Grymm Ramblings
Well slap your thighs and bring me a pizza! Did you see that? That was fucking PLOT DEVELOPMENT right there! Busted right through the door and wiggled its hips at you like five headed salamander-monkey hybrid in heat. Fuckin' crazy. For those of you that may have forgotten, or are new and just haven't taken a good look at the archives yet, Infernum Publishing met its end at the hands of Mac, Shmeerm, and a team of huge Liefeldian guys calling themselves the 57 Badass Brigade led by the ever imposing Lieutenant Badass in the huge end of the year finale story arc from last year "Meatnecks and Boomsticks" which you can read starting with this page. You know what's crazy though? In looking back at the archives to snag those links I realize that "Meatnecks and Boomsticks" ran for like 20 pages. I'm pretty sure it remains our longest story arc in the history of the Walrus and it doesn't even focus on the primary characters of the comic and yet we never received complaint once of it becoming old or tiring. I chalk this up to the fact that Shmeerm and Mac are just too goddamn entertaining together. Especially when over the top violence and bloody corporate revolution is involved. And that in itself I chalk up to the fact that no writer I know or know of can write a comic like CreepKnight does. Seriously, there's not another writer in existence I'd ever want to work with. Well, it'd probably be neat to pencil for Warren Ellis, but that's pure hero worship there. And for anyone who missed it Tuesday, or may be in need of a reminder... I'm reposting the following section. Because if being an online artist has taught me anything its that you can't just try to promote something once and think it'll accomplish anything. You have to remind people:Grymmish Art Time
I'm taking up an extra section today for shameless self-promotion. So there's this thing I do whenever I'm not finishing Walrus deadlines or working on a pile of commissions. You may be aware of it. Its called the Surrealis Grymmoire* I love the Grymmoire. I'm always looking for new ways to share the Grymmoire. And there seems to be plenty of people that have shown interest in prints. So I've gone ahead and pieced together some nifty themed print bundles. Currently there are four bundles in all accounting for all of the colored Grymmoire pages that exist to date. I'm only going to plug the first two for now though so as not to overload you. Grymmoire Print Pack 1 by ~GrymmGrymmowski on deviantART Grymmoire Print Pack 2 by ~GrymmGrymmowski on deviantART I assure that all prints are painstakingly exposed to my extreme artist OCD and I make sure that each print looks better than what you see on the screen in front of you. If not, I burn it in the fiery pits of hell I have annexed in the castle cellars and run off a new one for you. So please show your love for something that I love to do and buy a print bundle. Let me share my dreamscapes and nightmares with you. Just fire an email to me by way of grymm@voodoowalrus.com and we can discuss the nitty gritty purchasing details. Each prints bundle is $35 dollars and includes each of the five prints you see in the samples. Prints are 8.5" x 11" and on a lovely glossy stock that really makes the images pop. Seriously, even I'm impressed at how much more amazing the prints look compared to the images as seen on a monitor. Also, as as per usual you can order just one or two prints of your choice, but on their own they're $15 a pop.
0 thoughts on “Money… Good 2”
Marchosias
Plot! It refreshes me, lifts my soul up over this illiterate world.
Why don’t you know Livy, bioluminescent-homoeroticized-bloodsucker fans? Tacitus? Pushkin? Bradbury? Do you at least recognize the names? Your illiteracy has closed down half the bookstores in my city! You must PAY!
*clears throat in an embarrassed fashion*
My apologizes, but all the Barnes&Nobles in my city just closed. I do believe that writing is dying, and we stand in the maddening glow of one of the few remaining writers. Thank you, you magnificent bastards, for not giving in to this apotheosis-era of writing.
Ticker
Don’t give up hope on literacy. I, for one, read actual books every day and I even support the local seconhand books stores whenever I have money and can find what I’m looking for. I also support the big places. BOOKS!
Marchosias
All that’s left is the secondhand stores. And the crazy naked guy selling Kama Sutra manuals in the park.
Grymm
We’re losing our Borders book stores around the Greater Richmond area. The Barnes and Nobles are still running though. For now.
CeraValentine
my personal bookstore love is half price books
Marchosias
Good store, last one left.
