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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Grim October
« on: October 30, 2016, 10:55:25 PM »
Ahoy there matey!  Congratulations on finishin' yer book!  May it become a smashin' success!  Well anyways, I just bought the book and I look forward to reading it!

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Discuss Anything / Miroslav Satan
« on: October 17, 2016, 09:51:21 PM »
We all know that Halloween is this month, but it's also hockey season as well.  That's why I've decided to sort of combine the two elements by talking about a former National Hockey League player from Slovakia with a spooky looking last name: Miroslav Satan.  Even though his last name is pronounced shah-TAN, I still think it's pretty interesting that he has a last name like that.  As you can imagine, a lot of people like this guy have had a lot of  fun joking about his last name.  Unfortunately for a lot people, he never played for the New Jersey Devils (it's a hockey team named after the Jersey Devil).  Fortunately for them though, he does look a bit devilish:


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Whoa, I can't believe how close I was to correctly guessing what's playing on the TV!  If anyone wants to know what I'm talking about, then take a look at the commentary for page 33.

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If we really wanted to bring out the suspense in this scene, we'd need to slow down the pace a bit, but like I said before, we need to reach the end point of the Issue before it gets too big to be printed as a standard comic issue. So Eddie breaking into the Slater mansion will be played more for comedy than suspense.

Okay, so is it going to be anything like this scene from The Naked Gun?

However, one of the changes that Jessica will be implementing to the page does bring back the Narrator Dude, as it seemed like a fitting time to use him. We haven't implemented the changes yet because Jessica's currently scrambling to finish art for some books that are coming out in October. She's just about done, then she'll be back to kicking ass on the comic.

I assume that some of the artwork she's working on involves the book you're releasing, right?

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As I was writing this page, it occurred to me that the comic medium doesn't lend itself well to tension-filled sneaking-type scenes. In a film, you can see the character creeping along, and then feel the suspense as they hide in the shadows as a security guard passes or whatever. And of course it's aided by suspenseful music and editing that helps build and maintain the suspense.

In a book, you can use descriptive prose to build suspense by talking about things like the sneaking character's heart hammering and sweat trickling down his sides as he slowly reaches for a doorknob, so nervous that he's holding his breath in anticipation...

But in a comic, you have to work with still images. You can't control how long the reader will linger on each panel, so that makes it really hard to build suspense for this type of scene. Not that it's impossible to have a suspenseful sneaking scene in a comic, but it's certainly not a strength of the medium.

Anyway, after giving this page a second look, some things jumped out at me that it's lacking, so it'll be getting a minor update sometime in the next couple days.

Couldn't you just use the narrator dude to describe how Eddie's feeling, or perhaps use a thought bubble?  As for suspenseful music, the reader could listen to one of the synth music tracks from the unofficial soundtrack or perhaps maybe something like the Mission Impossible theme song or if the person's feeling kinda silly, then perhaps something like Rock Lobster.

Another thing, the whole Eddie going into stealth mode and the exclamation point kinda reminds me of Metal Gear.  Who knows, maybe Eddie will end up sneaking around in a cardboard box or there'll be a guard that says, "I feel asleep" or something.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 3 - Ninja Power! - Page 33 - Slater Mansion
« on: September 21, 2016, 09:02:43 PM »
First of all, I can't believe that Eddie's actually going to try and rob the Slater's mansion.  Also, I can't believe how easy it is for Eddie to get in.  Heck, he didn't even have to contend with guard dogs like the ninjas who tried to rob the Moore's mansion.  However, I wonder if Eddie will eventually encounter a muscular bodyguard.  As for what's playing on the TV, could it possibly be one of the Dean and Trish sex tapes?

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I can totally see Eddie doing something like an 80's style anti-drug PSAs: "Being a Satan Ninja is totally rad.  But do you know what's not totally rad?  Drugs.   Drugs are totally bad for you and they can totally mess up your life and they can totally kill you.  Now I know that everybody wants to be totally rad, but doing it with drugs isn't just wrong, it could be dead wrong.  So don't blow it.  Don't do drugs.  If you're doing it, stop it.  Get some help.  Satan Ninja 198X wants you to give yourself a chance.  A chance to find out all the wonderful things you really can be, and so do I."

Full disclosure: I lifted some of that from Pee-wee Herman's crack cocaine PSA as well as Michael Jordan's anti-drug PSA.

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Discuss Anything / Re: Satan Ninja 201X?
« on: September 12, 2016, 12:09:16 AM »
I'd like to see you do the future according to what was thought up in the '50s and '60s.  They had some pretty wacky ideas such as jetpack mailmen and pogo cop cars.  Popular Mechanics had some pretty crazy ideas themselves such as personal helicopters and rooftop lakes.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 3 - Ninja Power! - Page 26 - Patrick Hyser
« on: September 07, 2016, 11:15:39 PM »
I know that Patrick Hyser is based off of Rick Moranis, but I could totally see Chris Parnell doing the voice of this character.  FYI Chris Parnell does the voice of Jerry Smith on Rick and Morty as well as Cyril Figgis on Archer.  It just seems to me that Parnell has a knack for portraying woebegone characters.

I'm also curious to see what this secret battle will be like.  Will it be anything like Bloodsport?

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 3 - Ninja Power! - Page 32 - Toxic Strip
« on: September 07, 2016, 10:38:05 PM »
Wow, that Toxic is a real Nasty Girl!  Also, what's the name of that song from Return of the Living Dead?  I've never seen the film so I'm pretty curious.  Furthermore, I think that Viper and Eddie are bad enough dudes to rescue Toxic and Jennifer from those ninjas.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 1 - Video Dreamer - Page 11 - Joe & Trance
« on: September 02, 2016, 12:44:09 AM »
It's cool that Trance can build a small robotic dinosaur and all, but would he be able to build robots that can sing, play instruments and walk back and forth in a hallway?

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Once upon a time Ed was falling in love, but now he's only falling apart.  And there's nothing he can do-a total eclipse of the heart.

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Quick question: if this Web Comic really does take place in River City, then how come nobody ever says, "BARF!" after getting beaten up?

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While I love the "Bitches Leave" line, my favourite one from Robocop has got to be  the "Repeat Offender" line.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 3 - Ninja Power! - Page 31 - Spoils
« on: August 26, 2016, 11:15:25 PM »
Are you referring to when I misspelled it in my previous forum post, or are you saying we misspelled it in the actual comic? I just double-checked this page and it looks right. I don't think we've mentioned SlateCorp in the comic prior to this page, have we?

I'm actually referring to an earlier post you made on this page.  In it you wrote: "So how does Trance know that SlatCorp Tower has machine gun wielding robots patrolling it? Because his dad, Doc Sheen, is a scientist who works for SlateCorp’s robotics research and development division".  If you look closely you will notice that SlateCorp is misspelled as SlatCorp.  I mean, it's not that big of a deal really compared to some of the mistakes I've made, i.e. getting Viper and Razor mixed up and posting the wrong link to the song Push it to the Limit.

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