Tektoonics.com

[jpholding]

The new toon/parody site is formally "connected" and online, but right now it's just the title page with posh Sheila's smiling visage and an announcement of a full start Nov. 30.

http://www.tektoonics.com

[LilPunkishOfTerror]

cool! That's my favourite pic of Sheila anyway.

[Darth Executor]

All I'm getting is a "this site is parked by go daddy" page.

[jpholding]

All I'm getting is a "this site is parked by go daddy" page.

Hit your refresh button....either that or propogation hasn't occurred in your area yet, which is possible but very weird.

[Piebald]

I can see it :teeth:

[Darth Executor]

Hit your refresh button....

Did already.

either that or propogation hasn't occurred in your area yet, which is possible but very weird.

Well, I am in Canada... and it's still not visible to me.

[jpholding]

Well, I am in Canada... and it's still not visible to me.

Call your Internet provider and tell them to get off their behinds, stop throwing chickens into the wastebaskets, and work for a change. :glare:

[Darth Executor]

Call your Internet provider and tell them to get off their behinds, stop throwing chickens into the wastebaskets, and work for a change. :glare:

It's working now. And I can't yell at them. I download so much stuff and spend so much time on the Internet that they might end up being tempted to put a bandwith restriction and I wouldn't want that.

[jpholding]

Nyuk nyuk nyuk...

[jpholding]

I won't post any more of these (it'll make Darth antsy :teeth:) but I wanted to offer this as a sample. My avatars from here on will be Shrike Team themed, too.

[Dave G]

It's working now. And I can't yell at them. I download so much stuff and spend so much time on the Internet that they might end up being tempted to put a bandwith restriction and I wouldn't want that.

Got any suggestions on what to download?
:teeth:

[Darth Executor]

I won't post any more of these (it'll make Darth antsy :teeth:) but I wanted to offer this as a sample. My avatars from here on will be Shrike Team themed, too.

Cool. Some suggestions:

1. That yellow line on Eidolon's sleeves makes him look like he's wearing a track suit.

2. You should give Eidolon a sentient smart aleck weapon that argues with him once in a while. Kind of like the "team pet". Of course, it's all up to you...

[Darth Executor]

Got any suggestions on what to download?
:teeth:

New harry potter movie. I'm gonna see it in the theater eventually but I don't like the idea of having to wait until people stop taking their noisy kids to see it so I'm gonna watch it at home first.

[Dave G]

New harry potter movie. I'm gonna see it in the theater eventually but I don't like the idea of having to wait until people stop taking their noisy kids to see it so I'm gonna watch it at home first.

I have problems downloading movies. I get them off a torrent and I don't know how to play the files. Maybe you can help?

:hm: <-----me playing files

[Darth Executor]

What format do you get them in? The most common ones I get are either .iso files or 4 dozen small zipped packages. If you get the former, download ISO buster and use it to extract the files. If you get the small zipped packages, run the .rar file and extract the stuff from it. And this is off topic so if you have further questions just PM me.

[TuckEverlasting]

New harry potter movie. I'm gonna see it in the theater eventually but I don't like the idea of having to wait until people stop taking their noisy kids to see it so I'm gonna watch it at home first.

Is that legal?

[Darth Executor]

Everything's legal in my empire. I didn't write down any laws yet.

[Darth Executor]

Hey JP, I realised why Eidolon looks odd. The one on this page:
http://www.tektonics.org/toongallery/hearthstone.html
Has the yellow line outlining his gloves (I think). The new one you made has it going down his arm from his shoulder. I like the old one better.

[jpholding]

1. That yellow line on Eidolon's sleeves makes him look like he's wearing a track suit.

I did forget how I had him before (re your last message). Well, too late now, but I did have in mind that the stripe is part of a tribute to his heritage. If you look at his chest in later pages, and even at the original drawing, you'll be able to make out the six-sided symbol of the Av'nen and the stripe would come out of it like a ray of light.

2. You should give Eidolon a sentient smart aleck weapon that argues with him once in a while. Kind of like the "team pet". Of course, it's all up to you...

Actually, there will be some places where the equivalent will happen...when he has to confront "modern" ways after having experienced so many cultural shifts. There's an especially funny/dramatic moment planned for this story, when he and Brom first meet in the tale, and also in Shrike Team #2 when he and Brom will defeat the story's bad guy. :wink: And in one of the Range Patrol stories, I'd like to work out something where he's remembering how to drive after last doing it about 70 years before.... :lol:

And in the long term, he'll have a foil of sorts....someone we know already....but that will be after a while. :tongue:

[Darth Executor]

Is this one gonna be done in time for the next update?

[jpholding]

Is this one gonna be done in time for the next update?

No way. I just drew page 20 last night out of at least 88. Think more like February.

[Darth Executor]

So that's the next big comic? Or do you have another sheila story on the way?

[jpholding]

So that's the next big comic? Or do you have another sheila story on the way?

Yes, Shrike Team #1 (title will be "Fruits of Redemption") is the next big one. Then I'll alternate back to Range Patrol #2, then Shrike Team #2, and so on until there are at least 5 for each. At that point or close by I'll pop in with Claw of Vengeance being added to the rotation for a bit; then -- well, let's just say there will be some radical turns. :wink: I won't let this thing grow stale, you can count on THAT.

[LilPunkishOfTerror]

yay! more Sheila Rangslinger! :woohoo: :joy:

[Xavier]

And here I'm waiting for Molinist to appear... :hehe:

A touch self-serving perhaps, but I'll be interested to see how his character works in the dynamic.

[jpholding]

yay! more Sheila Rangslinger! :woohoo: :joy:

Not to give anything away, but for reasons to be seen, we'll see more of Sheila than any other character in all these stories... :teeth:

And here I'm waiting for Molinist to appear...

I figured out a way to get him into the mix just before Claw of Vengeance as well as tie him in to a larger picture I have. In terms of the dynamic, the hard thing is to limit his power so that he's not a complete problem solver, a deus ex machina as it were.

I'll let one bit out about him...there's a good chance that underneath that outfit, he's going to be a Sk'lan....but still a good guy.

[jpholding]

My sister in law bought us a scanner as an early Christmas present!

Now I can get the work done a little faster on the comics.

[Darth Executor]

Not to give anything away, but for reasons to be seen, we'll see more of Sheila than any other character in all these stories... :teeth:


Why am I getting the feeling that Sheila is gonna be Hearthstone's Virgin Mary?

[jpholding]

Why am I getting the feeling that Sheila is gonna be Hearthstone's Virgin Mary?

Not quite. But you ARE on to something.... :wink: Best not think about it, because it will take me maybe 10 years to get to the story in question.

[jpholding]

New scanner is workin' great. :teeth:

[Darth Executor]

Sheila? I thought you were working on Shrike Team. :shifty:

[jpholding]

Sheila? I thought you were working on Shrike Team. :shifty:

Welllllll....I can't help it if I want to get some ideas down, can I? :lol:

Well, actually this is not part of a panel story....it's a "standalone" portrait of the sort you find on the Hearthstone intro pages. I got a whole mess of these I've been holding on to because I didn't want to burden the guy who did my scans...now that I have one of my own I can get rid of that backlog, which has characters from all the different storylines in standalones.

Also means I can start a section on tektoonics for standalones earlier than I thought. :teeth:

See ya'll tomorrow. BTW I'm now on page 37 of the first Shrike Team story and it looks like it may be only 79-82 total pages. So maybe I can get in done in January....!

[jpholding]

Designed some banners for tektoonics....how can I get one of these (pref. the one with Sheila) in my sig block with a minimum of effort? I don't like the looks of the instructions to do it. :thumbd:

[Darth Executor]

You have to cut them to small blocks and use the blocks as custom smilies. I'll cut them for you tonight if I remember.

[Xavier]

Upload these pieces as custom smilies... Then add them in series in your sig line.

such as, :1::2::3::4:

[Xavier]

When you place them in your sig line, they won't have the spaces. :hehe:

[jpholding]

Well that was a pain in the hairless pink pahookey. :twitch:

But, I thank you. :teeth:

[Xavier]

No problem... :smile:

[Cynic Sage]

I won't post any more of these (it'll make Darth antsy :teeth:) but I wanted to offer this as a sample. My avatars from here on will be Shrike Team themed, too.

Maybe it's just me, but a green sweatsuit doesn't really scream "FROM TIME IMMORTAL!"

[jpholding]

Maybe it's just me, but a green sweatsuit doesn't really scream "FROM TIME IMMORTAL!"

Hey, the guy has problems with cultural adjustment. Wait til you see how Brom reacts to his first prophecy in ST #1. :lol:

If you spent a lot of time by yourself thinking gloomy thoughts about how you caused your world's original sin, you'd have bad fashion sense too. :tongue:

You want I should try him in PINK?

[jpholding]

I hope to have the new site formally up by 3PM Eastern.

[Piebald]

I wanna make Hearthstone banners just for fun!

[jpholding]

I wanna make Hearthstone banners just for fun!

I'll use them for fun if you make them. :thumb:

May be 4PM. My youth pastor decided he did want me to teach tonight. And I still need to eat lunch...

[jpholding]

Nope. Made it up by 3 by eating lunch faster. Ya'll check over for anything busted and advise here. I'll check too.

[Xavier]

Index still seems the same... :huh:

Nevermind... I got it now.

[jpholding]

I see to have lost the parody response to Evangelion the Brick. :shrug: Oh well.

[Cynic Sage]

I see to have lost the parody response to Evangelion the Brick. :shrug: Oh well.

"Evangelion the Brick"? I'm sorry, I just had a mental image pop into my head of some anime involving giant robots and some sort of brick duking it out over Tokyo. :huh:

[jpholding]

"Evangelion the Brick"? I'm sorry, I just had a mental image pop into my head of some anime involving giant robots and some sort of brick duking it out over Tokyo. :huh:

Close. If you make me the robot and him the brick. :hehe:

He's a Christadelphian apologist I beat senseless on tne Trinity ages ago. He's been angry at me ever since and also attacked my piece on Semitic Totality by quoting a bunch of sources with dates beginning with 18-. He even got in bed with (horrors) Farrell Till...

[JB]

For some reason, it's still showing up for me the same way it did several days ago. :shrug:

[jpholding]

For some reason, it's still showing up for me the same way it did several days ago. :shrug:

Gotta be time to hit that Refresh button! :rasberry:

[JB]

Gotta be time to hit that Refresh button! :rasberry:

I hit the Refresh button until it begged for mercy, but it didn't help.


EDIT: Never mind, it works perfectly now. :thumb:

[LilPunkishOfTerror]

Nope. Made it up by 3 by eating lunch faster. Ya'll check over for anything busted and advise here. I'll check too.

Hey Sheila,

not exactly busted but where you wrote,

"It's published by "Adventures Unlimited," (1999) not exactly Harper and Row, or Yale University Press, but at least they know where to buy ink; and when you're with it, you can buy the ones listed in the back on time travel and Atlantis" (Quackarya article)

surely you mean "when you're done with it"? Anyway, cracking website that. Had me so in stitches I'll have to take it in spoonfuls. :lol: :wink:

[LilPunkishOfTerror]

JP,

still laughing at the new site. But the Ted Bell parody graphics don't load (tested in Mozilla and Opera - sorry, don't use Internet Sucksplora!) Keep up the good work,

Punkish

[{Tim}]

Found one...

http://www.tektoonics.com/parody/hierotheelephant.html
".. a friend of his, named something likme Hiero the Elephant ..."

