Colfax Randomness

Drum roll please...

A NEW COMIC!

Yes, this is a true story.  I was driving home from work during summer so my windows were down and some dude rolled up and just started his sales pitch.  Yes, there is a building on my ride home that has a pink roof.

I've just started playing Dragon Age 2 and I'm enjoying most of it.  There is one major annoyance though.  Why would you build a fairly expansive world only to reuse the same dungeons and houses for EVERYTHING!?!  It's super annoying that all that is different between each is which doors can and can not open...sigh.


Any way, enjoy!

New comic soon

I just wanted to give you all an update as to my current comic.  Great news!  I should have it up by this weekend.  I'm really excited about this one.  It's both hilarious and completely random.  Good times!  Anyway please stay tuned and hopefully I can get it up sooner rather than later.  Also I'm working on a couple of side projects that will take a little bit to go online but I'm hoping they will be great.  See you soon.

WB...sigh

Hello out there.  Sorry it's taken me so long to get back into the swing of things.  I think it's because I wasn't 100% stoked on this comic.  I think I made it to my liking finally so I can at least chuckle a little bit at it.

Seriously though, they give you this gigantic box and possibly the smallest bag known to mankind that actually holds the damn candy.

So my buddy broke his femur which means I finally have a video game partner again.  This also meant that I needed to get a game that I could actually play multi player with.  Enter Halo Reach. It's actually been pretty fun. Standard kill covenant stuff but at least there aren't any annoying Flood now which I'm enjoying.  Also if anyone uses Steam you should totally try out Recettear.  In the game you play as an item shop owner for an RPG world.  But you can also hire out "heroes" to do dungeon delves to get you more unique items to sell at your shop.  It's really fun and there's a demo which I highly recommend you at least try.

Anyway without further ado:

Great news blogland

Hey all, I have some news. I finally bought creative suites from Adobe. Hopefully it will make drawing Fumblyhands a lot less stressful.  Since I bought the program yesterday I want to first, get the program, and learn its subtle nuances so the next comic will most likely be up a little later. I'm torn between two comics.  Skittles or Colfax?

Also, I'm working on a super sweet project with some friends that I'm really excited about.  I don't really want to ruin the surprise so I'll just leave it at that.

Look! I think I posted on time!

Alright! Got my poo joke in, I think that officially makes me a cartoonist right? I'm still trying to figure out angles and such but I'm pretty happy with this.  Oh and this is a true story.  I was going to work, got to my truck and realized I'd forgotten my java.  I turned back and as I was walking kicked what looked to be a rock, but something seemed off...It wasn't the hard thud against my shoe I hear when I kick rocks, this was...soft. I look next to it and there's a empty fifth of vodka.  Being the smart person I am I put two and two together.  I'm not 100% certain but I feel pretty strongly that I'm correct. 

Anyway, Starcraft II and video game companies in general are really starting to irritate me with this whole Downloadable content thing (DLC).  I understand only so much can fit on a disc but at least put a finished product on there.  In Starcraft II there are 3 races; the Terrains, the Zerg and the Protoss.  As of right now, you can only play as the Terrains.  The first Starcraft was a full game in which you could and had to play as all 3 races.  The term OMG Zergrush is well known through geekdom but yet you can't make your own zergrush as of right now in Starcraft II.  Well I'll keep an eye out on patch notes but I'm a little annoyed with this.  Good news though!  Fable 3 is coming soon and looks amazing.  Check out 1up.com for more info.  

There's more I'd like to talk about but I'll maybe leave that for another post.  

Comic!!! Woot!!!

 As promised!  Sorry there is a lot of fine details in this...Still working

Update on status

Is that a redundant title?  I can't figure it out.  If your updating something wouldn't that something be the status?  Anyway, all of my visitors have left now!! Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed my time with everyone who was out here but I really want to get back to my normal day in day out routine and today is the day that I can finally do this.  We took some amazing pictures though that I'll probably post about on here later. 

The comic is in the final stages and I'm really getting sick of Elements...need...creative...suites.... 

Starcraft II is FTW.  A lot of people have been saying that it is nothing new and I agree.  The original Starcraft was (for me at least) the standard by which all other real time strategy games should be made after.  It was great, and intuitive.  Basically Starcraft II is a continuation of the story from one but that's a good thing when you've made the gold standard of a genre. I'm just not sure why it took 10 years to make this game. The story is alright (or maybe it's the acting) but bearable. The game play is as easy to understand as the first one was and that makes the game so much fun.  You spend more time planning attacks and fortifying your base instead of learning new commands on the keyboard. 

Goal for the night...finish comic...play craptons of SCII....do nothing else....

Freaking Smartphones

That is what I've come up with for the title of today's webcomic....you heard (read) right folks! I present to you a new comic.

I really wish I could figure out how to post the whole thing but as with the previous, click and you'll be able to view the whole image.  Trying some new stuff and seeing if I can't improve my art.  I apologize for the delay but as we have no A/C I have literally been sweating my balls off while drawing this.

It's very strange to me how smartphones work like this so often...I'll be in the woods or up on the top of a mountain and be able to zoom around the interwebs...I'll be in the burbs and my phone will decide it has lost all brains it once possessed.  WTF?

Anyway enjoy and I hope to not be so late on the next update.  But we shall see.  As always let me know your thoughts.

Well hi der

Yes I know that dude-holding-the-beer's arm is F*ed, I'll be fixing it this weekend (you lose perspective when you are looking at only a portion at a time).  Also, last night a buddy and I came up with a really great idea for a new comic which I'll be working on and hopefully by the 12th I'll be able to post it up. Maybe that will be my update schedule.  We'll see. 

In other news...STARCRAFT II IS AVAILIBLE FOR PREORDER!!! woot.  Only 25 days until release.  Neat!  I wish I had more videogame news but so far there has only been games that I can oogle from afar until they are released.  Perhaps a time machine is in order so I can play them now...Why am I in biological science and not in physics???? oh well.

Check back this weekend for a less M.C. Escher comic.

As promised and I apologize

Obviously this is not how one enters the Boy Scouts, however the things second graders tell other second graders can be fairly ridiculous.  I don't know how to copyright things but feel free to use it just (and I don;t know why you would want to try) don't try and make money off of it.  If you would like this image, please contact me first.

I apologize that it's small, I think if you click on it, it may get bigger (that's what she said!).  I need to get paid and I'll buy this domain name. I'll let you know what the link is then.  Until then DIBBS!!!!

So this is actually based off of a true story and by based, I mean this is a true story.  Hopefully my art isn't to terrible, I'm still working on Photoshop Elements until I can get a Creative Suite and then hopefully make the pretty pictures.

Anyway let me know your thoughts.  Enjoy.

-Nick

I R Bored

Hey all, I was bored so I made this. Hope you like it. It may become a new thing/comic strip.

Sorry for the crappy quality, I need to save it as a JPEG next time. Tried to convert it but then I would have to pretty much redo all of the drawing. Done a few pixels at a time is kinda fun. Anyway enjoy! And let me know what you think.