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The Iron Ninja

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Indigo_Dingo said:
The character dialogue seems to be picked on the spate of ludicrous randomness. The form itself is different from the randomness of, say, Monty Python, by the clever and well done set-up and the contrast between the expected result and the actual result being the thing thats so funny. The Ludicrous randomness can't get that, because theres simply no build up, no active expected result - w know something random is going to happen, and so its not as funny because its not unexpected.

A practical example we all know - the Lumberjack song. When he begins, its the epitomy of manliness, but as it goes by, he says that he's a crossdresser, but says it with that same kind of pride. But as we were expecting on a number of levels for this to be one of those old timey-musical interludes, the confession came out of nowhere. Here we have a man dressed like a Ninja with a crab on his shoulder - we already know its random, so more random isn't going to be funny.
While I appreciate the thought you've put into this, you've missed the point.
I've always been a Ninja with a crab on my shoulder, it's my avatar, If I put the Iron Ninja into a comic, that's what he's going to look like.

And in all honestly, humour isn't my primary goal here, the story comics are meant to be just that, a story, I highly doubt anything in them is ever going to make anyone fall of their chair, a bemused smirk will do just fine.

Besides, the last story comic was more of an introduction to the characters than anything else.

And as for the character dialogue seemingly being picked on the spate of ludicrous randomness, well I'm sorta making things up as I go along, so it's not going to be that coherent a lot of the time.

But I do apologise for not being Monty Python, I should have considered this before I started and you have my heartfelt thanks for pointing it out.

dekkarax said:
anyway, I have one question for you your ferrousnous. Why does Gerald only have six legs when regular crabs have eight?
Because Gerald isn't a regular crab.
Also because the first time I drew him I gave him only six legs by accident.
GenHellspawn said:
The last time I was in an RP was probably in March
Fine, I'll revise the statement, "As well as the people I've already said are going to be featured, I'm eventually going to get around to including all the major RP fellows."
Better?
SecretTacoNinja said:
Just throwing it out there but, how about sticking another food-orientated Ninja in there? ;D
That would make a really awesome tag team.
 

Lord Krunk

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Indigo_Dingo said:
smallharmlesskitten said:
Ultrajoe said:
Indigo_Dingo said:
The character dialogue seems to be picked on the spate of ludicrous randomness. The form itself is different from the randomness of, say, Monty Python, by the clever and well done set-up and the contrast between the expected result and the actual result being the thing thats so funny. The Ludicrous randomness can't get that, because theres simply no build up, no active expected result - w know something random is going to happen, and so its not as funny because its not unexpected.
MAY THE FIRE THAT MADE THE ANGELS WEEP SET A CRUSADE OF DAMNATION UPON YOUR HEATHEN FLESH!!

I agree to an extent, but i think he was aiming for novelty rather than high humor. If you do have any ideas for comics involving high humor, send them to him.
I don't believe you Iron your clothes...
How do you iron armour? Use your head.

I quite enjoyed this comic as well, but it looks pretty stand-alone when you could have written him into the story. For example, you could have him as some sort of demon-sorcerer searching for the source of ultimate power:

THE BANHAMMER.

Actually, I could see that working.
 

PurpleRain

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Indigo_Dingo said:
How do you iron armour? Use your head.
He has a cape. Well, I'd imagine he would. Ultrajoe, do you have a cape?

Ultrajoe said:
Indigo_Dingo said:
Are we allowed to harshly criticize it, or must we all do this "oh you're so talented" and "thank you for sharing" bullshit?
Fire away.

But i am honor bound to respond with brutal and Ultra force. There may be no survivors.
Aside from me of course. We're like, best buds or something that doesn't get me killed. isn't that right? (Shakes fist)
 

Ultrajoe

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PurpleRain said:
Indigo_Dingo said:
How do you iron armour? Use your head.
He has a cape. Well, I'd imagine he would. Ultrajoe, do you have a cape?
An Ultracape. It gets Ultrastains.

Aside from me of course. We're like, best buds or something that doesn't get me killed. isn't that right? (Shakes fist)
I don't choose the collateral, i just make the explosions.
 

SmugFrog

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Awesome, Ninja. I like how you have a picture of yourself and Gerald above your desk. Like seeing Gerald just makes you happy in life. :D
 

TheGhostOfSin

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I have an idea for your longer comics, split them into smaller ones so you can finish one and then only put it upt bit by bit so you have more than a week to do the next one.

Eventually you will build up a stock of comics not yet released but still finished, so you don't always have to rush them.
 

GenHellspawn

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The Iron Ninja said:
GenHellspawn said:
The last time I was in an RP was probably in March
Fine, I'll revise the statement, "As well as the people I've already said are going to be featured, I'm eventually going to get around to including all the major RP fellows."
Better?
Yes, and thank you. If you're seriously using the Escapist/murder idea, this should be pretty good.
 

ThaBenMan

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Very cool. Great job, Iron Ninja. If you polished it up some, I would even suggest submitting one for the next volume of Flight [http://www.flightcomics.com/], this awesome anthology of quirky comics. Your comics (not the Ultrajoe one, but the "story" based ones) have a very similar vibe to many of the comics I've seen in those books, and is even of a higher quality than quite a few as well.

Anyway, keep up the good work. I look forward to reading more :D
 

Singing Gremlin

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I giggled. Very well done mate. And don't fret too much about getting everyone in! I imagine (not that I have any experience in the matter, mind), that if you spend all your time trying to shoe-horn people it'd be easy to lose the good stuff. Just my thoughts. So well done, good luck, and I look forward to your future strips.