Lucky Tiger vs Halloween art

So, while I am getting better at the stuff... I am no social butterfly. I'm more like the anti social moth who waits in the shadows before stealing the butterfly's pretty little wings.

Flying away with them somehow, presumably cackling maniacally and heading towards some sort of flame. I am nothing if not predictable.

My point is, while I cherish certain people around me I still find it hard to actually tell them so without utilising a sketch of them.

To others it probably does look like I'm showing off for attention but I'm not, although the attention is way flattering I always come out with a snooty comment or else hover in the background nervously giggling.

This time I drew my Co workers as Halloween characters in a graveyard which eerily resembles our workplace. It went down really well, except some people just can't recognise themselves in cartoon form.

I know I should be nicer about it, it's probably not as obvious to everyone else as it is to me. And they haven't spent a week nose to sketchbook. But same as my Easter themed sketch, I put everyone in their separate sections and tried to add as much personal characteristics as possible.

The hardest part for these folks is finding who I am apparently. Not sure if that's a testimony to my fantastic moth-assassin-in-shadows bit or if everyone just forgets me at times.

It's probably a bit of both. When I first hung it on the door, I was asked if I was every other girl character on the page before my actual character. I was like - how did this happen?! Do I look like a blonde devil? Does my hair transform into a red perm when I'm not looking?

Haha. Oh, one day they will learn. I shall bombard them with themed and un themed sketches until they can't stands it no more!

It's all good though. I designed the concept in about five minutes, decided who the characters would be in about one, and then took about five sketches before realising that this team isn't going to fit on an A4 anymore.

Next time I will use my computers to make them pretty, I just got lazy hehe. I've really missed drawing. :)

Ame-comi Harley Quinn v2

When the Ame-comi series first came out, I missed my chance to pay a few hundred and grab the Harley Quinn one. Now you can't find them for less. Unless of course, you buy the mini version (which I did) for about $20AU.

Crazy things come in small packages!

This time around, I did the smart thing and pre-ordered v2 off of the almighty eBay machine.
So basically I paid less, got it fast and don't have to hunt for bargains that seem wonderful until you find that the jerks only ship inside America or only to Mars or some other jerk thing to do. Jerks.

Lucky Tiger vs Suicide Squad 12

To be honest, I’m not really sure why I’m bothering to review this one. The stories are going seriously downhill and I’m not sure why these writers think I should care who the mole on the team is exactly. So I’ve missed a few issues in this series, and I’m not going to go back for them. Deal with it.

                                                    THE TRAITOR UNMASKED –
                                               YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHO IT IS!

Yes, well, we’ll see. Imitation Waller looks surprised, but that’s probably because a) her cleavage isn’t showing and b) she’s just seen how much screen time she’s getting this issue.

If you bothered to read the last issue you would know that the Suicide Squad landed in a poorly written episode of Scooby Doo and now cannibals are going to eat them for some reason.

Honestly, they wouldn’t be my first choice. I’m sure pickings are slim in ancient-Mexico comic world but I would like to credit these guys some brains. Would you eat a shark man, a pasty wannabe clown, a dude who likens himself to a spider (eww) or the other guy who’s like, on fire half of the time? Then again, shark is a delicacy and they can save on the costs because the other guy’s a BBQ, mate!

Lucky Tiger vs the bogans

This week has been a little rough, we’ve been short one person and the other one had this last weekend off so I was all by myself. That’s fine, it’s just that there’s no one else that can pinch hit for me so no lunch or tea breaks for me those days. We were also fairly busy so I didn’t want to sneak out when it got quiet in case it flared up in those split seconds I was gone.
As it happened, they were great days with exception of one customer on each of those days.

So I was a bit stressed, a bit starved, a bit sleepless and dealing with the public at large. Naturally, I have come down with a cold. My workplace has a strict cold/flu policy, which I think is great. It also means I couldn’t work today. So I moseyed down to the quacks for some tissues and other supplies.

