Editing web comics

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[[Image:Webcomic_sbemail.png|thumb|200px|"That stuff is totally messed up The Cheat.  That gunk is ill."]]
Gunkiller and his friends ask Strong Bad for suggestions on making a web comic.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{film|Strong Bad}}, {{film|Strong Sad}},  {{film|The Cheat}}, {{film|Stinkoman}}

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[The Cheat's Computer Room]]

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}

'''Date:''' October 8, 2007

'''Running Time:''' 3:34

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486

==Transcript==

'''STRONG BAD:''' Strong Bad email goes down smooth and clean... like gasoline.

<blockquote class="lappy email">
<div>subject: story ideas</div>
Hey Strong Bad,<br />
Me and some of my friends are thinking of doing a web<br />
comic together and I was wondering if you had any suggestions<br />
for us. Thanks a lot<br />
Gunkiller<br />
Standing right behind you
</blockquote>
''{Strong Bad mutters "for not using punctuation" after "Thanks a lot" and pronounces "Gunkiller" as "Gunk-iller".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Who are you? Gunhaver's evil twin brother? Well I won't be needing your services today; all my gunk is plenty ill already. ''{clears screen}'' Web comics are easy, Gunky. They're all about video games, gamernerds, webgeeks, dorknerds, gamewads, nerdgames, webwebs, and elves. So just pick one of those and start tableting! Like the one where the slickly drawn college roommates make nothing but video game inside jokes!

''{during the preceding, the scene changes to a shot of a comic with two characters, one of whom loosely resembles Strong Bad with black hair and a yellow T-shirt; the other loosely resembles Strong Sad with short blond hair and holding a hand-held video game}''

'''STRONG BAD-LIKE CHARACTER:''' ''{in Strong Bad's voice, the text appears in speech bubbles above him}'' Uh, did you try to case mod that meatloaf you're makin'?

'''STRONG SAD-LIKE CHARACTER:''' ''{in Strong Sad's voice, the text appears in speech bubbles above him}'' No, why?

''{pans to the next panel of the comic; both characters are looking at a burnt brick in a baking pan that the Strong Bad-like character is holding}''

'''STRONG BAD-LIKE CHARACTER:''' 'Cause I think it's BRICKED!

''{pans to the next panel of the comic; both characters are staring wide-eyed}''

'''STRONG SAD-LIKE CHARACTER:''' 3.2ghz cell processor with 3 dual-threaded cores, 1.8 TFLOPS, 256mb XDR...

'''STRONG BAD-LIKE CHARACTER:''' ''{beginning a short way through the previous line, and continuing simultaneously with it}'' Light bloom, floating point frame buffers, volumetric effects, high dynamic range rendering...

''{the scene fades}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Aughhh, I wish I knew what that means!

''{Cut back to Strong Bad at the Lappy}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' Another approach is to just ask for input from your viewers and rip that off for content. ''{zoom out a bit, Strong Bad turns around to face the camera}'' Pfff. What a cop-out.

''{[[New Paper]] comes down. Cut to The Cheat at Monosodium Dreams.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' The Cheat has one of those. He gets people to send him the weird senders' names from spam emails, ''{The Cheat clicks the menu for "Email" and brings up a list of names with a list of subjects}'' and then he makes interpretive drawings based on them! ''{The Cheat double clicks the name "Colliding R. Reallying"}'' Classics like&mdash;

''{The scene changes to an undersea image in which two sharks are colliding. Swimming below them is a creature consisting of a glass dome and a propeller. Under this is the text "Colliding R. Reallying" in yellow.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' &mdash;Colliding R. Reallying!

''{Cut back to The Cheat}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' And&mdash; ''{The Cheat double clicks the name "Knowingest J. Drawbridges"

''{The scene changes to an image of a man in athletic clothing standing outside a mostly-raised drawbridge over a moat. The man has a mane and horns, and his left arm is extended down into the moat and back up to knock on the drawbridge, which has eyes, a tongue and teeth. The text "Knowingest J. Drawbridges" appears in white at the top.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' &mdash;Knowingest J. Drawbridges!

''{Cut back to The Cheat, still looking at the Knowingest J. Drawbridges picture on Monosodium Dreams. Strong Bad is now with him.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' That stuff is totally messed up, The Cheat. That gunk is ill.

''{cut back to Strong Bad at the Lappy}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' But if cartoony or Cheaty drawings aren't your thing, break out your cracked serial numbers for 'Burn & Dodge: The Fantasy Photoshop Gradient Comic!

