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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, 12:29:38 PM »

Pumped for this, I'm glad you guys are back online! Hard drive issues sound like a real pain. Are you guys backing up more frequently now..? 

Oh yeah. Lesson learned. It was a mega close call, but we didn't end up losing anything. At least nothing that really mattered.

Oh wow, just noticed the shout-out to me. Thanks!

Hell yeah, I'm pumped to get your verification that my Australian accent was totally on point.

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

« on: June 28, 2017, 04:22:22 PM »

Check it out here!

Comment below!

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Discuss Anything / Re: Article: Why are we so obsessed with the 1980s?

« on: June 16, 2017, 03:00:01 PM »

Because the 80s ruled!

Hell yeah—welcome to the forums, dude!

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 4 - Rad As Hell - Cover

« on: June 07, 2017, 04:49:46 PM »

Looks like many folks were just concerned that you both dropped off the radar...

Nice to know you're still out there. Looking forward to the next chapter of the comic.

Good to see you, Crimson Dude! Yeah, we totally shouldn't have been silent for so long—that was dumb of me.

Speaking of site updates, I had planned to post our latest Radicast episode over this past weekend. I got it all edited, but then I realized that Jessica hadn't drawn a thumbnail image for it, and she was out of town. She's back now, but she's been so eager to to work on Issue 4 that I haven't been able to pull her away from that long enough to do a thumbnail. I'll see if I can get her to whip one up tonight so I can post the episode tomorrow.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 4 - Rad As Hell - Cover

« on: June 02, 2017, 05:52:27 PM »

Just busy as all hell. How's everything else going?

Things are going pretty well. Today in particular, as I was just offered a thousand bucks for the rights to use a bit of voice acting I did for a video game mod nearly a decade ago (I'm getting paid since the mod is now going to be an official retail product). So that was unexpected and super awesome.

So for the record: Satan Ninja 198X is totally not dead.

That's because Satan Ninja was eventually transferred to a better hospital.

Heh, I'd forgotten about that joke until I watched the clip. I remember that episode being such a huge deal when it first aired.

Also I'm wondering if it's going to be a White Wedding?  P.S. I had no idea that the song at two parts to it until recently.

Yeah, it's pretty easy to overlook, since "part 2" was only available on singles and it's basically just a sort of remix of the original with alternate vocal takes and a few different lyrics.

Jessica's mom is helping us to deal with all this wedding stuff, and one of the first things she did when we began planning it is bring up Billy Idol's White Wedding video on YouTube for inspiration.

I guess you could say that the comic's Alive and Kicking?

You know, I've heard that song before, but I didn't realize Simple Minds did it. In fact, I don't think I was aware of any Simple Minds song beyond "Don't You (Forget About Me)." Fun fact: the dude who wrote that song originally offered it to Billy Idol, but Idol passed on it, so it ended up going to Simple Minds, becoming their first (and only) number one hit in the US. About twenty years later, Idol ended up recording a version of it to include on one of his greatest hits albums.

 
It looks like An American Werewolf-In Hell!  Also, it looks like Hell used the same floor pattern as Tron:

Whoa, that does look a lot like the Tron screencap. Total coincidence, but a rad one, for sure.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 4 - Rad As Hell - Cover

« on: June 01, 2017, 06:09:08 PM »

Congrats, you two!!! Also, it's great that the comic isn't dead!

Thanks! It's great that you're not dead!

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 4 - Rad As Hell - Cover

« on: May 30, 2017, 06:05:54 PM »

OMG Awesome cover art and congratulations on the engagement! Rad as Hell! Glad you're back from hiatus. I can feel my SN withdrawals beginning to subside

Thanks, Mumm-Rad!

But just to clarify, we're almost back from the hiatus. There's still a few more weeks to go before we're really back.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 4 - Rad As Hell - Cover

« on: May 30, 2017, 02:23:14 AM »

Congratulations on you and Jessica's engagement! Funny that it was through your Fallout mod, because if you remember, that was basically how I found this comic in December 2015.

Thanks, Australian Dude! I was just thinking about you since Microwave Dude posted a video featuring the avian-haired guy in your avatar. One thing I forgot to mention about my Fallout 2 proposal is that the RP's coder and I had put that proposal into her copy of the game over three years ago. All this time it was lurking on her computer, waiting for her to finally play the game and discover my secret. Of course, Jessica's always too busy doing art to have much time for video games, but as our ten-year anniversary came and went, I could tell she was starting to wonder if I'd ever propose. So as soon as our hiatus started and she took a week off from art, I pressured her into spending that week finally playing Fallout 2.

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Discuss Anything / Re: Is Satan Ninja dead?

« on: May 30, 2017, 01:42:30 AM »

Hmm, maybe a little Howard Jones will cheer you guys up.

