Hello everyone...after almost a year and a half of hard work, sleepless nights, and labor I finished my first super hero sci-fi novel. Now I'm just looking for a little backing for it. If you're interested in lending some support, or just curious about my project please give it a look and let me know what you think.

And if you do decide to support my project, thanks in advance and I promise you...you won't be disappointed.

The First...by Kipjo Ewers

For years General Thaddeus E. "Thunderbolt" Ross, as battled the Bruce Banner a.k.a the Hulk, so it was a great turn of events when he actually became a Hulk, but has the man who spent most of his life and military career hunting and trying to destroy that which he has hated more than anything in his life become a better hero than the original.

Most of the times the original big Green just wants to be left alone, and not bother with humans, it’s only when he comes into contact with conflict he springs into action, him saving the world in the past is usually a case accident, the bad guy runs into him, and the Hulk trounces him, then springs off to find a place where he wants to be left alone again.

It was only recently (Before the Banner versus Hulk series) that Banner who gained control of the Hulk has been able to willing become a hero (somewhat) fighting to save the day.

Since Ross became the Red Hulk (and his plans of taking over the US was thwarted) he was recruited by Rogers to become a part of the Avengers, and despite a rocky road toward being accepted clearly he’s become the super powerhouse hero leaping into action to save the day, that the original Hulk is not. Hello he’s one of the leading heroes in the Avengers versus X-Men series taking on the Icon Juggernaut powered Colossus.

One may say that it’s because he has more control of the monster within, others may say that it’s because he’s a soldier through and through who is dedicated to doing his duty.

It could also be this…that despite his stone cold sour puss attitude and bad temper, Ross is a good person. A man with a conscience who knows right from wrong, and knows he has the power which is only second to the original to help fight the good fight which he does. And he’s gain acceptance even respect from his now fellow Avengers because they see past the red monster into his deeds that he is not only a good person, but a hero like they are.

The Hulk versus Banner series truly shows that Banner was actually the monster, not the Hulk himself; it also sparked my theory that all these years, Ross was not really hunting the monster known as the Hulk, he was hunting Banner. That he saw the potential evil lurking within Banner, and feared that with the power of the Hulk he would do more harm than good.

And becoming the Hulk himself has also vindicated Ross himself, all the years we booed and jeered Ross thinking him the bad guy for hunting the Hulk, there was a hero lurking inside ready to bust out…and though he may not be as powerful as the original…he may just be a better hero than the original.

COMMENT…AS YOU SEE FIT!!

I didn't make this video, but I just had to share it...truly epic for all who are comic book fans.

TELL VERIZON TO LEAVE OUR ANIME ON!!

On Verizon announced on February 16, 2012 that it will drop FUNimation Channel "on, or after March 15" due to "very low viewership".

Which means if you're a fan of Fairy Tale, Chaos Head, Darker than Black, Witch Blade, Chaos Head...after March 15th...it will all be...GONE.

As a fellow viewer of anime I think I speak for everyone else when I say, that I depend on Funimation to supply the BEST in anime that we don’t get to see on other channels. If you’re a fan of the Funimation channel now is the time to put your voice out there, DON’T LET THEM TAKE AWAY OUR ANIME FOLKS.

With all of the sports channels, food, sex, and decorating channels out there, Verizon should at least one channel for its customers who happen to be FANS of Anime!!

Please sign this petition below, and help make our voices heard! Thank you:

KEEP THE FUNIMATION CHANNEL ON VERIZON FIOS!!

 
In "Fear Itself" Book Five the Thunder God finally admitted to the Hulk that he could NEVER beat him...before he used a thunderbolt to blast him into outerspace... 
 
And in "The Incredible Hulks" #634 the WorldBreaker lived up to his name by ACTUALLY destroying an entire planet and everyone one on it INCLUDING FIN FANG FOOM...left over magic of a wishing well brought the planet back as well as everyone on it, but you still don't no gangsta than that. 
 