It’s a lovely day today, and because of the hours I work, I don’t get to see the sunlight as much as I’d like so I figured, why not walk? It’s only going to be a ten minute walk at most and let’s face it, the fresh air will probably do me some good.

Lucky Tiger Vs the King Hit

I have had trouble understanding the term ‘King-hit’. I know what it means, that some jerk has punched you in the back of the head and knocked you to the ground. It’s just the name is hard to get around, similar to the so called ‘honour killings’.

Violently murdering or otherwise abusing a female family member for living her life, being raped, not wanting to marry the jerk you’re trying to force her to marry or even saying ‘hi’ to a male grocery store clerk is definitely an honour killing. Only, it’s not bringing you ‘back’ any honour, you’re just squeezing the life out of any honour your family may have held at one stage.

So in a way, it’s like a twisted play on words. With ‘king hit’ I’ve always found it distasteful to even consider punching someone in a fairly cowardly way ‘king like’. This morning in the shower, I had a ponder and now I think that this is another wicked word play.

After all, most kings are jerks, right? All with the being rich while the nation starves, chopping and changing of wives, dungeons, creating your own religion because you can, etc etc. It would be just like one of those douchebag kings to have their many lackeys hold someone back so Mr Royalty could ‘win’ the fight.

Lucky Tiger vs The Fatality of Injustice

Another DC game, another Harley Quinn outfit.. Yes, it's INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US

The working title was Injustice: Battle of the Backsides

Anyway, it's pretty much DC vs Mortal Kombat again but apparently more bad ass. I read somewhere that that's why all the character's outfits were skewiffy again, so it's not the 'official' Batman kicking the shit out of 'official' Superman or something like that.

I don't think 'official' Batman would mind. It would only add to his street cred and he does so love kicking the shit out of things.

Suicide Squad Seven - The Alliterating Issue

Yes, it’s that time of the month again, so dig out your hot pants, get ready to storm Gotham PD and grab that skinned off Joker face because it’s the SUICIDE SQUAD #7 REVIEW!

Assuming I read like a normal person, let’s start with the cover. When I first saw this cover, I didn’t like it. Now I can see it full size it’s kind of growing on me, like Joker flesh on Deadshot’s face.(Tee hee) The new Harley Quinn logo surprised me, as last time they just stole her old one. You know, the one from the ‘original’ DC universe pre-reboot, post-pre-infinite... ehh... you know what I mean. The one that doesn’t exist anymore, or kind of does in some ways, but only in ways DC can make money off it.. Ehhh, you know what I mean.

When we last left off in Suicide Squad, Harley was being taken in by the police force in Gotham after surrendering in the street – the idea being that it would be easier to get to her target that way. This totally cock blocked the rest of the squad from getting to her, and boy, were they pissed. So, when page one opened on some random plan about distracting the cops with some holographic imprint on King Shark I was kinda like... What?

I mean, this is GOTHAM. Batman Gotham. Something attacks them, and before you know it, good old commish is on the horn to every damn bat in the city. To be honest, there are a lot of bats in Gotham city. How could they be sure that this wouldn’t attract Batman?

Lucky Tiger VS the Giant Spider

Alright, so I'm not one for bugs. I hate the way they just invade your territory, getting their dirty little bug feet all over your stuff. trying to eat your delicious food, attempting to get all up in your face or eyeballs and sometimes they even mooch off your cable and hot water.

The hell?! In real life, we call these guys squatters.. and we get them the hell out.

So last week, I arose plenty early as I always do. Not as early as my partner (bugger that, hey!) but still about two hours or more before I have to even prepare to go to work. This is pretty funny because work is now less than ten minutes away from my den. Anyway, I felt the need to hunt down some breakfast, so I ventured out from the bedroom... and then I felt it.

Lucky Tiger is went to corporate!

