The Omnisicent Sentinel
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Quote:We looked at some comic reader/viewer programs but didn't really like any of them. Issuu looks interesting though, thanks for pointing it out.Originally Posted by Sin_Stalker
Also with other uploading programs like www.issuu.com, it will form into a book format.
Arghh, yep that's a word mix-upQuote:Originally Posted by taskforceuk_EU
Fairly good effort all round O.S. will we see more in future?
Not sure if this is a mistake, but on Page 7 of your PDF, Bob says "there is no guarantee the sensible data he collects...".
I'm assuming that this is supposed to read 'sensitive data', because otherwise the comment makes no sense to me..?
Also, it seems slightly odd they'd refer to an computer program as a "he" as opposed to 'it', but perhaps that just being overly picky.
. In german it's "sensible Daten" but of course sensitive data is correct. Sentinel might be sensible but saying the same thing about the data might be a little far-fetched.
Regarding more issues, we talked about the origin stories of our other characters that might be suited for a comic treatment (like Lilium in the preview page), but i don't think we will have the time for that with our upcoming final exams. Sentinel's story will continue in-game of course
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Quote:Ah, we should have remembered the rikti invasion of course, for the sake of all the fallen heroesOriginally Posted by Battlerock_X
The story is good except for a few details.
The most glaring is the date when the story takes place. If this is to be true to the City of Heroes lore, then Paragon City would still be in the middle of the First Rikti Invasion in September of 2002, so Sky Raiders would be the least of the city's concerns.
Another is that one of the doors on Page 5 had the Architect Entertainment logo on it. AE did not exist until 2009.
Still one more is the video footage of Pocket D nightclub. Again, this did not exist in 2002. Pocket D came into being at some point after the release of City of Villains (Issue 6) in 2005.
Outside of the date, the only two other issues are the "Coming Soon" page on page 1, which probably should be on the other side of the cover page, and the the price listed on the cover. Unless you have explicit permission from Paragon Studios/NCSoft for the use of the features, giving the impression that the comic is being commercially sold could run into some legal issues.
Outside of the above-mentioned issues, this is a good beginning.
. We just chose chose the date to be prior to Sentinel's in-game appearance though.
We arranged the pages in that order to make for a nicer view when you switch to double page viewing. The printed copy had the coming soon page as the back cover.
Regarding the price, we discussed omitting the price tag but decided against it, because we wanted to go for an authentic comic book style complete with price tag and bar code. Of course the physical copy won't be sold and its fanart nature was well explained at the exhibition and that's also one of the reasons we included the Q&A part.
Thanks for your feedback
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As we make our return to City of Heroes with its 6th anniversary (and the arrival of Issue 17 yay!), we can finally post our project to the CoH boards, the place where we found the inspiration to start it in the first place. Since we first saw the user created comics starring CoH characters we wanted to create one of our own and got the opportunity to do so in a university course that we attended last year. The course dealt with computer games and art and how the two are related to each other. The comic was our final work for that course and we even able to print a physical copy of it that went to a small exhibition.
We had lots of fun (and quite some work) creating the comic and hope you will enjoy it as well.
Questions and comments welcome of course
The Omniscient Sentinel Issue 1 (29 MB pdf file)
http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~fayre/sentinel.pdf