RATFARTS! A blog? In 2022! WTF is this?
Putting this out into the world, blogging for the first time in quite a long time and quickly getting to the point. It’s Independence Day 2022 and I’ve just written three issues of my new comic strip, ‘Good Morning, Sunshine (and Happiness).’ Name taken from a greeting I’d use with two people in my life who were very important to me (at different times), who have faded a bit over time.
I needed new content on the site as next month we’re due for the ending of the ‘One Day at (TechTV)’ series. I know the series has ended a couple of times already (and gave birth to FULB for long time readers), and really was over in the mid-2000’s but it’s been good putting them up in order on a daily basis as I had originally indended the series to run.
I’m also looking at the future as I know content is hot and all it would take is a copyright holder or two to get wind of those old strips and ruin the series for everyone. Let alone vengeful former TechTV staffers (FULB), who might not look so kindly on the series with age. It was kind of raw at times. The series reflected what I was feeling about the station at the time and I was a little less than tactical about the changes. I became someone who wanted my old TechTV back and… yeah. (FULB, to hold a grudge.)
For the new series, I have a goal of 16 individual comic strips in the TechTV style, ranging about 6 to 10 pages per issue. I’m trying to come out weekly starting the Sunday after the TechTV stuff wraps up. Deo Dataport was an amalgam of several different people I’ve known over the years and was a very minor character in the Jim Finch’s Universe setting.
If the content people ever do come, I’m ready as I’ve made other amalgams of less than famous folks to stand in for other characters. I’m not saying it’s going to happen, but if it does, that’s at least 400-ish sources of NEW CONTENT! Yay, my 8 or 9 daily bot viewers will have something new to catalog.
The new series directly fits into the Jim Finch’s Universe. It’s kind of a side story. other than Deo (his prounouns are Deo, Deo and Deo), there’s a couple of returning chracters with ties to the old out of print Universe. In the long run, if I bring the old stories back, they’ll directly fit. I’ve planned for it. The stories will be there, maybe not with the same chracters, but the stories will be the same.
Which brings us to Retro, Retro, Retro. I’ve been stuck in that story for almost half a decade. I do mean stuck. I don’t have anything new for it, I’ve retold the existing issues at least two or five times now and I’ve got nothing to add to it. Until now, when I intend to use it as part of the greater story in the Jim Finch’s Universe revival-ish-whatever-thing-I’m doing.
There will be new characters. It won’t be the same. It will end abruptly but you’ll have those 5-7 issues to fill in the void where the daily TechTV stories once occupied.
‘Good Morning, Sunshine (and Happiness)’ will go live at least every Sunday night in the month of August of 2022. I have 3 (almost 4) issues written. Again, the goal is 16. Then we’ll see where life leads me.
Thank you for standing by and please remember our Facebook Group if you’d like to see the latest character designs.
Jim
(P.S. For those looking for the old entries for ‘Ratfarts!’, they’ll eventually be back on the site. Maybe. Me from 20-something years ago was a scary thing to read.)