Howard Tayler interviewed at ComixTalk
Posted November 2nd, 2007 by Howard Tayler
In conjunction with some of this week’s news (the Blank Label/Halfpixel fission) I was interviewed by the editor over at Comixtalk.
You can read the interview here.
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November 2nd, 2007 at 8:42 pm
umm is it just me or is the Sgt currently toting BOTH of his 209s!?
juenger1701
November 3rd, 2007 at 6:36 am
Looks like both to me, too. He had them both out when the zombie erupted – and I suppose he just feels like keeping Xinchub in the scorch pattern of both of them, instead of trusting that one will do the job. So do two ominous hmmms at the same time create harmonics?
November 3rd, 2007 at 7:13 am
Just wait until he sprouts two more arms and is pointing both 209s and both multi-cannons at the (now reduced and armored) fat man.
Would that overkill?
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:19 am
There is no Overkill…
November 3rd, 2007 at 4:07 pm
mbarker: Harmonics? I assume one ommmmminous hummmm contains many harmonics. (If it had none it’d be, what, an eeeeerie beeeeeep?) Do you perhaps mean a beat?
(If the link doesn’t work, it may mean someone’s decided acoustic beats aren’t notable…)
WEKM: Now you’ve got me wondering how much of Xinchub’s bulk was fat, and how much was implants (concealed by shaping the fat around them). Then again, if he didn’t take it with him when he regenerated it probably wasn’t important.
November 3rd, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Sam: i think mbarker was wondering more if they would combine in a unison resonance since i doubt the Sgt would bother staggering his weapon cycles and since he’s more or less a distributed net he most likely doesn’t have the same CNS lag humans have though the really interesting part would be in seeing how the plasma streams reacted when they crossed
juenger1701
November 4th, 2007 at 1:32 am
Drat – I was thinking interference pattern, but knew that wasn’t the right word for sound. Beat, huh? Resonance sounds good too. Anyway, would two ominous hummms make something bigger and better? Thanks for the pointer!
November 4th, 2007 at 3:51 am
juenger1701: Staggering his weapon cycles? Beats are caused by slight differences in frequency, not phase. (Well, the difference in frequency means the difference in phase is changing, and you hear that.) Since the guns are at slightly different temperatures (because Schlock took them out of his mouth at different times) they’ll have slightly different vibrational frequencies. That’s even leaving aside questions of just how identical they are—for example I see no reason the air intakes would need to be made particularly precisely, since the gun’s not designed to be stealthy.
Crossing the beams would perhaps produce some sort of fanning out effect from particle collisions in the crossover, but given how fast they’re coming out and how little wind the air intakes produce the beams are probably too rarefied for it to be significant. The beams’d mostly just pass through each other.
November 4th, 2007 at 7:16 am
juenger1701/Sam: Wouldn’t crossing the streams result in a total protonic reversal and cause all life as you know it to stop instantaneously and every molecule in your body to explode at the speed of light?
November 4th, 2007 at 7:34 am
i’m thinking more along the lines of the turbulence generated to prevent thrust from developing as in would it potently muck up the intended direction of travel and get a whole lot of collateral damage all over everything
as for temp schlock seems to be an exotherm http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20010529.html since he’s not worried about the current temp except for damage to his eyes which he moves to his center of mass to keep warm as long as possible and the reference to his nether bits going brittle in snow http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20040707.html so the 209s should both have been at room temp the entire time and since there fabed and not manufactured they most likely come from the same reference pattern any mil-spec fabber should end up making every copy identical to the pattern thus identical to any other copy from the same pattern and since i doubt schlock will ever carry a -m again after what happened last time http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20000831.html it’s safe to assume there both BH-209-I
juenger1701 who just realized he apparently spends WAY too much time reading schlock
November 4th, 2007 at 7:37 am
Amaranthine: That’s proton beams not quite the same as plasma though that might be a good way to scare schlock into giving up some of his firepower course it may just make him want to try it
juenger1701
November 4th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Amaranthine: Nah, that reaction needs ectoplasm as a catalyst.
juenger1701: Turbulence? The question was about two ominous hums—produced by the intake phase of the weapon’s cycle.
Even if Schlock is ectothermic, he still metabolises. His insides’d be warmer than outside, for the same reason it’s warmer inside a computer than out.
Just because they’re fabbed from the same plan doesn’t mean they’re identical. What do we know about how fabbers work? If I recall correctly, nothing except that those funny-looking fabber-bots are involved. So until Howard tells us, we don’t know whether the parts that don’t require much precision are more economically fabbed at lower precision.
November 5th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Maybe if we ask nicely Howard will take Schlock down to the target range and try test firing both at the same time, so we can find out just what kind of sound two ominous hums make together? Or if he’s feeling really wild and wooly, we’ll get the combined orchestral sound of the entire mercenery troop firing on Xinchub as he escapes? (Probably has overtones of the 1914 overture, huh?) Thanks for all the help!