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Daily rants,updates and other crap in my live journal!


06/05/04-New site!

The new site design is coming!, While i work on the fortunecity side of things, the keenspace site (ie this) will remain the same, then be intergrated into the new design when its made. Get ready for a new era of Felney!

 

11th May 2004-A new error in the anals of Felney

Yay, the new site design is online at last!, Be sure to use the new Tag board, or the old keenspce forums, to tell me what you think about it!. Especially if you find any errors or dead links, i had a vast amount of files to upload through my clunky, unreliable connection and its pretty likley some got lost along the way!. Anyway as you will have noticed there is a new colour scheme, new-ish layout (on the keenspace pages anyway...), and some all-new sections!. They are...

Cars- Stuff about cars, what i like (classics!), what i dont like (moderns!), and reviews, not much there at the moment but expect it to grow, specially when i remember to take my digital camera out and snap some of those lovely 70's motors i've been seeing around..

"Penny dreadfuls"- Cheap and nasty!, this is easily the biggest and best new additon to the site, remember Insanity please? Queer as fuck? The chosen ones?..well now they're all under one roof!, Its not just recycled old stuff though, You'll also be able to find new stories there such as Postman prat, and the upcoming The fourth reich!

Games- What was one of the most neglected sections of the site, is now one of the biggest!, read all about my completed games, upcoming projects, and planned ones..i just hope you dont wanna actually play them (sorry, fortunecity..wait till i can shift Felney software to a paid server), it will also contain Reviews and Previews and all that lovely stuff!. Also an update which hasnt been made in that section yet, is that Insanity please doom is not dead!, i actually found the file recently, so ignore the section saying it was deleted XD

Politics/Anarchy- This section has been changed slightly, and i DO intend to add new stuff to it eventually..i promise!!

Sex and Sexuality- This new section is all about Sex, Sexual politics, and the Gay scene ect, its quite slim now but will have things added in the end

So as you can see..the site has had major updates and is growing rapidly, i have several ideas for things that i will add in the coming weeks/months too..hey, i might even add some Felney comics in!

 

20th May 2004-Nothing really rocks and nothing really rolls...

A few updates to the site, In the Penny dreadfuls section there is now a page about (almost) all of the comic strips i have ever made, and when they where set, so its like "the history of the world in the Felney universe", except that most of them are in the future..oh well, Also i added a new comic section called "The comic of someone who can't sleep!", which is quite senseless and stupid, but read it anyway XD. And finally i also fixed the parodies section, because, as nobody told me, the links all went to files on my hard drive XD

 

26/05/04- My goriest comic yet?..maybe XD

Over in the Penny Dreadfuls section i have posted a new comic called Zombie Shock Massacre XD, Lets just say it starts off with a 19-year old student having an affair with his 43-year old University lecturer, then goes downhill from there! XD, its also drawn entirely with either a biro or a red paint pen, in my brothers innovative style called "Black white and red", ie only the blood is coloured in, it looks quite cool, and using a paint pen means i can make all splatterly effects, which is handy cause a lot of the comic involves hacking zombies up with Axes..So anyway, go and read the 8 pages of madness (with more to come!)

Also i have updated the Links with a few more cool comics i have seen, one is a very obscure keenspace one i found through the guide with cute artwork, and another is a very popular 'spotted one that youve probably heard of already anyway XD

And finally..i'll make a comic about it once ive done the current storyline, but its about time i re-introduced the news section rant. Ely has always had parking troubles, there is Waitrose, which isnt that big, Ship lane, which is always full and is partly used as residential parking, and Woolworths, which is really big, though not huge but loads of people who work in ely (specially down that area of the city) rely upon it for thier daily parking needs, so what did the THICK AS SHIT council decide to do but invite some SHITTY FUNFAIR to come and stick thier rides over the largest part of it for a week!, you couldnt make it up!..this is just beyond satire..and to think the fucking council woman gave ME a dirty look when i went angrily past revving up, listening to "Breaking the law" and glaring at her after an unsucessful search for a space in the tiny bit they havent filled!. Not that i am against funfairs of course, one year they had it on a green next to Ely cathedral, which was an ideal place!, it was away from a main road, so safe for the kids, right in the centre, and surrounded by beautiful old buildings..oh wait, having it near the cathedral would "Lower the tone" and be offensive..what a load of shit!

 

30/5/04- Chicken tikka masala, chips and rice!

