Archive for April, 2009
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Follow Stealth on a trip into Slipspace. Apparently, navigating it is tricky business, even for the advanced Cavalcada.
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The Catfish provides us with today’s guest comic. I never knew the Cavalcada were so neurotic…
Mr. Susskind knows how to recycle – and for that we all say thankya.
I’m still looking for more guest comics for the rest of the week, so get those submissions into me today if you’re interested.
Me, I’m just wondering what Eternal Refugees are, and where they’re fleeing to.
Moments later, the Reclaimer takes a blast to the chest. Once the smoke clears, nothing remains of our intrepid hero and his cronies but dust, melted titanium, and little silicon bits that spell, well, nothing really. Because after all explosions never produce order. It was very silly of you to think otherwise.
The first guest comic of the week comes from the lovely Elnea of Halo Action Figure Theatre fame. Her first words when she emailed this to me were, “I’m just sorry. So very very sorry.” And I couldn’t stop laughing for at least 10 minutes. This is an excellent way to start off guest week. Thanks, Elnea!
And if you haven’t checked out HAFT, then you should be ashamed of yourself. Go read it now!
A couple of things:
- You’ll notice there’s no Reclaimer comic today. Unfortunately, I’m not going to be able to bring one to you today, even as a late edition. Sometimes these things just sort of happen.
- I’m going to be spending my week in Minneapolis, Minnesota most of next week (are there any Reclaimer fans from that area?), so I’ve decided to put Reclaimer on hiatus for the duration of the week. I know this will disappoint the lot of you and possibly even cause a handful of you addicts to fall into immediate convulsions, but here’s the bright side. Those of you have complained about all the cliffhangers and loose endings that have littered the Reclaimer landscape of the series since its inception? You’ll be pleased to know that I intend to spend a fair amount of time identifying all the threads that have yet to be explicitly pulled into the canvas and work on a concrete roadmap to start weaving those together.
- On that note, I don’t necessarily want to leave you completely in the dark while I’m gone, so I’m going to open up the week to guest comics. Anyone who wants to contribute a comic to fill in the missing days is welcome to do so. The comic can be built from Halo 3 screenshots, hand drawn, created from Mega Man sprites, anything you want. They can be funny, serious, or something in between. The only proviso I demand is that the comics be, in some way, related to Reclaimer. Comics that get sent to me will show up in place of regular Reclaimer comics – and I’m willing to feature one a day, starting tomorrow through to the following Saturday. That’s eight days, eight guest comics. If you’d like to contribute, just email your comic to reclaimercomic@gmail.com. In the event that I receive more than eight, I’ll pick my favorites to feature on the front page and the rest will go into a special gallery on the Extras page. So get crackin’!
One final thing before I sign off. I’ve had some fun the last couple of days grabbing screenshots from my Reclaimer filming sessions. If you check out my Screenshot Gallery, you’ll begin to see what I mean. Of all the shots I’ve taken this week, though, this one is probably my favorite:
Set your leader traits to invulnerable, grab a fuel rod cannon, and fire a rod directly into a custom power up from about 10 feet away. The static electric cast-off is really quite impressive! I haven’t experimented with an active camo or overshield yet, so I’d be curious to see what sort of visual results that yields. If you feel like messing around with it, capture some screenshots of your results and post links here to them for everyone to see. Play with other things, too, if you’d like and see what sort of artistic images you can create involving electricity. This could be a fun little community activity.
Have a good, if Reclaimer-less week, my friends. I’ll still be nearby if you need me.
I pulled some pretty nice screenshots while filming for Reclaimer last night, one of which I’ve turned into this wallpaper:
I’ve added it to the Wallpaper downloads section in a variety of sizes. Go grab the one that suits your monitor best!
Fuel rods are incredibly compressed when they first leave the cannon. For the first 30 yards or so, they’re nothing more than super-compressed marbles and will rebound off any surface. Once they reach that 30-yard point, though, they suddenly expand into actual rods, bursting out with an explosion of white light and a very little bit of green fuel spray. Then they travel for quite a ways, if they don’t hit anything, trailing a fuel vapor behind them. Eventually, they explode in a green vapor ball, generating quite a bit of static electricity. Seriously – go play with it sometime on Sandbox and then watch the film in slow motion. Fuel rods are very interesting visually.