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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 5 - Lord Hreigh

« on: July 18, 2014, 06:49:20 AM »

Why fix the place up when Lord Hreigh could make a killing by charging bands to film post-apocalyptic music videos there? Those were pretty hot in the '80s.

Actually, when I wrote the script all I said was that the bounty hunters were killing mutants in some kind of wasteland setting. Jessica's the one who decided to add the vehicle chase and create a skull-entranced lair leading to an ancient spaceship that had long-ago crashed into the side of a mountain. And now that I think about it, that alteration led to us making a pretty significant change to the comic that I can't talk about yet.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 5 - Lord Hreigh

« on: July 17, 2014, 01:34:30 AM »

Nah, don't feel bad for Lord Hreigh. The dude had it pretty good for awhile before our bounty hunters came along and fucked up his day.

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Discuss Anything / Re: More blogs. More reviews.

« on: July 16, 2014, 05:52:18 PM »

I would like to do at least one a week. not sure if we'll set a strict schedule for it.

We obviously indulge in a lot of '80s stuff, but most of it doesn't lend itself well for reviews. After I see a mediocre movie, I don't feel too compelled to write about it. I also want to avoid reviewing '80s classics that everyone has already seen. I'd rather bring the more obscure stuff to light. Or maybe I'll just do a mini review for such movies, if I feel like I've got something to say about it.

But yeah, I'll make an effort to do reviews and blog posts more often.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 5 - Lord Hreigh

« on: July 14, 2014, 11:14:05 PM »

I actually don't remember how I came up with Hreigh.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 5 - Lord Hreigh

« on: July 14, 2014, 03:57:35 AM »

We considered using Klingon for the alien language, since the original Klingon dictionary was published in the mid-80s, but decided against it. We also considered using the language invented for Quest For Fire, but that was too limited. (By the way, I hadn't seen Quest For Fire until last week. It was awesome.)

I had written an alternate version of this scene in which Lord Hreigh got his face sliced off instead of getting kicked into the pipe that impales his guts. Then the bounty hunters would have had trouble getting their little device to scan his sliced-off face in order to make a proper ID. However, at that point I only knew Lord Hreigh was some kind of "mutant alien" and I was picturing him having more of a human face. The idea doesn't work so well with him as a kind of dragon/triceratops/human hybrid. But that's fine, because it would've caused the scene to go on longer and we've got a whole lot of stuff to try and fit into this issue.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 2 - Lunch with Carmen

« on: July 07, 2014, 07:24:47 PM »

That's quite a feat. I really love Dr. Strangelove, you must've seen it in your quest for completeness right?

Oh yeah, we saw the Kubrick classics. We didn't like Dr. Strangelove as much as we had expected, which I feel a bit guilty about as a huge fan of the Fallout series. I think it might have been hyped up to us too much or something. However, we ended up really liking Barry Lyndon, which was a Kubrick movie neither of us had even heard of before seeing it. Lolita was good, and 2001 was awesome, with the exception of the drawn out sequence at the end where it just shows psychedelic landscapes for like 5 minutes.

It's clear that watching all those movies has had a great effect on you and Jessica, at least in terms of the details (big and small) in the comic! Just the collection of robots alone was great.

Thanks. Now that we've finally gotten into the '80s, we can feel a bit more justified in our insane movie-watching quest, since it can now all be considered "Satan Ninja research."

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 2 - Lunch with Carmen

« on: July 07, 2014, 02:44:54 AM »

She's not into violence, huh? There goes Predator then, too. I'm impressed you were able to get her to watch The Thing. We just re-watched it a few weeks ago and the practical creature/gore effects are so fucking amazing. Jessica was so in awe of it that it nearly drove her to cry tears of happiness.

Judging from the movies you said she liked, perhaps the John Hughes teen movies would be more up her alley. Or Labyrinth.

Fortunately, Jessica and I have nearly identical movie taste, so we don't have to worry about suffering through each other's movies. For the past five or six years we've actually been on a quest to watch all the most notable movies in chronological order. From the silent era on up. Now that we've finally made it to the early '80s, we've broaden our selection to include every genre movie that's notable or interests us. Yeah, we're a little insane, but it's good research and it's interesting to see the evolution of film.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 2 - Lunch with Carmen

« on: July 07, 2014, 12:40:04 AM »

My wife and I have the same age difference - I was born in '83 and she was born in '90. As a result, she doesn't get '80s references like I do, but she was raised by her grandparents, so she's more familiar with classic stuff like I Love Lucy than I will EVER be.

