08/24/2003: I have most recently returned from a trip to Anime Iowa. Another year of too cute high school girls dressed as anime characters (Chi from Chobits, ALL of them), not so cute guys dressed as anime characters (split about 80/20 female to male characters), a yaoi box that got a heck of a lot of play, guards at the door to the dealer's room, still looking for that great Chinese place that moved on us two years ago, and chatting with the webcomics artists.
 
I spent quite a bit of time talking with the artists and writer of Death and Transfiguration: Stacie, Maciek and Kim. Got free beer (thanks!). I didn't get to see much of Ray, the 3-D artist because he showed up REALLY late Friday night, like 8:00 in the morning or something. They have been coming to Anime Iowa for at least the last two years to promote their webcomic. We compared notes until about 3am, mutually ooo-ing and ahh-ing each others' work. Great fun! These are great people with really big ideas for their comic. They've been doing this for two years and are still on part 1 of 26. I unfortunately have not read their comic or I could write more of a review:
 
Death and Transfiguration is a sci-fi comic. It has a lady with blue hair and 3-D rendered backgrounds and space ships. The work is done on a Mac using Photoshop for layouts and Lightwave for 3-D rendering. Lightwave is apparently a $2500 piece of software they found on Ebay for around $200 or something like that.
 
Death and Transfiguration is part of Studio Antithesis.