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I really wonder when there will be the last Artie.

When I lose interest in making them. I went nearly a year last time between episodes because of the move (yes - Artie moving was inspired by me moving in real life). But as long as I have something that interests me related to classic gaming (and is hopefully funny  ), then I'll keep sporadically cranking them out.

 

As for the future of AA, the blogs, etc. – Artie would find a home elsewhere, should it become necessary.

17 minutes ago, Nathan Strum said:

As for the future of AA, the blogs, etc. – Artie would find a home elsewhere, should it become necessary.

Please let me know where to find him. And you!

I’m dense and it took a few minutes to get it. 

He was about to tell Atari to go (F themselves?),  but is cut off by an Atari ad.  I laughed pretty well at that actually!   I look forward to Artie being finished with the move so we can see him as a (color) 2600 again...The idea of talking consoles is always fun,  and (whichever came first) it kind of reminds me of the way Aqua Teen Hunger Force was drawn...Remember the one where Meatwad is playing some video game Ouija board on an Atari (or similar) I think,  and Master Shake kills himself so he can enter the game as a ghost and scare Meatwad? 

 

Cheers!

 

1 hour ago, GoldLeader said:

He was about to tell Atari to go (F themselves?),  but is cut off by an Atari ad.  I laughed pretty well at that actually!

That's a reference (of sorts) to a Bloom County strip, that I've paid homage to before.

1 hour ago, GoldLeader said:

I look forward to Artie being finished with the move so we can see him as a (color) 2600 again...

Well, he will be finished with the move at some point. But as for being in color...  

1 hour ago, GoldLeader said:

The idea of talking consoles is always fun,  and (whichever came first) it kind of reminds me of the way Aqua Teen Hunger Force was drawn...Remember the one where Meatwad is playing some video game Ouija board on an Atari (or similar) I think,  and Master Shake kills himself so he can enter the game as a ghost and scare Meatwad?

I don't recall that episode, but I seem to recall them referencing Atari (or similar games) a number of times. I didn't watch a lot of ATHF though. For me, a little of that went a long way.  

Ahhh the classic Bloom County!

 

Somewhere I have a comic,  cut out of the Sunday paper in the 80's.   It may have been Bloom County but maybe not, (Another,  different one was for sure Bloom County)...Anyway it shows a kid playing Space Invaders,  and at the end of the game it goes ZZZAP!  And the kid is blasted into a pile of dust!   And a character just says, "This must be one of those newer Space Invaders games",  I mainly cut it out as a Space Invaders fan,  for the reference...

 

Back to ATHF,  Also the Mooninites are like 2D video game characters and as I recall,  their movements and LASERS sound like 2600 Sound FX haha...

 

 

 

One of my favorite-ever Bloom County comic strips:

https://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/1982/08/18

If Artie has a cousin in France, he'll be in colour. All eight of them if I recall correctly.

I suppose the missing color is representing his current mood.

Nope. I decided to revert back to black and white (as Artie originally was) for several reasons:

1. Traditionally, daily newspaper comics are black and white. Since moving back to Seattle, I get a newspaper here (a real printed one). There are some comics in the paper that clearly started out as full-color web comics, and they don't translate to black and white at all. They didn't take into account the limitations of newspaper printing when creating them, and they end up a blurry, illegible mess. I like the clean, simple look of a well-designed black and white comic strip, and wanted to go back to Artie's original inspiration and appearance: a newspaper comic.
2. The color strips (even as copy/paste as they are) are a bit of a pain to produce. I wanted to simplify things so I'd be more inclined to produce new strips.
3. I wanted to change the look of the strip, and try some different approaches to creating the artwork. This is in part because I've moved, therefore Artie's moved, and this represents an opportunity for a clean break between then and now. But also, I'm always looking for new ways to create art, and hopefully come up with techniques and approaches I can use in other projects.
4. I'll get one or two strips out of Artie's meta commentary about how everything is black and white.  

Will Artie come back in his old shape? I liked it much better.

3 hours ago, Thomas Jentzsch said:

Will Artie come back in his old shape? I liked it much better.

If you mean not in a box? Yes. Artie will return as a proper 2600.

 

I have one or two left in this series, then we'll start unboxing Artie and some of the rest of the cast. I'm a bit preoccupied with some other projects right now, so there may be a bit of a delay before that happens.

Maybe @ZeroPage Homebrew could stream the unboxing.  

1 hour ago, Thomas Jentzsch said:

Maybe @ZeroPage Homebrew could stream the unboxing.  

Least exciting episode of ZPH ever:

 

James (reads comic strip on livestream): "Well, that wasn't very funny."

Aerlan: "Dude, you totally missed the juxtapositioning of anthropomorphism with the human condition. It's a biting satire of how people find meaning in pointless emotional attachment to material things. F___ yeah, man!"