Well, I am feeling better this morning. My voice is gradually coming back to me, and I hope to have it back by tonight. This evening, I am going to have dinner with my surrogate grandparents. That should be really cool, as I can't cook worth a damn, and I'm kinda' getting sick of pizza. Real home cooking will be a welcome change of pace.

Other news: Well, I have come up with a great idea for a webcomic that combines two of the coolest things out there: vampires and samurai. I call this concept "Blood Without Honor." Basically, it's about this powerful 16th-century samurai who encounters a vampire after a massive defeat. Unable to bear the shame of defeat, he is on the verge of commiting seppuku when the vampire talks him out of it and turns him into a vampire. However, the shame is still with the samurai as he returns to his castle, where he is presumed dead. His attendants and retainers are all shocked by his return, and even more so by his drained appearence and his bloodshot eyes. Gradually his household is transformed into undead minions, as he is forced to seek blood, but is not strong enough yet to do anything except sneak around the castle and take victims one by one, a method without honor (hence, the title). The stirrings of the undead in his province attract the attention of the Jesuit order. Given the Catholic Church's longstanding hatred of the undead, they begin assembling a band of vampire-hunters to rid Japan of the demonic scourge. Chosen to lead this band is a ronin who served the now-vampire lord before his supposed death. This is something I have just been playing around with in my head for the past month or so. I just need someone with m4d l337 4r7 sk!llz, as mine are of Dom-calibur (see Megatokyo's infamous "Shirt-Guy Dom's Abstract Art Days" and you will know what I mean by that. You can only do so much with stick-figures.). Keep in mind that I want to keep it stylish and sharp, rather than silly, as it could easily devolve into that. Well, tell me what you think.