Out of Place and getting evicted.

 Hey guys, have not done this in ages so I probably have a lot to catch up on. I've become a full time carer of my mother, it takes up more time than looking for work but it allows for me to draw on every free moment. Also I get paid more so that means I can upgrade my programs and produce better quality art for us to enjoy.

Unfortunately though I was posting every day till our dick landlord decided to do something terrible and left me, my mam and my 4 younger siblings with no home this close to xmas. He decided to tell us that we used 4 grand worth of electricity in 3 months, that's about $300 per week, not sure how that works. Any wan, when I demanded that they have the power tested he went out and turned the power off and locked the box. We had no power and had to rescue our stuff while there was light and there was no power to clean properly, hell we even had a half done load in the washing machine.

We got out of the house and had a pretty interesting legal dispute between our lawyer and the Rental agency in question, in the end we won when they were threatened with a choice of $1600 bond being given back to us and no more bills sent our way or fork out 10k or more to pay us back and pay a fine for breaking the law.

Little factoid about the law-

It is actually illegal for a rental agency to take money off a tenant other than rent, the owner refused to let the power be put in our name so the rental agency took $100 per fortnight extra for electricity. Law broken right there according to the Australian Residential Tenancy Act, they are not allowed to do that. Also to note that the power bill being in the owners name we were under no obligation to pay it.

Comic updates:

I know I know, I was working on I.M. Me for a long time and it reminded me of a place that was just too dark in my past. I am revamping it but I have ceased production on it for the time being.

http://outofplacesoam.smackjeeves.com/

My main project is called Out of Place, it is about a highly version of earth that figured out how to use multiverse travel and utilized it as a way to hide people that are in witness protection. Unfortunately when the wrong side blackmailed one of the Multiverse guards (Trackers) into killing a witness a young girl (Katlyn) is left motherless and brought into this world from her own. After 18 months of school, which because the school is actually in a sped up time bubble actually equals 18 years. Now teaming up with the man who saved her life (Adam), Katlyn must learn the ways of the multiverse and protect her friends.  

Besides that I have mainly been working on the pre production of some other idea's. Here is a summary-

A picture I dre for my friend, her name is Remmy.

I.M. Me: Shya is working full time at an internet cafe to earn her way as she becomes a comic artist, even though her mother is a famous actress. She doesn't want anyone to know because she wants to rise to fame off of her skill and not her fame, unfortunately things become much harder when a stalker finds her and tries to harm her but is stopped by the new guy in the building (Terry) who is told her secret. Terry who thinks she should tell people about her secret, blackmails her into a date in return for keeping it secret.

Zarishtra: On the small moon Shona Ria there is a race of humans that have found a way to create almost absolute peace, only the mentally ill ever harm anyone because science has allowed for everyone to have no wants. This changes suddenly when an alien fleet is spotted heading towards their moon. Something is released into the atmosphere which mutated about 20% of the population, some good and some bad. Zarishtra must not only battle with her new abilities, she must also fight off a hostile force that came from within their own military. A group that wants to harness their abilities and turn them into                                                                        mindless soldiers.

Extinction: Have you ever wondered what you would do if you took a step forward and found the world had aged 2 thousand years, but there were no humans left? Sarah, along with the only person she could find (Jake), must figure out what happened to everyone and why they were there.

This is the end of this rather long but interesting post, if you got this far here is a little link to my favorite manga and anime at the moment called sukitte ii na yo (Say I love you). It's such a great story filled with lots of moments that most people can relate to when mending a broken heart and breaking the shell you lock yourself in. I also have a huge crush on Yamato, the main male character and hope that I will be able to write my characters with as much depth as he and Mei were written.

Manga: http://mangafox.me/manga/suki_tte_ii_na_yo/

Anime: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xu5al4_sukitte-iinayo-episode-1-english-

Good night and enjoy the rest of the day, with any luck there should be another post next week same time. :D

My Plans for 2013.

Hey guys, long time no blog.
I thought I would kick this off with a little mention of the group I have been working with recently.
They are called Angels Goal and they are a non-profit Anti-Bullying Organisation, it is something that I find very important.

Angels Goal Facebook.

Wasn't really bullied in school because I saw school as a place of learning and not making friends, never saw friends as an important thing; more of a distraction. My sister however suffered badly in school to the point that she never finished and missed out on so many opportunities that a year 12 cert would have given her. This makes me sad, because there are so many like her that just don't get the support that our family has given her. These ones can be pushed over the edge and do the most terrible things to themselves, like hurting themselves or starving themselves, thinking they are worthless and worst of all, killing themselves. Others become bullies, it's like Frankenstein's monster, he created a monster. The monster then hurt others killed Frankenstein. This can be prevented if school's and parents paid more attention to their kids and less time worrying about their own lives. You have a kid and it's your duty to protect them till the day you die. Well that's my opinion anyway.
Hell, look at the Sandy Hook Elementary School Tragedy, the young boy who killed all those kids was bullied at that school. He was damaged for life, doesn't that make you want to try and change the way our schools operate?

What are your thoughts on this very important subject?

Were you bullied as a kid or a witness to bullying?

Do you think more needs to be done to protect the young ones in our school?

If you have anything else you would like to add on this topic then let me know.

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Email: Zarishtra@gmail.com

In other news, I have improved my art style. Food has never looked so tasty and it's come to my attention that more lines are better than less. I am extremely excited by some of the things I have planned to release over the next 12 months. Including, I.M. Me complete season 1. This first season will consist of 100- 120 pages plus bonus issues made whenever a holiday or topic of interest come up. Hopefully Zarishtra may have a couple of chapters out, for those who don't know what that is; it's a Sci Fi series about an alien woman who gets mutated and has to fight off a government who wants to use her as a mindless weapon against an invading force. Some pretty cool characters will be in there, most will be mutated and others not so much. I am also hoping to have some holiday mugs coming out, if you have any suggestions then drop me a line.
By mid-year I am hoping to get a couple of artists to work for me in a possible youtube series called Writing Miracles, I have not got much to pay them with currently but I am willing to give a portion of the Adsense revenue from it. It's about a woman who discovers her husband is cheating the same day she gets offered a job to go work for another company and not one they co-own. She leaves him and goes off to her new job which is as a director for a TV soap that she wrote and created over the last 5 years of her life. There is love and struggle and it's gonna be awesome. Again if you are interested, let me know.

The last thing I want to mention is that I survived 2012. Ha, I decided to do a comic at the time though because of all the hype at the time. So here it is. Enjoy and goodnight all.