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Discuss Blog Entries / Radicast 198X - Episode 6 - Evil Dead 2

« on: November 23, 2016, 07:33:58 AM »

Check it out here!

And here's a picture of Maris the Great (the gay zombie I talk about during the episode):

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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Radicast 198X - 005 - The Black Cauldron

« on: November 16, 2016, 05:14:52 AM »

Thanks! We recorded the next episode earlier tonight.

Also, welcome to the forum, Penguin! ::high-five::

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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Happy Halloween! (2016 Edition)

« on: November 16, 2016, 05:13:41 AM »

Congratulations for receiving the awesome Duck award! You guys really earned it!

Thanks! Now there's the matter of what exactly we do with a reward that consists of a digital icon. I suppose we could put it over on the side bar of the homepage or something.

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Discuss Blog Entries / Radicast 198X - 005 - The Black Cauldron

« on: November 13, 2016, 08:22:21 PM »

Check it out here!

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 3 - Ninja Power! - Page 35 - Debbie Slater

« on: November 11, 2016, 10:11:31 PM »

I'd just like to point out that Sam's apparently jerking off while still wearing his bone gloves. And I can't imagine that he washes those too often...

Edit: I also just noticed that Sam seems the be the only character that Jessica consistently gives "Simpsons" style teeth too.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 3 - Ninja Power! - Page 35 - Debbie Slater

« on: November 10, 2016, 09:46:05 PM »

This kind of reminds me of the  scene in Halloween 2 where Michael Myers turns up the heat to the hot tub and then eventually dunks the girl's head into the scalding hot water until she dies.

That's right, I forgot about that scene. I believe it was one of the few death scenes that John Carpenter was brought in to direct during re-shoots in order to make Halloween II more gruesome.

However, Mr. Skull popping up on this page, and then suddenly being gone was totally inspired by Michael Myers's habit of doing that in the Halloween movies.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Issue 3 - Ninja Power! - Page 35 - Debbie Slater

« on: November 10, 2016, 08:28:18 AM »

Dean’s older sister Debbie has been mentioned a few times in the comic, and she had a tiny cameo on the cover of the Stagbunny issue that Trance was reading earlier, but now we finally get to see her. Like, a lot of her.

Debbie graduated from a private school a few years ago (Dean attended a private school as well until he was kicked out of it), and now lives in LA as a model/actress. She’s currently home visiting.

Anyway, I think Jessica killed it with the hot tub lighting effects on this page. And it’s nice to see Mr. Skull popping into the comic to torment Sam some more.

Speaking of Sam, I think this is the first time we've seen Sam's eyes since he stole Eddie's sunglasses off his face at the end of Issue 2.

Three more pages and Issue 3 should be finished!

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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Grim October

« on: November 02, 2016, 04:41:24 AM »

I bought it as well but didn't get very far yet as I had just started a new book (The History of Rome by Livy, which is completely different). It's a good read so far, but I think it deserves my full attention rather than just fifteen minutes every now and then..

Thanks a lot for getting it. I know it's very different in tone form Satan Ninja, so I don't expect all Satan Ninja fans will be into it, but it's awesome that you dudes are giving it a shot. <3

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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Happy Halloween! (2016 Edition)

« on: November 01, 2016, 04:06:37 AM »

Hah, I actually reference the Silver Shamrock commercial at one point in Grim October. I first saw part of Halloween III when I was a kid, and that commercial combined with the concept of the masks that melt your face and magically produce spiders was super terrifying. I think it's actually Jessica's favorite film in the Halloween series.

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Discuss Blog Entries / Happy Halloween! (2016 Edition)

« on: October 31, 2016, 08:27:56 PM »

Read the blog post here!

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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Grim October

« on: October 31, 2016, 12:55:06 AM »

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!

