I come from a very traditional family with very traditional ways.  Thus, we dined yesterday at noon on very traditional Easter steaks.  Nothin’ odd about that right? No eggs hidden, no candy given, no nothin’ nothin'd.       I hit the first milestone of the comic I’m working on for Old World Comics.  I am the artist for the The Powers that Be and I just finished the pencils for issue three.  I’ve still got to get a few pages approved, but after that, it’s off to inking and coloring.  Old World has some sample pages up on the site from issues one and two.  You should check them out.
     This week’s been Pokélicious.  Some folks at the pizzeria and I are getting something like a second wind with the video game series.  I’m working on Pokémon Crystal myself, and you can follow my Twitter account to get updates and Pokémon related illustrations sent right to you. Exhilarating, huh?  You'll also get to enjoy my drawing at work series.  It’s just another cool thing I like to offer outside of this page.  Just click that little bird there.

     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.

So begins the first ever Coin-Collection story arc.  I promise it's not all going to be about grammar. 
This is, yet again, another movie no one seems to want to watch with me.  People have got no taste, I'm tellin' ya!  I did end up seeing "Buried" a few weeks ago, and it was better that I thought it would be.

I actually play this game all the time, and the answer is usually "Star Trek".
It's simple; you give the person you're playing with a quote from a movie, worded as represented in this strip.  If they don't know what you're talking about, you give them a second quote.  If they still don't know, you give them a third quote, the easiest quote you can think of.  If they don't know what you're talking about by that point, they lose.  Try it with your colleges.  This game is exactly fun enough to be enjoyable at work.
C2E2 was a hit!  Talked to a bunch of cool writers and artists, learned a lot from the professional-hosted panel, and got to hang out with the folks of the Webcomic Alliance.  I was even able to scrape a few words out of the driest mouth I've ever had to Adam Hughes.
There was a lot of positive feedback regarding the exclusive C2E2 strip, which I handed out to my art heroes and some people I never knew of who were doing crazy-cool work.  Besides a small sack of swag I assembled over the weekend, I received some awesome gifts!

Byron Wilkins of 1977 the Comic                                                   Justin Wilkins

Danielle Corsetto of Girls with Slingshots                                       R. K. Milholland of Something*Positive

Why Weebly wants to turn the bottom pictures on their side is beyond me, and I can't seem to fix the problem.

Talking briefly with Dawn Griffin, creator of "Zorphbert and Fred" and member of the Webcomic Alliance, I was introduced to Comics for Japan.  She gave me this flier and invited me to join the cause.  It just seems right for our heroes to give some props to a country to which we owe so much of our pop culture.
To donate $10, just text "REDCROSS" to 90999.

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all!
It's okay to cry during this movie.  Just don't let anyone see.
Is that a new shirt, or has Lyle just been wearing it inside out until now?

Google has revealed its ludicrous objective of making no information useless.  I'd say me looking up videos on how to jump rope in a wheel chair at three in the afternoon could be seen as useless information.  But now that info has a use!  It's use is to feed and satisfy the beast that is Google.  It's hungry for our info.  Soon, Google will, through annexing the institutions that facilitate our internet addiction, devour all E-nformation.  What will we do when they accuse us openly of having watched "Strawberry Shortcake" seasons 1-3 while searching for shortcake recipes?  Deny it?  They have the proof.

Movies like "Never Say Never" are the things that make me lose faith in humanity.
Bonus points to anyone who IDs the poster on Scott's wall.
A co-worker of mine got me hooked to Words with Friends recently.  Search me if you wanna play, but be warned I'm a menace.

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!