Author: littlemute

Massive Exalted Gallery

This dude posted 700+ Exalted images to his picasa.  Comics, almost all the art from first and second edition as well as some (good and bad) fan made art.  Great stuff and lots of carnage and boobs.

Mraakbowl Finals: Goatseed 2, Skinny Dippers 1

We got to see a lot of this action during the game.

Ah Nuffle.  How you tease and cajole with your spins of the dice and then crush with impunity at your fickle whims.  Chaos had their way with the Skaven in the Mraakbowl final and the dice chose Khorne  and the gang over the children of the Horned Rat— by a landslide.  Though the score was close, the butchers bill by the end of the second half was fairly ridiculous, with only four Skaven players, including a Rat Ogre who couldn’t seem to get himself up off the pitch for most of the game, were able to watch in dejection as one of the Goatseed beastmen ran it into the endzone slow-like surrounded by his stinking, frothing brethren.  The Skaven had a few opportunities to get the ball back, but just couldn’t get the luck when they needed it.  The game almost went into overtime when, on the final turn of the game, a beastman blocked a gutter runner so his team-mate could waltz into the endzone without having to dodge and it came up double skulls and a block result.  Without a reroll, it would have been another half of beatings for the Skaven (and only Nuffle knows what the score would have been).

Hopefully the league was a good time had by all (well, we did have our newb whipping boy in the coach of the Dust Pumpers) and let’s do another one!

Final Standings

  • 1st Goatseed (Chaos)
  • 2nd Skinny Dippers (Skaven)
  • 3rd Atlantis Falcones (Amazons)
  • 4th Mad Dragons (Norse)
  • 5th Avalon Avengers (High Elves)
  • 6th Undead (Dust Pumpers)

Best Scorer

  • Slit Slut – Skinny Dippers

Most Casualties

  • Julius – Avalon Dragons (yes a friggin’ HIGH ELF)

Most Running Yards

  • Athena – Atlantis Falcons

Best Tosser

  • Athena – Atlantis Falcons

Mraakbowl Finals!

The Skinny Dippers (Skaven) and Goatsee (Chaos) made it into the finals of the Mraakbowl.

The Norse team (top seed) was knocked out of the running after a hard fought 4-2 shoot out with the Skaven. While the Norse are arguably the worse team in Blood Bowl, their coach is arguably the best coach in this league to have brought them so far.

The Amazons, in contrast, are one of the better Blood Bowl teams, but just couldn’t stem the tide of Chaos, losing 2-0 in what amounted to a big frown from Nuffle on all of Amazonia and the inevitable questioning by the coach of the dodge skill’s existence if his ladies can’t dodge worth a damn.  Chaos, on the other hand, was dodging up a storm with everyone on the team as if they had greased themselves up with pig-fats.  Shockingly, none of the Chaos team made the leaderboard for most casualties inflicted, a sad state of affairs that will likely be rectified during the Mraakbowl Final.

Stay tuned to see whether or not Nuffle favors the Horned Rat or He who sits on a Brass Throne atop a Mountain of Skulls.

Bulldogs funded!

some sort of ewok/ badger style alien...

Looks like my first Kickstart backing has made it’s mark and is going to press shortly.  While this one worked out, the Kickstart system is essentially ‘pledge to buy it before it exists’ which is a huge risk of something totally sucking ass.  You don’t get charged until the funding goal is met so you’re covered if it doesn’t make it’s funding (and most projects on there don’t).    I think a few lessons from watching this and some other projects–have your shit close to done, if not totally done, so you can show off pieces to people and let them know that “hey this is not just an idea, this is something real, we just need funding to publish it or get through X phase.”  Artwork is also key at the funding stage.  If you can put together some good comps that spark the imagination in people, the cash is probably going to flow pretty well.  One kickstart I saw had a description of “I don’t want anyone to steal the idea” which is silly because HUNDREDS of people have had the same idea and will probably not get it executed.   Needless to say, that had no funding at all.

So I’m looking forward to seeing the Bulldogs book and will be checking Kickstart for good stuff which I’ll post.  The awesome thing is that this system totally circumvents the current publishing system while allowing people to not have to take out big loans or self-fund their (good) ideas.

Comic/Culture blog ’84-’91: the “Copper Age”

As, the so-called “Copper Age” basically encompasses my Junior High School through High School years, I find Very Fine / Near Mint to be entirely engrossing with it’s period comic coverage and music and wrestling videos.  As much as I am a kid of the 70’s and shamefully look back to ALL that stuff with pure unabated nostalgia (even when so much of it was crap), I have an entirely cynical view of anything that even slightly approached crap during the “copper age.”

That said, what happened in ’92 to make the cut off for this period ’91? I certainly remember getting back to college in the fall of ’92 and noticing a distinct change in the kids on campus, clothing, music, attitudes as if the grown ups were suddenly gone. For the focus of this blog especially–Image Comics hit the comic world like the Thing’s knock out punch-a hit we’re still feeling to this day; and of course no one could really look fondly the same way at Poison or Motley Crue videos after Nirvana came around.