Ask An Adventurer – Ask An Artist
We hope you’ve enjoyed Ask An Adventurer, because it’s been a lot of fun to do! We might bring it back someday, but for now we’re donezo! Thanks to everyone who sent in questions, and we hope those we have chosen were satisfied with their answers. Tune in next week for the rest of the Axemas special, followed by Ch36 after that!
Glad I was able to get a question in and answered before.
I put in some questions for H.R., but they never got answered.
They couldn’t answer you.
You know, Eldritch Secrets Man was Not Supposed to kNow!
Light the screen on fire if they’d have tried.
Wow, we found something even more boring than sepia world.
Hahahaha! Thumbs up. :)
Way to pad out, “What fantasy works do you like?” “We don’t read much. Um, Star Trek?” Maybe you wanted to say “Guilded Age” but not come out as conceited?
Sometimes I feel as if a few shows have deliberately awful last seasons or episodes so you won’t miss them too much when they’re gone. Ask an Adventurer was a nice feature but nothing lasts forever.
“Sometimes I feel as if a few shows have deliberately awful last seasons or episodes so you won’t miss them too much when they’re gone. ”
That never works. People always want the show to come back so that it can end “properly” next time.
Worked pretty well with Heroes.
Wow, you’re a jerk.
Two thumbs up, would enjoy this comment again!
Suggestion for new rule: complaining about the very existence of Sepia World earns exactly one warning, then a permaban.
Seriously folks, it’s been three years. Sepia World is not going away. It’s an integral part of the comic. Deal with it or stop reading and more importantly, stop complaining about it here.
But if I don’t complain about something, how will you know I like it?
User “Brad” has been perma-banned.
Not only has he been perma-banned, but all of his previous comments have been retconned out of existence, along with any responses he may have garnered.
I’m no longer willing to put up with jerks. I will nuke from orbit. This is the new policy.
My I brush my beard against your mustache? It is a sign of affection. c:
… You may.
Whoa… whoa there…
Did you seriously UNPERSON someone?
*Takes a step back*
Or are you just trying to incite paranoia?
Like maybe there wasn’t someone called “Brad” at all, and you’ve just made that comment to be scary or something?
Nah, there was a real Brad. We discussed this policy again a couple of updates later.
(By which I mean Phil discussed it, with my support.)
Ahhhhhh! The giant eyeball beast thingie s alive! And, it’s Phil! And, he’s in space! With an orbital nuclear weapons platform!
Gravy! Bring Reagan back to life! We need his Star Wars defense system!
But, seriously, I was a little creeped out when I read about Brad being banned. I was like, “Who is Brad? I never saw any of his comments.” Then, I read the rest of Phil’s comment, and was like, “Ahhhh! Brad was de-rezzed, and retconned! I never heard about him, because he never existed… anymore.”
I’m glad I already took my blood pressure meds, tonight. Sheesh!
I’m fine with things bleeding over between Arkerra, Sepia World, and Cyberia. But, when things start bleeding over into our universe? That’s just creepy!
My first favorite fictional universe was “Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn” …soo, yea, dullness or drawn-out plot doesn’t really affect me as-long as the premise is solid and the action is good.
That being said, Guilded Age is really neither dull nor unnecessarily drawn-out …cliff-hangery maybe ^^
So does Jason do some serial killing in his free time or what?
Wait, WHAT? I might have missed something, but why is Ask An Adventurer coming to a close?
I am also wondering this.
It was always a limited time thing, as part of a Kickstarter stretch goal.
^
Too bad, it was a fun little intermission, now and again. Thanks for doing it.
All the thanks should go to the Friggstarter backers for funding it :D
Oh God you’re taunting me, aren’t you? This is your revenge. Well played, sir.
Well I am buzzed. All those years reading Penny and Aggie and GA and this is the first time I’ve seen Jason draw himself.
“origianl”?
It’s an attempt to capture the essence of the regional dialect. Sort of like typing “yer” instead of “your,” or “chowdah” instead of “awful soup.”
That’s a weird way to render a Manhattan accent.
Gotta love the jazz hands in panel 3
This is a cool perspective, especially to know that they started with more sci-fi works but still found inspiration enough to do a fantasy series.
Favorite fantasy works from Campbell & Kahn?
Marvel, baby. Marvel.
Marvel and DC’s shared universes– for all their many problems, and as wrong as they can go in the wrong hands– are tremendous achievements. I also have a lotta respect for what Tolkien did on a lot of levels, even though I feel like we need to get out from under his shadow to do worthwhile fantasy now.
I don’t read as much fantasy these days as I’d like, but both Frozen and the How to Train Your Dragon series have left me walking out of theaters with smiles big enough to split my face.
