Wayne Santos | Toronto-based writer and game journalist
High/Low Monday
The low point:
Nacho Libre was no Napoleon Dynamite.
The high point: (Or relatively high, since it wasn’t THAT big a deal)
Being sat down at a table with some game coders and being introduced as “The Creators of the comic.”
Things at GameAxis were quite, but pleasant. The Editor proper is back from his [...]
More Comics Written
Part 6, of the now Name-In-Transition kiddie comic in the can, more of Nowhere actually written. I now have the feeling that this thing is NOT going to come in under 50 pages. Oh well…
The Progress Report
The quick n’ dirty job for an advertising firm; done.
The children’s comic; part five has been finished and part 6 has been started, meaning that I’m officially cruising into the half-way mark with it. It’s also suddenly subject to a name change, so even if I could talk about it by name [...]
Selling Out
I guess in one sense today officially qualifies as the day I sold out.
It was an otherwise mundane day with the only major activity being me going down to the production house to attend one of those pre-production meetings where everyone sits down and talks about how the show is going to go, and [...]
Portable Media Whore
Didn’t much of anything today; an aborted weekly game of Monster Hunter Freedom in multi-player was balanced off by some last minute work for a rush job that someone wanted, and so while I spent my time typing away at the keyboard, I took advantage of the desk jockey time to abuse my [...]
Aunty Beeb Ropes Me In
For those of you that do not have a constant and almost psychotic admiration for all things British constantly surrounding you because you don’t live on a tropical island the British failed to protect during WWII (Thus somehow earning the eternal loyalty and envy of said island’s residents, to the [...]
Saurophobia
Probably better recognized by more colloqiual “Lizard-O-Phobia”.
I was actually looking forward to watching my editor get skewered today on TV. A local station that’s been promoting cartoons called Animax had decided to do a program concentrating what is undoubtedly a segment of their viewer population, gamers. Since there are only three [...]
Available
So it turns out that the TV show is on after all. I’m definitely not at liberty to talk about it now that I’m officially signed on, but I can say it’s not drama, it’s another documentary/Reality-TV type show. After I told them that I wouldn’t be able to do any ground/field work [...]
Sunday, Boring Sunday
All I did was write comics, scripts, hang out with the Wife, play Monster Hunter Freedom and, for whatever reason, get seized with an inexplicable urge to watch Kung Pow again.
Geek Giddiness
So Peter Cullen has been announced as the voice actor for Optimus Prime in the new live action Transformers movie coming out next year.
This is a big deal for me–and other geeks, I’m sure–as this was THE SAME GOD DAMNED GUY THAT VOICED OPTIMUS PRIME ORIGINALLY!
Whoo. One shall stand, one shall fall. [...]