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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Movie Review - Sorceress [1982]
« on: February 05, 2015, 07:39:14 PM »
I'm glad you dig my reviews. I enjoy writing them, although they take a little too long for me to make, largely due to me taking all the screen caps myself and such. That's part of the reason I decided to try not to summarize entire movies anymore. They also tend to get long and I think that might turn some people off from actually reading them. But then this one ended up being long anyway.

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Discuss Anything / Re: Karate Kickstarter
« on: February 05, 2015, 07:35:15 PM »
I'll put it back if the ads keep popping up, I didn't know people actually looked at signatures. 8)

I notice everything. Including that short period of time where you would quote me and alter my name to "Captain Emulation." It got a chuckle out of me.

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Discuss Blog Entries / Movie Review - Sorceress [1982]
« on: February 04, 2015, 05:56:57 PM »

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Discuss Anything / Re: Karate Kickstarter
« on: February 04, 2015, 03:51:52 AM »
I can do some python programming. This needs to happen once my thesis corrections are in, if only it's just a test version for the concept..

Noted for the future. Ghoul actually does programming as well, and he's always wanted to make a game, so we might be all set in regards to that, assuming he isn't too busy if or when the time comes. The real issue would be the art. All that pixel art would take a lot of work, and that's time that Jessica would have to spend away from the comic. And I doubt she'd want anyone else to do the art.

I also note that you no longer seem to buy your science stuff from Bio-Rad. That's too bad.

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I'll see your Hannibal scene and raise you this scene from the '81 horror film, Evilspeak (NSFW).

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Discuss Anything / Re: Karate Kickstarter
« on: February 03, 2015, 06:01:07 PM »
With Satan Ninja 198X becoming a good series to read online, have you ever thought about putting it on Kickstarter?

Once the series is finished, you can make it like a real-live comic for people to buy on Kickstarter. Also, if you can find programmers, a game of Dude Shinobi like what I previous mentioned in a forum post.

Maybe YouTubers might make an independent movie off of this. Hopefully this idea will smell a knockout like Hai Karate.

Assuming that Kickstarter is still a relevant thing by the time this comic wraps up, we'll certainly consider doing one in order to raise funds for a high quality collected physical release. But that's still a long ways off. In the meantime, we'll be releasing some individual issues in physical form. We'll be doing a second print run of the first issue soon, and this time we'll make sure to get enough made that we can offer to sell them through our website for those that are interested.

A Dude Shinobi brawler game would be a dream come true. Maybe someday...

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What would happen to the poor souls that didn't get a jelly bean in in time?

I don't know. It was a pretty intimidating pig, so I think everyone always gave it a jelly bean. But if I had to guess, I image it'd probably just grunt at you in annoyance until you payed its toll.

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Hrm, interesting. I would have never pegged you as a pet pig person.

I'm not sure what started it. Maybe when I became a fan of the Ranma ½ anime as a teenager, as Ryoga/P-chan was one of my favorite characters.

Oh yeah, also when I was a teenager I lived near some people that had a big pet pig. If you went over to their house and the pig didn't know you, it'd come up to you and act sort of aggressive. The only way to placate it was to give it a jellybean, so they kept a bowl of jellybeans near the entrance door. Thus, if you went over to their house for the first time, you'd see this big fucking pig coming at you and the people in the house would start shouting, "Quick, give him a jellybean!" I'm totally not making this up.

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Man, being greeted by a pig when coming home would be so cool. :)

For several years I considered getting a pig sometime down the line. But I changed my mind when I looked into proper pig care. They require a lot of land to rut around in to be happy, and I'm not the type that plans to have a lot of land for my piggy to fuck up. Snacky Love will have to substitute.

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I believe there are only three pages left of issue two. I originally thought it might end up being twice the size of issue one, but not quite.

I spent a lot of time this week designing floor plans for Eddie's house, so we could stay consistent and to serve as a reference tool for Jessica. Maybe I'll post the floor plans in a short blog post this coming week (I've also got a movie review I'll be posting).

Man, I love Ninja Commander's design. Such an '80s Saturday morning cartoon villain.

As soon as I suggested to Jessica that we give Ninja Commander's goat a name, the first thing to pop into her head was Baphopet. So credit goes to her for that perfect name. I think she also came up with the parody video game name Ninja Guy Ben, but I'm not certain.

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Given we're in the 198X universe, you'd have to parody the name Seven Doors of Death if this is in America - it didn't get a released as the Beyond in the US until the mid-90's.

Good catch. But I liked the name Hellgate Hotel. Wait, no, now it's making me think of Motel Hell, which isn't a very good movie. So, yeah. Seven Whores of Death it is.

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Yeah Eddie walking home in defeat seems to be the theme music for this comic so it was kinda obvious I guess.

Yeah, gotta shit all over the hero before things can get better. Peter Parker lost his Uncle Ben, Eddie McCarthy lost his stuffed pig.

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I keep expecting a powerful revenge sequence not unlike in The Mask, even if that movie was a few years too late for this comic.

Funny you should mention The Mask. In my old movie script for Dark Relic (which served as the basic foundation for the Satan Ninja story), the main character (still named Eddie and he would have been played by a nineteen-year-old me) is a nerd who wants nothing more than to be really cool so he can get his dream girl. The party sequence happens similarly to how it played out in the comic, but then a wizard who witnessed everything gives Eddie a magical bone glove that, upon wearing it, turns him into the mega-cool greaser guy he always wished he could be. My idea being that the glove would channel a person's idealized version of them self or something like that.

Then one of my friends read the script and pointed out that my magic glove functioned way too similarly to The Mask. That hadn't been my intention at all, but he was right. In light of that, I decided I'd need to heavily re-work the story. So that's one of the reasons I never ended up filming Dark Relic, although another reason is that I was unable to secure the funding I thought I was going to get.

It's definitely for the best, though. I cringe when I re-read that old Dark Relic script, but I love that it evolved and mutated into the mega-radical Satan Ninja 198X.

My Babe Alert isn't ringing. Is this the first page in months without sexy curves and bodacious bods?

Holy shit, you're right. Jessica will be beaten severely for this glaring omission. Even if my script does not provide opportunity for T&A, she should force it. So Eddie's walking through the dark woods at night? Who says there can't be a nude centerfold tacked to a tree? Or a sexy wood nymph spying on him? Or the trees themselves could have tits.

Heh, eventually the comic will devolve into the Idiocracy version of itself, which will be nothing but pages of giant tits bathed in neon light with the pentastar icon in place of nipples.

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Also, this page reminded me a tiny bit of the shitfest masquerading as a movie called "Hobgoblins", a terrible Gremlins ripoff that tried to be funnier and more clever than it could ever possibly be. You may have seen it as a late-season episode of MST3k and it's at least worth checking out THAT way. It is the worst of the '80s in a single package. But if you haven't seen it: basically, the hobgoblin creatures somehow use their Alien Magic to make people's weird fantasies come true and then the fantasies quickly turn on them and kill them.

Oh man, Hobgoblins. I've only seen the MST3K version of the movie, back when that episode first aired so I don't remember it too well, except that it was a good episode. When Jessica drew the Creepies poster for the arcade in issue 1, the Hobgoblins poster was one of her influences.

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That went about as well as Eddie could have hoped. Also hoping we see more of Ryan, since he seems to be a real stand-up dude in the face of bunch of wacked-out punks.

Some of my favorite future scenes involve Ryan.

The colors continue to dazzle and the action has not disappointed one bit.

Glad you're digging the action. I might have mentioned this somewhere before, but prior to starting this comic, Jessica had almost never drawn action sequences, so it's still kind of new ground for her.

Babe Alert: It says a lot about the sexiness of these ladies by the fact that they still have obviously sexualized figures even from a distance (bottom row).

I actually think Veronica might be boobing just a little too hard in that panel, and could use a little toning down. Man, that was hard for me to type, but I want her proportions to remain mostly consistent.

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