tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-606103913490864552023-11-15T09:19:21.471-08:00Vorthosian Inquisition - a Magic: The Gathering webcomic of Vorthosi stuff<b>(supposed to be) UPDATED MONTHLY. Every first or last week of a month... else, when I am able to. :P</b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60610391349086455.post-28399808702407357402018-07-20T15:30:00.000-07:002018-07-20T15:30:50.768-07:00#024<hr width="95%" noshade color="#676e85">
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Hello there~! A random update for you.
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Huge credits to <a href="https://twitter.com/TheVorthosCast" target="blank">The Vorthos Cast</a>, a really splendid MTG Lore/Vorthos podcast, for this idea. Got it from one of their #MTGDOM related pod casts.
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How funny that even tho I hate Liliana for her angel hate, most of the time the ideas for the strips I can get more from her. :P Also, I had reason to draw Gideon again~ This time in a get up inspired by that most recent Chandra Nalaar manga released back.
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On the technical side, talk about quite the birthing pains for this strip to be done. I dove into using a new software (Clip Studio) to render this strip months back and that totally made the finishing longer. I needed to do so because my old rig crashes when working on a huge canvass, and some slowdowns here and there.
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Altho there are several similarities with SAI that I used before, I needed to learn a huge chunk of Clip Studio and it took some time before I can effortlessly do a digital piece smoothly and without much hassle.
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Now with this new software I hope I can do better in doing the strips. ^^;;
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Hello again~! A month late from my supposed target date last outing.. but hey, better than updating again after 3 years. ;P
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Remember last year when most of the Magic world got shookt when a certain old lady appeared on some of those <b>Dominaria</b> peeks? After the hype of the reveal died down a couple of Vorthosi began theorizing regarding Jaya’s fate. At the back of my mind I immediately thought that she’s a goner after she was revealed, but later on I started hoping that in the end Jaya will have a sort of Toph-like treatment when she returned in the later season of Legend of Korra.
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But while I was doing this comic, a couple of art reveals have started to pop out and a couple of Vorthosi have started to theorize strongly that within the Dominaria expansion (or later), Jaya is definitely going to die. Talk about a coincidence in some way.
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Still as of this post, Jaya’s fate is still up in the air. Here’s hoping for the best for her… my mind is bringing back Time Spiral teas (Freyalise’s death still makes me giggle the bad way…).
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Why hello~ And yes, I am somewhat back. Talk about a gap... let's say this is my Origins Retcon. ;P<br>
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You might’ve seen this same idea from artist Kaigetsudo and his collaboration with a Magic: The Gathering content creator (that I forgot who…). By the time that that appeared I have been with this piece for months. I actually responded to his Twitter about it, bemoaning my slowness. XD I feel like a dunce relaying that to him haha…
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After three years of unforeseen personal and artistic struggles (I finally was able to let my perfectionist go a notch lower), health related issues (suffered ahypertensive emergency last 2015, been vigilant AND paranoid since then healthwise), technical problems (more below), MOBA addiction and existentialistquestions about why am I still a fan of Magic even though majority of the time it shits on the things I like or liked about it, I still wanted to do this. Maybe not for the same reasons when I started this the first time, but this time it’s more on not wanting to not let any possible Magic related ideas fade into my own… as sucky as they may, why not just share it no?
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This sort of “comeback” was actually about to be done around the same time last year, the line art was about 70-80% underway, but the Universe for some reason decided to kick the rig that I’m using to oblivion, leaving me without PC access for 4-5 months (I can only do this comic with a PC/Laptop..).
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“But nobody asked for this~” some random baiter might pop in the back.But dear sir, I didn’t ask for your opinion… so cool your fanny down. ;3
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So anyway, this was posted on the supposed "new home" of the comic over at <a href="http://vorthosian-inquisition.tumblr.com">vorthosian-inquisition.tumblr.com</a> a few days before. I was thinking of doing double updates from here on, over here on the Blogspot page and over at Tumblr.
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Anywho, see you next month or two~ (Yep, the sporadical nature of the updates still will not change. Just to be sure. XD But I’m gonna try my best triple time this time to stick with the monthly thing.)
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Also, I have never been good in writing… If you have any strip ideas feel free to send them my way. The idea must be fully detailed (e.g. script, links to references of the character you’ll be using) and it would be nice if it could stand 3-4 months without being downplayed by any Magic: The Gathering lore developments. :D Also, you’ll be fully credited with the work and I won’t use it in anyway for profit if I end up doing it… :P<br><br>
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An idea made by <b>MORT</b> when he was still hella active in the continuity and in the brainstorming think thank of this webcomic from quite a while ago. I dugged it up while looking for an idea to use to tide over the original strip I was working on (which I think would demand more time than the usual, PANELS MAN!).<br><br>
Those times when I still had others on board to talk to for continuity and strip ideas. ;_;<br><br>
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With all the bruhaha on how the <b>Tarkir</b> block is going to feature a Time Travel element on its second set and the reveal of how <b>Ugin</b>(?) looks like: there are just so many questions thrown into the mix! So yeah, excuse the corny idea in this strip (<i>And the Mirror's line wasn't rhyming! Oh Garruk-sama how I fail at life!</i>)<br><br>
Anywho, I'm somewhat invigorated on illustrating updates these days unlike before (yeah, it took me 4 years What The HeL...). Hopefully more complete ideas would come suit. It's the rather hard part to come by. :P<br><br>
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I'm just not the biggest fan of <b>Dick Fayden</b> (see, I even intentionally blunder his name). <br><br>Back when the IDW comics was announced I thought it would sort of fill in the gap for stories of Planeswalkers that will not be featured in a current Magic block, but alas it did not go down like that. Maybe that result just had the biggest impact on me.<br><br>
Maybe I'll warm up to Dick as a character one day..... maybe when he turns canonically homosexual or something.<br><br> So pretty much, not in the nearest future.
