Dark Magus

10.30.05

- Trying to pump out more strips, seems slow going though. I did finish the donator's wallpaper for October (little late in the month, I know) so check it out to your right.
- I'm going to try and have a few filler strips since I'm gonna be gone this week for job training. They'll be glimpses into what's to come in the strip...I hope I can finish them in time
- I know I've said this a thousand times, but I'm going to get the comic back on a regular update schedule. Recent changes in my job and personal life have left me with more free time than usual, so as long as I don't spend all my time on World of Warcraft, we'll be in good shape
- I have a blog...I don't really know why. You can check it out here, you know, if you really want.

8.18.05

- I'm back! Sorry it has taken me so long to get a comic out, but life has been pretty damn hectic this last month and I didn't even realize that a month had gone by. The comic will be back full swing now and I hope to keep up the update goal I set for myself so long ago. Thanks for being patient with me...Or annoying the hell out of me until I did something about it...*cough* Ptak *cough*

7.13.05

- Hey everyone, just thought I'd pop a few thoughts up here. First off Happy Birthday to Mom. I'll be going to lunch with her today, but I'll try my best to keep on my one-comic-a-day schedule until I get caught up.
- Dominic Deegan is back! My favorite webcomic, and to read this comic has been an integral part of my morning rituals for more than a year now it . I'm glad to see that Mookie is back from his mini-vacation, and I hope he had a chance to relax. If you don't read this comic, you should dammit!
- Since it is my mother's birthday, that means one other thing, exactly two weeks until mine! I don't know what I'm doing yet, but it will probably be a gathering at a club or bar. If you're in the G-Vegas area and would like to come and umm gather, drop me an e-mail.
- To eliminate any confusion, G-Vegas is the nickname for Greenville, North Carolina.

6.16.05

- First off, I want to apologize to all my readers, I know it's been awhile since the comic has updated...regularly and it's been three weeks since I've said anything down here. Trust me when I say it's not for lack of trying, but being full time worker, full time Webcomic Artist and part time Dungeon Master is starting to catch up to me. Not to mention the stress from it all combined with those loathsome bills I must shell out my wages to every month. Anyway, I'm making excuses, I'm giving an explanation.
- Also, I'm almost done with last month's and this month's wallpaper. I know I kinda neglected that and once again, I'm sorry.

5.23.05

- Ok, still working on today's comic, but I do have a little treat for you! I'm doing a sub-comic (I can hear you out there now, "can't even finish the main comic on time and NOW he's doing a sub-comic!?") Yes, yes I am, and the topic of choice is my two day adventure waiting for Star Wars Episode III. I saw the movie with a few forum members, so if you don't recognize the people, head over to the forum and find out who they are!
The link to the sub-comic is right here. Check it out, you know . . . before 'ze Germans get here.

5.19.05

- It's 3:20 am and I just got home from seeing Episode III. I'll talk more about it later. Anyway, I've been up for 43 hours straight and right now my bed is calling for a nice hour nap before I must return to work.

5.18.05

- W00t! Star Wars cometh! It's about 3:30 A.M. EST right now, I've finished up doing what needs to be done and now I'm gonna head out to the local Cinema here in G-Vegas to join the ranks of friends in line for tickets to the midnight showing of Episode III. Ptak and ShadeStrider from the forum are already there, and with any luck I'll be able to nab some pictures with Ptak's digital camera and post them later (a friend has my camera, so I’ll be bring my camcorder :) )
- If you're going out there (yeah, I know it's a little late to be telling you this) I'll have some 4x6 printouts of today's comic and maybe a few business card sized promotion thingies too. If you miss me there, I'll be heading to "Good Buy" for a nice long day of working, and I'll be at the midnight showing as well (kinda obvious)
- Hope to see you!

5.05.05

- It's Cinco de Mayo! And the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth year of the new millennium, not that that really means anything...any who, it's also Online Comics Day, which means just about as much to me, being a Online Comic artist and all.

So . . . Hurray!

- Worked pretty hard on this one, so I hope you guys and gals like it. I'll try and get tomorrow's comic out, you know, tomorrow. But it may not happen until early Saturday.

4.29.05

- No, I am not on a hiatus, Just been working more and playing WAY too much Smash Bros. Melee at a friend's house. Bad me, I know...

4.18.05

- Ok, running behind a bit on the strips, but Zero has been a pain these last few days...yeah, Zero is the name of my computer. That's right, I named my computer. Go on, have a laugh, I'll wait...
Good? Cool.
Well anyway, she's been acting up and giving me fatal runtime errors in Photoshop, but I finally got her back up and running so expect the next few comics soon, I've already drawn out quite a few, so it shouldn't take me too long to do the coloring and such.

4.13.05

- Yay, Wednesday comic is up..on Wednesday, it's a miracle. And I promise this will be the last strip about diet mountain dew, and other than the few references planned, no more Star Wars strips either.
- Started drawing the May wallpaper, and even though the strips will no longer be Star Wars based, the wallpaper will be. No! Don't give me that look. Episode III comes out in May!

4.12.05

- Well, despite being sick, I think I turned out a pretty nice comic. Not bragging or anything, I just had alot of fun doing this one. And I'm sure you can tell when I have fun doing a strip just by the art-work, I know I can...
- Hopefully I'll be able to put out another one tomorrow and then I'll be caught up with my goal.
- If you haven't seen the Episode III: 1337 Subtitle trailer, head over to the Forum and check it out, it's pretty damn awesome.

