We’re going to move this mini-storyline to being book only long term as a bonus feature, so it won’t go away in all forms, it just won’t be on the website — so folks who buy the PDF version or the print book will still be able to read it.
The idea is to reward folks who check the website regularly with being able to read the exclusive content we wouldn’t have otherwise publicly released to begin with.
Oh I understand, and am glad the storyline will be kept somewhere. But way, WAY too many webcomics that I loved that just stopped, then eventually disappeared.
So it was literally more than twenty years ago that I first put one of my dumbest creations on the internet: The Steven Seagal Movie Generator.
Like I seriously publicly launched that dumb thing back in 2004, and for those of you who were unaware, it assembles a title, cast and plot of a fake Steven Seagal movie from elements of his (real) bad films.
I honestly got the idea from a former-friend, who in high school wrote a comedic piece about how you could mash up the titles of Seagal films in the weird underground "newspaper" that got handed out for a few years. But I took it a few steps further, and made a whole thing.
Mostly it just sat there though, a thing I made once and never went back to. I followed it up with the Sci-Fi Channel Movie Generator (later retitled the Syfy Movie Generator) in 2008. I spent more time on that one, doing a later design update that made the "Syfy" movies show up on a fake DVD back cover.
But the Steven Seagal generator just sort of sat there, untouched.
And Steven Seagal kept making (terrible) movies with (predictable) titles. Like a lot. But the generator still only spat out movies culled from the nineties and early 2000s, ignoring all of his new stuff. There was a whole library of awful movies that just weren't in there, and it made the generator feel less relevant.
So, uh, I went and did something about that today.
First off, I redesigned the page. Now it looks like the back of a VHS tape box. Then I loaded the elements of about twenty-five additional films into the generator. And that was harder than I thought it would be, since some of the films are so obscure that they're not well documented. I literally had to do some deep research to figure out a lot of the basic plot details that are now in the generator.
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I do not find that fact fun. Far far too many webcomics I just to enjoy that are no longer hosted anywhere.
We’re going to move this mini-storyline to being book only long term as a bonus feature, so it won’t go away in all forms, it just won’t be on the website — so folks who buy the PDF version or the print book will still be able to read it.
The idea is to reward folks who check the website regularly with being able to read the exclusive content we wouldn’t have otherwise publicly released to begin with.
Oh I understand, and am glad the storyline will be kept somewhere. But way, WAY too many webcomics that I loved that just stopped, then eventually disappeared.
What did she do to that bratwurst, Jeff?
WHAT DID SHE DO?!
At a guess — a very wild guess — put ketchup on it?
…I mean, yeah. You’re in the ballpark.