Atlantea: Holy crap... Just thought of something.
Atlantea: I'm doing the "Revenent Hero" project Arc.
MicroShade: Hmmm?
DarkSeraphim: yes?
Atlantea: Mostly the Crey Revenant Hero arc deals with biologicals and cloning. But a key element is this:
Atlantea: ."Late in the document you come across the fact that the original Revenant Heroes had little or no control over their powers because their minds had not developed."
Atlantea: ." Technology to fix that defect was 'secured' by Dr. Paul Summerfeld, who based his research off of the deceased Dr. Friedken's mind uploading work."
Atlantea: Thing is - Dr. Friedkin uploaded her mind to the Net, becoming "The Doctor". And what, pray tell, is Cyberman 8? A guy who had his mind "uploaded" into an android. AND -
Atlantea: ." The Revenant Hero Project is currently on it's 9th generation of the technology, being field-tested by Crey as the Paragon Protectors."
Atlantea: The 9th Generation of tech. Cyberman 8 was so named because of the original subjects back in the 60s. He was the 8th attempt. And the first successful one.
Atlantea: That's been part of his background all along.
MicroShade: Well.... I'm currently delivering canisters of Outbreak. The key point to this is that I get to claw up longbow inflicting great amounts of pain in the process.
DarkSeraphim: so.... C8 was a a Crey off shoot?
Atlantea: More like the other way around.
DarkSeraphim: wait, that couldn't work, the PP haven't been round that long
DarkSeraphim: wait.... crey stole the tech that made him?
MicroShade: Crey stole the idea from C8?
Atlantea: Dr. Friedkin based her upload tech on that of Dr. Tani - the guy who made him.
DarkSeraphim: .... that would make a good snipet.
Atlantea: They stole it from Dr. Friedkin.
Atlantea: See the connection?
MicroShade: Write it! Write it! WRITE IT!!!!
DarkSeraphim: hee hee.
Atlantea: I'm definitely thinking about it. Does it make sense?
DarkSeraphim: luckily that tech is not as messed as what dib uses.
MicroShade: *starts cant*MicroShade: makes definite sense.
DarkSeraphim: but Dib uses something similar to the A.I. tech from the halo-verse
DarkSeraphim: and that has the unfortunate side effect of.... killing the subject as it uploads.
Atlantea: Mind - they went a different direction with it. They "upload" into clones, where Dr. Tani uploaded to a positronic brain and Dr. Friedkin uploaded directly to the global network.
MicroShade: makes more sense then the brainwave I had the other day.
Atlantea: So yeah. *Makes notes*

Now this is some impressive work.
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Epsilon

Deep Discount is having an up to 50% off anime sale through the end of the month, with a decent but somewhat randomish selection.  They had Gurren Lagann (subs only) volumes 1 and 3, but not 2.  Huh?  Link
Also, Rightstuf is having a Funimation sale, 40% off.  Linky
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.

Quote:However Mrs. Lackey (or at least her lawyers) is
"Anal Retentive" about the Copyright to the World in Question.

Quote:News: Concerning Fanfiction:

As you folks already know, my agent, Russel Galen, has in the past been
opposed to fanfiction. However, he is also Cory Doctorow's agent now,
and Cory is a persuasive little gnome.

As a result of this, I am happy to announce that we are officially
permitting fanfiction to be licensed as derivative fiction under the
Creative Commons umbrella.

What this means is: NO, you cannot make money on it. NO, you cannot
self-publish a fanfiction novel of Valdemar (or any of my other stuff)
and try and sell it on Amazon. And NO, I still am not going to read it,
because I am already so far behind on my research reading I barely have
time to read that.

But YES, you may write and post away, folks, so long as you license it
as derivative and under Creative Commons. If it is anything other than
PG-13, please take all the proper precautions to stick it somewhere that
innocent souls won't be corrupted. Do not scare the children or the
horses. Have fun!

The Dojo at work
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100520/od_ ... a_ninjas_2

I had to share this, from The Terrible Crossover Fanfiction Idea Generator
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining
Quantum Leap and
Friends.
The story should use losing one's virginity as a plot device!

The consensus is that a torpedo sunk that Korean Corvette. So what's the odds of the Cold War over there going hot?
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

LifeLock CEO's Identity Stolen 13 Times

I do a lot of creative work outside of my everyday employment.  Art as 10cc sang so eloquently, for Art's Sake.  They also sang something about I'm Mandy, fly me; but that is for another time.  I also do some light fetish art work and a few other projects on the side (Recently the submission to the Decoder Ring Theatre contest).
So I am considering a webcomic; here are some thoughts I am kicking around.
While Tales of the Legendary is fun, it is hampered by a number of factors, the first being that it exists in the COH universe with characters (my own at any rate) that predate COH; and uses their backgrounds, world etc.
Theme: Superheroes mixing four colour and pulp sensibilities.
So going forward with a new continuity/universe is the first step.  Bella, Jackie, Gil, and the whole ALPO crew are definitely going to be there; with some new faces, and lots of unique villains.  The core will be a large city based up-and-coming superhero team.  There will be some established archtype heroes who are famous in the city.  (I may have to reuse the dubious Captain Starbolt); a plucky reporter with an alliterative name (Rachel Rivers... Sandy Souter... Xena Xerxes... no that last one is headed for the top of the villain's list - the Persian Pummeler.)
Frame/Sequence/Story.
I am unlikely to do it as 'issues' per se.  It is more likely that I will be doing mini-story arcs, with arbitrary 'Issue' covers being thrown in.  A constantly evolving storyline; recurring characters, etc.
Update frequency.
1-3 pages weekly; on a set schedule.  If you endeavor to do something like this; you have have to talk the talk and walk the walk.  I would rather update less frequently and make every single deadline than faff about with a more aggresive update schedule and drop the ball like a sports cliche.  While I love what Pete Abrams does with Sluggy, his breaks/inserts/vacations etc, drive me to distraction.  I like the model that OGLAF uses (www.oglaf.com -Extremely not safe for work, but great art and wicked, if mean sense of humour- if the page errors out on you, hit reload.) where an update/comic may be a single page, or a trio of pages; whatever is needed to tell the joke/story.
Tone.
Light Drama, superheroic action, comedy.  Not in that order.
Content.
About the same as TOTL extremely racy, without sliding into full on hard R territory.
Expectations.
Not high; though you never know.  These days throwing comics on the web is akin to taking coal to Newcastle.  No - coal is utile.  It is like dropping a turd upon an already extant pile.  There are so many that for yours to stand out it has to really be a cut above.
Prep: 3-6 months of updates done, locked, loaded and in the can ready for publication.
Thoughts?
(Besides have you seen this.. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/ ... -Webcomics )