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  • PasserbyePasserbye Registered User
    I'm hoping Queen of Bells gets chosen. Alternatively, New Kid.

    If I want laser cowboy Jesus future stuff I'll just watch Trigun.

  • HonkHonk Registered User regular
    Poor The New Kid, he hasn't had an easy time and here you are picking on him. :(

  • NocturneNocturne Registered User regular
    Nocturne wrote: »
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    I don't see the appeal of The New Kid, it seems open and shut. Maybe they're right and it would be an easy sell as a cartoon, but I still don't really wish to know more.

    So that leaves Sand, or mystery option 3 that could be WoW comics.

    This is exactly what I think.

    The New Kid makes a good single-strip thing, but it seems like it would be far too... episodic? Yeah pretty much like a Saturday morning cartoon or something.

    Don't get me wrong, it would make an awesome cartoon

    But I rather have a deeper comic. And the basis of SAND sounds awesome as hell.

    Remember that this will only be like 5-10 pages at first though. If they go for something deeper, it is unlikely to get the treatment it deserves and deliver on what people are hungering for.

    I don't know about that. Unlike some people I was really pleased with the amount of content we got from Automata and Lookouts.

  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    Oh, so it's directly another Jim Darkmagic? Jesus, no, I don't want that. People going on and on about their old D&D characters isn't a good thing.

    Hmmm. Well, that makes my decision for me. Robo-Christianity it is.

    No, not like Jim Darkmagic at all really. Gabe and Tycho make very different kinds of characters.

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  • EchoEcho Per Aspera Ad Inferi Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    I just killed the Lich King. Game over, I win.

  • Captain CarrotCaptain Carrot Registered User regular
    I still like Automata.

    Spoiler:
  • WinkyWinky Registered User regular
    I don't really get what's going on in Sand.

    What is the sci-fi explanation for why he doesn't die from getting hanged?

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  • MazzyxMazzyx Changing the World Order. Registered User regular
    I would probably go with Sand or Queen of Bells. The New Kid just really didn't interest me that much.

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  • SarksusSarksus TEN FUCKING DOLLARS Registered User regular
    Winky wrote: »
    I don't really get what's going on in Sand.

    What is the sci-fi explanation for why he doesn't die from getting hanged?

    He is a robutt, apparently.

  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo Tough on mime. Tough on the causes of mime Registered User regular
    That first panel of The Lookouts was great. It's a shame it clearly did not accurately represent the brand itself.

    The guest Automata comic was decent apart from the pacing, I'd possibly be interested in seeing something longer and better structured.

  • PasserbyePasserbye Registered User
    Winky wrote: »
    I don't really get what's going on in Sand.

    What is the sci-fi explanation for why he doesn't die from getting hanged?

    Robot laser Jesus. Apparently.

  • SheepSheep Registered User, __BANNED USERS
    Winky wrote: »
    I don't really get what's going on in Sand.

    What is the sci-fi explanation for why he doesn't die from getting hanged?

    He's a robutt.

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  • NocturneNocturne Registered User regular
    Nocturne wrote: »
    This is apparently from the 2nd PA book (Sabremau quoted it in the comic thread)
    Sand was one of the first projects we ever worked on, four of five years before Penny Arcade--the period scholars refer to as "BPA." It was something Gabe was doing perfectly well on his own, but I wanted in so I sort of insinuated myself into the project. That happens a lot, actually. Penny Arcade itself fits that description.

    Sand is essentially a "weird west" version of the Old Testament, one that takes you roughly from Passover to the fall of Jericho. On the dry world of Deserta, the arrangement of that planet's political board inspires a damaged, ship-bound A.I. to fill in the gaps with clones. Actual events and holy writ are commingled as it begins to send out an increasingly insane series of messiahs. Jacob Phorr, pictured at right, is the first one we meet. By this time, the "chosen people" have had quite enough saviors, thank you very much, and aren't in the market for another. I really enjoyed putting this one together.

    We were going to cook this project up for the Flight Anthology, which you might have heard of--the first two volumes of which are basically marvelous. In the end, we decided that Sand was superficially very similar to Flight editor Kazu Kibuishi's unbelievable Daisy Kutter series, and felt that aping him in his own God-damn book was probably impolite.

    I think it sounds like a pretty badass concept.

  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    I don't see the appeal of The New Kid, it seems open and shut. Maybe they're right and it would be an easy sell as a cartoon, but I still don't really wish to know more.

    So that leaves Sand, or mystery option 3 that could be WoW comics.

    How about option 4: go back to being funny?

    No, wait, that's option 5. Option 4 is a miscarriage comic.

    I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
  • HonkHonk Registered User regular
    Winky wrote: »
    I don't really get what's going on in Sand.

