Tag: extraterrestrial

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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.

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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!} ]

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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?} ]

[ * ]

[ {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...} ]

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. ]

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[ So the Council made me, Ralf the Destroyer, judge of Earth. Actually, they call all of us "Xyoans" Destroyers. We're really a very gentle people. Sure curiosity may have led to the eradication of 16 solar systems and 9 suns... ]

[ But those were purely accidental... ]

[ People say, "It's the thought that counts ", but they rarely mean it. ]

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Ralf: Wow! Me, Ralf the Xyoan, judge of an entire world on behalf of the Trans-Galactic Council and given a ship with enough firepower to destroy the Earth with one plasma blast.

Ralf: Which I'm hoping they won't take personally.

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Ominous Voice: Like a galactic predator, the Noropian flagship "Gothra" (a continent sized battleship) approaches Earth cloaked in the Moon's shadow...

Ominous Voice: Size - 1000mi across, Plasma Cannon - 1 Zettwatt, Purpose - Destroy Earth, Sole occupant - Ralf the Destroyer

Ralf: I just love the reverb on this PA system

Starting Monday…

Posted on November 13, 2009 by ScottLincoln

Okay, looks like I’m set to start posting Monday the 16th three times a week. I picked up some ad space at Project Wonderful so hopefully that will generate some traffic as well.

For any new comers, Ralf the Destroyer is an all ages strip I developed for daily syndication (a long road I’m still traveling) after assisting on Nancy for 6 years. To that end it is created entirely by hand (no vector lines, no fonts etc) just india ink on bristol board. It is a labor of love and I hope that comes through the artwork.

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[ The Destroyer is coming! ]