Monkey Business
Oh dear.
I had been intending to begin this long-overdue journal entry with an invitation to you all to come and enjoy tea and buns round at my cosy new pad at Fur Affinity, but on Monday it unexpectedly burnt to the ground, which buggered things up rather. (A terrible shame, too. FA was just as cleverly-constructed as DeviantArt, but loaded approximately 10 million times faster even on my antiquated 56k interweb connection; it worked on a Mac, unlike the wonkily-programmed Sheezy Art; and unbeknownst to me it was being run by a pair of juvenile pillocks, who suddenly fell out because one of them had gone and stolen the other bloke’s rattle, or something, and decided to annihilate the whole place with a VirtualFlamethrower. Tch.)
So, instead of that, I’d like to announce that from today a whole bundle of new things are going to be appearing here - starting with this sketch of a pugilistic primate.
A few of you will have met this chap already, as he made a brief appearance on my FA page before the thing went foom, but newcomers might like to know that his name is Chimp Ion, and that he’s the intergalactic pan-dimensional ultra-heavyweight boxing champion of the universe. (He’s an alien ape, you see, hence the little antennae protruding from his bonce. Because that’s what aliens have, obviously. Oh, and he’s usually green, but you wouldn’t know that from this piccy.) He is not a nice gorilla, and spends most of his time travelling through space picking fights with the toughest beings in the cosmos just for the fun of it, and also because it earns him and his manager a great deal of money.
Then, one day, he arrives on Earth to challenge another super-powered ape to a match...but for now, the rest of that particular story will have to be hastily shoved under the carpet.
The precise reasons for the creation of Mr Ion will become apparent fairly soon. Until then, a variety of other characters will be popping up here every so often in a teaser trailer type fashion. Intrigue!
And there’s very little likelihood of the place imploding as a result of the admin bods getting in a strop, either.
I had been intending to begin this long-overdue journal entry with an invitation to you all to come and enjoy tea and buns round at my cosy new pad at Fur Affinity, but on Monday it unexpectedly burnt to the ground, which buggered things up rather. (A terrible shame, too. FA was just as cleverly-constructed as DeviantArt, but loaded approximately 10 million times faster even on my antiquated 56k interweb connection; it worked on a Mac, unlike the wonkily-programmed Sheezy Art; and unbeknownst to me it was being run by a pair of juvenile pillocks, who suddenly fell out because one of them had gone and stolen the other bloke’s rattle, or something, and decided to annihilate the whole place with a VirtualFlamethrower. Tch.)
So, instead of that, I’d like to announce that from today a whole bundle of new things are going to be appearing here - starting with this sketch of a pugilistic primate.
A few of you will have met this chap already, as he made a brief appearance on my FA page before the thing went foom, but newcomers might like to know that his name is Chimp Ion, and that he’s the intergalactic pan-dimensional ultra-heavyweight boxing champion of the universe. (He’s an alien ape, you see, hence the little antennae protruding from his bonce. Because that’s what aliens have, obviously. Oh, and he’s usually green, but you wouldn’t know that from this piccy.) He is not a nice gorilla, and spends most of his time travelling through space picking fights with the toughest beings in the cosmos just for the fun of it, and also because it earns him and his manager a great deal of money.
Then, one day, he arrives on Earth to challenge another super-powered ape to a match...but for now, the rest of that particular story will have to be hastily shoved under the carpet.
The precise reasons for the creation of Mr Ion will become apparent fairly soon. Until then, a variety of other characters will be popping up here every so often in a teaser trailer type fashion. Intrigue!
And there’s very little likelihood of the place imploding as a result of the admin bods getting in a strop, either.