Feats like these should make people now think twice before underestimating the World Breaker in battles....BOOYAH!! 

I SUCK AT LOGO MAKING...there I said it...

With that said I'm looking for a top notch logo maker or graphic artist willing to take his or her time and engery and create a logo for my up and coming comic book company called Evo Universe Comics that I am looking to debute by the end of this year.

I have already written book one, currently working on book two and I also intend to do the artwork for it (once I purchase new equipment to replace the damaged ones I lost), but you can check out a sample of one of my creations Sophia Dennison on my homepage here who will be a MAJOR driving force and flag ship of my Evo Universe (the chick floating in red with the glowing eyes).

FYI - This will be a poser based 3D comic book that I will be putting to paper, I will be promoting the overall storyline on here and a site I am building in the months to come.

Now with that said, as I have already finalized the copyright for my company and characters it's dawned on me that I NEED a company logo! *smacks skull*

So what better place to hunt for one then on good ole Comic Vine!! I mean...this is what we're all about people!!

The Job pays between $50 to $75 dollars, and basically I'm looking for someone to do the following:

1) Take a Helix Model EXAMPLE: http://legacy.owensboro.kctcs.edu/gcaplan/anat/Notes/doubleHelix.jpg, and turn it into a DOUBLE Helix

2) Combine the Double Helix with an Atom Model EXAMPLE: http://www.sciencewithmrmilstid.com/media/atom.jpg    

3) And then finally slap the words EVO UNIVERSE somewhere in there.

Color scheme has to be green and white and I would need a logo with and without the name EVO UNIVERSE in there.

Anyone willing to give me a hand and make some money in the process I'd really appreciate it.

You can contact me via PM on here, or e-mail me at kipjoewers@yahoo.com.

Thanks again!    

This maybe the most eerie topic I ever posted but it’s something that has been on my mind for quite some time. We are a technological world, communication has gone from a simple phone call or beeper to cellphones where you can instant message and twitter till your thumbs fall off. Just when I finally mastered MySpace out came Facebook.

What gave me pause is when I stopped to think of all the accounts I have online whether to Monster, here, Deviant Art, IMVU, Marvel, DC…etc…etc…and then the eeriest thought came into my head…who closes these accounts when you’re dead?

I mean naturally if you happen to pass away for some unfortunate reason hopefully relatives who know you have an account would have enough sense to log onto your Facebook and inform friends of your passing as well as the company so that they can close your account. But what about your other accounts they may not know about, what if one has no family or friends to inform the living of your passing.   Does that mean your account stays on forever? Is there an expiration point with accounts and if not should there be one just to check and see if you’re alive or not?

Has anyone tried to contact someone not getting a response for months only to find out that they have passed away? Or is there someone who you’ve been trying to contact that has just not gotten back to you at all, not updated their page or anything, and has it ever ran through your mind that probably this person could be dead?

Would it behoove someone to make a list of all of their accounts online to close just in case they should pass away for some reason?

Death is never an easy topic to talk about, but with the information age being what it is, and one person having probably a million and one accounts with a million and one user names it stands to question what does one do when that person is no longer with us? Back in the day if you didn’t get a phone call or a letter from someone you got concerned and went and checked if the person was alright or not.

Now because people use fake names to hide their identity it’s extremely hard to find or contact them if you haven’t heard from them in awhile unless they outright give you their contact information.

So I ask the questions…online accounts for the dead…how are they handled? And if they are not, shouldn’t there be a system in place in order to? What do you think?

I felt my first off topic post should be something that could reach out to people who are or have been in my position, and hopefully provide both inspiration and motivation…hopefully.

