View Full Version : Episode #44 - "Follow-Up"
conorkilpatrick
11-17-2007, 07:02 PM
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Running Time: 00:25:50
In Episode 41, the iFanboys were tasked with having to read some comics they had once dismissed or did not enjoy. And now that the reading assignments are done - will opinions change? Come along for the vindication, the reaffirmation, and the conciliation.
Click here for download info and show notes! (http://www.ifanboy.com/archive/weblog/ifanboy_episode_84.htmll)
six-gun
11-17-2007, 09:53 PM
really looking forward to seeing this I thought the "Totebag" episode was really good
esophagus
11-18-2007, 01:43 AM
I'm stoked to get some Sandman opinions in the near/distant future.
Loved the episode. Glad to see you felt that way about Transmet Ron.
But seriously, how the hell are you in this episode? Did you guys just stockpile video shows to last until next summer, at which point Ron will come back to record more?
conorkilpatrick
11-18-2007, 01:48 AM
The CGI Ron is pretty good, isn't it? Very lifelike.
It took for-ev-er!
paper
11-18-2007, 01:55 AM
I'm stoked to get some Sandman opinions in the near/distant future.
Loved the episode. Glad to see you felt that way about Transmet Ron.
But seriously, how the hell are you in this episode? Did you guys just stockpile video shows to last until next summer, at which point Ron will come back to record more?
Stop asking for the 11 herbs and spices! The secrets must remain!
CGI Ron is fantastic. I hope we get to see test footage of Ron in the motion capture suit with all the ping pong balls attached to it.
Conor-bot on the other hand....not so convincing.
esophagus
11-18-2007, 01:57 AM
Stop asking for the 11 herbs and spices! The secrets must remain!
CGI Ron is fantastic. I hope we get to see test footage of Ron in the motion capture suit with all the ping pong balls attached to it.
Conor-bot on the other hand....not so convincing.
11 herbs and spices? Is that code? Did they just paint one of those Colonel Sanders statues to look like Ron? I MUST KNOW!
jaflanagan
11-18-2007, 04:05 AM
11 herbs and spices? Is that code? Did they just paint one of those Colonel Sanders statues to look like Ron? I MUST KNOW!
We said nothing would change as far as the show was concerned, and we utterly meant it.
esophagus
11-18-2007, 04:13 AM
We said nothing would change as far as the show was concerned, and we utterly meant it.He flies back every week? That's just silly. SOMEONE GIVE ME A REAL ANSWER.
six-gun
11-18-2007, 04:22 AM
He flies back every week? That's just silly. SOMEONE GIVE ME A REAL ANSWER.
I think we're all curious, not telling us adds to the mystique (my guess is he flies up every few weeks and they stockpile a few)
six-gun
11-18-2007, 04:23 AM
couldn't agree more about that Conor-bot Paper, the hair's too thin
paper
11-18-2007, 04:27 AM
Ron records the voice for CGI Ron every thursday night. He transmits the file to Josh and Conor via YouSendIt.com. Josh and Conor react to a green ping pong ball on a stick, which is digitally replaced by CGI Ron in post production. For shots of Ron falling off of things, they use a soft mannequin which Josh has borrowed from his aunt's department store. Ron left behind 8 shirts to use as photo references, and for costuming the dummy.
Honestly I can't tell the difference.
That's because you aren't an animation expert, paper. I look at the CG Ron and get that same dead skin, Beowulf, Polar Express vibe. Seriously, doesn't he totally creep you out?
GREAT show. I was not a fan of the totebag set up but this show was lots of fun. Just on an entertainment level. As to content, I realize that I'd really like X-men First Class too. Both by concept and by Conor's enthusiasm and Josh's heartfelt, if muted, back up.
I enjoy Jack Flash although it was so sporadic it drove me crazy. I love the wacky concepts and the art. I 'm split as to whether I'll buy the collected trade. I trade out Kane because of it, liked what he was doing with art but I agree the story was non-involving.
esophagus
11-18-2007, 04:35 AM
Ron left behind 8 shirts to use as photo references.
