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  var reason = "Ep 080!";
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  var news = "<B>030209 </B> As I've stated, I won't update the comic until I can give you the entire story without any more interuptions, but I am please to announce that I have a style that I like. A little backstory... originally, episodes were created from pencil drawings on typing paper, inked, scanned, cleaned, colored, and patched together. My next attempt used a PDA and The Gimp, but that system did not work for a variety of reasons -- not the least because the PDA broke, but also because Gimp worked very poorly and the screen's colors were terrible.<BR><BR>So now I am using Flash CS4 on a touchscreen on my Sony Vaio VGN-UX280P and it is nice. <A href=\"gallery/3apd.png\">Here's</a> a sample of the background style that I like. My goal is a uniform appearance for all episodes. It's still going to be awhile, but progress exists.<BR><BR><B>092708 </B> Do you know how often I've thought about 3APD since 11/11/07 (the last time I updated)? Regularly. The story plans continue. I've recently made out a chapter listing of the entire first book and I've finished the plan for the final battle that ends the story. I'm not going to update again until I can submit the entire book to you, it's just not fair for you to keep thinking I'm back and finding out that I'm not. But the plans for this comic are far from dead, ok? I've been learning new things with Google SketchUp, Adobe Flash, and Gimp that will help out with this.<BR><BR>I have a list of locations that are going to be used in the comic:<BR>Jack's townhouse and nearby sidewalk, Jack's childhood treehouse and nearby park, SPD HQ and surrounding area, Abandoned warehouse, Jack's workplace and surrounding area, SFG mansion, Highway traffic jam, Wealthy Suburbia mansion, EZTR/4W space ship, Linus and Trevor's lab and surrounding area, Hospital, Burning house<BR><BR>And I have a list of characters:<BR>Jack, Bekko, David, EZTR/4W, Linus, Trevor, Officer Mary Anne Smith, Officer Thomas, Detective Jon, Officer Sam Davis, (J) Jehu, (W) Watt, (N) Nano, (V) Vegas, (H) Hench, (R) Nurse Rachel, (A) Abigail, (B) Butch, (C) Cyrus, 2 unnamed SFG guards, 1 unnamed SFG agent, 1 unnamed SFG security officer, townspeople, hotdog vendor, little girl buying a hotdog, little girl with a cat, family inside the burning house, firemen inside the burning house, Frank Barton, receptionist, CSI guy, CSI rookie, SFG Swedish interpretter.<BR><BR>The plan is to develop all of the locations in 3D ... I don't know if you've noticed but my backgrounds suck. Then develop all of the characters in Flash. I don't know if you've noticed, but my consistency of drawing characters sucks. And then all I have to do is play dolls -- put Flash characters into raster images of 3D backgrounds -- and then give them dialog and boom! I'm not using a PDA anymore since it died shortly after my last older update. I bought a UMPC instead, and that's what I've been using. It's a Sony Vaio VGN-UX280P (google it, they are awesome). I have a touchscreen, stick mouse, and thumb keyboard, but I can also connect it to a real monitor, mouse, and full keyboard, so it goes from mobile to desktop in less than a minute.<BR><BR>I'm aware that my 3apd.com URL has expired. I didn't manage to renew it in time and it's been bought up by a squatter. Stupid squatters. They don't even have a real website up in its place. If I can get the domain name back, I'll make sure I keep it again next time, but until their claim expires, I won't be able to. Sorry about that.";

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