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Art: Riddler In The Dark

March 5th, 2013 | by Virus

Calgary Expo!

So yeah, this and other prints available at the con. In completely unrelated news, I am taking art requests!

Here are the ground rules:

- EN characters and situations are good, but let’s also go beyond that: request other characters, from games, cartoons, pop culture (no OCs, please). I want to get out of my rut.
- No guarantees I’ll draw your thing. It’s not first come first serve, I’m just gonna pick things that strike me as interesting. Full disclosure, obviously, I’m just crowdsourcing random crap for me to draw outside of the comic, because I’m an unimaginative hack.
- If I draw your request and it turns out cool, it may get sold as a print. By submitting a request, you agree to waive any rights. You can’t be like “Hey, it was my idea to draw those characters doing that thing, I want a cut of the print sales.” I’ll totally mail you a print though.

Leave a comment below, or email me at thevirusajg@gmail.com

Thanks!

Oh yeah, comics or something. I’ll get back to those soon, too.

Linkback: bats in the Gollum pic provided by Sagakure.

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Piece of Lothar and Bunnie Rabbot (I have no idea if I’m spelling that right and like fuck am I googling it) from General Radix. Sent over a month ago to the fan art email account we seem to forget exists. Sorry! Still, quite cool action pose with one of the 3,645 (approximately) inspirations for Lothar.

Will hopefully have an update on when Virus will be back to comic duties soon.

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New Rogue animation render

February 20th, 2013 | by Virus

Pix did a shiny new pass on his Rogue in the fog animation.

Rogue Walk Cycle – Scared from Jon Bennett on Vimeo.

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Guest Art: Astrofenn #2

February 20th, 2013 | by Lothar

Woops! Knew I forgot to do something this week. Sorry. Second piece of guest art by Astrofenn. Again there is porn there. Although to be honest the above image is probably bordering on it. That’s a rape face if I ever did see one.

Toodles for now.

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Guest Art: Astrofenn #1

February 12th, 2013 | by Lothar

Thank you to Astrofenn (Warning there’s porn in them thar links) for this first piece of fan art. She did another one before this, but I seem to have accidentally deleted it, so that will probably go up next week. Still, the EN Crew as 1930′s gangsters, always fun.

Virus will be back eventually.

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Fan Art: Broodhollow

February 3rd, 2013 | by Virus

Broodhollow by Kris Straub is good and you should read it. I do rather love the juxtaposition of cutesy, cartoony designs with nightmarish, macabre imagery. But I guess it’s not a stretch that EN’s artist would enjoy that.

T-shirts are still available, although the free shipping has ended.

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Guest Art/News: Fashion (and) Model

January 28th, 2013 | by Virus

Pixellated’s development thread (lots of screenshots and expression tests)
The ~~final walk cycle~~ draft render, based on a design brief to “Do him creeping cautiously through the fog, like the recent comic”
Edit Feb 20th: Pix put up an awesome new video with some more polish

Shirts!
US and Canada Store
UK and EU Store

Decided to take advantage of Spreadshirt’s free shipping offer to test the waters. Spreadshirt’s prints are great, they’re not your average screen print, they’re a really durable vinyl-like cutout that gets heat-sealed to the fabric by magical pixie voodoo (I assume). There are some limitations to this process however, so we’re only able to provide these two designs right now.

Once again, the free shipping code is “FREELOVE” – enter at checkout, valid January 28-30, 2013 only. Be sure to chose the right store for your address, or the offer code won’t work! I think. And if you’re outside North America or Europe… Sorry. I mean, give the code a try, and PLEASE let me know if it works and I’ll update this post right away.

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#441 – Now Available In New ‘Red Herring’ Flavour

January 22nd, 2013 | by Virus

Slightly less late! That’s kind of like early! And that brings this shaggy dog story to a close. It was fun to play with expectations. Even if some of you did gain an expectation of the Soylent Green allusion in advance.

I’m going to be taking some time off from the comic now; feeling a little burned, and the schedule is suffering for it. You wouldn’t know it by looking at it, but, on top of my day job, I spend a ridiculous amount of time doing this comic and nearly doing this comic. I wish I could say the strip is late because I’m doing cool things like playing vijogames. But anyone looking at my Steam or Xbox Live profiles would be able to tell you that’s not the case. No, it’s mostly making cups of tea and checking Twitter over and over. And spending far too long composing and tweaking simple posts like this, because I’m not very good at writing off-the-cuff, yet I want to give a false impression of wit and eloquence all the time ha ha please like me.

There should still be content updates occurring, in one form or another. We’re enquiring around for guest artists, maybe Silv will produce something, or I might doodle other assorted nonsenses. And I will be back at the helm before you know it, refreshed and ready to do whatever it is one does at a helm. Drive a spaceship? Protect one’s head from injury? Either way, I’ll be helming it up, big-time.

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#440 – My Chemical Romance

January 16th, 2013 | by Virus

Oh latey late late. Blah.

We must have some experienced wiki editing types in the audience, right? I know we have a bunch of Tropers out there, for instance. Well, after a few Q&As on EN lore in the comment threads, regular commenter Polymer started a rudimentary wiki. But he doesn’t much know what he’s doing, so go help him out and fill out those pages.

In that vein, here’s a citable bit about bionics that I had noted down earlier in this story, but then forgot to post when the moment came. An editor’s job is to make my crap encyclopedic, instead of the jokey conversation tone I always take.

So, last issue, Lothar drained his already-depleted energy reserves by using his blaster to bust through the door:

In my arm-cannon head canon, Lothar’s old blaster used removable energy cells. The downsides to that were that when they were depleted, that was it, so he’d have to carry replacements or do without. They were also heavier. In his new rig, the power cells charge off his metabolic energy, making them lighter and allowing him to rebuild a charge over time. But at the cost of increasing his daily caloric intake needs. The updated, more efficient technology of his limbs perhaps has a lower energy consumption to offset that slightly. But still, if you want to shoot blue-hot bolts of charged particles out of your hand, you better make sure you’ve had your Weetabix that morning.

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#439 – Strange Brew

January 6th, 2013 | by Virus

And we’re back. Current storyline begins here.

I get a slow but steady trickle of new Twitter followers, always nice to keep an eye on them as they come in. Last week one new name showed up that rang a bell, so I clicked through to his profile. Dr Dean Burnett is a neuroscientist and lecturer at Cardiff University, blogger for The Guardian.co.uk, and semi-regular correspondent on The Pod Delusion podcast – that’s where I knew his name and indeed voice from. So I asked him what gives?

“Hey. I know you. You’re that Welsh bloke on that podcast wot I listen to. What manner of circumstance led to you following ME?”

And he replied:

“uh, you draw my favourite webcomic wot I’ve been reading for years. How random is this link! Might buy a lottery ticket now”

So that was weird. He gives me and the comic a shoutout in the latest Pod Delusion.

So there you go. Exterminatus Now: recommended by 100% of Welsh neuroscientist Guardian bloggers. Thanks Dean!

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