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  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Why do I get a feeling I´m working on a Sheena page? :D

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    Scratchitem#27 and 3 (Hey, a zombie Sho´nuff. I´m on a roll :D )

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  • GodfatherGodfather Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Those last three pages made my week.

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  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Thanks, I have to confess I have no idea of what I was doing when I drew those :D

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    Cross items #7 and 9 from the list.
    I think I know how I want this puppy to end now but I really dunno if I can make it in 6 pages.

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  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
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    Cross items 5 and 14, guys :)

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  • Aaron LeeAaron Lee Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    So it seems everyone goes off to bed, but you're still cranking away. Awesome job man. This project is very inspiring!

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  • The Black HunterThe Black Hunter The key is a minimum of compromise, and a simple, unimpeachable reason to existRegistered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I am amazed by the quality of art.

    On a time limit and you draw wonderfully.

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  • ShiboeShiboe Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Holy cripes I never realized how perfectly evil a combo that could be. The utility of zombies combined with the speed of raptors... Make the movie before some company steals it and rakes in all the cash.

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  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Thanks, guys :)

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    Scratch item #19 from the list, guys.

    So... tired....

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  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
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    Item 13 goes buh-bye :)

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  • Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Fucking aces!

    Top work. All your cells/panels are so dynamic, and so well-drawn. Keep going! :D

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  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Thanks, I really don´t know what I´m doing anymore, completelly on auto pilot...

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    Cross item 22.

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  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
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    Time to start packing, Zeu :)

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  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
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    Scratch item 20.

    And it´s time to pack, one more to go.

    There´s a couple that won´t be making the final cut.

    Sorry, folks....

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  • JCMJCM Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Cmon mate, ye can do it, this isthe best 24-hour comic Ive seen since "My parents are dead"

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  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    OMG! It´s done!

    Can´t believe it! My only regfret is not being able to use all the suggestions.

    Tried to go for a Christopher Walken entity but my Muse has long left me.

    Anyway, scratch the kirby dots. :)

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  • LlyLly Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Congrats! I am humbled by the awesomeness and the speed you did it in. Good job for persevering :D

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  • Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Indeed!

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  • beavotronbeavotron Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    HAHAHAH this should be stickied. i particularly liked dinosaur riding zombies

    again again!

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  • MunchMunch Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    This was goddamn epic. If you ever decide to make an ongoing comic out of the idea of Adrian and Pollux screwing stuff up only to have Airla come save the day, just know that I'd totally slap down some cash for it.

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  • SynapsidSynapsid Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I loved it... you are my Hero, Sir!

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  • SheriSheri Resident Fluffer My Living RoomRegistered User regular
    edited June 2007
  • MagicToasterMagicToaster JapanRegistered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Wow.

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  • The One 52The One 52 Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Haha, that was great! I particularly like the panel with the guy at the Seismography Center.

    Nice job! :^: More, more!

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  • NibCromNibCrom Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    :rotate: Holy poo!

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  • flyingmonkeyflyingmonkey Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Woweee oh wow. Nice work, way to try to include everything people randomly spouted off on top of it all. The seismography panel was my fave too, nice way to show a big hit without the typical comic "cloud of dust and big BOOM letters" that you see a lot these days.

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    3. And quit this emo-slumming shit. Fuck.
  • -Spitfire--Spitfire- Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Yeah, that was totally amazing!

    I've been trying to get myself together for some time to try something like this - and it's really difficult!

    My hat is certainly off to you.

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  • srsizzysrsizzy Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Good stuff EG. You got a coherent story, pulled it together with good action and dialog, not to mention you made those pages each in around an hour, AND you got all those suggestions in. Awesome.

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    BRO LET ME GET REAL WITH YOU AND SAY THAT MY FINGERS ARE PREPPED AND HOT LIKE THE SURFACE OF THE SUN TO BRING RADICAL BEATS SO SMOOTH THE SHIT WILL BE MEDICINAL-GRADE TRIPNASTY MAKING ALL BRAINWAVES ROLL ON THE SURFACE OF A BALLS-FEISTY NEURAL RAINBOW CRACKA-LACKIN' YOUR PERCEPTION OF THE HERE-NOW SPACE-TIME SITUATION THAT ALL OF LIFE BE JAMMED UP IN THROUGH THE UNIVERSAL FLOW BEATS
  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    "He" cannot be a succubus. "He" would be an incubus.