Vensik
Lost our Borders, not losing. Closed April 1, have clients that worked there.
Marchosias
The Borders closes next month.
I raided the bones of it last week, and found a dusty stack of Russian classics, I kid you not, behind a volume about promiscuous teenage vampires, entitled Overbite 2: The Biting.
I would have wept, had I not been busy stuffing my jacket with Dostoevsky novels.
Vensik
Oh, next month? Maybe these clients were laid off early then, I just know I rolled their old 401k’s into an IRA after being seperated from employment.
Still sad, I liked the cafe… had good expresso.
Had to look and see what the spelling was we were complaining about.
Will B
This is why I bless ebay and book lot sales. Bulk of good scifi (McAffery, Jordan, Heinlien,and and and) for not allot of money. It how I’ve amassed my library of over 400 books.
Akonite
I tend to get my reading material directly from authors (or at least my friends go “here read this I wrote it” or “Hi, you outfit is awesome have you read my books?”)
Rose
I have…two major bookstores going strong thus far, and several second hand stores. I would give you gentleman one of mine but alas I cannot. I am so sorry for your loss March…
Marchosias
You are very kind, but I shall survive – after I beat some hipsters to death with Tolstoy’s War and Peace. It’s ungodly effective.
Will B
Isn’t that intolerably cruel March even for you? What did Tolstoy ever do to deserve the touch of hipsters and pretentious false academics??
Marchosias
He’s a tough old bird, he can take it. Besides, how else can they learn?
Rose
I prefer Tolkein…so few people truly appreciate the master of fantasy even if they watch the movies which pisses me off…*growling* But good job sir, and good luck beating education into Hipsters.
Will B
But Rose dear, those of us that broke our literary teeth on Tolkien give it an assumption that everyone has. (Or at least those we call firends)
Rose
It is still a sad state of affairs…
Grymm
Come now, let’s be fair. Tolkien just simply isn’t for everyone. For example, I, for one, don’t care for his style of writing. But then again I’ve never cared for high fantasy either. In fact, I have to say that besides the Bible, Lord of the Rings is the only piece of long form fiction that I just could not force myself through without wanting to toss it at a wall.
I’m sure Tolkien was very skilled in a wide range of ways and he no doubt contributed much to the medium. But that doesn’t change the fact that I’d much rather reread my entire book collection over and over again than ever attempt to seek entertainment from Lord of the Rings.
Wow. That sounded mean. Totally wasn’t meant that way though.
Marchosias
Mean is like bleeding from the eyes: it just happens.
Taste in authors is personal, and debating it rarely leads to
anything good. Privately, I worship at the altars of Neil Gaiman
and Sergei Lukyanenko. Well, Odin too, but he so rarely writes
anymore. My point is, different dead-tree volumes for different
people.
Marchosias
Hehe, I remember when the films came out, a painfully whitebread
family complained that the films were more violent than they’d
thought. I couldn’t reconcile the idea that they brought their sniveling
children to the film, and not read the original text.
Thankfully my box set of Tolkien was on hand, and they
unmercifully pelted with it. Good times.
Marchosias
Also, what the balls is with the text boxes?
Grymm
Tis my point entirely. I don’t dig the Tolkien, but I’m certainly not going to look down on someone else doing so.
Text boxes? Do you mean the comment text boxes and how they’re being all weird and as you type, your words are going outside the box for a time before starting a new line? No idea. I blame weasels.I’ll fumigate tomorrow. For now I’m starting work on the comic for Tuesday after next.
CeraValentine
this strip.. reminds me of my fundings D:
Ticker
What does Coffee-Man mean by rent coming in? Does he mean Rook and Mirth? Or do the walrus guys somehow own the entire building in which they stay?
Grymm
Yep. The building they’ve been in since the beginning of 2010 is all theirs! “But CreepKnight… Grymm… how the HELL did your characters afford to own an entire building?” is a thought that might be occurring to many of you right now.
The answer to that, our dear friends, is nestled into the loving folds of next week’s pages! Stay tuned and all shall be revealed! We still have deeper to go down this espresso* bean stained rabbit hole!
