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Discuss Comic Pages / Issue 4 - Rad As Hell - Page 2 - Captain Mordlich

« on: October 20, 2017, 11:19:15 PM »

We toyed with the idea of Mordlich gaining a crew that was completely female, but instead we opted to give him some minions inspired by villains from the He-Man and She-Ra cartoons. Which, like lots of ‘80s cartoons, were glorified toy commercials (with a moral lesson tossed in so they could technically qualify as educational content).

What’s weird about the She-Ra toys is that the dude figures used the same scale as He-Man and the Masters of the Universe toys, which totally makes sense, since they’re in the same franchise. But someone made the boneheaded decision to make the toys of She-Ra and the other she-babes in a totally different scale. More like a Barbie doll.

So if you were an ‘80s kid and you wanted to have your She-Ra toy fight her nemesis Hordak, you’d have to deal with the awkwardness of She-Ra towering over the villain. It’s just a mortifying situation for all involved.

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Discuss Anything / Re: Is Satan Ninja dead?

« on: October 15, 2017, 03:55:46 AM »

Just an idea, isn't is easier to switch to a bi-weekly schedule?

Absolutely. Especially since Jessica has fallen into a bit of an art rut where each page has been taking her about two weeks to complete. It's mostly due to her ADD and perfectionism blending in to a molasses cocktail of slothdom. But she's now working with someone to try and get her speed up. She used to be able to get a page done within five days, and we're confident she can return to that. So we're shooting for a page a week. Two a week would be ideal and should be possible, but first things first.

Switching to bi-weekly updates is an option, but we view it as a last resort. Even if all our fans would be totally cool with it, we simply don't want to tell this story at that slow of a pace.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 4 - Rad As Hell - Page 1 - Exploding Space Pirates

« on: October 15, 2017, 03:35:17 AM »

Great to see the updates back. It's been way too long.

Agreed.

It's baaaack! Holy shit!

Babe alert (oh man it's been so long): the space bitches! Four tits, yes please.

Oh man, a babe alert! Just about brings a nostalgic tear to my eye.

Wasn't he called Xoddam first? I guess he's not Ket's love interest then?

Shit, you're right. I just corrected his name in my original post. And nope, Ket's love interest is obviously Corey.

Can't wait to see how this'll turn out...!

All I can promise is that it'll be rad as hell.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Issue 4 - Rad As Hell - Page 1 - Exploding Space Pirates

« on: October 13, 2017, 10:59:44 PM »

And so our hiatus ends, along with Xoddam’s reign as the self-proclaimed king of the pirates. As many of you know, Xoddam was a thinly veiled cameo of our friend Maddox. It was always our intention that his character would meet a brutal demise at this point, so this isn’t meant to be any sort of slight against him--we love Maddox. In fact, Jessica did several illustrations for his upcoming book, F*ck Whales (which comes out Oct. 17th).

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Discuss Anything / Re: Is Satan Ninja dead?

« on: October 09, 2017, 10:47:45 AM »

Glad to hear it's still alive. I hope you guys keep on keeping on. Any new info on the update?

We'll be posting the first page of Issue 4 this Friday (the 13th), and our plan is to continue to post a new page every week thereafter. And in between new pages, we intent to do more podcasts, twitch streams, and blog posts. So there's plenty of SN8X goodness to be unleashed this fall.

Also, welcome to the forum!

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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: SN8X Hiatus Ends Oct. 13th! Also, New Radicast Up Now!

« on: October 05, 2017, 11:09:07 AM »

CONGRATS, you two! May the Pizza Wizard bless your union.

Thanks! I imagine the Pizza Wizard blesses us by sprinkling us with Parmesan and giving a majestic wave of his Lolli-wand.

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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: SN8X Hiatus Ends Oct. 13th! Also, New Radicast Up Now!

« on: October 01, 2017, 06:00:49 PM »

Congrats on your marriage  and hope it works out for you two...!

Thanks, Red! Yeah, I'm sure we'll work out just fine. Otherwise, things would get real awkward trying to figure out how to deal with joint custody of our Satan Ninja child...

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Discuss Blog Entries / SN8X Hiatus Ends Oct. 13th! Also, New Radicast Up Now!

« on: September 26, 2017, 07:10:30 PM »

Check it out here!

Comment below!

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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Radicast 198X ep. 9 - Troll, The Golden Child (Caitlin guest)

« on: August 23, 2017, 03:44:12 AM »

For some reason I only got round to listening to this now. I just wanted to say that cutting pizza with scissors is a great technique!

It was very bizarre. Here's the scene in question.

