Thinking Rock Studio site gone?! OH SHI–
Yeah, it’s true. One day the site was there, all happy and showing our content. Then the next day, it left for college and doesn’t call anymore. What a dick.
But seriously, you’ll notice that the TRS site no longer houses…well…TRS. When Jake (UnlivedPhalanx) found out about this, he was PISSED. And so was I. From what he said, the provider for our hosting, Honest Networks, “sold it out from under us.” Honest Networks my ass.
So he emailed them and asked them “WTF.” They’ve traded a few emails back and forth, and we still don’t have a definitive account of what happened. If you’ll look at the site, apparently it was sold to some squatter or third-party group, which is bullshit because our plan wasn’t even half-expired yet.
So until that issue is resolved, you’ll not be able to read the comics, and you’ll have to go to YouTube yourself to find the videos. Don’t worry, nothing’s new. Nothing has been since October.
However, I’m gonna make it up to you guys. Since I’m such a nice guy, and I appreciate people saying they like the comics, I’ll post three per day until it reaches current, and then they’ll be released whenever they’re done. The best part being, you can see them in nice full resolution as opposed to being crammed into a PDF file, since I’m messing around with the size and format of the comic for later strips so it’s less boring.
Without further ado, the first three strips of Thinking Rock Theatre:
And since I’m even a nicer guy, I’ll even give you a little backstory:
I got my inspiration from a little webcomic over here called Concerned: The Half-Life and Death of Gordon Frohman. It entails a naive fellow blundering his way through the world of Half-Life 2, in the form of slapstick, satires from the game itself, and even more slapstick. It’s where I got the inspiration for the first strip of TRT. Concerned has since completed its run, but you can read back into the archives and read the whole thing through, all 205 strips of it.
As for strips #002 and #003, that was a little story arc I made so that I could get into the hang of comic making and stuff before I did the actual storyline (note: since I’m saying this after that arc is completed, I could’ve pulled that out of my ass at any time), as you can tell from the amateur Photoshop effects.
So yeah. That’s my story.
My arm’s getting tired from patting myself on the back so much. Stay tuned tomorrow for comics #004-006.
