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05-06-2020, 10:59 PM | #181 |
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ATTF 74. Funny with Seacons.
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05-21-2020, 10:29 AM | #182 |
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I decided to take the rest of May off of making one-off comics to focus in on finishing (or close to finishing) the next storyline. It will be a 2 parter and Part 1 is finished with 20 pages (including cover and recap). The first part will be ATTF75 and is titled "TAOWAR: Summon! Amusement Battle on Mu!"
I plan on releasing all of ATTF75 on June 4th. Until then, here's a cover Preview: |
06-04-2020, 09:11 AM | #183 |
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ATTF75 Enjoy!
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06-17-2020, 11:00 PM | #184 |
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ATTF 76
Personal life permitting, I plan to post the second half of the TAOWAR story next week (It is finished). It's 24 pages including the cover and recap. Here's a preview of the cover: [See full comic below] Last edited by Blade Raider; 06-24-2020 at 11:11 PM.. |
06-24-2020, 11:11 PM | #185 |
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ATTF 77 TAOWAR: Devour it All! Fight the Pudgy Pig!
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07-01-2020, 11:50 PM | #186 |
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No comic today, but instead I'm going to post overviews of the customs created for these recent TAOWAR comics as well as notes for the issues as well. Starting with the customs.
CUSTOM 1: Victor Claw. -I created Victor to be a bad guy, but not a villain. Just that real punchable rival character. After all, if I'm committing to that long term tournament arc, I might as well set up a hateable rival. He also allowed me to tell Blade that Avalon didn't pick him, so don't have to worry about that as a conflict of interest. Victor was originally named Chad in the script. I felt to was to on the nose. Victor, at least in this context, still sounds elitist and a bit egoistical. I didn't do a custom paint job on this figure. Might change that later whenever he appears again. Parts used: Head: Drew (Kamen Rider Dragon Knight) Body: Cobra Commander v43 (GI Joe) Claw Glove: Rex "The Doctor" Lewis v1A (GI Joe) Cape: Fandral (Thor The Mighty Avenger) CUSTOM 2: Alexander Steiner. -Alexander Steiner is the new comic relief character for our heroes. For all intents and purposes, he is W.'s replacement. While W was a caricature of a real person that is mostly making fun of that person, Steiner is meant to be something a little different. I think of him as Silverbolt from Beast Wars crossed with Simon Belmont from Captain N with a dash of Milly from Trigun. Heroic, vain, and poignant. He's also named after the noble to a fault Steiner from Final Fantasy IX. -Steiner was oddly enough not created for TAOWAR, but rather for a group of Kamen Rider customs I called "Kamen Rider Ice King and the Knights of the Round." Basic idea was what if Gaim wasn't around to stop Helheim. Steiner was the secordany Rider of that idea. While I'll probably never make a stand alone comic of it, I plan to bring some of those characters and concepts into the TAOWAR. Like Steiner here. -I've showcased Steiner's custom before with the other Knights of the Round customs years ago, but I made some changes for his appearance here. The original hands had one closed fist, so I replacement them for more uniformed grabby hands. I also painted the belt green for a dash of color. Parts: Head: Longshot (Marvel Univere) Body: Thor Age of Thunder(Marvel Univere) Vest: Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes (Star Wars) Hands: DUKE v35 (GI Joe) CUSTOM 3: Roz Proudfoot -Roz takes off her poncho in this issue, so this is a good time to talk about her toy. When I created Roz, I never planned for her to continue pass the paradox story line so her custom was just Lady Jaye wearing black. I decided she needed an overhauled design. Roz is now more of cowboy themed with military gear underneath. I was planning on using the torso and arms of Helix at one point, but they just didn't work with the rest of the figure. Ironically, she's still mostly a Lady Jaye toy wearing black, but the new head and gear really goes a long way. Parts: Head: Jes Gistang (Star Wars Joker Squad) Body: Lady Jaye v9 (GI Joe) Belt: Lady Jaye v6 (GI Joe) Hat: Gnawgahyde v1 (GI Joe) Poncho: Star Wars Episode I Accessory Pack. Backpack: Lady Jaye v4 (GI Joe) CUSTOM 4 and 5: Blade's new forms -At some point earlier in the year I linked to a Twitter thread where I was working on form changes for Blade. This is where they come into play. There are forms in the thread I plan to make for future comics (so it contains spoilers), but there's also some concept forms in there, like a Tigatron I plan to never make, but did digibash. -Here's a link to the Twitter thread that goes more in-depth on these customs: https://twitter.com/BladeGnome/statu...19439028789250 Updated Raider Form: -First new form is the updated Raider Form. Mostly the same as he appeared in ATTF 38, just has new arms