''{Cut to an image of a character whose head resembles Strong Bad's mask with a beard. He also has a muscular torso and is holding a buckler and sword. A creature resembling The Cheat with a pointy tail and horns is on his shoulder.}''

'''BORGORROTH OF COOLSWORDORROTH:''' ''{appears above him in a speech bubble}'' Hold! Borgorroth of Coolswordorroth shimmies for no man!

'''THE CHEAT:''' Meh!

''{Cut to wider view; The Cheat-like creature is now behind Borgorroth of Coolswordorroth, who is holding his sword defensively in front of him. A figure in a black cloak is opposite them and holding his right hand at them; the hand is radiating light}''

'''CLOAKED FIGURE:''' ''{in Strong Bad's voice}'' LENS FLARE!

'''BORGORROTH OF COOLSWORDORROTH:''' Uh, PLASTIC WRAP! ''{the scene becomes covered in plastic wrap}''

''{Cut back to Strong Bad at the Lappy}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Or if you can't draw, never fear, just steal some graphics from your favorite video game. And add yet another unlicensed pixel comic to the overcrowded, overstunk landfill of web comics.

''{Cut to a panel showing Stinkoman in his sprite form from Stinkoman 20X6 on green land, while the theme music from [[Stinkoman 20X6 Walkthrough Level 1|the first level]] plays.}

'''STINKOMAN:''' ''{appears in a speech bubble}'' Sometimes I wish I could challenge my own self.

''{Pan to the next panel, in which the scene is dark and the text "ZAP!" appears in red near the top. The scene returns to normal as a second Stinkoman appears facing the first.}'' 

'''SECOND STINKOMAN:''' ''{in 1-Up's voice}'' I'm Stinkoman.

'''STINKOMAN:''' WAAAAAAAAH!

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' And when your pixel comic's not funny&mdash;

''{Cut to the next panel, which is the same as the previous but with two red eyes with green irises added, along with various shapes and colors.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' &mdash;MS Paint your way to a non-punchline!

''{The scene fades out. Cut back to Strong Bad at the Lappy.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' As terrible as this is, I suppose web comics are a better fate for video games than Saturday morning cartoons were.

''{Cut to a cartoon scene with a red cube with legs, arms, eyes and a green cap; a blond boy with a shirt that says "Kid" and a surfboard; and a dog wearing sunglasses.}''

'''KID:''' Ah, come on, Secret Collect! Let's go surfing inside the evil castle!

''{Cut to a closeup of the dog}''

'''DOG:''' Uh, dudeical!

''{Cut to a closeup of Secret Collect; the scene continuously zooms in on him}''

'''SECRET COLLECT:''' ''{exaggeratedly shuddering}'' Ohh, I don't know about this! Collect, collect, collect!

''{Cut to a scene of a wizard with green eyes, a brown tunic, a beard, and three jewels set in his forehead looking at the previous scene in a crystal ball in a castle.}''

'''WIZARD:''' Once I collect the final secret, the sweepstakes will be mine!

''{Scene changes to a picture of a clay Nebulon in a kitchen; he has a speech bubble that says, "Secret Collect. will be right back...", above the speech bubble is a small picture of Secret Collect. On the bottom right of the screen is a bubble with the text "Saturday Mornideo Games".}''

'''ANNOUNCER:''' Secret Collect will be right back. 

''{scene changes to show a smiling animated Thy Dungeonman and the text "The Animated Adventures of Thy Dungeonman".}''

'''ANNOUNCER:''' And stay tuned for The Animated Adventures of Thy Dungeonman!

''{Cut to a background of poorly-drawn houses, in front of which stand two characters: the text "Go North" and "Get Dagger", both in green letters and with eyes and legs.}''

'''GET DAGGER:''' My cousin's coming to visit!

''{Zoom out to show a text character Take Dagger next to Get Dagger.}''

'''TAKE DAGGER:''' Hiya, guys!

''{Two more green characters are seen running behind them. Cut to a scene of the text character "Dennis" chasing the text character "Ye Flask".}''

'''DENNIS:''' You get back heeeeeere!

''{Cut back to Strong Bad at the Lappy}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' So to answer your question, Gunky, DON'T MAKE A WEB COMIC! Why can't you just make a...comic. Everyone knows that putting 'web' in front of words automatically makes them crappier. Just look what happened to 'pages,' and 'cams,' and 'logs.' And who could forget the fall of the mighty 'isode.' Ohh, so tragic.

