All right, though I know I have cool and exciting stuff to add this week I can’t really think of it all right now. But I’ll dig up what I can manage to remember.
First, the page! Yes. The page. Talky, maybe, but every so often it’s unavoidable.
Now, the other things. First, I’m formulating another 6-Commando contest, one which I hope will be fun for everyone, and the prizes will be quite cool, I think. But I’m not quite done with the specifics, so until I am, just know that it’s on the way!
Second, I’m gearing up for NYCC in just about one month, and it’s looking to be a great show. I can only hope that the economic panic of this summer can be set aside long enough for everyone attending to have a good time, and sell some decent product. We all have to make our living, you know! On that latter point, I’m bound to thank Denny Fincke, who I met at NYCC last year, for dropping me a very well-timed word of encouragement this week, at a moment when I happened to be feeling a bit low about my prospects. I recommend everyone check out his comic Twit Troo of the Moon – a traditional-style comic that’s VERY different from mine, but masterfully drawn, tons of fun, and definitely worth your time!
Third, I have issued the command that 6-Commando Stuff be made! It’s very modest 6-Commando Stuff, but it will be cheap and/or free, and so, I hope, likely to pique your interest, and be a harbinger of things to come.
And finally, I am in discussions on the preliminaries regarding the design of the first 6-Commando book! It’s so exciting to be getting it off the ground that I had to mention it, but as it, too, is in only the early phases, I am hesitant to go into too many details. But suffice it to say it’s promising enough that I can say that we are within a measurable distance of publication at this point, and I’m starting to get really excited about it all!
So there’s my vague and very unspecific report for the week. I know it may be a bit weak, but it was enough for me to simply make progress this week, even though it didn’t yet amount to anything concrete. But we’re on our way, for sure!
So until next week, be well, folks!
I’m reminded of Robocop, the scenes that they’d do in each movie of showing us events from Robo’s perspective and his lie-detector too. How exactly does one tell a rolling land-battleship that the world is now a smoking, irradiated ash-pile and that is very much is fault?
Mike, state your directives.
To protect the innocent. To serve the public trust. To uphold the Charter of Nations.
😀
To be honest, aside from Project 745, which has yet to appear in the story and really has no bearing in the plot, I haven’t added any Robocop references , which us strange, I guess, considering how liberal I’ve been with 2001: A Space Odyssey. But the resemblance is uncanny.
And yes, it is a bit of a delicate issue telling Mike that he may have brought Western civilization to a grinding halt. Ivwouldnt want to be the one to tell him. Neither would Col. Haulley, it seems.
–M
As long as her doesn’t respond to any command input with “By your command!” everyone should be fine.
For now.
He has a plan.
😉
–M
Who is he?
What does he want?
Where is he going?
Mike starts to creep me out, analysing people and their behaviour all the time while people can only take a educatd guess at Mike’s thoughts, “feelings” and thoughts.
Col. Haulley probably now really appreciates his suits “waste disposal” mechanism.
He does have something of an advantage. If you can call it that. But on the other hand, he’s unlike any of the other characters. His abilities are to him what introspection and memories are to the other characters. He just has a more analytic outlook on things – it’s his nature.
–M
One would suppose that there’s a diagnostic tool Mike’s groundcrew could use to graphically monitor his thought processes, as well–if those ports that tool plugs into hasn’t been welded into slag or something.
He does, both physical and wireless. He isn’t responding, is the problem.
–M
He doesn’t run on Windows, doesn’t he?
1997. What was that? Windows 3.11? I think 3.11 was rather stable and ran smoothly.
Actually he runs on a programming language developed especially for Rumblers called HALO. But I won’t wreck it for you by saying any more. 😉
–M
Hey Mike! Look at the Col. when he’s talking to you >:|
O..
(Mike Smiley?)
–M
Sorry Mike, Grimmill is glowing in the dark right now.
Well, it’s like they say: Nuke ’em till they glow, then shoot ’em in the dark!
–M
Y’know, now that I think about it, it’s pretty impressive that mike can accurately analyze a human voice after the distortion from the suit speaker (I’m assuming that there is a speaker that broadcasts the users voice outside of the suit for others to hear) AND after it filters through a mic that just took a nuclear blast 😛
Otherwise he could be talking directly to mike by radio, but theres still going to be some distortion.
He is a remarkable machine… 😉
–M
Liar, liar, pants on fire… 🙂