[{Tim}]

Ok and....

http://www.tektoonics.com/etc/misctoons.html

Two broken links:
http://www.tektoonics.com/etc/narnia.jpg
http://www.tektoonics.com/etc/jabez.jpg

Both of these are actually named (on the server) as ".JPG", in capital letters, not lowercase. Apparently your server can tell the difference, and takes exception to it.

So, these links will work:
http://www.tektoonics.com/etc/narnia.JPG
http://www.tektoonics.com/etc/jabez.JPG

Or you could change the names to lowercase. :shrug:



P.S. I noticed "http://www.tektoonics.com/etc/hlshow.PNG" ("The Hal Lindsey Show" by Toa of Justice) also has an uppercase extension, but it doesn't seem to be linked to from your "misc" page at the moment... :shrug:

Other files I have noticed with U/C extensions:
In the /parody directory:
awolagnostic.PNG
bigsqueeze.PNG
brain.JPG
brookee01.JPG
btcontraption.PNG
confessions.PNG
jphocd1.JPG
jphocd2.JPG
jphocd3.JPG
laacupuncture.PNG
lazygoboom.PNG
lgm.BMP and lgm.PNG
lgmmgm.JPG
misfortune_jph.JPG
mouthracers.PNG
pleasegod1.GIF
question1.JPG and question2.JPG
rccomic.PNG
tillration.JPG
twintoon.PNG

In the /parody/bell directory:
ted10.JPG through ted25.JPG
(This would explain Punkish's problem)

[{Tim}]

I've also just noticed that the links to tekton articles from the Jan '05 screwball page don't work. (The other screwball pages don't seem to have any tekton links.)

Meh, you could probably just get away with putting a notice on the page that says "links may not work"... :hehe:

[{Tim}]

.....AND.... a bunch of more ones. :ahem:

In case you're wondering how I found them all, I was trying to download some of them, and the program picked out the faulty links.

-----


"Heiro the Elephant":

Faulty links in answer to the following questions:

71. If Jesus is perfect, justify the parable of the fig tree (Matthew 21:17-19, Mark 11:14-20)

80. Should the book of Revelation be taken literally? Explain your answer.

-------------------

A few in http://www.tektoonics.com/parody/pocemon/pikachumyth.htm.

The buttons at the top of "http://www.tektoonics.com/parody/pocemon/triumph_before_christ.html" are broken, they seem to have links like "http://www.tektoonics.com/parody/pocemon/style=pagan_origins_getting_started.html", etc

In fact, there's quite a few broken links in that particular parody, so I haven't chased them all down...

-----------------

More pages, but with no details - if you want I can try to chase them down for you.
One in www.tektoonics.com/parody/pendragon142.html
`www.tektoonics.com/parody/pest/pest02.htm'
`www.tektoonics.com/parody/pest/pestexcuses.htm'
`www.tektoonics.com/parody/pest/pestpagan.htm'
`www.tektoonics.com/parody/smithkpar.html' (tekton links problem)


(These ones have the bad link destinations listed)
`www.tektoonics.com/parody/daffywhacked.html'
=> `www.tektoonics.com/www.tektonics.org/af/cygnus01.html'

http://www.tektoonics.com:80/parody/board.html
=> `www.tektoonics.com/parody/httics.com/index.html'
=> `www.tektoonics.com/parody/w.forumfind.com/index.html'
=> `www.tektoonics.com/parody/what.htm'
=> `www.tektoonics.com/guestbook.htm'
=> `www.tektoonics.com/updates.htm'

`www.tektoonics.com/parody/tilltilled.html'
=> `www.tektoonics.com/parody/jisfor.html'
=> `www.tektoonics.com/parody/yesame.html'
=> `www.tektoonics.com/parody/odarn.html'
=> `www.tektoonics.com/parody/duh.html'
=> `www.tektoonics.com/parody/doh.html'
=> `www.tektoonics.com/parody/grrwhy.html'
=> `www.tektoonics.com/parody/smurf.html'
=> `www.tektoonics.com/parody/index2.html'
=> `www.tektoonics.com/parody/stripe.html'
=> `www.tektoonics.com/parody/paperweight2.html'
=> `www.tektoonics.com/parody/kirbyquiz.html'
=> `www.tektoonics.com/parody/combomb.html'
=> `www.tektoonics.com/parody/nolink.html'


After that I gave up.

------------

Finally:

"Not Found
The requested URL ((insert URL)) was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."


:shrug: This is a minor one.

[jpholding]

That whole thing with capitals is mind-numbingly stupid, because tektoonics.com is ON THE SAME SERVER! :glare: It shouldn't have worked any differently.

Thankfully my FTP program allows me to change those, albeit ONE at a time. :rant:

I may not worry about links. Tektoon is mostly intended as a display for my creative efforts. I can hardly wait for Dimbo to start picking on it. :lolo: :rofl:

So anyway, who wants to be the first to do something for the Fan Art section? Johnny? Sparko? Punkish, even? :teeth: I'll offer as a reward a very sweet, never before seen concept piece of Sheila offering her best (somewhat pensive) dress-imitation of Tarzan's girlfriend Jane. (Why she's pensive, and why she's dressed like that at all....you'll have to wait, maybe, 3-4 years to find out. :wink:)

And for yuks, maybe someone wants to imagine Dimbo writing about it the new site too?

Interesting jaunt I did yesterday too; I found a site called deviantart.com where one of the members, a college art student, quotes a line from my DaVinci Code article in her sig line. :blush:

[Sparko]

so when are you gonna stop with this silly comic strip nonsense and move into 3D rendered hollywood style movies (like Shrek)???

[{Tim}]

so when are you gonna stop with this silly comic strip nonsense and move into 3D rendered hollywood style movies (like Shrek)???
:lol:

I like his cartoons better...

[jpholding]

so when are you gonna stop with this silly comic strip nonsense and move into 3D rendered hollywood style movies (like Shrek)???

Who's paying for the equipment? :huh:

Well, maybe you can write to the guys who do Veggie Tales and suggest they take a look at the stuff. :teeth:



OK, I'd like some thoughts on this. My reader who works in animation out in Hollywood suggested I might do some Hearthstone material in a more "manga" storytelling format. Meaning, specifically, at the slower more "cinematic" pace that manga follows (per Japanese cultural values, right, Johnny?).

As it is, I follow the usual American fast-paced format.

I'll have to admit manga makes me miss the snooze bar, but I COULD do it production wise. It would take a lot longer to do a story is all.

Any thoughts?

[{Tim}]

OK, I'd like some thoughts on this. My reader who works in animation out in Hollywood suggested I might do some Hearthstone material in a more "manga" storytelling format. Meaning, specifically, at the slower more "cinematic" pace that manga follows (per Japanese cultural values, right, Johnny?).

As it is, I follow the usual American fast-paced format.

I'll have to admit manga makes me miss the snooze bar, but I COULD do it production wise. It would take a lot longer to do a story is all.

Any thoughts?Hmm. I don't know if I have enough experience to make a comparison... but it sounds interesting...
Now we have a dilemma - on the one hand, something that means it takes longer to draw the toons... :bawl: ... while on the other... hmm.


Anyway, speaking of fan art... uh, well, I'm a fan... and it's art... :shifty:
And hey, she does have a cool kind of jet-scootery thing a bit like Sheila's...
Maybe it's Sheila's human alter ego.... :hehe:

Besides, I don't have anywhere else to put it. :ahem:

[Darth Executor]

It would take a lot longer to do a story is all.


Tell your friend he better not run into me in a dark alley. :rasberry:

[jpholding]

And hey, she does have a cool kind of jet-scootery thing a bit like Sheila's...
Maybe it's Sheila's human alter ego.... :hehe:


Well, try redoing it with Sheila maybe. :tongue: Got to keep the limits close on this fan art stuff or it'll get out of control.

[Cynic Sage]

so when are you gonna stop with this silly comic strip nonsense and move into 3D rendered hollywood style movies (like Shrek)???

Dangit, where's that barfing smiley?

[jpholding]

OK, update:

* Inking page 44.
* Coloring page 15.

[{Tim}]

Well, try redoing it with Sheila maybe. :tongue: Got to keep the limits close on this fan art stuff or it'll get out of control.
:teeth:

I might give it a try some time. I've only just got started on this drawing thing, and anthropomorphic animals looks... hard... :hrm:

[jpholding]

I might give it a try some time. I've only just got started on this drawing thing, and anthropomorphic animals looks... hard... :hrm:

Er...it does? :huh:

O...kay....

The Mrs. is out with friends tonight so I managed to color up to page 17. Hee hee!

[{Tim}]

Er...it does? :huh:

O...kay....

The Mrs. is out with friends tonight so I managed to color up to page 17. Hee hee!
Excellent! :teeth: Only, what, 60 more to go? :ahem:


Anyway, some "real" fan-art this time. I did give it a try, and i was right...

... it is hard - but not as hard as I thought it would be. Most of my difficulty was trying to spot the differences to your technique, so I could fix them. It took me a while to figure out that I was drawing the pupils of the eyes larger than you do, which made it look wrong... this among other things.

So. Sheila, taking a break to think about something.

[jpholding]

Excellent! :teeth: Only, what, 60 more to go? :ahem:

Coloring, yeah; but if I keep that pace up I may have the whole deal done by January 1. Behave, now. :bonk: I did 18 this morning and will get to start on 19.

Anyway, some "real" fan-art this time. I did give it a try, and i was right...

That'll serve. :thumb: Send me email so I can send you back your prize picture.

Meanwhile....

Brom Shriker has a dry sense of humor that emerges at points of crisis. Here's an example...

[Cynic Sage]

Coloring, yeah; but if I keep that pace up I may have the whole deal done by January 1. Behave, now. :bonk: I did 18 this morning and will get to start on 19.



That'll serve. :thumb: Send me email so I can send you back your prize picture.

Meanwhile....

Brom Shriker has a dry sense of humor that emerges at points of crisis. Here's an example...
What the heck is he holding?

And why does Brom have Pecs on his back?

[jpholding]

What the heck is he holding?

Aw come on! :teeth: Don't tell me you already forgot from RP #1 how the weapons of this world are designed... :twitch: It's a standard energy-dispersal unit configuration (page 74, "Cold Reception").

And why does Brom have Pecs on his back?

Pointed pecs? It's one of those trench jackets with flaps on the back. Like Inspector Gadget wore.

Johnny, are you pullin' my chain? :teeth:

[Darth Executor]

Why does Cameron Derrick look like a rabbit if he's Allethene?

[{Tim}]

Coloring, yeah; but if I keep that pace up I may have the whole deal done by January 1. Behave, now. :bonk: I did 18 this morning and will get to start on 19.Wow. A Christmas present for your fans! :teeth:


That'll serve. :thumb: Send me email so I can send you back your prize picture.Done.


Brom Shriker has a dry sense of humor that emerges at points of crisis. Here's an example...:rofl:

[{Tim}]

Aw come on! :teeth: Don't tell me you already forgot from RP #1 how the weapons of this world are designed... :twitch: It's a standard energy-dispersal unit configuration (page 74, "Cold Reception").Well.... after all, a hair dryer could be considered an "energy dispersal unit"... the energy goes to evaporate the water...

:rasberry:
:eek:

[Cynic Sage]

Pointed pecs? It's one of those trench jackets with flaps on the back. Like Inspector Gadget wore.

