January 23 / New website layout! Hey! Wassup folks? I just have a few things in mind. First, I want to thank you for the great support, the webcounter states that in a month or so, there has been over 800 visitors at DComics website. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Secondly..TATAA! A new website layout! I hope you enjoy it!

xo
Joanna

Hollaa! I hope you all have had a great christmas and enjoyed your time with your families. :) I'm very happy to tell you that I've added a new strip to the site! It's actually the 20th strip made so far! Oh my, oh my...

xo
Joanna

THE WHOLE STORY ONLINE NOW!!! (Also a short strip added to 'All The Comics'.)

Hey! I just wanted to give you an update about The Christmas Special. It's half way done by now, meaning that it still needs to be coloured and needs some trimming. Let it also be said, that it has 8 pages + covers. Click here to see some teasers!

xoxo
Joanna

I added some new stuff to the site again, Request art -section and support section (that will have affiliates included in a while). I also updated the other art -section by adding on new piece of art...not, but still. Just... if you're interested to know what Wil Francis/Aiden, would look like if he was fat, take a look, haha!

Also, I couldn't resist... I was watching (finnish) Idols last Sunday, and they had Andreas Carlsson as a guest judge. And THIS was all I could thinkg about. Sorry...

xoxo
Joanna

Hey, just dropping by to say I've made some additions to the site! First of all, I've added a new section for other art by me, feel free to take a look and to leave comment to the guestbook! I've also added a section for the fans only. I'll be putting together a series of interviews of David's wonderful fanbase. So stay tuned with that!

xoxo
Joanna

So DComics is finally settled here on David Cook brazil. Take a look around! Explore the site and et me know what you think! I welcome any new ideas!

Here's a story for you.

A while ago I made a promise, that I wouldn't get my ears to the album before I actually have it in my own hands. Though, this promise didn't include the songs Light On or Time Of My Life, which I had both already heard (and loved).

So came the day that the album came out and I didn't have he money to buy it. I thought to myself; what harm would it do if I'd just download it? I downloaded the album (bad, bad me) but made another promise to myself: I still wouldn't listen to it.

I downloaded the album and lasted a whole day without listening to it. I went to bed and woke up next morning thinking about the album. I thought to myself; what harm would it do if I'd just add it to my iTunes? And so I added the whole album to my iTunes but made a third promise to myself: I still wouldn't listen to it.

What happened was that the day couldn't have gone worst. All the feelings I have been suffering from for my teenage ears had came rushing back as the days have had started to get darker and winter was already knocking on the door. I had been crying the whole day. I opened my computer to download my iPod and thought to myself; what harm would it do if I'd downloaded the album from my iTunes to my iPod? So I did download it to my iPod with a fourth promise: I still wouldn't put the headphones on and listen to it.

I ended the day by going to bed and thinking stuff. Full of anxiety, ending up in tears. I thought to myself; what would it really matter if I'd just listen little clips from the start of each song? I made a fifth promise: I still would definitely not listen to the whole songs.

So, with all the anxiety gone, with my heart full of hope and excitement - I put my headphones on and pressed play. Let it be known, that my iPod is always on suffle. There for, Come Back To Me was the first song that reached my ears.

Tears filled my eyes as someone was finally saying the words I had been too weak and scared to say. I went through the songs, every single one of them being exactly what I had wished for, and more. I fell asleep, feeling a little better than I had before.

I woke up next morning, still a little shook up from everything that had been going through my mind yesterday. As I came across the thought that I had been listening to the album in small clips, I noticed that I couldn't really remember much about the songs. With that said, I figured that last night's clips didn't really count. So I thought to myself; what harm would it really do if I'd just listen little clips from the end of each song? So I did. I made a sixth promise: I still would definitely not listen to the whole songs.

Today, I started by reading to my exams next Wednesday, that's what I've done for the past -let's say, six hours? So I thought to myself; fuck these promises, I'll reward myself. So it seems, that even though I'm not a much of a promisekeeper with myself, when it comes to fighting against... um, me - I definitely won with this battle!