Oh man, I'm familiar with that song of course, but I don't recall ever seeing that video. Thanks for that, the dude's hair alone cheered me to the max. Not to mention the totally random karate dude.

Anyways, I have to admit that I have been pretty eager to see what Issue 4 has in store.  However, I'm not worried or disappointed because I know that you guys put a lot of time and effort to make sure that Satan Ninja kicks ass.   I plan on sticking around for a long time because I believe in you guys!  So please, take as much time as you need to get ready.  I know you guys will prevail!

Thanks, Microwave Dude. It's great to see that you're still checking in. We're both working hard to try and make sure Issue 4 is worth the long wait.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Issue 4 - Rad As Hell - Cover

« on: May 29, 2017, 10:43:51 PM »

 
We’re technically still on hiatus, but we wanted to post the cover to Issue 4 so you dudes could see that the comic’s still alive and kicking ass.
 
I’m so fucking pumped for Issue 4, as it’s when the core concept of the comic really kicks in—like a Van Damme style jumping spin-kick to the face. This cover offers a nice taste of what you can expect (as in, within the first few pages of the issue).
 
Each of our previous covers had gotten progressively more and more busy as we kept adding more characters. For this one, we decided to scale it back and focus on just three characters, which would also give the background a chance to shine (Jessica spent an abnormally long time on the background, as she kept re-working it over and over and over—gotta get that Hell landscape just right). This cover also highlights a core element of this issue and the comic overall: Eddie using his rad Satan Ninja powers to fight badass demons (and, of course, there's the ever-present elements of the '80s dressing and busty babes).
 
For any of you who just come to the forums looking for updates, I’ve written up a blog post detailing some of the stuff we’ve been up to during this too-long hiatus.

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Discuss Anything / Re: Is Satan Ninja dead?

« on: May 24, 2017, 06:22:59 PM »

Hell no. But I guess I can't blame you for wondering. I said we'd be keeping you dudes updated on things during this hiatus and I've totally failed to do so. Jessica has been posting updates to her Patreon, so I guess I figured that would suffice, but I should've been posting updates on this site as well.

Here was my logic behind this silence (which Jessica didn't agree with).

Basically, the longer we went without updating, the more I felt that if I were to post an update that didn't entail the end of the hiatus, it'd just annoy the fans. Like, I pictured you dudes seeing that we posted an update, then you get all exited thinking the hiatus is finally over, and then you feel bitter disappointment when you see that it's just some kind of progress report. So my thinking was that it might be best for us to keep a low profile and then BAM—bust out of our hiatus with a glorious return to weekly comic page updates, podcasts, and so on.

Of course, this hiatus is taking longer than we thought, due to a whole host of issues, from personal life drama stuff that I won't go into, to technical bullshit (we recently had our main hard drive on Jessica's PC—the one with all the Satan Ninja content—start dying on us, ironically just as we had decided to finally purchase a backup drive in case of such an event ... I've managed to save everything important, but it's been a huge headache and a time sink).

I've gotta get ready for work right now, but I'll make sure to post an actual update on the site either tomorrow or Friday. It's been way too long.

Sorry to worry you, but I promise you that this comic isn't going to be abandoned by us. The only way it'll die is if we suddenly die in some tragic accident. And even then, since we already have the whole comic plotted out, maybe we should leave some instructions with our friends in case of our death to release all our behind the scenes notes, so you dudes would at least get to learn everything that we had planned for the comic. But that's really fucking morbid to think about.

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Discuss Anything / Re: Attack of the cyber octopuses

« on: March 31, 2017, 06:11:21 PM »

Are you saying they're not being true to the 80s?

Yeah, "Attack of the [insert silly monster]" screams '50s b-movie to me, not so much '80s sci-fi. It's especially odd to me since the director said in the video that he's playing it straight and not trying to make a spoof.

Maybe this started off as a joke coming up with the name and they were kind of stuck with it..

That's possible. They obviously made the teaser trailer before heading to kickstarter, but they could have easily decided to give the kickstarted project a different title from the teaser trailer. I'm guessing they just like the name.

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Discuss Anything / Re: Attack of the cyber octopuses

« on: March 30, 2017, 09:11:06 PM »

Nice. I love that they're shooting in real locations, using practical effects, and playing it straight. Kinda weird that they went with such a campy '50s b-movie name, though.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 3 - Ninja Power! - Page 38 - Aliens

« on: January 14, 2017, 11:12:26 PM »

Corey lost his chance to knock up some alien babe!

If he only knew what's under the armor of the alien he's running from...

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 3 - Ninja Power! - Page 38 - Aliens

« on: January 13, 2017, 12:01:03 AM »

Sorry, I guess I got a little too carried away with the speculating.

Oh, no need to apologize. It's fun to read people guesses.