really wanted to make Lord Lloyd's speech bubble depict the true evil he really is. If nothing else, I created this comic simply so I'd have an excuse to design Lord Lloyd's speech bubble itself. I'm quite happy with the results.

Per my last news update, my own thoughts about War of the Worlds (because I'm sure you've all lost sleep about it).

I liked it. I could give a rat's ass what anyone else really says -- as if that's ever been a problem before. I think the movie does a great job of depicting what life would be like if utter chaos and lawlessness were to suddenly envelop major metropolitan areas. Hell -- if it meant saving your family, would you commit grand theft auto with a busted-ass minivan? I sure as hell would.

Would you shoot someone four times with a gun you'd found to commandeer the only working vehicle you've seen in days? What if you thought the vehicle would give you a better chance of survival?

The way folks walked from town to town, trying to find somewhere safe to go made them look like refugees. They were haggard. They were hungry, and they were tired. None of them were prepared for the chaos they suddenly found themselves enveloped in.

As far as aliens-invading-earth movies go, I think War of the Worlds did a great job touching on the sudden hopelessness people seemed to suddenly feel. The aliens weren't defeated by one single person. There was no specific "hero."

I think it's a little ironic that the remake of the movie that defined the sci-fi genre broke the sci-fi genre mold.

The only problem I had with the movie was Robbie's survival. Seconds after he ran over that hill, it was consumed by a wall of fire. How the hell would anyone survive that? I'm a big believer in the suspension of disbelief when it comes to movies -- but damn.

The tripod alien walker things were really fucking cool. However, if I saw something like that pop out of the ground and listened to it making all those powering-up noises, I'd start running a lot sooner than everyone else did.

Fools! What the hell did you think it was about to do?!

I picked up Galaxy Quest while on the hunt for Grosse Pointe Blank because it happened to be practically right next to Grosse Pointe Blank. See, Best Buy arranges their DVDs in alphabetical order. I've been meaning to pick up Galaxy Quest for a long time. It was just -- there.