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Quick Updates and Such

by John Harmon on 2010/07/15 at 5:03 pm
Quick Updates and Such

I know I haven’t posted much in the blog lately, but it’s honestly because there isn’t mcuh for me to say right now. Things are going kinda slow, but as always they are going.

Someone in the comments mentioned they were confused about the missing “Vote” button that previously allowed you to vote for Mint Condition on TopWebComics. I had no idea there was any confusing at all. To clarify, the images right below the ad to the right of the comic will take you straight to the voting page. Both of them. The one that says “Vote for Mint Condition on TopWebComics” and the one right below it that shows Mint Condition’s rank. But just to clear up any possible confusion in the future, I added the vote button to the comic navigation again. It took me a while to figure out how to do it, and truth be told I’m still figuring out a lot of ComicPress, but I’m getting through it. Now if only I can get the share links back up there, maybe some readers will submit the comic to those various social networking sites.

This is a great time of year to be a geek. It is convention season after all. Unfortunately though, I can’t be like many other Webcomics and tell you how excited I am about going to the San Diego Comic Con, because well…I can’t go. I wish I could, but I can’t afford it. That is one of my goals though. To someday attend SDCC, not as the average goer, but as a guest. That would be pretty cool, right? I think so…

Anyway, there is something I wanted to mention. Right now I have a bunch of stuff up on eBay, and if you’re interested at all, please feel free to bid. All auctions end on Monday, so be quick!

That’s about all for now. Don’t worry about the lack of blog updates though, there will be something next week. After all, next Thursday is the anniversary comic.

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Technical Difficulties, Minus the Difficulties

by John Harmon on 2010/06/10 at 2:54 pm
Technical Difficulties, Minus the Difficulties

So as some of you may or may not know, this past Monday Mint Condition was going through a bit of an upgrade. I was trying to upgrade the version of ComicPress I use to get the latest features. It was mostly because I wanted the calendar archive to work. When I had everything set up, the archive calendar didn’t work properly, and when I asked about it, I was told it was a bug with the version of ComicPress I was using and was assured if I upgraded it would work properly.

Lo and behold it worked! But in the process I completely screwed something up and accidentally blew up my website. Needless to say (but I’ll say it anyway) I was pissed. But after talking with Frumph (the guy who created ComicPress) and after having him walk me through it we got my site back up and running! So I apologize for those few hours of non-existent Mint Condition comics and I’m sorry if you didn’t get a chance to read Monday’s comic until it was almost Tuesday. Believe me, next time I think about doing something like that on my own, I’ll ask first…

A huge thanks to everyone who may have bid on my recent eBay auctions. Not all of them sold, so I’m putting the ones that didn’t back up for auction. You can check them out to the right of these words I’ve conveniently typed out, or go here to my eBay listings page.

Haven’t got much else to say to today, except tune in this Monday to see what happens when the Mint Condition crew go up against…an evil chair. Until then.

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Mint Condition is Webcomic of the Month

by John Harmon on 2010/06/07 at 1:41 am
Mint Condition is Webcomic of the Month

First of all, In case you were wondering this is the start of a new storyline. That’s right. It’s about an evil chair. That’s actually sort of based on real life, but I forget why exactly we all thought Adam had an evil chair. I’m sure Nathan can remember, but I forget. I just remember its PRESENCE.

The words "I Called It" will suffice.

Anyway, like I said Mint Condition has been featured in an article over on Comic Attack. Webcomic of the Month is a monthly article that’s featured over there. I was contacted earlier this week to be a part of it, and I was pretty honored I must say. Not only does he write about Mint Condition, I also took part in a fairly long interview, so be sure to check it out. Here’s hoping the article brings in some new readers.

Next, let’s talk about Captain America. Specifically, the movie. I just noticed the other day what Captain America’s costume will look like in the movie. Now, I think it looks GREAT. The thing is though, I already customized a movie concept Captain America a couple of years ago that looks almost exactly like this.

Now I’m not saying it’s 100% like the movie costume (for instance I got rid of the big “A” on his forehead and the colors on mine are a bit more muted and gritty), but it’s pretty darn close, right down to the obligatory buckles and straps running vertically down either side of his chest. It’s funny actually, because originally I only added those for extra detail. My thinking was in the movie they’d probably throw in random crap like that just to add stuff to the costume…oh how right I was.

Now I’m not saying they stole the look from me, I’m just saying it feels good to have pretty much gotten his movie look down. I feel kinda awesome. And it makes me really excited about the Captain America movie. He is one of my favorite Marvel characters after all.

Oh, and I deserve money. Just sayin’.

Next, I just wanted to put a reminder out there about my current custom action figures up for auction on eBay. They’re, ya know…there. So again, if you’re interested check them out. They end in a couple of days.

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Minor Updates and The Lateness of Me

by John Harmon on 2010/06/03 at 2:51 pm
Minor Updates and The Lateness of Me

This comic took a surprisingly long time to do.

And in case you don’t read the hovertext of the comics, you can expect more of these to come in the future. When I had this idea, I had about 10 others with the same concept, but decided to space them out. The X-Tra Curriculars will be back! Eventually.

so, as usual, I know the comic was a few hours late today. And as usual, I apologize. I just don’t know what is with me lately. I think I’ve officially been put into a rut. This feels very rut-like I must tell you. I can assure you I’m doing everything I can to fix it. I’ve just never been very good at managing my time, and when all my work is spent on the computer and there’s also the internet inside computers…you catch my drift. I can get distracted. Which is really no excuse, but it does happen.

I think once the finished site and book are…finished…I’ll be able to better focus my attention on the actual comic, but I can’t tell you how long that will take. But believe you me, it will be done.

As for the site itself, I’m not going to be moving everything over. There will still be a cast page, links, a forum, etc., but I’m officially removing the Mint Condition store in its current form. CafePress has been doing nothing but hold me back, so once the site is fully operational and it’s been a little while, I think I’ll start making my own merchandise and selling it through here. Of course it would all have to be done in preorders so I could get the initial capital to invest in said merchandise, but I think things would work a lot more economically that way. Plus it would help me gauge just how interested people are in certain products. This would be for the better.

Also, I wanted to let you know about a couple of things I’ve been trying to experiment with. One is Ustream. I’ve seen a lot of Webcartoonists utilize this tool so that people could watch them draw live. I tried it a few nights ago, but had to stop since it was lagging my computer so much as to make work almost nonexistent. I’ll try to get the kinks worked out. If anyone knows how to properly use it, let me know. I’m also experimenting with Formspring. This seems to be another tool some Webcartoonists use so that fans, or anyone really can ask them anything they want and they’ll answer it via Formspring and it automatically gets updated through their Twitter account. It just seems like a lot of fun, really. And the best part is you guys don’t have to get an account there. You could make it anonymous if there’s anything you wanted to ask me that for whatever reason you wanted to keep your identity secret from. Have fun!

AAAAND, one more thing! Just a quick shameless plug about some of eBay listings I have going on right now. I’ve got some customs I’m trying to sell, and you can scroll through the eBay widget to see which ones I have up right now. If anyone at all is interested, please feel free to bid. I’ve been holding out selling these because they’re some of my favorite that I’ve ever done, but alas I must. Sometimes I forget that I make several of these customs for the sole purpose OF selling them, but I can get attached easily…so yeah. Bid.

That is all for now. Until Monday everyone!

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