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  • AntibodiesAntibodies Used to live in a psychic city. Never knew what would happen in a day. Chicago, ILRegistered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Serious props, good to see you've got your story telling tightened up, did you script all that before hand or just go down the grocery list as your went along? You're a speed demon, the montage pages are some of the best in there, dishing out this level of stuff on the fly- you're totally cut out for Battle Tourney but you deserve to be getting paid for this stuff by now. How'd the GN sell?

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  • JohannenJohannen Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    "He" cannot be a succubus. "He" would be an incubus.

    Jesus says "don't be a dick!"

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  • StealthNachosStealthNachos Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Johannen wrote: »
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    "He" cannot be a succubus. "He" would be an incubus.

    Jesus says "don't be a dick!"


    Jesus wouldn't say dick. He'd say "dumb head" or something.

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    I tend to ramble.
  • see317see317 Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Johannen wrote: »
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    "He" cannot be a succubus. "He" would be an incubus.

    Jesus says "don't be a dick!"


    Jesus wouldn't say dick. He'd say "dumb head" or something.
    In this case, I'd imagine Jesus would make an exception.

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  • ProspicienceProspicience The Raven King DenvemoloradoRegistered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Thanks so much for sharing this with us EG! Awesometastic.

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  • lyriumlyrium Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    This is awesome stuff; it's incredible that it all only took 24 hours!

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Johannen wrote: »
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    "He" cannot be a succubus. "He" would be an incubus.

    Jesus says "don't be a dick!"

    I was being informative. emot-eng101.gif

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  • misosoupmisosoup Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Johannen wrote: »
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    "He" cannot be a succubus. "He" would be an incubus.

    Jesus says "don't be a dick!"

    I was being informative. emot-eng101.gif

    an informative dick is still a dick

    well done EG, top notch, you really need to send your portfolio off to some high end peoples, you should definitely be getting some legal tender for this.

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  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Aw, MAN!

    That was a wild one, please dont´EVER let me do that again.
    My sleeping cycle is STILL messed up, last night I waited all night to watch a show thinking it was still tuesday.
    Where did tuesday go anyway, couldn´t have slept through it, could I? ^_^

    Anyway,thanks, guys, really glad you´ve liked my stuff.

    Looking back, there´s a lot of things I wish I could have done, one of them being the list which I still failed to complete.
    The other was Airla, I just couldn´t find a way to render her in 30-40 minutes in a way that people would uinderstand that she had a granite body.


    When I first started this, I had only a couple lines in my head. Everything from the "The lioness wa born in the arena" to "But you can´t encase a will of steel in granite" (rock beats paper, steel beats rock :D ), I wrote it on a sheet during morning coffee as I was assembling ideas for what the story was gonna be about.

    The reason why Airla wears plain clothes instead of the originally planned revealing skintight suit is not because she´s a prude girl.
    After all, she was in showbiz (well, she WAS a gladiatrix in ancient Rome :D ).
    No, the reason why I decided to give her tight high boots and sache to Adrian and Pollus instead is that I kept looking at other superheroines I designed over the years and I just couldn´t top those in the anxious 10 minutes I had before getting started.

    I think the story´s key moment was Airla herself.

    For the first 4-6 pages, I was still trying to be a good boyscout, play-by-the-rules.
    I just couldn´t bring myself to rationalise a redheaded asian gladiatrix in ancient Rome.
    Then it dawned upon me:" E, this is a story about giant armoured gorillas wearing kilts and alien killer snails with machineguns!!
    Logic? WHAT logic?"

    By the time golden girl Margerites enters the scenne (she was really shoehorned in there, wasn´t she?), I was just trying to keep the line of narrative flowing, not caring of where it took the story.

    All in all, it was fun. Exhausting but fun.

    Lesson learned:
    anxiety is your single worst enemy. I was so nervous going in that by the time I actually sat down to start sketching page#1, I was already tired.

    If you guys ever do this, don´t put much thought into it. Go out, play some videogames, watch movies, make out. Try to completely clear up your mind from the task ahead. It´ll help you preserve your resources for when the time actually comes.

    Whew.
    I think I´m gonna watch some tv now.
    My innervoice kept winking at me the whole morning:" Nice job, kiddo. Hey, now that you´ve done pencilling them....how about inking those pages?"
    .
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    I really hate my innervoice.


    P.S.: So, anyone caught the Obelix cameo at the bottom right of page 12? :D

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  • anableanable North TexasRegistered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Many props. Given the constrained time fame, you packed a lot of interesting panels and surprisingly ungeneric action in there. The seismic thing was spot on.

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  • eliseu gouveiaeliseu gouveia Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Thanks, anable :)

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  • StealthNachosStealthNachos Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Logic? THIS IS SPARTA!

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    I tend to ramble.
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