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Started by The Good Reverend Roger, October 07, 2009, 04:44:50 PM

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rong

#60
October 08, 2009, 08:42:45 PM
Quote from: rong on October 08, 2009, 08:35:33 PM
i'll understand if you have this more fully lined up, but if you're interested in an artist, i know a guy in detroit that is a)a sweet artist and b)might be interested in illustrating said comics.

i think the artist being from detroit would be appropriate. 

i also hope this ties into the "mask" thread.

he lives very "off the grid" i will try to see if i can dig any info up on him online and PM it to you if i find anything.

shit - i think he might be in jail.
"a real smart feller, he felt smart"

The Good Reverend Roger

#61
October 08, 2009, 08:42:58 PM
Quote from: rong on October 08, 2009, 08:35:33 PM
i'll understand if you have this more fully lined up, but if you're interested in an artist, i know a guy in detroit that is a)a sweet artist and b)might be interested in illustrating said comics.

i think the artist being from detroit would be appropriate. 

i also hope this ties into the "mask" thread.

he lives very "off the grid" i will try to see if i can dig any info up on him online and PM it to you if i find anything.

I've got two people doing the art right now, but it might be a possibility in the future.

Also, this sort of thing is by nature flaky as hell.  Editors are all insane, and go from furiously excited about something to puking on your shoes and siccing the dogs on you at the drop of a hat, and I imagine comic publishers are the same way.  I guess I'm about to find out.

I'd give this a 5% chance of going anywhere (with what we have right now), so don't anybody get all excited yet.  I won't even have a "maybe" for at least 2 weeks, probably a lot longer.  

" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#62
October 08, 2009, 08:43:44 PM
Quote from: rong on October 08, 2009, 08:42:45 PM
Quote from: rong on October 08, 2009, 08:35:33 PM
i'll understand if you have this more fully lined up, but if you're interested in an artist, i know a guy in detroit that is a)a sweet artist and b)might be interested in illustrating said comics.

i think the artist being from detroit would be appropriate. 

i also hope this ties into the "mask" thread.

he lives very "off the grid" i will try to see if i can dig any info up on him online and PM it to you if i find anything.

shit - i think he might be in jail.

That's where the best artists go when they're hungry.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

singer

#63
October 08, 2009, 09:03:13 PM Last Edit: October 08, 2009, 10:22:03 PM by singer
It isn't a city.  It's just another small town with a fast-fading future leaning drunkenly on the architecture of broken promises.  It could be anywhere, and bits and pieces of it may resemble everywhere, but this particular pile of rubble routed along the  any/everywhere road to even-less-than-before is part of what some have cleverly called  "the rust belt"

Idle coal cars sit idled on a track that runs from the shuttered iron mines to an empty harbor.

Back in the day, shipping was king and coal and iron and grain and all manner of commerce moved the mighty squealing iron wheels along those tracks and the town grew, pretentious with potential prosperity, and every member of the city council assured the work-a-day wage slaves that this was a Place With Fine Prospects.

So schools were built and houses were contracted and streets were paved wide for the impending boom of more building and business and banks and bars and no one thought to count on coal falling out of favor, but when it did the shuttered mines shipped their shattered work-force to other occupations.  We will always need shipfitters for the grain and ore and goods bearing even bigger and better business through the harbor, and every member of the new city council assured the work-a-day wage slaves that this was a Place With Fine Prospects.

And Iron ore became king, and the rust-red dust from the ore pellets colored the nice white siding on the little clapboard houses ringing the Place With Fine Prospects and progress came with malls and mini-marts and movie-plex monstrosities housed in corrugated tin horrors, so there was nothing for it but to make way and make more room for the needs of progress.  So what if the price of progress was the wrecking ball beating a path to a 'better future' through the fine filigree of the art-deco architecture  that once proudly proclaimed itself the "Palace Theater"?  Tear the damn thing down.  We need a warehouse there.  Never-mind the  wrought iron tower archway on Tower Avenue, (looking for all the world like someone named Eiffel had a hand in the design), tear the damn thing down, we need a parking lot there.  And in all the boom and bustle of feeding the expanding needs of a Place With Fine Prospects  no one thought to count on king iron finding himself suddenly subject to market forces that made it much cheaper to smelt in some any/everywhere other than this one right here.  Cheaper places that didn't pay much mind to environmental impacts or shale polluted run-off.  Bottom-dollar bargainers that understood 60 cents an hour was a damn good wage and don't let that union shill tell you any different. And the shuttered pellet-presses shipped their shattered workers out to the 'service industry' because we can all make a fine living selling each other hamburgers.