To give you a little bit of background about myself, I was born and raised in New York from hard working parents of Jamaican ancestry. I was a very active kid growing up, I had video games like every other kid; Nintendo with Mario and Double Dragon, but my folks had the sense to kick me out of the house and tell me go play; and play I did. Tag, war, Transformers (we’d draw on cardboard boxes and make Autobot and Decepticon costumes, and then do battles), dress up as ninjas, and wrestling battle royals throwing each other over the neighborhood fence. This along with playing league baseball, getting into martial arts (I studied Ninjitsu, Muy Thai, and Tae Kwon Do), and regular weight lifting kept me fit and trim all the way up until my mid twenties. I was 160 pound solid with a rock hard six pack. Girls thought I was hot, a black bald headed Bruce Lee, my wife (who I’ve been with for almost 11 years) thought I was cute but too skinny go figure.

Then life comes out of nowhere and hits you with a king hit that knocks you on your ass. It started when my wife and I decided to live together; I got a stable job and started working toward a stable future.   That meant eight hours in the office sitting in front of a computer , getting up only for a coffee break, lunch, and to use the bath room, and then getting home to eat a late dinner. Breakfast? Eat it only when I had the time. Working out? Got less and less being replaced by more sleep, vegging out in front of the boob tube, or surfing the web.

As the years went by and my eating habits got worst (take-out became my best friend because I was too tired to cook), and my work-outs became no existent, as expected the weight started to add on. At first it wasn’t too bad, I had that husky look which my wife loved , and I liked it too; I remember walking around the city with my younger brother (whose got a body like the Rock mind you), and this guy bumped into me and stumbled backwards, he quickly apologized saying, “ My bad big man”. I cracked a smile because the code of the jungle held true, a certain size gives you a certain amount of respect; don’t believe me ask any dude over 6 foot 2 if I’m full of it.

However as the years rolled by that huskiness went to a dough boy look, and I became the target of the same criticism I unleashed on people who have probably been in my position for the same reasons, and I have to tell you it’s not pleasant. I went from being called the Black Bruce Lee to Fat Albert and the Stay Puff Marshmallow man, my self esteem hit an all time low, and every time I attempted to work out it just became too painful and I’d quit.

10 years later I went from 160 to 260 pounds and not a good 260. Three things became the key factor to changing my life permanently. First was the fact that my doctor hit me with the news that I had high blood pressure. Coming from a family who has a double risk of both high blood pressure and diabetes is not a good thing, and hearing the news did scare the crap out of me but not enough to persistently do something about it. I ate less bad foods and did more walking, it helped me shed a pound or two but not enough to make a major change in my life.

The second situation was one Halloween I decided to dress up as Green Lantern John Stewart; I was all set to order a costume from Heroes in Tights when my wife to be caught me and laughed reminding me that I would not look good at all in spandex. I know she was just teasing, but it still hurt to hear it, and looking in the mirror I knew she was right, so I didn’t bother buying it. I didn’t dress up at all for Halloween which is what I like to do.

The final straw came after I saw pictures of myself during our destination wedding in Mexico. The experience of being married to the most beautiful woman in the world is something I will treasure for the rest of my life, but my stomach turned when I really took a look at myself…there I was this fat guy in a white suit. It was there I decided enough was enough, I didn’t know how the hell this guy took over my life these past eleven years but it was time for him to go.   

I started devising a plan to eliminate this person I had become and get my physical life back on track, and I would like to share both my experience and advise with those on here who are either trying or have not taken that step yet.

#1: DO NOT SET A GOAL FOR YOURSELF…do not say I’m trying to work to become 150 or 120 pounds at such and such time, because if you don’t reach those goals you’re going to be depressed and quit. Changing the way you look should not be a goal change; it should be a life style change. You have to look at this as this is what I plan to do for the rest of my life because I want to be here as long as I possibly can, and it is proven that working out and eating healthy leads to a longer and healthier life, so damn setting goals.

#2: PAIN IS PAIN…there is no such thing as good pain so don’t let any trainer tell you that crap, every time you work out your muscles are being torn apart and when you rest they heal that’s how they build to become stronger. The key is learning to endure that pain in order to keep going where the pain is tolerable and because in the end it will lead to you become healthier.

