A Brief History of TSC

"The Slacker Chronicles" is a project that has taken many forms over the years: comedy sketch show, radio show, sprite comic, web sitcom, short film, and even short fiction. Unfortunately, many of these forms, such as the short fiction, web sitcom, comedy sketch and radio shows, only reached the planning stages, and progressed no further. Which leaves only the sprite comic and short film.

The sprite comic was a project I worked on during my downtime while working graveyard shift for an undisclosed company. Suffice to say it wasn't very good, suffering from ugly sprite work, poor writing, and unfunny in-jokes. Luckily for you, the reader, and myself, most of the strips no longer exist and all that remains are a few unfinished sprite sheets and the first part of a three part comic lengthily titled, "The Slacker Chronicles Presents Bobby K in : "Girl Trouble"".

In 2008 (?), for a class project, JD developed a short film based upon some of our earlier ideas. A little more than 5 minutes in length, the film focused upon three "interconnecting" stories featuring each of the three main characters: Randy, JD, and Bobby. Like all great films, problems plagued the production. Broken equipment prevented the film from being shot until late in the school semester, resulting in a film that was shot within less than two hours one cloudy afternoon. In addition, the max run time had to be cut down from the original ten minutes to a mere five minutes of run time. Due to most of the plot having to be cut for time, the end result was not up to JD and his collaborator's expectations.

Now its time for another try. We have once again decided to revive "The Slacker Chronicles", this time as a blog talking about the stuff that interest us the most. Over the next few weeks and months, we plan on producing a few vlogs, and podcasts about video games, movies, music, and whatever else catches our interest.

In all hopes, this will be the first post of many. Maybe I'll write something coherent next time.