and redone silver paint. The new arms give him wrist joints and swappable hands. The hands are black now to so I can borrow some hands from other SO-DO figures when I need to. The new arms comes from Zi-O's base form. Added the blue on the forarms at the last minute, considered leaving them silver, but I like the blue. Parts: Head: Para-DX Knock Out Fighter Chest plate, legs: Dangerous Zombie Body and back plate: Brave New arms and hands: Zi-O base form Shoulders: Jet Combat Lvl 0 Backpack: Fuma Belt: Ninja Player Sword: Unknown (I've never been able to ID this sword, but I have 2 of them in black and silver) TerraRaider Form: -The new focus going forward will be a Kamen Rider theme and also setting up a tournament fighter for later. I wanted these two to play into each other, so Blade fusing with his Summons became the the natural way to connect them. I started with Terragator because I knew exactly how I wanted the form to look and I had the extra parts for it. -For the gator head on the shoulder, I used a spare Terragator head I got from a junker to repair my main figure. The gator head just happened to fit on the SO-DO shoulder pad under it, so I didn't have the glue it. Before using a part form Terragator, I tried some other shoulder pads and nothing worked. -The shell shield was a lot more of a problem. I went through a few shields starting with the Arms Micron turtle, but eventually used a shield that came with the old 90's TMNT toy Movie Stars Raph. To mount it, I cut the shield's handle down into a peg that fits into a shield holder Kamen Rider Brave had. I'm really happy with how this one turned out. Parts: Gator head on shoulder: Terragator (Beast Wars) Shoulders: Kamen Rider Poppy (SO-DO) Chest: Jet Combat Lvl 0 (SO-DO) Gun: 2010 Kamen Rider Birth candy toy Shield: Movie Stars Raph (TMNT) Shield handle adapter: Kamen Rider Brave (SO-DO) _____________________________________________________________________________________ ATTF 75 Notes: Cover: I wasn't sure what to do from this cover. I really liked the neon gator head, so I decided to use it here and just go abstract with it. Page 1: -This page was added somewhat late. I think I was already writing well into Part 2. I did a lot to try to make this scene dark. Black space instead of white space, toned down the brightness, etc. If you can't tell, I like cold opens like this that set up the villain/monster/etc. Page 2-3: -When I started writing this, I had been watching a lot of Defunctland, so an amusement park setting just kind of happened. I placed it in Thundara on Mu mainly because I had some ThunderCats toys to fill in the park gates and the Tower of Omens in place of a Disney castle. -This all is on the planet named Mu. This is where I put all the high fantasy stuff (Final Fantasy, Zelda, LOTR, etc), including ThunderCats 2011 where Thundara is a kingdom rather than a planet. -The title was originally "Disney World Thundara," but I don't feel like I've used the setting to its fullest, so the title was changed to "Summon! Amusement Battle on Mu!" A very anime styled format. I'm not sure how long I'll keep using this format, I just wanted to try it out. -The underwear joke was the first joke I wrote. I did so to help set the tone. The last arc in TAOWAR felt off to me and I wanted to make sure I didn't repeat it, so I was paying attention to many little things like that. Page 5: -I have lived this page. This has happened almost word for word more than once. Very happy I got the chance to put it in here. Page 6: -Decided to split the group up for this one to help with pacing. Again, trying not to repeat what I feel were problems with the last story line. Page 7: -The last thing I added to this comic was the arrows pointing out the panel order. I did this because I felt my word balloon placements might be leading the eye to read it in the wrong order. Hope they helped. Page 10-15 -If you're wondering: Blade would have still lost regardless of not knowing the rules and him being unable to henshin. Terragator was already down for the count before Blade started reacting. I set out for Blade to lose this fight and I think I did a pretty good job of it. -I really enjoyed making that junior line and Victor's reaction to it. _____________________________________________________________________________________ ATTF 77 Notes: Cover: -I wanted to do an action shot for this one, but the final action scene of the comic took a lot more than I thought it would've. Instead, I went with showing, partly, the new form as Blade's forms have never been on the cover. Also threw in Thief and Roz because they do a lot of the fighting in this. Pages 1-2: -I think the only thing wrong with this comic is I picked Pudgy Pig, a very limited figure, for a fight that lasts the whole issue. Think I got creative enough to compensate for it, but I probably won't use a PR monster toy for a battle this long again if I can help it. Also that fork and knife got in the way so much, but I enjoyed using them. -The Bob-omb bit was fun. It was never meant to appear after that original gag back in TÃ*r na nÓg Epilogue. Pages 6-7: -So on Avalon Kamen Rider is normally just tv show like the real world. There's many