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Hey, Brian... I hate to be "that guy", but; The "21 foot rule" only applies if the pistol is in the holster. Since we can't comment on the actual comic I have to come here. http://www.atomic-robo.com/atomicrobo/v10ch0-page-26 You don't want to give misleading information to any aspiring science adventurers.
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Jun 11, 2015 16:17
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Mahnarch posted:Hey, Brian... Exactly why she says it doesn't matter, she's much closer.
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Jun 11, 2015 16:45
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This current story has done some jumping around that I just can't seem to follow.  I guess the hair colors on the girl are some sort of guide but there's still transitions/events that seem to be lacking enough context for me to get it.I'm really confused and it's making this story super hard to get into for me 
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Jun 11, 2015 17:44
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I wish there was some "go to last read page" function on the site for when I inevitably forget to check for a few days (though you may well argue, what would I go and do a thing like that for).
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Jun 11, 2015 18:00
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Is the girl with the pink hair someone who's shown up before? For some reason she looks familiar.
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Tivac posted:I'm really confused and it's making this story super hard to get into for me My Lovely Horse posted:I wish there was some "go to last read page" function on the site for when I inevitably forget to check for a few days (though you may well argue, what would I go and do a thing like that for). Evil Mastermind posted:Is the girl with the pink hair someone who's shown up before? For some reason she looks familiar.
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Jun 11, 2015 18:41
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Hyperactive posted:Exactly why she says it doesn't matter, she's much closer. Ah! Clever girl! quote:"I wish there was some "go to last read page" function..." Are you telling us you don't have Robo bookmarked?!! (with last page "pasted") Shame!!
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Mahnarch posted:Are you telling us you don't have Robo bookmarked?!! (with last page "pasted")  MORE AD IMPRESSIONS ...so I dunno. But folks have been asking for that and issue-by-issue browsing outside of the archives, so we'll see what we can do. P.S. added chapter breaks to the prologue(s) so hopefully that helps the readability a little.
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Jun 11, 2015 21:16
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Hyperactive posted:P.S. added chapter breaks to the prologue(s) so hopefully that helps the readability a little.
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Jun 11, 2015 21:24
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My Lovely Horse posted:Which is entirely not a scheme to get us all to read it again for 
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Hyperactive posted:P.S. added chapter breaks to the prologue(s) so hopefully that helps the readability a little. That's hugely useful, yes. Thanks! Seeing that image several times after I went back through helped remind me that the two girls wearing tank tops are actually two different people. I had somehow gotten then idea that they were one person with two different dye jobs. I think the similar haircuts/outfits was part of what was throwing me for a loop. It's Brazil, I totally get why tanktop/shorts is a common clothing choice. Just wasn't helping my "wtf is going on why doesn't this person know Vic why doesn't Vic know this person whaaaat" issues.
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I was wondering something about the new comics: Is volume 10 going to be physically smaller than the other 9? I ask because the individual comics aren't page size.
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8one6 posted:I was wondering something about the new comics: Is volume 10 going to be physically smaller than the other 9? I ask because the individual comics aren't page size. For those of you worrying about how that might screw up readability: don't. We still write and draw them as full pages. In fact, most of The Knights of the Golden Circle was made to be cut in half just like these pages as our initial experiment to test how it complicated our process. And it didn't. We felt it was worth trying out for realsies, so we are. The Ring of Fire is our live stress test of the model. Omnomnomnivore posted:What happened to Part 3? Hyperactive fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Jun 12, 2015 |
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That's interesting, I've seen interviews from creative teams working on stuff like Sensation Comics for DC Digital that mention that format's harder to work to because you need to have a 'page turn' moment, basically some kind of plot motion or transition happen essentially either mid-page, or twice as often as you'd normally write/draw. Plus doesn't it make doing splash pages weird?
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Gaz-L posted:That's interesting, I've seen interviews from creative teams working on stuff like Sensation Comics for DC Digital that mention that format's harder to work to because you need to have a 'page turn' moment, basically some kind of plot motion or transition happen essentially either mid-page, or twice as often as you'd normally write/draw. Plus doesn't it make doing splash pages weird? There's definitely some awkward moments in these prologue pages, but it's too early to blame that on the format exclusively. Especially given Scott's authorship of them. It doesn't make splash pages weird if you just don't do them! We almost never do them anyway, so we didn't consider it a loss.
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The Kickstarter just sent out an update that IDW will be publishing multi-volume softcovers as well as monthly comics reprinting the web comics.
