For those of you who weren't aware, The Three Virtues podcast has just posted an interview with Dark709! Well actually, the interview has been up for almost three weeks now, but I only discovered it was up yesterday. It's great fun to listen to if you haven't already - it's nice to finally hear the dude's voice, and it's funny just for all the awkward, breathless pauses as Eljay and Kahi try to avoid having a heart attack while talking to the most famous BZPower comic maker ever. (On a side no
I figured it was about time for another round of these...I present the #160s!
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This was an exciting comic to make, but I grant I would probably do it a little differently today. Now I thought it moved the story along pretty well and some of the backgrounds are excellent - I worked hard to get the angles right, and it shows (although those angles where they're on top of the monorail are off - it looks like they're thousands of feet in the air, which would be rather unlikely). I think t
Well, I think it's about time for another one of these! On to the #150s!
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*squeals with delight* Man I was excited about this comic. The coloring, the action, the killer dialogue...this is where I would show Larry and Tarry's kicking-butt-and-taking-names side. I mean...MAN do I love this comic. Woo!
Though in retrospect I could have done away with that intro. There's some decent jokes in there (I think the "It's one of my FAVORITES" line comes from those South Park DVDs where ever
Continuing with the list theme I attempted on April Fools Day, I thought I'd tackle a new one: the best comic makers who, for some reason, no one seems to remember these days. Let me emphasize that this list is completely biased. I only chose things that I held an interest in, and as you probably already know, my perspective of the comics forum has been fairly limited for most of the time I've spent here. Plus there's probably going to be some dispute about whether some of these guys are reall
Just a quickie announcement, I decided to rename this blog! The "rahi Roars" pun was cute, but I felt like it was time for a name more fitting to the theme of this blog. So there you go.
Well, it's that time of year again. When BZPower undergoes another onslaught of April Fool's pranks, catching those unaware of the date off guard and causing those aware of the date to post "O Rly? " in just about every topic on the forum (personally I find those posts rather annoying, but I accept them as a part of the holiday). Now I couldn't come up with any good April Fool's prank myself; I don't have a comic series anymore and it seemed needlessly cruel to announce that I was returning to
And now, the #140s:
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If one comic can sum up Ultra Matoran and Larry and Tarry's personalities, it's this one. It's amazing how the shortest comics can sometimes be the most effective.
The ad at the top was appearing constantly at the top of BZPower forum pages when I made this comic, so I knew fans would know what I was referring to.
Taifu started posting after being gone for a really long time, so I decided to celebrate his return. Although it seems the guest star room is st
And now - the #130s:
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Of all the comics I've done, this is definitely one of my favorites. It's just so delightfully zany. I came up with a whole rationale of how the physics of this world would cause LR to explode if you popped his speech bubble, but this nice thing about the comic is that you really don't need to understand it. It's just weirdness for weirdness' sake.
I made this comic before I found out there's actually a wiki for BZPower comics, or that some people actually t
And now, the #120s!
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What a mess this comic is. Which is a shame, because there's some really good ideas in here.
LE had the idea of doing an "alternative ending" comic, and she came up with the idea for both versions of the ending. In presenting it however, I really botched it. I should have released two separate comics, one with one ending and one with the other. In fact, I decided to fix this mistake - so, to see what should have been all along, here's the two comics: Version 1
Oh, finally! Man, I hate these extended forum shutdowns. And there's always a little period after the forum gets back up when people are only starting to come back, so there's fewer people around.
Oh well, onward! The #110s:
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I think it's worth explaining a little history of this guy...Dark Lugia was a guest star and a big fan of the comics, who actually fed me a lot of ideas I could use for my comics (I don't think I actually wound up using many of them, but it was still a very ni
Because I love poking fun at the guy, here's Dark709 as Elvis.
Originally, the line Dark says was going to be "The King is Still Alive" but then this rather unfortunate comment popped up. Dark may have stated that he wasn't bashing anyone, but the "It's about time we had another good wholesome comic series around here" line bothered me. Since when have we ever had a "wholesome" comic series on BZPower?!? Because it certainly isn't Dark's (that's not to say it's bad, but "wholesome" definite
And now, the #100s:
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I started using backgrounds around this time, but for this comic it was to mock people who used the standard grass/blue sky background. Oh yeah, and overuse of Dark709 eyes (which I really should have actually used here, but for some reason didn't). In making fun of zany guest star comics, I made a zany guest star comic.
The "You also haven't taken advantage of my sheet!" line is meant to make fun of some guest stars (not Toa Jetice, but others) who wanted me to
Taking a break from the creator commentaries to go back to a more general topic - one I've touched on before but never with much depth, and that's the shortage of female comic makers on this forum. Prior to writing this, I looked at the personal profile of everyone who had started a topic in the comic forum that had been posted in the last 20 days - of the four pages of topics, only four people claimed to be female. This was actually slightly better than I was expecting - Miraka was the only on
And now, the #90s:
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This is VC's first appearance in the comics, and I decided to get the whole junior/old-timer feud started as soon as possible. In real life, our relationship was friendly, but the junior/old-timer feud was based on a real-life event - when Hunter of Visorak (mentioned earlier) started his series, VC posted some criticism of his comics which I felt was a little harsh at the time. VC had ended his post with the comment "Take it from an experienced comic maker like my
Thanks for the comments on the last post - I was feeling particularly bored today, so I thought I'd just right to the second post - today, the #80s:
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Ah, the Taifu vs. Larry series. My way of blatantly stealing Looney Tunes jokes. I love the "Hey, that was the Lawwy!" line at the end. Classic.
One of the kookiest guest star comics I've ever made. That multi-colored text of Angela's took forever to make, but obviously I forgot to put it in the third panel.
I'm not sure where I got
Credit for this idea goes to Kahinuva - course, I did have a few moral qualms to deal with, namely that DVD commentaries can often ruin a movie for me; like sausage, learning how it's made can ruin the magic of the final product. However, I'm feeling bored, so I went through with it.
I'm only going to pick out my favorites as I go through my old works. I'm starting with the #70s, just cause I feel like that's when my comics really started to come into their own (plus I'm too embarrassed to sh
In the first post, I compared the Razor-Rayg war of old to the Cold War, but recently a different analogy came to me: Warring Comic Families.
(This has some basis in truth - I really did ask Dark to post in my topic when I was starting out - of course, he did it no questions asked.)
("Then we are agreed. The traffic in kits will be permitted, but controlled, and Dark709 will give up protection in the AII Forum – and there will be the peace.")
(Superkid is in Razor here to show
Recently I did an interview for The Three Virtues podcast, where I was asked some questions about the history of the forum. Realizing I am one of the oldest people in the Comics Forum today, and wanting to fulfill my narcissistic desires (hey, it is a blog), I decided to write a bit about general trends in the Comics Forum - subjects that are too general to fit into any specific topic on the forum itself. I don't know if there will be anymore blog posts along these lines - I think I'll wait and
