Tuesday, April 10, 2007
It IS Rocket Science!
Louis Wu forwarded me an email he'd been sent by a gentleman named Skipp. It's a very nice email indeed, and I thought I'd post it here. Skipp also submitted a guest strip which you can see below.
Subject: One One Se7en's my saviour
To: halo@bungie.org
MC,
My infinite gratitude goes to you for saving my sanity...
I'm a 50+ year old NASA "rocket scientist" and also an avid FPS gamer (funny that, but oddly enough there's a lot of us) that had to work a bunch of 16 hour shifts in a row. Much like policemen or firemen (and 117) my job is 1% frantic activity and 99% waiting for the results of same. Found your site while generically searching for the newest "Red vs. Blue" and read the current comic.
Count me as a captive. I was immediately held hostage by the simplicity yet depth of the 117 series. I immediately clicked on "first" and read the entire strip from day one. Helped me to pass so much of that 99% uselessness productively. Laughed my ass off out loud on occasion while other times I was reduced to "How true, how true" reflectivity. And it kept me awake.
Just wanted to thank you again for the life and vitality you've imbued 117 with and shared...I consider the strip somewhat of a CGA version of RvB...Are you even old enough to remember what CGA graphics were? Probably not...No one is anymore...
P.S. Although I perused the rest of the site and found you're not accepting any more "Guest Comics" for 117 I made one anyway (That wasted another 4 hours or so...Thanx again) and included it for your dismissal and/or disposal as you choose...
Sincerely, Skipp (or Ppla 'Epsodee - Gold)
Subject: One One Se7en's my saviour
To: halo@bungie.org
MC,
My infinite gratitude goes to you for saving my sanity...
I'm a 50+ year old NASA "rocket scientist" and also an avid FPS gamer (funny that, but oddly enough there's a lot of us) that had to work a bunch of 16 hour shifts in a row. Much like policemen or firemen (and 117) my job is 1% frantic activity and 99% waiting for the results of same. Found your site while generically searching for the newest "Red vs. Blue" and read the current comic.
Count me as a captive. I was immediately held hostage by the simplicity yet depth of the 117 series. I immediately clicked on "first" and read the entire strip from day one. Helped me to pass so much of that 99% uselessness productively. Laughed my ass off out loud on occasion while other times I was reduced to "How true, how true" reflectivity. And it kept me awake.
Just wanted to thank you again for the life and vitality you've imbued 117 with and shared...I consider the strip somewhat of a CGA version of RvB...Are you even old enough to remember what CGA graphics were? Probably not...No one is anymore...
P.S. Although I perused the rest of the site and found you're not accepting any more "Guest Comics" for 117 I made one anyway (That wasted another 4 hours or so...Thanx again) and included it for your dismissal and/or disposal as you choose...
Sincerely, Skipp (or Ppla 'Epsodee - Gold)
Sunday, April 01, 2007
"I think we're just getting started."
So today heralds a new beginning for One One Se7en. My scribbles have (rightly) copped some stick in the past. So from today, the strip is receiving a complete makeover. Badly drawn cartoons out, photoshopped screengrabs in. The strips will all be made using Comic Life, which gives much better results than Word. Also, I'll be using this nifty Bad Joke Generator. According to its blurb, "The Bad Joke Generator autogenerates terrible, terrible puns about any person or object or archetype, based on the keywords you give it. You need never buy another Christmas cracker again." Sounds like the standard of humour should stay relatively the same, then.
