suction -2-
posted 2009.07.04 at 18:24
Reworked a bit, but still basically the same page. Removed the Vagtazo Halottkemek lyrics and logo from this page and the next. Great band - I still like 'em, a million internet years later - but I don't own the lyrics and I didn't ask, so out they go.
Let this particular aspect of the second edition be a lesson to anyone thinking of producing a for-hardcopy comic : if you take a halfassed attitude towards the IP of others, don't be surprised if you feel like you're spending most of your free time cleaning up after yourself.*
This is ultimately why PISSPOWERASSCHRIST exists.
* Admittedly, TD2E still has some referencing issues. But cleaning up type is a lot easier than cleaning up the artwork... given the lengths I've gone to in order to make sure the second edition dialogue remains editable, it's actually easier now than it ever was!
First Edition Metadata
OPD : 2004.12.03 @ 00:14
20070730 : Beef is now much more taciturn. Previous version here.
Edited 20060220 : The cruiser flasher has pluralized, fixing what would have otherwise been a funky little continutiy breach with its later appearance.
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Specifically, Nincs Mas Megoldas (translates to "There's No Other Solution"). The type smear below the logo in the upper left says on the stereo LOUDLY, and for good reason- the lyrics are all over this page and the next one... I figured it was aesthetically sound to make them part of the composition, rather than try to cram it in as word balloons- 'cuz the music is as much the scene as any other component.
The funky bull/bird logo is theirs, not mine. Wish I'd come up with it and hope I don't get in trouble for using it. VH rocks so hard that it was sort of a given that someone would wind up wearing a shirt... it just so happens to be Ornix, as the music (think tripped out Hungarian rock and roll with a rolling sort of hallucinatory groove thing) fits the character well. Like, really really well. Stupidly well. It's like VH wrote the song specifically for ATC. It fits the Waking God Protocols THAT well.
Also, the left side of a two page spread... and while Beef may look like a PA State Trooper, he isn't
Revised twice- once to tweak a shadow layer and once to correct for depth of field- covering up a screwup in background processing that I didn't notice until I hit hardcopy. :P
22:07 <xeno> no typos on the panel but too much exposition
22:08 <xeno> i think he should have just said "License and registration. And turn off that fucking music."
22:09 <xeno> XD
22:09 <xeno> the BLAM! pwns though
22:09 <xeno> and so does the expression his fa- er... on his hea- er... on his lower jaw
22:09 <xeno> how you managed to get the OMGWTF look with just that much of his head i'll never know
22:10 <xeno> it's OMFGWTF and :| at the same time
22:11 <xeno> BEEF.
22:11 <xeno> KNUCKLEBACK.
22:11 * xeno dies
2004.12.07:
23:46 <@{}> Who's Ornix?
23:46 <@bda> No idea.
23:46 <@solios> er?
23:47 <@solios> he's the last ATC character to be introduced.
23:47 <@bda> Oh. Right.
23:47 <@bda> Heh.
23:48 <@{}> ha ha ha
23:48 <@{}> I liked the head asplode frame.
23:48 <@{}> For some reason that just made me feel GOOD.