I've been trying to get out of an art funk lately, and trying to do some drawing other than just No Need for Bushido over and over and over and... well, I've decided to keep myself focused on something other than the comic, I'll update this poor neglected gallery again! In fact, I'll perhaps try to update it once every two days or so with something new! Will I actually be capable of such a feat? Probably not, I've made such foolish promises to myself in the past. But that's negative thinking, and I'm not gonna listen to myself! At least my alternate, nega-self.

Seriously, I check my DA watch list literally two or three times a day, the least I could do is update once in a while, right?

I got season 9 of Stargate SG-1 on dvd for my Bday. So, other than season 8, I own every available season of Stargate SG-1 on DVD, and I've pretty much been marathoning it. Stargate SG-1 is definitely my favorite tv series of all time (that isn't a cartoon). Eventually I'll make same SG-1 fanart or something. I was pretty bummed when I found out the series was cancelled, so season 10 will be the end. Thankfully, there will be two direct to dvd films to finish the series, which I'm excited about, and the always awesome Stargate Atlantis will continue into it's fourth season. I've also heard that Amanda Tapping is going to continue to play character as a main(?) character in Atlantis! ANYways, yay, stargate! KAWOOSH.

Hi peoples. Let’s talk about this Avatar: The Last Airbender season finale, shall we? I’ll even give you the benefit of mentioning that this will be SPOILER INTENSIVE.

OK, how many people were happy with the outcome of the finale?

*one person raises her hand in a theater of thousands*

Ugh, a Kataang shipper! Get her outta here!

*offending girl is tossed from theater*

Pssch, crazy Kataang shippers. Umm, not that I’m into shipping or anything, cause that’s TOTALLY A GIRL THING. Gotta admit, though, that Zuko and Katara were, like, made for each other… ANYWAY:

“Azula always lies, Azula always lies…”

That’s what Zuko’s been telling himself for half his lifespan, and yet, for some gods unknown reason he continues to believe his evil witch-bitch of a sister! In fact, everyone on the planet could tell him “Azula’s evil and lying to you,” and if Azula says “help me and you’ll reclaim your throne and daddy will love you again” he’ll be like “OK!” And this is exactly what happened in the season finale! Despite his good looks, apparently Zuko’s a RETARD.

Now that’s not to say there wasn’t a whole heck of a lot that was totally insanely awesome about the finale, such as Toph’s new metal bending abilities and the chakra release training sessions (You must unlearn what you have learned!), but nearly every time we saw Zuko this season, it seemed to be building up to his transformation into a good guy. I can understand that the writers probably wanted to psyche out the viewers by doing something unexpected, but I’m almost offended at how Zuko’s decision to “stay the course” on his ‘capture the avatar’ policy contradicted nearly every character building moment he’s had this season. This was the one event that I didn’t want to see go through a 180 degree unexpected turn. Now this whole season finale felt like a rehash of Empire Strikes Back, which I thought was fantastic, cause Empire’s my favorite Star Wars film. But it got all mucked up in the end. So here’s my version of what I’d HOPED would happen:

Aang and Katara leave the crystal cave ready to save the day! But's Azula waiting and takes them both on HARDCORE, and after a fantastic battle, both of them are out for the count (to use a cliché). Suddenly Zuko appears (all sleevless and looking TOTALLY BADASS like a streetfight character), having decided to fight back against Azula! An Agni Kai-esque battle ensues, during which Zuko deflects Azula’s lightning right back at her. This results in Zuko’s quasi-win, pushing Azula back for a moment and giving Zuko enough time to save either Aang or Katara, BUT NOT BOTH (gasp)! Zuko isn’t certain who to save, but a semi conscious Aang pleads that Zuko save Katara first. Zuko takes a hold of her but Azula comes back with all the earth bender troops. In the end, Zuko makes his escape with Katara, and Aang is captured, and the earth kingdom is conquered by the fire nation. It’s all very Empire Strikes Back and even though Zuko’s come out a good guy, the greatest hope for the future is now in the hands of the fire nation, which, I think, would make for a much more dramatic finale. Not to mention it would set up the beginning of the third season with the planning to rescue Aang! It’d be all ‘Return of the Jedi’! Would not that be fantastic? Alas, this did not come to pass, and Zutara shippers are left frustrated and alone in a vast see of poor writing and nonsensical character decisions. Not that I care, of course, cause I’m not a Zutara shipper.

I'm back! I updated a number of commissions I've worked on as of late, and I feel good about that. NNFB is reaching the point where I may just start updating the comic pages without dialogue here in my DA gallery. Why the heck not?? I've been trying to improve the art in my online comic to a point where I'm not just drawing to progress the story, I'm also drawing to improve the art! If I can just make each page a little better than the last...

Jeezoos, I rarely touch this gallery, but I kind of like the new DA site design, so I felt like updating a bit. put three pieces in my scraps, and 4 in my deviations. That's probably gonna be my DA quota for the next six months of however long I forget about this gallery again.

I only recently realized that I got invited to two different DA clubs, I'm not even certain how DA clubs work, and since I'm so rarely on DA to begin with, I wonder if I should really be joining any...