Johnny, are you pullin' my chain? :teeth:

It's collar makes it look more like a sweater than a trenchcoat.

[luv1another]

hmm ok a lame first attempt :hehe:

[{Tim}]

hmm ok a lame first attempt :hehe:
Hey cool you did it! :teeth:
That's not bad, I can see the resemblance. :wink:

Hmm... I'll have to think of something more interesting next time, like an action scene or something... not just a character portrait.

[luv1another]

hey I did have 3 people chatting to me via IM at the time I did that :lol: maybe I will try again tommorrow :wink:

[Cynic Sage]

hmm ok a lame first attempt :hehe:

:eek:

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Sorry, that just scared me for a second there.:blush:

[Darth Executor]

I think Johnny should put some artwork here so we can insult it too.

[Cynic Sage]

I think Johnny should put some artwork here so we can insult it too.
I'm going on a little trip. I'll try to have it done when I get back.

[jpholding]

Why does Cameron Derrick look like a rabbit if he's Allethene?

The Allethenes have a pretty wide variety of characteristics, but he's no rabbit. No pink nose. :rasberry:

[jpholding]

It's collar makes it look more like a sweater than a trenchcoat.

He has a sweater on too under the trenchcoat. That's more clear from the front.

Inking on page 50...coloring on page 20.

[Darth Executor]

Oh those silly Brits...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1657942,00.html

But so far, so good. The story makes sense. The lion exchanging his life for Edmund's is the sort of thing Arthurian legends are made of. Parfait knights and heroes in prisoner-of-war camps do it all the time. But what's this? After a long, dark night of the soul and women's weeping, the lion is suddenly alive again. Why? How?, my children used to ask. Well, it is hard to say why. It does not make any more sense in CS Lewis's tale than in the gospels. Ah, Aslan explains, it is the "deep magic", where pure sacrifice alone vanquishes death.

Of all the elements of Christianity, the most repugnant is the notion of the Christ who took our sins upon himself and sacrificed his body in agony to save our souls. Did we ask him to? Poor child Edmund, to blame for everything, must bear the full weight of a guilt only Christians know how to inflict, with a twisted knife to the heart. Every one of those thorns, the nuns used to tell my mother, is hammered into Jesus's holy head every day that you don't eat your greens or say your prayers when you are told. So the resurrected Aslan gives Edmund a long, life-changing talking-to high up on the rocks out of our earshot. When the poor boy comes back down with the sacred lion's breath upon him he is transformed unrecognisably into a Stepford brother, well and truly purged.

Over the years, others have had uneasy doubts about the Narnian brand of Christianity. Christ should surely be no lion (let alone with the orotund voice of Liam Neeson). He was the lamb, representing the meek of the earth, weak, poor and refusing to fight. Philip Pullman - he of the marvellously secular trilogy His Dark Materials - has called Narnia "one of the most ugly, poisonous things I have ever read".

Why? Because here in Narnia is the perfect Republican, muscular Christianity for America - that warped, distorted neo-fascist strain that thinks might is proof of right. I once heard the famous preacher Norman Vincent Peel in New York expound a sermon that reassured his wealthy congregation that they were made rich by God because they deserved it. The godly will reap earthly reward because God is on the side of the strong. This appears to be CS Lewis's view, too. In the battle at the end of the film, visually a great epic treat, the child crusaders are crowned kings and queens for no particular reason. Intellectually, the poor do not inherit Lewis's earth.

:lmbo:

Children are supposed to fall in love with the hypnotic Aslan, though he is not a character: he is pure, raw, awesome power. He is an emblem for everything an atheist objects to in religion.

Note: I wonder if Ms. (I'm assuming nobody is stupid enough to marry her) Toynbee and other members of her broad brushed atheist groups would object to giving me all their money and power. I'd settle for North Korea. :teeth:

[Darth Executor]

Oh crap I posted in the wrong topic. Can a mod move it to the screwball thread?

[jpholding]

Inking page 57, coloring page 24.

And just for Sparko: I found a way to get pirates into the story. :wink:

[Cynic Sage]

Inking page 57, coloring page 24.

And just for Sparko: I found a way to get pirates into the story. :wink:

Good. However, what is most impotant is that they fight Ninjas. That is the key to a sucessful narrative.

For more information see here (http://www.stanford.edu/~scodary/tkam.htm).

[Darth Executor]

Good. However, what is most impotant is that they fight Ninjas. That is the key to a sucessful narrative.

For more information see here (http://www.stanford.edu/~scodary/tkam.htm).

I posted that here ages ago. :thumb:\

PS: the space battle is the best part.

[Darth Executor]

Mr. president, the mockingbirds have breached the core!

[jpholding]

Well, stick 'em in a pie and eat them. Or is that blackbirds?

An SR-71 makes for an odd crust.

Blblblblblbbllll.

Hey, on the side, it's just possible that having this scanner will speed things up once I start RP #2.

[papabryant]

Hey JP,

Just viewed the new cartoon site. Excellent! Good luck with it. (Next book a Graphic Novel?)

Have a Merry Christmas!

Peace, Tom

[jpholding]

Thanks, Papa! :smile: I guess you could call the Annals a graphic novel as is...

Progress report...

Out of 80 pages:
Inked page 62.
Colored page 35.

[Darth Executor]

Thanks, Papa! :smile: I guess you could call the Annals a graphic novel as is...

Progress report...

Out of 80 pages:
Inked page 62.
Colored page 35.

Any chance it will be done at Christmas?

[jpholding]

Any chance it will be done at Christmas?

Very unlikely. I'm thinking more January 5-7. In between now and then I have not only the two holidays (and I'm likely to be on the road for a few days) but also my 14th wedding anniversary. :teeth:

But, there will be an update on tektoonics Friday with some parody items redone from Tekton (plus one new one, at least) and a little new Gallery art.

[jpholding]

Got a groove last night. :teeth:

Inked: 68
Coloring: 40

And I managed to trim one page of script out, so make that 79 pages, not 80.

And it's my 15TH anniversary, darn it. :duh:

[Darth Executor]

Got a groove last night. :teeth:

Inked: 68
Coloring: 40

And I managed to trim one page of script out, so make that 79 pages, not 80.

And it's my 15TH anniversary, darn it. :duh:

You spent your anniversary drawing? Nerd. :haha:

[jpholding]

You spent your anniversary drawing? Nerd. :haha:

Did not! My anniversary is the 22nd. :rasberry: Oh wait...

Oh I see. The "it's" refers back to my prior mistake in saying it was the 14th in number in the prior post, not to "it's" as in "it's today".

Sorry. :blush: One too many Tilkrig Snoutbusters.

[jpholding]

OK, it's time for the first original tektoonics parody. Who wants to help?

I'm redoing this stupid little ditty called The Parable of the Insane Dog Breeder. Here it is for reference:


There once lived a man who bred dogs. Over the years he worked to produce a breed of strong, intelligent and loyal animals. At last he developed a unique breed which, he liked to think, reflected the best of his own nature. nature. And for awhile all was good. Then the animals began fighting. They fought among themselves and with other breeds. They fought and injured and killed, often for trivial reasons, sometimes for no reason at all. Worst of all in the breeder's eyes, the dogs became disobedient, sometimes not even recognizing him as their master. Because he could not bear their savagery, nor endure their arrogant disobedience, the breeder decided he must destroy them. He planned to kill them all.

Then he had another idea. He loved his dogs so much, in spite of their unremitting savagery, that he decided to put his young son in the dog pen as a model of innocence and virtue, to save the dogs from themselves. Surely, in the presence of such an obvious example, a teacher sent by their master, the dogs would be humbled and would learn to reject their monstrous ways. But in his heart the breeder knew this would not happen. He knew the dogs would kill his son. And they did. The dogs ripped away the young man's clothing and tore him to bloody pieces.

The insane breeder continued to love his dogs, and he told them, "Any of you who will believe this was my son, whom I allowed to be killed for your sakes, I will not punish, but I will bring you to live with me in my house."

Any human being who would do such a thing to his own son would rightly be condemned as insane, immoral and evil. In every human society, a person who abets the murder of an innocent for the sake of the unworthy, and calls it "love", is rightly regarded as insane, immoral and evil. If we would hold this opinion of a humble dog breeder, what then can we say of an omnipotent and omniscient Deity who does the same thing? How much more insane, immoral and evil must a Deity be, to commit a morally equivalent act? This is the plain and obvious moral abomination at the core of Christianity: the Christian God has the morals of an insane dog breeder who feeds his child to monsters. To deny this conclusion we must abandon not only reason, but simple human decency as well.

Yip, yip, yip. OK, here's my version so far:
*******

There once lived a man who bred dogs. Well, not really breed them. What he did was just think of them, and they appeared; and then they bred from there. The dogs were strong, intelligent, and capable of loyalty, but the man gave them enough intelligence so that they could understand his commands and make their own choices. Most of the dogs appreciated this, but a few were ungrateful and blamed the man for their problems.

For example, one day one of them saw that the man had posted a sign near the farm that said DO NOT PASS THIS SIGN. FIELD BEYOND INFESTED WITH FLEAS. Some of the dogs heeded this warning, but others just laughed. "That man probably keeps steaks in that field and is trying to trick us," some said. "I'll bet we can find those steaks and become bigger, stronger dogs." Of course the dogs never found the steaks, but always came back infested with fleas, which they passed on to the other dogs, including their own puppies.

Before long, however, the infestation of fleas became so serious that the man realized that the dogs would have to be quarantined. He planned to put all his dogs in quarantine if needed, but first he had another idea. He loved his dogs so much, in spite of how stupid they could be, that he decided to send his young son in the dog pen with flea spray. The son would ask each dog if it wanted to be sprayed, and if it accepted, he would spray it.

But some of the dogs refused to be sprayed, and in fact, got so angry that they killed the young son.

"Oh, well," said the man, and immediately raised his son from the dead and put him in charge of the whole operation, where the son continued to give the dogs a choice of either being sprayed or being quarantined.

Later as the man was retired in Tierra del Fuego, one of his dogs -- a chihuahua, as it happened -- came to see him.

"You know, that was a very stupid idea to send your son in to where the dogs were to get killed," the dog woofed.

The man sipped at his cool drink. "Why do you say that?"

"Well, there it was, you sent your son as a model of innocence and virtue, to save the dogs from themselves, thinking that surely, in the presence of such an obvious example, master, the dogs would be humbled and would learn to reject their monstrous ways."

"Who told you that?"

The dog cocked it's head. "Uhhhh....that's not why you sent him?"

"No. That's what some of the more liberal dog breeders out there think I did it for. Of course I don't deny that I expected some of the dogs to use my son as a role model, but only the ones who took the spray. The rest were not the ones I sent him to help."

"Uhhhhhhhh....but wait. In your heart you knew they would kill him, right? You knew those dogs would kill your son. And they did. They ripped away his clothing and tore him to bloody pieces."

"Yeah, and?"

The chihuahua was flummoxed. "Well, uh, that's terrible!"

The man sipped again. "Why? My son wanted to do the job; it got rid of fleas forever on the dogs that took the spray, which ended their suffering and allowed them to co-exist with him -- because we can't have those fleas spread to people, now, can we? -- and I raised him from the dead and put him in charge of the operation. He thought it was worth the effort; so did I. It allowed countless billions of dogs to be free of fleas, as well as countless billions more puppies too young to avoid fleas on their own. Why isn't that worth the death of a single person who isn't constrained by death in the first place?"

