Thursday, March 25, 2010

Forgetful Functors



and this wraps up the stupid grocery story. 14 pages and he still didn't get her name. what a failure.

this also marks the end of WAITT volume 1, and 50 comics since the restart in September.

I'm taking a week off to work on the book to make sure it can be done by Fanime, so there will be no comics next week. The week after, though, we'll start with a new story! Thanks for following!

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Satisfaction First



There's really only a handful of things in life better than kicking a man when he's down.

Monday, March 22, 2010

WAITT VOLUME 1 PREORDER

First, a note: Serious buyer only, please! ONLY PRE-ORDER IF YOU'RE CERTAIN YOU'RE NOT GONNA BACK OUT. I have no way to force you to pay for the book you've pre-ordered, so I'm going to take your word for it, but I've had problems with people pre-ordering and then bailing out and not paying at the last minute. This happened a lot when I was printing Reborn VHL doujin, so I'm trying to avoid dealing with that this time. Thank you.

If you're interested in pre-ordering, please read on CAREFULLY. There's a lot of information below, so I'm not responsible if you misread any information.

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HOW THE PREORDER WORKS:
It's simple: you pre-order the book during pre-order period, pay me the money within payment period, and when the books arrive from the printing company at the end of May, I will mail them out to you. Expect them to be mailed out to you in early to mid June. I will send a notification once your book gets mailed out, but once it's out, it's out of my hands. Shipping time will vary depending on where you live.

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WHY PRE-ORDER?
Because when you pre-order, you get EXTRA GOODIES, such as:

* Postcards
* A signed copy of volume 1
* A personalized sketch of any WAITT character in the book

and perhaps a few other things I can't think of at the top of my head at the moment.

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HOW LONG IS THE PREORDER OPEN?
Anytime between now and APRIL 3, 2010. That is in 2 weeks. Any order submitted after that will be taken in, but there is no guarantee that there will be any book in stock, which means you will have to wait until I order the second printing of the books.

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HOW MUCH IT WILL COST
Essentially, there are two items I'm selling:

** Item A:
1 (one) WAITT comic book volume 1
for $10

** Item B:
1 (one) WAITT comic book volume 1
1 (one) WAITT poster
for $20

Shipping is $5 within the US, $7 to Canada, and $10 everywhere else in the world.

I won't be selling the poster separately, at least not for now. Keep in mind also that if you're ordering the poster, your order might ship a bit later (by a week or two) because the posters are getting printed at a later date.

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ACCEPTABLE METHODS OF PAYMENT
I prefer PAYPAL. As much as a bitch it is for them to charge fee per transaction to the seller, it is still the easiest method of payment. If you don't have a paypal account, make one. It's not difficult. You don't even have to give them your bank account or anything like that. All you need is an account on Paypal, and you'll be able to pay me with your credit card.

Payment using Money Order works too. Money order is a very easy method of payment for those of you living in the US. All you need to do is to go to ANY US Post Office, and tell them you want to buy a money order. Say you're paying me $15. Then you tell them you want $15 worth of money order. You will then pay the post office people $15, and they will give you a check/certificate that is worth $15. You will then mail this check/certificate to me.

I am also willing to take concealed cash in an envelope. However: if the cash does get lost in the mail, I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE. I've received cash payments before and have never had any problems with missing cash, but you never know. It's safest to just use money order since you need to go to the post office anyway to mail out some cash.

AT CONVENTIONS! I will be attending FanimeCon 2010 in San Jose, CA, and Anime Expo 2010 in Los Angeles, CA. If you plan on attending any of these cons, feel free to preorder a copy and pick it up at the con. You can just pay me when you pick up the copy at the con. Picking up WAITT v1 at a convention will also save you shipping money!

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WHEN IS THE PAYMENT DUE?
AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. I'm self-publishing, so while I do have the fund to print a certain number of books, it'll be nice to get some money back to cover the printing cost. I'm setting a deadline of APRIL 22, 2010 (which is a month from now) for you to send me the payment. If payment is not received by this date, your pre-order will be canceled.

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INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOK'S CONTENT
WAITT volume 1 will have 80 pages total. The content is black and white, but the front and back cover are full-color. The book will contain all the comics you've seen until today since the series was restarted in September 2009. The book will also include some extra illustrations / sketches that are exclusive to the book, character profile pages, as well as some of the questions you've asked in formspring.

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HOW TO PREORDER (IMPORTANT!)
To pre-order, you must follow these steps precisely. Failure to follow these steps may result in a lost pre-order form.

To preorder, you must send an email to e57124575@gmail.com with the subject "WAITT PREORDER". Please send the email using an email account you check often, as this email will be the main method of communication between you and me. DO NOT NOTE ME ON DA! I don't check my DA notes often, and sometimes forget to reply to unread messages, so shooting me an email to this address works better.

In the email, copy paste the following, and fill in all the information to ensure proper delivery:

- BLOGGER USERNAME:
- YOUR NAME:
- YOUR COMPLETE MAILING ADDRESS:
- YOUR COUNTRY:
- YOUR ORDER:
(Item A / Item B)
- DO YOU WANT ME TO SIGN THE BOOK? (yes / no)
- WHICH CHARACTER SKETCH DO YOU WANT?
- HOW WILL YOU BE PAYING?
(Paypal / money order / mailed cash / con pickup)
- IF PAYING BY PAYPAL: WHAT IS YOUR PAYPAL EMAIL ADDRESS?
- IF PICKING UP AT CON: WHICH CON?
(Fanime / AX)

Once I get this pre-order email, I will reply to you with the total cost and info on how you can send the payment.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

WAITT Volume 1, Front Cover



Apologies for the terrible frame design. If WAITT ever reaches volume 2, I'm just gonna go with a full-page illustration.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

In The Name Of Science



Don't blame the man, now. He's trying hard to keep these comics PG-13!!

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Filler Page Is Filler



It seems like whenever you considered something to be outrageous and bizarre, something else more outrageous and bizarre would instantly pop out just to prove you wrong.

And there doesn't seem to be any upper limit imposed to this. It's like a natural log function; you think it will plateau at some point, but it goes to infinity instead.

Happy belated Pi Day.

Monday, March 15, 2010

The World Is My Urinal

Poster that will be sold with the WAITT book this summer. Click to enlarge.



Because in every perfectly good picture, there is always that one guy who does certain things that ruins said picture.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Reality Bites



They call it trials and errors because it always starts with an error.


and oh god, this grocery shopping story needs to be over already.

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Towing Capacity



The same wise man also once warned: "A girlfriend is like that one piece of poop that no matter how many times you flush down the toilet, just keeps coming back up."

Sunday, March 07, 2010

Political Debate



The easiest way to win an argument is to counter with a hurtful truth, no matter how irrelevant it is to the point being argued.

Thursday, March 04, 2010

Quantity Mismatch



My perspective sense today is horrible. It must have something to do with the fact that I've been playing Rainbow Unicorn Attack too much.

Also I can't wait to wrap up this grocery-shopping story. It's getting boring, I'm ready to move on.