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| G+, Webcomic Asylum interview, green fire | Nov 08, 2011 7:28 AM PST | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:This page got a little wild. =)
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Google+ just rolled out their fan page thingies, so instead of just circling my personal G+ account--or in addition to, I should say! :D--you can now befriend the official A* Google+ page.
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There's a new interview with me about A* at Webcomic Asylum, a webcomic review blog. The interviewer is a webcomic author himself, so he knows how to get right down to it and ask the right questions! It's a good quick read, yet we manage to talk about storytelling, working in black and white, and oh so many wonderful things.
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Last week China launched Shenzou-8 toward their budding Tiangong-1 space station; the Shenzou capsules sort of follow the classic Soviet Soyuz design, but a bit larger; the name means "Divine Craft" or something like that. This article about the launch has the video feed of the launch, from cameras attached to the craft. Hm well I guess I'll just embed it here, even if YouTube videos do sorta slow the page display down a bit:
video on Youtube
What I like about the video is the bright green flame of the Long March 2F rocket carrying it (that model is according to this article; I suppose the green tint might (I don't know!) be due to the fuel it's burning, unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine ("UDMH"), a derivative of the more commonly used hydrazine. UDMH is more stable than hydrazine, especially at high temperatures, and "is used in many European, Russian, Indian, and Chinese rocket designs." Anyway, whatever it's due to, the green flame is keen.
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Here's a sharper version of part of my original rejected version of page 141 of this episode:
It was a pretty good rendering of the character, by my standards, but the pose was just too weirdly robotic; also, the perspective in the right side of the page was way too awful to show you (and in retrospect, revealing the knife rack there might have been too much foreshadowing anyhoo). For future reference, you'll find this picture in the episode 13 gallery, which is accessible from the site's "episodes" page in the top menu.
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