PLAYING GOD Chapter 13

Playing God - a Valiant story written, drawn, edited, and published online for ValiantFans.com in 2008-2009.

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:o Wow.... amazing! I'm really going to hate to see this end, but I'm going to love the payoff. :thumb:

Three questions:

1) If it's seventeen chapters how is it going to split? Both book 1 and 2 are 5 chapters each, so is book 3 going to be 7 chapters?

2) What happened to the colored chapters? Chapter 1 sure was purdy. :D

3) Are there still plans to make more of the Bios? Those were awesome too.

Either way, great job, guys. I really hope this becomes cannon.

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all i know is that the answer to questions 2 and 3 are-you just volunteered! :lol:

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Elveen wrote:SO how many chapters do you imagine this will be?
17
That's not what i heard...of course, i'm not writing it... :P :lol: 8-)
Really? What did you hear?
And did you hear chapters or pages? :twisted:
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BTW Dave: Helter Skelter. :wink: or :P
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can i get a chart with that one? :?

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Love the final pannel. Was looking forward to seeing that from the end of chapter 12.

Who needs color, when colour is MUCH better.

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Just noticed ninjak in the teaser...has he made a previous appearance?

who's the dude with the giant wristwatch? reminds me a bit of slagger, but i don't think you guys have any future heroes in this one.

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dave wrote:Just noticed ninjak in the teaser...has he made a previous appearance?

who's the dude with the giant wristwatch? reminds me a bit of slagger, but i don't think you guys have any future heroes in this one.
He's a bit updated Harbinger from Faith's team (#26 on.)

I put slight mods in for updates on a lot of the secondary characters to reflect the dynamic nature of the VHU. That and I added some new ones for fodder during the upcoming battle. For example, why wouldn't Thumper have a weight-suit that could also act as plate armor? The MI-6 SW's are updated, etc . . .

Not that it does them a damn bit of good. :twisted:
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COOL! so could we like, bribe you guys to kill off certain characters that we don't like?

I wish I had that power with George Lucas. I wanted Episode 3 to be titled the Gruesome Death OF JarJAr....

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dave wrote:
I wish I had that power with George Lucas. I wanted Episode 3 to be titled the Gruesome Death OF JarJAr....
We all did....

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I wish I had that power with George Lucas. I wanted Episode 3 to be titled the Gruesome Death OF JarJAr....
We all did....
That's easy . . . Jar Jar gets it in chp 15.
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dave wrote:can i get a chart with that one? :?
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etos45 wrote:Three questions:

1) If it's seventeen chapters how is it going to split? Both book 1 and 2 are 5 chapters each, so is book 3 going to be 7 chapters?

2) What happened to the colored chapters? Chapter 1 sure was purdy. :D

3) Are there still plans to make more of the Bios? Those were awesome too.
1. It's kind of an odd split. We could have dragged it out for a couple more chapters but I felt it was time to get some pay off. If hard copies were made I guess book 3 would be a bit larger.

2. Color doesn't look like it's going to happen anymore. It's a shame because Ed was doing a killer job but things seem to have gotten in the way.

3. I'd like to have more bios. I think they could be helpful to those readers who are not familiar with the characters. IN the end it's up to Anthony and Stu.

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When I started reading comics, I only got Black and white ones. Only latter did I get colour comics ~ mainly as their is more to chose from.

I like black and white, I think people apprechiate the art and inks more. Colour can inhance a comic, but can also distract from the artists work.

Just my thoughts. ~ Look at the tower block exploadeding its amazing. Colour can hid details.

A weird example is ~

Big boy and the rustry robot (mixed example), was a fantastic colour comic. Ment to be in colour and I feel looks better in colour. But have you seen the black and white version? the amount of detail is truely amazing ( althought confussing ~ like I said was ment to be published in colour)

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dave wrote:all i know is that the answer to questions 2 and 3 are-you just volunteered! :lol:
Hmm... okay. Let me get my crayons. :D

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is there any chance that some of the pencils would be imaged on the site? that's be cool. some serious muula could be made for CF in auctions too...
or you could just keep it all and hang it on your wall...i'm just thinking out loud here. :lol:

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looks neat without colour really empasises the art :thumb:

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X-O HoboJoe wrote:
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dave wrote:
I wish I had that power with George Lucas. I wanted Episode 3 to be titled the Gruesome Death OF JarJAr....
We all did....
That's easy . . . Jar Jar gets it in chp 15.
Yay!

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So it looks like this thing will be at least 18 chapters. Maybe even 19.

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that's CLOSER to what i heard! :lol:

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Daniel Jackson wrote:
X-O HoboJoe wrote:
Daniel Jackson wrote:
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I wish I had that power with George Lucas. I wanted Episode 3 to be titled the Gruesome Death OF JarJAr....
We all did....
That's easy . . . Jar Jar gets it in chp 15.
Yay!
Double MAJOR yay.

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I just caught up on this and continuing to love it. I enjoyed the line, "Impressvie. I actually felt that." Didn't Harada say that to Pete in Harbinger #25?

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what's the issue with color? It'd be really cool to have a color hardcopy of this. I mean REALLY COOL :drool: What's It going to take and how can we help?!
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geocarr wrote:I just caught up on this and continuing to love it. I enjoyed the line, "Impressvie. I actually felt that." Didn't Harada say that to Pete in Harbinger #25?
Ayup.

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MoonChild wrote:what's the issue with color? It'd be really cool to have a color hardcopy of this. I mean REALLY COOL :drool: What's It going to take and how can we help?!
You can find the answer to this a handful of posts above. Short answer is it looks like no more color. :(


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