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mlai on Sept. 10, 2007
Drawn by Mlai. Lettered by DigitalCAPS. Top page banner coloured by Whirlwynd.
Read the companion series FIGHT 2; each story follows a group of characters in the same world.
No, those weren't storm clouds in the last panel of the previous page. Those were night clouds illuminated by starlight/moonlight.
Nuada is singing Danny Boy as he takes care of business. Even though this is supposed to be an Irish song, it's more a song popular with Irish Americans than with Ireland Irish. Also, it was written by an Englishman.
These are the original lyrics in entirety:
Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountainside.
The summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying
'Tis you, ‘tis you must go and I must bide.
But come ye back when summer’s in the meadow
Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow,
For I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow.
Oh Danny Boy, oh Danny Boy, I love you so.
And when ye come, and all the flowers are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be,
Ye'll come and find the place where I am lying
And kneel and say an Ave there for me.
And I shall hear, tho' soft you tread above me,
And all my dreams shall warmer, sweeter be,
And if you bend and tell me that you love me,
Then I shall sleep in peace until you come to me.
mlai at 9:07AM, Sept. 21, 2007
Um... Internet?
Evil Emperor Nick at 6:53AM, Sept. 21, 2007
Was there anything the 80's didn't have?
mlai at 3:06PM, Sept. 18, 2007
Yeah. Apparently it's an 80's cartoon, though I've never known of it until now, when I was context surfing thru Disgaea sites. Go to Youtube and search for "Defenders of the Earth".
Evil Emperor Nick at 11:53AM, Sept. 18, 2007
Awsome! I am sooo looking forward to that then. Also the Phantom and Mandrake in a cartoon together with Flash???????????????? O_O
mlai at 5:00PM, Sept. 12, 2007
@ EEN: Hmm, ok, Kurtis. I actually have a role for him. I wanted to avoid anything popular and/or recent, and anything from Japan actually gets minus points... but Kurtis actually fits the role better than what I had in mind. Not just because of his background, but because his face is that classic Jpnese archetype - [url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheLancer]the eagle-eyed condor-beaked 2nd-banana ranger[/url]. I'm only saying this out loud because I have enough twists in store to not need the extra mystery. And thru context surfing, I found the true [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nm_jJBkHtU]Defenders of the Earth[/url] lol! [i]Out of the sky, His rockets ignite, Jets into battle, Faster than light... FLASH GORDON! Out of the jungle, The hero who stalks, The beasts call him brother, The ghost who walks... PHANTOM! Master of magic, Spells and Illusion, Enemies crumble, In fear and confusion... MANDRAKE! His strength is a legend, His skills conquer all, Armed with his power, We never would fall... LOTHAR! [cue chorus]Defenders of the Earth~!!
Evil Emperor Nick at 2:54PM, Sept. 12, 2007
I really like this page visually. I lot of nice detail and the even pacing. It remeinds me in an odd way of Dr. Strangelove in the scene where Peter Seller(SP)'s character is just slowly turning off lights in his office while the rest of the plot entangles itself. Also I agree on Mary-Sue hate, anything to avoid that is probably a good thing. You know who would be great in this comic? Kurtis! From Disgaea 1....okay well maybe not but I'd still like to see what he would look like in this comic. I'm willing to bet it would be pretty awsome looking. Any chance we could just see how you might draw said character at some point doing something cool for your fans?
mlai at 5:28AM, Sept. 12, 2007
@ DM: The entirety of ch.3 is that. Originally the story was ch.2 -> ch.4. Ch.3 was thought up and inserted later on, in order to prevent Mary-Sueism.
Darth Mongoose at 3:52AM, Sept. 12, 2007
Nice attention to detail and slow pacing to build atmosphere and chaacter. You don't see that a lot in webcomics, normally only in print manga.
Rockster1039 at 5:01PM, Sept. 11, 2007
fav'd