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This sudden update is HEAVILY inspired by <a href="http://magic.wizards.com/en/content/magic-2015-core-set-card-set-archive-products-game-info" target="blank">Liliana Vess's inclusion in M15</a>. <br><br>
Also, this strip heralds the return of a much drastic "F*CK QUALITY" style (that I visited back in strip #10) in terms of the aesthetic that I'm aiming for for this strip. Perfecting the line art? NOPE. Trying to make the design and colors close to the original? THROW THAT OUT THE WINDOW! In fact, Liliana and Chandra's designs here are from memory! What you guys think of it? XD<br><br>
(ps. This strip might get an improved treatment down the road. But it's realization will depend when Liliana Vess gets into the core set with the same art in maybe Magic 2025! XD)<br><br>
<i>Not gonna lie my morale into making the comic as a whole has been in all time low since my last update due to so many things: real life, work, Garruk being turned into a villainous 'walker, and the retcon stick looming closely ahead over the MtG continuity as a whole. Most ideas that I think of just ends up 50% and I can't close them (note: the other two people I started this project with has been "removed" from this project for about 2 years or so now). <br><br>
*sighs* But a part of me still doesn't want to let go of Magic (even after being told by a close friend to just drop MTG altogether since I don't play it anyway)... maybe because there's some semblance of optimism inside of me that just doesn't want to cease. For Angels still being featured in Magic, MtG realizing that people who love men are playing the game or the continuously dishing of good art in the game... I don't know. Let's see how this goes.</i><br><br>
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With the upcoming release of <b>Duel Deck: Jace vs. Vraska</b> on March 2014 there are going to be 3 Jace Beleren (the character) PW cards since October 2012's Return to Ravnica.<br><br>
I know WOTC has sort of promoted Jace as their "mascot", their "Ryu" akin to Street Fighter's... <b>but come on now.</b> With his last appearance in <b>Dragon's Maze</b>'s story you would think he would be given a break on appearing in the next blocks... until someone in Creative clarified that even if he's the living Guildpact he can still travel planes and shit. <b>*le sigh*</b> There goes that.<br><br>
The only way I can remotely get behind another new appearance of him sooner would be if he's sexified and stuff :P ... for me WOTC should give other walkers more screen time.<br><br>
The only take away I see from this is at least the backstory on how Jace ended up being the "versus" to Vraska is somehow better than the Sorin vs Tibalt one. :P<br><br>
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p.s. Seasons Greetings to you dear reader and an advanced Happy New year. :) Thank you for patiently waiting for updates on this project of mine. <b>Bless you guys~!</b>
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First and foremost, if you are averse to <b>Furry</b> and/or Catgirls, I apologize. Recently, I had started to tolerate the Elspeth/Ajani pairing in some way. <br><br>P.S. I suck at drawing leonins and/or animal inspired humanoid characters.<br><br>
With the release of the <b>Theros</b> set came some sneak peeks for <b>Born of the Gods</b> and it has been revealed that Ajani will be joining the block. There also came the <a href="http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/ur/263" target="blank">Uncharted Realms article</a> that explains what happened with Elspeth in the closing of the <b>New Phyrexia</b> set.<br><br>
Other than having another retcon it seems that instead of joining <b>Karn</b>, Elspeth has yet again gone on the move, albeit partly accidentally, trying to find that ever elusive thing she yearns for. Seriously, if this block ends with Elspeth not having some sort of closure with her issues and she planeswalks away again to another place and stars over with her soul searching I do not even know.<br><br>
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First and foremost would like to thank <b>Don_Quixote</b> from <b>The MTG Salvation Forums</b> for giving the thumbs up on me using his idea/reaction when
the new legend rule was revealed weeks/months(?) ago. Upon reading his script the visuals just came in real quick and only needed some couple of editing on
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Also, just placed a <b>DONATE</b> button on the right side of the page (coz these strips uses electricity, which then results to BILLS). Accepting any spare
changes that you might have here and there haha! ... and I might give a sketch or two in return. :P
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<b>Jeremy Jarvis</b>' tenure in Magic's Art Direction is something that Vorthoses have lauded for quite a while now. (Heck, I love him so much for his art direction work if I had the right reproductive organs, I'd like to have his babies! /exaggeration) After he got the position at Magic the card arts sets have been oozing with quality (and they have finally realized that gay/women Magic enthusiasts actually exists within the Magic fan community. YAY)
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But then again, to say that Magic's recent art direction are always 100% amazing and on point would be quite a delusion. One example for this is Chandra's progression to what she is now. When that M12 art popped out I was sort of surprised, but M14's art was made and I felt like head-desk-ing (funny, this is comic #14). Thankfully though there is such a thing as Planeswalker arts being cropped, hence you sort of forget how awkward the overall idea for the piece is.
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Here's hoping something changes on Chandra's next new art or something. And what's with her being turned into some Victoria's Secret these days in promo art, what gives? Her footwear suddenly gets heels?! What sorcery!?....).
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<b>P.S.</b> It's the comic's 3rd Year Anniversary. Talk about an uneventful celebration no? Hmmn, I'm having a feeling of wanting to change and jazz up the design of the comic's home.... when ideas for it trickles in I guess. :P<br><br>
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This is my rather overdue thoughts to the announcement and revelation of those "Slivers" in M14 (so many ideas that didn't just materialize fully). And yet again, the "Human Excuse" has been used on this one... as if the players aren't human already themselves.
