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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Hiatus Continues For Just A Little Bit Longer...
« on: September 25, 2015, 02:38:53 AM »
Haha well you're not as bad as George R.R. Martin yet, and a lot better looking to boot. But like he said, once it's out nobody cares how long it took, only if it's good or not (or something along those lines anyway).

If only that quote always rang true. For instance, in the case of my decade-long delayed album, The EverDead's fan-base had long-since moved on (understandably so), so it was released to an almost non-existent reception. But by that point, I was expecting as much and was releasing it more for my own sense of closure than anything. But yeah, there's definitely truth to the idiom of striking while the forge is hot.

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Discuss Anything / Re: Moonbeam City
« on: September 22, 2015, 10:39:51 PM »
Okay have not watched or heard about any of this yet, but you did mention Miami Vice so I will be doing that at the first chance I get.  I'll be back with my review that expect will be negative lol.

Nah, you might like it, dude. After all, if you can enjoy shows with ultra generic shit writing like the Suite Life of Zack and Cody, then I'd think that a show with mediocre writing like Moonbeam City would be up your alley.  ;)

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Discuss Anything / Re: Some final installments of classic 80's action
« on: September 22, 2015, 10:36:49 PM »
I got to show Jessica Rocky IV for the first time a few weeks ago. I didn't realize how thin on plot that movie is. It's like 50% montage.

Not sure how I feel about a new Rocky movie, as I thought the last one capped things off nicely. Oh well, it's least it's a spin-off and not a true sequel.

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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Hiatus Continues For Just A Little Bit Longer...
« on: September 22, 2015, 10:34:44 PM »
Comics, unfinished albums, decade old books, you've got so much up your sleeve it's no wonder it takes so long to finish stuff!  8)

And there's a pseudo full-length movie I shot back around 2006 that I need to edit still. Ugh. But my projects aren't holding up Satan Ninja, that's all on the artist babe.

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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Hiatus Continues For Just A Little Bit Longer...
« on: September 20, 2015, 05:10:06 PM »
I didn't know you were writing a novel Adam? Care to share any details with us?

It's something I started writing over a decade ago, but it's gone through so many changes since then that it's basically a different book. In short, it's a horror story that mostly takes place in 1989, about a teen who moves to a small town in Michigan where some supernatural stuff goes down. It's not nearly as silly in tone as Satan Ninja, as it's based much more in reality, but it's not entirely devoid of humor, either.

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Discuss Anything / Re: Moonbeam City
« on: September 20, 2015, 04:00:54 PM »
I saw a trailer for Moonbeam City a couple months ago. Your summery was spot-on. I haven't watched an episode yet, but from the trailer, I got the impression that I'd love the style but not care too much for the substance. That intro you posted, however, is rad as fuck. I'm a pretty shallow dude, so I'll probably end up spending time with Moonbeam City just for the eye candy.

However, I wish the show had better writing. If it fails miserably, the men in suits might blame the '80s aesthetic instead of the mediocre writing, and thus make it harder for things with a similar '80s aesthetic to be given a chance.

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Discuss Anything / Re: Preacher
« on: September 14, 2015, 05:06:51 AM »
I've never heard of this comic before but I just read a paragraph about it on Wikipedia and it sounds cool enough. I doubt this series will come out here anytime soon though..

It's actually my favorite comic series. Jessica introduced me to it shortly after we started dating. It's almost as 90's as our comic is '80s. Almost.

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Discuss Anything / Re: Preacher
« on: September 10, 2015, 10:59:26 PM »
I'm also a bit unsure of how I feel about all of that.  I get the concept that the comic is just a basis for the TV adaptation but I would have really loved to see something more pure in form.  That said I'm still  looking forward to this.

And of course I didn't even mention the fact that it'll have to be toned down to make it fit for AMC. It's definitely a series that would be best on a premium network like HBO. But all that said, I'm still cautiously optimistic and I'll give it a shot. After all, it's pretty rad that we live in a world where a Preacher series is being made at all. No way would anyone have even considered making a TV series out of it back when the comics came out in the '90s, considering the sensitive nature of the subject matter.