So the piles of pellets sat in the harbor where no ships came to call and the grain drained out of the towering silos bound on Mayfair trucks for destinations  more economically expedient  by way of Interstate Highway  leaving the rails to rot.  And with nothing made, mined, or harvested here the harbor could not remain a hub of commerce and the trash blew in the cold wind to gather around the feet of the unmoving conveyor belt on  the coal-stacker track while the concrete silos shifted and crumbled under the weight of their own obsolescence and the clenched jaw of the steel crane was left to choke on the Ozymandias boast.

Meanwhile, every member of the new city council assured the work-a-day wage slaves that this was a Place With Fine Prospects.  All you need to do is re-tool and re-train and make way for a better brighter future with Wal-mart and Jiffy-Lube and a HD TV you bought with the credit you keep from serving each other hamburgers or setting your sights on another tele-marketing target.  And the Pawn shops and Payday Loan piranhas nibble around the edges of your comfort zone, but not enough to actually interfere with the laying of the 29-and-1/4-percent-interest-compounded-weekly golden egg  so you can still feed your illusions on  just enough left-over for a 50 cent tap or two down to the Moose Club or the Knights of Columbus where there will be a Friday Night Band playing  bad covers of Big Eighties hits and the guy in the corner is still selling something to help you forget you can't get laid and you can't get paid, and you can't get far enough ahead to finally fumble your way out of the Place With Fine Prospects

*edited for the hell of it
"Magic" is one of the fundamental properties of "Reality"

Cainad (dec.)

#64
October 09, 2009, 04:17:10 AM
ATTN: PD.com

This is all fucking awesome. But I have never lived in The City, and now you've all got me pissing myself with fear that I might one day have to move there for the sake of a job.

The Good Reverend Roger

#65
October 09, 2009, 04:45:31 AM
Quote from: Cainad on October 09, 2009, 04:17:10 AM
ATTN: PD.com

This is all fucking awesome. But I have never lived in The City, and now you've all got me pissing myself with fear that I might one day have to move there for the sake of a job.

It's nice here.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Iason Ouabache

#66
October 09, 2009, 04:56:28 AM
Quote from: Cainad on October 09, 2009, 04:17:10 AM
ATTN: PD.com

This is all fucking awesome. But I have never lived in The City, and now you've all got me pissing myself with fear that I might one day have to move there for the sake of a job.
You've lived on The Big Island. That's close enough, right?
You cannot fathom the immensity of the fuck i do not give.
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Cainad (dec.)

#67
October 09, 2009, 05:26:40 AM
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on October 09, 2009, 04:56:28 AM
Quote from: Cainad on October 09, 2009, 04:17:10 AM
ATTN: PD.com

This is all fucking awesome. But I have never lived in The City, and now you've all got me pissing myself with fear that I might one day have to move there for the sake of a job.
You've lived on The Big Island. That's close enough, right?

I lived on O'ahu, the island with Honolulu. Honolulu is definitely The City, with all of the diseases and ailments and twisted sick ability to suck people in and never let them go, but I would never presume to know much about it. I lived in my house on the military reserve, went to my school that drivers-by would mistake for a prison complex, and never touched the Filth.

rong

#68
October 09, 2009, 12:20:36 PM
it used to be that if you weren't smart enough to work in the city, you could always get a job farming.  Nowadays, if you aren't smart enough to farm, you can always get a job in the city.
"a real smart feller, he felt smart"

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#69
October 09, 2009, 04:30:47 PM
Wow, Singer. :mittens:

And :mittens: everyone else, too.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

The Good Reverend Roger

#70
October 12, 2009, 12:34:29 AM
First galley:



Nivek is working this one.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

fomenter

#71
October 12, 2009, 12:39:10 AM Last Edit: October 12, 2009, 12:43:23 AM by fomenter
 :mittens:  and super  :mittens:  

WOW!!!!
"So she says to me, do you wanna be a BAD boy? And I say YEAH baby YEAH! Surf's up space ponies! I'm makin' gravy... Without the lumps. HAAA-ha-ha-ha!"


hmroogp

The Good Reverend Roger

#72
October 12, 2009, 12:40:10 AM
More is on the way.

Oh, and thanks for acknowledging my fucking existence.  Nobody else will today, apparently.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Pariah

#73
October 12, 2009, 12:42:57 AM
Holy shit!
:mittens:
Awesome
Play safe! Ski only in a clockwise direction! Let's all have fun together!

fomenter

#74
October 12, 2009, 12:47:43 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 12, 2009, 12:40:10 AM
More is on the way.

Oh, and thanks for acknowledging my fucking existence.  Nobody else will today, apparently.

the silent treatment is no way to treat a angry rain god..
"So she says to me, do you wanna be a BAD boy? And I say YEAH baby YEAH! Surf's up space ponies! I'm makin' gravy... Without the lumps. HAAA-ha-ha-ha!"


hmroogp
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