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Endless Mike posted:The Kickstarter just sent out an update that IDW will be publishing multi-volume softcovers as well as monthly comics reprinting the web comics. We started getting "But I want the issues!" from the day we announced going to a webcomic/kickstarter model. We're sympathetic to that, we just don't have the resources or time to pull it off. We knew we'd lose some readers as a result, but it was a cost we were willing to pay to be the captains of our own ship. But then IDW got in touch with us, and long story short, they put down a proposal to get us back onto retailers' shelves with next to no effort on our part. This means we can keep doing the webcomic and doing business as we'd planned, i.e. direct sales at conventions and through our online shop. But now, IDW gets us back into the direct market so we can keep reaching those customers who prefer to support their local shop instead of a webcomic or comiXology or an online shop. And, dare I hope, we will experience less fumbling on Diamond's part.
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So, digitally you guys are still selling under your own banner, IDW's just doing the print version?
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Gaz-L posted:So, digitally you guys are still selling under your own banner, IDW's just doing the print version? Well, it would be more accurate to say that IDW is doing a print version. They wanted to do issues going forward and to collect the back catalog into multi-volume softcovers. Basically: they wanted to tackle the markets that are not our hardcovers.
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That is awesome, IDW puts out some of the best collected editions on the market.
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So whenever I get to the comic shop next I can tell them to put Robo back on my pull list?
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What's the best way to support the comic on an average, ongoing basis? Patreon? Just making sure to visit each day for the sweet sweet ad revenue? Secret websites to donate first born (not necessarily your own) children? I've given up on every print comic and almost every web comic out there, but AR is legit quality stuff.
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Len posted:So whenever I get to the comic shop next I can tell them to put Robo back on my pull list? Mortanis posted:What's the best way to support the comic on an average, ongoing basis? Patreon? Just making sure to visit each day for the sweet sweet ad revenue? Secret websites to donate first born (not necessarily your own) children? I've given up on every print comic and almost every web comic out there, but AR is legit quality stuff. And gets you some neat behind-the-scenes access. We're gonna do a livestream thing for Patrons this Friday afternoon for example. And you should visit the site each day anyway because there's something new there every danged day.
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wiegieman posted:Has Bernard really been drinking for 2 years straight? THats how I got through college! (But also, nice Days of Future Past reference)
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wiegieman posted:Has Bernard really been drinking for 2 years straight?
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I'm slowly starting to realize that we're not in an alternate timeline where Tesla never built Robo but his head is stored, but that it's the same history and there's just always been Robo's head from the future in storage. Not quite sure how I got the idea, in retrospect, but it's made reading the past few pages a little weird. also isn't this the plot of a Star Trek: TNG episode?
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My Lovely Horse posted:also isn't this the plot of a Star Trek: TNG episode?
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Well, Futurama was deliberately ripping off TNG, too.
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I, for one, am eagerly awaiting the point at which robot's head is welded to a colossal japanese combat frame to punch some godzillas. This can be the only direction this is heading.
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Before we get there I'm betting the action scientists (who have no real resources) end up attaching Robo's head to an adorable RC car.
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McKilligan posted:I, for one, am eagerly awaiting the point at which robot's head is welded to a colossal japanese combat frame to punch some godzillas. This can be the only direction this is heading. 8one6 posted:Before we get there I'm betting the action scientists (who have no real resources) end up attaching Robo's head to an adorable RC car. Pretty close! Giant robots are 100% happening. And substandard Robo bodies are 100% happening.
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I have a tiny point of criticism, which is that I think it would have been funnier if Foley hadn't pointed out the "hello" thing and instead they just found the box on the shelf and when we see it, it's upside down.
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My Lovely Horse posted:I have a tiny point of criticism, which is that I think it would have been funnier if Foley hadn't pointed out the "hello" thing and instead they just found the box on the shelf and when we see it, it's upside down. But. We had to make sure it was clear why they would risk their lives to investigate this one serial number. Merely mentioning that it was "different" from the other numbers wouldn't be enough to convince the average reader that the characters are behaving realistically. Even if we show them it was 01134, most readers would NOT immediately read it as leet because this is not the kind of book where that sort of thing pops up, so they'd just think we screwed up and made these characters take a huge risk and that we, as the creators, failed to make a convincing case to justify the characters' actions. Presumably they'd be back on board after the upside-down reveal, so there is that, but there's also a chance of that remaining confusing or unconvincing. Dunno! So we had to explicitly show and tell why "01134" would be worth taking this huge risk to make sure everyone's on board. Hyperactive fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Jul 17, 2015 |
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Is Everything Explodes going to be softcover and normal trim size? I was surprised to see it solicited already.
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Shawn posted:Is Everything Explodes going to be softcover and normal trim size? I was surprised to see it solicited already.
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The softcoves are the IDW versions, right? They're super-quick at getting stuff out.
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It just occurred to me that 130 years is one heck of a long time to keep unpowered electronics in a wooden crate, with uncontrolled climate for at least a few decades of that, and expect them to still work fine and all information to be intact. giant
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