Happy 2012 Friends

This not particularly enthusiastic chicken is here to wish you a Happy New Year. I resolve, here and now, with regards to this site, that I will post more next year than I did this year. I mean I barely managed 200 posts this year.

Decided this would be better as the last post of 2011 then the first post of 2012. Even used the fancy scheduling functions to set it to post in the final minute. But, given my intent I'll probably post somethign tomorrow too.

HERO: BATTLE 04

I'm sorry. This issue took nearly nine months to come out.  The next, and final, issue will be posted in a more timely manner. Enjoy the battle between the Rookie and the King.

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House Puzzle

Four chickens lived in four houses on a street.

RON has only one next door neighbor
CON is right of JON, but not next door
DON is right of RON

Felt like making a puzzle. Not a particularly hard one I'll admit. Highlight below for answer.
LEFT
Ron
Jon
Don
Con
RIGHT

9

This is the number 9. Because transparency is fun. He's just handing out and relaxing in the round part of the 9. And yeah... I decided against the upside-down 6 style 9. I like the distinct parts.

XMAS 2011

Sorry. It's a tad overlarge. Click for the full sized one.

I nearly missed Christmas all together.

Santa Chicken hovers beside the Christmas tree covered in chicken ornaments. Just a whole mess of generic scribbled together chickens for the fun of it. Even features ole' Politichicken. The Red White and Blue Bird of Patriotism, cause drawing realistic colors all the time is boring.

depressed

a super depressed chicken contemplating suicide

CHALLENGE COMPLETE!

Suicide by fast food chicken restaurant.

These Potential Chickens Died On Your Farmer's Face Last night by MercuryCrest

Sorry, couldn't resist the tagline.
I haven't used MS Paint in 15 years, but this blog has inspired me.
The attached is my version of "SuperChicken"...mainly because I eat them constantly....

Yes. eggs are indeed potential chickens. interesting use of colors, though it is rather inconsistent. I mean brown is the outline of the white, but black is the outline of the yellow. Of course you saved it in Bitmap which is lossless(which is good) but bad for the internet(which is why I resaved it in PNG) Also this picture was pointlessly large in resolution and surrounded by more white space than I like to see.

No real problems with it, though I don't care for large single pixel outlines.

New Projects Header

I decided the Project Page needed some freshening up, and you know, a fair number of updates.  And, well, as first I was just gonna update it or maybe reformat it a bit, but I decided to give it a new page image. Also, I think I'm redesigning the site to breath some new life into it. Don't worry. I won't pull anything too crazy. It'll still be basically the same... But who knows. I might just be going wild with it.

As for the fact that I straight pasted Shades in... Shades is still a great piece and I never redraw him anywhere else. That's practically the point of Shades McCoolguy

8

The monochromatic dichotomy of this image gives distinct borders to the image, while the shared understated background helps to lend a sense of mystique to the form in the foreground.

Looking Fowl: Eye of Weakness

There was a chicken with a Looking Eye, the Eye of Weakness. Once ones eyes met them they could never look away and all strength in their body would simply drain away. They were at the mercy of the fowl or any passer-by who might avert the bird's eyes.


A guard passing through the woods can find many things, as this one did today. A hen was roosting int he middle of the path. Normally he'd pay it no mind. Step around it or kick it aside, but today the man lowered himself down to move the bird out of the way. He was truly a generous sort on this occasion.


Unfortunately for him this bird was not sitting there randomly. The guard had fallen into a thief's foul trap. As he grasped the bird it's eyes opened and the guard collapsed, his eyes locked on the bird. Mere moments later a man took the bird from his feeble grip. Soon this man would have all of the guards things, and the guard would draw his last breath.

But, a small mercy saved the guard. The bird turned it's head and met the eyes of the thief. As the hen looked away from the guard his strength flooded back, and the thief quickly collapsed. The guard's boot brought an early end to the thief's career, crushing his hand. Uncertainly he lifted the bird under one arm, and took the thief in the other.

On that day the bird was a hero who had helped with catching the thief.