D.J. Coffman – Sequential Artist, Thinker

A new week has begun. It’s going to be a busy one. Last week didn’t go quite as I planned, but that inspired me to at least setup some kind of new time management on my end. Instead of trying to do a thousand things all day long and then feel like I didn’t get much accomplished down any avenue, I think I’m going to try to devote full days of work time to one project. Okay, that’s impossible for me to do, but maybe 90% of a work day? 80?

Three main things on my plate– Flobots Comic, Jennie Wood’s 5 page comic for Jorge Vega’s comic book writing class, and then I still have 400+ Will Draws waiting. Let’s clear the mind before coffee…

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Something fishy in the Steel City- . While the Steelers won, and that’s awesome, we watched one of the most crookedest officiating the entire game, right from the start. We usually don’t cry foul over officiating, but I have to tell you, if you were watching this, it just felt WEIRD the entire game. If you look at the aftermath of numbers, it’s very fishy– 13 penalties on the Steelers for 115 yards, only ONE penalty on the Chargers for 5 yards. Even down to the very end of the game when Troy Polamalu had another interception and ran it in for a touchdown, they called it a touchdown TWICE! but then took it away at the end of the game. That would have made the score 18-10, beating the odds spread. Funny that, huh? The refs made sure after time was off the clock and the points were on the board to take those points away. The coach was visibily PISSED… looks like it got worse in the tunnels…

Steelers coach Mike Tomlin was so irate after the game that he refused to talk about the refs, who called a whopping 13 penalties on the Steelers for 115 yards, and flagged the Chargers just once for five yards. There was a report that he even had a bit of a tantrum in the hallway after the game as he yelled at the refs for the lopsided calls and they also took away a last play Steelers TD as they called the Chargers for an illegal forward pass, when it appeared just the other way as the Steelers Troy Polamalu took what was a loose ball for a score on the games last play.

And Coach Tomlin is a cool character, man. I hope they investigate the refs on this game, because something was WAY fishy. Also, as a complete aside, the refs admitted afterward they messed up and that last Touchdown should have counted! hah!- and I just read some blogs where the online betting world is PISSED. – But oh well, they won and sit atop the AFC with a 7-3 record.

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I think one of the things I miss most about producing the Hero By Night comic book is the way my kids would bug me for when the new issues would be coming out, or how excited they’d be when they came home from school to find a new issue on their pillow. It wasn’t the fact that DAD created it, believe me, it was just the fact that they were the biggest HBN fans in the world. Imagine being a SpiderMan comic fan and you were the FIRST fan to read the issue 2 or 3 weeks before it hit store shelves? They’d tease kids on the bus who wanted to buy copies, and the little buggers were probably selling them too! – But yeah, that’s what I miss the most about it. When the kids caught wind of conversations that there might be a Hero By Night TV show in the works, they were super excited. I overheard them talking about upstairs, much like I use to do with my friends about comicbook nerd-dom — I wish people could just dive into my mind for a moment and see or feel whatever it was I was experiencing because I can’t quite explain it in words that would be interpreted correctly on a blog. If only they knew.

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Somebody call Joe the Plumber! My bathroom sink is clogged up pretty good. I had pulled out a nasty clump of something that in a Marvel Comic book would have given me abilities of some sort. I guess it’s the gross little boy in me, but there’s something kinda GROSS but cool about pulling out a clog of gunk and seeing how big or nasty it is– and then you feel like  man because you’ve just unclogged a pipe! Unfortunately, I made the problem worse…. so I’ll be off to acquire some Liquid Drano first thing before work. Yeah, with great powers, and all that…

Whoa… I just thought of something. If I were Joe The Plumber, I think he should come up with some branded “Liquid JOE the Plumber” and get the “Liquid Plumber” people to sponsor that action. On the other hand though, that guy is an incredible jackass.

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So… will it be 90% or 80% today? Let’s go see!