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First, the Planeswalkers have been turned "more human" for relatability. Then the Slivers are made humanoid as "to instill more fear". Like I do not even know what they're going to turn humanoid the next. Um, well they did do food afterall with <a href="http://magiccards.info/hho/en/1.html" target="blank">Fruitcake Elemental</a>. Fun times.
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By now the fail of a card of <a href="http://magiccards.info/query?q=Emmara+Tandris&v=card&s=cname">Emmara Tandris</a> has began the path of beating the so called dead horse, might as well impart my contribution to this unfortunate incident once and for all.<br><br>
But seriously, the attempt of many to sugar coat the FAIL that the card emmanates is beyond fun. There have been players who have went to the path of <b>Chris Crocker</b> shouting "Leave MaRo alone!" in retort. There are some who argue that the card of <b>Emmara</b> reminds them of the legends back in the <b>Legends</b> set ( I mean really, of all the times to bring that back to an established character and all? )<br><br>
Nevertheless, I share the sentiment of the often ill-noticed <b>Vorthos</b> fanbase and all the players who care for Flavor on wishing that this would be the last Legend disconnect Magic:The Gathering will ever have. Well, at least <b>Homelands</b> and <b>Kamigawa</b> gains another member amongst their rank of the so-called <b>Worst things that should not be done again</b>.<br><br>
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Pfft, talk about missing your target release month. :P Yay Work + Bad Time Management + Stuff I won't go winding on because it will bore you~!.
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Anywho, <b>Yeva</b> is like one of my most favorite off M13's legend-with-an-underling series (most of them are flawless anyway... don't let me go with <b>Odric</b>, that fella is SEXEH).
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This <strike>cheesy</strike> idea came upon during one of those random down times, overthinking stuff here and there about card flavor and how abilities relate to the character and stuff... "How the heck can she summon creatures anyway? Her art doesn't say much..." hence the crack theory of her being some kind of a Pokemon trainer. :P (My latent fandom for Pokemon didn't help here...)
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And if you're wondering who that character is with Yeva, that you guys is going to be a recurring character here in the comics: <b>Darmon Krewal</b>, he's going to fill in the shoes of a "fall walker" when needed. I remember MaRo going on about that <b>Jace Beleren</b> was the poster guy for Magic at the moment because he "represents" the player base quite well. Blue and Wearing Hoodies? WELL COME ON DOWN~!
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Now, striving through the quicksand again for a last release for this year. Garruk bless meh~ See ya around~!
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Never really been like a HUEG fan of Jace Beleren, whenever he's announced for a Magic product I react the same way when Ryu is announced for an upcoming Street Fighter related game: Roll my eyes and sigh. I've never really been the type of person to like characters that a company uses as it's "Mascot" <strike>or maybe because he exposes less man-skin unlike Garruk?</strike>
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Now look, I don't know much about the Storyline, <br>
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The idea behind it is to have Wizards' staff and employees answer some of more interesting questions people already axed, or might axe them, without any limits, including those of disclosure agreements. ;)
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The idea isn't new, and originally came from a scarce and then dwindling interaction between the Creative Team & authors, and the community. Surprisingly though, recently there is an opposite trend and the interaction increased a lot. Just to mention the return of the Ask Wizards, tweeter accounts, tumblrs, forum activities, PAX meetings, etc., giving us a lot of valuable information.
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But something I've read recently in one of those places (quoted below), reminded me of the whole idea for questions and answers, and of its original piece from few years back - which I hope you'll see here someday as well. But for now, there was something that required immediate attention [for a given value of immediate ;)]:
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mandramas asked: Are the Magic's Vorthos receding in the last years? I mean, no more books, no more comics, no Savor the flavor... Is the new magic comic selling well?
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1) First off: us, not giving you our money, for your low quality product, is now our fault?! Wow - that's what they call aggressive marketing these days?! These eluding words won't hide you, as a company, from responsibility for your product. Remember: if we don't buy it - if anyone's, it is your fault.
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4) Consistency of the Continuity is one of the crucial elements of quality. Imagine that A Song of Ice and Fire Saga unreasonably retconned deaths of some characters, ignored crucial events, randomly changed the timeline, personalities of the heroes, and rules governing the world and its magic - who would read that? Sure, every continuity has plot holes, goofs, and some unplanned retcons. And it is at least twice as difficult to avoid them in a shared universe, with plenty of authors and ever-growing material. It's a fact, but it's not an excuse. But the worst thing is, that beside of these typical errors, we've seen horrible mistakes like designed retcons, that didn't have a chance to work, and practically complete lack of control over the printed material. So, if you can't find a way to fix it and keep it at high quality - it's again your fault.
