Assorted Miracles
Posted November 29th, 2006 by Howard TaylerIf you live in the Toronto area, my buddy Jim is having a book-launch party this Thursday night for The Makeshift Miracle, a brilliant gem of a story he first put online something like four years ago. He re-drew and recolored a bunch of it for print, and it really shines. Please stop by and support him in this — tell him Howard sent you, and I’m sure you’ll get a warm welcome.
Not that you wouldn’t get one anyway. Jim is great people. Not in the Toronto area? You can order Jim’s book online or through your local comics retailer.
In other miraculous news one of my all-time favorite comics - PvP - is getting animated. The 1-minute sample from the first episode looks and sounds great. The voices are spot-on, and the dialog is tight. Scott Kurtz and Blank Label Comics legend Kris Straub pushed the studio to put a top-notch team on this project, and they did.
The only down-side is that it’s kind of pricey. If you’re used to “free TV” (what we used to get via assemblages of wires on our roofs, kids) then the $30 price-tag for a dozen 5-minute episodes is going to seem steep.
Pre-order before the end of the year and it’s only $19.95 — still not free, but I’ll be plunking down the PayPal coin.
Nobody is getting rich off of this. As far as I’m able to tell it is a labor of love with some steep production costs they’d like to make back.
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November 29th, 2006 at 10:12 am
I can’t decide if I’m going to subscribe to PvP Animated or not. It’s a great comic, it pretty much introduced me to the webcomic world, but $20 does seem a little expensive. But then again, I’m weak willed, so I’ll probably end up joining.
November 29th, 2006 at 3:31 pm
I might have joined, but for the fact that Skull’s voice so TOTALLY does not match what I envision for Skull. And my way is right, darnit!
November 29th, 2006 at 9:09 pm
yeah i always figured skull sounded like benny? from loony toons “i’ll hug him and love him and call him George” I also didn’t much care for francis’ voice, it seemed pasted on rather then synched correctly. hopefully it’ll improve to be worth the price, as it is now…meh not really
December 1st, 2006 at 12:02 pm
About today’s comic: “Readers have complained that this is too graphic…” Who are these readers who have no intestinal fortitude? I was looking forward to detailed descriptions of the process.
Do the nanites produce muscle relaxants? Because otherwise all of this is highly improbably. Even the muscles in the lower arm contract violently in response to a compound fracture, so that resetting something like that on yourself by yourself would take a bit more than a little tug on the fingers. Perhaps a rope around the wrist and looped over a branch… I guess the nanites will deal with the ticklish issue of aligning the two bones in the lower arm.
But leg muscles are just a bit stronger than arm muscles, and the angle for pulling is even more awkward. On the plus side, the two bones in the lower leg don’t articulate the way those in the lower arm do, so aligning them is not quite as tricky.
Pus? How long has Kevyn been lying there? I gather that’s an artifact of the nanites?
By the way, I love the way you’re talking about nanites as if we knew how they work. Did you get some of these ideas from Greg Bear’s “Blood Music”?
December 1st, 2006 at 12:58 pm
Thanks for the reminder about Mr. Zubkavich’s book; it had slipped what remains of my mind. I have now remedied that oversight and expect to have his work in hand soon.
December 3rd, 2006 at 9:27 pm
There’s no reason why the nannies wouldn’t produce muscle relaxants. If they’re smart enough to manipulate Kevyn’s capillaries to print instructions, they’re smart enough to help.
Mind you, I don’t think the depictions of the nannies in the final panels of Monday’s and Saturday’s strips are meant to be taken literally. For one thing, eyes that size wouldn’t be terribly useful, except perhaps as parts of a synthetic aperture array. If I’ve got the scale right (looking at Saturday’s strip - human erythrocytes are 6 to 8 microns across) those pupils are smaller than a wavelength of visible light, so they can’t tell which direction non-carcinogenic light’s coming from.
December 3rd, 2006 at 9:33 pm
And of course there’s the unconnected axons in Monday’s strip, but pointing those out doesn’t spoil Fantastic Voyage. Heh.