I love the album and I still admire this man. It feels so good to hear that David's still purely, completely David, not a mainstream sellout. I bet the mainline with the album is pretty much where everyone expected it to be.

I can't really name my favorite song yet, since I'm listening to the album for the first time (IN THEORY!!) and I really love all the songs. With that said, I'd still like to bring up a few of them.

I really love Light On, the song kind of grew on me. My dad passed away a while ago and I kind of think about him everytime I listen to the song. My relationship with my dad was never a good one guess, but I still loved him to death. I still do. A guess somewhere inside I hope that if he's sitting on a cloud, (or a magic rainbow) Light On is something he'd like to say to me.

Bar-Ba-Sol. I've been kind of amused about the name before I heard the whole song. Now I think it really fits 'cause the riff kind of sounds like 'bar-ba-sol bar-ba-sol bar-ba-sol bar-ba-sol...' Ha ha, love it!

Now, let it be said out loud - Surely you all know what David's voice does to us all at Permanent. Crawls on your skin giving you the chills, nibbling a hole to your skin to make it's way your heart. It knocks on it's door furiously, steps in, lights a small candle decides to stay.

xoxo,
Joanna

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As the lights have dimmed out and the singer takes a step to the microphone. The room is filled with noises and dozen colors of emotions. He opens his mouth with a power of letting out an army of sounds that dance their way to the crowd, making everyone's hearts beat to the rhythm of it through out the song. He takes credit for his talent but he doesn't mention it out loud 'cause he doesn't want to seem too arrogant. As the crowd swings to the music, he ends his preformance to a high note with pride, carrying an understanding that he has something special in his voice.

He blinks his eyes not once, but twice, realizing that he has just touched millions of lives he never knew existed before. He bows down, as if he was grieving, when he has actually just closen his eyes to realize this was one of the highlights of his life. The singer sheds a tear while he glares at all these people, amazed by their love and support.

In about 5611 miles away, a girl in her livingroom sheds a tear too, being one of the touched ones and realizing this moment was on of her life's higlights too. Still, though being so far away, she feels like she's in the same room, breathing the same air, dancing with sounds. She doesn't like her past, she's been bullied at school, been heartbroken and lost, and lost her father in a car accident recently. When it all comes to this moment she doesn't care. She finds it harder to live through life than through music and now that she's been touched by this amazing, talented man she feels more alive than she has for a while. She doesn't have a past. She just has a chance.

She has great appreciation towards him and she's not quite sure how to handle it. She doesn't want to ruin the pure moments with the music so she kind of shuts herself away from everything surrounding it. She's happy to live that far away from all the chaos that's surronding the singer now, it makes it easier for her to canalize her feelings through music without letting the hormones distract her. After all, she's only 17 and she does love the dimples at his cheeks and the way he turns his head to the right. She just wants to make it clear with everyone, that those things don't really matter to her, that it's the way he sings a song with passion that takes music to a whole new level to a world of it's own. A world with colors, layers and horizons with no end in sight.

She wonders if there's ever a way to thank this man for exposing his soul and giving her the new passion towards life, that she never knew existed before. Words could never cover for that and she doesn't have an option to travel 5611 miles away to give him a personal thank you, so just for now, she waits for him to come to Finland, or even to Europe and make the abyss of 5611 miles even an ocean smaller. Just for now, she waits as she writes a thank you.

Hey! I just wanted to take a short moment to tell you all that I'm not dead and neither is Little David! It's just that the holidays ended few weeks back and school's been a bitch so I've been focusing on that, Sorry! I want to rather take my time with the strips and come up with something good than spill out crappy strips like a machine. I hope you want it to be so too. :)

For now I actually do have something planned out and I'll be posting new strips asap! Also a dear new friend of mine will be visiting as an author on DComics. So stay tuned!!!

Oh and please please please tell all your friends about us and spread the word! Thanks! :)

xoxo
Joanna

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