#3: THROW AWAY THE DAMN SCALE…I mean it do not weight yourself.   A lot of reason why people up and quit working out is because they work out for awhile, they start weighing themselves, see that they’re not losing any weight and then just up and quit. Number one, muscle weights more than fat so if you’ve been working out for awhile and see no weight loss or gained some weight it’s probably because you’ve gained muscle under your fat i.e. why you’re either the same or heavier. So do not weight yourself, remember this is a life style change and the fat will eventually go. The reward you should be looking for is when your clothes begin to sag off of you and you have to buy new ones to fit your new size.

#4: BUY AN MP3 PLAYER, GOOD HEADPHONES, AND CRACK IT UP…Another reason people get discouraged is when they enter the gym they see all the healthy people there and they get discouraged and want to leave. Number one you’re not there for them, you’re there for yourself, but I’ve been there and wanted to run too. I thank God for my IPod because once I put it on and crack it up I get into a zone and see no one around me, good music gets me motivated where I stay focused and work out harder and more effectively so I suggest investing in one.

#5: 30 MINUTES…THAT IS ALL YOU NEED…30 to 45 minutes for 3 to 4 days a week is all you need to get a good workout if you do it right. I’m fortunate enough to have a gym on the premise of my job, and I’m able to do my workouts during my lunch break, for those who have hectic lives there has got to be 30 minutes you can find to work out, if not you need to start thinking about a serious life change. Stop surfing the web so much, knock off the twittering, or give Face book a rest; and if you’re a video game addict there’s no excuse now that they have games where you can both work out and play at the same time too.

If you’re old fashioned like me a little bit of advice is:

1)       Do not do either the treadmill or the stair stepper, depending on your weight you will hurt yourself, or damage your knee because of the shock of the weight coming down on it. Stick to the elliptical machine which takes you off the ground and the stationary bike.

2)       Don’t need a whole lot of sets to get a good work out, especially when you don’t have the time. I do a full body work out in 30 minutes by doing the following.

10 minutes – bike or elliptical machine to warm up.

1 Set - 20 – 25 reps bench press (light weight)

Rest – 2 minutes

Crunches (I usually pick a song and do it till it ends, you can do it till you can’t do any more)

15 - 30 minutes – bike or elliptical machine to finish off.

#6: DON’T BE AFRAID TO EAT…eating is key to losing weight, if you starve yourself or eat less your body will lose weight slower because it’s trained to have a certain amount of food it in. A good breakfast in the morning is key, light snacking in the middle (I usually eat peanuts or popcorn), a nice lunch, more snacking if you’re hungry, and a small dinner. The key is the CUT OFF POINT which should be before five or six o’clock. Eating after seven when you know you’re just going to lounge around before you go to sleep is what keeps the weight on, and NO midnight snacking.

#7: DO NOT BEAT YOURSELF UP…And this is VERY important, if someone told me eleven years ago I would be in this situation I would laugh in their face, but that’s the funny thing about life; if you’re not looking it comes in fast and unexpected. There will be times when you slip up and have that burger with a side of fries, it’s okay to cheat; the key is LIFE STYLE change there is NOTHING wrong with eating burgers and fries, it’s when the burger and fries is all that you eat that is when you have a problem.  

The end result to this is after three months I feel great, my clothes are starting to sag, I see muscle tone and definition; I have a ton more energy than I had in the past, and I feel myself getting stronger and stronger every day. I plan to join a gym with my lovely wife soon so we can both work out together because I want us both to be together hopefully into our twilight years.

I won’t lie…I do have ONE goal, and that’s to dress-up as John Stewart for Halloween, so I am working toward that Green Lantern body, and when I reach it I plan to post pictures for everyone to see. If you’ve been where I’ve been or are still there, need some words of encouragement, advice or a support system feel free to drop me a line.   Know that you’re not alone, the road can be hard, but it’s not impossible to overcome and get to where you want to go.

Thank you for reading.