Hello again, everyone!
Awhile back I posted the first issue of a comic called OKEY-DOKEY, half of which consisted of a narrative called @gnosis! Since then many things have happened, and long story boring, I've relaunched @gnosis! as a free, weekly, web comic. Updated on Sundays.
(http://www.buddhafart.com/08/@GNOSIS_COVER.jpg)
http://www.ok-dk.net/Agnosis (http://www.ok-dk.net/Agnosis)
We're 3 updates in already, so please feel free to dive in and enjoy!
I thank you for your time and this magnificent place for to bring & brag.
bc
The best thing about comics is the way you can play images and words off of each other. You've just captioned metaphysical bullshit on top of generic semidetailed pictures of old dudes.
Also,
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/fiction_rule_of_thumb.png)
Hi again Bobby! Welcome back, I always enjoy these little gems you drop around here. Interesting comic you're brewing. I dig the art, but I'm having trouble figuring out what's going on. I mean like on page six (http://ok-dk.net/Agnosis/?p=16&page=6) for example - it's so dense it seems inaccessable. Is it something I'd get if I was into Crowley? Could you elucidate what takes place in these first nine pages?
What Cram said.
bookmarked for later
Hello Cramulus! Quite nice to correspond again w/ you, sir. Triple Zero also of course!
Yeah, let's see what we've got going here...
Admittedly GA is not necessarily entirely off the mark here that I've only just "captioned metaphysical bullshit" atop the artwork, :fnord:
Though I actually haven't made up any words in so doing, just kind of as a promise to whomever should actually put time into reading this, the narration may be esoteric as all holy fuck, but it all means something.
I'm debating about including a kind of glossary database to go along with the works here... but anyway!
Episode One: "WHAT BUBBA HAD DID"
An elderly Shaman inhabiting a dystopian future enacts a rebellious plot, encodes his consciousness in an Artificially Intelligent robot as he passes away, the robot takes to Outer Space and sends out a rallying call to associates throughout history.
Episode Two: "WHEN KAIBOSH WAKES"
The rallying call reaches the alchemist Hadit Kaibosh, who has been kept prisoner in his own mind by "Empire Inc" (The series' demiurgic antagonist) Kaibosh escapes his prison and joins in on the plot.
Episode Three: "THE STING OF THOTH" (part 1 of 2)
Starts off with a sequence in 1904 depicting the near simultaneous occurrence of the inspiration for relativity in science (Albert Einstein), in literature (James Joyce), and in religion (Aleister Crowley), and thence into the actual event of the Pecos River flooding, which uprooted the grave of "Billy the Kid", and sent his body off into the unknown.
The rallying call now reaches Venus Ananda, a vegetation goddess, and she takes up her part of the plot. Part of which involves the reanimation of Billy the Kid's corpse, as a thoroughly modern embodiment of the "God" of magick/communication ala Thoth, Hermes, Mercury, Prometheus, etc.
On page six we see Ms. Ananda entering into a trace for to perform her ritual, her narration involves and so induces the nature of her magic.
Part of her magic being of an organic variety, it is grown through time, and the other part of her magic being of the womanly variety, she gives her life to the new born avatar.
and that's about where we are!
New episode this sunday, stay tuned!
Quote from: Bobby Campbell on December 09, 2008, 12:55:35 AMThough I actually haven't made up any words in so doing, just kind of as a promise to whomever should actually put time into reading this, the narration may be esoteric as all holy fuck, but it all means something.
i know. i can get that from the way it's presented--not just made up shit, but it has meaning for you, and you actually do put in an effort on getting it out. i enjoy trying to figure it out, but i really appreciate that you're also there to discuss/explain stuff.
still haven't read anything, but bookmarked, btw. sorry no time yet ;-)
Woohoo-very cool. Bookmarked.
Appreciate that, Triple Zero!
