Links to Somewhere

Alright folks, I finally changed all the episode links here on the blog and on my thread on the VGU Network.  They all connect to DeviantArt, and appear to be working the way they should.  Please let me know if you find any broken links.  Feel free to ignore my previous instructions regarding "appropriate viewing resolutions", as they are no longer valid, and I am to lazy to go back and edit them out  XP

Links to No Where

So, apparently, the entire Mega series of sites has been shut down, including MegaUpload and MegaPix.  What this means for us here in Comicville is that all the posted links for my images and episodes now go no where.  Given the fact that it is almost time for me head off to Never Never Land, I will redo the links over the weekend.  Thankfully, I don't have to re-upload all the disconnected content, as all the episodes for The Phoenix Imperative are already on Deviant Art, and that is to where the links will now lead.

On the bright side, no more choosing the correct resolution to read the comic with :)

Busier Than Usual

Well, it has only been, what, a week since I posted Episode 13 of The Phoenix Imperative, and now I have three more Episodes for you folks to read.  As usual, choose an appropriate resolution to view them with.

Episode Fourteen: Reporting In
Episode Fifteen: Friendly Dinner Coversation
Episode Sixteen: A New Friendship

And Another New Episode

Yes, slowly but surely, not to mention sporadically, I continue to work on The Phoenix Imperative.  Here, finally, for your reading pleasure, is Episode 13!

Episode Thirteen: The Law Comes to Town

Enjoy :)

Finally, a New Episode!

Ok, I have one new episode for you folks.  Hopefully I can stay away from New Vegas and the Lonesome Road long enough to produce a few more soon...

Episode Twelve: The Ghosts of Megaton

11.11.11

No, the title is most definitely NOT in reference to Skyrim!!!

It is in reference to the fact that November 11th is Remembrance Day here in Canada, and Veteran's Day in the US.  This year I wanted to do something to commemorate it, and all the Skyrim crap just helped me along.  No, I am not pissed off at the game, just the poor choice in timing for its release on Bethesda's part.  It is a gimmick, and a badly timed one me thinks.

Okay, enough about that, moving on.

My original idea for a screen shot involved quite a number of characters, most of which, although you may be familiar with them, have not yet appeared in The Phoenix Imperative.  I really didn't see the point of including characters that might confuse people, not to mention be more of a spoiler than I intended.  So, I went with something much simpler, and more personal to the people involved.

You will see only three characters here in FO3's version of Arlington National Cemetery, Cameron, vancleef's Silas Caine, and Yorak, the game personality of vancleef's younger brother.  I remember learning earlier this year, on Memorial Day in the US, that vancleef and Yorak had lost a grandfather to WW2.  I have an uncle that survived being in the infantry during that time, and he still suffers from the horrors he witnessed over there.  The three of us are the only ones I know on the Nexus that have been personally touched by war in some degree, so I thought this attempt at honouring today would be best.  I hope you do to.

Included after the image is the original text from the posting on the Nexus.  I will link the image here with the Nexus posting, for anyone that cares to comment there, and show your support by endorsing it if you can.

 

In my time here as a member of the Nexus community, I have had the good fortune to meet many good people.  Some of these folks have been personally touched by war.  My good friend vancleef and his younger brother Yorak lost a grandfather to the WW2.  Another gentleman was a veteran of, if memory serves me correctly, the Iraq war.  He lost a good friend and squad mate to enemy fire...right before his eyes.  I have an uncle that was in the infantry during WW2, and to this day, he still, on occasion, wakes up screaming from nightmares about what he saw and did.

It is for these people and many others that have had their lives touched by war that I post this image.  I want them to know that the sacrifices of their friends, family and loved ones are not forgotten.  If nothing else, I hope this image makes everyone that sees it stop and think...and remember.

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, when the last bell tolls, please take the time to honour our heroes, both past and present.

War...war never changes...

But maybe we can...

Teaser

Alright, it has been quite sometime since I last posted episodes of The Phoenix Imperative, but things have not gone well for me over the last couple of weeks, and I just couldn't find the drive to work on it.  My creativity has been slowly creeping back over the weekend though.  I managed to do a handful of unrelated images over the last week, and went back to work on the comic Saturday.  I ended up being a wee bit unhappy with what little I did get done, so I have been revising the poses and animations I chose for the script.  The work still continues, but I don't expect any finished episodes until sometime next weekend.  With Remembrance Day coming up in Canada (Veterans Day for you folks in the US) I have a piece I want to get finished for that first.  I am waiting to hear back from my Nexus friend vancleef about the use of another character for this shot, but I will most likely proceed with it without the character.  I expect to be fiddling around with getting the poses right for the few characters I will be using, so I will see what I can do for now, and I can include the missing character later on.  If I have the poses chosen for the existing characters, adding in one more won't be that big of an issue for me.

For now though, I will leave you with this teaser shot for Episode 12: The Ghosts of Megaton and Episode 13: The Law Comes to Town.  Here we have Sasha Ashe, Silas Caine and Ghost on the set at Moriarty's Saloon.