The chihuahua stuttered and stammered a bit. "Uh, well, I say that any human being who would do such a thing to his own son would rightly be condemned as insane, immoral and evil."

The man laughed. "Well you are just a dumb dog, after all, and a very selfish one at that. I guess you've never heard of the idea of vicarious sacrifice."

"Huh?"

"Look, you dumb little dog -- throughout the history of my operation, the vast majority of dogs who have ever lived have recognized willing and vicarious self-sacrifice as noble and honorable. It's just a tiny lot of you -- who happened to have been bred very recently, as it happens -- who have gotten so self-centered and ignorant that you don't appreciate the nobility of dying for the sake of your loved ones. Tell me, do you have a mate?"

"Uhh....no..."

"If you did, would you love them enough to die for them?"

"Look, the point is, that in every human society, a person who abets the murder of an innocent for the sake of the unworthy, and calls it 'love', is rightly regarded as insane, immoral and evil."

The man looked at the dog closely. "So, you call yourself an unworthy, right?"

The dog's eyes popped like saucers and he said, "Duh."

"And if you're an unworthy, then what the blazes do you know and what makes your understanding of the situation reliable?"

"Duh."

"Let me sum it up for you, little fellow. The bottom line is that your lack of appreciation of the value of noble self-sacrifice is your own problem. You're self-centered and without a care for what others think or do. My son volunteered for his duty out of his own love for you dogs. The least you can do is be appreciative, but obviously you're an ingrate."

The dog turned red with rage and nipped at the man's boot.

"Hmph. See what I mean? So are you going to complain that it's unfair that I put the likes of you in quarantine away from the healthy and obedient dogs? You complain if I do that, and you complain if I give you a way to take yourself out of quarantine that in the end benefits everyone who is willing to do nothing more complicated than give their assent. What the heck kind of dumb dog are you, anyway?"

And with that, the man ground the obnoxious little chihuahua into the ground with his boot where the chihuahua continued to yip, whine and complain for eternity. This is the plain and obvious moral abomination at the core of those who called the breeder insane for what he did: They didn't get their facts straight; they're a bunch of selfish whiners, and to top it all off, they call their own beliefs after the names of "reason" and "simple human decency" as though they were the bellybuttons of the world.

*****

And I'll make an accompanying toon, maybe of a really dumb dog.

Any more ideas or reactions on this one? It goes up Friday.

[Darth Executor]

OK, it's time for the first original tektoonics parody. Who wants to help?

I'm redoing this stupid little ditty called The Parable of the Insane Dog Breeder. Here it is for reference:



Yip, yip, yip. OK, here's my version so far:
*******

There once lived a man who bred dogs. Well, not really breed them. What he did was just think of them, and they appeared; and then they bred from there. The dogs were strong, intelligent, and capable of loyalty, but the man gave them enough intelligence so that they could understand his commands and make their own choices. Most of the dogs appreciated this, but a few were ungrateful and blamed the man for their problems.

For example, one day one of them saw that the man had posted a sign near the farm that said DO NOT PASS THIS SIGN. FIELD BEYOND INFESTED WITH FLEAS. Some of the dogs heeded this warning, but others just laughed. "That man probably keeps steaks in that field and is trying to trick us," some said. "I'll bet we can find those steaks and become bigger, stronger dogs." Of course the dogs never found the steaks, but always came back infested with fleas, which they passed on to the other dogs, including their own puppies.

Before long, however, the infestation of fleas became so serious that the man realized that the dogs would have to be quarantined. He planned to put all his dogs in quarantine if needed, but first he had another idea. He loved his dogs so much, in spite of how stupid they could be, that he decided to send his young son in the dog pen with flea spray. The son would ask each dog if it wanted to be sprayed, and if it accepted, he would spray it.

But some of the dogs refused to be sprayed, and in fact, got so angry that they killed the young son.

"Oh, well," said the man, and immediately raised his son from the dead and put him in charge of the whole operation, where the son continued to give the dogs a choice of either being sprayed or being quarantined.

Later as the man was retired in Tierra del Fuego, one of his dogs -- a chihuahua, as it happened -- came to see him.

"You know, that was a very stupid idea to send your son in to where the dogs were to get killed," the dog woofed.

The man sipped at his cool drink. "Why do you say that?"

"Well, there it was, you sent your son as a model of innocence and virtue, to save the dogs from themselves, thinking that surely, in the presence of such an obvious example, master, the dogs would be humbled and would learn to reject their monstrous ways."

"Who told you that?"

The dog cocked it's head. "Uhhhh....that's not why you sent him?"

"No. That's what some of the more liberal dog breeders out there think I did it for. Of course I don't deny that I expected some of the dogs to use my son as a role model, but only the ones who took the spray. The rest were not the ones I sent him to help."

"Uhhhhhhhh....but wait. In your heart you knew they would kill him, right? You knew those dogs would kill your son. And they did. They ripped away his clothing and tore him to bloody pieces."

"Yeah, and?"

The chihuahua was flummoxed. "Well, uh, that's terrible!"

The man sipped again. "Why? My son wanted to do the job; it got rid of fleas forever on the dogs that took the spray, which ended their suffering and allowed them to co-exist with him -- because we can't have those fleas spread to people, now, can we? -- and I raised him from the dead and put him in charge of the operation. He thought it was worth the effort; so did I. It allowed countless billions of dogs to be free of fleas, as well as countless billions more puppies too young to avoid fleas on their own. Why isn't that worth the death of a single person who isn't constrained by death in the first place?"

The chihuahua stuttered and stammered a bit. "Uh, well, I say that any human being who would do such a thing to his own son would rightly be condemned as insane, immoral and evil."

The man laughed. "Well you are just a dumb dog, after all, and a very selfish one at that. I guess you've never heard of the idea of vicarious sacrifice."

"Huh?"

"Look, you dumb little dog -- throughout the history of my operation, the vast majority of dogs who have ever lived have recognized willing and vicarious self-sacrifice as noble and honorable. It's just a tiny lot of you -- who happened to have been bred very recently, as it happens -- who have gotten so self-centered and ignorant that you don't appreciate the nobility of dying for the sake of your loved ones. Tell me, do you have a mate?"

"Uhh....no..."

"If you did, would you love them enough to die for them?"

"Look, the point is, that in every human society, a person who abets the murder of an innocent for the sake of the unworthy, and calls it 'love', is rightly regarded as insane, immoral and evil."

The man looked at the dog closely. "So, you call yourself an unworthy, right?"

The dog's eyes popped like saucers and he said, "Duh."

"And if you're an unworthy, then what the blazes do you know and what makes your understanding of the situation reliable?"

"Duh."

"Let me sum it up for you, little fellow. The bottom line is that your lack of appreciation of the value of noble self-sacrifice is your own problem. You're self-centered and without a care for what others think or do. My son volunteered for his duty out of his own love for you dogs. The least you can do is be appreciative, but obviously you're an ingrate."

The dog turned red with rage and nipped at the man's boot.

"Hmph. See what I mean? So are you going to complain that it's unfair that I put the likes of you in quarantine away from the healthy and obedient dogs? You complain if I do that, and you complain if I give you a way to take yourself out of quarantine that in the end benefits everyone who is willing to do nothing more complicated than give their assent. What the heck kind of dumb dog are you, anyway?"

And with that, the man ground the obnoxious little chihuahua into the ground with his boot where the chihuahua continued to yip, whine and complain for eternity. This is the plain and obvious moral abomination at the core of those who called the breeder insane for what he did: They didn't get their facts straight; they're a bunch of selfish whiners, and to top it all off, they call their own beliefs after the names of "reason" and "simple human decency" as though they were the bellybuttons of the world.

*****

And I'll make an accompanying toon, maybe of a really dumb dog.

Any more ideas or reactions on this one? It goes up Friday.



:rofl:

To be honest, I think the original story is a parody of itself. It claims Christians are a special, brilliant breed of dog who can understand human commands while the other dogs are too stupid to do so. No complaint on my part. :wink:

[Darth Executor]

One more meeting to go and I'm gonna start on the spider Sheila picture as soon as I get back. I hope our scanner still works.

[Darth Executor]

Time to get started on the spider Sheila. I haven't drawn anything in 3 years and started again last Saturday (with mixed results: a vampire vampire hunter I designed came out fine, his sword came out like crap, the dragon I made came out obese and the dwarf body builder wasn't so much a dwarf as he had small hands :lol: ). I should have it done tomorrow and if that thing on my dad's desk is a scanner I'll post it here.

[jpholding]

Tektoonics site upload tomorrow. I hope to have done a special "out of place" piece I've had rattling around the mixer for a bit... :lol:

[Darth Executor]

Strangely enough, the pencil part is done already (her hands are too small, but I am utterly incapable of drawing hands so I have to accept defeat). My mom won't let me scan it now (she's using the computer with the scanner) so it'll have to wait for tomorrow morning.

[jpholding]

Heeeeeeheee....got the "out of place" item done...this is so mean....

[Darth Executor]

:rofl:

My spider Sheila is still more out of place than the kid version of the range patrol. :rasberry:

[jpholding]

:rofl:

My spider Sheila is still more out of place than the kid version of the range patrol. :rasberry:

Well, you just wait until I redo them as the Teen Titans. :rasberry:

[Darth Executor]

Well, you just wait until I redo them as the Teen Titans. :rasberry:

They still won't be... deformed though.

[JSDileo]

Hey JP,

Do you know when you will be able to make another update? Seriously, I've been checking everyday waiting for for it to happen. :teeth:

[jpholding]

Hey JP,

Do you know when you will be able to make another update? Seriously, I've been checking everyday waiting for for it to happen. :teeth:

Today! :teeth: Mainly parodies and concept art.

[jpholding]

They still won't be... deformed though.

You've made a Sheila a CALVINIST? :twitch:

Oh, wait, that's "Reformed"....never mind....

[Darth Executor]

You've made a Sheila a CALVINIST? :twitch:


Bite yer tongue lad. Drat, I should have used a pen to ink this thing. Coloring it is a huge pain thanks to my retarded drawing style.. :thumbd:

[jpholding]

Upload's done. Nadir Ahmed is really gonna have a coronary because I forwarded the link he has on his site to the new parody version. And people do use his link, at least once a day. :lol:

[JSDileo]

JP:

I see you put Vyatsu on your site. :smile: I've finally begun re-writing my story, I'll have it sent to you by the end of next week.

P.S. What are "pearls" on theologyweb? Just wondering.:yes:

[LilPunkishOfTerror]

JP,

Those Almanorians look interesting. Look at those wings! Look at that hairstyle..:huh: Is Sheila related to these guys?

great upload :smile: I particularly like Melai T'Peng.
from Punkish

[jpholding]

P.S. What are "pearls" on theologyweb? Just wondering.:yes:

People here give those back and forth as prizes when they like what they read. I tend not to pay much mind to it. :teeth:



Those Almanorians look interesting. Look at those wings! Look at that hairstyle.. Is Sheila related to these guys?


No, but someone else in the series is/will be. :wink: That's another of those long-term surprises I have planned, and this one won't come FULLY together until the very last set of stories many years from now. But as smart as you guys are, you'll probably pick up some clues in the meantime.

