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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 3 - Ninja Power! - Page 38 - Aliens
« on: January 12, 2017, 10:48:42 PM »
Aw shucks, I was so close to getting one of my guesses right.  I figured it would've been the Satan Ninjas doing the investigating since they were in closer proximity to the ship. Oh well.  At least I got a cyber high-five out of it.

Yeah, it would make sense for the Satan Ninjas to go explore the ship (if they noticed it landing), but then to have them battle Ket would've been too much to squeeze into a final page. But no worries, we'll get to see Ket in action next issue.

I can see Eddie using his new identity as a way to attract Veronica and then Veronica being impressed (you know, kind of like in one of the Satan Ninja promo videos).

Hah, yeah, hopefully Eddie is cool enough for Veronica's big tits now.
Man, I love those promo videos.

Anyways, Veronica will be so impressed that she'll ditch Dean and agree to be Eddie's date for the prom.  This will make Dean so jealous that he'll get into an altercation with Eddie but since Eddie's now a Satan Ninja, he'll easily kick Dean's ass.  This of course will lead to even more shenanigans (i.e. the appearance of the Ninja Commander's minions), but I'll end my speculating here.

I don't ever want to comment directly on this type of speculation, so as no to confirm or deny, but I'll just say that we're obviously very aware of '80s movie tropes and sometimes we may subvert them in unexpected ways (don't want the comic to be too predicable, after all), and even when we adhere to the common tropes, I'd like to think that we pull it off in our own way.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 3 - Ninja Power! - Page 38 - Aliens
« on: January 12, 2017, 02:51:33 AM »
So, high-five to Mumm-Rad for correctly guessing that we'd get some "Yub" action on this final page.

Here were Microwave Dude's guesses:

Guess  #1: The Satan Ninjas get distracted by the arrival of the spaceship and would do some investigating.  They would then encounter Ket and Darwick and an altercation would ensue.  Naturally, Ket and Darwick would end up kicking the Satan Ninja's asses. Guess # 2: Psycho Sam will have an encounter on his way to trying to butt-fuck Debbie Slater.  It will either be Razor and his remaining gang or Mr. Skull (I think I'll go with Mr. Skull, why not?).  Guess #3: We get to see Jennifer and Toxic imprisoned somewhere deep within the Satan Ninja's lair.

All great guesses, but none were quite right on the money. Although the page didn't involve the satan ninjas, it did involve someone going to investigate Ket's space ship, so you totally deserve a cyber high-five as well. Especially since you weren't mega vague like Mumm-rad, which makes it harder to be right.

Great job. Will be interesting to see how all the different storylines converge on each other. But most importantly, will Eddie ever get Veronica? And how will a demonic being not of this Earth looking for a satanic power glove affect his quest to get Veronica?

Even knowing how everything is going to go down, I'm still super pumped to see it play out. Issue 4 will sort of serve as a climax to the first act of the comic. Lots of stuff happens in it that I've been looking forward to for years. Now that we've finally wrapped this epic weekend (crazy to think that only a few days have passed since the comic started), we get to tackle Eddie going back to school for the first time since his transformation, and ... well, I'll just stop there.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Issue 3 - Ninja Power! - Page 38 - Aliens
« on: January 11, 2017, 11:07:50 PM »


Plots are converging! Things are falling into place. And that’s where we end Issue 3.

Jessica tried really hard to make sure this page wouldn’t take as long as the last few (and it didn’t), but still took longer than we’d like. We’re determined to get back on a steady page a week schedule. But first, we’ll have to take a brief hiatus.

So here’s our game plan during this hiatus. First, Jessica’s going to take a week off of drawing for the first time in years, which will help her from burning out. Then there’s a bunch of minor things in Issue 3 that she’s going to go back and spruce up. They’re mostly mega minor, so this shouldn’t take longer than a week, and we’ll let you know about the interesting changes in a blog post. Then she’s going to bust out a rad cover for Issue 4.

In the meantime, we’ll resume our weekly podcast, and Jessica will continue to stream on Twitch and fulfill her Patreon rewards.

By the way, the title for Issue 4 is “Rad As Hell” and it’ll totally live up to its namesake.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 3 - Ninja Power! - Page 37 - Garbage Day
« on: December 31, 2016, 04:12:50 PM »
How many more pages before this chapter ends?

Just one. Page 38 will be the final page of Issue 3.

Any guesses as to what it's going to contain?

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 3 - Ninja Power! - Page 37 - Garbage Day
« on: December 31, 2016, 04:46:42 AM »
God damn, so much stuff on one page, stuff really starting to get down. Ending the year with a bang.

Just wait'll we get to the events of Issue 4. Things that I've been waiting so many years for will finally be brought to life.

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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Merry Christmas 2016
« on: December 31, 2016, 04:45:13 AM »
You are the first web comic Ive followed, the first patreon Ive sponsored and are generally so nice and talented it makes me sick XXXX

Whoa, that's awesome. Thanks a lot for the  support, we really appreciate it. It's not easy making the raddest comic in existence, but someone's gotta do it.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 3 - Ninja Power! - Page 37 - Garbage Day
« on: December 30, 2016, 09:35:15 PM »
Well, according to this website, people started painting and decorating trash cans in the 1980's.  In addition, here's a Pac-Man trash can from the early 1980's.  Hey, now there's an idea: decorative Satan Ninja 198X trash cans!

