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"I dreamed instead of did. I hoped and i wished instead of tried."

Max phillips, also know as "Pops" said that in an episode of The Twilight Zone entitled "Vietnam", i believe. Which reminds me, i should probrably put Rod Serling on my list of favorites. That man was a genius and if he wasn't saved i will be very surprised. Anyway, This episode and this particular line has great sentimental value to me. I'm a procrastinator. I've been a procrastinator all my life. Always wanting more, never doing what it took to get it. It wasn't until late one night, during the last hours of an all day Twilight zone marathon, with my wife asleep on the sofa and the kids asleep on the floor around me, that i heard the single line that would stay with me for the rest of my life. I nearly dropped my can of grape soda right on my sons head.lol Max Phillips has just found out about his sons death and looks into the sky filled with regret and weeps over his wasted life. That was all it took to scare me straight. The prospect of me looking back and weeping over my wasted life did not appeal to me. I guess i just needed to see it from the outside. I guess the best thing i can do is something, anything.

I would no longer wait for the circumstances to be right. I would no longer wait for a convention to come by so i could get my portfolio critiqued. I would no longer wait until i could afford the "right" equipment and tools. I would not wait for someone else to hire me. I wanted to make a comic book, and i will make it. Jack Chick wrote and drew his first CHICK Tract on his kitchen table. Joe Casey wrote Marvel Comics in his living room on a tv dinner stand. I have all i need; A pencil, Some paper, and God.