Tag: alien

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[ {Wife: Honey, it's two A.M., come back to bed.} {Husband: I can't sleep...} ]

[ {Husband: First the sky is dark, then it's light, then dark, light, dark... What on EARTH causes that?!} ]

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[ Well it has been a long trip to get to Earth. ]

[ Maybe I should get out, stretch my legs and get some fresh air. ]

[ * ]

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[ {Ralf: Computer, how much time have I wasted staring out this window day-dreaming?} {Computer: Four Earth Days.} ]

[ {Computer: The lunar cycle is 27.32 days and an Earth week is composed of seven days... } ]

[ {Ralf: ALRIGHT! Three day week-end!} ]

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[ Hold on a second, I was about to DESTROY EARTH when I started IMAGINING the interview to come, then I started RECALLING my PAST which made me THINK about the DREAMS I had... ]
[ You just KNOW you're EASILY distracted when you start IMAGINING you have DAYDREAMS inside of your FANTASY... ]

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[ {Zorphah: We're back on "The Ten Most Fascinating Xyoans Special" and I'm here with Ralf the Destroyer.} ]

[ {Zorphah: So Ralf, with your parents strange and sudden disappearance, you turned out to be a completely worthless LOSER, right?} ]

[ {Ralf: I wish my INNER CRITIC would stay out of my IMAGINARY interviews.} ]

Ashcan Project

Posted on January 9, 2010 by ScottLincoln

I’m finishing up a side project tentatively called “Ralf the Destroyer: Chronicles of Xyo” Issue #1, it’s a black and white, ashcan comic book (about 8″x 5″) with (hopefully) a color cover.

When I started developing the story of Ralf I wanted to make sure I had enough material to keep up with daily syndication for about 11 years, a daunting task. The reason for this was from Lee Nordling’s book Your Career in Comics where there was a quote saying that comics didn’t become profitable until this point. That was many moons ago and it seems now a days a five year contract is the norm with syndicates and 10 years is more like the life span of many newer comics rather than their jump off point.

Continue reading “Ashcan Project”

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[ {Ralf: It was during my time in the Forest of Knowledge that both my parents disappeared altogether.} ]

[ {Ralf: the ONLY way I kept my hope up was that there was a GREATER purpose... A REASON I was going through ALL of this...} ]

[ {Zorphah: Like your parents were crazy?} {Ralf: EXACTLY!} ]

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[ {Zorphah: Alone in the Forest of Knowledge, why go there? Didn't you crave personal contact?} ]

[ {Ralf: Not really, I like being alone.} {Zorphah: So what were you looking for?} ]

[ {Ralf: TRUE LOVE I think.} {Zorphah: You can't find true love WITHOUT people!} ]

[ {Ralf: I was searching for a love ONLY two HERMITS could share.} ]

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[ {Ralf: Having lost everything and no where else to go, I spent considerable time in Xyo's compendium of data, the forest of knowledge.} ]

[ {Zorphah: What was the FIRST lesson you learned in its hallowed halls?} ]

[ {Ralf: That it's REALLY easy to get LOST in there!} ]

Reddick Strikes Again!

Posted on December 30, 2009 by ScottLincoln


Well I have to say my holiday was made just a little bit brighter when I received a note from David Reddick letting me know he posted a couple of sketches he did of Ralf the Destroyer on his “Legend of Bill” website.

Dave is a great cartoonist and you may recognize his other strips, “Rod & Barry” and “Gene’s Journal” as well. His drawings always look like he has a great time drawing them and this was no exception! Thanks Dave!

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[ {Ralf: Although suspended animation was confining, I found dreams to be a new and unrestrained frontier...} ]

[ {Ralf: It was as though there were no boundries, no one could stop or judge me. I was free to explore the limits of my potential.} {Zorphah: So why did you leave?} ]

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[ {Zorphah: I said...} {Ralf: I'm THINKING!} ]

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[ While I was in suspended animation, I did something new... I DREAMT. ]

[ It was in these dreams I started asking serious questions... "Why am I here?" "What is my purpose?" ]

[ I mean I could accept even a small part in it things as long as it was a true and meaningful one. ]

[ Eh, who am I kidding? Being only a small part would have been a huge disappointment. ]

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[ {Zorphah: We're back with Ralf the Destroyer. So by now you have no peer group and your family keeps putting you in suspended animation...} ]

[ {Zorphah: Was it a lonely time for you?} {Ralf: No, I've always been an introspective sort.} ]

[ {Ralf: It gave me time to think and look deep inside and answer some of life's more important questions...} ]

[ {Zorphah: Like why they didn't love you?} {Ralf: Yeah...} ]

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[ {Zorphah: So Ralf, when you added the "Destroyer" to your name, what was behind that decision?} ]

[ {Ralf: Actually, it was kind of given to me, because... Well... I "Destroyed" a planet.} ]

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[ {Zorphah: YEAH! Nice research GUYS!} ]

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[ {Ralf: Just THINK of it though, after I destroy Earth and return a big shot HERO, everyone is going to want to hear the story. There will be book offers and interviews GALORE!} ]

[ {Zorphah: And as you've guessed, he's number one on my "Ten Most Fascinating Xyoans" Year End Special, Ralf the Destroyer!} ]

[ {Zorphah: And of course by "fascinating", I mean "whomever we've taken the most pictures of..."} ]

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[ Soon I shall fulfill my mission and triumphantly return to the Galactic Council, where I will be heralded as a HERO! ]

[ Imagine THAT! I'll be FAMOUS and everyone will want a piece of me. ]

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[ What's this Universe coming to, when you've got to BLOW UP a WHOLE planet just to get people's attention? ]

Video Trailer

Posted on December 2, 2009 by ScottLincoln

Hey there! Just posted a promotional video trailer to the “About the Comic” page (see link in top nav bar) for anyone who hasn’t seen it. I made this a few years back when I was using Flash 8 and had just started shopping my comic around the syndicates. I purchased a great sound track for it (which totally makes the video) from a royalty free music site called Shockwave Sound, so make sure your speakers are turned up!

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[ Okay, I'm here to destroy Earth; I've got the gun and the mandate... All I have to do is push this button to start the sequence. ]

[ Okay, I'll just press it NOW... I mean, NOW! Drats... ]

[ I'm going to do it... I'm going to do it... NOW! No, NOW! Now! No, really, NOW! ]

[ I wish my conscience and my ambition had more in common. ]

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[ Poised over Earth in this expansive dreadnaught, I wonder about the task I've been assigned... ]

[ My natural distrust of others, along with the ease and expense of this mission, seem a bit unsettling. ]

[ I should probably just trust the council, destroy Earth and be done with it. And yet... ]

[ *sigh* Nothing slows down the wheels of progress like paranoia. ]

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[ Here I stand, Ralf the Destroyer, poised to obliterate a whole world. In the silence of this massive war ship, I contemplate Earth's future. ]

[ Are its people consumed with the destruction of each other, their world and galaxy? From here it seems so beautiful... ]

[ I guess beauty is really in the eye of proximity. ]