4.11.05

- Ok, here's yesterday's comic. I worked my tail off on it, so I hope you like it, even if you don't understand it (yet)
- I started working on today's comic, but work just called and now I have to go in on my day off, hurray. So the comic will be late..again. Oh well, at least it's more hours.

4.7.05

- Ok, new comic is finally up. Sorry about the delay and all. You may notice that the comic is once again fairly large. I did this because I hated how small it looked and I didn't have enough room to do the text bubbles and still make the characters look nice. Sorry to anyone running a low resolution, but based on my stats, I've got alot more people that read it at 1024x768 and up.
- I'd also like to remind you that you can get this month's wallpaper for free if you ask me a question and I put on the F.A.Q. page. Come on people, you have to have some questions! You can either e-mail me the question or post it on the forum.

4.4.05

- April Wallpaper is up for you donators out there. I'd been playing with this idea for awhile, so I hope you enjoy it. And yes, I did jam the Bee Gees while drawing this.
- Moved the "Somebody Serious" Wallpaper to the downloads section, so you can get that for free now.
- Added Dag Bone to the Character Bios section

3.31.05

- Just like to share with everyone that I gave blood today, and as anyone who knows me will attest, I don't do anything without bringing my "cynical humor" (as someone called it today) into it. So after work I changed into my Vampire: The Masquerades - Bloodlines t-shirt, to which I got many sighs and questioning looks from fellow employees (the blood drive was sponsored by Best Buy so it was right outside the store). It did however make the life-draining nurses on the Blood Mobile laugh, so at least some people thought this was funny. Hopefully you did too.
- The April wallpaper will be a little late, seeing how lazy I am and all. I thought about saying that it would be up tomorrow, and putting up a fake "april's fools!" wallpaper up, but I think that would make some of you mad. Anywho, I'll get it up as soon as possible, and I can tell you that it will be featuring Dag (the guy with the fro). Yeah, and I'll get around to working on the character bios sometime this coming week as well. Need to add Rocco, Dag, and Mayo.

3.24.05

- And God said "Let there be Message Boards," and thus "G-Vegas Saints Forums" was made. God saw this, and it was good.

3.23.05

- Sending out a special thanks to Eli Young, the author of Sam and Eli's Adventures for helping me out on the keenspace forums. There was a hiccup with CSS and made my whole page white when I tried to add a counter. Now that that's taken care of, you can see the pretty little counter at the bottom of my page now

3.20.05

- Well I had a pretty good St. Patrick's Day, far as I can remember I had 6 bottles of Guinness, 4 shots of Jameson, 3 shots of Bailey’s, 2 Irish Car bombs, and a partridge in a pear tree

3.04.05 Update

- Added downloads section, you can grab the "Ping Racer" wallpaper from there now.
- Put up this month's wallpaper, the name of which I took from a quote from one of my favorite movies, the professional. "Somebody's coming up, somebody serious!" Anywho, you can see it to the right of your screen. (On another note, if you click on it, it now gives you a larger picture of it)
- DJ Kinetica (my roomate) will be spinning on orbitalgrooves.com on March 13th from 12am til 2am EST. I think he's calling the show "Sunday Sin" which I find funny considering the name of my comic. You'll be able to chat live with him that night (and probably me too if I don't have to work in the morning). All the info is at Orbitalgrooves.com and I'll post new info as I get it.

2.27.05 Update

- I know I said that I wouldn't be updating everyday, and I meant it! However I've recently been struck with a fit of insomnia and haven't slept in 2 days, ergo I worked on the comic. So you can thank my unnatural sleeping habits for today's comic. Enjoy.

2.25.05 Update

- I know the last two comics are not quite what you might have expected, but the comic does have a dark underlying story, and it's going to start showing through.
- Hurray, new comic is up. Sorry it's been so long since I updated, been stressed this last week, and I'll be returning to my "real" job in the coming week (I hope). In light of all this, I do realize that I'm going to have to cut back on my comic-drawing time, or find away around it all. I thought about doing no-color comics, because doing the computer coloring is definitely the most time consuming part, however I'd rather give you a quality comic less often, than give you a not-quite-up-to-my-standards comic more often. In other words, I won't be updating the comic every day anymore. You can be sure I'll still put all my heart into it though. I'd also like to say thanks to my loyal supporters who pester me when the comic is late, you know who you are.

2.19.05 Update

- Code is fixed and I am TABLE FREE (yay!). Thanks to my roommate's help, I now have a pretty firm grasp on CSS, and it is truly wonderful. As you may have noticed, I made the graphics smaller. I realize that not everyone has high speed internet and run their monitors at 1280x1024 or higher, i figured this would help kill two birds with one stone. I also updated allot of the pages, look around, tell me what you think, pay close attention to the right-hand margin. Well, off to draw.
- Having some code problems, sorry if the site's a little messed up. Will be resolved shortly.
- Hey, lookie, I'm behind again. Oh well, I'll upload them as i finish them. To explain Thursday's comic (and to make an excuse why I'm late, again) I've been working on some graphix and a logo for my friends Chris and Carolyn's company and to make a long story short, and can't work on anything for too long before I feel the need to make a parody of it, so I made this comic for Chris (aka Enigma), who is in fact a computer tech. This one's for you E. Oh, and I'll probably make it into next month's Donator Wallpaper, with a cool drawing of Optimus Prime in the background.
- One more thing, after a wallpaper cycles out, I'll be adding them to the Downloads page, and you can get them for free. So you don't have to donate to get them, unless you want to be the first one on your block to get it (and help your artist out). I'll be adding the Download page at the end of the month.