So, bit of a personal announcement to make..
Lucky Tiger has a new job! Yay!
Of course, as much as I liked the old one I could probably chew your ears off about the things wrong with it. I do mean that there was so much wrong with it, but also in a more literal manner because I don't do things half assed like *some* people. Nom nom.

But anyway, that comes with any job I suppose. I'm fairly patient and understanding for a psychopath, but man I wish I could stab some of those problems out of that workplace.
This new one has so many perks and I have to say I really like my coworkers. For so long I thought I could only belong in an exaggerated cartoonish mental asylum like that one but now I see that my fears about going back to a 'real' job behind counters and things were unfounded.

Suicide Squad - The Search for the Quinn

I have to say that volume five of the Suicide Squad was sorely lacking in Harley Quinn. That's fine, I know they got their plot lines going and what not.. wait. Do they? Many of the compliments about the series that I've read have been about the time frames - how it jumps back and forth, keeps things fresh yadda yadda. Whatever. It sucks when you open issue six and you think you've missed a couple of issues because it COMPLETELY jumps things.

Keeping in mind that this is not a steady group, it's whatever unlucky chump has to work off their debt to imitation-Waller, but still? No word about what happened to El Diablo? Black Spider?
I mean, I'm personally glad that they skipped the boring road trip to Gotham but first page, they're right on Harley's tail with three 'newbies', a pair of which I had to google because I had no bleedin' idea who they were at all.

Spelling-bound

Another topic dear to my heart is spelling. I've always been more of a book person than a math person, so I can understand how other people might be the other way around. Maybe they never had the education I did, maybe they had a better one.

We are going far beyond the realms of 'their', 'there' or 'they're'.

Aformations are for the week come at me society
worst f**king headace and saw legs from walkin home.

your being a grammmer nazi.
they say are there friends and best friends at that if they ate your friends they will take you as you are

Ho-ho-holiday!

How was your Christmas, she asks fist deep into January.
Mine was good. As usual, I stockpile like a zombie obsessed paranoid freak does during the year. I wish I was just saying that as a comparison and not the truth.. but hey, better safe than missing brains. 'S what Gran always says.

This year, one of my co-workers invited me to their Kiwi Brunch, which was heaps fun and despite the zombie thoughts, didn't involve eating any New Zealanders. I'm not really a fan of Kiwi fruit anyway.
After that, we went to my parent's for a meet and greet, complete with giftage. After that, an extended family reunion at my grandparent's place.

Ended up playing soccer for a good three hours, in my cute clothes and skirt. Well, like that's ever stopped me doing anything, anyway. I've always been good at kicking stuff, but my sister and her partner who play the sport constantly said good things about my involvement. They even said that if I could ever play by the rules I could probably pinch hit for them on their team.

Damn the rules! Always keepin' the woman down!!

Songs that make you go hmmmm....

There are some songs out in the Top 40 right now that.. well, I don't know if I like them or hate them. Some, I know I love and others I want to like but little quirks make me think twice. Then I remember that they're just songs, so who the heck cares right? Well, me and several others. But sharing is totally caring, and if they get on my nerves.. well, I hope they get on yours too.


HANGOVER - Taio Cruz (Feat Some Jerkoff)

I do like this one. Never had a hangover, so while others may groan, clutch their heads and writhe feebly on the ground.. I'm probably singing along. It really is a damn catchy one. My only problem is the little bits in between. Let's have a look at the lyrics.

so I can go until I blow up, eh
and I can drink until I throw up, eh
and I don’t ever ever want to grow up, eh
I want to keep it going, keep keep it going

Eh? Eh?! Eh.
What's with the ehs? If you stretch your imagination a little bit you could make them into 'heys' which are slightly more understandable. Those little 'ehs' don't seem like much but they remind me of another song..

DC New 52 - The Awkward Panels

While I've been catching up on the new DC 52... I found some interesting panels to offer up. Let me know what you think about these little eye catchers.

From Batgirl #3: 

Drag your eyes away from the epic sight of Batgirl hitching a ride on Gotham's notorious rail service and what do you see? What's that? 'For a good time, call the Red Hood?' Oh myyyyy. 