    What is the sci-fi explanation for why he doesn't die from getting hanged?

    It was explained that the planet houses some ancient computer that starts to produce prophets. And apparently the guy is one of them and can't die.

    Someone tell me what's going on in the Queen of Bells one?

  • Irond WillIrond Will Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    Sheep wrote: »
    Yami, Shaz, Vari, Eddy, Podly.

    First rounds on me.

    wish i could make it down

    your timing is just a few weeks off dude

  • SheepSheep Registered User, __BANNED USERS
    Or he's a ghost.

    They say "kill him again". That could mean that he's died before and not necessarily a reference to their botched attempt. Sci Fi comic High Planes Drifter? Yes please.

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  • Irond WillIrond Will Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    Mmmmm this Subway is good.

    lies

  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo Tough on mime. Tough on the causes of mime Registered User regular
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    Oh, so it's directly another Jim Darkmagic? Jesus, no, I don't want that. People going on and on about their old D&D characters isn't a good thing.

    Hmmm. Well, that makes my decision for me. Robo-Christianity it is.

    No, not like Jim Darkmagic at all really. Gabe and Tycho make very different kinds of characters.

    It's a comic about a D&D character, that is the end of the line for me. And for most people, I'd imagine.

    Sounds like The New Kid has this one in the bag.

  • SheepSheep Registered User, __BANNED USERS
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Sheep wrote: »
    Yami, Shaz, Vari, Eddy, Podly.

    First rounds on me.

    wish i could make it down

    your timing is just a few weeks off dude

    Man.

    I'm bummed.

    But I have plans to make PAX East, so there's that.

    And there are also plenty of opportunities in the future for business trips. I got at least two classes next year. One is San Fran. Hey, maybe Boston can be one too!

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  • PasserbyePasserbye Registered User
    Honk wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    I don't really get what's going on in Sand.

    What is the sci-fi explanation for why he doesn't die from getting hanged?

    It was explained that the planet houses some ancient computer that starts to produce prophets. And apparently the guy is one of them and can't die.

    Someone tell me what's going on in the Queen of Bells one?

    Go back and skim the last three pages or so of [chat]. This has been explained a couple times now.

  • GalahadGalahad Registered User regular
    Sheep wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »

    When you get sent to jail/prison, you don't get a lot of choices for clothing. Sometimes all you get to choose from is something way too small versus something way too huge. And they don't let you have belts. So wearing your pants that way voluntarily started out as a way of signaling that you've done time. It demonstrated that you were hard.

    I'm referring specifically to the fashion I see employed by many black men that's basically them buying a super tall Hanes T shirt that goes down to their knees. Not the sagging.

    Unless they do the long T shirt and the sagging at the same time. Which... Man that doesn't even make sense.

    But I'd double check that explanation, as something similar is used to explain sagging and I think Snopes debunked it.

    At a certain point is stops being a t-shirt.

    And becomes a pretty dress.

  • AldoAldo Registered User regular
    TehSloth wrote: »
    Aldo wrote: »
    Sup [chat], I just had a shitty meet&greet with a company I wanna work for.

    There were so many people there that the employees didn't have time to talk to me personally and instead I was herded in a conference room with 25 others for a general talk about the company and we could ask questions. I managed to have something to say, but it was kind of stupid. There was one woman there on the table's end who just claimed the whole thing for herself by joking with the director, asking all kinds of questions and talking a lot.

    Nothing she said was interesting

    But I couldn't tell her that

    There wasn't even room for me at the table

    Don't worry to much, I attended an Open House kind of thing to get the job I'm at currently with a bunch of other people and although I really felt bad about not having anything to say for a couple demo's they gave us of stuff they were working on or in the general talk about the company things worked out pretty well.

    I remember going home and thinking, damn, that guy next to me, his name was actually "Chief", how am I gonna compete with that, at least I got some free pizza out of it. A week later they were like, hey, we're sending you an offer so I apparently nailed my interviews enough to make up for it.

    I don't have an interview with them, I just sent in an application and they invited everyone interested in applying to this Open House affair. So I had no choice but coming, I have no idea what my chances actually are and I couldn't even ask.

    They said they were going to invite people over for interviews in the coming 2 weeks and that they were gonna make a first selection based on the profile they were looking for first. If I wouldn't want that job I would have asked why the fuck they hadn't made that selection before making me come over for their Meet & Greet.

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    Elendil wrote: »
    said Aldo hazily, before clop-clop-clopping out of the room
  • PodlyPodly RUDEASS TITTIES Registered User regular
    aw man sheep I wish I could make it but I'm so far behind on a lot of stuff

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  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo Tough on mime. Tough on the causes of mime Registered User regular
    Honk wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    I don't really get what's going on in Sand.

