Showing posts with label Homestuck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Homestuck. Show all posts

Friday, February 1, 2013

Podcast shoutout, detoxing nicely and new followers

Just a few notes on page 83 for Tomb of the Undead, and then I'll get into some webcomics news!

Some neat reveals in this page - that Mugabe has the letters S.A.L.V.A.T.I.O. tattooed on his fingers, which is of course Latin for "salvation." Might be an interesting note to make while reading and understanding his motivations.

I liked how the team is crammed into the back of a pickup truck, too. I recall riding home from a concert in Barrie, Ontario in the back of a pickup late one evening, just like this, for about a 45 min. ride. Pretty exhilarating, but also COLD. I rode home from high school after an exam like this one time, too, which was like in January, ALSO COLD.

So often when you're writing, cell phones are making connectivity and information sharing easier, so it's more of a challenge, as a writer, to create barriers in communication. I'm hoping cell reception is plausible enough - in this instance, as the reception returns, so do warning messages, but perhaps too late?

Taking the story to the mid-way mark, Ian Escutcheon leads our team into the unknown in pursuit of his theories, but they haven't shaken their dangerous enemy yet in No Signal.
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Webcomic news
My first mention in a podcast in a long time last week, which is really cool. Back in like 2006/07 when I was working in news I was in a couple podcasts for some of the stories I'd written. So it's been quite a while since this was something I've been a part of.

In other news, I've got another group of comics to put on my reading list as soon as I can get to a "save point" in HomeStuck from MS Paint Adventures. That comic is LONG. Gary Tyrrell from Fleen has a recent update on the sale of another MS Paint Adventure from Andrew Hussie.

Check it out!

Work is Hell - the Destruct-o-cast
Nick Marino, E.D.
SuperHaters.com 

I'm kinda thrilled to have been able to contribute a bit of my own life experiences to the Destruct-o-cast from last week. It was neat, and I liked how the mock-superhero strip's podcast was able to spin my tale into a new superpower, albeit an awful, to be used for evil. That made me chuckle.

Tune into the whole thing, and look for my mention around the 45-minute mark. It's a behind-the-scenes review of the latest installment of the Super Haters strip.
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Fleen Book Corner: Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff
Gary Tyrell
Fleen.com



Publisher’s note: Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff is available from TopatoCo, while supplies last. Doctors indicate that Gary is detoxing nicely, and should be back to blogging with only mild perceptual impairments shortly. Rumors that the DEA is investigating SBaHJ for making readers “high as balls” could not be confirmed at press time.
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Twitter Followers and new webcomics to catch
Dieter McBoom, Jared Catherine, Riverbend Kings



New Twitter followers I'm planning to get a chance to review as soon as I'm caught up with HomeStuck from MS Paint Adventure. Including Dieter McBoom (@sftcz) from Slow for the Comic Zone as well as Riverbend Kings (@RiverbendKings) from, of course, Riverbend Kings and Jared Catherine (@JareBearStare) of Incrediman.

Friday, January 25, 2013

Earth Bear Homestuck to the C&H show

Here's a bit of an update for page 82 for Tomb of the Undead, sort of the "with commentary" portion of a DVD, or something like that.

On this page we've got the uniting of Ian Escutcheon with Casey and Howard finally formalizing. The blood spatters on Escutcheon and Bolam will last for a while - my sister didn't understand it, and kept wondering if they had like sweaty armpits or something. So DON'T FORGET, he's been shot, and it's blood, and it's not sweat.

The scene, Call the Office, is named after a legendary / infamous bar in London, Ont., that I'm not sure I've ever been to, but certainly knew about when I would visit friends in college at Western University. I thought it was a cool name for a club. In any case, that's a little 'behind the scenes' take on this last series of images.

Dr. Miller, Dr. Bolam and Evelyn return to Escutcheon's office in search of a new direction in Call the office.
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Earth Bear Homestuck to the C&H show
This week I have been immersed in Home Stuck,  at MS Paint Adventures.com. I wasn't sure what this was, but a video hyped it up for me.I've included it below - the webcomic/game is really cool, and I can't stop reading it (and it's like more than 7,000 pages in size, meaning, you can take it the distance. It's a fun read). There's also a much more in depth discussion on the Cyanide and Happiness cartoon show, which is definitely worth a read.

In other news,
Check it out!

Homestuck
Andrew Hussie
MS Paint Adventures.com




This week I have been immersed in Home Stuck,  at MS Paint Adventures.com. I wasn't sure what this was, but a video hyped it up for me.Simply put, it's a webcomic, but it's like, animated in some spots, and the characters are especially well fleshed out. It's VERY interesting, and it's immense, so ... if you like it, there's lots there to stay interested in.

MSPA stories exist in the format of "mock games", specifically text-based adventure games. You advance through the pages of the story by clicking links which sound like commands you would type in a text prompt to get a character to do something. Generally, the character will respond to that command on the following page.
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Cyanide And Happiness Opt Out of Old Model For Animated Show

Charles Kenny
Animation Anomaly.com




While it is tempting to brush off the C&H decision as merely the latest in a long line of internet phenomenons whose creators are unwilling to bend to the demands of traditional business models, that isn’t the case. The decision to go the alternative route was not rushed by any stretch of the imagination.
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Sweet Deal
Jason Poland
Robbie and bobby.com


classic.

There's not a lot to say other than this little comic was a load of fun to read when it was Tweeted out yesterday. Loved it.
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