''{[[New Paper]] comes down}''

==Easter Eggs==
[[Image:Gunk Iller.png|thumb|He be illin'!]]
*Click on "Gunkiller" after Strong Bad says his name to see a [[Cheat Commandos]] action figure named after him.
*Click on "COMICS" at the end of the email to bring up a window where you can [[Stinkoman Sunday Fun Talk|make your own Stinkoman comic]] using sprites from [[Stinkoman 20X6]].
*Click on "'web' in front" at the end of the email to see a drawing of a blimp in flight above a stadium, with the words "GO LOAF!" over it.
*Click on "crappier" at the end of the email to see what happened to Borgorroth of Coolswordorroth.
*:'''CLOAKED MAN:''' OCEAN RIPPLE! ''{another effect is applied}''
*:'''BORGORROTH OF COOLSWORDORROTH:''' FIND EDGES! ''{another effect is applied, changing much of the colour}''
*:'''CLOAKED MAN:''' SHARPEN MORE! ''{another effect is applied. The image is mostly incomprehensible now.}''
*:'''BORGORROTH OF COOLSWORDORROTH:''' Er... NUDGE! ''{the scene shifts a little to the left}''

==Fun Facts==
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===Explanations===
*"[[Wikipedia:Brick (electronics)|Bricked]]" is slang for causing an electronic piece of equipment to no longer function.
*"[[Wikipedia:Case modding|Case modding]]" is the act of modifying a video game console or computer chassis.
*"[[Wikipedia:FLOPS|TFLOPS]]" stands for "Tera-FLoating point Operations Per Second" and is a measure of the speed of a computer in mathematical operations.
*"Lens Flare", "Plastic Wrap", "Ocean Ripple", "Find Edges" and "Sharpen More" are all ''filters'' that one can use in [[Wikipedia:Adobe Photoshop|Adobe Photoshop]]. "Nudge" is the term used to describe the act of moving an object on the image canvas.

===Trivia===
[[Image:Webcomicpreview.png|thumb|"That's funny. I gave it negative 2."]]
*The email preview features a different GamerJox comic than featured in the email.
*:'''STRONG BAD LIKE CHARACTER:''' EGM<sup>2</sup> gave the new Peasant's Quest game 4 out of 10!!
*:'''STRONG SAD LIKE CHARACTER:''' That's funny.  I gave it negative 2.
*:'''STRONG BAD LIKE CHARACTER:''' Don't you think that's a bit harsh?
*:'''STRONG SAD LIKE CHARACTER:''' I think EGM<sup>2</sup> is a bit nonexistent for 10 years.
*The clay [[Nebulon]] is in the paper [[Cheat Commandos Playsets#Reynold's Apartment|Reynold's Apartment]] playset.

===Inside References===
* Two of The Cheat's emails are from [[Lem Sportsinterviews]] and "hooray4dolphins", [[Marzipan]]'s [[Contacts|screen name]] in [[marzipan]].
* The Stinkoman Sunday Fun Talk comic (as seen in the Easter egg) is syndicated by [[Harmless Junk]].
* Strong Bad showed that he thought EGM2 is still around in [[what I want]].
* When the New Paper comes down the first, inappropriate time, Strong Bad does not complain. However in the email [[mini golf]], he does. This could be a sign that Strong Bad has finally gotten used to the New Paper.

===Real-World References===
*The Cheat's "interpretive drawings" based on spam sender names is similar to [http://spamusement.com/ Spamusement's] "Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines"
*The email preview refers to [[Wikipedia:EGM2|EGM2]], a United States-based video game magazine that was published by Sendai Publishing from July 1994 to July 1998.
*The [[Secret Collect]] Saturday morning cartoon is reminiscent of [[Wikipedia:Captain N|Captain N: The Game Master]], which featured various [[Wikipedia: Nintendo|Nintendo]] game characters led by a teenager. Also, both the Secret Collect and [[Thy Dungeonman]] cartoons are possibly parodies of the shows featured in [[Wikipedia: Saturday Supercade|Saturday Supercade]], and the latter also bears similarities to the [[Wikipedia:Pac-Man (TV series)|Pac-Man cartoon]].
*The "'web' in front" easter egg is a reference to the band [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archers_of_Loaf Archers of Loaf], whose first album contains a song titled "Web in Front".
*Strong Bad mentioning cracked serial numbers is a reference to how many people illegally obtain Photoshop by downloading a cracked serial number online.
*Lens Flare, Plastic Wrap, and the other effects mentioned in the easter egg are different filters one can apply in Adobe Photoshop.

==External Links==
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*[[HR:stinko_comic.html|Stinkoman 20X6 comics maker Easter egg]]
*[[HR:stinko_comic.swf|view the Flash file for the Stinkoman 20X6 comics maker Easter egg]]
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