Honestly I can't tell the difference.Greg Land the Intern? When did this happen?
esophagus
11-18-2007, 04:39 AM
As to content, I realize that I'd really like X-men First Class too. Both by concept and by Conor's enthusiasm and Josh's heartfelt, if muted, back up.I agree with Josh. It's a really fun book. An excellent gift for any young ones you really want to get into the medium. On that not, I, like Conor, regularly pick it up for the same reasons a kid would love it, plus the added fanboy references. This really should have been Ultimate X-Men.
jo11ypenguin
11-18-2007, 05:05 AM
Glad to see you liked Transmet Ron.
You guys need to tell me books to avoid so I dont have this list next to my computer full of things I need to read.
cormano
11-18-2007, 06:22 AM
The CGI Ron is pretty good, isn't it? Very lifelike.
It took for-ev-er!
But I guess the budget wouldn't allow for both CGI Ron and Gordon ;).
esophagus
11-18-2007, 06:27 AM
But I guess the budget wouldn't allow for both CGI Ron and Gordon ;).
Did Gordon move to? Where oh where will they find two Colonel Sanders statues?
projektidiot
11-18-2007, 10:09 AM
Conor ironically named the proprietary CGI Ron software HunterSoft.
iSteve
11-18-2007, 04:23 PM
Ron (CGI or real), really glad you liked Exterminators. I had begun to think that I was the only one on the forum to read and love Exterminators. It's a great book.
paper
11-18-2007, 04:30 PM
I just ordered the first volumes of X-Men First Class and Exterminators.
labor_days
11-18-2007, 05:08 PM
I was content to enjoy CGI Ron and ConorBot9000 but all the secrecy has me curious...is Josh the only fanboy left who bleeds real blood?
paper
11-18-2007, 05:12 PM
I was content to enjoy CGI Ron and ConorBot9000 but all the secrecy has me curious...is Josh the only fanboy left who bleeds real blood?
That's unclear. Josh is, and always was, a pooka (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pooka).
six-gun
11-18-2007, 06:39 PM
I must have Exterminators :)
dave-accampo
11-20-2007, 01:40 AM
I'm stoked to get some Sandman opinions in the near/distant future.
I second that. Although it sounds like none of the guys liked it as much as I did. I remember I latched onto that book in '89 and was on board for the whole run. It'll be interesting to see this discussion of it now.
dave-accampo
11-20-2007, 01:42 AM
I must have Exterminators :)
I read volume one a while back, but dammit, I might have to stop on the way home and pick up 2 and 3 now.
I liked the first volume, but it alone didn't make me feel compelled to rush right out and get the next one. Now I'm thinking maybe I need to read that second volume.
conorkilpatrick
11-20-2007, 06:37 AM
I will say this about The Exterminators - after I read the first three trades it made me jumpy for days. I was seeing bugs out of the corner of my eyes, like EVERYWHERE.
Damn bugs.
itsbecca
11-20-2007, 12:41 PM
As to content, I realize that I'd really like X-men First Class too. Both by concept and by Conor's enthusiasm and Josh's heartfelt, if muted, back up.
I picked up the annual, whenever that was, and it was awesome. Then when the next issue came out I flipped through and didn't see the little shorts and was so dissapointed.
jaflanagan
11-20-2007, 03:01 PM
I will say this about The Exterminators - after I read the first three trades it made me jumpy for days. I was seeing bugs out of the corner of my eyes, like EVERYWHERE.
Damn bugs.
See?! How many comics have that visceral feel. That's something special. Not necessarily enjoyable...
paper
11-20-2007, 03:27 PM
If there was a snake version of Exterminators, it'd probably kill me. If I even see a snake on television it turns every sock, shadow, and fern I see for the next week into a rattlesnake orgy. Absolute, wriggling fear.
superfriend82
11-20-2007, 05:34 PM
So......if Ron is CGI,coners a robot,and Josh is a pooka deos that mean that Gordon is a hollgram or a clone?!
Where did all the real ifanboys go? Are you guys realy part of a a sud goverment group of secret agnts? Are you trying to take over the world? or you guys just writing a comic book that will blow are minds ?!