Thanks, Microwave Dude! That fills me with Halloween joy, turning me into some kind of bald pinata of spooky goodness. I took that analogy too far. Sorry.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 3 - Ninja Power! - Page 34 - Banging Veronica

« on: October 30, 2016, 06:59:47 PM »

I don't think Dean misses Veronica at all. He's too much into himself for that.

He doesn't miss Veronica as a person, but he definitely misses her as a trophy.

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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Grim October

« on: October 30, 2016, 05:05:09 PM »

Oh man, that's super awesome to read, Mumm-rad! Thanks, and I hope you like the rest of the book. I'm pumped to see the first reviews pop up online.

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Discuss Blog Entries / Grim October

« on: October 28, 2016, 11:11:04 PM »

Read the blog post here!

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

« on: October 28, 2016, 06:17:25 AM »

A really interesting Entertainment Geekly article (only article of its kind, unfortunately) from January 2014, that I think can strongly, strongly be applied to one's understanding of Satan Ninja 198X.
http://www.ew.com/article/2014/01/23/80s-genre-entertainment-geekly

Aw man, great article—and great post!

a mixture of raw brutality and endearing innocence

That's a great descriptor for the '80s that I don't think I've heard before. And yeah, it totally applies to the comic. In fact, I think someone would be hard-pressed to find an '80s retro product that embodies that more than SN8X. Just look at the main character, a dude who's starry-eyed, idealistic, and naive, yet he's now wielding Hell-spawned assassination powers.

Another interesting point from the article is how it says that you can imagine characters from 80s set period prices actually in there world going to see actual 80s movies, which is imaginable because  of the way these pieces are made, in a way that they share the same world as these movies. So with this comic, I can actually imagine characters going to see such movies, or listening to synth music, because of the way the comic is done.

This serves as a good segue to a very minor behind-the-scenes dilemma that's come up a few times: what real-world '80s things do we want to reference as actually existing in the SN8X-verse, and what real-world '80s things do we want to reference as being fictional within the SN8X-verse.

For instance, take the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Now, we could have made a parody version of them that actually exists in the SN8X-verse (I could totally see them butting heads with the Satan Ninja clans in the sewers), but instead we made a parody version of them that exists as a fictional franchise within the SN8X-verse.

Say, for instance, that Ket and Darwick end up in a situation that would be perfect for us to use a parody of the aliens from Critters. Well, we wouldn't feel comfortable doing that now, since we've already established a fictional parody of Critters (see the Kreepies poster in the Issue 1 arcade scenes).

It's a minor thing, but something we have to to think about once in awhile.

It also states that the 80s are now an "actual cultural and artistic force", which I think is strongly relevant now, with examples such as this comic, Stranger Things and synthwave music. These aren't simple parodies just existing to poke fun at the time, they actually relish and create an actual feel of the time

Thanks! I'm glad to see someone saying this comic creates an actual feel of the time, as that's definitely one of our goals with it. Even though I don't think there's any single actual '80s product that quite matches the tone of our comic. The closest I can think of are movies like Big Trouble in Little China or The Last Dragon, but those are both missing some essential SN8X elements.

, which, as was stated before, is a mixture of "a mixture of raw brutality and endearing innocence", which can come from the fact that things like teen movies can be seen as innocent but action and horror movies relentlessly raw and bloody.

Not only that, but there was a lot of stuff that was super appealing to kids, but had some ultra non-kid-friendly elements. Robocop, for instance. Or movies starring kids that were too scary for a lot of kids to even watch, like The Gate. And then there was Temple of Doom, which was very kid-friendly for the most part, but then it had the brutal heart-ripping out scene.

Plus, it also brings up the then kickstarter Kung Fury, which, while pretty different from this comic, the intentions of which are stated for making the film do seem to kind of resemble your reasons for making this comic as well.

I totally agree with the Kung Fury director's statement as to what draws him to the '80s. It's simultaneously super cool and yet super dumb.

But anyway, it's an interesting read. Bet you never thought this comic would get an artistic analysis, did you? Well, now it has.

Hah, thanks Matty. Awesome post.