Suicide Squad in Your Pants!

Wow! I'm now up to date on the Suicide Squad and many other DC re-leech titles. I am sweet, sweet loving Huntress, Batgirl and Batwoman. Supergirl is interesting and Birds of Prey is too. Some of the other ones are a bit random. Enjoying Wonder Woman wandering down a street, waving her sword aloft and asking pedestrians if they've seen any harpies just hangin' around. Wonder Woman itself is a good comic.. the art is a bit distracting though. Now, Suicide Squad!

Where to start? Okay, how about HARLEY - you have impressed me with your super quick changes! You went from new clown-whore costume into rodeo-clown-whore costume in less than a panel, even though that corset can't be that easy to get out of, let alone your crazy stocking things.

Suicide Squad Harley Quinn

Yes, it's a little late to give a review about a comic that came out in September, but who asked you?
*insert rude hand sign here* (cue monocle drop and smash)

Anyway.. I've got mixed feelings. I've always had mixed feelings, it's part of being both a Libra and a psycho. Sometimes it does come in handy. I've got half a mind in each direction, so when something inevitable happens I can turn around and say 'I half told you so!'

This of course, doesn't make me many friends... which brings me back to comics.

Suicide Squad #1 - part of the new DC 52.

Cos We're Cosplaying Around!

Some of my recent adventures have involved costumes. ...Most of my recent costumes were worn on adventures.. Hmm, let me try again. People I know often don't recognise me because I tend to go out wearing crazy things. Most of them aren't really on purpose, it's just what I wear.

My workplace threw a Western style event and I had a lot of fun dressing up for that and I'm really looking forward to some upcoming Halloween events. It's nice when I get people asking me where I get/how I make my costumes, or if they can borrow one of them for their own parties. It's even nicer when people who I know are a lot more confident than I am in several ways - admire me because I can go out in public the way I do.

One of the highest compliments I've ever had was from an actress friend of mine. She said she wished she could dress like me. It's what she does for a living, but not something she could do in her spare time. It's just fun though, it's nice to be something or someone else for a day. I've just never grew out of the dressing up phase.

Jellyfish's Last Float

I haven't blogged for a while and I feel bad about it because there's just so much I have to let loose on teh internets and now I don't know where to start.

I guess I will by mentioning that we've been touched by two more close deaths.. the first one I will go into more detail on later because I just can't right now. The second, and much more recent was a co-worker of mine last Sunday. I heard about it because of random comments on Facebook and at first I thought 'holy crap, has he died?' quickly followed by 'No way, it must be some sort of in joke I'm not aware of.'
Then more and more comments and news swirled in and it became inescapable. Jellyfish had died. He was only a year older than me.

A Mortal Kombat Roast: Toasty!

Well, I seem to have misplaced myself. Where have I been? Yeah, small vacation to sort myself out, a buttload of assignments to successfully complete and then an actual vacation. By the way, I'm totally back.

More on those topics later - for now... Mortal Kombat 9!

Totally banned in Australia, but not from sale because I've heard tales of the many who have parted with their pennies to own it. So, I've seen some game play, not much but I thought I'd share my opinions on it. I haven't played a Mortal Kombat game properly because of my unreasonable trust of 3D game play and strange preference for Super Nintendo games.

I grew up with these games, and feasted on the bloodshed, storyline and interesting characters. So when my brother told me that he'd heard that this game had some strong ties to the older games, with some Back to the Future shizzle going on I was very interested.

However.. as awesome as the skull cam is.. man is it annoying to watch the same footage of internal damages, the screaming, and then the victim getting back on their feet after two seconds of hemorrhaging declaring that they're fine. What?! All that damage for nothing?! Stay down and shut up, damn it!

