A DISTANT SOIL: The Ascendant Chapter 4 Page 16
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Thanks to Bob Heer, whose sponsorship of A Distant Soil brings you today’s thrilling romantic entanglement. Thanks so much, Bob!
19 Comments
lexilewords
I can remember my mother getting up in arms over the comic–my dad bought my first issue/graphic novel a few months after the divorce and my mom was flipping through it for whatever reason. She tried to go to the lawyers over it, citing that my dad was handing me ‘filth’ and ‘porn’. I was like thirteen at the time so when the lawyer saw the comic, all she said was she saw nothing wrong with it (to my mom) and to my dad she asked where he had gotten it she wanted a copy of her own XD
I remember also having issues with it in school, but that’s because my friend saw me reading about boys kissing and she was a stout catholic. Considering some of the stuff kids can catch on TV, I would think that ADS is the least of a parental worries…
Colleen
There’s not even any nookie in volume 1.
Dang.
raycornwall
NAKED MAN BUTT! NAKED MAN BUTT! AAAAAAHMYEYESMYEYESMYEYES!!!
YOU’RE GOING TO HELL! NO WAIT- HELL’S TOO GOOD FOR THE LIKES OF YOU! YOU’RE GOING TO ***SUPERHELL***!!!
There, happy now? 🙂
Colleen
Ahhh, just like old times.
That takes me back. 🙂
lexilewords
My mom had an odd sense of ‘filth’ and ‘porn’ quite honestly. I wasn’t allowed to watch Hercules or Xena either, or Buffy for that matter because she felt they would ‘corrupt’ me somehow. ::Rolls eyes::
As for my friend…ah well she caught me when I was reading the…third volume, when D’mer and Seren were snuggling after a certain traitorous servant’s death (er…what’s the spoiler policy on here XD). Oddly she was okay with the Bast boobies a little later on in the same volume (then again she did come out as a lesbian four years later soo…).
Arlnee
did someone say “pole dancing”? XD
Colleen
BWAHAHAHA!
That said, someone just canceled my Project Wonderful ads on their site today. I guess they don’t like the look of my comic! BWAHAHAHA!!! NEKKID BUTT NEKKID BUTT!
Colleen
And yeah, I’ll say it. His site gets more traffic than mine, but that may be one of the worst comics I have ever seen in my life. And it didn’t bring me many readers, so no loss.
raycornwall
Oh yeah? I can fix that.
*clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick*
There. Now I clicked on ALL THE ADS. Beat that, prude ad withdrawer.
Colleen
@ Ray: BWAHAHAHAHA! You don’t know how tempted I am to TELL EVERYONE WHO CANCELED MY ADS, but he has that right. No big deal.
But his comic really does suck with the sucking suckness of black hole suck.
Thank goodness for that comic that there are no more “gatekeepers” because that thing would never have been published by a rational adult with money to invest.
I’ve been dissed by a comic of epic suckness.
How shall I bear it?
Sob.
Oh, yeah, I’ll draw more NEKKID BUTT! And I shall TAUNT YOU A SECOND TIME!!!!
Colleen
Oh, shoot, I am glad I didn’t diss the dude in public, because now I have to eat crow. Yummy tasty crow.
Looks like my content had nothing to do with it.
He’s canceled all the current bids because they weren’t getting enough money. He now has a very high minimum bid on his ads. Now Project Wonderful requires that you bid on the SAME ad for different regions of the world. So when you bid on one space,your ad only shows in the USA.
But the foreign ads were going cheap, so I bid on those and got the spots.
However, he decided they were going TOO cheap, and raised all his minimums to about 5 times what that ad space is worth, in my humble opinion.
When he raised his minimums, that canceled all my ads.
So, NEKKID BUTT had nothing to do with it.
Crow is delicious.
So, I am very glad I did not publicly diss the dude’s comic by name, but by God, it really is pretty bad.
But I would kill for his traffic.
amikael
Umm, dont let that stop you from drawing more nekkid butts though, ok?
Miki
Just as long she is an equal opportunity offender!
🙂
However, all this talk has distracted us from the wonderful artwork.
Yesterday’s and today’s pages are beautiful pages that I would love to own.
VT
That is weird, that you never got any bizarre mail about drawing wicked comics from women. I wonder why that is.
Colleen
First off, even though I characterize the weird-o-grams as fan mail, every single serious problem I ever had was with an aspiring pro or a Z-list pro. Men are more likely to send hate mail directly to you than women. Women will trash you all over the internet, but not on your own blog. I don’t know if this is a universal experience, but it is my experience.
Almost every guy who ever sent me weird-o-grams was A) trying to get me to be his girlfriend or B) trying to use me to get a job or C) all of the above.
This one guy was obsessed with my “purity” and used to compare me to a “little English schoolgirl” and one thing’s for damn sure, he was way too old for me and the little English schoolgirls.
Another guy, after I would not forward him Curt Swan’s private contact information, spent a couple of years on a bitter campaign writing me about how evil my work was and how I was going to hell. But by golly, when he thought I could get him some pro connections, he didn’t care about how evil my work was.
While I’ve also had some odd problems with women, they take a very different approach that is a lot more “WAAAAHHHH, Colleen is like the popular girl in high school who was mean to me! I bet she had plastic surgery and lies about her age! She won’t help my career and nurture me and validate me, so she hates ALL OTHER WOMEN!”
I wish I was joking about that, but no. I’ve only had a few problems, and nothing recently, but oddly enough, almost always from people I don’t really know or have never even met.
In the end, men and women alike then regress into victim mode when they don’t get what they want. This usually devolves into a whisper campaign about how I use my connections in the Sekrit Cabal to destroy their careers.
That said, I know that several times when my books were the subject of library complaints, the complaints came from women. But no woman has ever confronted me directly by sending me letters about my Teh Evil.
Colleen
Oh, waaah, how whiney was all that!
Almost everybody is pretty nice.
90% of your problems will come from the same few people. They seem like a big crowd because they leave a big mess.
Ignoring them will usually make them go away. Sometimes not, but with any luck, they move on to more entertaining targets. Eventually.
scribblerworks
Colleen, you’re not whiney. I don’t think you can DO “whiney”, because your devastating sarcasm kicks in.
You can’t help it that you’ve been subjected to this annoying behavior: it happened, it was annoying, and sometimes it gets repeated. Saying so doesn’t make for a whine. Especially when you obviously did the work of sending the problem children on their way. Whining would be complaining about it all, but never having done a thing about it. And complaining endlessly, which YOU. DO. NOT. DO.
😀
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Colleen
LOL! YAY! Go me!
But yeah, I do focus on the negative too much. I need to remind myself that a few people peeing in the people don’t spoil everything. That’s why we have chlorine.
And then we can all go back in the pool.
I mean, heck, we swim in the ocean and that’s one big fish toilet.
I was trying to be profound and went off the rails, didn’t I?
Colleen Doran
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