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The creepy face-paint and stash are such contrast, it adds something... a few sprinkles on the vanilla. ;)

Blue mustache sprinkles are the worst kind of sprinkles.

I think I picked the right video for making my point when people prefer the ads to the footage itself..  8)

I don't think I've ever seen an add on YouTube. I'm one of those assholes that use an ad-blocker browser plug-in. But hey, we don't have any adds on our site, so no one can say I'm a hypocrite.

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Discuss Anything / Re: Too Many Cooks!
« on: November 10, 2014, 02:59:50 AM »
Why it's a sitcom with a delightfully catchy theme-song that weaves a cautionary tale of the potential hazard of a surplus of culinary artisans working on a single brew.

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I was about to post "See? I was right!" until I realized that I never actually posted in the last page's thread. Anyway, for what it's worth, I guessed that the bounty hunter was a woman a while back - at first it was just because of the callous way she disregarded the slaves, but then I figured that there are a million good reasons why a straight male would act like that. Maybe "he" is just a total badass who can get babes anytime he wants, or maybe he's in a committed relationship. But it was her pose in panel one of page 20 that gave it away to me.

We tried not to show Kit (the fox-babe) from angles that would make her extremely feminine form too obvious. The big utility belt on her bounty hunting costume was to help hide her tiny waist, and of course the big bulging chest armor was to obscure her tits. I think the first picture that strongly hints at Kit's true nature is the second panel of page 14.

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The '80s anime vibe is spot-on. The first full anime I ever watched was Iria: Zeiram the Animation, which was made in '93 but still has that certain aesthetic that hasn't been around since the turn of the century and computers started being used even for traditional animation. Anyway, that style holds a special place in my heart. I'm reminded of this anime music video which shows off some of the best animation from older anime - the clips skew mostly towards the '90s, but there may be some '80s stuff in there, and in any case it's all pre-Naruto/FMA/whatever the fuck has been popular over the last fifteen years.

Holy shit, it's refreshing to see a fan-made anime music video that is set to an actual Japanese song as opposed to some shitty Linkin Park or Evanescence song. You're right, they mostly used footage from '90s anime, but there was quite of bit of '80s stuff in there, like Urusei Yatsura, Project A-ko, and Riding Bean (which was actually one of the first OVAs I ever watched, and one of the few anime I currently own on DVD).

I've never seen Iria: Zeiram the Animation, but that's pretty damn fitting that it's about a female bounty hunter in space.

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Darwick creeps me out a bit. I think it's the teeth - cute-styled anime characters don't typically have teeth more detailed than the simple tiny white line that Kit is sporting. Adults and spirits/monsters/etc. from Ghibli movies do often have teeth like that, though, so it's like a cross between two different styles of anime.

Darwick's main inspirations actually aren't from anime, but we gave her the big anime eyes so she would make a more fitting partner for Kit. For instance, I'll just say that the teeth are taken from a certain type of cute little furry critter that a lot of people thought ruined the final movie of a trilogy.

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Babe alert: Shit, the babeometer nearly burnt out. Furries may have left their reeking stains over big parts of the internet, but nothing can take away the fact that cute fox/cat/rabbit ears with tail(s) are sexy. Looking forward to seeing more of that titsune.

Heheh, for just a second I thought "titsune" was a typo, but then the pun hit me. So fitting.

Hey, maybe Kit will cause a few furries to check out the comic. That might help make up for however many readers this page will cause us to lose because they have an extreme hatred for anything anime-related.

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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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I'm familiar with a lot of 80's metal, but this guy sucks.

You're gonna make Jessica cry.

And here I was thinking the '90s was the age of clowns and weirdos).

Shit. I couldn't make it too far into that video. So painful.

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Nice costume, I guess the stuff in the background is how you guys decorate your house?

Sort of, although the rest of our living space isn't quite as gothed up as that mantle above the fire place.

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The hair-moustache is a nice detail, you should keep it for Movember..  8)

Fuck! Don't encourage her!

"You can click the image to see a larger version if, uh, you're into that sort of thing."

If by that sort of thing, you mean Jessica's amazing Halloween boobs at a higher res... pff, who's NOT into that sort of thing? ;P

Sadly, even Jessica's awesome tits are totally negated by the King Diamond face-paint and blue mustache. Thus, Halloween was a total bummer for me.

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Discuss Anything / Re: Too Many Cooks!
« on: November 07, 2014, 03:55:31 AM »
Thank you, for that incredible journey.