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Was quite devastated with that announcement that it drove me to tears and I immediately grabbed a chocolate bar to alleviate any sad feelings that may develop into more deeper matters.<br /><br />At that point I felt as if all my time devoted on being a Vorthos was just a big joke and waste. In the end of the day the Vorthos side of Magic is always going to be the bitch of the Card Game side, I guess I was just too stubborn on accepting this fact. Adding more insult to the injury was the announcement days later that the <b>Savor of the Flavor</b> column over at <a href="http://www.dailymtg.com" target="blank">Daily MTG</a> was put into HIATUS. Talk about a heart-wrenching chain of events.<br /><br />Instead of moping around and being depressed about it I decided to channel my sadness into a comic strip (pretty much shelving the one I'm already working on, which will still see the light of day btw). I was brainstorming of making a straightforward strip to show my disdain over the stuffs that is happening to the Vorthos side of things, something like Brady being stabbed by Vorthos or being tentacle raped by an Eldrazi. But after calming down a bit I thought that that approach would be a bit <i>Uncreative</i>, so I took a more classier road and went with a more metaphorical approach. I hope you understand the story behind this strip, I think it's pretty easy to get. (Thanks to <b>MORT</b> btw for the title of the strip, such clever ideas!)<br /><br />I know the follow up to #008 has been quite long, however doing #009 made me learn a couple of things, specially with the proper mentality to be in while doing these strips. Hopefully you won't see a #010 release on 2013. XD <br /><br />My goal for this year is to have at least 12 additional strips added to the archives by the end of 2012. A bit too ambitious? Let's see. :P<br /><br /><br /><b>PS.</b> I have not forgotten about the gift-arts. As of now I have already done work on 3 of them. I can't promise anything concrete, but one thing: Those who requested humans for their gift-arts might have them sooner than those that requested non-humans. :P<br /><br /><b>PS.2</b> Just made a <b>Twitter</b> account not so long ago, if you have Twitter you may <a href="http://www.twitter.com/vor_inquisition" target="blank">FOLLOW Vorthosian Inquisition</a> to get updates on your Twitter. :D<br /><br /></td></tr></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60610391349086455.post-31384819077851301912011-11-24T12:28:00.000-08:002016-06-05T06:17:33.906-07:00# 008<hr width="95%" noshade color="#676e85"><br /><center><img src="http://i.imgur.com/uLHaZPD.png"></center><br /><table><br /><tr><br /><td bgcolor="#b0bbdd"><br /><img src="http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss211/vorth_inq/adm_imgs/posticon_eid.jpg" border="0" title="Eid Says..."><br /><br /><br /></td></tr></table><br /><table border="0" cellspacing="0" align="center"><br /><tr><br /><td bgcolor="#b0bbdd"><br /><img src="http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss211/vorth_inq/adm_imgs/posticon_moppi.jpg" border="0" title="Moppi says...">We don't have Thanksgiving around these parts, but this strip is going to be a more literal way of giving thanks (goodness, me doing a bad pun, forgive me) to all the people who are still there whenever a new strip goes up.<br /><br />The past months have been a bit chaotic, I'm gonna spare you all the drama but most of it is about job-hunting. Actually, this strip was planned to be released on October but was hampered when I had to finish something before it. :P<br /><br />So anyway, with this strip at least I broke the record of last year of... I think of only one strip made in the whole entire year? *GASP* I'm gunning for another one before the year ends hopefully but that's still a bit murky. <br /><br />There's also the gift arts that I haven't finished... I can't promise anything solid but do expect the easier subjects (e.g. humans/humanoids) to be finished first. :P<br /><br />So, Seasons Greetings to all of you who have Christmas~! :)<br /></td></tr></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60610391349086455.post-9417470288028825472011-07-13T06:53:00.000-07:002011-09-21T13:15:08.397-07:00# 007<hr width="95%" noshade color="#676e85"><br /><center><img src="http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/5290/comic007b.png"></center><br /><table><br /><tr><br /><td bgcolor="#b0bbdd"><br /><img src="http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss211/vorth_inq/adm_imgs/posticon_mort.jpg" border="0" title="MORT Says..."> And that's how it really happened ;) Welcome to perfection. >:-><br /><br />This is actually quite an old idea, created around a year ago - just before the time when the Elspeth vs. Tezzeret was announced (in May/June of the last year). All we knew back then, was that Scars of Mirrodin will be the first set of a new block, and then the appearance of a new Duel deck only made it more likely that Elspeth will set her foot on Mirrodin for some reason. <br /><br />Of course, my intention was to rip on Elspeth's failure to find an utopian home and present my take on what was supposed to be the role of the Mirari in the new story. But, is that just me, or the strip screams <i>freaking retcons!</i> now? Everything seems to, recently... <br /><br />[Now, I know Karn would finally fix the Mirari (Right?), but I liked the idea too much. And who cares about canon these days, anyway? Right?]<br /><br />As for Mirari again, what really happened to it? Where is it? Who has it? Or, <i>who is it</i> now? I'd bet Glissa, or some of the Praetors got it. That, or it was turned into another Phyrexian creature. It could be nice to see its interaction with Tezzeret if it still granted wishes, although not exactly along intentions of its owner >:)<br /><br />I have no idea, and it's equally possible that it was destroyed or just didn't take any role in this story, but I still haven't read the Quest for Karn novel, so please, avoid any spoilers in the comments. I'm allergic to spoilers. And I think I'm getting that book soon.<br /><br />As for the title, well, I just love <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktv2C9vnRKU">this version</a> of the song. Basically, because its harmonics show the singer's real perception of song's - otherwise hopeful - message. <br /><br /><i>And the world will live as one.