The Bad Boys of Computer Science
A sporadically updated web comic from your friends at HotZP.
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Sporadic Rant:
Props out to my friend Brian for correctly predicting the title of the (insert trumpet fanfare)
NEXT INSTALLMENT OF THE ANIME EPIC (CLICK HERE, DAMN IT)
(851 k). It was two months in the making, but I finally got around to finishing it. I had meant to do it much sooner, but too much other stuff was getting in the way; and there aren't always shortcuts to doing a Flash animation. Sometimes you just have to grit your teeth, sit down, and draw everything frame by frame. Ugh. Much less ambitious installment next time. Promise. Move to the head of the class if you recognize Chun-Li's theme from Street Fighter 3. I hadn't realized it when I first wrote out the rough ideas for the script, but I clearly see a lot of Flame of Recca influence now (and more to come). It may take me years to finish this, but finish it I will. Rudi Gunther of Deathworld sent me this cool piece of fan art. This means I'll have to open up a fan art page now since I have enough to put there without being hideously embarassed. So now the call has gone out to you all you artistic, semi-artistic, marginally artistic, and not-at-all-artistic types to do some BBoCS fan art and e-mail it to me.
Contest time! Check out this link for more details. Deadline: Sept. 21, 2000. A few entries have already dribbled in, but there aren't nearly enough people participating yet! I don't want to give away any scores yet, but a solid response sheet with many correct answers will qualify for a prize. So e-mail me with those answers!
A few links to hand out today. I've been visiting more and more webcomics, and some of the ones people have pointed out to me are absolutely fantastic. Bob the Angry Flower is a work of pure genius. I don't use the word "genius" very lightly, but I have no other words with which to describe the stupendousness that is Bob. I don't think it's a strip for everyone as it is a wildly imaginative improvisational romp through time and space, but I have now added it to my list of all-time favorites. Incredible stuff there, many of the strips had me falling out of the seat because I was laughing too hard. The last time I laughed that hard at a comic was Penny Arcade. Also, you anime and manga-philes should definitely scope out both Exploitation Now and Megatokyo. Exploitation Now is drawn by the uber-talented Poe. He makes no bones about his strip and it's a great read with tongue planted firmly in cheek. Megatokyo is pretty new and there aren't too many strips in the archives yet, but they already have a modern classic in "Speak L33t?" Lots of fascinating and humorous strips out there if you're willing to search high and low, scouring the vast expanses of Cyberia in the name of content.
Better stop now. That was almost poetic. I'll leave this up for Monday and update on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday.