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Thanks, Andy. Glad you dig our pictures, which are completely candid and representative of how we always look while working on the comic, of course.

Issue 2 is going to be sweet. It's were things really start to come together and the comic gets underway proper.

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In the original version of this page, once the ninja comes to the cliff, he simply pulls out his sword and turns around to fight Viper, who shoots him off the cliff. But after Jessica had drawn the page, I decided it'd be way sweeter to have the ninja grow big-ass bat-wings and fly toward a fiery vortex in the sky to escape. Besides, since the supernatural plays a huge part in the comic, I realized that we needed to introduce supernatural elements into the first issue.

The original version of this page can be seen in the "198X Sketchbook" that's included with the digital copy of the first issue that you can buy in our store.

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Page 19 is now posted and you can check it out here : https://satanninja.com/comic/satan-ninja-198x/issue-1-video-dreamer/page-19#comic

That leaves us with only three more pages before all of Issue 01 - Video Dreamer is available to read on the site. But if you'd rather read the rest of the issue right-fucking-now, or simply want to support the comic, you can purchase the entire first issue from our store (paying whatever you'd like for it). It includes 4 exclusive pages of early concept sketches with commentary by Jessica. And it has a preview of the badass cover Jessica did for Issue 02 - Party Like It's 198X.

Speaking of which, here's Jessica hard at work on one of the pages for Issue 02.



And here's me, probably writing about boobs or something.



We just got our first convention confirmation, so if you'd like to meet us in person and pick up a physical copy of the comic, you should be able to do so at this year's Midoricon.

Okay, so we've got this sweet comic that we're making. We love it, and we intend to keep going with it even if it never picks up much of an audience. The story is all plotted out, and we're too excited about it not to see it through to completion.

However, we know there have to be plenty of like-minded people out there who would dig the comic as much as we do. The problem, of course, is how to make these awesome people aware that this comic exists.

When we launched the website at the start of March, we basically only told our friends and family about it. More recently, we posted it to r/Comics on Reddit, which got us a big spike in page views, but r/Comics mostly caters to the three-panel gag-a-day style comic. We also got a Twitter shout-out from none-other than Maddox, which was awesome since we both think Maddox is fucking rad. So we're slowly but surely gaining some traction.

We're now looking into paying for advertisement, and all signs seem to be pointing us to Project Wonderful. We intend to take the money we've gotten from donations and comic sales and put that toward advertising, but that's not a lot of money, so we need to be selective and really make it count. It's a bit tricky to come up with the best places to advertise the comic since Satan Ninja 198X is kind of an odd beast. It's not a super hero comic, at least, not in the traditional sense. It's not a high-brow indy slice-of-life comic. It's not your traditional manga-inspired martial arts action adventure. It's not completely focused on video games and video game culture. It's not an erotic comic, although it does contain quite a bit of sex and gratuitous nudity. And it's certainly not a furry comic. So in the world of webcomics, that makes it hard to find its niche.

We're obviously new to this, so if any of you have any suggestions for us, we'd love to hear them. Also, if you know anyone that's a bad enough dude to like our comic, you should totally pass the word on. Meanwhile, we'll continue to churn out the radical glory that is Satan Ninja 198X.


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Fun fact of the day: I briefly considered naming this page "shadow dong."

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Discuss Anything / Re: Introductions
« on: May 06, 2014, 09:19:22 AM »
Hey, glad to have you here, Richard. I've got mostly Dutch ancestry myself so I can only assume you're a pretty rad dude.

Anyway, as far as introductions go, I'll simply link to the "about" page for Jessica and myself, in case anyone missed it: https://satanninja.com/about/the-creators

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Hairdo aside, Viper's got a Stallone-like look unless I'm mistaken? Good stuff!

Good call. We decided that Viper was going to be inspired by Mt. T and Stallone. He's even one-forth Italian (hence his last name).

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Discuss Comic Pages / Issue 1 - Video Dreamer - Page 18 - Jump Kick
« on: May 03, 2014, 08:38:48 PM »


Reading these pages, I can just hear the synth-heavy 80s action movie score.

Speaking of music, Jessica and I would like to eventually record a song or two to serve as kind of companion pieces for the comic. It'd be fun.

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Twist: Viper is a genie.

Well I guess he'll have to be, now.

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Nothing seems to make Viper happier than shotgun blasting some ninjas.

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Discuss Anything / Re: RIP Old Friend
« on: April 25, 2014, 01:41:28 AM »
I don't think any other commercial from my youth was capable of getting me as pumped as this.

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Discuss Anything / Re: Demon Lizards of Classic Literature
« on: April 22, 2014, 11:32:03 PM »
Holy shit.

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Discuss Blog Entries / Alternate Issue 1 Cover & Promotion
« on: April 20, 2014, 10:17:17 PM »


Above you can see a preview image for the alternate cover that'll be featured on some of the print versions of Issue 01 (we hope to have the print versions of issue 01 ready by this summer). If the image looks familiar to you, that's because it's a parody of this badass promotional art done for Double Dragon II.



We'd love to credit the original artist, but can't find out that information anywhere. So if any of you know who made that masterpiece, let us know.

Also, since we launched this website back in March, we've pretty much only told our friends and acquaintances about it. But starting today, we're going to promote it to strangers on the 'net. Hopefully our rad little comic can find its audience.

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Discuss Anything / Re: Introductions
« on: April 20, 2014, 01:57:19 AM »
Welcome to the forums, Paul.

Congratulations, as one of the first posters here, I now deem you a totally awesome dude.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Issue 1 - Video Dreamer - Page 16 - The Glove
« on: April 19, 2014, 05:54:51 AM »


And now the all-important glove finally makes its debut in the comic. The design of the glove is something we spent a lot of time on, as it went through a few different appearances before we got to its current form (you can see one of the earlier designs in the bonus sketch section at the back of the issue 01 download we have in our store). Of course, the main inspiration for the glove is probably obvious to most of you. After all, "it's so bad."

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Discuss Blog Entries / Music Video - "Anger" by Thor
« on: April 18, 2014, 12:37:34 AM »
It was only a matter of time before Jon Mikl Thor would be featured on this site. He’s pretty much the epitome of 80’s cornball metal. He’s a Canadian former body-building champion who, in the mid-70s, decided to start a new genre of music that he dubbed “muscle rock” (also the name of his first album). What’s muscle rock? Well, it’s rock music ... but the singer has big muscles. Get it? So he basically paved the road for the likes of Manowar, Danzig, Type O Negative, and Tim Capello.

Jon Mikl Thor’s band went through a couple different name changes until it settled on being simply, “Thor.” The first proper Thor album came out in ‘77, but the band is more remembered for their '80s output. The video I’m featuring today is from their 1983 EP, Unchained.

A video was produced for “Anger,” the second song on the EP. Some claim it’s the worst video of the '80s, but they’re totally being hyperbolic. Don’t get me wrong, the video is fucking terrible, but at least it’s way more entertaining than the tragically awful video for Journey's most badass song, “Separate Ways” (seriously, the terribleness of that video almost ruins the song for me, so I’m not even going to link to it—view at your own discretion).

Anyway, behold the majesty of Thor’s video for “Anger.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X04hoo-93kg

In the mid-80s, Jon Mikl Thor took a break from music to focus on writing heavy metal horror movies for himself to star in. They’re awesomely terrible so I’ll probably end up reviewing at least one of them in the future.

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