</i> ^^<br /><br />Oh, and wasn't that our second anniversary last month? Boy, the time runs fast.<br />So, as promised before - after reading the Quest for Karn I'll appear on the forums again for some time, to comment the book, discuss in new threads, and finish some affairs (I'm preparing a little surprise too). But after that, I'm gonna have my first, real, looooong break from Magic. I'm simply not happy with it anymore. Maybe things will change for better after few years? You will still hear from me now and then, but mostly on Vorthosian Inquisition. Hell, maybe I'll try to finally draw something?<br /><br /></td></tr></table><br /><table border="0" cellspacing="0" align="center"><br /><tr><br /><td bgcolor="#b0bbdd"><br /><img src="http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss211/vorth_inq/adm_imgs/posticon_moppi.jpg" border="0" title="Moppi says..."> Yes, this is pretty much alive! It took me to be booted off my work to finally finish the strip that you're seeing right now. (Well, after a couple of days of accepting the fact that I am indeed out of work.) <br /><br />Yeah, I've been reduced to working on this strip a few hours (or sometimes no hours) because of work and akin to a pre-Bradywalker person that ascended because of some distress I realized some random stuff along the way. <br /><br />I mean, why the heck do I even try to polish this webcomic when the source material ain't even trying? :P I mean, they get paid for it and I am not... so why even bother trying on my end, no? However, at the end of the day the art side of this craft gets to me and I am reminded of the amazing work of guys like Jeremy Jarvis and the wonderful artists that he gets for this IP. I may not get inspired by MtG as a game (and sometimes a storyline/continuity) source anymore, but from the aesthetics I find a way to continue this... some nostalgia doesn't hurt too :P<br /><br />Heck, I'm blabbering already. Anywho, I didn't forget the Art Gift thing that I mentioned from the strip 6 months ago (ACK!) and some of them I have already rough drafts off and stuff. I am on work on one of them already, so to those who think that they qualified for that, just wait for something on your mail and stuff. I think I misplaced my handy list of that but I already have the rough drafts on one file so I still know.<br /><br />I am jobless for the next 3 months (hopefully just 3 months! XD) so yeah, I have more time on my hands. 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Retconning is seen as an accepted way when applied in few doses but using the Western Comics for defense? Well, thanks for making me worry less seeing that the current Creative has enough trouble on making the current continuity less shaky. And don't get me started on that ticking time bomb called <b>"Clockworking"</b>, I'm glad that majority of avid storyline followers and starters opposed it but I still have doubts planted on my head about that. We'll see about that in future Continuity developments. <br /><br />Anyway, it's a New Year and still in my lists of resolutions is to at least deliver every month for Vorthosian Inquisition. And seeing that I miserably failed to upheld that one for 2010 and wanting to test my recently acquired resolve when it comes to drawing, I am planning to make up for the past months by doing some sort of a promo (is this the right term?): <b>I'm going to draw a character that you want from Magic in the art style of the Vorthosian Inquisition comics and I'm going to send it to you in acceptable resolution~!</b><br /><br />So leave a comment on <b>this entry</b> with:<br /><br /><b>(a) your name</b><br /><b>(b) the character that you want me to draw.</b> Do remember to give a link for reference, like maybe from Wizards' Gatherer and Magiccard.info or a link to a picture. Remember that I'm only going to entertain ONE character. If the subject is from the Magic Cards, make sure he/she/it is a visible subject on the card, if not I am going to forfeit your entry. I'm not going to limit character requests with just Creatures, the subjects can be from any card type as long as I can decipher it from the art. You want me to do that random dude from this spell? Sure, as long as I can see him in the card. Be specific to point out who I'm going to draw.<br /><b>(c) your e-mail, written in the comment area.</b> This specially applies to those who notch a slot so that I can send you away the piece when done. Be careful on giving your e-mail so that your inbox won't get spammed to death.<br /><br />As already mentioned, this is in part to make up for lost months, <b>so FIRST SIX commenters who gives the above gets an art.</b><br /><br />I'll try to be as fast as I can. > x <''' Let's go 2011~<br /></td></tr></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60610391349086455.post-12972399351432003002010-06-30T10:18:00.000-07:002010-07-03T12:56:31.377-07:00# 005<hr width="95%" noshade color="#676e85"><br /><br /><center><img src="http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/3185/comic005.png"></center><br /><table width="610" border="0" cellspacing="0" align="center"><br /><tr><br /><td bgcolor="#b0bbdd"><br /><img src="http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss211/vorth_inq/adm_imgs/posticon_moppi.jpg" border="0" title="Moppi Says..."> <br />Again, the Inquisition will "only die" when I myself declares as so.<br /><br />I bet some of you guys have already given up on the comic, can't blame you with that. I got so pre-occupied by my former day job for the past few months and I only got the free-est of time when I got retrenched from it a month or so ago.<br /><br />Anyway, enough of that apologizing. This strip was influenced by the recent "set-related" book <b>Teeth of Akoum</b>. In that said book, followers of the franchise get to know that Nissa Revane and Sorin Markov... apparently has PHOBIAS! I seem to remember that one of the reasons of The Mending was to make the Planeswalkers more relatable to players of the game. Is this one of those factors they're incorporating to make them as such? XD <br /><br />And you thought that the fact that Sorin "sings" would take the LOLWUT award for that book.<br /><br />Gawd, this is one of the reasons why I find making comics about the Continuity right now so fun. You don't really need to think hard anymore, it's just spoon fed to you.