Jayden and Crusader started out as a doodle comic on my dA account way way way back in July 07.
It debued on Drunk Duck on August the 1st, and has now been moved here, thanks largely to my friend Johnathon, aka, Kirrus.

This site will probably get moved about a bit, reworked, with banners, adverts and so on, but for the moment its plain.

Hello All.

A quick update from your friendly neighbourhood sysadmin here. I’ve just added some functionality to this website. Things may be a bit broken though, so if you notice anything wrong, let either myself or the author of this fine comic know.

Thanks,

Kirrus

So… today I went on my first University Open day to see where the hell I am going to go in September 09. So far, Exeter looks like the best place. I would like to get into Cambridge, and I’ll need to see what Bristol and Southampton are like, but when I visited Exeter I think I found a place I would be very happy to study at.

One thing I liked about Exeter, that got me really excited, is that I realised they’d fixed the problem with Modern Architecture. Each building on the campus taken on their own, excluding a few older ones, is ugly. Almost ungodly. However, the way they are slotted into Exeter, the way they flow across the hills, the use of trees to soften the hard edges, the wonderful contrasts that exist throughout between nature and architecture, its a beautiful university.

On the flipside, I am still in a quandary about what I wish to study, although it is still a toss up between Geography and Engineering, specifically civil engineering. I love engineering, I really do. Ever since I was a little boy, reading about Isembard Kingdom Brunel, I new I wanted to be an engineer. I love the challenge of it, the romance, the science. I don’t want to be a mechanical engineer, messing around with cars, and new materials, but a civil engineer, designing rail networks, electricity grids, world class buildings. That’s what I would love to do. On the other hand, I am very good at Geography. I could probably get a Masters with very ‘little’ effort. Obviously I would have to put in the work, but it wouldn’t be nearly as taxing as trying to get the MEng. Maths, is my weakness right now.
I need to find a private tutor. As soon as possible. If a tutor got me an A* in English, it can get me an A in Maths. Screw the expense!

The trains getting down to Exeter were abysmal. Total signal failure at my home station Didcot Parkway, I had to drive to Bristol to get the train south. It probably would have been easier, cheaper and far faster to simply drive all the way. But at the time, I’d decided on the train, and wasn’t to be dissuaded. Here’s a logic puzzle. If it costs £20 to go from A to B and £20 to go from B to C, how much does it cost to travel from A to B to C to B to A? Answer: £68.50. Second Question, how much does it cost to go from B to C to A? Answer: £70.50. British public transport is insane right now.
A single ticket should cost half a return. A return should cost twice a single, unless it is a cheap day return with limited train times. That’s it. I don’t care how you fiddle the numbers, keep it simple. Keep it understandable.
Don’t prat about. When/if I become an engineer, First Great Western is where I am heading FIRST.

As some of you may have noticed on Thursday, I broke the comic a couple of times, adding fixes and tweaks. I’ve finally managed to hack them into working, with the liberal use of a couple of .htaccess Redirect rules. For some reason there seems to be something a little screwy with some of the links.

The main addition, is that you can now click on a comic anywhere in the archive to move to the next one. Hope that helps

Anyway, if you notice something not working, please let me know by emailing here: kirrus@kirrus.co.uk

Cheers,

Kirrus

Friday’s update, the 11/06/08 will be late because of unrelenting school work and unexpected family matters.

It should be up at roughly 18:00 hours BST or about 14:00 Eastern Seaboard and the rest of you guys can figure out your own times.

Sorry for the delay, there was really no way to avoid it (except a time machine)

I just spent the last hour adding real titles (instead of dates) to all the comics in the archive, only to remember that we’re going to move to a new domain soon.

God I can be stupid sometimes

A new blog post soon…

So, last week I went to London, and I promised you a write up, not that any of you actually asked, and here it is.

It was my Birthday in May and my godmother decided to get me tickets to the BBC proms, the concert happening on Wednesday. It was great. I had some difficulty with the trains, I always do, but it was empty enough and I managed to find one wi-fi point at Paddington that was free, no idea which, so I could check my emails.

London last week was hot. It’s always meant to be about 3 degrees warmer in the city than the countryside but good god, people in London must be boiling in their skins! I was lucky I was going during the week because the traffic that week was fairly light, as light as it gets in London, so I didn’t have to spend too long in a taxi, and I didn’t go on the underground on wednesday either. The reason was that the Bakerloo line appears to be run by monkeys, and all the trains were late and crowded, but it would have been punishingly humid down there.

It’s times like this I wish I had a camera. This blog is going to be a little dry without them, but I don’t have one, although I am saving for one.

