We have everything we need. That's right, ladies and gentlemen. We have a final version of the logo and a design for Billy 'Sonik' Fennigan.

 

Here is my colored version of the logo 

 

Here is Guitarking's color version of the logo. This is the one we chose 

 

Here is Guitarking's original design for Billy 'Sonik' Fennigan 

 

Here is my redesign of Billy 'Sonik' Fennigan 

 

Here is my colored version of Billy 'Sonik Fennigan. This is the final version 

I did this sketch, but GK didthe original. It is not finalized, obviously. The final version will be in color and it will look better

The comic officially has a name. It is called From Pong to Eternity. Credit GuitarKing with that one.

Here are some ideas for a logo

Sonik and Kain's world will have a huge gaming convention known as Digital Delirium

More info on Kain:

Kain is sensible to counterbalance the chaos of Sonik. Sort of a yin/yang thing working there. He likes to drink as well. He always wears metal band t-shirts and he is the one that pegged Billy with the nickname Sonik.

Here is the final version of Kain.

We now have 3 scripts fully written. I am confident that we will have an official logo tomarrow, so we might have that up on monday.

We have a few ideas on how to get word out about our comic

SONIK NOW HAS A NAME!!! That's right. Sonik is no longer nameless. His name is Billy Finnigan. He is Irish, or atleast part Irish, and he loves to drink.

We have a few more comic ideas, and I scripted one comic, but I have not run over it with GK yet, so the script is not final. Anyway, the point is that this comic is finally taking off.

Click here to see my first character designs for Kain

I really like the one on the bottom

(12:31:10 AM): Just as my brother and I were maybe 30 minutes away from his place, he calls us and asks what we want alcohol wise.

(12:31:52 AM): sounds good so far
(12:32:16 AM): We got Corona and Shiner. When we got there, we all had one jager bomb each. We then started playing a drinking game called I Never. You know what that is?
(12:33:11 AM): uhhh I played it but I was drunk so not relly

(12:34:38 AM): You take turns saying that you have never done something (Example: I never masturbated in public). Anyone that has done what you said has to take a drink (or a shot)

(12:34:48 AM): ohhh ok

(12:35:31 AM): We went round and round. We were careful to not get too drunk because 2 of hte 4 of us had work the next day and had to get up early

(12:36:02 AM): Pierce wound up throwing up because beer makes him sick before it makes him drunk. It was alot of fun though

(12:36:31 AM): lol

(12:36:49 AM): My brother said "I never jacked off to bestiality" and Pierce took a drink. Said he was "14 and confused at the time. It was only once and I felt really dirty afterwards"

(12:37:19 AM): wow that had to be an awkward moment

(12:37:24 AM): Which shocked everyone. Yeah. Gross

(12:38:29 AM): Anyway. The next day, my brother and I ate at IHOP and visited Spencers in the mall, where we bought 2 drinking games. One was called what the **** and the other was shot glass tic tac toe

(12:39:07 AM): My brother broke some of his shot glass checkers shot glasses the night before, so he felt he should replace it. Well, they didn't have any.

(12:39:45 AM): After we went home, I played Devil May Cry 3 and Shadow of the Colossus while waiting for Pierce to come home. After he did,. we ate supper at Carabas.

(12:40:26 AM): We went out in his mini van (it was 500 dollars, so he bought it. He named it momma jackson). We decided we would blast low rider just because that is so tacky in a mini van

(12:41:14 AM): The first few restraunts we went to were all eitehr too expensive or had a long ass wait.

(12:44:13 AM): Anyway, after we finally ate dinner, we decided to do something tacky to that mini van. We wanted to get those plastic hub cap spinner rims from wal mart, but they did not have any. We wound up buying racing pedals, fuzzy dice and an antenna ball. =Pierce is determined to find the hub caps for his car, as well as some cheap metal clip on tip for his exhaust pipe

(12:45:05 AM): We bought some alcohol and went back to his apartment, where we all played What The **** Adam called his girlfriend (the original plan was to bring her, but it fell through) so she could be a part of the game.

