I am beginning to suck at posts. I sort of feel like that relation that you don’t really know well enough to miss but they turn up for family events nonetheless. Only my family events are movie releases. Or some sort of significant date in the calendar. I swear it’s not on purpose though. I don’t want to grovel and make excuses (this isn’t university after all) but, as Ben said, we all have commitments. But I do get frustrated when I can’t do comic stuff. I have so many ideas but no time to do them. or I didn’t anyway. I do now. I swear I’ll be a better HAC-ian. Seen as I haven’t done any posts in a considerable amount of time consider this a recap of all the things I’ve missed, events, reviews and future stuff. Future for HAC- not just the general future.

Well as Ben mentioned in his Christmas post we recently hit 25,000 subs on Youtube. That’s pretty fucking amazing. I’d like to pretend to be all cool and calm about it but I check the Youtube page every day. I’m not going to lie. I don’t claim to take any credit by any means, Ben and David do much more work than I do on videos (again, I swear I’ll get better). Nonetheless I am VERY proud of how this little notion developed at my dining room table over 3 years ago had developed. It’s so so flattering to know that that many people enjoy our videos.

Well we had out HAC Christmas party a couple of weeks ago. Of course there’s only 3 of us so it was essentially a normal night out but with a selection of toasts. Of course when I say “toasts” I mean shouting “21,000!!!!!” and raising cheap shots. I have a treat however. Anyone who listens to the Podcasts will have most likely heard us mention “Bubbles”. For those who don’t it’s a pretty rank little “Cellar Bar” in the town we all live in (although David’s mostly away for uni), it’s disgusting but it’s one of the only acceptable places to go of a night time. I have photos though, commemorating the event and not a photocopied ass in sight.

The notorious yellow walls. The entire bar is covered in this hideous yellow swirliness for gawd knows what reason.

It started off so civilised. Or as civilised as bright blue liquid can be…

The toast wasn’t only to our success so far but also to the many many people who’ve been kind enough to “like”, subscribe, follow and comment.

After a few drinks David felt brave enough to ask if he could touch my septum ring. He got a little weirded out.

Ben goes for a traditional Facebook style pose.

Yep…

I should also add that this was actually the first time Ben and I had seen David since we officially invited him to join us a few months ago.


Right=Reverse, Left=….Let’s go. Obviously.

Yeah someday people are going to come to Bubbles to have their photos taken in front of that sign. It’ll be like an Abbey Road type thing.

This concludes the photo essay section of the post.

Another thing that occurred since my last installment was seeing 50/50. It was actually released on my Birthday (the lack of gifts and well wishes from fans did NOT go un-noticed by the way) so Ben and I went to see it then. Turns out it’s NOT a movie for birthdays, I did not anticipate so much crying… There’s a reason why I didn’t write a full review though- there was very little to say about it. Without sounding too gushy, it was damn near perfect- the best movie I’ve seen in a LONG time. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve seen some good films this year but none that i could pick so little faults with. My qualms weren’t with the movie itself but with the packaging. It was sold as a comedy with a very heavy bromance theme. There actually wasn’t that many comedy moments but the parts that were there were laugh out loud hilarious. There also wasn’t that much Seth Rogen screen time, but it worked out okay because Joseph Gordon Levitt was just so strong as the lead role. I’d highly recommend it to anyone, along with a recommendation to acquire some tissues beforehand.

Christmas!! This also happened recently. I’ll not go on about it, I really just want to gloat about my beautiful presents. In particular a Tank plushie from L4D, an L4D medikit hoodie an awesome WoW tee and my beautiful new Lomography camera. It was a VERY nice selection of gifts.

Finally, hopes and dreams. Not really, not at all. But we have plans for HAC. I am seriously so filled with ambition for all the things I want to do. I’m naturally a very negative person, so for me to be filled with such hope for stuff is just bizarre. So things. Well we (me and Ben) have plans to do some Left 4 Dead videos soon which will be the first co-op videos from my point of view. I’m a big Left 4 Dead fan so it seems only right. I am not, however, massively good so it should still be entertaining. This is of course along with the other videos that were already going such as the Saints Row the Third and GTA4 videos. We’re also planning to finally branch out in merchandise- something we’ve been wanting to tackle for what feels like ages. Expect to be buying beautiful HAC things very soon. Also, I can pretty much promise that if I see someone where a HAC shirt in the street I’ll more than likely shake their hand which is an honour right? Finally, more podcasts (server issues etc meant our last few couldn’t go up) and hopefully some actual comics.

For all of the above though, participation is genuinely appreciated. For example if there’s any games you want to see any of us at HAC do videos of let us know and we’ll try to work it out. Same goes for t-shirts- if you have a quote or phrase from a video or podcast that you would proudly wear on your chest then LET US KNOW. There’s a good chance that it could be used as a design. now that’d be pretty fucking cool right?

That is all.