Got the first preliminary panels from Brian today to color... i have NO idea what i'm doing, but for being really sketchy and not inked, they came out ok. It's gonna take a lot longer than i thought originally, unless i get a wacom tablet or something... mmmm wacom.

Work is plugging along, though it seems people are vying for my attention at completely inappropriate times, like when i'm eating lunch, or first thing walking in the door in the morning, before i've even been to the shop yet. I just want to take these people and throttle them till they break.

Job #2 was funny last night... this guy wanted me to help him forge his high school diploma.
-Customer approaches counter with girlfriend, after failing to figure out the self-serves (bad sign already)
C "I was wondering if you can help me"

-customer produces a diploma, with that 'i spilled water on it by accident and the ink ran from my inkjet printer' look to it, no seal, no stamp, no signature and no notary.

C "I want to add something to the background of this"
M "Uh, I can photocopy that, but i can't really add anything to the background of it, plus the silver foil won't reproduce well"
C "Oh, i just wanted to add this, like real big and faded"

-customer hands me his birth certificate, which has been folded to showcase the state seal

M "You mean like a watermark?"
C "Yeah, can you do that?"
M "not really... it won't look very good if i enlarge it, and it'll take some cut and pasting to get it behind your type, and..."
-at this point i realized that it wasn't his diploma, that he was trying to fake one for whatever reason. My hypothesis was found to be true when he produced a pack of certificate paper identical to what his 'diploma' was copied on.

M "... i'm sorry sir i'm not going to be able to help you with that. we don't do that sort of work here."

-customer gets slightly flustered

C "You mean you can't or you wont."
M "Well, it has become brutally obvious to me that you don't have a high school diploma, or else you wouldn't be asking me to forge this one for you."
C "So you can't help me?"
M "Uhh, what part of 'We don't forge documents here' were you unclear on? Look if you want to commit fraud you're more than welcome, but i won't
be a part of it."
C "Well do you have computers for the public to use?"
M "I'm going to have to ask you to leave now."
C "You're asking me to leave?"
M "Do you want me to tell you to leave? Or should i call the manager, or better yet, the police?"
C "Come on baby, let's just go to philly, i know a guy who can help us."

I mean, what the shit is that about? I got a good laugh out of it at least.