(12:47:48 AM): What the game is is everyone has a small plastic coin with the letter a on one side and the letter b on the other. There are 3 dice, red white and blue and a book of questions, each labeled with 3 numbers 1-6 on it. You would roll the dice and flip to the corresponding number in the book of questions. Someone would read the questions allowed, as well as choices a and b. The person who rolled answers the question using the coin, but keeps it secret from the rest of the group
(12:48:43 AM): The rest of the group has to guess the answer. All reveal their answers at the same time, and whoever gets it wrong has to take 1, 2 or 3 shots, depending on how many the question was worth. The book indicates that

(12:49:01 AM): damn sounds like a fun game

(12:49:15 AM): The fun part of the game, though, is the questions. They are absurd with equally absurd answers

(12:50:05 AM): One of the questions, as an example, was "would you strip yourself naked, cover yourself in tomatoe sauce, cheese and bread and deliver yourself to your neighbor for 250 dollars"

(12:50:28 AM): Another was "If you were a bird, would you rather poop in your mothers purse or on the neighbors head"

(12:50:26 AM): hhahahahaha

(12:51:08 AM): And another was"Would you rather **** into a toaster at the white house during an international meeting or on home plate during the world series"

(12:51:18 AM): Questions like that. Awesome ****ed up game

(12:51:38 AM): lol sounds like fun

(12:52:54 AM): We did Jager shots until we realized that we had gone through half a gallon of Jager in 2 nights. We then started doing beer. Pierce didn't like Fosters, so him and I walked to a gas station while talking to Megan (my brothers g/f). We bought Bacardi Watermellon and gummi worms. When we got back, everyone put the gummi worms in the bacardi and sat down to watch Jackass 2,.

(12:53:19 AM): After the movie, we kind of all passed out.

(12:55:48 AM): Today, we went to eat at IHOP, went to Home Depot to get some straps because we needed 2 more to tie the car down good, went to a porn store to buy Pierce a porn mag to put in his bathroom (Because my brotehr decided he needed it or he was a homo came home, watched Big Trouble in Little China,. loaded the car up on the trailer and headed home


I gotta be honest. It has been a long, long time since I have had that much fun in 3 days

Kyrie among nations
Kyrie among nations
Kyrie among nations
Here the bells ring through the night

Kyrie among nations
Kyrie among nations
Kyrie among nations
Hear as they ring through the night

Listen to the bells as they ring
Listen to the message they bring
Listen to the sound
As they sing as one voice in the night

Hoping that we'll all understand
Every dream we have's in our hands
And for every bell
May they ring all through the night

Just want to wish you all a happy holidays

Incase you are curious, the lyrics came from An Angel Returned by Trans Siberian Orchestra. Very good song

All alone, or in twos,

The ones who really love you,

Walk up and down outside the wall.

Some hand in hand,

Some gathering together in bands,

The bleeding hearts and artists,

Make their stand.

And when they've given you their all,

Some stagger and fall.After all it's not easy,

Banging your heart against some mad bugger's wall. 

One of the primary things that I would like to accomplish with my blog is to not only have a speaking voice in the gaming community, but to better myself as a person by not being another brick in the wall. I want to attempt to set myself apart from the crowds of people that will willingly give their opinion on something, reguardless of whether or not they are ignorant of the subject matter at hand. I know that, in long, heated debates, I have a history of saying things I shouldn't out of frustration because someone else refuses to look at things from my perspective and accept that they might be wrong or, at times, the other way arround. I admit. I am not always right, and I aim to fix this.

 Lets talk about flaming. One of the biggest problems with debates over the internet is that it will quite often result in flinging insults that, if it were in real life, would wind up in violence. Why is this? I have a theory. I believe it is a direct result of the fact that no one knows anyone else. I do not know him, so why should it matter if I hurt his feelings? Besides that, he is hundreds of miles away. What is he going to do about my insulting him? The entire thing seems to based off of the age old saying "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The problem with this theory is that it is, simply put, not true. Words do hurt. You never know how someone will react to being flamed. You can call them pathetic for being hurt by words on a screen all you want, but who is truely the bigger man? The one flinging childish insults or the on taking the insults without returning them?

 Another big contributor to flaming is the way that people state their opinions. If you state it like a jackass and say "This sucks because this blows, this blows and this blows," someone who disagrees with you will have an immediate reaction of something like "Hey. Screw you pal." Opinions can be stated without the use of the words "suck" or :"blow" or anything similar. It makes your opinion that much more respectable if you do this.

 It seems like the only message boards I can go to where there is no flaming are the small ones. Everyone knows and respects everyone else on the small boards, so no one flames anyone. Why can't big boards be like this? I know that it is hard to get to know every single person on a large board, but that doesn't mean that people you know deserve more respect than those that you don't. Think about it. You don't know James Hetfield, do you? Most of you would treat him respectfully if you ever did meet him. Why is it different with...well...anyone that isn't famous, really? 

The solution to this problem is a simple one. Next time you are in a heated debate, stop to think before you type. Think of a better response than a flame and a better vocabulary than the one involving 'curse words.' If someone else flames you, be the better man. Ignore it if you must. If the big man comes at the small man with all his force, it is the wise small man that steps aside. Remember this. It will serve you well. Step aside. Let the other person learn from thier mistakes when it comes back and bites them on the ass.

