Not of this world

I should be ashamed.
As a matter of fact I am. Plutonium Breeders needed a story and I was not there to hand it over!
... At least not until a few days ago when I settled to write the actual manuscript.
Now improvising is fun, but you cannot do that if trying to build a story with a life span exceeding 20 pages, wherefore I needed to settle and go through what I really want with this episode, and today I finally finished the scribblings of the story so far. I have inserted extra material for natural breaks as the story has extended to more than I had planned.

Over and out.

Genemesis aftermath

Even though deeply entagled in the current work on Plutonium Breeders, i obviously have a hard time letting go of Genemesis. But on second thought, why should I? After all, the story as well as the characters featured is of great importance for future Methatron events. Last night I updated the website again, so check it out to view the new section of features and this new image I added to the gallery: Aren't they absolutely adorable? *s*

Inspired

Updating the website again was obviously just what was needed for my inspiration to kick in again. Since the update of October 4, I've been riding the wave of a creativity boost, and I'm trying to make the best possible out of it. This means not only further progress concerning Plutonium Breeders, but also concerning the Genemesis aftermath and the just mentioned website which was updated again only yesterday. Now blueprints of the Methatron II can be seen in the ship section.

Future plans for the website involves a new section where you'll be able to find downloads and miscellanea of various kinds, but until actually gotten that far, I will avoid revealing too much. Just make sure you'll watch these spaces for further updates. It may take a long time, but it will be here.

Aaaand we're back!

After a long time of inactivity, this blog has finally come to life again, and I start out with apologizing for breaking the promise of keeping you entertained. I'm sorry.

The fact is, that these have been a very busy last few months. Not so much summer and vacation times, as the constant work on keeping the Methatron machine going. I've been keeping myself busy with the next MII episode, Plutonium Breeders, which finally is coming near to and end, and also a second edition of Genemesis is soon to be printed.
And finally the official MII site has been updated! Now there are new pictures and character profiles, relevant for Genemesis, added. Make sure that you check out all these new goodies at www.methatron2.net! Well this was it for now! Stand by for further updates. Over and out!

The 10% of the work that takes 90% of the time

First of all I want to apologize for delaying between the latest posts.
It's been at least 2 weeks since I regarded the Genemesis as finished, completed and ready for printing, but apparently I was oh so wrong. A test print revealed where the software lacked, and showed a non sufficient result, which I simply could not send away to be printed. This is the main reason for the delay, and I hope you'll bear with me, because I'd rather let it be delayed for a lot of time longer, than print a half measure.
However the release is close. Do not forget to pre-order your copy of Methatron II - Genemesis.

I will make sure to keep you entertained in the meantime.

Digging in the archives, part I

"The whole thing should have the same effect as seeing Cody XCobalt covered in mayonaise, and equally disgusting, and I've actually got better things to do, concidering that what it really is all about, is two different ways to die. - You could either laugh to death, or throw up without further notice."

- The impeccable logic of Zachary W. Barph, as it came to terms in early June 2004.

At some point and for some reason, I got to think of the original sketches and plot outlines for Methatron II that I made almost four years ago, and as I -differently from the event of summer 2006 when I almost tore down my entire apartment to find the old MII manuscripts- knew exactly where I've stored these documents, I of course had to bring them back into daylight and have a look, and I must say that was very interesting, as I had only a very slight recollection of exactly what, those old documents consisted of.

Opening up the large envelope containing all that stuff was somewhat like opening a treasure chest, and I wish there'd been more than those few drawings and notes, but obviously I didn't do more than that before getting straight on to writing the first manuscript, but now I'm going to show it all to you!

"Rings on the water.
You throw in a pebble and break the still surface to be curled in waves: you cannot prevent the expanding circles to stop, diminish and turn back to whence they came... ...but still they're moving. In all directions. Forwards as well as sideways and backwards, their radius become all-embracing just like time itself, which like the rings is circular in its own eternity."

The first thing I found was a photocopy of what was intended to be the first page of the first Methatron II episode, picturing the profile of a spiral galaxy, accompanied by a few modest text boxes with poorly printed text (this was made in my pre-scanner days, so I was dependent on the method of cut 'n' paste in its most literal sense!), and I was quite surprised about the quality of that picture. However, I wasn't quite sure of how I'd made it, but that mystery was quickly solved as I found the original as well, and it showed that I'd been using watercolours; splashing white "stars" on a black background, with a brush only.
Then it all came back to me. All the sudden I remembered the exact feeling of lying on the floor with my pencils, papers and coffee, dreaming up the new universe. I know that I'll never have the same feeling again, but the memory of it makes me happy, and of course, a tad nostalgic.

In the same folder as this page, was the first draft to the original...well not as much a synopsis as an opening to the story. Actually, there was an edited version as well, but I thought it would be more fun to publish the original print with all my "manual" scribblings, alternations and corrections. And look! I even noted the date of the day I wrote the text: June 7, 2004.

I was amazed on two points of which one was the philosophical approach to, and depth of, it all, and the other about how I even at the age of 24 hadn't let go of my stubborn habit of mixing English grammar into Swedish. What a downright disgrace! *laughs* For those of you who know Swedish, the text can be read if you click the image at the right here, and for those of you who don't, I might translate it later. I am not completely sure that I will, though, as I might decide to use parts of this text in a forthcoming album. We'll see what happens. Note the heading of the document: The choice of the Captain Podd-font obviously came to be permanent!

Well then... This ends the first trip down the Methatron II memory lane. Next time I will show you the crew and what they were originally like. Stay tuned!

New MII domain!

Yesterday I registered a new domain name for the MII website, so if you had the old url bookmarked, please change it to:

www.methatron2.net

Now all I have to do is to actually update the site before times become even more busy. ;-)