Tag: vindalf

Many minutes ago… much longer than I would like to think about… ReBoot released their third season. I am a huge fan of that beautiful little cartoon. It had been years since the nail-biting cliffhanger of season 2. To celebrate, I built myself a Guardian key-tool. Being a particular type of nerd, I needed mine to be functional as much as looking like Glitch.

So I took an Altoids tin and mounted it on a watch strap with a couple of rivets. Some paint, a few bits of junk from the hardware store, and it looked the part. Then, I went to the dollar store and loaded up on gadgets. I managed to cram a clock, calculator, tweezers, sewing scissors, pen and a space for my keys into it. This was before smart phones, so they had to be applied separately.

I was in the last couple of years of high school by now. Swiss army knives were absolutely forbidden at school, but the need for things like tweezers, scissors, screw drivers was ever present. Almost every day I would need something out of my key-tool so I kept wearing it for a long time.

Fast forward to when I somehow got a date? (Still have no idea how that happened) We were leaving the Ontario Science Centre when she says to me, “Do you remember where we parked?”

I did not. Therefore, I aimed Glitch vaguely into the parking lot and commanded in by best Bob impression “Glitch, Car!”

You could hear my date rolling her eyes out loud. That was about the reaction I was going for. Then, by some cosmic coincidence, proving that the Programmer has a sense of humour, there was a survey crew working in the parking lot. Just as I commanded Glitch to find the car, someone raised a giant orange flag right behind my vehicle!

“There it is. Glitch found it.”

She’s still mad at me because it worked. For some reason she married me? (That’s an epic tale for another time) And when I found the fandom again due to the guardian code trailer provoking all the Anti-virus programs into action; her first comment was: “I’m still mad about your stupid Glitch stupid working!”

it’s been 18 years 😛

#190 reposted 22mar18

When last we saw our heroes: Vindalf was trapped in a lifeboat with the Sargent and the worst privateer in town! And still is! Don’t forget to follow me, and enable notifications or you might never find out if anything happens!

How did I draw that sunrise and sunset? 2006 me should have taken notes or something.

<spoilers> the main character doesn’t die </spoilers>

#189 reposted 20mar18

The reason I don’t like iApple is because for the entire time I was in school, the schools had iApple computers we had an IBM at home. The IBM was consistently better at everything than the school computers. Even when the school got the newest high-tech colours of iMac and I still had a 5 year old IBM.

Homework? IBM. Internet? IBM. Games? <a href=“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjpn3L3bSJQ“> Photoshop isn’t a game, mac. </a>

#188 reposted 15mar18

Remember these guys? when I originally made these comics (and had my own website), I was updating regularly. Also, I really needed to emphasise how long the characters were stuck in that boat. So we had a commercial break.

I think I also installed some minor computer upgrades around this time.

#183 Reposted 28feb18

So there we were at Pennsic many moons ago, a conglomerate of Vikings and pirates, inexplicably armed with laser swords, wandering around when we come upon a ship! Someone had an awesome camp gate that looked like a pirate ship. So we begin the raid and the defenders respond with rum. They trade Darth-tagnan’s sword for a bottle of good rum. The still believes it was a good trade. I’m not sure what happened to our other companion, but in the end, we had no ship and fewer swords.

Later, we found out that another camp armed with lightsabers did manage to raid the ship. That comes up again later.

#182 Reposted 22feb18

The first panel used up everything I actually know about pirates. The last panel proves that there is no joke too lame for Vindalf.

Around this time, I think @lledra showed me how to use the colour options in photoshop. It would be some time before I got around to applying it to the main character. I envision Vindalf wearing a Norman style helmet and chainmail. How does one draw chainmail? (spoilers: I figure it out around issue 237.)

#180 reposted 15feb18 Happy Flag Day, Canada!

“So, Sarge, the plan before that was to walk around the inland sea and not like, swim it. Right?”

Toronto is located almost exactly half way along the north shore of lake Ontario. I know this because both border crossings are about the same distance to drive when going to Pennsic. The exact middle is somewhere around Scarorough, as Ajax is slightly closer to the Kingston bridge, and North York closer to Niagara Falls. I used to drive to Pennsylvania a lot, so I found out exactly how long it took either way.