Predictable Irony

Happy New Baktun!

Matt — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:12:07 +0000

If you are reading this, NASA was right. The world didn’t end, or maybe Dikembe Mutombo saved it. But what was all of the hoopla about anyway?

Turns out that we are now entering what ancient Mayan astronomers called the ’13th Baktun’, represented as 13.0.0.0.0. The Mayan calendar is actually just like any modern calendar. It’s cyclical. Just like the world didn’t end with Y2K, or December 31st of any random year. It actually is a really advanced and somewhat interesting system. It tracks the motion of the solar system through the Galaxy rather than only the earth around the sun. For a full break down check out this site. But what’s interesting is that in a little less than 400 years, there will be more doomsayers because that will mark the end of the 13th Baktun, the one that just started today. And a pik’tun is made up of 13 baktuns. The date then will be 1.0.0.0.0.0 according to ancient Mayan astronomy. But enough about then, this is now. It’s time to make the most of this Baktun, because you know you didn’t do your best with the 12th baktun. Sure you weren’t alive for most of it, but you can either make excuses or make something of yourself. Here’s hoping you make a New Baktun’s Resolution that you can really stick to.

Wrapping up the semester

Matt — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:09:43 +0000

The main reason I haven’t updated anything on my site here in the past year + is that I have been super busy with school. I made an attempt to start another webcomic, with a much simpler art technique which enabled me to update more frequently, but overall I just haven’t had the time to manage a webcomic. This is still something that I am passionate about, and the characters of Predictable Irony are very much fleshed out in my head and I have begun to fall in love with them. This is especially true for Linda, and Steve. But I can’t wait to flesh out the others and really make this something that I can be proud of. I do like where the comic stands at the moment, 50 strips is (I think) a good round number, and the strip i finished on is somewhat representative of my better work. I wish it would have been one that was a little bit more universally appealing from a audience creation standpoint; sometimes I feel like the number of people out there who can see the blatant hypocrisy and vileness of the way the majority of Christianity treats homosexuals is such a small number. But it’s a point of view I stand behind and I’m glad it’s been my strip to the world for the past 16 months.

On to the point.

The most intense and difficult semester thus far in my education is now drawing to a close. I have one thing left to do for each of my classes and then I’m gonna bust out my copy of Zelda I bought last month, and then I’m gonna draw some freaking comics. Both here and on my other comic. Sad thing is that with all of the political fodder out there right now my other comic really can capitalize on that junk. and here I’ve been sitting around busting my ass on homework assignments.

Stay tuned…

Just had to share

Matt — Fri, 27 May 2011 05:29:39 +0000

I really enjoyed today’s Girls With Slingshots strip and just had to share it with whomever may be interested. Whilst the artist is away doing something else there are these special strips that she’s been running. Each of them inspired by popular newspaper comic strips. Today’s strip, Hazel and McHobbes, was based on Calvin & Hobbes and features Hazel as Calvin, and McPedro (Hazel’s talking cactus that talks to her whenever she’s had too much to drink) as Hobbes. Something about the way that McPedro and Hobbes are both imaginary friends really helped hit this strip home for me. Read it

Look what I drew!

Matt — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:45:53 +0000

I drew this for my Bomberman game I am working on in my CS3505

Oh, yeah I do still have this comic

Matt — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:10:38 +0000

So yeah, I know that I haven’t written anything or drawn anything for this place in a long long time. I was pretty busy last semester at school and anticipate the next one honestly being much worse. Not to mention the fact that I’m going to have to somehow find more time to work, and places to work to make sure I get to keep my current lifestyle and with an 18 credit hour school week I’m not entirely sure how I’ll do all that let alone draw comics, but I still would really like to so the site will remain. On a related note, a lot of spammers have been spamming me lately and the first dead give away that it’s a spam comment and not an actual comment is that they refer to ‘my blog’. This site isn’t a blog it’s a comic so I’ve black listed any comments that have the word blog in them. If you want to comment, don’t say the word blog.