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11-27-2011, 05:48 PM | #3081 |
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Legate Barrow-walker and Darth Volo?
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11-27-2011, 08:04 PM | #3082 |
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Star Wars rule! And I just watched all of them.
EDIT: I'm not going to do those crosswords. I never have. I was just curious what the answers were and though it was last Monday. |
11-28-2011, 01:11 PM | #3083 | |
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I still consider myself the winner though, even if not in name.
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11-28-2011, 05:24 PM | #3084 |
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Since no more complete correct solutions to the crossword puzzle have been offered,
GALADRIEL55 wins a pizza wedge for the most nearly correct solution, having got all but two words right; also bonus points for creative thinking in her post #3069. And now for all of you who are still in the dark TEH SOLUTION! *drumroll* If you didn't win any part of the cement pizza and are curious what you've missed, the whole thing in all its hideous glory can be viewed here. Thank you for playing, everybody! I hope this was as much fun for you as it was for me.
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11-29-2011, 05:13 AM | #3085 |
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How comes I knew that this will find its way to 'The Downer. No surprise. All too easy. I have foreseen it.
Oh it certainly was, Mr. McBrain!
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11-29-2011, 08:51 PM | #3086 |
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13 Across makes all the sense in the world now!
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11-29-2011, 09:13 PM | #3087 |
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"Dawn" was my original answer to 7..... And then I decided that it makes no sense whatsoever, because barrows are active at night, so I wrote "dark". Bugger.
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11-30-2011, 03:35 AM | #3088 |
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May you walk in the dark no longer, G55. Behold!
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12-01-2011, 06:21 AM | #3089 | |
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Question. What do wheels have to do with palantirs? I get that it's a Seeing Stone, but why wheels?
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12-01-2011, 07:01 AM | #3090 |
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Palantír of Fortune...
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12-05-2011, 03:54 AM | #3091 |
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Sorry it's a tad late. Not feeling well.
Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian. Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the... PHANTOM AND ALIEN COMIC ARCHIVE THING Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to hunt down some P&A voice artists!!
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12-05-2011, 10:59 AM | #3092 |
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12-05-2011, 11:57 AM | #3093 |
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You're odd....oh wait, you are. -_-
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12-05-2011, 01:30 PM | #3094 |
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Oddwen: Ouch.
BG: Ouch!!! P&A: On an occasion where a flamethrower would come in really handy, trust Alien to come up with something like this. Love it.
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12-05-2011, 04:23 PM | #3095 |
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Pass 'em the possum!
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12-05-2011, 04:34 PM | #3096 |
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I think I need to find some way to automatically rep Oddwen when she makes a post.
A tax on taxies is better than a tax on taxes, don't you think? That would be most taxing.
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12-05-2011, 06:26 PM | #3097 |
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Oddkins, have I ever told you that I adore you? (And you too, Hookbilly.)
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12-11-2011, 06:31 PM | #3098 |
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Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian. Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the... PHANTOM AND ALIEN COMIC ARCHIVE THING We may not get the full animation done by Christmas - sorry everyone - but we'll get a trailer out! Just you voice actors get your voices to me sharpish!
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12-12-2011, 07:15 PM | #3099 |
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Those two useless hobbits have a use?!
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12-13-2011, 03:17 PM | #3100 |
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Incidentally, I saw the Phantom & Alien strip first and thought you were referring to Lal & davem.
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12-13-2011, 04:22 PM | #3101 |
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12-17-2011, 01:32 PM | #3102 |
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I wonder when Death is going to notice his watch is missing...
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12-18-2011, 06:07 PM | #3103 |
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Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian. Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the... PHANTOM AND ALIEN COMIC ARCHIVE THING Work on the P&A animation is fully on the way now that we have all the voices! We'll be releasing a trailer on Christmas day for you to feast your eyes on! Hopefully the full episode will be done some time in January. Then we'll see if we feel like doing a full series or something. What fun!
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12-21-2011, 12:29 PM | #3104 |
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A festive special picture for you P&A fans...
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12-21-2011, 03:03 PM | #3105 |
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Poor Father Formy...
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12-21-2011, 03:25 PM | #3106 |
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I'm starting to believe Hammond the Skull has a thing for facial hair, seeing how often it has appeared in the last issues.
The festive picture is awesome, except I'm creeped out by the bare toes.
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12-24-2011, 05:09 PM | #3107 |
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Grab onto your faces, people, it's time to get all excited and hot under the collar.
If you thought The Hobbit Trailer was good, wait until you see the very cool, very exclusive, very cheap and very rushed... It will have all your favourite characters and your least favourite ones, too! Work on the actual episode is going well and it should be finished some time in the New Year. So... Look forward to it, peoples!!