<br /><br />So yeah, <b>Happy 1st anniversary to Vorthosian Inquisition</b>. (Talk about a crappy way to celebrate it, after months of inactivity. >_< )<br /></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table><br /><tr><br /><td bgcolor="#b0bbdd"><br /><img src="http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss211/vorth_inq/adm_imgs/posticon_mort.jpg" border="0" title="MORT Says..."> <br />Yeah, it’s kinda late edit, but since it’s our anniversary, I thought I’d say something too. Few more words about the origin of the part #005. <br /><br />Some time ago, following fresh spoilers of the Zendikar block novel, we had a chance to see a new face of mortal Planeswalkers. And it was weird to see that. I mean, Nissa is an elf, yet she’s so afraid of snakes? But Sorin’s case is much much worse. He’s a freaking vampire! Sophisticated, hedonistic, educated, millennia old, experienced vampire neowalker! Yet, in the novel he was knocked out easily every few minutes, and was <b>scared of heights!</b> A VAMPIRE?! Really... That’s just wrong :/<br /><br />We instantly agreed we need to use that in some strip, and seconds later Moppi come up with the script. <br /><br />That would be all about the origin of the idea, but I think one more matter needs to be touched. Yes, that cloths hanger on the vampire’s back Moppi decided to include. Some of you may recognize it from the MTGSalvation forum. But let’s start from the beginning.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/84">One of the Doug Beyer’s feature articles</a> mentioned that Eldrazi enslaved the vampires of Zendikar and then changed them in some ways. One of those changes were pointy horns growing up from their shoulders, which seemed to be pretty cool concept. Up until the release of the Teeth of Akoum novel though, we had no idea what they were for – the description was vague enough to theorize. I thought about many things. Maybe that’s the way Eldrazi feed on vampires, maybe they were just modified that way to be more scary, or maybe it’s just a sign of ownership and control over their race, and so on. Having no idea, and some spare time, I photoshopped <a href="http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w79/Ashtok/bk/vampirelol.jpg">this image</a>, as a sign of hope. “Whatever it is, at least it can’t be that stupid”, I thought. Apparently, I was wrong. The hooks were used by vampires to bind and drag stones and rocks, to build structures for Eldrazi. That was simply as underwhelming and anti-climatic to me as it only could be. <br /><br />Yes! And now, Eldrazi, with this new vampire-hangers, you can fit twice as many vampires in your closet!<br /><br /></td></tr></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60610391349086455.post-28520150276401201172009-12-09T12:42:00.000-08:002009-12-09T12:53:47.837-08:00#004 (LBZ - #001)<hr width="95%" noshade color="#676e85"><br /><br /><center><img src="http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/831/l001b.png"></center><br /><table width="610" border="0" cellspacing="0" align="center"><br /><tr><br /><td bgcolor="#b0bbdd"><br /><img src="http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss211/vorth_inq/adm_imgs/posticon_mort.jpg" border="0" title="MORT Says..."> <b>Epilogue:</b><br /><br />Yeah. That's what happens when weird ideas get into my mind... But first things first.<br /><br />Do you remember when the price of <i>Agents of Artifice</i> was announced? I don't care it's a hardcover and how much it was discharged later on. 25 bucks was a ridiculous price to begin with. I remember many people expressing what they think of it... <br /><br />Especially Eid's comment caught my attention. A scene in a store, with $25 AoA, next to George R. R. Martin's <i>A Game of Thrones</i>... for $8! (Which one would You choose, btw? Go back and take a closer look at them again).<br />Anyway, Brady Dommermuth was proud of that. Good for him.<br /><br />But don't get me wrong. I've heard Ari Marmell (aka Mouseferatu) did a great job with this novel. Many storyline fans claim it's the best Magic book in years! Many years! What can I say? I wish him well, and hope we'll get more Magic fiction from him in the near future... for a reasonable price. <br /><br />Speaking of which. Now, after NINE MONTHS of waiting, AoA is finally back in a soft cover and for a standard price of $8. Sounds better?<br /><br /><b>Interlude:</b><br /><br />Ant WTF r LOLBEEBLZ?<br /><br />I've been thinking of using these ridiculous Magic creatures almost since the beginning of Vorthosian Inquisition project. A number of ideas for the comics included them, and I shared them with Moppi on his hidden forum (not yet the new, official one). In our discussions, Moppi used so many abbreviations, like LOLZ, ROTFLZ, and others, that my mind happened upon an idea of adapting LOLCATS to Magic. I only needed some weird little creatures instead of cats. The choice was a gut reaction.<br /><br />In other words:<br /><br /><center><img src="http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/5841/beebles2edited.jpg"></center><br /><br /><br /><b>Afterwords:</b><br /><br />Some enraged people might ask, why two parts, and why such mystery? Let me explain.<br /><br /><From the text above the demotivator, you already know why Eid (and Brady Dommermuth :-P... if he saw the strip #004 of course) knew what the whole thing is going to be about.><br /><br />It all began with my original sketch, made of these two parts, one next to the other. I thought they composed well that way, but since LOLCATS are always just one picture, I wanted to stay in this tradition, and decided to release the first part as a somewhat mysterious <b>prologue</b> - the idea for this experiment was born.<br /><br />The lack of any description under the strip #004 (beside of invitation for seeing you today), and the feeling that something is missing (no frame? no title? what's that strip about, anyway?), was meant to lead you into conclusion that it's not the end of the 'story', and to speculate on what would happen next...<br /><br />However angry you might be at me now for this little experiment, I thought it would be interesting to see your interpretations, and some really good ones were delivered (opressed men of medieval Europe - priceless! Just priceless, <b>luminum can</b> - and how close! XD ).