Well, it's high time I started contributing. So here I go! I'm uploading a series of comics way back when in what I feel is a devious and clever marketing ploy, heheheheh...
You see, about 3 years back, during my sophomore year of high school, my and a couple other friends (You may know them as Jimtopia and Amiolas) started a webcomic called Shot Down Again. It had a good 7 month run with a very modest following before school and other responsibilities (particularly my responsibility to my impulsive laziness) forced me to set it aside.
The website remained something of an abandoned warehouse for about a year before Jimtopia and Amiolas picked it up again and decided to take a crack at reviving it. By this point I was deeply entrenched in the struggle between some brutal AP classes and an early outbreak of senioritis (a common affliction among upperclassmen with symptoms including chronic laziness and excessive sloth). Needless to say, I couldn't provide much assistance beyond a "passing of the torch" opening comic, so they were on their own. If memory serves I think they got three comics done before they too fell victim to the rampant senioritis epidemic that was sweeping through the Tristate area like a herd of really pissed off tornadoes. I think it's a real shame, because Jimtopia had been doing SDA sketches in a notebook for months by the time he got around to inking and coloring them for the web...he just got tired of inking and coloring :(
So our brainchild was once again abandoned to collect dust and rot away in the bowels of the interwebz...
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UNTIL NOW!
You see, the three of us figure we've found out how to work around this insipid laziness that seems to crop up every time we make an attempt at productivity, and we hope that our new approach will prove more successful than the last. Here is a brief summary of our general plan of attack:
1) We will NOT be sticking to a strict update schedule. I can meet a weekly deadline, sure, but that just causes my to burnout on it way too fast, and then trying to make ends meet when I have school stuff to deal with is such a PAIN. So, we've decided that we'll update it whenever we have a finished product to show you guys.
2) Seeing as how this approach could end up leaving our readers with less than a comic a month, we've decided to expand our repertoire of material. Basically, both Jimtopia and I will be working on comics at the same time. We'll each have our own gallery, and we'll both be producing things to be read and chuckled at. And since we intend to follow different comicking formats (I tend to go for longer comics while Jimtopia intends to produce a single-panel "ponderable" every other weekday), there will hopefully be a steady flow of material available.
3) We are also considering adding podcasts and flash tomfoolery to the site. Who knows? It could be fun!
With that in mind, we hope to have a revamped and fully operational site ready with fresh material by the end of August. Amiolas, our tech-meister, is working feverishly to meet our stringent demands, and so far, it looks as though he will deliver ^_^. So with that in mind, I would like to make one final plug for our site:
VISIT www.shotdownagain.com! VERSION 3.0 COMING THIS AUGUST!
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Wow, I got really distracted from my original point. Okay, so basically, I'm going to upload all the old comics that I was responsible for during SDA's first incarnation. That way, you Newgrounds folks can get a feel for what we're all about. Hopefully you will be amused. Hopefully. We shall see...
