#039 – Redeeming Quality
Nothing much to say this week. Except congratulations to TRISTAN for winning the Exterminatus Now Script Competition. Your script will be made into a comic within the next 3 weeks.
Nothing much to say this week. Except congratulations to TRISTAN for winning the Exterminatus Now Script Competition. Your script will be made into a comic within the next 3 weeks.
And Virus returns to his artist duties. Good to have you back man. Silv did great work filling in for him while his PC was FUBAR’d, thanks Silv!
And now for some new Fanart. The first comes from Mr O.M.A of The Rogues Gallery (There I fixed it, OMA you Typo-Nazi ©), entitled Exterminatus Now: The Movie, let me be the first to say “Holy Shit! That’s Brilliant!”, thanks mate. There is also two pieces by my friend Drew which I think are pretty damn funny, one entitled Sonic Through The Years , and another LN VS EN . Thank Drew!
The Script Competition is now closed so dont send me anything else. I got some really good scripts, so it’s gonna be hard to choose a winner, I’ll announce the winner by next Friday at the latest.
That’s all from me at the moment, so enjoy this weeks comic.
Though, the bit that annoys me most is the blatant disregard for originality and language. Or, more simply: Ripping off word-for-word entire comics, and then spelling them wrong.
Oh well, whatever. Moving on.
The comic will unfortunately be late, folks. Spent the last couple days fending off a computer virus instead of being able to actually work on the comic. Pretty much solved now, but it hasn’t left enough time to get the comic done. So it’ll be up for saturday.
I mean it this time. Really.
Edit: Here you go, comic, as promised. Virus takes over comic production again from here, which is better for us all. I doubt I’ll be doing any again for a while. ^^
Just when I think the retards have come up with all the varieties of fucking stupidity, their bastard scientists come up with a new variety.
Some fuckign dipshit on FanFiction.net going by the name “Squirtle City” (Jesus could he have come up with a worse name?) has taken Exterminatus Now, fucked about with it and posted some fanfiction about his basterdised version. He never once asked for our permission or credited us for our work. While he did not claim EN as his own, he said “I dont own it”. How the fuck did he think he could get away with it? I’m just glad I was cynical enough to try and find out why FanFiction.net was one of our bigger refferers(sp?) in our admin section.
If the guy had asked our permission and actually given us credit, yeah I doubt we would be so FUCKING ANGRY. I mean for fucks sake one of “his” chracters is called ROGUER.
The bastards email address is elym9267@yahoo.com for anyone who cares. I have two demands for him:
1) Stop making this shit. 2) Take it down.
Though I have reported him for abuse on FanFiction so we’ll see what happens now. Right, now that we got all that bile out of my system, some good news for our readers.
EXTERMINATUS NOW SCRIPT COMPETITION.
Heres the idea, you write a script, send it to me at my non-private email (gazweb85@hotmail.com), the best one will be made into a comic in the next few weeks. Theres a few rules as of now:
1) You have until next friday to send me your scripts. 2) You can send as many scripts as you want. 3) The scripts must be one shots, i.e not part of a storyline we’ve done or are currently doing.
So with that in mind, get writing.
Comic isn’t going to update until next friday folks. Sorry ’bout that – you’ll just have to enjoy the filler a little more.
Sorry, filler again.
Long story short, I was unable to finish the comic in time. Or indeed the four hours late it is now.
Virus, thankfully, managed to save the day, and provided me with the basics of the above. I just coloured it and got it up here. The -actual- comic will either be up late friday or early saturday, depending on how long it’ll take me to recover my ability to draw from wherever it went, and crunch it out for you.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go and hide somewhere before East kills us both. :)
Well, that was a new and interesting experiance.
For those who don’t visit the forums, I’ll explain. Virus’s laptop is broken, thereby cutting him off from Photoshop (amongst other things), and thereby preventing him from making any comics. This, as you might gather, puts us in a bit of a tight spot.
Luckily for us, I’m not too bad at this drawing malarky. This isn’t really my finest work, so to speak, but it is nominally servicable. Basically though, until further notice, I’m covering the comic production until Vi can get his laptop repaired, replaced, or whatever.
You can probably tell I was a bit pressed for time. Couple that with the fact I’ve rarely drawn the EN guys before, and never drawn a comic before, nor cel shaded…well, there’s only so much I could do. Next week will be better. Hopefully. Probably.
Hey, it’s better than not having a comic at all, right?
Damnit Virus, not only do you do great drawn stuff, but look at those 3D images on the PC. Jesus I wish I was that talented, (is transfixed by the floaty bald head).