Jenne, also of course!
and really, now might not even be the best time to start reading it, waiting several more weeks for content to build up might be just the thing, the weekly format is really just to give me a structure to work within.
fine regards,
bc
New Episode Up!
The Conclusion to Episode 3 needs another week's marination, so instead be welcome to enjoy:
INTERLUDE 01: Queste Del Saint Graal (http://ok-dk.net/Agnosis/?p=17)
So far, it's like "The Invisibles"- only awesomer!
Will forward lynx on myspace!
:rbtg:
Quote from: Bobby Campbell on December 15, 2008, 05:57:43 PM
New Episode Up!
The Conclusion to Episode 3 needs another week's marination, so instead be welcome to enjoy:
INTERLUDE 01: Queste Del Saint Graal (http://ok-dk.net/Agnosis/?p=17)
Very impressed with this. It reminds me of all the fleeting good stuff that 2000AD dropped the ball with. ;) Bookmarked!
Awesome as usual Bobby!
I fully intend to read this once I get a chance. It sounds like The Illuminatus Trilogy's ill-fated lovechild with the offspring of The Invisibles and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. Which in other words, sounds awesome.
Plus, the more obscure and confusing something is, the more fun it is to leverage wikipedia to figure out wtf is going on. If all else fails, we can fanwank something and then call on the "author is dead" defense and state that your interpretation bears no more meaning than ours.
Great stuff. I especially liked the Timewave Alpha in episode 1. I was a bit confused about the (as of this writing) latest two episodes, though. I realize that the second to latest involved necromancy, but Billy the Kid = Hermes Trigmestos? Is this meant literally, or is it a joke on "osiris is a black god" &c? The latest itself is mostly confusing in that I'm unsure whether or not it is supposed to take place in a purely memetic universe (the inner universe of warring archetypes?) or in some place of arguable physicality.
Hello All!
Pardon the delay in pulse pounding action, thanks so very much to everyone who has given @gnosis! a read, and an especially great big thanks to them what can actually enjoy it, and the ultimate thanks to them who provide feedback, it is most sincerely appreciated and quite very useful.
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Since my last post I've finished the second half of:
EPISODE THREE: THE STING OF THOTH (http://ok-dk.net/Agnosis/?p=16)
The new pages start HERE. (http://ok-dk.net/Agnosis/?p=16&page=10)
and one other lil' sequence
INTERLUDE 02: Hunahpu & Xbalanque (http://ok-dk.net/Agnosis/?p=18)
Quote from: Enki-][ on January 01, 2009, 03:47:14 PM
Great stuff. I especially liked the Timewave Alpha in episode 1. I was a bit confused about the (as of this writing) latest two episodes, though. I realize that the second to latest involved necromancy, but Billy the Kid = Hermes Trigmestos? Is this meant literally, or is it a joke on "osiris is a black god" &c? The latest itself is mostly confusing in that I'm unsure whether or not it is supposed to take place in a purely memetic universe (the inner universe of warring archetypes?) or in some place of arguable physicality.
Hello Enki-][ !
Oh I like that, Tommy Thoth Trismegistus as the Black Sun. Well observed, friend! Billy the Kid kind of serves as an incidental medium for Hermes, and I don't mean to imply any literal equivalence. What had happened was I had the 1904 sequence written where Einstein, Joyce, & Crowley have their epiphanies, and with the idea already in mind of a flood that should uproot a graveyard and provide a corpse for to necromance, I found that a graveyard was indeed flooded in 1904, and that it washed away the corpse of Billy the Kid. I would have settled just for a historic 1904 flood, and made up the graveyard, and corpse. Turns out I didn't have to!
Quote from: Enki-][ on January 01, 2009, 03:47:14 PMThe latest itself is mostly confusing in that I'm unsure whether or not it is supposed to take place in a purely memetic universe (the inner universe of warring archetypes?) or in some place of arguable physicality.
