"Spectacles of Doom" (an ongoing multi-part sci-fi adventure comic).

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Episode 15, scene 6, pages 1-5:

 

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Episode 15, scene 6, pages 6:

Picture #2 - various papier mache masks used on the show. From right to left: Red; Mr. Uultarre; and the Cosmic Carrot (not appearing in Spectacles of Doom):

 

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Episode 16, scene 1, pages 1-2:

 

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the Cosmic Carrot (not appearing in Spectacles of Doom):

Aww...and he looks cool, too. 😛 And from the looks of things, at lease one crewmember is likely to be disintigrated or skewered before the Commander gets back. Go directly to ludicrous speed, Commander!

 

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"Ludicrous Speed"! Viva Spaceballs! I'm sorry now that I didn't make more of an effort to include the Cosmic Carrot in the festivities... he was an ambassador, not a crew member, and all his show functions later became assumed by Dr Siederbaum (they were both Zen-ish pacifists from the planet Botanica)... but he was recognizable character, one of the few a specific actor played, and I really ought to have squeezed him in somewhere. As to crew members being disintegrated, there'll be no direct reference to this incident again. However... certain characters will be seen again, and some will not. One may draw one's own conclusions! 😀

 

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Episode 16, scene 2, pages 1-5:

 

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I must say it is rather interesting, the juxtaposition of the height of technology in the Gorgonhelm, X-Minus-Zero, and all the accompanying technology therein with the sword and shields the Commander and his band of not so merry commandos (Well, maybe Troppo is merry. 😛) carry.

 

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Looks like the commander is up for some S&D!!!!! w00t!!!

This latest pages have been very interesting. Bunch of guys vs a bulldozer! Just comes to show what a great imagination you have 🙂

 

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I must say it is rather interesting, the juxtaposition of the height of technology in the Gorgonhelm, X-Minus-Zero, and all the accompanying technology therein with the sword and shields the Commander and his band of not so merry commandos (Well, maybe Troppo is merry. 😛) carry.

The disparity is deliberate (Blast! I can sneak nothing past you!) Its the same dilema George Lucas faced in Star Wars (something he worked out better than me... but then, George is a geeenius)... keeping combat close and intimate in an atmosphere of firearms. My approach was two-fold: first, to take differing levels of cultural development into account. Lithia, for instance, comes from a D&D-type world that never discovered gunpowder (and actually such invention had nothing to do with me. The character, her background and her traits were all devised by the girl who played the part). Lithia uses a sword because that's what she's been trained with and knows intimately. Second was to make hand-to-hand weaponry personal to its user, so that carrying one became a point of pride. Any underling can point and fire a gun (well, no... it's not really that easy, but we made it seem so on the show)... learning to duel takes discipline and a sense of honor.

And, yes, Troppo is ever merry! It's built into his DNA!

This latest pages have been very interesting. Bunch of guys vs. a bulldozer!

Thank you, Janus! A nice compliment! I'm glad you enjoyed that bit! It was most likely inspired by the tug-of-war scene in Mighty Joe Young (the 1949 RKO version... I've never seen the Disney remake, so don't know if the incident is in there too), where Joe is pitted against a dozen of the day's best-known professional wrestlers! I wanted some activity where regular crew could become involved (considering the possible outcome, I'm not sure they were flattered by the thought!) Too, I was anxious to establish the waste disposal facility and its disintegrator... this hazard will be seen again!

 

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Episode 16, scene 3, pages 1-5:

 

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Episode 16, scene 3, pages 6-10:

 

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Episode 16, scene 3, pages 11-13:

 

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Alone? What is he, mad? Has he gone, dare I say, quackers? (Ba dum bum.) 😛 Soon all will be revealed. I find the image of the Professor, surrounded by his massive doom machines, to be a most amusing one, aye aye.

 

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Quackers!!!? :laughing: Mallard-based blasphemy! Let's just say the Commander's feeling down (... down... you know, like in "eiderdown"... man, humor is sad when it comes with an explanation!) His Achilles heel is his exaggerated sense of personal responsibility, particularly where the crew is concerned. So perhaps he may be forgiven if his thinking's a little foggy. And, of course, I needed an excuse to break the force up a bit for dramatic tension!

Professor Trapezoid is a spindly stick figure (GM, always frail from his diabetes, played that part in addition to the Commander), though a giant intellect. Fred-16 was his muscle on the show, and I wanted to bolster the image that much more by injecting models 1-15 into the story. A real pain, coming up with that many distictive retro-robot designs. A missed opportunity, too... I'd always wanted to fabricate a man-sized Mr. Machine robot, with the light-bulb noze, wind-up key and superfluous top hat... this would have been the perfect place to drop one in!

 

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Episode 16, scene 4, pages 1-5:

 

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Episode 16, scene 4, pages 6-8:

 

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Episode 16, scene 5, pages 1-5:

 

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Episode 16, scene 5, pages 6-10:

 

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Episode 16, scene 5, pages 11-13:

 

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Hee! HDS was wondering if you'd make a pun off of that species name, and so you did! 😛

 

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... and between the two of us I think we've used up all the duck-oriented humor these is! :laughing: I like the new smilies, by the way.... :super_hap :cross: 🙄 😉 :redface: ... very expressive, with pleasing blush... :evil: :ayyy: :umm: :] :unwell: :dead: :laughing:

 

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Episode 16, scene 6, pages 1-5:

 

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Episode 16, scene 6, pages 6-7:

 

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Episode 17, scene 1, pages 1-5:

 

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I should have anticipated a connection between those two plant men. Woohoo did Jones look peeved. XD