote won out this week and I was staring blankly at my notepad during a lunch break, getting pissed off about all the noise from the Team Fortress 2 players.

Look I don’t have an axe to grind with the game, I think I own a copy of it somewhere. Just the NOISE it generates in the office is a bit over the top at times. Oh I long for the days when playing video games was a dirty, shameful exercise that was best done alone in a dark bedroom!

Can a comic consist entirely of one word, repeated over and over again?

That’s the challenge I set for myself.

It is a challenge I failed horribly.

I didn’t really have a concept for this besides the silly title. You know how they teach you in storywriting books about how you should have a plot, and developed characters, and such, before you start putting stuff out into the world? It turns out that’s true!

I think they’re ’70s era crime fighting detectives that are comicly mismatched but ultimately offer each other complimentary skills. Blind Man is blind and Smelly Guy…smells a lot? Can smell good? Knows a lot about odors? I wasn’t really sure.

This one started after I was toying around with the idea of doing a comic set in a law firm. What makes it work, what elements do you need to pull it off etc.

Turns out, you need to make it interesting and funny.

Oh well!

Hey, you know those times where you don’t have a good idea?