reasons I made Thief a fan of Rider. Main reason is I wanted to expand on Thief's character some more. Give her an interest beyond stealing and it can be used for some good nerd banter between her and Blade. One of the reasons I picked Pudgy Pig was because it sparked the East vs West naming banter. -Alex is trying to reveal he's a Kamen Rider throughout this scene. There was suppose to be a couple of pages where he transforms after page 7, but then gets his ass handed to him. It was cut because there's a big focus on Blade's new form later in the issue and I want to be able to put the spotlight on Steiner more than this allowed when he transforms for the first time. Pages 8-11: -If you've read Terrgator's bio, his history with Scarem is mentioned there and I wanted to bring that into the comic. I think I rewrote this scenes a few times trying to find the right way to tie it all together. I don't know if I was successful, but I like it. Character scenes like this and the TÃ*r na nÓg Epilogue are ones I want more often. -As I've said before, I have issues with how the TÃ*r na nÓg story line turned out and one of the biggest problems was I realized where the character scene was far to late into it. Because I was posting as I was making it, I couldn't go back easily. -The read-only joke was the first joke I wrote for Part 2 and it's still my favorite. It's so silly and fun. -I wanted to do more with the ThunderCats in this, but I didn't want to add yet more to this fight, so I settled on the park guard helping the group fight. Used him enough that his name is dropped near the end. For the unfamiliar, Tygus is the character's actual name. I just used him in the first place because he was the most minor TCats character I owned a figure of. -Thought about dropping Pudgy Pig's normal lines here, but I wanted to make sure I could make these monsters talk normally going forward if I need them to. Plus, we know they are indeed experiments now rather than just Roz saying it. Pages 14-15: -Roz does not know what a Kamen Rider is and yet even though she fought Shocker Riders back in ATTF 37. I'm just saying that to say that I haven't forgoten, she just didn't know what they were. -I didn't write Blade's fight scene until I go to photographing it as I didn't know exactly what I wanted when I wrote up to that point in the script. When I got there I realized I wanted the others to be doing stuff to help. Steiner with that giant knife made me laugh. -There's a lot of photo editing work here as Blade is boosting and getting pushed back a lot. The first panel of Blade starting to push Pudgy Pig up the tower (the end of page 15) took a lot to set up as Pudgy Pig is heavy and there's not a good way to equip him with a stand. Eventually I found that the end of his helmet could be wedged into the elevator's shaft. Pages 16-17: -Empp shows up here because I knew I wanted his peace and quiet to be interrupted by the fight, but I didn't want him to join the fight. -Two page spread. Really happy with this one (Honestly don't think there's been one I didn't enjoy making). You may or may not have figured out how I did this. If you didn't, I used the floor. I laid it all on the floor with Blade held up by a stand pegged into his foot or belt depending on shot. Erasing the stands as usual. -Back when I made ATTF38, I used Command Line: Finisher. In the original script for that comic it was called Command Line: The Finisher. I was never sure if I was happy with that change until I was making this page and I naturally called "Command Line: The Finisher" again. So yeah, it's THE Finisher from now on. I don't even know why I changed it the first time. Pages 18-22: -I had a lot of exposition left over after all that. Thought about saving some for the next comic, but I just rather get a bunch of it out of the way. I did lean into the comedy though in hopes that it's more entertaining. Again, times like this is why I like having a character like Steiner around. It's also the first time all of the new main cast are really interacting at the same time. -Pudgy Pig turns back to human. No real reason right now, I just didn't want every monster to die. -I do think Roz repeats herself here somewhat, but I felt it was good to make sure everyone, characters and readers, were on the same page. _____________________________________________________________________________________ I hope you got some enjoyment out of this long post. I have no idea when the next comic will be, but I hope it's sooner than later. |
07-09-2020, 11:23 PM | #187 |
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Didn't think I'd have a comic this week, but I got a fun one for you all.
ATTF78 1.21 Preorders |
07-16-2020, 09:05 AM | #188 |
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ATTF79 Love and Truck It
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10-01-2020, 09:25 AM | #189 |
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ATTF 80: The Underripe Knight. Hope you enjoy!
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10-08-2020, 10:43 AM | #190 |
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ATTF 81 Takatomon
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