OK, time to eat. Darth, try tuna salad...it doesn't burn. :lol:

[Darth Executor]

No, but someone else in the series is/will be. :wink: That's another of those long-term surprises I have planned, and this one won't come FULLY together until the very last set of stories many years from now. But as smart as you guys are, you'll probably pick up some clues in the meantime.


Eidolon says something about them being gafted back, though I'm not sure what exactly you're giving away in that pic.

And I'm a carnivore (being obligated to fast, it's an orthodox thing). Salads aren't my thing. :wink:

[Darth Executor]

Ok, time to throw out some theories. They have angel wings, and they were purged for doing something stupid. Sounds a lot like the Nephilim. Hearthstone's version of pre flood half human half fallen angel hybrids. Being gafted back is also a reference to the jews, so my guess is that they're preflood jewhilim. :tongue:

[JSDileo]

People here give those back and forth as prizes when they like what they read. I tend not to pay much mind to it. :teeth:

Ah. I thought it was actually a bad thing, since I thought it was a reference to Matthew 7:6,

Matthew 7:6 (New American Standard Bible)
New American Standard Bible (NASB)

6"(A)Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

Seriously.:lol:

[jpholding]

Eidolon says something about them being gafted back, though I'm not sure what exactly you're giving away in that pic.

By itself, nothing yet. :wink: I'll see if anyone figures anything out when the next clue is presented. You did pretty well with the Nephilim idea...as close as you were to suggest that Sheila is/will be Hearthstone's Virgin Mary. Let's just say you scored 7 out of 10 on both in terms of closeness to what's actually going to happen.

As an aside, any Tekton loyalist who wants the story (or stories) spoiled is welcome to email me and I'll lay out the major plot developments for the series. It's up to you. :thumb:

And I'm a carnivore (being obligated to fast, it's an orthodox thing). Salads aren't my thing. :wink:

Eh. Tuna's a vegetable? :lol: Great! One more I can add.

You need to write me anyway, remember; I have something for you.

[Darth Executor]

:doh: forgot about that. I don't want any spoilers though. I'll PM you in a sec.

[Christy]

Hi. Your cartoons are cool. I been to the tektoonics site yesterday, and today I was on it, but noticed that something on it yesterday wasn't on it today. I don't know if I just overlooked it today, or that you took it down. It was the one with the Kitty Warchild responding and I was going to ask what cartoon she was going to be in. Alright, that's all :teeth:

[JSDileo]

Hey JP, I just have to ask, you ever plan on trying to publish Hearthstone as a comic book? Seriously, the plot is frickin' awesome...

[Cynic Sage]

Hey JP, I just have to ask, you ever plan on trying to publish Hearthstone as a comic book? Seriously, the plot is frickin' awesome...

You realize that if it was published, you'd have to pay to read it.

[jpholding]

Hi. Your cartoons are cool. I been to the tektoonics site yesterday, and today I was on it, but noticed that something on it yesterday wasn't on it today. I don't know if I just overlooked it today, or that you took it down. It was the one with the Kitty Warchild responding and I was going to ask what cartoon she was going to be in. Alright, that's all :teeth:

Ah, you sent the Annabelle fan art? :smile: Cool. I'll respond to that later; I had 40 emails in my box this morning.

Kitty is just a one-shot character, as will be many in the parody section.


Hey JP, I just have to ask, you ever plan on trying to publish Hearthstone as a comic book? Seriously, the plot is frickin' awesome...

Johnny's right. This would cost an arm and a leg and I can't afford it. I'd also rather do this free for a few appreciative people than have to water things down to please a lot more people for pay.

As it is, it's not costing much yet in part because I am using the same server Tekton is on.


I cut one page out of Shrike Team #1 that could be moved to #2, leaving 78 pages, and I inked the last of those 78 yesterday. Coloration is on page 49. Maybe I can get this done Jan. 2. I won't load before Jan. 1 because bandwidth has been heavy.

Also started the "stick figure" script for Range Patrol #2, which is titled "Invasion Praxis". This one will be in at least two parts and the first part may reach 95 pages.

[kuboes1831]

Is tektoonics meant to be funny or something?

But then is jph's other website meant to be sensible Christian theology?

[Christy]

:troll: Is tektoonics meant to be funny or something?

But then is jph's other website meant to be sensible Christian theology?
:troll:

[Christy]

[quote]: Ah, you sent the Annabelle fan art? Cool. I'll respond to that later;[quote]


Yeah, it looks more like a brown hippo though :lol:

[jpholding]

:troll:
:troll:

Yep. Another frustrated one without answers. :lol:

Well, if you want to keep trying on Annabelle....maybe it would be best to hand draw it? Shall I keep it in reserve then?

[Christy]

:smile: Yep. Another frustrated one without answers. :lol:

Well, if you want to keep trying on Annabelle....maybe it would be best to hand draw it? Shall I keep it in reserve then?


Yeah that's alright

[jpholding]

Huh. The news gets better. I miscounted somewhere, so it seems Shrike Team #1 has 76 pages, not 78. That makes it more likely I'll be done by Jan. 2.

[Darth Executor]

Just in time for me to start school (assuming some loser drops out of my program and they take me off the waiting list and give me his place).

[jpholding]

Finished the script for RP #2 last night. Looks like it will be 82 pages with a double cliffhanger at the end. :wink:

[{Tim}]

You've made a Sheila a CALVINIST? :twitch:

Oh, wait, that's "Reformed"....never mind....:rofl: :lmbo:

I cut one page out of Shrike Team #1 that could be moved to #2, leaving 78 pages, and I inked the last of those 78 yesterday. Coloration is on page 49. Maybe I can get this done Jan. 2. I won't load before Jan. 1 because bandwidth has been heavy.

Also started the "stick figure" script for Range Patrol #2, which is titled "Invasion Praxis". This one will be in at least two parts and the first part may reach 95 pages.:woohoo:

Finished the script for RP #2 last night. Looks like it will be 82 pages with a double cliffhanger at the end. :wink::doh: Great, leave us in suspense for another month or two... :ahem:

[jpholding]

:doh: Great, leave us in suspense for another month or two... :ahem:

Well, get used to it....Shrike Team #1 ends on a cliffhanger, too, and will take at least 4 issues to get the whole mega-story done... :teeth:

Coloration done on 52.

[{Tim}]

Well, get used to it....Shrike Team #1 ends on a cliffhanger, too, and will take at least 4 issues to get the whole mega-story done... :teeth:

Coloration done on 52.Ha! :tongue:

That's all right, it's to be expected. :wink: Otherwise we wouldn't come to read the rest of them, would we? :ahem: Of course not!


Anyway, I had this cool idea today of another "strange" sheila, and i did a quick rough sketch of it this afternoon. Here it is so you can get an idea of it... though I plan to do a "nice" version some time, when I get around to it... :shrug:

Sheila, the Queen of Blades... (playing the part of Zerg-Infested Sarah Kerrigan, the cheif villainess of the computer game Starcraft).

[jpholding]

Y'know, if Sheila ever becomes real and not just my imagination, she just might kick you guys' butts for this sort of thing. :twitch: :wink: Or kiss you. Not sure which yet.

Coloring page 56.

Here's a question for everyone. How tall, in our terms, do you think Sheila is? In the Captain Carrot comic, they anthropomorphs were an average of 4 feet tall by our standards. What about on Hearthstone? If we went there, would it be a "world in miniature" to us, do you think? Or same scale? Or is Sheila an Amazon in our world?

I haven't decided this yet, but I'm leaning towards one way in particular...

[Darth Executor]

Y'know, if Sheila ever becomes real and not just my imagination, she just might kick you guys' butts for this sort of thing. :twitch: :wink: Or kiss you. Not sure which yet.

Coloring page 56.

Here's a question for everyone. How tall, in our terms, do you think Sheila is? In the Captain Carrot comic, they anthropomorphs were an average of 4 feet tall by our standards. What about on Hearthstone? If we went there, would it be a "world in miniature" to us, do you think? Or same scale? Or is Sheila an Amazon in our world?

I haven't decided this yet, but I'm leaning towards one way in particular...

About 5' (for Sheila). I'd expect her to be shorter than me, but somebody like Bimf to be bigger.

[Darth Executor]

JP, did you make up any grammar rules and stuff for Hearthstone's language or do you just come up with words when you need them?

[{Tim}]

Y'know, if Sheila ever becomes real and not just my imagination, she just might kick you guys' butts for this sort of thing. :twitch: :wink: Or kiss you. Not sure which yet.

Coloring page 56.

Here's a question for everyone. How tall, in our terms, do you think Sheila is? In the Captain Carrot comic, they anthropomorphs were an average of 4 feet tall by our standards. What about on Hearthstone? If we went there, would it be a "world in miniature" to us, do you think? Or same scale? Or is Sheila an Amazon in our world?

I haven't decided this yet, but I'm leaning towards one way in particular...
Hmm. I was wondering about that a couple weeks ago (I thought of drawing sheila on the bike that belongs to that anime girl i posted). I thougt about her perhaps being kinda small, like hobbit-size... :shrug:

But thinking about it, I would tend towards what Darth said, having Sheila, Annabelle, etc being around 4' - 5' or so, beamer (obviously) really small, and Bimf etc being a bit larger than humans.

Why? You planning some crossover cartoons? Like, "Fundy Atheist Visits Heathstone"? :lmbo:

[{Tim}]

I asked Kaz (luv1another) what she though. She claims to be too busy to post here (:tongue:) but she said, "hmm I would have though like maybe medium dog size :shrug: but I have no idea LOL".

FWIW. :shrug:

[jpholding]

JP, did you make up any grammar rules and stuff for Hearthstone's language or do you just come up with words when you need them?

A bit of each. Since I have a background in English and grammar it sort of goes together.



Why? You planning some crossover cartoons? Like, "Fundy Atheist Visits Heathstone"?

Nah, not zackly. But when someone wrote me a little bit for http://www.tektonics.org/parody/faithatheist.html they had Kyle look "down" at Sheila and I thought, hmm, IS she shorter than a normal human, or....? I changed it to "at" to leave the matter open.

Any more feedback?

Page 61 is colored.

[Darth Executor]

Nah, not zackly. But when someone wrote me a little bit for http://www.tektonics.org/parody/faithatheist.html they had Kyle look "down" at Sheila and I thought, hmm, IS she shorter than a normal human, or....? I changed it to "at" to leave the matter open.


Link doesn't work.

[jpholding]

Link doesn't work.

:duh: I mean, tektoonics.com, dangit.

Everyone's been so good, Santa says to drop in a teaser for Shrike Team #1. This is from page 61 where Brom is taking it to the bad guy of the story, a Tilkrig named Weiland von Lucre who runs a minor crime operation supported by Cartel technology. You'll have to wait to see what that bubble is all about. :rasberry: You haven't been THAT good.

[Darth Executor]

:duh: I mean, tektoonics.com, dangit.

Everyone's been so good, Santa says to drop in a teaser for Shrike Team #1. This is from page 61 where Brom is taking it to the bad guy of the story, a Tilkrig named Weiland von Lucre who runs a minor crime operation supported by Cartel technology. You'll have to wait to see what that bubble is all about. :rasberry: You haven't been THAT good.

Does he have any cool abilities? Like making vines come out of the ground and crush enemies?

[jpholding]

Does he have any cool abilities? Like making vines come out of the ground and crush enemies?

