Productivity Sucks

If there’s one thing that really bugs me, it’s keeping busy and doing stuff everyday. I really get off on being an idle slacker so actual deadlines, hitting milestones and all that other assorted managerial crap tends to get on my nerves, and yet that is exactly what is happening these days.

I find that between the regular GameAxis gig, writing episodes for one production house, having started preliminary research on a documentary for another production house, writing articles for Maxim, writing a comic for Kid’s Company AND writing a comic for… no one in particular, I’m being depressingly productive and can look back on each day with a solid chunk of accomplished work.

Sucks, man.

I’m now in the process of sloooowly filling out the submission requirements for Slave Labor Graphics, who is the first target of Operation Please Print This Comic. I still have to finish up the cover letter, write up some character descriptions and then give a synopsis of the story (and let the record show that on this day, I did admit, “I know how it ends” so that if it should go to print and run on and on and on forever, no one will think “he made it up as he went along.”) and then wait for the Wife to gather up the visual samples. She needs to produce character sketches as well as at least 5 finished pages to show that she’s not just a pin-up artist and understands the concept of sequential art.

Sequential art sounds so much more legitimate than “funny” or “comic” books.

On top of that, some good games are coming down the pipeline and Guitar Hero (STILL!!) is not finished, though Cowboys From Hell by Pantera is edging closer and closer to actually being a playable song rather than a marathon of confused fingers.