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LiveJournal · by **GrassyNoel** on Sun Jan 15, 2006 8:31 pm

Robin has just removed the Angst-prevention tag over at Shortpacked and Amber's dad has suddenly shown up. Perhaps it's Willis's way of saying 'Finish Avalon or I will do it first'

LiveJournal · by **Mravac Kid** on Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:55 pm

jeffk wrote:
bunnyThor wrote:The only problem is that the forum is going to be pretty bare of spec threads. 8)
But we've had spec threads of completely imaginary strips on this board. Surely we wouldn't let something like a spoiler page stop us :-)

Bah. The spoiler page is clearly just a clever ploy to keep us sidetracked. :)

by **K A H** on Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:52 pm

Holy saliva.... I stop paying attention to the forum for a week and suddenly the first new strip in over a year is posted. The things I miss when I'm not paying attention!

Perhaps, if Sir Josh is making some motion toward polishing off the remainder of "Avalon" itself, it'll finally nudge me toward polishing off my still largely incomplete homage to it.... I can say that seeing this comic has re-lit my creative spark where Sd'A is concerned. (Unfortunately I'm currently in California and my piano and unfinished manuscript are in Michigan, so it will need to wait until next week.)

Whether it be a one-off or not, huzzah for the new comic!

K.A.H.
Hm. And perhaps saying that I might finish Sd'A will cause the book to be shut on "Avalon" again.... perhaps I should leave well enough alone?

by **Mcfarlane Salsa** on Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:10 am

It's been a long while since 3:156, so long that I can't find my colouring of it. Back then, I was using Fireworks and just splash filling it with transparent colour, now I'm struggling to recreate that with several layers in the GIMP, otherwise it looks too dark.

http://packy.dardan.com/walky/albums/album46/abd.jpg

That's dark, with Sarah getting Ceilidh-Colured hair. So, I tried Mac-Hallesque transparency fiddling:

http://packy.dardan.com/walky/albums/al ... .sized.jpg

This is lighter, but it also looks a bit faded too. The problem is colouring over the grays, it means that producing a balanced tone is difficult.

Website · by **Hai-Etlik** on Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:37 am

Mcfarlane Salsa wrote:It's been a long while since 3:156, so long that I can't find my colouring of it. Back then, I was using Fireworks and just splash filling it with transparent colour, now I'm struggling to recreate that with several layers in the GIMP, otherwise it looks too dark.

http://packy.dardan.com/walky/albums/album46/abd.jpg

That's dark, with Sarah getting Ceilidh-Colured hair. So, I tried Mac-Hallesque transparency fiddling:

http://packy.dardan.com/walky/albums/al ... .sized.jpg

This is lighter, but it also looks a bit faded too. The problem is colouring over the grays, it means that producing a balanced tone is difficult.

There are various tricks to deshading Avalon strips for colouring. I would select areas of similar darkness, expanding to include the line, then adjusting the colour levels to bring the fill colour to white, then repeat.

Maybe if I get time I'll take a shot at it too.

by **Spaceman42** on Thu Jan 19, 2006 8:22 am

K A H wrote:stuff

I do have the sheet music archived on my website, somewhere...

Edit:
http://nfact.mspencer.net/AHMusix/Score
Also the lost "new stuff" directory and some other Sd'A-associated miscellany:
http://nfact.mspencer.net/AHMusix/newstuff
http://nfact.mspencer.net/AHMusix/Art
http://nfact.mspencer.net/AHMusix/f-SdA

Website · by **Hai-Etlik** on Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:23 pm

Here's my attempt at colouring it. First fan colouring I've done since The GIMP 2.0 came out; the new levels dialog helps a lot.

by **ParkRNDL** on Thu Jan 19, 2006 10:33 pm

Jeezis Quincy Adams. Talk about a nice surprise...

I checked in to tell a story. I got an iPod for Christmas, and I've been diddling with it and I have like 600 songs on it. I usually just set it on Shuffle, whether I'm playing from a playlist or the whole collection.

Anyway, last night I was doing some work here with the headphones on and "Fast As I Can" by Great Big Sea came up. (Who was it that did that as an Avalon video, anyway?) Pictures of Ceilidh danced in my head, and I went into total Avalon shock, and all day I've been thinking I have to cruise through the archives again. So I come here to post some nostalgic wistful little note about the emotive power of music, and there's a NEW COMIC?!?

wow. Josh, do your thing. The webcomic world awaits, and so do I.

guess I gotta check in here more often...

--rick

by **Symok** on Fri Jan 20, 2006 12:00 am

ParkRNDL wrote:(Who was it that did that as an Avalon video, anyway?)

That would be me *bows* I've been toying with the idea of doing another one. Maybe more comics will inspire me

by **ParkRNDL** on Fri Jan 20, 2006 10:54 am

Symok wrote:
ParkRNDL wrote:(Who was it that did that as an Avalon video, anyway?)

That would be me *bows* I've been toying with the idea of doing another one. Maybe more comics will inspire me

My hat is off to you. Anytime I hear that song, my brain instinctively draws and animates Ceilidh the day she went to visit Joe and waited at his house...

Got a song in mind for the next video? Kenny Loggins actually did a song called "Back to Avalon" that could be interesting. I started a thread about it when I first discovered Avalon a year ago...

http://forums.keenspot.com/viewtopic.php?t=72473

by **Mcfarlane Salsa** on Sat Jan 21, 2006 4:29 am

Hai-Etlik wrote:
Mcfarlane Salsa wrote:It's been a long while since 3:156, so long that I can't find my colouring of it. Back then, I was using Fireworks and just splash filling it with transparent colour, now I'm struggling to recreate that with several layers in the GIMP, otherwise it looks too dark.

http://packy.dardan.com/walky/albums/album46/abd.jpg

That's dark, with Sarah getting Ceilidh-Colured hair. So, I tried Mac-Hallesque transparency fiddling:

http://packy.dardan.com/walky/albums/al ... .sized.jpg

This is lighter, but it also looks a bit faded too. The problem is colouring over the grays, it means that producing a balanced tone is difficult.

