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.
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 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.
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the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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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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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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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.
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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aw man sheep I wish I could make it but I'm so far behind on a lot of stuff
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.
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.
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
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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.
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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I don't know about that. Unlike some people I was really pleased with the amount of content we got from Automata and Lookouts.
No, not like Jim Darkmagic at all really. Gabe and Tycho make very different kinds of characters.
What is the sci-fi explanation for why he doesn't die from getting hanged?
He is a robutt, apparently.
The guest Automata comic was decent apart from the pacing, I'd possibly be interested in seeing something longer and better structured.
Robot laser Jesus. Apparently.
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He's a robutt.
How about option 4: go back to being funny?
No, wait, that's option 5. Option 4 is a miscarriage comic.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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?
wish i could make it down
your timing is just a few weeks off dude
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.
lies
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.
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!
Go back and skim the last three pages or so of [chat]. This has been explained a couple times now.
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At a certain point is stops being a t-shirt.
And becomes a pretty dress.
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.
It's a comic about one of their D&D characters. He wrote a song about it too, by all accounts.
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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.
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so much pax east
all of the pax east
The huge-ass white t-shirt came from the same origin.
And I just checked Snopes and it confirms what I was saying.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Not that being better than Subway is a huge feat.
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
Me too!
She buys my groceries
I need to fix the ending. I'm really bad at short story endings.
Whelp. Solves that then. I had conflated the two "urban myths" so to speak.
And I like their sammies