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Never say never, but they don't seem to have any tour plans for the near future. They did a lot of the festivals the last couple of years, I think they'll all focus on other things (such as One Day As A Lion or Street Sweeper.)

It's a shame, I would have liked to see them live.

I have really enjoyed the two Sam and Max seasons and the Strong Bad games also, so I am on board for this. Really made my day before I had to go to work.

The remake, however, I'm not too bothered about. May give it a shot, just out of loyalty.

Want to go to Rockness and Wicker Man.

Funds will probably stop me going to either.

Just wanted to show off my latest 3D animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8MywymnjxM

I was working on Free Comic Book Day this year. Absolutely gutted. At least next year I'll live closer to a store - at present it's like an hour's train journey away!

Damn you you relatively underground medium.

I use twitter.

I think it's a fun way to keep in contact with friends. Less obtrusive than facebook. That, and I can stalk celebrities.

I agree! I enjoy using it, and definitely feel no need to cite is as an important document in my life.

If it's a fad, it's a fad. Until then, I will continue using it to find out who Johnathon Ross is playing tennis with.

www.twitter.com/veryweirdguy

You guys should play it, it's pretty good. I completed it in record time!

I am officially unofficially putting my name down as a maybe for this. I'll see how funds are early August.

MEDIBOT.

There's a trial of Winrar you can download for free and use forever and ever - that should sort the problem.

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The newsvendor and the boy are seen at least once before. The newspaper truck pulls up and throws out a new edition with a news headline that moves the plot along.

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This is true! I noticed them, but they wouldn't really be noticable to someone who wasn't looking for them - a casual viewer. Maybe.

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Or maybe not. I've been trying to look at the whole thing from the perspective of someone who hasn't read it, but it's proving far too difficult.

ManicMatt:

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The idea is that Adrian has to live the rest of his life with doubts, wondering whether he made the right decision, although it didn't come across too strongly.

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Anyways, The wonderful Jess Fink put up a review here which is pretty damn agree-able-to-able.

LGM! You are correct, I read about that soon after posting here, and it indicates a couple of things I mentioned being included in the extended cut (plus, of course, things like the Black Freighter.)

HOWEVER, I don't think these will turn it into an amazing film. It felt long in the first place, and I don't think an extended version could be sat through in one setting. Not by me anyway.

I don't even mind that things were missing, it's just the things that were half-baked that bothered me.

ALSO I forgot to mention that the film makes it seem more like there is a clear "badguy" at the end, where the comic leaves the reader to decide who is right and wrong.

Some of the music choices were bizarre. Ride of the Valkyries while Dr Manhattan strides through Vietnam was cringeworthy.

The ending wasn't bad, it brought about the same outcome basically, but I felt there was no need to change it. But that might be my squid fetish kicking in?

I thought Adrian was kind of miscast. He was a bit weak and puny to be a believable hero who has trained his body to such peak position. But oh well.

But I don't want to focus on the negative, as I feel my past two posts have been moanarific. SO: things I liked:

Some of the actors! Notable Rorschach and Doc Manhattan. Dan wasn't bad either.

The opening credits! Very cleverly done to fill in a lot of backstory in a different way from the comic - this is how I feel a lot of the film should have bene made, adapted for the medium of film rather than translated directly. Whoops, sorry, I moaned again.

Some music! I really enjoyed hearing All Along The Watchtower and The Sound Of Silence through cinema speakers. Man, I wish I had big speakers.

Background stuff! A lot of background elements were clearly there for the comic nerds, such as copies of Hollis's book "Under the Hood."

In conclusion, it was...okay. I definitely think you all should see it. And then read the comic, if you haven't already. Or even if you have.

It was...okay. Saw it last night.

It was...okay.

I'm a huge fan of the comic, and have been anxious about this since like the first trailer.

Ultimately, my feeling is that Watchmen found it's ideal medium just over 20 years ago. This was an...okay movie. It was the best film we're gonna get from this source material - I don't think they could have done a better job.

Watching it though, I just thought the book has so much more depth. Notably:

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The psychologist is in it, but we don't get his full arc.

The newsvendor and kid are there when the "incident" happens, but not before at all, thus kind of diluting their appearance.

Hollis doesn't make an appearance after his first scene, elimating one of my favourite emotional moments.

The Mars scenes seemed to be resolved much more quickly.

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And so on and so forth.

In conclusion, it was...okay.

Definitely worth seeing for the conversation, and to form your own opinion.

The best thing to come out of it is that it has caused lots of people to buy and read the comic. And hopefully that causes comics to be more appreciated by a couple more people.

My flatmates don't believe that I am part of a community where both Yahtzee and Trapezoid (who they discovered via "The Ultimate Showdown") both were regular members at some point (the same time as me!)

Then they beat me silly.

Thanks for your help guys! Here's v2.0:



Slight adjustments made:

* Font changed! I liked the font but no-one else did. I concede!
* Very slight mend to the hardback part, probably not noticable, but it's not an important part I guess.
* Background made darker. Tried adjusting the saturation but did not like the results.
* Removed the yellow elements but it looked much duller. Re-added them.

Thanks very much for the advice so far! Will be e-mailing it tonight, any other suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!

SO I was asked to do a poster for an exhibition at uni about....books n stuff.

Here is what I have so far:



I would definitely appreciate any suggestions before I e-mail it to my lecturer.

You have 24 hours. GO.

www.samsbit.weebly.com

I know you asked for great sites, but my signature says it's good, so it's close.

www.perpendicular-universe.com

This is a better website than yours, SAM. ._.

Interesting you should mention this! Recently I dug through all my old posts for no real reason, I just went back to my early AGS "career" (these forums started around the time I joined up) and found nuggets of a younger me.

Man, younger me was a douche.

That's not even necessarily a strong commentary on the type of person I was then, or how I have evolved since, but how I don't like reading over what I've said. Even recent posts seemed difficult to read, in that I don't really like the way I come across. But that's more a self-image issue than a reflection of my online "persona" I guess?

What I do find interesting is finding artworks from then until now - be it animations, sketches, ideas for games, whatever. It's nice to see how I've progressed in that regard. I recently found sketchbooks from when I was 16, comics I made when I was 10 and - even better - drawings I did when I was like 6/7 of a superhero I created who basically seemed like a Batman ripoff. It was awesome.

Davy, I don't know if you know this, so I'm gonna say it as a secret:

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I love your comic very much.

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I have a Mega Drive. It's Awesome.