There are various tricks to deshading Avalon strips for colouring. I would select areas of similar darkness, expanding to include the line, then adjusting the colour levels to bring the fill colour to white, then repeat.

Maybe if I get time I'll take a shot at it too.

Thanks for the tip. I was considering using potrace in Inkscape to trace over the line, but the lines were always too thick.

by **Neil** on Mon Jan 23, 2006 1:14 am

What.. What?! New Avalon!? SCORE!

by **Q99** on Mon Jan 23, 2006 1:15 am

Symok wrote:
ParkRNDL wrote:(Who was it that did that as an Avalon video, anyway?)

That would be me *bows* I've been toying with the idea of doing another one. Maybe more comics will inspire me

What? How come I haven't seen this video?!?

by **Tuitsuro** on Mon Jan 23, 2006 11:09 pm

Wait... Avalon? Back? Officially?

Hold on a sec...

*looks out window, waits for firey hailstones*

Welcome Back Josh!

(This makes me want to re-read the entire archives again! )

by **StudioPC** on Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:28 am

Wow. Good to be back.

by **Symok** on Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:33 am

Q99 wrote:What? How come I haven't seen this video?!?

I dunno.
*searches*
Here's the original thread

A link to download the video can be found from this page.

by **M_Northstar** on Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:13 pm

Whoa! I finished rereading the archives for the first time just last week, and have been lamenting Avalon's lapse since. When Comic-Nation showed an update for Avalon I nearly fell out of my chair. And it's a real update, and looks as good as ever too. Yiippiie.

by **Silvas** on Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:28 pm

Holy s#@t! The one day I randomly decide to go to http://www.avalonhigh.com, it's a new comic! Hooray!!!!

Now all we need is a confirmed Serenity sequel, and this day will be totally awesome.

Thanks Josh, if you can keep it up, you've got this reader back!

LiveJournal · by **GrassyNoel** on Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:48 pm

Silvas wrote:Holy s#@t! The one day I randomly decide to go to http://www.avalonhigh.com, it's a new comic! Hooray!!!!

Now all we need is a confirmed Serenity sequel, and this day will be totally awesome.

Thanks Josh, if you can keep it up, you've got this reader back!

After the Hitchhiker's movie finally got made after 20-odd years of gestating, a Red Dwarf movie would round it off.

by **Drooling Iguana** on Tue Jan 24, 2006 11:59 pm

Mravac Kid wrote:
jeffk wrote:
bunnyThor wrote:The only problem is that the forum is going to be pretty bare of spec threads. 8)
But we've had spec threads of completely imaginary strips on this board. Surely we wouldn't let something like a spoiler page stop us :-)

Bah. The spoiler page is clearly just a clever ploy to keep us sidetracked. :)

Nah, that's just what he wants you to think, so that when he follows the summary to the letter it'll still be a surprise and I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me!

by **Q99** on Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:21 am

Symok wrote:
Q99 wrote:What? How come I haven't seen this video?!?

I dunno.
*searches*
Here's the original thread

A link to download the video can be found from this page.

Awesome! I'm probably going to play that a dozen times in the next few days now...

by **ravenb** on Wed Jan 25, 2006 7:07 pm

IT'S BACK! It's back it's back it's back it's back it's back!!!

Sweet baby Cthulhu, I never thought this day would come. Thank you, Josh Phillips! I discovered Avalon a bare six months before it was scheduled to end, and tore through the archives at breakneck speed. I was heartbroken when it was left unfinished -- but now it's back it's back it's <deeeeep breath> BACK! God bless you, sir, and HUZZAH for the return of the twistiness!

<settles back into happy, fuzzy bliss>

by **ProfessorTomoe** on Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:30 am

Silvas wrote:Holy s#@t! The one day I randomly decide to go to http://www.avalonhigh.com, it's a new comic! Hooray!!!!

Now all we need is a confirmed Serenity sequel, and this day will be totally awesome.

Thanks Josh, if you can keep it up, you've got this reader back!

...and look what happened. Joy!

Theno's Livejournal · by **Thenodrin** on Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:47 pm

Josh Phillips wrote:
MarkusN wrote:Josh, what about the spoiler page? Is this going to stay up?

If Avalon resumes normal updates, the spoiler page will disappear.

Of course, you and others will just save a copy of it for posterity now.

JOSH.

The funny thing is that last Monday I was thinking that I might want to make an off-line archive of Avalon just incase the site goes down. (I spent time on Dec 31 doing this to Jackie's Fridge because I was worried that the change from Keenspace to ComicGenesis would cause it to be lost.) It would also give me an excuse to re-read it.

And, I can't remember a single word of the spoiler page, now. In fact, while re-reading the strip today I kept thinking, "Oh, yes, this was the last post before the spoiler ending." Then I'd read further and think, "I remember this. Oh, no, this was the last post ..."

Now, the spoiler page is gone, and I'll never know how it all ends.

;-)

Theno

by **ravenb** on Fri Jan 27, 2006 7:41 am

Thenodrin wrote:Now, the spoiler page is gone, and I'll never know how it all ends.

Yes you will, because this time Josh WILL finish the strip! Have faith, my friend! BELIEVE!

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