Classes start tomorrow.
It'll be strange getting up in the morning, especially since 2 AM is my typical bedtime.

 

   Like the jump program, no one gets it the first time.  
Fun fact, the Matrix was the first movie I knew verbatim.  It's one of the most important movies ever made.  If anyone knows of an action movie that hasn't used bullet-time since its release, let me know.  There are probably one or two out there.
   My summer semester ends tomorrow.  I'm antsy as an ant, see?

P.S.  Can we all just pretend the part two and three never happened?

Blam!  That computer class is finished!  Turns out I really like QBasic, and I'm even working on a game on it.  It's simple, but it's cool.  It's got checkpoints, passwords, namable items and character, and even a morality system.  It about a third of the way done, so I'll be needing - "needing", this is just for fun - testers pretty soon.  If your interested in helping out, check out the Twitters or Facesbook, or hey, just click yourself over the the contact page of this site.

I'm done.  I'm finally done with my Understanding Computers book.  Six-hundred somethin' pages down!  Do I understand computers now?  Meh.
So, I've still got my QBASIC and Microsoft Office books to knock out and this class'll be over.  I'm not sure I could K.O. them with the tatsumaki senpuu kyaka, but it's probably worth a try.
Also, happy birthday to my mother.

     This kind of shit can stop anytime now.  You people who text, take calls, E-mail, whatever during a film in the theater, you know who you are.  Now, cut it the hell out!  You make a poor example of us all, and when the aliens come and judge our culture, choosing to destroy our planet – like the Death Star did Alderaan – on account of our inconsiderate behavior, I’m blaming you.
     Today’s strip is based on a single-panel I made near the end of 2008, rightly titled “Things that Make me Feel Smart #1”.  The assumed series to follow it, however, never turned up.  Perhaps this will be a recurring Coin Collection title.  To find out, I guess we’ll just have to wait until more human beings make me a genius by comparison.
     Here’s something new.  Coin Collection has joined Twitter.  You ought to click that little bird at the bottom of this post and follow @Coin_Collection.  Give me a good reason to tweet, ya know?  I’d like to get a chance to connect with you guys.  Find out about the comic book I’m currently illustrating for Old World Comics and news about the strip and the site.  Also, there’s always the Coin Collection page waiting for you on Facebook.  That’s the other link at the bottom of this post.

     Ta-da!  The girl from the bar developed way back in November has finally got a name!
     Ah, snail-mail; just kind of makes you feel good, doesn't it?  It does me anyways, except for the ideas that another human being had to make out with an adhesive strip in order to keep the envelope shut, the same adhesive strip that I've now got to wrench my finger through to reveal the mystery shrouded in paper encapsulation.  It's rusticity circa whatever year we all got E-mail addresses in the '90s.
     Actually, it's nice to get E-mails these days, real E-mails, not coupons from Arby's, YouTube subscription updates, or the last will and testament of my aged and wealthy uncle on this deathbed in Botswana; the poor guy would feel so much better if he could just get my credit card number.  Maybe it's just me, but the E-mails I get that are written by real people taking the time to articulate a message to another real person have become a rare joy. It's almost as nice as busting open one of those medieval envelopes.

In this valentine strip, I introduce to you… this chick who doesn’t have a name.  I did design her before the strip even went online, so we’ll probably be seeing her again.  Here’s the design I made in my sketchbook back in November.  

And, hey, while I’m at it, here’s Scott’s character design from November.  

Lyle’s design didn’t come together until January second, the day before the strip hit the web!