We have two more episodes recorded, but I haven't finished editing them together yet since we've been trying doing sort of a half-assed honeymoon.

Soon!

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Discuss Anything / Re: Canada Style

« on: July 14, 2017, 04:01:48 PM »

I've seen the first and second page previews for Issue 4 on the Patreon page, and they look great!  I can't wait to see how the rest of the issue turns out!

Thanks a lot for being a patron, Microwave Dude! I'm currently watching Jessica try to finish up the second page.

Dude, you need to come up more often!

I'm sure Jessica and I will eventually venture up there for some conventions. 

If that hundred was American, then I can see the confusion since all your dollar bills are the same colour.  You Yanks ought to colour-code your dollar bills like Canada does.  Also, I've never been to a strip club before.  It's not that I'm against them or anything, it's just that I've never gotten around to visting one.

No, it was Canadian. We exchanged our cash when we first crossed the border. I was just too distracted by the strippers "charms" (and too unfamiliar with Canadian cash) to notice.

I've only been to a strip club a few times (all when I was in my late teens), and none of my other visits were nearly as awesome as my one visit to the Canadian club, because that was the only time that I saw a stripper that was of such a high babe caliber that I was happy to shell out money to ogle her. I'm way too particular when it comes to women for most strip clubs to have much to offer me.

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Discuss Blog Entries / Radicast 198X ep. 9 - Troll, The Golden Child (Caitlin guest)

« on: July 11, 2017, 12:10:25 AM »

Check it out here!

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Discuss Anything / Re: Canada Style

« on: July 07, 2017, 03:57:12 PM »

Finally, I hope you have an awesome Independence Day!

Thanks, it wasn't too shabby. We spent most of the day working on SN8X stuff, but that evening, some of our neighbors went all out with the fireworks, so we were able to see a big fireworks display without even leaving the house. It sort of pains me to think about how much people spend on something so fleeting, but hey, if that's how they want to spend their money...

Anyway, back on topic. Since we live in Michigan, we're almost pseudo-Canadians ourselves (much more so if we lived in the Upper Peninsula, but we don't). However, I've only been to Canada once, and it was a pretty long time go.

When my buddies and I had all turned 18, we went across the bridge that links Detroit and Canada. Visited a casino and a strip club. Casino's aren't really my thing. I put one dollar into a slot machine, won four dollars on my first pull, then put them back into the machine and lost, so I retired from gambling. Had a lot more fun at the strip club, since they had this one hot stripper that had a completely perfect big natural rack on her. After she gave me a private dance, I handed her what I thought was a twenty dollar bill as a tip, but she showed me that I had accidentally given her a hundred, and gave it back to me. I don't imagine a lot of US strippers would've been quite so honest ...

So yeah. Canada rules. Also, you gave us The Kids in the Hall, which played a huge role in developing my humor when I was in my teens.

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Discuss Anything / Re: Canada Style

« on: July 04, 2017, 03:20:42 AM »

Oh man, you just totally schooled me on '80s Canada, Microwave Dude! I had no idea a lot of the stuff you listed is Canadian.

I know your point is to hypothetically ponder was the comic would be like if were were purely inspired by '80s Canadian media, but I'd like to point out that it wasn't ever our intention to make SN8X a strictly American comic. It's just that we've spent our entire lives here, so most of the stuff we're familiar with (and therefor draw influence from) happens to be from the US. However, we certainly take influence from '80s media from other countries. Of course Japanese anime springs to mind for our Ket character. And there are lots of European influences, especially musical, like the band Demon Hammer being inspired by overtly satanic metal bands like Venom.

Also, we already intended to take inspiration from some of the stuff you listed, so you'll be seeing more Canadian influences as the comic goes on.

And finally, how DARE you make a Canadian-centric post on the USA's birthday! Such audacity. 

Oh yeah, and we totally made a reference to Scanners.

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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Updated Comic Pages & Radicast Ep. 8: Class of Nuke 'Em High, Crocodile Dundee

« on: July 04, 2017, 02:41:14 AM »

Good show. Glad to see you guys are back!

Thanks a lot, Penguin Dude! We even have two more podcasts already recorded, so it looks like we'll try making it a regular weekly thing.

But of course the comic is a way bigger priority for us, and we're working on returning to weekly updates of that.

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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Updated Comic Pages & Radicast Ep. 8: Class of Nuke 'Em High, Crocodile Dundee

« on: June 29, 2017, 08:47:04 PM »

I couldn't do accents to save my life, so I think yours was pretty good..

Haha, no, I'm right there with you, Science Dude.

Love the thumbnail too!

Yeah, can't go wrong with a crocodile with tits.