Actually, YES! :thumb: And out of his hands, too, so he can do a Tarzan swing thing as needed (though the sound I envision is more like the one for the Swingshot in Ratchet and Clank). But he won't discover that ability until at least ST #3 or #4.

[jpholding]

Here's a plan for a new tektoonics parody in the near future.... :lol:

[Darth Executor]

Here's a plan for a new tektoonics parody in the near future.... :lol:

:lol:

[jpholding]

Made it to coloring page 69 before Christmas. :thumb: Jan 2. is a virtual lock for the upload. Just the last 7 pages plus a few accessory items in the introductory material.

Goodbye until Monday, perhaps.

[Darth Executor]

your web sites hit their bandwith limit JP.

[jpholding]

your web sites hit their bandwith limit JP.

Oh crap! Well, at least I won't get a bill for $250.00 like happened last time. I'll see if I can buy a bit more for the month. It looks like my Da Vinci Code article got a lot of hits recently but it's not an attack like last time. The stuff in Classics may have been what did it. I was worried about that.

I wrote my host to see what I can do.

On a good note, over the weekend I got some art stuff for Christmas and also managed to do the first 11 pages of Range Patrol #2, cutting out two pages of script in the process, so now it's down to 79 pages.

[jpholding]

Back online -- they were nice enough to give me some free bandwidth. I think next month they're automatically expanding the amount I get anyway; we'll see.

[jpholding]

Oooooooh. I was eligible for an upgrade on space and bandwidth. Multiply both by about 10. :woohoo:

That also means I can post Shrike Team #1 as soon as I get it done. When? Well, coloration is on page 72; plus I need to do some of the intro material on the other pages (like the upgraded team pic), which doesn't take long,

But first, got to do some overdue book reviews. Later, folks!

[Darth Executor]

That also means I can post Shrike Team #1 as soon as I get it done.

I figured it was done already since you started on Range Patrol 2. :glare:

[TuckEverlasting]

Hey JP, you inspired me to make up a new character - Harry Gai-Jin!

[jpholding]

I figured it was done already since you started on Range Patrol 2. :glare:

Nah. Keep in mind there are three stages to every page: 1) scripting/storyboarding; 2) pencil and inking; 3) coloration. 3) requires me to use the computer; the other two don't, so I can have some overlap. At this stage that can include between stories. And 2) is a highly variable stage -- I can sometimes do 2 pages a night, sometimes 4.




Teck, send Harry Gai-Jin over to see Till, would you? :hehe:

[jpholding]

...Brom has a cute little sister named Pepper. She's very proud of big bro and likes to give him a hard time. She's like Brom in that she has a big heart, but in most other ways is his exact opposite.

Just be careful because big bro is stronger than Bimf now and won't put up with any funny stuff. :lol:

I'll be trying to work Pepper into a story that will be about #6 or 7 in the Shrike Team storyline. Maybe the same one where Molinist is introduced.

[Darth Executor]

Dang, I was about to pull a Tuck and ask her for a date. :thumbd:

Hmm, now I wonder if I can use one of my imaginary characters to keep Brom distracted...

[jpholding]

Well, Darth, if you're really brave you can ask this daughter of the Sanslorians for a night out... :lol:

(This is concept piece for a character to appear in Shrike Team #2.)

[LilPunkishOfTerror]

As Joyce Grenfell once said, "No nose?"

[Darth Executor]

Well, Darth, if you're really brave you can ask this daughter of the Sanslorians for a night out... :lol:

(This is concept piece for a character to appear in Shrike Team #2.)

Hmm, I'm not sure I want to date a woman that looks stronger than a car compactor unit.

[jpholding]

As Joyce Grenfell once said, "No nose?"

Well heck...not even Bimf has much of a schnozz beyond a couple of nostril holes, and I think you'll agree that's not very ladylike. :lol:


Hmm, I'm not sure I want to date a woman that looks stronger than a car compactor unit.


:rofl:


I'm having a lot of fun on this off day. Here's a couple of concept pieces...one is for a Hearthstone species based on pandas that if I use at all will appear only in the Karu'shi Av'nen series and will have been extinct by Hearthstone's modern era. The other is a concept piece for an opening scene in the Forces of Nature series in which an anamolous snowfall in the heart of Nullabor is the first warning that something is amiss...a little irony implicit as the Ketterlings go out to enjoy it and encoruage everyone else to do the same....

[Darth Executor]

The panda looks like a hippie.

[jpholding]

The panda looks like a hippie.

A lot of those Oriental robes were designed by people on opium, weren't they? :twitch:

[LilPunkishOfTerror]

JP said: Well heck...not even Bimf has much of a schnozz beyond a couple of nostril holes

Yeh, but I don't want to go out with Bimf :lmbo:

Wow that pandagirl ....nice. :yes: Hey, who threw that 'rang?

[Darth Executor]

Can I use Pepper in my avatar?

[jpholding]

Yeh, but I don't want to go out with Bimf

You...find something attractive about large noses? :erm:

Wow that pandagirl ....nice. Hey, who threw that 'rang?

EYES FORWARD, MISTER! :hehe:







Can I use Pepper in my avatar?

Yes you may. :thumb:

[Darth Executor]

:teeth:

[LilPunkishOfTerror]

hang on, Sheila, I merely called the pandagirl 'nice' - I can't exactly act on that if it's an extinct race!

and no, large noses aren't the criteria..cuteness is. :thumb:

[LilPunkishOfTerror]

JP, can I use Pailun in my avatar? :smile:

[jpholding]

JP, can I use Pailun in my avatar? :smile:

Sheila says yes you may once you are out of the hospital from your rang bruises. :hehe:

[Darth Executor]

Well, I feel better now, so maybe I can start drawing something. JP, do you mind if I use the character you emailed me in my avatar or would you rather wait until RP2 is out?

[jpholding]

Well, I feel better now, so maybe I can start drawing something. JP, do you mind if I use the character you emailed me in my avatar or would you rather wait until RP2 is out?

The one I emailed you will be named in RP3 at the end (not #2) but not shown; I guess I'd rather you wait but OTOH it may not be much of a spolier anyway. Eh, go ahead.

Update: I inked p. 37 and have colored p. 13 out of what looks to be 70 now, so I may get it done by February 15, and RP3 can't be done until May.

There'll be a tektoonics update somewhere between now and then with the parody of the "amputees" site, plus some revamping of the etc. section. Thinking maybe, January 18...

[Darth Executor]

I guess I'd rather you wait

Then I'll wait. It's no biggie.

[Darth Executor]

I just finished a Brom drawing (bet you thought I'd do Eidolon JP :rasberry:), but the scanning will have to wait for tomorrow (or Monday if my family isn't out of the house). Like Sheila, it won't be a normal drawing. He will be a Mal’Moncheval Dread Knight (it's an evil organisation from my fantasy world, kind of like the mafia except it is infested by a lot of evil rather than just greed). I actually have two kinds of Dread Knights in my world but the undead ones always wear a helmet and then he wouldn't be Brom the Dread Knight anymore, he'd just be a Dread Knight. :tongue:

[jpholding]

I just finished a Brom drawing (bet you thought I'd do Eidolon JP :rasberry:),

Not after you told me you thought I couldn't guess, I didn't. :hehe: Gotcha.

I think Brom would appreciate being a Dread Knight, actually. He might even have use for that in the next story for the final confrontation with Von Lucre.......

[Darth Executor]

Not after you told me you thought I couldn't guess, I didn't. :hehe: Gotcha.

Actually I originally planned to do an Eidolon/Brom hybrid, but I changed my mind. :rasberry:

I think Brom would appreciate being a Dread Knight, actually. He might even have use for that in the next story for the final confrontation with Von Lucre.......

Well, his strength will be put to much better use when he's wearing full plate armor, a shield and wielding a sword. Not to mention the soul sucking stuff (which I didn't do in the drawing). :wink:

My parents are gone 'till 4 and my sister is about to leave. I also went over the pencil with a pen so it's ready for me to erase the pencil crap that got left over (I don't want to spend 40 minutes coloring it like last time). I like the proportions better this time, except for his right hand whic looks like a bear's paw.

[jpholding]

Actually I originally planned to do an Eidolon/Brom hybrid, but I changed my mind. :rasberry:

Owww. There's irony in that you don't realize. Not much, but some.

Not to mention the soul sucking stuff (which I didn't do in the drawing). :wink:

Ugh....irony in THAT, too, a lot more. After the Cartel gets crushed and the Forces of Nature series is done, "soul sucking" of a sort is a planned theme. Hee heee...

I also went over the pencil with a pen so it's ready for me to erase the pencil crap that got left over (I don't want to spend 40 minutes coloring it like last time).

Son, ya need to buy non-photo blue pencils...no erasure needed.

[Darth Executor]

Done. I wish I would've used a black pen because trying to change the lines in Photoshop is almost impossible. :argh:

[jpholding]

Now that's very appropos with the kilt, because in my mind Brom's home country of Taritanya (the Prycene kingdom) is a great deal like Scotland.


I'll use that next upload circa Jan. 18-20. The Etcetera section is being improved, with Char'lett taking over the reins and stuff being divided into sections. Plus some banners for other sites I like...

[Darth Executor]

I didn't actually have Scotland in mind when I designed him. :rasberry:

But since half of his continent in my world make their soldiers wear them (the kilt is a sign of manhood), he got stuck with it.

[jpholding]

There'll be an upload Friday with a revamping of the Etc. section plus a parody of Why Does God Hate Amputees.

Among the new items to be in the Gallery: the Range Patrol as the Teen Titans. :teeth:


RP #2 moving well. Inked page 50, colored page 23. Looks now to be about 74-75 pages, most of them double-rowed.

[jpholding]

Upload is done including the new "Amputees" parody.

I mentioned to Johnny in a PM that RP #2 is shaping up to be better than #1, at least in my view. More richness and depth in character interaction and relationships; wilder humor on one end and greater depth of sadness and emotion on the other. But I'll leave it for ya'll to decide. :thumb:

[jpholding]

Very productive weekend for inking Range Patrol #2. Got to page 64 (of what is now looking to be 75) on the inks and on page 31 for the colors.

The present scene I'm working on with the Ketterlings has them in a situation of such comical innocence that I'm going to have to not drink anything while inking it. I might guffaw and get my drink coming back out of my nose.

[Darth Executor]

Very productive weekend for inking Range Patrol #2. Got to page 64 (of what is now looking to be 75) on the inks and on page 31 for the colors.

The present scene I'm working on with the Ketterlings has them in a situation of such comical innocence that I'm going to have to not drink anything while inking it. I might guffaw and get my drink coming back out of my nose.

:banana:

Is mid February still the estimated release date?

[jpholding]

:banana:

Is mid February still the estimated release date?

Yes. I think most of you would appreciate it done on a Friday, so let me say February 10 is a likely release date. The only problem is that I will be on a trip between Jan. 31 and Feb. 3 where I can't do any coloration. The inking will likely be done before then, and I can take along stuff to start work on Shrike Team #2 at least. But I'll still say 2/10 for the release date, which is much better than I expected.

[jpholding]

http://www.tektoonics.com/intro/hearthsocial.html

I just noticed that I neglected to upload some changes to this page last round. I'd like some feedback on the additions to the Peoples of Hearthstone section, where there's now a more detailed discussion of interspecies relationships. Particularly, what sort of social reactions might evolve in such a setting as Hearthstone.

