Just where the hell is the comic? I wonder too. For the last month and a half, Overcaffeinated has gone from weekly but erratic to once every two weeks (and still erratic). Here’s the deal: Lately, Real World™ obligations have gotten the better of me. I know I have never been the most consistent author, but I used to be able to deliver weekly. Not anymore.

The comic won’t go on hiatus. What will happen, though (and this may be no surprise to anyone) is that the schedule now changes to whenever. I’ll keep updating the site and posting new comics, but I can no longer commit to having a weekly comic. I have big plans for this place but as you all know, I don’t make a red cent from this, so the stuff that puts food on the table comes first. I hope you’ll understand.

UPDATE: Damn. As luck would have it, I chose to post this just as Tom Brazelton, from Theater Hopper fame linked to me. To all newcomers: Well, you’ve seen the notice. Feel free to browse the archives and expect new comics at some point in the future. For the regulars: you should go visit Tom at Theater Hopper because it’s an amazingly witty, funny comic. Go on. You know you want to. Waiting for a button? Well, here’s a button:

— sergio at 11:24 PM  

Something diff’rent this time around. I think Ellie was a better fit for Persephone, but after the crappy single line they gave Monica Bellucci in Revolutions, I just didn’t have the heart.

Photoshop is quite nifty. Wish I was better at it. I’m slowly getting the Paint Shoppy-ness out of my system.

— sergio at 10:30 PM  

/*Drunk now. Fix later.*/ Yes. There is supposed to be a new comic up there right now. But I’m drunk.

So there isn’t.

I blame Peter. Yesss.

Here’s a teaser for you, though:

Tomorrow seems like a good day to draw.

— sergio at 01:15 AM  

Ch-ch-ch-changes! Yes. They are here and more are a-coming. Overcaffeinated is undergoing a major overhaul on the inside. It started with the move from the web-based Blogger solution to Movable Type content management. It will continue with the obliteration of the forum in favour of in-rant comments and discussions, and a reworking of the reviews and rants sections, which I’ll most likely ditch and turn into links to the original entry that spawned each piece.

One of the new things I’m implementing involves providing rss feeds for the different sections of the site/comic, so that people can further automate the task of keeping up with the goings-on of the site.

Oh, and the new comic will be up on Thursday. See you then!

— sergio at 12:06 PM  

Movie Comment: The Matrix Revolutions — Spoiler-free.

As any crowd of self-respecting geeks would do, me and my teammates booked our Matrix Revolutions tickets a few days ago. The skinny: I really liked it. It’s visually stunning. The plot moves sluggishly at times but makes many interesting points. Keanu still has the acting skills of a wooden board but that’s ok: he’s just a conduit for the story. The Neo-Trinity dialogs are throwaway romantic crap, but that has been true since the first movie and its infamous “Sleeping Beauty Kiss”. Hardly a show stopper.

Since most people want to see Revolutions after all the questions Reloaded left up in the air, I won’t post any spoilers. Suffice it to say that not all questions are answered, and the explanations aren’t likely to be what you expected. The movie was a lot of fun, though. It kept me on the edge of my seat. Particularly the parts about Zion’s resistance against the machines. Much better than Reloaded, not as good as the first Matrix.

Now, over the course of the next few days you’ll be hearing a lot of crap about this movie spouted by so-called “movie critics”. Bear in mind that this is a group composed mainly of guys who manage to quote Kant before saying “Good Morning”. These are the same people who lambasted Boondock Saints and Equilibrium, two amazingly fun movies. It would seem that having enough cultural baggage to spot the previous explorations of a subject and snobbishly point them out is what makes a person a movie critic these days. They’re like the overly eager nerd who sits in the front row and keeps answering all the questions just to remind the rest of us how smart he is (of course, many of us were that kid at some point or another, but if we’re lucky, we’ve outgrown that).

Movies should be fun. They should be judged based on themselves and the experience they provide. If a movie fails to entertain then it’s crap. Rehashing ideas previously presented by Kurt Vonnegut, Orson Welles or Aldous Huxley is not grounds for dismissal. Neither is using visual styles similar to other director’s. The day reading books and watching movies makes me bitter and sour and keeps me from enjoying other movies will be the day I stop reading or watching movies.

Sometimes a potato is just a potato. Some other times, there is no potato.

— sergio at 04:01 PM  

Well, it’s finally happened. Last week’s comic was so late that it became this week’s comic. The reason is simple: I’ve been swamped with work. I didn’t want this kind of thing to happen, but sometimes you just have to wing it as it comes. For the record, I don’t intend to have planned skip weeks in the future, but hey, you never know. I’m sure you’ll understand.

In other news, I’m trying to turn this into a more focused ranting space, dealing mostly with Web Technologies (and the movie reviews, which I’ll keep on making from time to time). So, if you want to see tutorials on specific stuff here just email me to let me know. Anything you see on the page is up for grabs.

— sergio at 02:20 PM