zhentama11

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China • Age 90

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On Serialization

langyu521 @langyu521 (51) • China 19 Feb 07

I read Alexander's comments over on the blog, and thought this would be as good a place as any to comment... It is a tricky business, the serialzation. And since a lot, if not all, the comics on the Moderntales sites are...

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zhentama11 That's really interesting about your Mexican Hat experiment. Serialization, as a publishing format, definitely has strengths of its own, if you know how to use them. And one of those is that nothing can give readers a sense of the passage of time better than...

19 Feb 07

Everybody's got a story

langyu521 @langyu521 (51) • China 19 Feb 07

It's the Canterbury Tales...

canterbury tales

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zhentama11 That's actually a pretty accurate analogy. I figured 240 pages of me, me, me would get a little dull so I hit on the stories-within-stories conceit to make things move faster. What do you all think

19 Feb 07

Crab Allan

langyu521 @langyu521 (51) • China 19 Feb 07

This thread is for comments on Crab Allan by L. Frank Weber, now on view at http://www.moderntales.com/longplayfeature.php?name=craballan&view=toc

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zhentama11 No time to read it right now, but the artwork blows me away. I just spend a good half an hour going through the pages and admiring the imagery. And anything with a monkey in it has my vote

19 Feb 07

Prototype MT tooncast Dashboard widget

langyu521 @langyu521 (51) • China 19 Feb 07

There were already Dilbert and FoxTrot viewing widgets, so I decided to write one for the Modern Tales family. It's pretty ugly at the moment, so feel free to contribute spiffier graphics (or, if you're Joey, more official ones)....

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zhentama11 Seems to be working. I'm not yet very familiar with Dashboard, but it may turn out to be useful if it can help me track my Modern Tales stuff.

19 Feb 07

Grimm's Hatchery Soft Release :-)

langyu521 @langyu521 (51) • China 19 Feb 07

Hi everyone, I haven't officially announced Grimm's Hatchery because it's going through a soft release on my website. I'm adding one feature request per week until Feburary 24, at which time I will put the last nail in this...

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zhentama11 I played about 8 days worth. The art is all very good, especially the backgrounds. The whole thing definitely feels polished. The only thing that bothered me was the top of Evil Guy's head when he laughs. His hair seems to rise a couple of pixels higher...

19 Feb 07

My Sad Prog Rock Past

langyu521 @langyu521 (51) • China 18 Feb 07

That's right! As a teenager, faced with the rankness of commercial radio, I developed a love of punk and prog music. A strange combination, no doubt, but the contradictions seemed to suit my personality. A few days ago Leah...

band in a box

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zhentama11 I've never heard of "prog." What kind of music is it?

18 Feb 07

the unholy iii

langyu521 @langyu521 (51) • China 18 Feb 07

In late March, three men - Tully Blanchard, Arn Anderson and Ric Flair (not their real names) would drive to Ohio over the weekend in search of adventure. This comic tells their story, both as an entertainment and a caution to...

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zhentama11 actual picture of the unholy iii!

18 Feb 07

The three Apples

langyu521 @langyu521 (51) • China 18 Feb 07

this thread is for comments on The Three Apples by Miguel Estrugo. The comic may be viewed at http://www.moderntales.com/longplayfeature.php?name=3apples&view=toc

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zhentama11 Even those who, unlike me, like this style of drawing will have to admit the art is amateurish at best. There just isn't a storyline to speak of, and the English could use some serious editing. This is the worst I've seen as yet on MT. Please Joey, tell me...

18 Feb 07

modern tales submission

langyu521 @langyu521 (51) • China 18 Feb 07

hopefully joey can answer this question: how does one go about trying to get a link posted on modern tales? I submitted my site www.fartparty.org but have not gotten a reply. Even a "no you're comics are shot" reply would be...

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zhentama11 We don't post links to outside sites on ModernTales.com. Are you sure that's the site you submitted to? There's not really even a place to submit links to ModernTales.com. I'd recommend comixpedia.com and digitalstrips.com if you're looking to get the...

18 Feb 07

Cryptex of Time - Feedback needed

langyu521 @langyu521 (51) • China 18 Feb 07

Ok, my first trembling post here. And keep in mind that this is only a concept demo. I'm totally new with these things and know nothing about the indiescene and market but I as many others in here want to try my wings and...

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zhentama11 It looked great on the screen shots, and I was intrigued by the cryptex theme - nice idea and sure to catch any Dan Brown fan non-gamers! Sadly, you'd removed the link, but I will try it and give feedback should you provide another update.

18 Feb 07

Early Longplay comics missing

langyu521 @langyu521 (51) • China 18 Feb 07

I'm finding a lot of the comics wholly or partly down in the early Longplay issues from "Eyewitness Comics" to "Halloween Horrors"; just webpages with the images missing. The front pages of the issues are missing most of their...

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zhentama11 I'll bump this thread. Just went to try and re-read an older Longplay comic (Ray Murphy) and it's broke

18 Feb 07

The New Doctor Who

langyu521 @langyu521 (51) • China 18 Feb 07

Seen it? Anyone?

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zhentama11 I was only vaguely aware of the previous series, and more by reputation than anything else, but I'm quite enjoying the current series, which is being run in Canada on CBC, though severl weeks behind the original BBC broadcasts. It's been a hoot so far,...

18 Feb 07

ARTPAKZ.com

langyu521 @langyu521 (51) • China 18 Feb 07

Howdy ladies and gents, I'm Artgirl from ARTPAKZ.com, a new site catering to Indie Developers' graphic needs in the form of themed Art Paks. I've been a lurker here (and many other developer sites) for awhile now and gathered up a...

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zhentama11 You bring up a good point. I'd be interested in an RPG pack, I'm using placeholder art from RPGmakerXP at the moment. But I'd prefer something that I could get a proper license for... it would be a ton of work, but if it was of high calibar (eg equal to the...

18 Feb 07