I can envision for example that some of their dramatic works might be stories of interspecies romance that had to end because of social pressure. Sort of like Othello mixed with Romeo and Juliet. :lol:

Back tomorrow. Let me have some of that quality thought I know is out there. :teeth:

[Darth Executor]

http://www.tektoonics.com/intro/hearthsocial.html

I just noticed that I neglected to upload some changes to this page last round. I'd like some feedback on the additions to the Peoples of Hearthstone section, where there's now a more detailed discussion of interspecies relationships. Particularly, what sort of social reactions might evolve in such a setting as Hearthstone.

Maybe some sort of detective agency focused on watching and exposing such relationships? I would imagine that those in the east would like to keep their affairs secret if they don't want to suffer social repercussions. These people would also be more likely to adopt, so they could peform a "bastard child" complex where adopted persons might be considered less honorable than those raised by their natural parents.

I can envision for example that some of their dramatic works might be stories of interspecies romance that had to end because of social pressure. Sort of like Othello mixed with Romeo and Juliet. :lol:

Back tomorrow. Let me have some of that quality thought I know is out there. :teeth:

I don't know why, but I just envisioned Bimf as Othello falling in love with a Tilkrig female. :eww:

Kinda like King Kong.

I do have a question though, what pickle did the Sk'lan get into? Are their females wiped out?

[Cynic Sage]

http://www.tektoonics.com/intro/hearthsocial.html

I just noticed that I neglected to upload some changes to this page last round. I'd like some feedback on the additions to the Peoples of Hearthstone section, where there's now a more detailed discussion of interspecies relationships. Particularly, what sort of social reactions might evolve in such a setting as Hearthstone.

I can envision for example that some of their dramatic works might be stories of interspecies romance that had to end because of social pressure. Sort of like Othello mixed with Romeo and Juliet. :lol:

Back tomorrow. Let me have some of that quality thought I know is out there. :teeth:
:eek:

Dude, I would use the word "race" rather than "species" because inter-species is bestiality, man.

[Darth Executor]

:eek:

Dude, I would use the word "race" rather than "species" because inter-species is bestiality, man.

:lol:

[jpholding]

Maybe some sort of detective agency focused on watching and exposing such relationships? I would imagine that those in the east would like to keep their affairs secret if they don't want to suffer social repercussions. These people would also be more likely to adopt, so they could peform a "bastard child" complex where adopted persons might be considered less honorable than those raised by their natural parents.

Interesting points. As I now have it, "mixed" marriages are only in Nullabor, and are very few; so I need to think about how adoption might fit into things only from the standpoint of those who do not have the honor issues. The Nullaborians would tend to welcome such adoptions, I'd say.

More thoughts...

1) Back in the Ask Sheila thread there were some hints that prostitution could be a more rampant problem in such a setting, and that would indeed suggest that it becomes a focus of PI work.

2) Their version of "be fruitful and multiply" may be taken by some of their Bob Jones types as something that absolutely forbids interspecies marriages.

3) On the other hand, the principle of "neither male nor female, neither slave nor free, for all are one in Christ Jesus" would expand here as well to, "there is neither Tilkrig nor Allethene"....and be used as support for the idea that there is no restriction on such relationships from a divine perspective.

(I expect ST #2 will deal in this somewhat with Brom's tendency towards charitable interaction, with no concern for the species issue -- such as, as I've already noted, his voluntary work training the Sanslorian in the arts of war. I already see it becoming something used against him by more "traditional-minded" sorts, and by another enemy, in ST #3 -- by whom?....wait and see.)

I don't know why, but I just envisioned Bimf as Othello falling in love with a Tilkrig female. :eww:

Oh dear. I think I'll lose my lunch too, thanks. :eww:

I do have a question though, what pickle did the Sk'lan get into? Are their females wiped out?

As usual, you have an answer that bears a semblance of correctness. :thumb: Maybe 5 out of 10 on that one. RP #2 will hint at certain "abominations" by the Sk'lan, and there are certain things that will happen in RP #2 that will make you think your answer fits, but that isn't what their problem is. I have two places I could reveal the whole thing -- either RP #3 or ST #5. Which one it is may depend on how good a guesser you or others are. :teeth:




Dude, I would use the word "race" rather than "species" because inter-species is bestiality, man.

:rasberry: Yeah, well, you could say everything on Hearthstone is THAT from our viewpoint. :tongue:

[LilPunkishOfTerror]

JP,

you did say the Sk'lan are Borglike so I'm wondering if their modified selves make reproduction impossible. Just pondering over what you just said to Darth Exec.

[Darth Executor]

Or maybe they're now hermaphrodites.

[LilPunkishOfTerror]

or, all eunuchs... :eww:

[Cynic Sage]

or, all eunuchs... :eww:
JP. I honestly reccomend you leave some questions unanswered. :outtie:

[jpholding]

JP,

you did say the Sk'lan are Borglike so I'm wondering if their modified selves make reproduction impossible. Just pondering over what you just said to Darth Exec.

Ahhhhhhhhh....... :thumb:

Impossible without WHAT remains to be seen.

[Darth Executor]

A third gender maybe. Like that alien rance in a Star Trek episode I saw a long time ago. Or maybe they need females of another race.

[jpholding]

A third gender maybe. Like that alien rance in a Star Trek episode I saw a long time ago. Or maybe they need females of another race.


Mmmm. One of those is a 5 out of 10. :thumb:

I found recently a small forum for Christians with an interest in anthropomorphism, and I posed the "interspecies relationships" issue for some thoughts there as well. Getting some interesting replies. I'll see about sharing a few later. Time for bed now.

[Cynic Sage]

Mmmm. One of those is a 5 out of 10. :thumb:

I found recently a small forum for Christians with an interest in anthropomorphism, and I posed the "interspecies relationships" issue for some thoughts there as well. Getting some interesting replies. I'll see about sharing a few later. Time for bed now.
I take it I won't have to wait much longer for Jimbo to put up a "OMG JP IS A FURRY LOL101010101!" section on his website.

[Darth Executor]

I take it I won't have to wait much longer for Jimbo to put up a "OMG JP IS A FURRY LOL101010101!" section on his website.

I doubt he still maintains it. Half the links I clicked on were broken.

[Darth Executor]

Mmmm. One of those is a 5 out of 10. :thumb:


Hmm. Maybe they lay eggs inside other living creatures. Kind of like Alien. :teeth:

[jpholding]

I take it I won't have to wait much longer for Jimbo to put up a "OMG JP IS A FURRY LOL101010101!" section on his website.

I'm waiting for it too.

Or for Farrell Till to make some issue of it:

"I have to ask why an omniscient, omnipotent, omni-max deity didn't just GIVE Brom Shriker his powers instead of using an inefficient method like eating a bunch of fruit."

Or for Stevie Carr to write a long message about contradictions between Range Patrol #1 and Shrike Team #1:

"Holding shows in Range Patrol #1 that Elapines have long ears, but Char'lett Paracene in the "Etcetera" section clearly has long ears and is said to be a Prycene. It's amazing the lengths Holding will go to to get out of this problem. He'll probably have to remove the entire tektoonics website."


I doubt he still maintains it. Half the links I clicked on were broken.

Aw, how can you say that? It's so clear people are using the thing. I mean, just look at one of the latest guest book entries :eww: :



Hi! I put your site into my bookmarks, thanks !

p.s. Please, check my work in "Italian Restaurant" theme. I write second degree report today, and put it into my site:
http://xthost.info/cooking/
It have several parts:
1. italian restaurant
2. italian restaurant new york
3. italian restaurant chicago
4. italian restaurant los angeles

Big thanks!! and excuse me:)


Maybe they lay eggs inside other living creatures. Kind of like Alien.

7 out of 10. :thumb:

[Darth Executor]

Aw, how can you say that? It's so clear people are using the thing. I mean, just look at one of the latest guest book entries :eww: :


Hi! I put your site into my bookmarks, thanks !

p.s. Please, check my work in "Italian Restaurant" theme. I write second degree report today, and put it into my site:
http://xthost.info/cooking/
It have several parts:
1. italian restaurant
2. italian restaurant new york
3. italian restaurant chicago
4. italian restaurant los angeles

Big thanks!! and excuse me:)

Hey, that's a brilliant idea. Since his site isn't good for anything else, we can use it as a billboard! Kind of like Ebay only we don't have to pay fees! I'll take a look around the house and see if I have anything for sale.



7 out of 10. :thumb:

Well then, I ain't getting a scholarship with those grades! :brood:

[jpholding]

Inking page 71...coloring page 40.

[jpholding]

Just finished coloring p. 41, which also means something special. My current avatar is an Elapine soldier named Raglen, who will have a role as a minor hero in RP #2 and #3. He's named after Richard Allen Glenn (Winace) as a tribute. Winace of course was a big rabbit afficianado and I expect would have enjoyed the idea of himself helping to save a nation of rabbits from destruction. :teeth: He'll appear in about 7-8 pages of RP #2.

See ya'll tomorrow. :thumb:

[jpholding]

OK! The last page (75) of RP #2 has been inked, and coloration is done to page 44. I'll be running for that 2/10 completion date but a lot will depend on how much time I have, with a trip planned next week.

Also started scripting ST #2. It's up to about 48 pages now and I keep thinking it'll reach 100, but I thought RP #2 would do that too and I was wrong.

Hmm, with the time I have left I'll scan in a few more pages. G'night.

[JSDileo]

Ahhhhhhhhh....... :thumb:

Impossible without WHAT remains to be seen.

Wait, is THIS how they're born?

http://www.youtube.com/?v=m0K6CQJ2lI8

Go to about 1/5 of the video, or the part where "Zim" remembers his birth to get what I'm saying.:teeth:

[jpholding]

Wait, is THIS how they're born?

http://www.youtube.com/?v=m0K6CQJ2lI8

Go to about 1/5 of the video, or the part where "Zim" remembers his birth to get what I'm saying.:teeth:

I won't have time to watch.... :sad: without losing coloration time. Description, mebbe?

All pages scanned in...and I'm off to bed.

[JSDileo]

I won't have time to watch.... :sad: without losing coloration time. Description, mebbe?

All pages scanned in...and I'm off to bed.

Well, basically, "Zim", the alien who is a cyborg, is in stasis in a tube, and he's pulled by a robotic arm out of a "shelf" full of "fetuses" contained in tubes, and the shelf goes for several stories high. His container is broken and he's put on the floor, lying limp, and the robotic arm inserts a robotic device on to his back. He then becomes alive, and a robotic voice tells the child, "Welcome to life, Irken child. Report for duty."

I doubt it's like that, but whatever.:teeth:

[JSDileo]

Well, basically, "Zim", the alien who is a cyborg, is in stasis in a tube, and he's pulled by a robotic arm out of a "shelf" full of "fetuses" contained in tubes, and the shelf goes for several stories high. His container is broken and he's put on the floor, lying limp, and the robotic arm inserts a robotic device on to his back. He then becomes alive, and a robotic voice tells the child, "Welcome to life, Irken child. Report for duty."

I doubt it's like that, but whatever.:teeth:

Sorry about the bad grammar in that post.

[jpholding]

Well, basically, "Zim", the alien who is a cyborg, is in stasis in a tube, and he's pulled by a robotic arm out of a "shelf" full of "fetuses" contained in tubes, and the shelf goes for several stories high. His container is broken and he's put on the floor, lying limp, and the robotic arm inserts a robotic device on to his back. He then becomes alive, and a robotic voice tells the child, "Welcome to life, Irken child. Report for duty."