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12-24-2011, 05:28 PM | #3108 |
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Someone really thought it was good?
/Nevermind. This one's better anyways. I can't wait for the actual thing!
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12-24-2011, 06:34 PM | #3109 | |
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This made my Christmas evening! The music is smashing, Peter looks great (the drawing style is a little different, but works well with animation I think), and there were lots of lovely moments packed tight in these 1:07 - Alien's name being corrected, Lommy blazing away with her gun, John Fillis morphing (!!!), Father Formy drenched in soap and his apprehensive look toward the end... Great work, keep it going!
Btw the festive special pic is gorgeous too, and bonus points for posting it on the winter solstice. Quote:
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01-04-2012, 10:04 PM | #3110 | |
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Just In Time For Christmas!
KALIMAC CHRISTMAS, AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT
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01-08-2012, 05:58 PM | #3111 |
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The Downer would like to assure its readers that we have a very good explanation for the past two weeks hiatus. So here are the reasons our staff haven't been putting out new content;
We got freaked out by last year's solar eclipse, and barricaded ourselves in an underground bunker, where to this day we await the end of the world. Either that, or we're trapped beneath a pile of unsold P&A t-shirts. But then we discovered that the Downer was just a figment of our imagination - an imagination long since shredded by our chronic twin addictions to strong alcohol and horse painkillers. We'd written the instructions on how to update the site on a marzipan wafer, which was erroneously swallowed by a clown. Then the rozzers discovered our illegal whale ovary removing factory, and dragged us off to the cells. So, without further delay, here is the newest issue of the Downer. With a brand new look to hide the fact that we have no new content. Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian. Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the... PHANTOM AND ALIEN COMIC ARCHIVE THING The Downer will be back next week. We promise. And also, Hookbill promises that he will no longer imagine that The Downer has any staff.
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01-08-2012, 06:11 PM | #3112 |
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Oh dear God...the alien is such an idiot...
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01-08-2012, 08:00 PM | #3113 |
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I have been taken to hospital? Cool.
Bugger Denethor. Yay for the new looks! And news don't actually have to be new... just old enough not to be remembered anymore!
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01-08-2012, 09:46 PM | #3114 |
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
To whom it may consume: I have been told that your tabloid has a "new look". Well, I actually haven't been told of this "new look", but I did manage to read the previous post that indicated this was the case. But I am not writing to complain about this alleged "new look"; on the contrary, I have an issue with the "old look". Since I cannot even recall what the "old look" looked like with any specificity, how then do I know that this "new look" isn't just the "old look", or merely a look that was, in fact, around previous to the supposed "old look" -- a "recycled older look", if you will? Speaking metaphysically, what is a "look" anyway? Since appearances can be deceiving, and since your paper has never had any depth in the first place, I do not see the point of renaming a skimpy veneer covering an empty shell. Replacing a blank facade does not alter empty air. In conclusion, I strongly suggest you eliminate the "new look" as well as the "old look", and opt for a "don't look now". That way, I will not have to concern myself with changes I know nothing about regarding a tabloid I never read. I do not like to think of things that I do not think about! Thank you in advance for doing nothing previously, Mrs. Blithe Spacey Heedless, Muddlesworth, Bewildershire
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01-08-2012, 10:42 PM | #3115 |
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It's nice to see that The Downer is still with us. Nice new layout, it seems thatHookbill has found some exciting new fonts to play with.
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01-15-2012, 05:29 PM | #3116 |
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Thanks to a very ODD mysterious contributor for the second story this week. It's very odd indeed.
Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian. Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the... PHANTOM AND ALIEN COMIC ARCHIVE THING Alien is always at his best when he is destroying things, isn't he? Anyway, we should be seeing some progress on the P&A animation in the next few weeks. The whole Christmas and New Year thing got in the way and my brother has only just gone back to collage, but work will continue, and no mistake!
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01-15-2012, 07:30 PM | #3117 |
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Are we going to get Dinosaur's Quality Dinosaur now?
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01-22-2012, 06:03 PM | #3118 |
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I forgot to thank Oddwen for her stories last week and this week.
They've been in the back catalogue for a while, but they're still as relevant as ever! EVER! ... ... EVER!! Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian. Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the... PHANTOM AND ALIEN COMIC ARCHIVE THING I'm seriously going to update the P&A website at some point this week... I hope. It's just such a pain in the backside to upload over 400 images all at once, you know? I'll get to it soon, so don't worry.
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01-22-2012, 06:12 PM | #3119 |
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Bad, bad Shasta! Should have let those entings burn.
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01-22-2012, 06:27 PM | #3120 |
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I can't help myself.
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