Some of you may be well aware of these bands. Others may not./ This is for those of you that aren't. Here are some of my favorite video game cover bands:

http://myspace.com/armcannon
Arm Cannon - the NES/prog metal. Very cool

http://myspace.com/vgmetal
Power Glove. Awesome video game metal. If Storm Eagle from Megaman X does not get your head banging, what will?

http://virt.vgmix.com/index.php?page=arrange
Virt. Blood of Gannon, My Frequence is 140.85 and Crystal Flash are amazing

http://www.metroidmetal.com/
Metroid Metal. Heavy Metal and Samus. Pure greatness

http://www.megadriver.com.br/
Megadriver. Sega Genesis metal straight from Brazil. Check out the Sonic one. It rocks hard

http://profile.myspace.com/entertainmentsystem
Entertainment System - awesome VG rock. Quality isn't the greatest, but Chemical Zone KICKS ASS

http://profile.myspace.com/thekonamikode
The Kode (AKA The Konami Kode). Awesome prog rock.

http://profile.myspace.com/theneskimos
NESkimos. Quality may not be the best, but they have alot of good stuff

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=91259
Even more NESkimos

http://profile.myspace.com/vgcb
Video Game Cover Band. Experimental rock

http://profile.myspace.com/year200x
Year 200X. Their cover of Castlevania 3 Level 1 ****ing SLAYS

http://www.square-enix-usa.com/uematsu/black_mages/
The Black Mages. Nobuo Uematsu's band. Progressive metal Final Fantasy music

There you go ladies and gentlemen. Have at it. Enjoy. Bang your head.

At this point, it has gotten completely ludacris. The latest thing to bash Sony for is the newest update to the PSP interface, 3.0. They added a few more cool functions to the system. One of the functions is that you can connect the PSP to the PS3 and transfer games that you download in the Sony Store to the PSP. People are griping about this because Sony said that by the end of 2007, there would be an extremely large Playstation One library that will be playable on the PSP. They think that the PSP should be able to connect to the Sony store. Maybe Sony just hasn't done it yet. I mean, it isn't even 2007 yet. It won't be the end of 2007 FOR A WHOLE YEAR!! Is it just me or does this present a major flaw in said complaint against Sony. They gave us more uses for the PSP, including a way to play downloaded PS3 games to the PSP, and people are reacting as if it is a bad thing?! That's like punching someone in the face for holding the door for you. I mean come on. Sony is giving us more cool things to do with the PSP. The last thing we should be doing is griping about it.

I post on the Ctrl Alt Del forum (best web comic ever BTW).The board has a reputation system where you can give positive rep or negative rep to people for posts. There is a thread on the board about this where people are saying Sony is screwing it's customers by doing this. When I posted my views on it, someone actually had the gull to give me negative rep. I mean, it's not like I went into the thread and said "You all suck,. You are all idiots. You need to die in a fire because you are wrong" or something. Seriously., What the hell?!

Sony has given us 10 years of entertainment with their first 2 systems and a good handheld. Now they have given the world a third good system, and everyone in the world wants to complain about it. It is a fad to bash Sony right now, and it has got to stop. Good system+good games. That is what a gamer should concern him or herself with, and Sony delivers. I am a gamer. That is all I care about. Stop the Sony bashing.

Few things annoy me more than an uneducated fanboy, whether it be of a console or a game like Final Fantasy. The vast majority of them haven't even tried the other products out there, but they will give you their opinion on it. How can you form an opinion on something you haven't even tried? I mean, it's not like we are requesting that you try rat poison or something. Trying a new game or another console will not hurt you. Atleast, then, you can form a respectable opinion on said product. What really gets me is how immature they can act when arguing, saying things suck and never providing proof for it. It's nothing but flaming, and it is completely childish. If you ask me, these people should not be considered true gamers because they make the rest of us look bad.

In my opinion, it is a great time to be a gamer. With the PS3 released today, and the Wii coming out soon, we have 3 whole new systems to play with. I know I cannot be the only one waiting for people to tap into the potential of the three systems. Get down and find out what they really can do. Why can't people accept that all 3 systems will rule, and they will all get good games? It baffles me. I have every intention of owning all 3 next gen systems before the end of next year. I currently own all three current gen systems, and have spent alot of time on all 3 of them. I also own both the PSP and the DS, and have spent alot of time on both of them. Yes it is true that I have a favorite, that being the PS2, but that doesn't make me like the other 2 any less, and it won't make me down talk them.

True gamers are console fans, not console fanboys. I am a true gamer. I am really excited about all 3 systems.

P.S. I am sick of all the PS3 bashing I see on all non Playstation centered gaming message boards. Why can't people accept that it will be a great system with many great games, just like it's predecessors.