I had dinner at the restaurant at the Royal Albert Hall, with champagne no less, which was great, there is a great atmosphere down there. The concert itself was two pieces of Mendelson and one of Brahms, the former was at one point banned by the Nazi party, so it couldn’t be all bad. Indeed, the second movement of the second piece was utterly fantastic, although the Brahms was, well, like Brahms, slow, meandering and never reaching any suitable climax.  Also, during the Brahms there was a pianist who, it was quite clear, gained orgasmic pleasure from playing. Seriously, I half expected him to suddenly moan, and stop playing, and everyone look at him “Er… Peter, we’ve got two movements left to do…” and he reply “Oh, I’m sorry honey, wasn’t it good for you?” It was disturbing watching him play.

Seriously.

I stayed the night at my godmothers in Laytonstone where, over some drinks, I explained my plans to simply go home the next day to my godfather. He said this was far too boring and thrust £40 into my hand to go do something fun.  This I did.

I headed down to Southwalk, near the Houses of Parlaiment, with the intention of going on the London Eye. It is recomended that you book in advance for this, but if you get there early enough you can get tickets before it gets too full. Sadly, it seems 10:20AM is not early enough, as the crowds there were suffocating, so instead I went to the London Aquarium, an attraction I have been going to since I was about 6. Great fun as usual, I will never get bored of watching fish swim. After this I went to the Salvidor Dali exhibition next door, which really fired up my artistic vigour, it was a great experience. I have never been a fan of modern art, but Salvidor Dali is something else entirely. With him you know that if it looks like it was drawn by a 5 year old, its because he wants it to look that way, every brush stroke is original, every idea concentrated to its purist form. One thing that kept springing out to me, and getting its hooks in my brain was the idea that Reality, while a great place to live, was optional, and whenever you like you can jump into the surreal, the non-existant, the bizarre.

I like that idea.

I journeyed down the Thames in search of something to eat and found some delightful entertainers including a rather impressive Cpt. Jack Sparrow impersonator. He couldn’t quite get the voice right, but everything else was there, it was pretty impressive. There was a vast open air bookshop, which I looked through, although there was nothing much interesting to buy, many buskers were down that boulevarde as well. There was however a stage and live music sponsered by the theatre there, which was quite entertaining, although a bit bland by my standards, having been spoilt by many indie rock bands.

And that was pretty much it, I wondered over to St. Pauls, just to check it’s still there, wondered over to the houses of Parliament, and then back to Waterloo station, taking me back to Paddington and from there, home.

And that’s the tale of what happened when Crusader went to London. I intend to go to London again at least once more this summer, so you might get another update.

Although I intend that one to have pictures.

Speaking of pictures….

My birthday, as I said ealier, was in May, and my Dad completely surprised me by making a Jayden and Crusader cake. Yes, you heard me. A Jayden and Crusader cake.

Needless to say, it was awesome, and I have some pictures of it for you here. Well, a picture really, I have two, but they’re the same thing

Hello all,

We’ve finally moved. Apologies for it being a little later than the week I wanted to get it done in. Had problems, moved hosts and my work is taking a huge amount of my time at the moment.

So, let me be the first to welcome you to our new home, www.JaydenAndCrusader.com

Enjoy!

- Johnathon

Howdy everyone! And an extra-special howdy to all those recently joining us, following our new ad campaign. I hope you stick around.

It’s been a bit of a while since I last blog posted, and a bits changed. I’m back at school so I am working about 12 hours a day at that now. For that reason, is this announcement.

Jayden and Crusader Updates on Mondays. Occasional, rare, updates, can occur midweek. This is a step down from the 2 a week I was getting used to, and is much less than the 1 a day I’d like to do, but such is life liberty and the persuit of happiness. I hope you turn up on Mondays regularly, or else subscribe using our RSS and email features (to the right, above the advert and vote banner).

Also: Jayden and Crusader now has forums. I hope to see you all there as soon as possible, and I hope any of the aether crowd that followed me here will sign up, because it’d be great to see you. Any of you, it’ll be good to talk.

Also if you have any requests for the halloween special send them in now, because I need to plan it. If you want to see Third dressed up as Darth Vader, tell me, you want to see Crusader as your favourite bleach character, tell me, and I’ll see what works. (I withhold the right to ignore you, but I probably won’t).

Just leave a comment here, or send me an email at mcilroyspeed at googlemail dot com

I have a little Christmas Present for you all.

You will all know that Jayden and Crusader has a hole in it’s archive, but now it’s… still empty. But you can see the black and white inked versions here at my deviant art gallery.

It’s not done yet, and hell, it might well be another year before I get them coloured but hey, it’s better than nothing. Admittedly, there is still a small hole, the hole that the script wants another artist to fill.

Talking of which, I still need 5 pages done by another artist, if you’re interested, please email me.

So yeah, Ozimaar arc, ‘finished’ and a little extra christmas present for you all