*Yes, that’s right. Its espresso. Not expresso. There’s no X. The X isn’t silent. To all you people out there saying expresso: Stop saying expresso. Its bad for you. Namely because some one will eventually beat you with a lead pipe if you do it enough.
Curator
*I feel like less of a douche for pointing that out to my friends all of the time, now that you have had a lil mini rant about it…lol
Grymm
I consider it doing my part to help fight back against the tide of godawful stupidity that would run rampant if not for we few “anal retentive OCD jackassed” who can’t help but correct people who are so blatantly in the wrong.
The Devil
Grymm, if it were possible to elevate yourself further in how I regard you – which it isn’t – you would’ve just done so.
You rock.
Grymm
I just do what I can. And what I do is exude awesomeness. And cook delicious chicken parmigiana.
Rose
THANK YOU! SOMEONE FINALLY GETS IT! Grr…Its not ‘coffee’, its not expresso its not an expresso coffee for damn sure!
You, good sir, always rock. Even if I am late to this comment party here.
oooo, chicken parmigiana~
Grymm
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST YOU HAVE AN AVATAR NOW. Its slightly shocking not to see the placeholder any more.
Rose
Why yes I do! Its not the one I wanted, I plan on fixing this. But for now enjoy the psychotic personification of my twisted psyche! He is deceptively unassuming looking~<3 Everyone else had pretties, and I decided to finally stop being lazy.
MrGothikka
Thankfully i’m not the only one who does this. You have returned my faith in humanity o wise ones.
Michael Alexander Reaper
I have no issue with people correcting me on my horrible grammar. it just the ass-hats that just say OMG LEERN TO SPEEL NUB. no constructive criticism just a lot of trolololol
Grymm
Those kinds of asshats are the people that deserve a solid kick in the throat every time they attempt communicate with others until they learn proper, civilized communication skills.
Marron
Remember that conversation in which I explained how I freak out and think I’m losing my mind because I’ve seen the comic before it comes out? Yep, it’s one of those days.
Still love it, though!
Will B
Surprised that you actually have a mine left after hanging out here Marron dear. How did you pull that off? I thought the lunacy of the rest of us would drive you mad.
Will B
*edit* Mind not mine. Guess stupidity is contagious as well. Teach me to troll the yahoo pages.
Marron
Oh, quite the contrary. I’ve known Grymm and CreepKnight for years now; I’m immune to the insanity they create.
Vensik
Not even an honorable mention… I think you knew me first.
Mercenary Clown
i just hope to be able to create the levels of insanity and chaos that the walrus spreads…and not just the body count
Marron
I don’t think so, I think we were all in the same WoW guild at the same time…
Man, you guys are dorks. *cough*
Grymm
Why hello there Miss Pott! I’m Mistah Kettle it IS a pleasure to meet you! Oh I think you’ll fit in just wonderfully! Wonderfully! Timey-wimey eh?
#GrymmsABastard
Sunshine
Ahhh sweet walrusy goodness how I’ve messed thee. And I get plot development too. Yay!!! You guys make being homeless less miserable… *does a happy dance and huggles the laptop* The insanity…it calms the beast!!!
Grymm
Pretty image you’ve got as a gravatar there. Also, welcome back to the cozy insanity.
Mercenary Clown
yes, aggreeing with gry,,….very pretty image…insanity calms everything…unless it causes it to go crazy…then it calms nothing…but the it still calms the crazies
Marchosias
Should I be worried that MC makes perfect sense? Nah…
Nice face Sunshine.
Mercenary Clown
actually…..you probably should be worried…might mean the worlds ending….which, in that case…i a totally here to help…just say the word (and by word, i mean check) aand ill help you out…..
Marchosias
Cash on deliver – and no overtime. But with the truly ridiculous number of potential apocalypses in the works, I could use your assistance in assuring that the world ends my way. The classy way.
Rose
Oi! Don’t start plotting the end of the world without me…Classy is nice, but its gotta be sexy classy. Other wise its just so…boring my dear.
Marchosias
Sexy classy would be hard to pull off – maybe a Ragnarok set-up?
