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Kgummy posted:I did, I guess I just forgot the relevant part. Lostclock not believing in ghosts and seemingly coming back as one (but it's the shapeshifter)
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I love that it's introduced, then explained, then made plot relevant, twice, each in a different comic 70+ pages apart. Genius forethought. Thorsby  VVV 
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Thorsby has set up an RSS-enabled site for his announcements on Comic Fury.
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ZearothK posted:Oh well, got an e-mail from Thorsby (as I offered to relay messages to SA). This really was the end for Accidental Space Spy, and he intends to do another comic in the future, just not immediately. Hitmen for Destiny has also been uploaded to the new site. I am updating the links on the OP. Is there any way I could get his contact information? Though I have little experience in writing scripts, I'd like to try adapting "Lies, Sisters and Wives" into a one-act stage play and I'd like his permission first.
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http://thorsbysprojects.thecomicseries.com/links/ http://comicfury.com/profile.php?username=Thorsby It's not hard to find his contact info. He puts this at the top of every page: quote:I'm Øyvind Thorsby. Contact me: ythorsby at gmail dot com
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Cat Mattress posted:http://thorsbysprojects.thecomicseries.com/links/ I am not very observant. Thanks for the help.
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Well that was pretty disappointing, particularly since Hitmen had such a fantastic ending. TASS was quite a bit more meandering though and didn't have numerous story arcs winding to a conclusion. Still, I'm surprised it was so abrupt. We weren't even shown a joyous homecoming, or, even something to tie it into the whole "reason for war" thing (like Ben's got a kid/sibling starting in the military; does he reveal the secret behind the reason for war even though he might be risking all humanity to do so?!). The life he's now chosen to return to has never been a story element. Either Thorsby got incredibly bored with the whole thing, or TASS was really only intended to be a space bestiary, and we now get to experience Ben's disappointment on his sudden and anti-climactic return to the mundane.
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smilingfish posted:Is there any way I could get his contact information? Though I have little experience in writing scripts, I'd like to try adapting "Lies, Sisters and Wives" into a one-act stage play and I'd like his permission first. I had this idea too, but never did anything with it. I think it would make an excellent one act, good luck!
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Jan 15, 2014 23:23
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And it looks like Thorsby's back with a new comic, Transdimensional Brain Chip. From what I've seen so far, it's going to be the most confusing, hard-to-keep-track of mess yet!
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:And it looks like Thorsby's back with a new comic, Transdimensional Brain Chip. From what I've seen so far, it's going to be the most confusing, hard-to-keep-track of mess yet! So that's where the iPod ended up! Link Huh, while searching for the webpage, I discovered that Thorsby is a fan of OOTS
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Apr 2, 2014 14:19
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Can't wait to get completely mind hosed again. Anything crazy happen yet or is it still in the terrible crawl stage? 
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Apr 2, 2014 14:22
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my dad posted:Huh, while searching for the webpage, I discovered that Thorsby is a fan of OOTS He's not very active there though. Searching for his posts from his profile only gives nine threads, most of which are about his own comics. He has only one post about OotS itself, and it was to express confusion over Rich Burlew's use of speech bubbles.
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Just read the first 15 and it's pretty good so far. Okay, thank you, bye! Ulf you big goof.
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Yeah, I am liking what I am seeing here and really curious as to how it will develop, Ulf is quite a character. Updated the OP with the new comic.
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Apr 2, 2014 15:17
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Jesus, this is an insane premise and I love it. Thorsby's the best.
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Haha, this premise is great, and it's already paying off.
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This is the most Thorsbian premise yet. I can't wait until we're tracking 16 of the same protagonist, and then wormholes open and they start switching dimensions because of course they will.
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The scientist lady is obviously using them for stock market hijinx (not sure how exactly), but she should have put a little more thought into the implications of exponentially increasing shared consciousness.
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His chances at doing anything impress are hampered by being hilariously stupid, but I guess he is technically already transhuman.
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Doc Hawkins posted:His chances at doing anything impress are hampered by being hilariously stupid, but I guess he is technically already transhuman. I'm really surprised he was clever enough to get out of the facility like he did, but this entire comic is pretty obviously an excuse to get a Lies, Sisters, and Wives deception going on at least 4 times at once
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Apr 2, 2014 22:46
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One of these days, Thornsby comics need to be adapted into a movie.