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Discuss Anything / Re: Preacher
« on: September 10, 2015, 05:15:42 PM »
Yes it's not 80's but I do think that it relates enough to the Satan Ninja project that I thought I'd share this here.

This board is "Discuss Anything" not "Discuss Anything '80s-Related", so no worries.

Anyway, that's awesome news that the Preacher TV series is finally getting made. I know it's been in pre-production hell for years. But I tend to be a purist when it comes to things I'm a fan of, so I'm already a little annoyed to see they've cast a British guy as Jesse (who's supposed to be Texan), a half-black chick who grew up in Ireland and England as Tulip (who's supposed to be a white blonde chick from the American south), and the dude playing Cassidy (an Irish vampire) is British. But I'll give the show a chance. Hopefully they can pull off the right accents.

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I think the new version of Minxy is better.   She appears less anime and more typical 80's American.

Yeah, Ket is already our token anime babe, so we can't have Minxy encroaching on Ket's territory, or else they might get into a cat fight and then there'd likely be wardrobe malfunctions ...

Hmm. I should totally re-write issue three to be one long cat fight between Ket and Minxy.

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GIFs are the optimum way to show differences between versions of drawings, and the timing is quite right here as well.

Thanks, Science Dude! Every time I decide to make a GIF for the website, I have to re-look up how to do it. This time I wrote down step-by-step instructions. It's actually really simple. At least to make a two-frame GIF.

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Also it took me about 5 minutes to realise there's a tiny update to Jackie Chaos's wrist in the second one. Well done..

Haha, I like the thought of you actually spending an entire five minutes watching the GIF flash back and forth. Yeah, I noticed the subtle wrist change on Jackie Chaos. I wonder what it was about that wrist highlight that compelled Jessica to get rid of it...

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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: New Character School Pictures, Plus a FAQ
« on: August 24, 2015, 03:27:26 PM »
I've actually always thought Heather is better looking in some panels, but I prefer brunettes most of the time.

Yeah, Heather is more my type than Veronica. But Veronica represents that blonde "ideal" girl that was common in a lot of '80s teen movies.

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btw there is a typo in the bottom of Trent's main interest.

Good catch. Fixed.

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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: New Character School Pictures, Plus a FAQ
« on: August 23, 2015, 05:30:17 PM »
Hahaha Ryan Broderick likes Honey, I minimized the children. What a brilliant piss-take!

Credit goes to Jessica for that one.

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The about page has a lot of small updates. Did they have surnames before? I don't seem to remember them. Also a bit of backstory which does a lot to enrich this page a little. I especially love the last sentence on Eddie's description..

They've always had surnames listed, but you're right, there are a lot of tiny updates to the old entries. It was Jessica's idea to add that final sentence to Eddie's entry, as she felt it was important to give a subtle reminder to new readers about the actual nature of the comic.

Some of the entries, like Carmen's, were hard to write without spoiling things for people who haven't yet read the comic. That's especially the case with Ket and Darwick, which is why they have such sparse entries.

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Is it me or does Heather look better than Veronica in those pictures?

Heh, while Jessica was drawing Heather, she actually said something like, "I think I might be doing too good of a job on her, she might be looking a little too hot." Ideally, Heather and Veronica should be two sides of the same popular babe coin, it's just that ones a brunette and the other is a blonde.

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Q: Why does every girl in the comic have big boobs?

A: That’s absurd. Not every girl has a huge rack. Why, Tina is barely a B-cup.

I remember asking this (and getting a lot of flak for it) but is it asked that frequently? Tell me I'm at least in good company and not just overly sensitive feminazis..?

People don't usually ask it directly. Instead they allude to it by saying something like, "Gee, it seems like every girl has huge tits." Or, "Wow, there sure are a lot of busty girls in this comic." I figure it's something that would occur to people even if they won't vocalize it to us, so it felt like it should get acknowledged in the FAQ, even if it's just in a silly manner.

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