A few days ago, here in Finland, a man was laid off.  A story familiar to many these days unfortunately.  So, down on his luck,  he decides to play the lottery. And wouldn’t you know it, he won!  It’s a  truelife story you hear from time to time, but cliché as it may seem, it DOES happen.

We all come upon hard times now and then, but you just don’t know when Ladyluck will smile on you.  In need of sunshine?  Try out PartPoker Belgium at http://be.partypoker.com/

-Scott-

Yup. It’s finally official.  Heroes, inc. is at an end.

Believe me that no one is more sad to see it go than me.  I absolutely LOVED doing this series and had/have some wonderful places and story arcs planned for the series.  Building these characters based on the Golden Age heroes has been great.  I’ve really come to love these guys and every one of them has a story all planned out.  Starting from the Golden Age, up to the present and on into the future. Thinking of it now just makes me want to grab my wacom and get to work on it, but I know that I just CAN’T keep the updates going.  At the high point of our webcomic days, doing Heroes,inc. was a full time job.  Unfortunately, as with most webcomics, it just didn’t take off to be the commercial success I hoped it to be.  Whether that’s because readers are really just satisfied to read it online or that I could never be able to do the leg work of going to a comic con in the States where a majority of the market is… we’ll never know.

Personally I think that it has to do with the fact that, though webcomics are a great medium for getting the word out, true success stories are few because we readers don’t really need to buy those paper comics anymore.  I never wanted Heroes, inc. to come to the point where it felt like I was beating a dead horse.  I was keeping up that little flame of hope that this would all turn into an actual bread and butter job, beyond the point where it was clear that it would always just be a hobby.

It’s time to face the facts and put the project to sleep.

Who knows. Maybe one day that Heroes,inc. Noir book might look up at you from a shelf at your local comicbook store or pop up on a online store list, but until then… Thanks for sticking with me for so long.  Thanks for giving me encouragement that what I was doing was actually quality stuff.  Without you loyal readers, I never would have gotten this far.

So thank you and hopefully we meet again in the future.

-Scott-

At the beginning of this year my grandmother passed away. My mother and I tried to get things in order for one of us to get there but we didn’t make it on time. Then a few months later my father’s mother dies. We weren’t that close for various reasons, but I felt really bad for my dad. Now Kirsi’s mom passed away yesterday.

So I’m sure you understand that things will be quiet around here for awhile.

Thanks for understaning.

-Scott and Family-

“What was it…?”, you ask.

Well… the plan was to make a prequel to the Capital of Culture event that takes place Turku in September of 2011.  It was put together by CulturaMobila, a local community arts group headed by Julian Garner (who some of you  first saw here) Julian directed the kids and also wrote the script, the lyrics and performed the song. Originally it was just guitar with some duplicating of his voice during the chorus, but later additional music was added by Ari Viitanen.

It was storyboarded, filmed and edited by yours truly. I also did the effects, which was biting off a little bit more than I could chew  As some of you remember we got off to a rocky start and the resulting footage was a nightmare to track. This was my first time doing tracking and it almost drove me insane. I learned a LOT, but unfortunately the hard way.  However… I think the end result turned out pretty good.

Especially with zero budget.

Actually, talking with Julian later, we both agreed that there was so much that we would do differently if ever in the same situation again. We had a blast working together and with so many ideas flying around between us, hopefully we’ll do something together again in the future (Maybe without tracking though… )

So go check it out and maybe even give us a “like” on Youtube.  You can also check out and befriend CulturaMobila on Facebook where there’s some really great photos of their other projects! They’ve got some pretty cool  giant puppets and all kinds of fantasy stuff going on.

And all you VFX pros out there… be kind.

-Scott-

Yeah, yeah it’s black and white, but at least the story is going forward… slowly…

And don’t forget to check out the latest Vote Incentive Bonus Story!!! Starring: The Owl!

-Scott-

-Scott-

Yes, Heroes,inc. has once again started updating again.

So where were we…? The Crusader was getting butt kicked by Napalm. And where are we going from here?

I think I have to check the script…

-Scott-

Heroes, inc. will RETURN on the 20th of June.

The project that’s been taking my time will be out on the 18th (I’ll have a link then) and then, as far as I know, there’s nothing that big on the horizon, so it’s back to cranking out webcomics.  I was/am pretty excited about where the story is at the moment, but just couldn’t find time for it.  Hopefully you guys N gals are still sticking around and word of our return will get to you.

So see you soon.

-Scott-

Over the last week I’ve done the equivalent of about 4 standard sized comic books! Mind you, the quality isn’t even close to what I do on Heroes,inc. since storyboards just need to help figure out angles and storylines (especially on this tight of a schedule), but still…

Actually for a small gig, there’s quite a lot of work that needs to be done, but the people are a fun bunch to work with and with all this drawing it’ll be great to have a chance to brush the rust off of my other skills, so I’m not complaining.

-Scott-

Well, in my defense, I need to find some more work again.  Not just for our financial situation, but for my own sanity.

So I’ve been studying,  learning new skills and honing old ones.  I’ll try and keep updates coming!!

-Scott-