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Adam Dravian:

--- Quote from: Matty2310 on March 08, 2016, 06:20:27 AM ---I have to say that I agree with Jessica, in that it should only have references from 1980-1989, after all it's Satan Ninja 198X (which I think is the perfect name for the comic, encapsulates everything that it is) for a reason. Although it must be pretty painful to not be able to reference Total Recall.
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Right. It's just that there are so many awesome things from '90 and '91 that I think would fit so well with the theme of Satan Ninja. Meanwhile, there's not a lot from 1980 or '81 that we draw influence from. If you look at the list of influential media we list on our FAQ, you can see we skew heavily toward the mid-to-late '80s. Although I think pop music in general took a turn for the worse in the late '80s, once Janet Jackson made new jack swing mega-popular. I just can't get into NJS or hip hop, and those genres exploded in popularity around that time. Though I can't deny thinking "Ice Ice Baby" was rad when I was in 6th grade.


--- Quote ---Also, I've been reading and hearing about how you's want to expand the comics readership, which I have some ideas for.
First of all, on the New Retro Wave Youtube channel, whenever they upload a new video, there's always an 80s-esque picture to accompany it, quite a few in this comics style. I think your illustrations would be perfect for it. The channel has about 100,000 subscribers with around 10,000 views per video, and the kind of people who'd watch those videos are the EXACT kind of people who'd read your comic, so the comic could be advertised in the comments or video description.
Secondly, io9 has a thing where they're looking for artwork to be submitted, so you's could probably submit something to them. In fact, they could probably just run a story on your comic in general without a picture, since it has a lot of fantastical elements in it. Plus I think it has high readership figures.
So there's my ideas, do or not do what you want with them.

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We really appreciate the advice. I'll shoot a message to the New Retro Wave dudes and see how receptive they are to SN8X. Jessica said she'd submit something to i09. I know they tend to skew toward sci-fi and super hero stuff, but maybe someone there would see how fuckin' radical Satan Ninja is. Doesn't hurt to try, anyway.

Matty2310:

--- Quote from: Rijst on March 08, 2016, 03:43:49 PM ---Hi Matty, totally off-topic but it's funny to see you use "you's" there. I've only heard that in Glasgow so far but apparently this is a thing in parts of Australia as well?

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We sure do (or at least I do). As much as spellcheck wants to discourage me from using it, I use it anyway.

The comic definitely fits the criteria for being featured, it's very premice is fantasy and sci-fi.

Adam Dravian:

--- Quote from: Matty2310 on March 09, 2016, 12:22:49 AM ---The comic definitely fits the criteria for being featured, it's very premice is fantasy and sci-fi.

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When I was adding our comic to several different webcomic hosting sites, I would often have to choose a single genre to file it under, and I had a hell of a time trying to figure out what genre would best fit.

Rijst:
Genre: Rad

80sReboot:
I have been trolling this forum for a little bit. I have tried a few times to join but the whole activation to email thing wasn't working so I gave up for a bit and today decided to try again and it worked! So, I am the guy that forced Adam and Jessica to talk "family friendly" on their first podcast. I love the feedback on the interview that you have given to both of them. I am curious as the host, how did I do? FYI, media group I belong to has the family friendly policy I just have to play by the rules and basically try to avoid the infamous "explicit" warning.

I come in and check for new pages every couple of weeks and love what I see. I took a screen cap of Shade from one of the most recent pages and tweeted about loving how she looked. Jessica quickly called me out on twitter based on my comment of liking "girl next door" type.  ;)

Nice to be in the forum officially now.

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