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the hell is a.t.x.s.?

so this is where you can post any art related type things! i bet you couldn't have figured that out for yourself, huh! "I" still needs uppercase you dummy - oh yeah!? fight me!
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aww, really? that kind of sucks. :(
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Well, we could, but it'd look like ass. Since we are expecting people to pay money for the books, we'd like to get them a product which could be reasonably considered "worth owning".
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It would be litteraly unreadable though, aod. Like, take the font size of the Acc chapter, and make it even smaller.
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Well, it would be possible to blow the pages up a bit. It'd look like ass, but, speaking literally, it's within the realm of physical possibility in this universe.

And if even we did just leave it tiny, it'd be unreadable yes, but that doesn't make it literally speaking impossible-- in the same sense that, say, traveling back in time and killing your grandfather is impossible.

But I'm being pedantic. :P
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Do you have a sample page we could see? Is it that bad?
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http://atxs.comicdish.com

Download any particular page from S1 and look at it in Photoshop. You'll notice that the resolution of the page is in web native resolution and not print-resolution (300 DPI or above).

What this means is that for any given page, if it is printed as-is at current pixel dimensions and resolutions, will appear microscopic.
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This is unfortunate, since I really liked the first season.

Just dreaming here -- but I wonder how a season 1 reboot would look? :lol:
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Probably unimaginable at present. We would only think about rebooting S1 after we'd finished the whole comic. By then, who knows how the style would have evolved? ;)
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Understandable. Are y'alls on a break from the comic? I haven't seen updates in a while :O
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Things sort of got unsettled with raocow's new job, and he's making one page a week nowadays. I'll post them all when we've finished the chapter. We're getting fairly close.
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Oh that's sad :C

However, I'm super excited for the new stuff! I love the new style raocow has adopted whether it be temporary or not. It's so moody and aaaahhhh
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You can follow raocow on tumblr. http://fastfoward.tumblr.com/

Here you can see the pages he's made recently. No text yet!
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Oh yesssss
it's the first thing that shows up when I type an F into my url bar.

Not that that's creepy or anything.
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Couldn't you just redo the lettering for a season 1 book...?

well, no, that would suck, because there'd be really hard-to-look-at art next to clear crisp text. That would look weird. :P
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I think part of it is also the style and art changes also, not just the quality. As neat as it would be to have an actual real-life copy of Season 1, I don't think we can expect to have one at least until they finish the series.
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Ah man, the monastery arc just arrived at my place (yes, I'm late, I know). I haven't looked at more than the character specs yet, but that already made me crack up. Can't wait to read the whole thing on the train soon, or something!
Oh and, if you don't mind asking, are there any plans for a next comic book edition?
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Yes.

THe issue is speed, with work and lps the time I have for drawing pages has been significantly reduced, but we're slowly and steadily getting there.
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is there any chance demo would ever make an appearance? Even if it's only a background cameo?
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Considering everything, it's not impossible at all, especially as a background sort of thing! But don't expect any actual 'role' or what have you.
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raocow wrote:Considering everything, it's not impossible at all, especially as a background sort of thing! But don't expect any actual 'role' or what have you.
I think it'd be cute to have Demo as a cameo appearance, like as a doll or an action figure a character could be holding.
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an ancient ruin with a mural of demo, an open coffin with the bloodied remains..
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ok so The School Arc arrived yesterday and i finished it today

it was amazing. short, yes, but hey, the other two volumes are fairly large so i can't wait to order them. amazing, though. so amazing.

sometimes it was kind of hard to tell what was going on (especially since I haven't read Season 1) but i did figure it out and it was really awesome. going to order the accelerate arc probably within the next two weeks. :D
Well it is a decent hack but sometime its just too repetitif there no level that actually pop in your face and your like oh yeah that level they all ressemble themselves and just monster along the way.
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Good. Good! That's what we like to hear!! Glad you're enjoying it. :D
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I really should read this someday

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Ladies and gentlemen...
I present to you... the precessor of ATXS - A.rtificial T.ime!
raocow linked to this comic of his yesterday on his Tumblr, and it seems to basically be a pre-story for ATXS, written all the way back in 2005, and featuring the backstories of some of the main characters which ATXS itself never really showed!

One of the things we learn here is that Shift used to be a subordinate of Accelerate and helped her on her bounty hunts before she became a teenager. For a good portion of the story, she gets stuck with a small kid, but eventually gets rid of him by
Also, Brake used to work in a restaurant as a waiter.

The writing also seems to be a lot more random and fourth-wall breaking than in ATXS, fitting in with raocow's (and presumably AoD's) style of humor from back then. At one point, it's asking you to play Rammstein's "Angel" and the Moonlight Sonata overlapped in order to create the soundtrack for one page. Simply wonderful.

Another interesting aspect is that the fourth-wall breaking actually seems kind of necessary sometimes and even goes so far as to make it easier to understand the comic, because Rao literally points out what certain sploches of ink are supposed to represent, which can, admittedly, still be quite difficult to make out even in ATXS nowadays.
In the end, it's a really nice read, somewhat more comprehensable story-wise than ATXS, and definitely interesting for any ATXS fan!
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