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Cards with no Humanity
so many diatribes lately! who is this guy? doesn’t say nuffin for months, then a new rant every week! that’s how i roll, yo.
after a few of you were commenting on my current standing on TopWebComics.com, i decided to add a button, at the very top (with the speech bubble icon) with a direct link to the voting gateway for Black and Blue. i don’t expect it, but if you guys feel like showing your support, i really appreciate it. more support means higher ranking, might mean more new readers. maybe. so who knows?
also, as we get closer to my first patreon goal, and it seems like more of a question of ‘when’ it happens, as opposed to ‘if’, i’m going to start working on that now. which, if you recall, will be an exclusive short. so that’s fun. then i started thinking…. what next? i should set a new pile of gummy bears to power walk to. i should probably set the pile further. or closer. so i can get to them. but i digest…..
so i gots to thinking, what other nonsense were we talking bout lately? a B&B games? well, the video game goal will be way, way far out. but for now, i’m thinking about a card game. maybe with some easy custom dice on ye old 3d printer, or ye old ‘ordering custom crap online’. it’s something i kinda always wanted to do, and i think i have an idea, in it’s embryo form that could be simple, fun, and most of all, fit the vibe without being a boring clone of another game.
anyways, that’s a ways away, but i’ll start thinking about a goal level, and continue fleshing out the idea. i want it to have the black and blue vibe. so prepare for broken friendships, desperate pointlessness, and robots. oh, and getting shot in the junk, cause it seems that i’ve gone to that well too often at this point. thinking i should just lean into it, and in a few pages, virgil finds a gun loaded with testi seeking bullets, a la ‘runaway’.
how good was Runaway – 1984?
sometimes, when i think back on a movie, i like to imagine what the pitch meeting was like, and how ridiculous it must have seemed…
-ok, i hear you have a new movie you want to pitch. let me have it.
-right, so, basically, magnum PI is chasing the lead singer of the band KISS around, and that guy has a gun that shoots little missiles.
-hm…. i’m going to need a little bit more timeless 80s nonsense in there….
-gotcha. ok. rebecca from cheers shows up for a little.
-keep going……
-impossibly big gal hair.
-you sir have got yourself a movie!
Have NO idea which icon that is. I got the discord one instead, which invite I accepted.
I thought the idea behind twv voting was ad costs credits/reduction in price.
As a reader, it’s been a while, but I’ve definitely clicked on the tiny strip/ads under the comics, looking for something new.
you mean the email icon? my bad. i must have dropped the email icon at some point. it’s back now.
i stopped bothering with twc a while back. i mean, it’s nice if people can find the comic through there, but i really don’t like the idea of people being ‘ranked’. and, of course, that ranking can be paid for, essentially. i had advertised with them at points, but i never got a price break for votes or ranking.
at this point, i think the comic is getting by with a core group of readers who check in regularly, and maybe some word of mouth. and that seems to be fine.
I love that the blind lady is just pouring a drink onto the table.
ah well, she got ‘some’ in the glass. and some is some enough.
“she’s either 4’6 and standing on a stool, or he’s 7 feet tall. and crouching”
Or the artist is using a wide-angle lens perspective, and she’s 10ft farther away. And the text above her was written on a black ceiling.
“It’s the future, and there shall be goofy lighting from the 60’s!”
yeah, there’s certainly something going on there. i think they should have just leaned into the goofy, and just did it like one of those old school paintings. but no, they went with a weird photo, that makes him look like he could carry her in a baby bjorn.
it doesn’t help that (spoiler) at the last possible moment, despite having no sexual chemistry at all, they kiss, and for the whole movie, he’s been talking to her like a child, and calling her ‘kiddo’. so hawt.
Needle Spiders! How DARE you forget the Needle Spiders?!
Amended pitch:
“Also, there are needle spiders.”
“Are they threatening?”
“We’re going to pretend they are.”
hahaha. do they jump?
um… ‘sometimes?’
May I suggest you change the icon for the topwebcomics vote page from a speech bubble to TWC?
I would, but it’s not really an option with the plug-in I’m using. So, for now, we’re stuck with it.
I hate myself for not having seen that movie yet. It’s on my list now. And keep up the wonderful ranting!
well, don’t expect too much, or you’re gonna hate me too. i will say this, selleck has an enviable even folicle’d pelt on his head. and look at that poster! if that was real, she’s either 4’6 and standing on a stool, or he’s 7 feet tall. and crouching. head volume alone….. insane