Random Encounter table

[kingandy]

For those who keep track of such things, there are three new Random Encounters up at http://randomencounters.webhop.net . Two of them have been in SOS newsletters already and one is due for this month.

Thought about holding it back until batelf went to press, but if I did that then I wouldn't get around to putting it up for three months on account of me being pathetic. And it's late and I'm going to bed. Kisses!

[Edited to correct inference of procrastination. I'm the shit one, not batelf.]

Comments

[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

This is the first time I looked at any of your stuff properly. You're good.

[kingandy]

Thank you kindly. People keep telling me that, I am dangerously close to believing them.

The Powerpuff Girls one was better in pencils, because I can swirl the pencil around until I get a good circle, but when I come to ink it I only get one shot. Their heads are misshapen and distended as a result. Jack Skellington was easier because his head is meant to be misshapen...

I meant to spend Sunday scanning and colouring things I've done over the last year but then people came around made me watch movies with them. I have such a backlog things are starting to get lost, which is sad.

[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

I realise you prolly get asked this a lot but have you considered writing something a bit longer? Or maybe you already do and I'm just being dim. The strips have a nice look and feel to them, but the jokes are in some cases too obscure. Having said that, you do capture the essence of LRP: I like the way the make-up is done. Not a visual-art person meself but i know what I like.

obscurity...

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

A lot of Andy's random encounters can come across as obscure because they tend to be based on events that happened and therfore may not make sense to non-SoSites. Its all part of our cunning plan to ensnare you all into the clique :-P

Re: obscurity...

[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

I'd realised the stripes were based on SoS, but at that particular step in the no-sleep-cycle I was a bit less than coherent. Sorry. The more generic ones are still funny. The "Aargh", "Maharg", "Aye" strip is funny without knowing anyone involved (to a LRPer anyway), as is "You do realise she's married to someone else, not you?"/"A technicality" one (which works on a completely non RP level).

[kingandy]

As Alex says, most of Random Encounters is intended to be elitest and cliquey. The Director's Commentary on the website should clear a few things up, but it's hard to tell what's clear and what isn't sometimes, being somebody on the inside...

I have the occasional dalliance with longer strips as evidenced in the gallery, but my problem is that I can't be bothered working up a script for the whole story at once. I'll write and draw a page, then a couple more, then get bored and do something else and never go back to it. I'm quite fond of this two page strip - my attempt at a fight scene - but it goes nowhere and does nothing. I don't know where they are or what they're doing, or even who the goatee character is to any real degree. What I really need is a script, and somebody to tie me down and make me draw. And, you know, to be independently wealthy.

[ghostbritain.livejournal.com]

The goatee guy is obviously a Euthanatos mage...

[kingandy]

Yes, actually he is. Now that I think about it I did come up with some things for him; he focusses on Spirit magic rather than Entropy, purely so that he can have a car with an awakened spirit that he pretends is a chauffeur. He also likes to appear and disappear mysteriously through the Umbra (pure showmanship), though he probably doesn't do that much since Revised...

[kingandy]

Crap. Two page.

[ed-fortune.livejournal.com]

As it happens, we need a cool design to stick on a T-shirt so we can fund Pagga.

And your art rocks. Would you like to Volunteer?

[arwel.livejournal.com]

Yes he would. As his manager I'll be taking 15%.

[kingandy]

I think I already told Mark I would do something. i will, when I stop procrastinating.

Pay not attention to Arwel, he is not my pimp. He gets nothing from me but love.