I doubt it's like that, but whatever.:teeth:

Mmmm...no.

But I'll keep quiet from here on about any guesses. Don't want to give it away. :wink:

[JSDileo]

Mmmm...no.

But I'll keep quiet from here on about any guesses. Don't want to give it away. :wink:

WHAT?! Please tell me there's a tube involved! I wanna tube! GIVE ME A TUBE!:flaming:

[jpholding]

WHAT?! Please tell me there's a tube involved! I wanna tube! GIVE ME A TUBE!:flaming:

Oh, all right, here:

[jpholding]

Coloring page 50 now. The Mrs. is on the phone to an old friend so I have some added time!

And ST #2 is up to 60 scripted pages. Still may reach 90.

[JSDileo]

Oh, all right, here:

Yay! It even has patriotic colors! :b_bow:

[jpholding]

Script's done for ST #2 (titled "Seeds of Rebellion"). Looks like 86 pages, mostly double-rowed, though that may fluctuate by 1-3 pages as I work on it.

And, coloration done to page 53 on RP #2.

[jpholding]

Coloration done to 59. Also started inking ST #2, up to page 3. Wish I didn't have to travel next week but I can still ink at least. :teeth:

[JSDileo]

Coloration done to 59. Also started inking ST #2, up to page 3. Wish I didn't have to travel next week but I can still ink at least. :teeth:

:yipee:

[jpholding]

OK, so,

Coloration done to page 66 on RP #2; inks up to page 8 on ST #2. We'll see how much more ink I can spill while I'm on the road.

[Cynic Sage]

Yay! It even has patriotic colors! :b_bow:
People who don't brush their teeth HATE AMERICA! You don't HATE AMERICA, do you, JS?

[jpholding]

Tho' on the road, still managed to get up to p. 13 inking on ST #2. Now if only Darth would stop running around the motel at night randomly banging on people's doors.... :rasberry:

[Darth Executor]

Tho' on the road, still managed to get up to p. 13 inking on ST #2. Now if only Darth would stop running around the motel at night randomly banging on people's doors.... :rasberry:

Ok I admit it, it was me. I distract people and my cat steals their candy. (http://jupitershunter.com/images/feya_thief.jpg)

[jpholding]

RP #2 coloration: p. 68
ST #2 inks: p. 21

[Darth Executor]

I thought this was gonna be the announcement that it's done. :tongue:

[jpholding]

I thought this was gonna be the announcement that it's done. :tongue:

Awwww. :blush: Nah, 2/10 is firm as the final date. I do have a short parody to work on too.

[jpholding]

OK! RP #2 is essentially done, but I want to go back and check for any problems and also finish some concept pieces to go up with Friday's upload. Here's one of them (which is used for my latest avatar)....Sheila in James Bond mode. Connery, Brosnan, all of 'em -- WIMPS! :lol:

I changed my mind about the parody I was doing too. This thing was too stupid to even parody and instead showed up on Tekton 2/6 with a summary article.

[Darth Executor]

Must... steal... RP2. :lightning:

[jpholding]

Must... steal... RP2. :lightning:

Well, you can't get to it til the weekend anyways, right? :ahem:

[Darth Executor]

I can't get to it until I build a jet and fly to Florida. :rasberry:

On an unrelated note, I downloaded Shutter (japanese horror movie), and it's in japanese. With no subtitles. Now I really have nothing to do. =(

Guess I'll slave away at Till's dancing scene. Hopefully I'll have him moonwalking by the end of today.

[jpholding]

I can't get to it until I build a jet and fly to Florida. :rasberry:

Aw, fudd. :ahem: I'm only uploading it Friday cuz I saw how many people didn't read it until the weekend last time. What the heck. I'll just set it up whenever I get the rest of the concept pieces done. Maybe today, there's only 1-2 left and I have more time today than I will the rest of the week anyway. Also means I can start coloring ST #2 (which is up to page 30 on the inks, and the total page count is now 83).

On an unrelated note, I downloaded Shutter (japanese horror movie), and it's in japanese. With no subtitles. Now I really have nothing to do. =(

Why not do a MST3K thing and add your own?

Guess I'll slave away at Till's dancing scene. Hopefully I'll have him moonwalking by the end of today.

On the moon, preferably. :lol:

Unrelated but hopefully interesting side note: As part of my job with the feds today, I'll be doing some diplomacy with a group of Russian folks who work for *their* department of agriculture. They'll be visiting a horse farm near here and wanted to meet someone who does the sort of survey work I do. How fast can someone make me a Tekton T-shirt in Russian? :lol:

[Darth Executor]

Aw, fudd. :ahem: I'm only uploading it Friday cuz I saw how many people didn't read it until the weekend last time. What the heck. I'll just set it up whenever I get the rest of the concept pieces done. Maybe today, there's only 1-2 left and I have more time today than I will the rest of the week anyway. Also means I can start coloring ST #2 (which is up to page 30 on the inks, and the total page count is now 83).

People on tweb or in general?


Why not do a MST3K thing and add your own?

:brood:



On the moon, preferably. :lol:

No, he's the CEO of Till Enterprises and has his own dance room.

Unrelated but hopefully interesting side note: As part of my job with the feds today, I'll be doing some diplomacy with a group of Russian folks who work for *their* department of agriculture. They'll be visiting a horse farm near here and wanted to meet someone who does the sort of survey work I do. How fast can someone make me a Tekton T-shirt in Russian? :lol:

The best skills to have if you want to make friends with Russians are drinking skills and surviving extremely cold temperature skills. I'm not particularly fond of either, but I did have a crazy Russian friend back in High School who would go camping in Quebec. In January. :lol:

[jpholding]

People on tweb or in general?


Both. But anyway, while I work on lunch I'll go ahead and do the last of the concept pieces and then load RP 2 within the hour...



The best skills to have if you want to make friends with Russians are drinking skills and surviving extremely cold temperature skills.

The latter is for me. It's 40 degrees here and I went to see them in short sleeves. Woulda worn shorts too if it hadn't been a diplomatic mission. :lol: It was an interesting meeting. The main guy was an advisor to their ag head and they're about to do their first census of agriculture in 85 years, so they wanted to hear from someone like me who'd been at it a while on the local level. Main concern was, who do we hire (what kind of people) to do this stuff? Students? Retired folk? Etc.

Ah well. It was a very nice perk. :thumb: Back after RP2 is loaded....

[jpholding]

ST #2 progress report....

Inked: p. 41
Colored: p. 4
Out of: 83 pages (est)

Yay! Inks basically halfway! :thumb:

[jpholding]

ST #2 progress ---

Inked p. 49
Colored p. 17

[JSDileo]

ST #2 progress ---

Inked p. 49
Colored p. 17
Will we get to see how the Cartel reproduce in this one?

*muttering* Please please please please please...

[JSDileo]

Unrelated but hopefully interesting side note: As part of my job with the feds today, I'll be doing some diplomacy with a group of Russian folks who work for *their* department of agriculture. They'll be visiting a horse farm near here and wanted to meet someone who does the sort of survey work I do. How fast can someone make me a Tekton T-shirt in Russian? :lol:

I didn't know you worked for the government. You work for the Department of Agriculture I assume.

[Darth Executor]

Will we get to see how the Cartel reproduce in this one?

*muttering* Please please please please please...

Don't worry JP, his hormones will stop raging after his first rejection. :teeth:

[JSDileo]

Don't worry JP, his hormones will stop raging after his first rejection. :teeth:

:twitch:

You have a weird mind. And when I say weird, I mean really weird.:lol:

I hope they reproduce by budding.:teeth:

[Darth Executor]

:twitch:

You have a weird mind. And when I say weird, I mean really weird.:lol:

Hey, don't blame me. You're the one who wants to SEE how the cartel reproduces. :eww:

[JSDileo]

Hey, don't blame me. You're the one who wants to SEE how the cartel reproduces. :eww:

Hey, you asked JP about that too, remember? Or do I have to link to that post for you?

[Darth Executor]

Hey, you asked JP about that too, remember? Or do I have to link to that post for you?

I asked about it, not see it. :tongue:

[JSDileo]

I asked about it, not see it. :tongue:
When I said 'see', I meant 'learn about'. :tongue:

[Cynic Sage]

Will we get to see how the Cartel reproduce in this one?

*muttering* Please please please please please...

I am sorely tempted to make this my sig.

[JSDileo]

I am sorely tempted to make this my sig.

:twitch:

I thought they reproduced asexually.

[jpholding]

Will we get to see how the Cartel reproduce in this one?

*muttering* Please please please please please...


(....) The Sk'lan and their thugs aren't even a factor in the Shrike Team side of things, dude. :ahem: But I decided to go ahead and let RP #3 be where the secret is let out.

ST #2, however, will deal some with the issue of relations between the peoples of Hearthstone, especially with respect to male-female relationships; and an extra view into how Brom enacts Covenant principles with respect to relating to the other racial groups (per the discussion here recently).


Yep, I work for the ag folks. :teeth: Baaaaaaa.

[Cynic Sage]

:twitch:

I thought they reproduced asexually.

It was the "please please please please please" that gave us the wrong impression. Sorry. :hehe:

[jpholding]

ST #2 Update ---

Inked -- 57
Colored -- 22

Total pages is also down to 80 -- able to trim down some more flex space reserved for dialogue. :thumb:

[JSDileo]

ST #2 Update ---

Inked -- 57
Colored -- 22

Total pages is also down to 80 -- able to trim down some more flex space reserved for dialogue. :thumb:
Is Eidolon going to play a major role? If so, will we get to see him using some of his powers?:thumb: Wait, you said he was a pacifist. Darn it, why have an immortal superhero guy who's a pacifist? ARG. I want to see a one-hundred foot tall Eidolon wreaking havoc on New York. Now that would be cool.

OK, come to think of it, don't do that in ST, or RP.:teeth:

[jpholding]

Is Eidolon going to play a major role? If so, will we get to see him using some of his powers?:thumb:

Yes and yes. :thumb: But....after page 30 or so, he'll be out of the picture until ST #4 (except for one....hee hee....very shocking and surprising cameo in ST #3....). :teeth:

Wait, you said he was a pacifist.

I did? :huh: No, that's Bimf....the Sanslorian were pacifist until the Cartel started trying to exterminate them. How that all worked out will be the basis of RP #4.

I want to see a one-hundred foot tall Eidolon wreaking havoc on New York. Now that would be cool.

OK, come to think of it, don't do that in ST, or RP.:teeth:

Definitely not if its in New York, no. :tongue: But I can always do a free piece. Why don't you do your story with him wreaking havoc on a McDonald's? :teeth:

[JSDileo]

Yes and yes. :thumb: But....after page 30 or so, he'll be out of the picture until ST #4 (except for one....hee hee....very shocking and surprising cameo in ST #3....). :teeth:

SWEET!



I did? :huh: No, that's Bimf....the Sanslorian were pacifist until the Cartel started trying to exterminate them. How that all worked out will be the basis of RP #4.

YES! Eidolon's not a pacifist! That makes my Hearthstone world a thousand times better.:teeth:



Definitely not if its in New York, no. :tongue: But I can always do a free piece. Why don't you do your story with him wreaking havoc on a McDonald's? :teeth:

I'M ON IT!!

Wow, typing in all caps is fun!!

I MEAN, WOW, TYPING IN ALL CAPS IS FUN!!!