Sean Howard
Alright. This post doesn’t have much to do with anything from my head, but be patient. I’ve got some more stuff comminatcha soon.
Sean Howard is, in fact, a pixel artist. A really, really good one, and one of the few who was good enough to have his own comic. Was, however, is past tense. This comic, A Modest Destiny, was a generic fantasy to start with, chronicling the adventures of Maxim and his evil twin Gilbert as they clashed in humorous ways and affected a very colorful cast of characters, from Hechter, the living suit of armor with a taste for meatloaf and a penchant for stupid humor, to Ruby, the maniacal and psychotic guard captain. It began to gather steam, eventually heading into a more dark and epic storyline despite clashes with Penny Arcade. However, about five months ago Sean Howard announced that he was cancelling it and would continue to produce it only in paper form.
Today he announced that he wasn’t going to finish it at all, leaving the middle of the storyline hanging. He has plans for a new comic or comics, and they won’t be AMD. I, as a rabid fan, am quite disappointed. But, I suppose, there is still hope. Anyway, this blog isn’t about AMD, that was just a lead-in to those of you who haven’t heard of it. If there was a “you,” anyway.
This blog is about Sean. He is a very interesting person. He’s very creative, a lot like me, and very self-correcting, like me. He seems naive in his early blog entries, and gradually becomes a bit more world-weary and angry. The blog he wrote and still writes is a very critical and very challenging one, and that is its listed purpose: to challenge people. Lately he has attempted to disprove the existance of a god, which he got a ton of negative feedback for. Overall, he’s a very good guy, from what I see. Prone to occasional paranoia and extreme anger, but a very good guy nonetheless.
This is not to say that I worship the man. I don’t. In fact, I disagree with him on many, many points. I’m not listing them, just as I’m not linking to his blog, because I might get blammed by him (on the off-chance that someone actually reads this and goes there). This is made more unlikely, however, by what I’m about to say: I read the blogs because I disagree. He makes a very good point to show people that there is an opposing viewpoint and that it can be argued quite well. I read them because I think, on many occasions, What is this man thinking?! How stupid!
Anyway, that’s a bit of a plug. See the next post for my brainchild of the .
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