Veteran of a Thousand Meme Wars - Part XII

Greetings, Epic Clubbers!

Optiluiz here once more, only a few months late this time! Jesus Christ, I shouldn't have taken this long to post. Not just because these comics need to be completed, but because now I have to get everyone up to speed with the honestly uneventful drag rollercoaster ride that is my life.

I hope you're all doing fine in this year of our (dark) lord 2018. I'm doing alright, myself, but since I last posted... a lot of shit went down. I'll try to sum things up as best as I can, but to be honest, these have been some of the weirdest and busiest moments of my life.

Let me see... I stood only a few meters away from Hideo Kojima with my dude Mário during our first visit to São Paulo back in October, which was pretty cool. The gaming event itself was rather disappointing, especially since we were denied autographs (press doesn't have THAT many perks, apparently), but that's alright because I finally met our number one (and possibly only) fan, Rasg Girl (Maah)! It only took 7 years, but hey, what do you expect from the world's least punctual blogger?

So, in honor of my cosmic sister, here's a random doodle of a mechanically-improved version of her, immune to anxiety attacks and who's not afraid to come visit me in Curitiba every once in a while.

Well, in November I wrapped production on one of the first film school shorts that I'm actually proud of,  although there's still miles to go before it's finalized. I don't think I should show it to you guys yet, but trust me when I say the wait will be worth the wait (hah, optimism!), and it gave me ideas for a 2018 project which you'll read about eventually.

In December I travelled to São Paulo again for Comic-Con, fulfilling a life-long dream of going to these cool events for free, and even managed to hang out with Maah again, which was awesome. I met some great people at the event as well, like the insanely talented Ben Templesmith and even Sam Hart (who gifted me with signed copies of Atomic Blonde and the graphic novel it's based on!). I even helped out with a college buddy's TV show and got to see a free Gamarjobat show! All in all, it was pretty fun.

Of course, I experienced my yearly sabbatical in Maringá during this summer vacation, and finally got around to reading Frank Herbert's Dune (courtesy of my dude, Mário). I was also certified as a critic for a particular movie theater franchise, which is awesome. Other than that, I guess I just slept watched movies, slept played videogames and slept chilled out as much as possible, as I'm liable to do. I'm probably forgetting a lot here, but I can always add stuff to the post scriptum, right?

More recently, I spent some of January in Florianópolis, a tropical island that REALLY looks like a Jurassic Park set (once again, courtesy of Mário). During my time there I reread some old blog posts, and realized that I had somehow lost the passion behind much of my writing since then, which is something I'm trying to remedy now, both here and on Bloody Disgusting (where you should totally check out my latest article about Marble Hornets).

2018 feels like it's going to be another big year, which is one of the reasons why I finally decided to start posting again. I like my tiny corner of the internet, and it feels good to keep hypothetical readers updated. I'm not sure what the future holds, but it will most likely feature some of my shitty humor and badly-drawn comics, and that's good enough for me.

In the coming weeks, I hope to finally end the Veteran of a Thousand Meme Wars arc and start something new, so I'd keep an eye out for more comics in the near future. Thank you very much for visiting, and I'll leave you with a song that helps me out late at night.

Chainsaw cheers,

-Optiluiz out.

PS: Man, I forgot how amazing the original Bourne Trilogy was. Yes, just the trilogy.

PPS: Shout out to Maah/Rasg-Girl, for helping to keep this shitty blog alive since 2010.

PPPS: Max, Mário and I finally finished that RPG session. Let's just say they got the Bad Ending +.

PPPPS: Good Omens just showed up in the mail, yay me!