Hey! That can’t be good!
On the plus side, today’s comic features the return of Eva, Toby, and Mysterious Villain #1.
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So, it’s a new month, that means you should run to topwebcomics.com and vote for Clockworks. While you’re there, you may want to vote for Red Moon Rising and The Becoming.
There’s a new vote incentive up, a jumbo version of panel 2.
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So, the war last month with Red Moon Rising didn’t go so well. March started well, I declared war, you guys all rallied around and we were totally kicking her ass. Then, she went and told her fans about it, and they rallied around her and voted a bunch! Totally unfair. So the new plan is to declare war with Rose and not tell her. So guys, no one let her know that we are still and always at war.
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Went to the Penny Arcade book signing event last night at the Mad Art Gallery. I learned what Kris Straub smells like, briefly met Jerry and Mike, got my book signed, and had Mike draw dicks in my friends’ copies. You can see evidence of the latter here. (Warning, cartoon penis, your work may frown on that sort of thing.)
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That’s about it for today. No April Fool’s Day jokes, unless you count the video above.
Sorry, but when I saw the last panel I couldn’t help but think;
“How you do like your Troll? Lightly grilled or well roasted?”
This is just sick. I LOVE this page. Can’t wait for Tues!
Addenda:
1: I should note that even though Rose won the March War pretty solidly, Clockworks came out about a dozen spots ahead of where we were in February.
2: If anyone is really bored, the wiki could use some updating. Recent comics have shed some light on magic, religion, Mysterious Villain #1, and I’m sure other things.
J – thanks!
Oh yeah, yesterday Rob Donoghue wrote about Clockworks over on his blog. Short version, he liked it:
http://rdonoghue.blogspot.com/2010/03/something-i-read.html
ooh – fire!
(Though I’m sure our resident heroes are not so happy about the flame thrower…)
Hehehehe, Panel 2 made me think “ahhhh, So many options, so little time”.
Great work in resolving the static moment of surprise with the flowing flame attack.
Flamebot rules!!!!
Wow, that was a big jump.
I’m sure when I saw it an hour ago the vote counter was 111. O.o
That’s the advantage of having a comic come out on the first. We have a day head start on all those suckers with MWF comics.
I don’t know why, but the little sound effects (like “chugga chugga”) I always find amusing.
I like the way the bots are hiding around the corner in the first panel. You can almost hear one going “tee hee!”
That was a late addition. I realized they had to come from somewhere, and liked the idea that the characters are just tired enough to not notice the half dozen or so giant clanking clockbots lurking ahead of them.
Ophelia! Can I have some water? Please!
Squeeeeeeeee!
My wish has finally been granted! and with exponentially more awesome deliverance!
I also enjoyed the hiding of the clockbots in panel 1.
Troll en flambe
I love it.
I too enjoyed the lurking clockbots in the first panel…you can almost hear the evil chuckles
Gah! O_o Look out, Eva!!!!
Someone’s gonna lose their eyebrows!
Any other day, the best thing in my day would be visualizing all those robots jumping out at once to ambush them.
Today, the best thing in my day is the new Dwarf Fortress release. Sorry. At least I can guiltlessly drop both you and RMR votes now.
woah, those firebots are so awesome! kinda like the robots in the golden army, but more cooler.
I love the second panel; just so many different robots is so cool.
Remember kids: always stay alert on the road. You never know when a flamethrower-happy band of killer robots will jump out at you.
Yay! Toothy!
When Rob wrote about how this comic captures the best of all its ingredients, and encases them in a sugary suspension of the visual elements of steampunk, these three panels are what he was talking about.
So many things about this page speak to how you have made the genre a part of Clockworks, and made Clockworks a part of the genre. Its not about the robots (those are nice of course) it the lines, the shadows, the light, the angles… its very strong work.
I don’t know if I have to vocabulary to talk about it. Might be time to read ‘Understanding Comics’ again, and take another stab at it.
>B
Thank you very much.
I’m on to you, Gaston.
What? There’s nothing to be on to me about. Nothing at all…
What does this Rose person mean? On to what? [Opens another window.] Oh! Rose does one of those brooding comics about people with dark pasts. They live tough lives that only get more perilous as they drawn into plots laid by powerful people. Well…I suppose writing plots like that could make a person kinda paranoid.
I was at the Penny Arcade panel at Mad Art as well. Too bad I didn’t know otherwise I would have said hi or something. Anyway, keep up the great comics!
Thanks! I was the guy asking what Kris Straub smelled like.
Brilliant question, btw. =P
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