<br /><br />I thought more people would know about <i>A Game of Thrones</i> though (or at least, say that on forums/comments). So if you didn't know of it till now, and you love to read fantasy stories, you might really want to consider putting your hands on this piece of fiction. It stood next to AoA, but not as shiny, for a reason too. Now, it's not my intention to advertise anything here. I want to point out that cover is not everything, and we should always keep in mind quality/price correlation, and personally, I wouldn't give $25 for ANY hardcover Magic novel so far. There are some limits you know...<br /><br />Last few words, if you're still with me. A good eye will spot that Martin's $8 AGoT is actually a soft-cover, unlike in our comic. Well, that's my fault - my initial sketch was made when I didn't really think of the details yet, and later I totally forgot to point it out, before Moppi finished the strip.<br /><br />That's all for today. See you next century ;-)<br /><br /><br />There is a <a href=http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w79/Ashtok/bk/Beebles_1.jpg>pink</a> version too. Which one is better? :D<br />Might need resize to fit it into the VInq.<br /><br /><br /></td></tr></table><br /><table width="610" border="0" cellspacing="0" align="center"><br /><tr><br /><td bgcolor="#b0bbdd"><br /><img src="http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss211/vorth_inq/adm_imgs/posticon_moppi.jpg" border="0" title="Moppi Says..."> Goodness, look at the gap between the months of this release from the last!. If you are still there, thank you very much for holding on haha. The release of this might've come off more early but due to sleep time probably hindering me from waking up hours before 12 pm (UTC+8) i decided to post this now. If the first three comics were introductions of the ideas from each of us the upcoming comics would feature different kind of formats that you could expect seeing here. First we get the normal type of comic like that of the first 3 releases and then there's this 2nd type: the LOLBEEBLZ. I think i do not need to explain that part as MORT has covered that already.<br /><br />Other than my father being here until around mid-November i have been soul-searching on the direction of what the comic has become. Looking at the past entries i think i have veered too much from my first goal: to have the webcomic in a more western cartoon style. I think i have injected too much of my anime roots and have been critical on stuff that i should not be in the first place. So with this two-parter of sorts is the beginning of this "new art direction", i hope you don't find it bothersome. <br /><br />You might say that the only visible difference is that i removed the shadows... actually you have a point there but while i was soul-searching i came to the conclusion that it's one of the factors that are hampering the speed of a release. The lost of shadows in the future comics isn't really for-life but more of it being added when it's totally needed. (i.e. night scenes, light explosions etc...) <br /><br />So there, <b>THANK YOU</b> again for staying with us. I'm actually excited for the next comic as i've been spending quite some time brainstorming for it. It may not be too lengthy but i'm going to do my best on the visuals. See ya around!.<br /><br /><br /></td></tr></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60610391349086455.post-15320818739493505532009-12-07T11:44:00.000-08:002009-12-07T19:32:05.611-08:00004<hr width="95%" noshade color="#676e85"><br /><br /><center><img src="http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/203/l001a.png"></center><br /><table width="610" border="0" cellspacing="0" align="center"><br /><tr><br /><td bgcolor="#b0bbdd"><br /><img src="http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss211/vorth_inq/adm_imgs/posticon_moppi.jpg" border="0" title="Moppi Says..."> <br /><br /><center><b>Come back on 12 pm Thursday (UTC+8).</b> No, not 3 months from now. <b>12 pm Thursday (UTC+8)</b>.</center> <br /></td></tr></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60610391349086455.post-49536105881334530192009-09-15T12:12:00.000-07:002016-06-05T06:16:34.754-07:00003<hr width="95%" noshade color="#676e85"><br /><br /><center><img src="http://i.imgur.com/1VfSfs3.png"></center><table width="610" border="0" cellspacing="0" align="center"><br /><tr><br /><td bgcolor="#b0bbdd"><br /><img src="http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss211/vorth_inq/adm_imgs/posticon_moppi.jpg" border="0" title="Moppi Says..."> Well, told you guys the wait would be <b>LONG</b>. <br /><br />Wait a sec, you still there? *knocks*<br /><br />Anyway my father is now mostly out of the house so i was able to finish this 3rd comic. I wasn't able to devote much of my time in this on his first month stay coz most of the time he's around. <b>I apologize</b> if it took so long, rest assured that we're still on this. :P<br /><br />More on the comic, the idea for this installment was influenced by comments made by <b>Eid</b> and Wizards' Forum Veteran <b>WereFrog</b> about the pace of the character developments of the Neowalkers. And why <b>Novel Limbo?</b>, i remember chancing upon this Catholic Preacher on TV mentioning that if a person ends up in the Purgatory (or Limbo) prayers from his/her loved ones would help him/her elevate to Heaven and i can't help but associate that to the non-Lorwyn neowalkers that are now appearing every set. It seems that the only thing the newly gathered fans of the non-Lorwyn neowalkers can do about the chance of them appearing with their own novels is via praying that they'd end up having one. <br /><br />You might also notice that the neowalkers potrayed here are suited with casual wear, i decided that since they're going to be put in the "real" world why not put them in "real" world clothes? (Other than the fact that their designs are sooo complicated). I think you can pretty much guess the decision for <b>Chandra</b> in this <a href="http://magiccards.info/ts/en/166.html" target="blank">(CLICK HERE if you can't guess)</a>. <b>Garruks'</b> was inspired by a certain wrestler that goes by the name using three repeated letters. <b>Lilianas'</b> i came up via watching the anime Full Metal Alchemist. <b>Nissas'</b> casual wear was conceptualized after reading some newly released information about her. <br /><br />Artwise i'm still on an experimenting stage and after these "Initial 3" releases the next release might have a different visual style.