The women's clothing - no surprises here. They suck. I'm not just saying that because I'm sick of looking at gravity defying fake boobies.. but because it honestly grates on my nerves. Let's have a look at Sonya Blade. Once a great soldier, now she's wearing a painted on suit, including an army vest and dog tags.. with no bra. With no bra. No bra? What? Obviously there are no women working on the design team and/or it's entirely filled will blokes who like to wear burlap sacks around their privates and think everyone else should join them in a world of pain, scratching and disgusting habits.

But it’s not just that.. it’s that these women are given less and less clothing with each new game, while the men get more layers and more weapons. I mean sure, no one really wants to see Shao Kahn in a loin cloth but it did add a touch of realism. I look at these outfits and I want to SCREAM! Unless you’re made of Superman/Supergirl, you should really cover your soft underbelly unless like Mileena, you find being covered in your own blood and entrails damn hot.

Part of me would like to suggest that going out into the arena like this is saying to your opponent – ‘Hey, nice blades, but I don’t fear you enough to wear armour.’ The smarter part of me knows that no one thought about the women this way, and they’re only almost naked because it sells. This makes me sad and violent. Is it too much to ask for a few realistic characters?

Zombie Liu Kang, sure. Multi-limbed beings of terror, yes please. Trees that talk back, why not? Time travel – of course. All of this is believable.. I’m not asking for three dimensional characters and things that make sense. I’m asking for at least one fucking woman character that looks battle appropriate. If you wouldn’t wear that into a combat area, or zombie invasion or on a date with a being that eats souls.. DON’T MAKE ANYONE ELSE WEAR IT.

Now Kitana.. what’s with her hair? Why is it doing a Sindel? Sure, she’s her daughter but still.. so annoying. Didn’t Jade used to have some sort of ethnicity?

It kinda bothers me that the Klassic Kostumes for Kitana and Jade are being called horrible granny swimsuits.. I have images of the future offspring of these commentators running around in g-strings and pasties at the beach, because anything that vaguely covers the buttocks is apparently so incredibly old fashioned that only surfing grandmas would wear them.

If I had to describe granny swimsuits, I’d probably refer to the modest 1920’s bathing suits as I haven’t really seen many geriatrics at the beach lately. Although having said that, with many women having children younger, grannies aren’t as old as they stereotypically are anymore.

Mortal Kombat’s newest release has not performed an amazing fatality over my Super Nintendo games but it has killed a part of my love for it. I’m just not as interested as I used to be, even though I like the new features, and the beautiful graphics and all that. Although the battle realistic damage to the clothes seems to have a glitch in that it only seems to affect the women’s outfits around the privates. I’m sure they’ll get right on to fixing that very soon.

I’m a girl who loves sex, adores fighting and encourages blood thirsty battles, but it hurts the few feelings I have to know that the makers of MK don’t consider me their target audience at all and continue to pander to fanboys. It’s not doing them any favours either, fanboys and girls hardly get respect as it is.  

It would be nice to have a game that didn’t make me feel like I’ve just wandered into the dirty video section of the rental store. It would be nice to have a fighting game where it’s about fighting, not just supermodels and thugs. Don’t we have enough sex and violence going on? Aren’t there enough sexed up parodies of females in military/combat roles?

Final word: You’re all soft for having the walk throughs teaching you how to do fatalities lol

I Thought it Was Supposed to be 'Clucky', Not 'Woofy?'

So, the other day I'm on FaceBook and I notice that several peoples and friends have written on my buddy Jambo's plank. Um, wall. (I use Pirate language. There is no other way to live.)
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE AND WHY SHOULD I CARE?!?!

I still don't know the answer to any of those questions, but what made me curious was that most of them were writing things like 'Congratulations!' or 'I'm so happy for you!'
Which made me wonder if said fairly new weds were perhaps knocked up?

I do try not to think about them doing it, I really try. If indeed there was a bouncing baby blight on the way though, I figured I should write something too. People seem to expect that. (Congratulations! You found out the secret to procreation! Humankind owes it's existence to *you!*)