I believe the episode in question is "INTERLUDE 01: Queste Del Saint Graal"
About which you are correct that this takes place within an idea space, or "the mind indestructible" as the caption reads. Not that the caption provides clarity! Just that there are sign posts in the narrative, however incomprehensible!
The sequence is an adaptation of a 13th century Holy Grail/Knights of the Round Table story.
Thanks for playing along!!
bc
Quote from: Two Frame Animation on December 08, 2008, 06:36:01 AM
The best thing about comics is the way you can play images and words off of each other. You've just captioned metaphysical bullshit on top of generic semidetailed pictures of old dudes.
Also,
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/fiction_rule_of_thumb.png)
Fuck you. The Bible is the best book of all, and every single word in it is made up!
(http://www.buddhafart.com/MUP/BUBBA_AI.jpg)
Read all about it! (http://ok-dk.net/Agnosis/?p=19)
This chapter is perhaps even more difficult to decipher than usual, but Marcelino's excellent artwork should more than make up for whatever degree of incomprehension you experience!
Falling on Deaf Ears (http://www.bobbycampbell.net/OMNIBUS_777/RGC/2009/04/falling-on-deaf-ears.html)
An article written by Toby Philpott w/ illustrations by me,
explaining the "Viconian Recorso", the topic of the current @gnosis! comic.
Introducing the OS A.I. Interface (http://www.ok-dk.net/TUNC.html)
The artificially intelligent system function from @gnosis! is online and waiting to chat w/ you! This is still only a beta version, but you can get the gist of the gimmick.
Awesomeness.
I should note that I am also very much enjoying Jokeland.
Very much appreciated, Enki-][ !
New Jokeland this week even, thanks again!
bc
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http://www.ok-dk.net/Agnosis
hey Bobby, any chance that you'll be releasing these in .CBZ format?
stands for "comic book ZIPped", one ZIP file per issue, one JPEG per page (just rename gnosis-1.zip to gnosis-1.cbz)
it's used by comic book reader programs such as CDisplay. I love your comics, but I just havent had the time to read them all yet. CBZ/CDisplay would make that easier for me cause it remembers where I left off after I close the program (plus it does all sorts of rotating and paging things that make reading on my netbook just as comfortable as reading a real comic book).
and it's an extra vector to distribute your work from.
(I dunno maybe it's a bad idea)
Way right on, Tripzip!
I'm about maybe a dozen or so pages away from wrapping up the first collection, which'll go into print, .PDF, .CBZ, and whatever else I can think of.
I've actually kinda started to like reading CDisplay comics more than print ones even, crazy sacrilege I know, but still!
Thank you very much for explaining how to package the .CBZ file, I hadn't figured it out yet.
Excelsior!
bc
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http://www.ok-dk.net/Agnosis
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http://www.ok-dk.net/Agnosis (http://www.ok-dk.net/Agnosis)
Quote from: Philly Fillet on December 18, 2008, 07:50:29 PM
So far, it's like "The Invisibles"- only awesomer!
Will forward lynx on myspace!
:rbtg:
I'd say not quite as awesome, but then, the invisibles is in color and has hawt chicks. That plant chick is kinda hawt, but, y'know, she's black and white and kinda small. I am definitely enjoying it though.
Oh goddess, the enochian! It's too early for me to try to read enochian. :argh!:
Quote from: BabylonHoruv on June 08, 2009, 07:54:08 AM
Quote from: Philly Fillet on December 18, 2008, 07:50:29 PM
So far, it's like "The Invisibles"- only awesomer!
Will forward lynx on myspace!
:rbtg:
I'd say not quite as awesome, but then, the invisibles is in color and has hawt chicks. That plant chick is kinda hawt, but, y'know, she's black and white and kinda small. I am definitely enjoying it though.
Very fair enough, BabylonHoruv! Thanks for reading. :fnord:
Quote from: Enki-][ on June 08, 2009, 11:20:33 AM
Oh goddess, the enochian! It's too early for me to try to read enochian. :argh!:
Tell me about it, Enki-][!