<br /><br />Lastly i also created a FORUM for Vorthosian Inquisition which you can access on the NAVIGATION portion. If you have ideas that you would like to share and detailed comments about things about the comics you might want to post it there (although i read the comments area of every release post anyway), i'll be lurking around those parts and will be entertaining further discussions and questions if they occur. Hope you enjoyed this release and hopefully the next one won't be that long of a wait. :( <br /><br /><br /></td></tr></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60610391349086455.post-38685195542857631582009-07-20T11:04:00.000-07:002016-06-05T06:16:07.811-07:00002<hr width="95%" noshade color="#676e85"><br /><br /><center><img src="http://i.imgur.com/6PnL6Bf.jpg"></center><br /><table width="610" border="0" cellspacing="0" align="center"><br /><tr><br /><td bgcolor="#b0bbdd"><br /><img src="http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss211/vorth_inq/adm_imgs/posticon_mort.jpg" border="0" title="MORT Says..."> Shared world is something really hard to keep track of. Different authors may have different views on planeswalkers, mana, summoning, rules of the Multiverse, and it is obvious they won't read ~60 Magic books, all comics and online sources before writting their own novel... I can understand that. But seriously, some major events are commonly known, and there should be an editor to find any inaccuracies concerning them. Either there was noone in control with established plan for the storyline and J. R. King couldn't be stopped from resurrecting his beloved villain in the Scourge novel, or they did allow Yawgmoth to come back. Who knows...<br /><br />Frankly though, I was quite excited that Yawgmoth was back *gets smacked by majority of vorthos-kind*. Sure, they killed him at the end of the Apocalypse novel and bringing back dead characters is something what should be avoided in general, but it's <a href="mailto:Y@wgmoth">Y@wgmoth</a>! He was basicly Magic's personification of Death... besides, what (real) Christian wouldn't be happy if Jesus was coming back. :P So despite loosing a bet in the second panel, I was ok with it.<br /><br />But it seems that the (next?) Creative Team came up with some different view on the matter, and rather than leave it as it was, or ignore it, they tried "their best" to change it again... eh. Usually, many retcons of one subject do not have much sense, if any. And obviously, people running this buissness didn't read all Magic sources either, so they couldn't predict all after-effects of their statements, so confusions upon confusions arose.<br /><br />As stated before it's not easy to keep the track of all aspects of Magic's complicated Storyline, so the sad conclusion is that the number of mistakes and silly retcons will be probably rising exponentially with every next Dominarian set.<br /><br />I hope I'm wrong...<br /><br />(Oh wait, they practically nuked the whole plane again, so maybe I'm really wrong).<br /><br />One more thing, the Time Spiral novel we're reading up there with Eid, is more like a symbol of the entire TS trilogy. Yes, it had that major retcons we're addressing to in the comic (that Teferi and Jhoira had never phased out with Shiv, and that Teferi saw Karona in the rift for a first time in his life), but Planar Chaos also tried to convince us, via Lord Windgrace's "certainty" that Yawgmoth is dead. Not to mention the <a href="http://magiccards.info/pc/en/165.html">Urborg</a> card.<br /><br />That's all for today. I hope you enjoyed it. I guess you can't send me a hatemail yet, because we didn't establish any e-mail address for the comic matters, but you can always leave a comment here. And yes, you guessed it right. Third comic will be 100% Moppi product.<br /><br /></td></tr></table><table width="610" border="0" cellspacing="0" align="center"><br /><tr><br /><td bgcolor="#b0bbdd"><br /><img src="http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss211/vorth_inq/adm_imgs/posticon_moppi.jpg" border="0" title="Moppi Says..."> GAAAAAAAAAAAH! *gets out of his work cave* We survived the First Hit!. Thanks for all the comments you have given this venture of ours <b>and i totally apologize</b> for the huge gap between the initial outing and this one. Still trying to put a finger on a style and stuff and hopefully settle into something that would make churning out pieces much more faster. (Which i guess failed on this second one lolz)<br /><br />As MORT mentioned already above the next comic would be an idea by me and that would cap the "Introductory" batch of strips. So you got an idea of <b>Eid</b> on our first outing, second one is from <b>MORT</b> and the next would be from me. Hopefully my ideas fly :P English is my second language and all and i'm quite a shallow person. :X<br /><br />BTW, <b>I'm telling you in advance, as much as i digress on announcing it publicly but the next gap might be TOTALLY large</b>.<br /><br /><Stuff-that-should-have-been-put-on-my-personal-blog><br /><br />My father is going home anytime on the following weeks and he is the type that doesn't tolerate prolonged ventures that doesn't generate any money whatsoever and looks down to anything that i get with meager salary than his (i.e. DOUCHE). And to think that making a comic was already hard for me and i cannot choose the option to move out of the house coz i still haven't found a day job, this happens. I somehow knew that Vorthosian Inquisition will face huge hurdles when i decided to officially release it a month or so before his arrival but i jumped on the schedule anyway.<br /><br /></Stuff-that-should-have-been-put-on-my-personal-blog><br /><br />So for now i'm striving on getting commissions over my Deviantart site in order to be busy (as to not be scolded over being on the internet doing nothing "productive") and to at least generate moolas while still being able to moonlight some work on the comic. You can read about this Commission thingamajig i'm doing <a href="http://matsunoki.deviantart.com" target="blank">[ HERE ]</a>, details and prices are on the <b>Journal</b> part.<br /><br /><br />Again, Thank You, for your PATIENCE and patronage. Do remember that <b>Vorthosian Inquisition</b> will only close when we ourselves states so in this part of each entry. <br /><br /><b>WE'RE GOING TO DO OUR BEST TO CHURN OUT NEW STRIPS FOR US VORTHOSES, AND PEOPLE INTERESTED/GETTING INTERESTED on MtG FLAVOR. w0000000000000000000000t~</b> <br /><br /></Caffeine Wears Off ><br /><br /></td></tr></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4