As you can see from todays comic, Felney is taking a new-ish artistic direction. For a start its now going to have a genrally standardised layout on the page, so that all strips will be more or less exactly the same size (allowing for slight scanning errors of course). Also the art is going to become much simpler and cleaner..a lot of the 'spotted comics, such as SSDD, have nice and simple colouring and pretty minimal backgrounds, and thats what i'm gonna be generally going for now. Also, after this storyline, the strip will re-organise a bit and i will remove a lot of characters or reduce them to just Cameos, the ones that will remain as "main characters" are Mike, Aaron, Tina, Kate and Malcom foss..the rest will just have rare appearances when they are needed. And yes that does mean the couple we are concentrating on at the moment will just be reduced to background characters again..oh well XD, i was actually planning on totally re-starting Felney from the first comic again and doing it "again, properly this time!", but then i'd really have to put all the old strips somewhere and that would mean getting a new keenspace account or putting them all on fortunecity manually (never agaiin! XD), so instead i'll just re-arrange the strip in the present time and leave all the old ones up too XD

 

07/06/04-Mikenote XD

Yep, ive decided to re-do Felney after all, though the old Felney will remain online, but all new strips will be marked "FELNEY 2" in the little date thingy at the bottom..when i remember to put it on there anyway. Basically, Felney 2 will be about what i experience in daily life, to show a more realistic view of what life is like in the fens, also some changes will happen, for instance the Mike character will be like me as i am now, whereas the Mike character in old felney was like i was in 2001..ive changed a lot XD. Also characters will generally be based on people i meet in real life, though this will mean the erasing of my favorite characters from old Felney (namely Aaron and Ann..the only two characters to be really 'developed', though they will have cameo appearances, and maybe even 'starring roles' in special strips if i feel the need to...or if people demand it XD), it will mean new characters who are based on real people, and that will mean they will actually act differently to one another XD, Look out for Lee and Naomi making appearances..probably with different names though XD. Also a few of the generic made-up characters will remain, for instance Malcom foss who is based on the local MP, and the job centre woman who is basically a merging of all of the people that work there. Other big changes will include Mike being 19, and with his parents..though that does mean i'll have to make them up (should be nothing like my real parents though, dont want it to be THAT boring!). Well this has been a badly typed news post hasnt it, got hayfever right now... the basic meaning of it is..

Old felney gone, New felney coming, new one based on real life and good, though old characters will change a lot/vanish

 

12/06/04- Another Mikenote XD, they need a new name

Ok, ignore what i said in the previous news post XD, Old Felney will continue on this website, and New Felney will be hosted somewhere else, and called something different, like "Mike comix" XD. Though ive had bad hayfever recently so i havent been able to do any more Felney stuff..did have one about the euro elections but i didnt colour it, and it's now out of date XD (It called the Tories "Unelectable has-been's", and they went and won!). Ah well, for all the Splatter fans out there the final two pages of Zombie Shock Massacre will be made soon, not that they take very long to make..i just took a break. Also i should do some more on The Fourth Reich as well, seeing as i have been reading "Savage" in 2000AD, from which the story is rather obviously taken XD.

Hm, ive also started to get into VIPCO vault of horror movies, way back in the late 70's and 80's, when Nerds where not cool (yeah, i know, its hard to imagine now XD), they didnt use to watch Anime, instead they watched what became known as Schlock horror, Splatter movies, or Video nasties, well, now you can get them on DVD for £5.99 a time, ive gotten into them too (well i never liked anime much XD), and i might start a section of the site dedicated to reviewing them, and other cheesy movies XD.

Hm, Finally, its my birthday on the 21st *hint hint*, so if you wanna send a few cents using Paypal, do it XD..i could use them to buy a rusty old ford thats been in a hedge for the past 30 years and then restore it, which would give me something to put in the Cars section hehe

 

07/08/04- Motorway planned through ancient wood/ Triple-S.I's could be lost for good...

Right, About time for an update XD. As you may have gathered, the Felney comic has ceased to be, i havent decided to declare it officially 'finished' yet, but its VERY unlikely that it will ever be continued

That said, i have a HUGE array of new updates for you all to enjoy. Over in the politics section i have its first update in several years, the Mini-rants! XD, they are basically an array of times that i have "gone up to 4" on various issues in LJ/Forums XD, so..er..'enjoy'. In penny dreadfuls we have a very old, and previously un-seen comic by me, Insanity Please Classic!, go and see the origin of the 'new' Insanity please comic, as well as getting a sample of the stuff me and my mates came up with on the school bus XD. Finally Felney software has had a redesign, so far the DooM section looks good, the rest are quite slung-together, but will be improved sometime. Also i am working hard on getting some doom stuff finished, so you should have something to play pretty soon!.

 

31/10/04- Halloween!

Heh, there hasnt been an update for ages, so here is a big one!. Okay first off, in the Penny dreadfuls section Zombie shock massacre has been completed and all 4 parts are now online. Also the whole thing has been re-scanned and is presented in (marginally, i was experimening and will probably need to re-re scan it sometime) better quality than before. Next in the Cars section we have the Campaign for real cars, and Moderns i like. In the Games section some stuff was added to the GTA: San Andreas preview shortly before its release, though now it has been released that section looks a bit out of date anyway XD. And last but not least, we have a NEW section!. The Felney magazine is a new, monthly text e-zine filled with info on politics, splatter movies, cool websites and more!. Currently two issues are online, the first one from over a year ago, and the second one, for october 2004. Right, i'm off to see if there was a "Fright night" comic crossover this year..if there was thats ANOTHER one i've missed XD


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