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Discuss Comic Pages / Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 26 - Eddie Vs. Dean
« on: January 03, 2015, 03:44:12 AM »
But what better way to start off the new year than with Eddie getting his ass kicked?
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But what better way to start off the new year than with Eddie getting his ass kicked?
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Discuss Blog Entries / Page Delayed Due to Sickie Jessica
« on: December 20, 2014, 09:24:40 PM »
Looks like the next page is going to be a couple days late.
Jessica was happily working on the page Thursday, when she developed a nasty stomach ache. It persisted overnight, preventing her from getting much sleep, so I took her to the Urgent Care Center. They looked her over, then had her go to the ER. After some more tests, they found out she has pancreatitis, basically an inflamed pancreas.
She's on painkillers and doing fine now. She just has to take it easy and stay on a liquid diet for a few days.
Anyway, we just wanted to give you a heads up on why the next page is going to be posted later than usual.
Jessica was happily working on the page Thursday, when she developed a nasty stomach ache. It persisted overnight, preventing her from getting much sleep, so I took her to the Urgent Care Center. They looked her over, then had her go to the ER. After some more tests, they found out she has pancreatitis, basically an inflamed pancreas.
She's on painkillers and doing fine now. She just has to take it easy and stay on a liquid diet for a few days.
Anyway, we just wanted to give you a heads up on why the next page is going to be posted later than usual.
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Discuss Comic Pages / Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 25 - Party Heats Up
« on: December 13, 2014, 11:42:45 PM »
One of our favorite pages so far. We realized while Jessica was drawing it that this is the first punch of the comic.
The first of many...
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Discuss Blog Entries / Music Video: "Voo Doo" by Rachel Sweet [1982]
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Discuss Comic Pages / Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 24 - Eddie at the Party
« on: December 06, 2014, 09:22:14 PM »
Okay, we we had some technical difficulties when we added the new page to the site, but Ghoul was on the ball and got it all figured out. Then there were a few last minute changes we decided to make to the page.
The plotline of Joe being invited to the popular kid party, and then Eddie deciding to get dressed up and crash it, is one of the few elements of the story that remains mostly in tact from my old Dark Relic movie script (which served as the inspiration for the basic plot of Satan Ninja 198X).
Had I actually gotten the chance to make Dark Relic, this scene would've been filmed at my grandpa's house, where I used to frequently host pool parties in the summer. He had a cool house and I'm kind of bummed I only utilized it for two of my no-budget camcorder short movies, Bad Deal and TasteTations.
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Discuss Blog Entries / Music Video: "Samurai" by Michael Cretu [1985]
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Discuss Blog Entries / The Evolution of Eddie's Dude Shinobi Poster
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Discuss Comic Pages / Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 23 - To the Moon
« on: November 23, 2014, 08:34:06 AM »
This page took Jessica a bit longer than usual, but it's a pretty loaded page. The top panel is easily the most characters she's drawn in a single panel before.
And with this page, I believe that we've finally shown every element that's on the issue two cover.
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Discuss Comic Pages / Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 22 - Demon Hammer
« on: November 15, 2014, 11:58:09 PM »
Minxy is a character Jessica originally drew as a pinup birthday present for me back in April of 2011. She put the piece, titled “Succubus Schoolgirl” on her deviantArt and it quickly became her most popular piece by far. A year later, she made a second pinup of the character, giving her the name Minxy.
I’m not sure when we came up with the idea of having her in the comic, but here she is, busting out of her schoolgirl outfit and shredding guitar.
Edit: Here are the links to the pictures on deviantArt, but since they contain nudity, you have to log in to the site to see them:
Succubus Schoolgirl
Succubus Schoolgirl II: Minxy Returns
Edit 2: Apparently I can hotlink them from deviantArt. So here they are (NSFW):
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/322/8/1/succubus_schoolgirl_by_jessicasafron-d6uq95u.jpg
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/110/1/7/succubus_schoolgirl_ii__minxy_returns_by_jessicasafron-d4x1o23.jpg
Some of you might be wondering what the fuck is going on with Sam’s hair. You see, way back when Jessica first drew a prologue to this comic in 2009, Sam was more of a skaterpunk with short(ish) hair that was bleach blond with dark roots showing. Shortly before we publicly launched the comic, we decided to revamp Psycho Sam, giving him long hair and turning him into more of a metalhead.
However, we recently realized that giving Sam long hair and sideburns made him look too similar to another character that’ll be introduced in the future.
So now you might be thinking, “Okay, so wouldn't it be more logical to redesign the character that hasn't been introduced yet?”
That’s a great point, but we had another issue with Sam's long-haired look. We envision him as being into both metal and punk, but the long-haired look pushed him too far into the metalhead direction. With his current (and hopefully final) redesign, he looks more “right” to us.
Jessica updated his appearance in most of the previous pages, but she still needs to do the cover to issue 2, the one Psycho Sam panel in issue one, and Sam's profile picture on the website. Those'll be posted soon. In the meantime just chalk his chaotic evolving hair up to his "psychoness."
Also, Sam isn't playing guitar left handed; that's their reflection in the mirror.
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Discuss Blog Entries / Movie Review - Deadly Friend [1986]
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Discuss Comic Pages / Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 21 - Aboard the Turboceptor-1
« on: November 09, 2014, 01:27:59 AM »
This is a page we’ve been looking forward to for a long time. In the previous draft of the story, Kit and Darwick weren’t going to be “unmasked” until much later in the comic, but we decided that was too long of a wait to fully reveal two such important characters.
The reason the bounty hunters spoke with black balloons was to represent their helmets applying a vocal filter to their voices, making them sound more deep and gravely to hide their girlishness.
Being the comic’s main representation of ‘80s anime, Kit’s design is something that has gone through a lot of iterations. Even as recently as the day before posting this, her hair got a last-minute re-design. One concern we had is that we wanted it to be obvious that Kit was meant to look like an anime character.
We studied all sorts of ‘80s anime for inspiration. We know a lot of people in the US have a strong association between anime and the ‘90s, but there was a lot of awesome anime and manga that came out in the ‘80s, well before Dragon Ball Z blew up on Toonami. Fist of the Northstar was the first time I knowingly watched anime, and its badass brutality blew my young mind.
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