That was truly a work of art.

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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Happy Halloween 2014
« on: November 03, 2014, 04:09:34 AM »
Aye, agreed. I just need to get over the fact that gozer is a slang term for a bloke in Dutch, making Veronigozer sound like a ladyboy.

I had no idea. How unfitting. I mean, I don't think you can get much less masculine than Veronica.

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Masks would just make it a series of drawings of the villains. You'd get a large guy wearing the Jason Vorhees mask (perhaps a Deanson Vorhees?) but it would still just be Jason.

Exactly. But we were thinking of Viper as Jason. Maybe we should have had Mr. Skull as Jason. He could wear a hockey mask over his skull mask.

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Veronigozer is indeed awesome, and much better looking than the original..

Veronigozer is the one villain that some people we showed the image to didn't get right away. Can't really blame them. Maybe if we gave Veronica the dark hair and the short flattop cut, but then she wouldn't look like Veronica at all. Also, in Ghostbusters Gozer is only in that form for about a minute or so of screen time. The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man form is way more recognizable, of course, but I don't think Veronica would be caught dead in that costume.

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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Happy Halloween 2014
« on: November 01, 2014, 07:34:18 PM »
Does Veronigozer feature in Ghostbusties?

Veronigozer should feature in everything.

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The Krueger look suits Eddie well by the way, perhaps in an alternative universe he just flips out over all the embarrassment and goes on a killing spree?

Who's to say he won't flip out and go on a killing spree in this universe?

We were originally going to have all of the characters dressed as slasher movie villains, but we didn't want to cover their faces with masks, so we broadened it to general 80s horror (or horror comedy). I was thinking Veronica could be the girl from Deadly Friend, since that's the only busty blonde 80s horror movie villain I could think of, but that character doesn't have much of a costume. Then Jessica came up with the Gozer idea, which is awesome.

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Perhaps we are a bit weird. Hopefully I'll be rich soon though in which case I'm upgraded to eccentric..

Ha, so true.

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Discuss Blog Entries / Happy Halloween 2014
« on: October 31, 2014, 06:18:01 PM »
This was supposed to be more of a quick sketch, but Jessica got a little carried away and made it awesome. Hope you enjoy it.



This is also the first time we’ve seen a character lineup showing the relative sizes of the characters. Eventually we’ll have a lineup of the entire main cast.

There won’t be a comic page posted this weekend, but the comic will continue as usual next weekend.

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I managed to use burble in a sentence but I used it to describe a funny sound our new fridge makes every now and then so I cheated a bit. I was close to convincing my girlfriend to naming the fridge Burble though..

Now I'm just going to assume it's customary for Europeans to name their house-hold appliances.

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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Movie Review - Trick or Treat [1986]
« on: October 30, 2014, 08:54:21 PM »
Cartwheeling is ninja action? That's a little far-fetched, but it sounds like a great movie.

Hey, I didn't say it was very high on the ninja factor.

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Did you watch Freddy vs Jason by any chance? I love that one and there the quote Aw, gimme a break keeps being passed around in a group of friends.

Being a huge horror fan since my tween years, Freddy vs Jason was mandatory theater viewing for me. Weird seeing such a common playground "what-if" scenario actually come to fruition.

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Anyway, the point is that the genre is really cool and I usually can't get enough of it.

Jessica and I have a rule that once it's October, any movie we watch should be a horror movie. We watched a lot of them this year. Well, I would watch them and Jessica would half-watch them while doing art. I'm thinking of doing a quick review roundup of the movies we watched for my next blog post.

I can just see some backroom meeting at the production company.
guy: Lets release this one on DVD
boss: well who's in it?
guy: nobody but there are some small cameo's by Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne.
boss: Put a pic of those 2 on the cover really big and maybe we won't loose money on it. 

I'm almost surprised that they didn't go all out and use a shot of Gene Simmons in his demon makeup on. If they're going to be that dishonest, they might as well go all the way.

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It be nice if Jess could get a page or a few ahead too maybe between issues to take a bit of the stress off on a busy week.

We currently plan to go on hiatus for a bit after we wrap issue 2. It'll give Jessica time to make a badass cover for issue 3 and to get a head start on the pages.

It's good if you guys got to live your lives in between working, recording ancient rock albums and drawing awesome web comics. I also think burble..

But that is our lives. Burble!

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Vektoria looks like Storm from the X-men, am I right?

You are right, but that's actually not intentional. Her two main inspirations are both more ... digital.

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