You need to do your duty as a boyfriend and introduce her to the '80s classics. At least the big ones like Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Terminator, Robocop, Beetlejuice, etc. And then force her to read Satan Ninja. And force her to like it.

I'm not really a fan old classic TV shows, but I'm pretty familiar with a lot of them. I've always had a hard time sleeping at night, so I'd stay up really late watching Nick At Nite.

Oh, and welcome to our infantile forums. Thanks for joining us. You are now a super-rad dude.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 4 - Space Bounty Hunters

« on: July 05, 2014, 04:41:07 AM »

Hey, he might not be dead yet. I mean, sure, that's an awful lot of blood exploding out of his face, but if Mortal Kombat taught me anything, it's that "kombatants" are capable of exploding out all sorts of blood before going down for the count. And by "going down for the count" I mean standing there wobbling in a daze for ten seconds or so to give the victor a chance to execute a fatality.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 4 - Space Bounty Hunters

« on: July 05, 2014, 03:45:01 AM »

After three pages of Eddie and his friends chatting it up in the school lunch room, we figured the comic could use a sci-fi action sequence devoid of dialogue.

A friend of ours saw this page the other day and asked Jessica if she was going to add sound effects for the laser blasts and such. As some of you may have noticed, we decided that Satan Ninja would use minimal sound effects. Mostly just when we want to draw the reader's attention to a sound or because it's not obvious. For instance, we'd use a sound effect to show a character's stomach grumbling, or for someone off-panel cocking a gun.

If our comic were ever to be made into a movie/series, this scene would have to have to be backed by a Perturbator song. Something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNeQ1B5zpOw

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Discuss Comic Pages / Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 3 - Eddie's Destiny

« on: June 28, 2014, 06:39:10 AM »

When all I had was a detailed synopsis for the overarching plot of  Satan Ninja, Eddie was mostly characterized as an every-man. It wasn't until I was writing this issue that I noticed he had evolved into a naive and determined optimist. And I'm totally cool with that. It makes for a great juxtaposition with what he eventually becomes.

By the way, the brunette drug gifter there is Alex's older sister (and Veronica's best friend), Heather. The red-head on Veronica's left is Tina. They'll eventually be getting write-ups for the "About the Characters" page, as will the foreign exchange student Carmen.

Next week's update will take us someplace far, far removed from the school's lunchroom.

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Discuss Blog Entries / Movie Review - Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn [1983]

« on: June 26, 2014, 04:10:31 AM »

You can read my review here: https://satanninja.com/blog/2014/06/movie-review-metalstorm-the-destruction-of-jared-syn-1983

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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Minor Retcon

« on: June 24, 2014, 05:15:23 AM »

We researched a bunch of webcomic sites when we were designing our own, and having an "About" section that gives details on the setting and the characters is pretty common.

There are some things we could probably do to improve the site a bit, but I like the way it turned out. Sometimes I come here just to bask in its radness.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 2 - Lunch with Carmen

« on: June 24, 2014, 05:06:30 AM »

You're actually not too much younger than me. I was born in '81. However, my dad was a cableman, so I grew up watching a non-stop parade of movies on HBO. Jessica was born in '88, but her parents exposed her to a lot of retro things when she was young, so she never had that stigma some people do about media that was made "before their time."

Your guess is close. The mecha-thing is based on ED-209 from the first Robocop. Robocop 2 came out in '90 and is thus out of bounds for our comic.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 2 - Lunch with Carmen

« on: June 23, 2014, 06:06:01 PM »

Most outfits are taken directly from something a character is wearing in an '80s movie (or maybe a music video or TV show or something, but mostly movies). Sometimes Jessica will modify the outfit a bit or do some mixing and matching. However, I doubt anyone would be able to guess all the sources, as we sometimes draw inspiration from extras and not just main characters.

In fact, the comic is full of stupidly obscure little references that I doubt anyone will ever notice. We don't really put them there to be jokes in and of themselves, but more as little easter eggs for anyone who does happen to catch them. And just because we enjoy that sort of thing. I'll give one little example: on page 11 (https://satanninja.com/comic/satan-ninja-198x/issue-1-video-dreamer/page-11) Trance's panel has a whole bunch of pretty obvious references. But I'd be surprised if anyone would notice that in Joe's panel, his lamp is based off of "Lampy" from the '87 animated film The Brave Little Toaster.