So, there’s a comic out there I won’t link directly, called The Pet Professional. It’s “written” by a friend of Scott Kurtz, the guy behind pvponline, which I read on a regular basis. It’s basically about a hitman for pets, but it’s one of the worst written, most poorly laid out, humorless pieces of crap I’ve ever seen. So, it’s not like that’s unusual – there are few people who can really write and draw funny stuff on a regular basis (the artist is someone else, and his art, while feeling kind of “dead” is still stylistic, and not entirely terrible). But what really irritates me is that the guy started selling shirts and other swag the moment the first strip was published. There was more work put into the *store* than the actual comic itself, and whether it’s true or not, it’s incredibly difficult for me to not believe that this whole comic is a really cynical merchandising exercise.

I mean, there’s simply nothing to it. A guy goes around killing supposedly irritating pets. But there’s no writing in it that makes any of the hits satisfying, interesting, or funny. It’s like you took a one sentence description, and tried to market that, instead of any actual content. Blah. I don’t know why it irritates me so, but I find it just reprehensible.

Whatever.

On the NaNoWriMo front, I’m at 37+K, and hoping to break 40K today. I think my current problem has stuck because I simply haven’t found any means to introduce someone new, to drive the plot along. Because the monk is so solitary and unfamiliar with the environment he’s in, he requires other characters to push him in the right direction. Without that, I’ve been sort of lost. I think that given that, as a starting point, and some of the characters we’ve already established, I know who’s coming next, and what they’re going to end up doing.

Fun!