Episode 26 – Space Pirates:2

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Colin Ferguson of the online game Star Pirates joins in as a guest for this episode!

Some show notes:

• Ben is unfortunately missing, due to being on a train
• Tom forgets to introduce himself
• Star Pirates!
• Other sci-fi games
• End of the World sci-fi
• Fan fiction and guest art
• Human interaction online
  

Episode 25 – Phoenix Without Ashes

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Here’s episode 25! Ben was unable to join in for this recording, so Jim, Mark, and Tom decided to record something that could at least be added to a future episode – and somehow wound up with a complete episode instead!

• Doing webcomics – what have we learned?
• Comics are hard work
• Feedback
• Links and advertising
• Getting used to characters
• Everything comes back to Quark
• The Starlost is also coming out on DVD
• We go off on a bad sci-fi movie tangent

Episode 23 – Back To Reality

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We’re back, and we’re kicking bottom. Here are some show notes to celebrate.

• An intro which is, I promise you, completely unrehearsed.
• Mark talks about the Zortic reboot.
• A brief Comic-Con round-up.
• Making aliens alien.
• As Jim is the expert in this area, we spend a bit of time talking about how he does this in Outsider.
• Pointless technology.
• Pointless technology that specifically irritates Ben.
• Ben is not a Dog Person.
• The Starlight Barking is mentioned. Again.

Enjoy!

Episode 22 – The Emergency Very Short Test Episode

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Recorded on Wednesday by Tom and Mark, with guest Aaron Lewis of the Webcomic Beacon podcast and the comic The Best Of What’s Left. It’s a little shorter than usual, coming in at just under the 40-minute mark. Tom took the liberty of writing up the show notes for this episode, so here they are.

• Mark’s San Diego report.
• Unusual comic marketing ideas.
• Quark is coming out on DVD.
• Star Wars.
• “Your comic looks like a 3-year-old drew it!”
• Is this episode canon?

Enjoy!

Episode 19 – Ninety Nine

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Psst. Hey kid. You like show notes? Yeah, man. All the cool kids are doing it. Here, take a look…

• We talk about Mark’s brand new scifi-comedy webcomic, ETI-PI.
• A chap named “Mathew” asks us to discuss scifi Logistics. So we do.
• Star Trek toilet humour. Har har.
• Mathew also asks us about showing the light in an environment – “How do you approach this and is it as difficult as it seems?”
• I order a sandwich, and it’s all downhill from here.
• “This is basically the Jim Francis Power Hour.”
• We look at the American Film Institute’s 10 Ten Scifi Films. I disagree with a lot of the list.
• Scifi as a form of Social Commentary.
• I give a very brief outline of what Wall-E is actually about.
• I realise that the sandwich people haven’t called me back about my order yet and get a little agitated by my lack of sandwich.
• I briefly talk about how the question “Where is my sandwich?” affects web Cartoonists everywhere.
• We move on from sandwiches to pizza.

Episode 15 – White Hole

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Before I begin, you may be wondering where Episode 14 is. Episode 14 was recorded on Wednesday. Without wanting to ruin everything, most of what we recorded was lost and so we recorded a second time, later on Wednesday night – this time just a brief 15-minute intro to a bunch of post- and pre-show clips from previous episodes (including some very interesting post-show banter from when Kris Straub guested on our show). Editing that one together has taken longer than I would have liked it to, largely because I am Easily Distracted, but thankfully we have here Episode 15. Episode 14 will go up either later tonight or… well, later in the week.

(Or even later.)

So, without further ado, or whatever, here is the podcast and the show notes.

• Kicking things off with a Geography tangent.
• Answering the questions posed in a forum thread.
• Selezen asks “Do you count the costume of a character to be an integral part of the character design?”
• Tara Tallan asks “What do you use as reference for your spaceship/spacestation/alien planet settings?” and “do you use reference for characters?” and I have something in my eye.
• The debate rages on: Who’d win in a fight between Hal Solo and Indiana Jones?
• The “Save Dollhouse!” campaign, and why it might exist before the show has even aired.
• Briefly: Morality in comics. Very briefly.

Episode 13 – Collision Course (Bom-bom-BOM!)

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We didn’t get to record an episode last week, which isn’t bad because you had two episodes the week before. Still, here’s this week’s one. Apologies for not getting it up earlier in the week – it’s been a busy one for me, I’m afraid. Still, here are some NOTES concerning the SHOW for you to read with your EYES.

• “We’re talking about things this week.”
• We comb through Station V3, likely crushing Tom’s spirit.
• Yet another Technobabble response, this time to a comment left by an anonymous stranger, lurking in the shadows of our website.
• Do Spy Movies count as Science Fiction?
• A response to Padraig Dennison’s email about our scifi influences.

Episode 12 – With Special Guest Dino Andrade

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At just over 1 hour 35 minutes, this is our longest PodWarp 1999 to date. With that in mind, we’ve prepared something special: some show notes.

• Introducting our special guest, Dino Andrade – voice actor and founder of SoulGeek.
• We discuss with Dino the origins of SoulGeek, and the future of the site including the planned Webcomic portal.
• Dino talks briefly about auditioning for the voice of Skull in PVP: The Series.
• It’s my turn to have a new one torn: We discuss Jump Leads, and I die a little inside. Also, I get very defensive.
• How you guys do your star fields. Tyson Sukeforth and Jacob Stockton separately suggested this Tutorial by Greg Martin. Steve Troop’s tutorial, which we discuss in the podcast itself, is below the show notes.
• Story-driven scifi comics Vs. Gag-a-Day scifi comics.
• Briefly: Starlog Magazine, and their “Scifi Movie of the Year” list, from which the “Scifi Vs. Fantasy” debate sparks up again.

And now Steve Troop’s star field Tutorial:

use a sharpie to black in all the backgrounds.
Wet a toothbrush under the faucet (I don’t recommend using your daily toothbrush for this — a new one used expressly for this purpose or an old one you no longer use on your teeth).
Shake a bottle of Pro-White (Professional White Out) and open it. Some of the Pro-White will stick to the cap. Rub the wet toothbrush in the cap so that a thinned-out layer of Pro-White is on the bristles.
Put the toothbrush near the surface of the blacked-out starfield. Run your thumb from the tip of the brush towards you, so that the bristles will spring back towards the paper and deposit little specks of white all over the drawing (you can mask out other artwork by covering it with scrap pieces of paper, but usually people won’t notice the extra speck on mostly-white artwork).
Wait for it to dry. You can go back over some areas with a pen to make parts less dense. Or you can add a star or two with a fine brush. The nice things about doing it this way are that the stars appear on your artwork (in case you sell originals) and the stars are completely random.

Hope this helps!
Thanks Steve!

Episode 8 – “The Least Best Episode Ever”

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You want some show-notes with that?

• Everyone’s back! Huzzah!
• We discuss Outsider, and potentially ruin Jim’s life.
• Website design – ad placement.
• What with us running out of steam, we talk about Red Dwarf and Doctor Who. Again. Jim expresses dissatisfaction with the revived series.
• Hats.
• A brief, poorly thought-out review of Scott Kurtz’ Truth, Justin, and the American Way.
• We briefly discuss old 70s TV shows. Then we run out of steam completely

Episode 7

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What, you want show notes too? *grumble grumble*

• Mark Mekkes is out this week due to illness. We all hope he gets better soon.
• We respond to Adam Y’s comment concerning Technobabble.
• Things we hate about our comics.
• People who believe stuff that isn’t actually stuff.
• We talk a little more about the Good Ship Chronicles reboot.
• More things we hate about our comics.
• Fan feedback.