So, I’ve been playing Xbox Live for a few weeks now and I’m really enjoying it. The organization is great, pick a gamertag and its yours for EVERY Xbox Live game, the headset is essential to your enjoyment as well, insulting other gamers and just general chatting to your friends. Lag is a problem but it’s not that common since everyone is at least using a basic broadband connection, but it’s present. Downloadable content is cool too, though some games have charged for certain things. On MechAssault theres a package of 5 maps to download as long as you pay £3.63. If it was maybe, 15 maps plus more mechs, I may be tempted, but since no one uses those maps anyway I dont see the point. Still 99.9% of downloadable content is free, so yay! Making friends on it is really easy, Ive got about 10-15 people on my friends list that I’ve met just playing the games and they’re all great guys.
Still since it’s an online gaming service, you will meet absolute fucktards who’s only reason for living is to annoy you. Such as people booting you from their games for no reason. Why host the game then BOOT people from it with no explantion? You’ve also got your cheating bastards. I was playing Project Gotham 2 against these 2 guys using the same account (one as a guest) and the entire race they just kept smashing me into the walls, though I still managed to win. Lesson learned? Barging through cheating bastards is fun.
Also, there are people who are just fucking stupid. First game of MechAssault I played some idiot kept shouting into his mic asking if anyone was “On this Comm Channel” me and this other guy ended up telling him to shut the hell up. Then he was bitching about wanting to play Halo, so me and the other guy basically said “FOR FUCKS SAKE IF YOU WANNA PLAY HALO, PLAY HALO. WHY ARE YOU PLAYING MECHASSAULT ONLINE IF YOU WANNA PLAY HALO?” Fair enough Halo is my favourtie game on the Xbox, but I was there to blow the shit out of Mechs. Then there’s the team killing bastards on Return To Castle Wolfestein: Tides Of War. Look I may be playing as a Nazi BUT SO ARE YOU! Idiots.
If your wondering about getting Xbox Live and have a broadband net connection I who heartedley recommend it, the idiots are not out in force and the games on live are great fun, definatly worth the money.
Well it’s delayed by a week but it’s here, hope you enjoy it. And you know how I thought up that whole “Chicken Fetish” thing? Gonzo from the Muppets (some of you may be a bit young to remember the muppets when they were…you know…GOOD). Anyway, he was ALWAYS surrounded by these chickens and married one in a movie once, I think. Seriously whats the deal Gonzo? Maybe he like’s to scramble their eggs from behind or something. And I bet I’ve just caused some suicide attempts with THAT mental imagery. I know Im considering it now at least.
Some more Fan stuff this week. The first comes in the form of a Fan Comic by Psy of Fireball20xl. Yes, it pretty much is an AIM conversation we had word for word. The second piece is from Rber-0 of ROTDN, who took his Master Chief image and made it into an 800×600 Wallpaper. Enjoy!
I was going to do a new rant about the type of people I’ve played on Live, but I cant be arsed typing it, I’ll get it done, eventually.
Cya Later.
As I type this update, I’m sodding tired so excuse the fact I may ramble on.
But I wish to make this quite clear, before I go on. THIS ISN’T A WARHAMMER 40,000 COMIC, NOR IS IT A COMIC ABOUT GAMES WORKSHOP MATERIAL. There, I said it. Yes, we take influence from Games Workshops respective properties, but this isn’t Furryhammer 40,000. Don’t expect Hamsters as Chapter Masters, Tyranids or Khornate Chickens. You’ll be disappointed.
So please, when commenting, or even asking, remember – This isn’t Furryhammer. With that in mind…
Next item on the agenda. The Oracle, Portent Dot Net’s new online magazine for wargamers is up and running. For those of you who do play Games Workshops games, go take a look. Go on. You know you want to.
For a fan publication, it’s very slick and well written. And Lav and McHaggis are always fun to read.
And finally, those of you who in the Sonic fandom who make “bash” pics, such as killing Mina in a horrible and disgusting manner for example, are tossers. If you go out of your way to make immature little pictures whose sole point is to piss off fans of said characters, you should grow the hell up and stop acting like a bunch of whiny 7 year olds. So they aren’t Pro-Mina or Pro-Sally or Pro-Who-Bloody-Ever, so what? It’s a sodding game/cartoon/comic designed for children. Y’hear that ladies and gentlemen? Children.
So if you are arguing over Why Sally/Mina/Amy/Tricia the Seducer-Girl Rocks/Sucks/Should Shag Sonic, maybe you should take a look at your life and wonder if that is your worst problem. If it is, then hey, life is good and you shouldn’t get worked up over one thing if everything else is find and dandy. if it’s not, stop focussing on such a minor thing and focus on things that actually matter.
So there. This isn’t Furryhammer 40,000, go read the Oracle and stop bleedin’ arguing. So folks, until next time…
If you want to discuss any of the above issues, go down to the forum and have a natter.
- Harold Q. Eastwood, lovely and clean