    What is the sci-fi explanation for why he doesn't die from getting hanged?

    It was explained that the planet houses some ancient computer that starts to produce prophets. And apparently the guy is one of them and can't die.

    Someone tell me what's going on in the Queen of Bells one?

    It's a comic about one of their D&D characters. He wrote a song about it too, by all accounts.

  • KilroyKilroy Seer of Heart Registered User regular
    Queen of Bells has nothing to do with D&D. Here's Tycho's post when from when he first wrote the song:
    Tycho wrote:
    The song I put together for (DS Guitar Simulator) Jam Sessions is up now, I guess they have a MySpace set up for the program, and my "track" is available down a bit, on the right, in an embedded player. Entitled "My Belruel," it's... Hm. It's sort of like a folk song written about a game that doesn't exist. I could do something far more elaborate now, but they needed it back then. The chord progression is extremely basic - I was trying to see what I could wring out of the application in terms of dynamics, and I came away pretty surprised. Lyrics are here, if you are interested.

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  • PasserbyePasserbye Registered User
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Mmmmm this Subway is good.

    lies

    Man if you say Quiznos is better, I'll...

    I don't know what I'll do, but it'll probably be drastic and overly dramatic.

  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    man, if i get this teller position

    so much pax east

    all of the pax east

  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    Sheep wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »

    When you get sent to jail/prison, you don't get a lot of choices for clothing. Sometimes all you get to choose from is something way too small versus something way too huge. And they don't let you have belts. So wearing your pants that way voluntarily started out as a way of signaling that you've done time. It demonstrated that you were hard.

    I'm referring specifically to the fashion I see employed by many black men that's basically them buying a super tall Hanes T shirt that goes down to their knees. Not the sagging.

    Unless they do the long T shirt and the sagging at the same time. Which... Man that doesn't even make sense.

    But I'd double check that explanation, as something similar is used to explain sagging and I think Snopes debunked it.

    The huge-ass white t-shirt came from the same origin.

    And I just checked Snopes and it confirms what I was saying.

    I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
  • HonkHonk Registered User regular
    Aha so it's based on a song.

  • MazzyxMazzyx Changing the World Order. Registered User regular
    I have heard wonderful stories when people actually tell their adventures from DnD as a story not as, "Well they were awesome and did a quadrillion d6 damage on a back stab and this one time...." schtick. Some peoples DnD campaigns actually are long epic stories and journeys that can be wonderful stories.

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  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    I like Quiznos more than Subway.

    I think they do a better tuna melt, and thats pretty much all I ever get from sandwich places.

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  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    I like Quiznos more than Subway.

    I think they do a better tuna melt, and thats pretty much all I ever get from sandwich places.

    When I want tuna


    i knock on your mom's door


    hey-o

    I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
  • NocturneNocturne Registered User regular
    Yeah Quiznos is way better than Subway.

    Not that being better than Subway is a huge feat.

  • weather man bobweather man bob Registered User
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    I like Quiznos more than Subway.

    I think they do a better tuna melt, and thats pretty much all I ever get from sandwich places.

    They have better bread than Subway.

    Plus they carry blue cheese, gucamole, and other sorts of sides that subway dosen't.

    edit: love the parmasean chips

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  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    I like Quiznos more than Subway.

    I think they do a better tuna melt, and thats pretty much all I ever get from sandwich places.

    When I want tuna


    i knock on your mom's door


    hey-o

    Me too!

    She buys my groceries :D

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  • SarksusSarksus TEN FUCKING DOLLARS Registered User regular
    Sarksus wrote: »

    that is really good but hell of depressing.

    I need to fix the ending. I'm really bad at short story endings.

  • SheepSheep Registered User, __BANNED USERS
    Feral wrote: »
    Sheep wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »

    When you get sent to jail/prison, you don't get a lot of choices for clothing. Sometimes all you get to choose from is something way too small versus something way too huge. And they don't let you have belts. So wearing your pants that way voluntarily started out as a way of signaling that you've done time. It demonstrated that you were hard.

    I'm referring specifically to the fashion I see employed by many black men that's basically them buying a super tall Hanes T shirt that goes down to their knees. Not the sagging.

    Unless they do the long T shirt and the sagging at the same time. Which... Man that doesn't even make sense.

    But I'd double check that explanation, as something similar is used to explain sagging and I think Snopes debunked it.

    The huge-ass white t-shirt came from the same origin.

    And I just checked Snopes and it confirms what I was saying.



    Whelp. Solves that then. I had conflated the two "urban myths" so to speak.

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  • NocturneNocturne Registered User regular
    Plus Quiznos has really tasty sauces

    And I like their sammies

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