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Apr 2, 2014 22:51
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I already know what's going to happen. One of them is going to die.
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dipwood posted:I already know what's going to happen. And then he's going to hear messages about the after-life.
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I'm waiting for the one from a universe that diverged enough such that he's side character in Hitmen for Destiny.
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Apr 3, 2014 00:28
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When Ulf said that stuff that got him released, am I right in thinking that he's lying and that all four Ulf's used the same ploy at once? This is turning out to be a... Crisis of Infinite Ulfs.
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BiggerJ posted:When Ulf said that stuff that got him released, am I right in thinking that he's lying and that all four Ulf's used the same ploy at once? That's how I read it as well
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Aye, it was the first thing that came to mind. Which shows our boy can be quite cunning if he is bored enough to stop and think.
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Apr 3, 2014 09:59
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Ulf will solely use his brain chip to hit on women. He will eventually get pretty good at it. The comic will end with the collapsing of all the alternate, or potential, realities into an Ulf singularity. The one constant across all potential realities, the Ulf-child, will serve to stabilize potentiality into actuality, the end will be a single, purely deterministic existence. Or he'll just get drunk and start blabbing to a covert agent of a terrorist organization who will then kidnap him.
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Apr 3, 2014 10:21
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The big question is what will happen when some of the Ulfs inevitably start getting killed.
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Apr 3, 2014 10:24
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He's really got a great set up here, just so many possibilities. I wonder how many viewpoints it'll take before he's effectively blind. What kind of schedule does Thorsby normally keep?
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MON-WED-FRI, he was pretty good at keeping it during Accidental Space Spy.
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my dad posted:The big question is what will happen when some of the Ulfs inevitably start getting killed. Where Ulf is, death is not. Where death is, Ulf is not.
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Flython posted:He's really got a great set up here, just so many possibilities. I wonder how many viewpoints it'll take before he's effectively blind. Don't forget that he can just imagine them out of his head whenever he wants. He doesn't have to talk to any of the other Ulfs if he doesn't want to.
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RickoniX posted:I'm really surprised he was clever enough to get out of the facility like he did, but this entire comic is pretty obviously an excuse to get a Lies, Sisters, and Wives deception going on at least 4 times at once Are you not okay with that? Yeah he's running the risk of wearing the gag thin if he does it too much, but there's still plenty of opportunities to tweak the formula in a multiverse setting. I thought the scenario was even funnier when he did it in Hitmen for Destiny thanks to the shapeshifting. Or did the HFD version come first? I discovered Thorsby a couple chapters into TASS and now all the "last updated" dates are messed up from changing sites and I can't remember. The short is listed below HFD on his new site and it looks like he transferred them in chronological order, so I'm guessing after.
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Dinosaurs! posted:Are you not okay with that? Yeah he's running the risk of wearing the gag thin if he does it too much, but there's still plenty of opportunities to tweak the formula in a multiverse setting. I thought the scenario was even funnier when he did it in Hitmen for Destiny thanks to the shapeshifting. I liked it in LSW and HFD but it really wore thin in rear end
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RickoniX posted:I liked it in LSW and HFD but it really wore thin in rear end I'm not sure it the problem with it in rear end was that the premise was wearing thin, but rather that the circumstances for it just weren't that interesting or engaging.
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Man, once another week has passed, there will be 16 realities. Note that the divergences so far are pretty minor, but already in universe 3 and 4 there's some differences. Think about how much of a divergence there will be once Ulf group 2, 3, and 4 join in. Maybe one of the groups never made it out of the hospital, maybe another freaked out and had the chip removed, maybe another one did something even worse than that. There's so much potential in just Week 2 to have it go on for a while, but Week 3 is where poo poo will really hit the fan.
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dipwood posted:Man, once another week has passed, there will be 16 realities. Don't forget, too, that they're all running around outside a hospital having just had major brain surgery. The scientist lady was really adamant that doing so was super risky, so it's almost inevitable that one of the Ulfs will be the unlucky one who dies from complications.
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vyelkin posted:Don't forget, too, that they're all running around outside a hospital having just had major brain surgery. The scientist lady was really adamant that doing so was super risky, so it's almost inevitable that one of the Ulfs will be the unlucky one who dies from complications. There's a pretty good chance she was just saying that because she wanted him to stick around for her scam. It could be true but it could also be bullshit.
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