Craig Zablo’s Zone

I found this over at MissCelina.com and thought it was funny enough to pass along…

Dear Technical Support,

18 months ago, I upgraded to Girlfriend 1.0 from Drinking Mates 4.2, which I had used for years without any trouble. However, there are apparently conflicts between these two products and the only solution was to try and run Girlfriend 1.0 with the sound turned off.

To make matters worse, Girlfriend 1.0 is incompatible with several other applications, such as LadsNight Out 3.1, Rugby 4.5, and Playboy 6.9. Successive versions of GirlFriend proved no better.

I tried a shareware program, Slapper 2.1, but it had many bugs and left a virus in my system, forcing me to shut down completely for several weeks.

Eventually, I tried to run GirlFriend 1.2 and Girlfriend 1.0 at the same time, only to discover that when these two systems detected each other they caused severe damage to my hardware.

I eventually upgraded to Fiance 1.0, only to discover that this product soon had to be upgraded further to Wife 1.0. While Wife 1.0 tends to use up all my available resources, it does come bundled with FreeSe*Plus and Cleanhouse2005.

Shortly after this upgrade, however, I found that Wife 1.0 could be very unstable and costly to run. Any mistakes I made were automatically stored in Wife 1.0’s memory and could not be deleted. They then resurfaced months later when I had forgotten about them. Wife 1.0 also has an automatic Diary, Explorer and E-mail filter, and can, without warning, launch TurboStrop and Multi-Whinge. These latter products have no Help files, and I have to try to guess what the problem is.

Additional problems are that Wife 1.0 needs updating regularly, requiring ShoeShop Browser for new attachments and Hairstyle Express which needs to be reinstalled every other week. Also, when Wife 1.0 attaches itself to my Saab 93 Convertible hard drive, it often crashes. Wife 1.0 also comes with an irritating pop-up called MotherInLaw, which can’t be turned off.

Recently I’ve been tempted to install Mistress 2005, but there could be problems. A friend of mine has alerted me to the fact that if Wife 1.0 detects Mistress 2005, it tends to delete all of your assets before uninstalling itself.

Help requested please?

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Last night during Mark Coleman’s live post fight interview following his loss to Randy Couture, Tito Ortiz approached the cage and yelled, “Payback’s a ***** mother*****!”  Reportedly, Ortiz’s girlfriend, former porn star Jenna Jameson, who was with Ortiz, also shot the middle finger to Coleman.  Of course, Coleman responded by calling Ortiz names and saying he’d fight him anytime.

So, is it bad blood or bad hype?

Ortiz and Coleman were scheduled to fight at UFC 106, before Coleman had to pull out due to injury.  Ortiz is now scheduled to fight Chuck Liddell at the conclusion of the next season of The Ultimate Fighter.  So, is Ortiz simply prepping a fight to follow or does he really dislike Coleman?   When Coleman had to pull out of their fight, Ortiz did badmouth him.  That prompted Coleman’s manager to respond with some pretty nasty things about Ortiz’s girl.

So, is it bad blood or bad hype?

I’m not really sure, but played right, it could make for an interesting fight.

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This week we have Sly as Rambo by Tom Hodges. I discovered Tom’s art through his DA site and then last August, Tom had a 24 Hour Draw-A-Thon live on UStream. I got on board and commissioned a sketch of Jack Carter and this Rambo. Tom still draws regularly on UStream and it’s always fun watching him go at it.

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Here’s an idea for a website.  Round up sixteen top-notch artists like…

• Mitch Gerads
• Francesco Francavilla
• Declan Shalvey
• Chris Samnee
• Ron Salas
• Nathan Fairbairn
• Steve Bryant
• Mitch Breitweiser
• tomfowler
• ANDY KUHN
• Mr. Hawthorne
• Ramón Pérez
• Dan McDaid
• Patrick Stiles
• Evan “Doc” Shaner
• Urban Barbarian

Have one of the artists pick a character for all of them to draw.  Post the drawings as they are completed.  Wait a week and do it all over again.  That’s exactly what happens at Comic Twart.

So far we’ve been treated to their riffs on Zorro, The Rocketeer and Torpedo.  I can’t wait to see what next week will bring.  Heck, truth to tell, I’m excited about what will be posted tomorrow.  I’ll bet you will be to, if you spend a few minutes checking out Comic Twart.

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If you liked the trailer for The Losers then you might be interested in this LA TIMES article about the team making the movie.  This is one of those projects that just oozes cool.

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Derek Fridolfs offers a free headsketch with every sketchbook purchased through his website. I own three pieces by Derek and am looking forward to more. I picked up Derek’s take on Sly as Cosmo Carboni from “Paradise Alley” at last year’s Heroes Con.

You can check out Derek’s work here.

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I was diggin’ through the ZONE vault today and came across this Howard Chaykin sketch of American Flagg that appeared in an old FIRST COMICS newsletter probably over 25 years ago.  Hope ya dig it as much as I do.

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A couple of days ago I posted how cool I thought that “From Paris with Love” would be.  Multiply that by about 5 and you’ll get the approximate value of how fun I think that “The Losers” will be.

Don’t believe me?  Check out this trailer.  See, I wasn’t kidding.

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The more I see about “From Paris With Love” the more I think I’m gonna really enjoy it.

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Patrick Sauriol at Coming Attractions has posted an exclusive review of Frank Darabont’s pilot script for AMC’s “The Walking Dead”.  Darabont, who will also be directing the pilot is perhaps best known for his work as the screenwriter/director of “The Shawshank Redepmption”, “The Green Mile” and “The Mist”.

Saurol’s review is extremely positive and the following paragraph gives the best indication of why he thinks “The Walking Dead” will be a great series:

Contained in Darabont’s 60-page pilot script are all the elements to make the show a success. There’s plenty of horror that happens in those 60 pages. The director’s script covers the broad range of the zombie horror emotional spectrum, such as giving us moments of extreme gore (hey, any zombie TV show wouldn’t be a zombie show if it didn’t have folks being munched on!), moments of shock value (hey, you didn’t think that there was a zombie hiding behind that car, did you?) and the moments that I believe are the best indicator that The Walking Dead TV series has what it takes to transcend the boundaries of being simply labelled a horror show, the psychological horror scenes. Those scenes are the hammers that you’re going to remember and the ones that are going to propel this show to be viewed as something more important than just a scary show.

You can read the full piece by clicking here.

As a long-time fan of “The Walking Dead” comic series, I’m psyched as the television adaption moves closer and closer to my tv screen.

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