You can’t just call ‘Zombies’, and have it be The End, although – I did write a commission along those lines… Either way, my doomsday plot is your doomsday plot.
And nice avatar. Methinks I know it from somewhere.
Rose
You should know it, its my ID for Dev March Dear.
And wunderbar. I shall begin plotting, I think Valkyries would make a nice touch for that sort of set up…polish up my Shiddogh and Midgard, give Fenris a good brushing down and viola~ I’ll don my silver studded black leather corset and my best leather skirt and we’ll see what happens.
Marchosias
Just messing with you, as is my nature…
But yes, I see it… Valkyrie circling above, Hel’s gate opening, Heimdall tunes up, Garm gets a flee collar – this could work. I, being but of mortal form, cannot match your style – but perhaps I still have that fur cloak..
Will B
Alright now I curios Rose. What your Dev name? I always looking at the pretty pictures there (and some that not so pretty) and would love to see your art and style. Know I’ll probably enjoy allot since you
also a fan of both the Walrus and Marchs writing. (Which I enjoyed allot March.)
Rose
I don’t really draw, but my Dev is King-Rat-Duo666 for the curious nature. It doesn’t have much honestly, and some of it is so old.
Mn~ I love a man who has the gumption to wear a nice fur cloak.
Marchosias
Hell Yeah! Thanks, Will B.
Rose: Fur for winter – silk kimono and Akira Kurosawa films for Fall.
Grymm
I’m gonna tell ya again Merc, don’t go promotin’ yerself here for profit. Fictional or otherwise. If anyone’s gonna sell any goods or services here, its gonna be me an’ CreepKnight. You wanna promote yourself? Email us and tell us you that you wanna buy ad space. Otherwise, its just a bit of a slap in the face.
Mercenary Clown
my apologies, and please forgive me…i will ensure it does not happen again.
i shall zip (and by zip, i mean slice off) my tongue, and what remains of my fingers to ensure i do not do it again….and yet i shall still somehow post…hmmmm
Sunshine
Yes it is indeed pretty pretty. All credit and love goes to the artist though. Thank you it’s good to be back…the normals tried to get me but I managed to fight them off with my mighty plunger of doom and razor wire whisk of ouchy-ness while screaming that the sheeple wouldn’t take me alive. It’s good to be back among those who understand.
Vensik
“I chalk this up to the fact that Shmeerm and Mac are just too goddamn entertaining together.”
You’ve never ridden in a vehicle with Shmeerm… now that’s entertainment right there…
Michael Alexander Reaper
I can only truly imagine…
Grymm
No. But I do remember the abundance of entertainment that was listening as Shmeerm brutalized his furniture over Skype. And the wonders of watching as he systematically trolled forum topics to death.
Vensik
“What was that sound?? You ok?”
“Yes”
…
“I punched the fuck out of my desk”
Will B
Wow sounds like my old friends. Of course add in the fact I was riding the top of the car when said entertainment was happening (and driver was nuts) and you have a weekend in North California.
Vensik
Hmm… interesting… Shmeerm is in San Diego.
Coincidence?
Will B
I wasn’t there, there no connection between me someone in San Diego and a dead hooker. Other then that no comment.
Michael Alexander Reaper
come on Tuesday HURRY UP!
Grymm
Interesting bit of trivia folks, the Data imps just brought me an interesting memo. In less than a month since the host switchover the site’s accumulated 2,000 comments. Real comments. That in no way counts the hundreds of spam comments that automatically get filtered and incinerated in the basement.
Vensik
Yay basement!
Rose
Yay incinerator~! What model do you boys use?
Grymm
I can’t say for sure. I know nothing about incinerators. I know its the size of standard bedroom, made of twisted, evil looking metals, looks like something one would expect to find in a steampunk setting and when its interior drops below a certain temperature it starts wailing as if a portal to Hell has opened inside of it.
Marchosias
First – we’ve again broken the comment record. If I keep drinking to these, I’ll have to get a new liver. Oh well, what the hell…
Also, your incinerator is made by my subsidiary, BurningFunTime Inc.
And stop letting the temperature drop. You don’t want to know what’s inside that makes it burn, but what it hates the cold. Hates it with all twenty of its eyes.