Web Comics Galore!

Well, I'm currently trying to keep my mind off of the AMV contest - since it's not due until, oh, geez, like MAY! Plus, I really can't do much more with it right now... so DISTRACTION TIME!
Usually I'd fall to Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time to distract me, but I'm currently in the Water Temple... Annoying as HELL! And the Water Dungeon earlier in the game was the most annoying of THOSE dungeons... I've decided the Japanese must hate water for some reason. Maybe they recent it for keeping them so tightly confined....
ANYWAY! I'm avoiding Ocarina of Time because I REALLY don't want to do the water temple. T_T So then I decided to start up FarmVille on Facebook again. Man, they've changed it a lot, but still, it can't keep you occupied for long periods of time. So I dove back into Webcomic making.
I started off with just the one webcomic (I mentioned this in a below post, but I'll get more in depth about it in a moment), and then I got talked into helping Peter make one - granted, it wasn't too had to "pull my arm" (more on this in a moment as well), and now I have an idea for a THIRD webcomic! Comic overload!!!
Ok, so some info on the first one. I've referenced a few times before that I am a reader of the Game Destroyers comic. In fact, I'm a character in the comic! I'm Scout! ^_^ I'm also impressed that a few of the "original" GDs got killed off, and all of the "honorary GDs" got killed off, but my character - an "honorary" somehow survived and got bumped up to "official." Go me! ^_^ ANYWAY... Back in May, I think, the author was heavily bombarded with stuff for college and went on hiatus. He wanted to keep up readership, so he offered to post any guest comics submitted. It got me thinking and after a little while I actually came up with an idea. I was able to quickly script out 7 non-consecutive strips for the comic. Unfortunately, I can't really draw too well. If I had a base drawing to sketch from I can do really well, however. *shrug* Well, my inability to draw ended up having the author come back from hiatus before I even started sketching my webcomic idea. I still wanted to create the comic after I scripted it, however. So then I went on a search for style ideas. I was thinking of maybe using typical 8-bit styling. I was also thinking something along the same styling of A Modest Destiny. Yet another thought was along the lines of Order of the Stick. I even thought of something like this... Eventually I got sent to Zombie Grammar, which in turn sent me to StripGenerator.com. I checked out a few other strip generators, but eventually settled on StripGenerator's illustrations.
The next trouble I ran into was that StripGenerator doesn't exactly generate the comic the way I'd like it. For one, I can't customise the characters as much as I'd like. And the second, slightly more major issue, is that I wanted the comic strip to be a 6-panel, and I can only do 3 panels on StripGenerator. I then settled on using InkScape to do my comic, based on StripGenerator. I took screenshots of everything in StripGenerator I liked/would need, and then redrew them all in InkScape. Unfortunately, InkScape isn't as user-friendly as Adobe Illustrator, and so I've been running in to a lot of problems with drawing. And so, until I can find an easier way to piece together my comics, this will be a long-winded process in which every comic may take a week or two (depending on free time) to create. >_<
Anyway, that is the end of my own personal webcomicness (which is currently what IS keeping me distracted from AMV making...). The next stage of the webcomic obsessing is due to Peter. One day about a month ago, I guess, I was driving him and Celia to the mall or somewhere and my sister pointed out a very nice church on-route. It has a pseudo-gothic exterior with a gorgeous stone wrap-around porch. She said that she'd love to get married either there, or in a cathedral (she wants a gothic wedding). I was going to add in that someplace with a hedge maze would work really nicely as well. However, I misspoke and said hedge mage instead of hedge maze (I blame the rhyme). Well, those two had a FIELD DAY with my flub-up. "Hedge mage? What the hell is that?" Celia laughed. "That's got to be the crappiest Final Fantasy job," Peter added in. "What can he do? Grow plants? Some spellcaster!" They laughed some more before Peter finally said, "Ya know, I actually love that idea! Hedge Mage! I think I'm going to make a webcomic about it!" He then proceeded to talk to me about the progress of Hedge Mage whenever we saw each other. Well, about a week back he got all excited. Apparently the author of his favorite webcomic (<-- I'll reference this again, so feel free to check out the link) was doing some real-time online chatting the night before. Peter informed the author of his idea of Hedge Mage and the author was in hysterics. According to Peter, he loved the idea so much that he offered to illustrate it for him. Cool beans. Peter than introduced me to the author's comic, Concession (again, I'll reference this again in a little bit). I like the styling, I even don't mind that it's a Furry comic. Peter said that they may decide to go with the 8-bit styling however. I said that it would be funny to put poor Hedge Mage in to the normal Final Fantasy setting, but there are TONS of FF 8-bit comics already on the web. So now Peter is rethinking the character design. Anyway, now back to my part in all of this. The same day Peter informed me that Immelmann would be willing to illustrate, he, Celia, and I were just randomly talking and we kept pointing out "hey, that's funny! That should be in Hedge Mage!" So, Peter finally asked me if I wanted to co-write the comic. YAY, Collaboration! ^_^ Later that night I came up with the descriptions of a 6-character cast, but by the time I was done he and Celia were already well into their game of Final Fantasy XI, and he STILL hasn't taken a look at the descriptions. Prolly best tho, because it seems that one of our character ideas was already used on South Park. Whoops... To be fair, the episode IS 10 years old (couldn't remember it being on SP), and secondly, MY SHP was going to be a sexual deviant, not a man dressed in costume reciting all the SH violations. *shrug* Back to the drawing board - so to speak. Anyway, I'm sure Hedge Mage will take a LOOOOOONG time (Peter is VERY slow at starting anything), but we'll see. ^_^
OK, so now for the last Webcomic idea. This is based off of Concession (Told ya I'd reference it again!). Basically, according to the "About" page, Immelmann started his webcomic while working at a movie theater. Apparently he was having a hard time dealing with the customers'/co-workers' stupidity, and decided to "vent" via webcomic. And even tho the comic evolved past that, and has its "disturbing" situations (depending on how "innocent" you are ^_~), I love the idea of venting about work via webcomic. I even have a few doozies from work that would make for an interesting webcomic of its own. My problem, however, is that I'm not nearly as violent or sexually deviant as Immelmann seems to be, so I'm not entirely sure how to twist my work annoyances into something funny. Anyone want to collab?
Well, there you have it. Three webcomic ideas, would any of you read any of them? Either way I'll keep you posted on their progress(es).
OK, off to work on my pirate/ninja webcomic. Byes! ^_^