However terrible to read, even worse to write!
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http://www.ok-dk.net/Agnosis
Quote from: Broken AI on August 05, 2009, 11:10:15 PM
you can get these in print? right?
my step daughter would fucking love these!
Hey Broken AI!
First print collection is due sometime this fall, thanks!
bc
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shit this still looks fucking awesome, one day I'll download them all
:mittens:
Hey Triple Zero! I'll see about putting together a CBR/CBZ collection soon.
Will do Broken A.I.! Much obliged!
Right on, Telarus! :fnord:
It's kinda been awhile, I reckon, let's get this thing moving again...
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http://www.ok-dk.net/Agnosis
Smash cut to 5 years later...
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http://weirdoverse.com/agnosis/ (http://weirdoverse.com/agnosis/)
I'm circling back around to finish up this monstrosity, which a few of you fine folks seemed to enjoy back in 2009, and so here's more!
Disclaimer! While the web version of the comic is free, there is indeed a pdf version that is for sale on the site for two bucks. Hopefully that's not too much of a solicitation
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AGNOSIS! #01 "Last of the Discordians" (http://weirdoverse.com/comic/agnosis-01-last-of-the-discordians/)
AGNOSIS! #02 "The Call to Adventure" (http://weirdoverse.com/comic/agnosis-02-the-call-to-adventure/)
AGNOSIS! #03 "No Bunny" (http://weirdoverse.com/comic/agnosis-03-no-bunny/)
AGNOSIS! #04 "Alchemical Dream" (http://weirdoverse.com/comic/agnosis-04-alchemical-dream/)
AGNOSIS! #05 "1904″ (http://weirdoverse.com/comic/agnosis-05-1904/)
AGNOSIS! #06 "Flower Power" (http://weirdoverse.com/comic/agnosis-06-flower-power/)
AGNOSIS! #07 "Prometheus Arisen" (http://weirdoverse.com/comic/agnosis-07-prometheus-arisen/)
AGNOSIS! #08 "World Without End" (http://weirdoverse.com/comic/agnosis-08-world-without-end/)
AGNOSIS! #09 "Götterdämmerung" (http://weirdoverse.com/comic/agnosis-09-gotterdammerung/)
AGNOSIS! #10 "Queste del Saint Graal" (http://weirdoverse.com/comic/agnosis-10-queste-del-saint-graal/)
AGNOSIS! #11 "The Hero Twins" (http://weirdoverse.com/comic/agnosis-11-the-hero-twins/)
AGNOSIS! #12 "A Sun Play of the Ages" (http://weirdoverse.com/comic/agnosis-12-a-sun-play-of-the-ages/)
AGNOSIS! #13 "Black Night" (http://weirdoverse.com/comic/agnosis-13-black-night/)
AGNOSIS! #14 "The Language of Angels" (http://weirdoverse.com/comic/agnosis-14-the-language-of-angels/)
AGNOSIS! #15 "Transmogrification" (http://weirdoverse.com/comic/agnosis-15-transmogrification/)
AGNOSIS! #16 "Easy Go, Easy Come" (http://weirdoverse.com/comic/agnosis-16-easy-go-easy-come/)
AGNOSIS! #17 "Save Point" (http://weirdoverse.com/comic/agnosis-17-save-point/)
AGNOSIS! #18 "Simon Says Yes" (http://weirdoverse.com/agnosis/agnosis-18-simon-says-yes/)
AGNOSIS! #19 "Ceasefire" (http://weirdoverse.com/agnosis/agnosis-19-ceasefire/)
AGNOSIS! #20 "Moonshot" (http://weirdoverse.com/agnosis/agnosis-20-moonshot/)
AGNOSIS! #21 "Fourth Wall" (http://weirdoverse.com/agnosis/agnosis-21-fourth-wall/)