Are you calling our comic trash?! Heh, well, I guess it can be a little trashy at times...

In my experience, the decorative trash cans tended to be the smaller indoors types, like that Pac-Man one. I certainly don't recall seeing any painted trash cans sitting out on the curbs in the '80s.

Furthermore, will anybody at any point in this comic get shot to death while taking out the trash?  If so, will the shooter say some garbage related pun like, "Time to take out the trash?"

Definitely something to consider. Apparently, taking out the trash was extremely hazardous, at least in the world of '80s movies.

So, will there be a future issue which will mostly be characters reminiscing about things they did in previous issues like, "Hey, remember that one time we played Crypts & Chimeras at that creepy house?", or "Hey, remember that time I used Psycho Sam and Snacky to weight lift?"

Great idea! A clip show version of a comic book. I wonder if that's ever been done?

In Hollywood movies all trash cans (or rubbish bins as we call them on this side of the pond) are metal so they make a satisfactory noise when knocked over - this is often accompanied by a cat howling. I was alive in the 80s, all of it, and I only remember the black plastic ones.

Right. All the trash cans in my neighborhood were like the one that the truck backs up into in the Rubbermaid commercial I linked to in my original post. However, the SN8X-verse is more inspired by '80s fiction than '80s reality, so the metal trash cans are more fitting for the setting.

Also, welcome to the forum, dude!

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Discuss Comic Pages / Issue 3 - Ninja Power! - Page 37 - Garbage Day
« on: December 30, 2016, 04:47:14 PM »


Trash cans are one of those things that I knew tended to look a little different in the ‘80s, but it’s not exactly an easy thing to look up for reference. Off the top of my head, I could think of only a couple ‘80s movie scenes involving trash cans. The first is, of course, the scene from Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 which spawned the Garbage Day meme. Then I thought of the oddly similar “innocently taking out the trash only to get shot to death” scene in Commando. And lastly, though I’ve yet to see The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, I figured it must have a trash can somewhere in there, and sure enough there was one on the poster.

So it seemed the standard trash cans of the ‘80s were Oscar the Grouch style metal cans. Yet there were other types at the time, as this Rubbermaid commercial can attest.

By the way, Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 is so fucking weird in that it’s mostly a recap of the first movie. You know those sitcom or anime clip-show episodes that have a really thin plot that merely serves as an excuse for the characters to reminisce so the creators can phone in an episode by playing clips from older ones? It’s like that. Except it’s a movie. And only the second movie in the series. Seriously, there’s only like thirty minutes or so of new footage. However, some of those thirty minutes are pretty fucking glorious.

Also, Sam is being a bit presumptuous when he tells Corey he’s going to butt-fuck Debbie Slater; he hasn’t even approached her with his offer yet. Just to make that clear.

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Discuss Anything / Re: RIP Carrie Fisher
« on: December 28, 2016, 01:58:32 PM »
Yeah, it's a bummer. Carrie Fisher seemed like a fun and interesting lady. But I don't tend to get too upset about celebrity deaths. I mean, these are people who lived much fuller lives than most of us. Plus, the number of celebrity deaths is only going to increase exponentially every year from here on out.

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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Merry Christmas 2016
« on: December 25, 2016, 05:41:48 PM »
Oh! A couple other milestones we hit during 2016:
Our Facebook page has finally cracked 300 likes.
A badass fan created a TV Tropes page for the comic.

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Discuss Blog Entries / Merry Christmas 2016
« on: December 25, 2016, 05:30:13 PM »
Read the post here. Comment below!

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Discuss Anything / Re: Happy Holidays
« on: December 24, 2016, 03:37:18 PM »
Wishing everyone here a happy Christmas and a safe New Year. ... :)

Thanks, Crimson Dude! Back at you.

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Awesome job on Maddox's podcast! I also finished Grim October! Just one word to describe both, RAD!

Hell yeah! Thanks, Mumm-Rad!

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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Music Video - "Funkytown" by Lipps Inc.
« on: December 22, 2016, 11:13:26 AM »

I stumbled on this forum,...

The dancer in the Funkytown video is a real singer from the band Doris D and the pins. She had a minor hit in Europe with the song Shine Up https://youtu.be/htjM8vbMfUs

Weirdly popular enough to get a TV special  https://youtu.be/kb9kp5DztEc

Very strange that she ends up lip singing the Funkytown song.

Thanks a lot, fil. Your info led me to a Dutch wikipedia article that filled in some of the blanks. I've now updated this blog post.

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I wonder what secret project Sean is involved in.  Farming ass perhaps?

I'm not sure, actually, but I think it had something to do with recording music.

So you guys are really going to submit your podcast to the podcast competition show, eh?  It would be totally rad if you guys did that!

Yeah, I figure we might as well. Our show is probably too small and niche to end up being chosen for the network, but we might get some new listeners from being part of the contest.

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Also, I don't know about you guys, but that weird Matthew McConaughey guy that called in sounds a bit like Vin Diesel.

Heh, I dunno, and I've seen other suggestions for who he sounds like too. It's starting to look like they might have to simply call him Weird Celebrity-Sounding Guy.

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