‘616’ is Marvel’s default universe. Any alternate world stuff (like the Ultimate line) takes place in a different one.
aww, I’ll miss these.
Not to pee on anyone’s parade, but neither star trek nor star wars are fantasy. They are science fiction.
Fantasy=dragons, elves and magic swords, steampunk at a stretch… Science fiction = spaceships and little green men from Mars
Really, it’s not difficult
Ah, but what about little green men from Mars with magic swords? Where do you draw the line? While Star Trek is quite solidly sci-fi, Star Wars has more than enough fantasy elements (best summed up as “hokey religions and ancient weapons”) to at least be classed as a hybrid, and probably more heavily fantasy given the hero’s epic motifs.
Ehh. Star Trek has sci-fi sensibilities in the themes it tackles, but it’s also had telepathy from the get-go.
Maybe genre labels aren’t that big a deal, Alessandro.
I’ve generally been a fan of the combined “Sci-Fi/Fantasy” grouping, just because it stops us from having to deal with nit-picking over the boundary cases alluded to by fishamaphone.
I do see some value in genre labels, but they can definitely be applied too strictly!
I maintain that proper science fiction must include more science than fiction lest or be more properly categorized as “fantasy with shinies”.
I can’t delete that “lest” and it’s going to bug me all day.
Just relax, close your eyes, and think about Louis Wu.
…and not Sigmund Ausfaller. ;)
I would definitely agree with this, too.
At lest you trid.
Well, silly me, in the attempt to make a joke, I replied to the original comment, not the reply. I think this thing is contagious.
Personally I think it’s really all the same stuff.
Fantasy, science fiction, and superhero fiction are all defined by a setting that operates under separate rules from our own. The distinctions between them are largely the terminology used to refer to these rules. People can fly, is it an enchanted ring of levitation that lets them do that? A nanotech anti-gravity ring? Just the power of flight?
Obviously science fiction is free to delve into real or possible science, but I don’t think it’s for something to be called science fiction. Just in general in every day conversation I don’t think people consider the scientific plausibility of a Sonic Screwdriver before they start applying the term.
*but I don’t think it’s necessary for something to be called science fiction.
Star Wars is definitely Fantasy to me, whereas Star Trek is decidedly SF. But then, Phil doesn’t give a shite about genre labels anyway. But what are we, if we cannot catalogize things… ;)
I like “hard science” fiction, but there are some grey areas. Social science fiction comes to mind–quite a bit of Jack Vance is difficult to draw a line on–“The Dying Earth” stories, or “The Last Castle.” Some of Philip K. Dick is not that easy, and what about Roger Zelazny’s stuff? “Jack of Shadows,” “Creatures of Light and Darkness,” etc. Where do you put those?
“The product is thoroughly pizzled.”
I’ve always considered the works of sci-fi giants like Jack Vance (love the “Planet of Adventure” set & “The Demon Princes”) to be “adventure sci-fi”, which basically means that it has a sci-fi setting, but almost all of the rest of the elements are more or less Indiana Jones in space / on another planet.
Love it. :)
Jason seems to agree, from his reply. I know he watches Star Trek and Star Wars stuff. There are too many people on either side of this aisle for me to feel like it’s worth it to herd them in one direction or another.
Of all artistic choices Jason could choose to represent himself…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhHjmWvVb6c
… it had to be “undead Han Solo”?
*&^%$#@!
No fair ending it before answering one of *my* questions!
Well I got to make Byron and Syr’nj uncomfortable with the baby question. So I’m happy.
Given the comic you’re making, I’m surprised Warcraft didn’t make the list.
Maybe they were into more Ultima Online or Everquest?
I’m the one of the four of us who played WoW, and that universe’s fiction (while perfectly serviceable) doesn’t even break into my top ten.
Dream Quest to Unknown Kadath is my favorite lovecraftian tale.
Ask a creepy early 90’s CG model.
Just found the comic this morning and think I have almost caught up. Ever heard of Xanth, a series by Pierce Anthony? That is one of my favorites, and I think anyone who enjoys puns would love it. The magic of that world gives magic to puns. An action that could be given a label that can be interpreted literally, even if the literal definition didn’t make much sense, could cause it to change. One example I can give is a character was trying to see the magician of knowledge for guidance and one of the tests had a door that would only open slightly, when it was identified as being ajar, it turned into a jar and he was able to proceed with the next test.
Personally, after a couple dozen books I got tired of the puns.
Finally had enough free time to get back to reading this series and is that an Adam Warrock reference in the Alt text?
Wouldn’t surprise me.