Here’s what we’ve been up to lately —
- TRESE. Our big entry for Alexandra Trese – from the popular Filipino occult investigation comics – was expanded, updated, reorganised and improved by Adam.
- Likewise with the entry for Zero (from the Dark Horse post-apocalyptic series Zero Killer) by its author Peter.
- MASS EFFECT. I had to take a slew of screenshots while running tests with bloom (ME has quite bloomtastic aesthetics) and lighting so heh, might as well replace old shots in the entries. In this batch :
- About half the shots redone for Dr. Liara T’soni, plus additional shots of her using her biotics (which are quite cool, and I don’t think this was ever photographed this way)
- About half the shots redone for M. Shepard’s first entry, including some more dynamic ones.
- One shot for Tali and three for Wrex.
- MASS EFFECT TOO. Professor Mordin Solus‘s profile has been published as a break from the Amazon links grind. Say hello to Mordin and the awesome power of… SCIENCE !
- Went horse a-riding in Antonica for a short while to photograph a gnoll.
- FAQ. Two additions :
- Chapter 8 of the FAQ has been extended again. There are a few more important bits of information about making video games screen shots (writing everything up would be huge, and stop being current within a few years at most), and there is now a complete guide about scanning comic books for WORG illustrations. As a reminder, we’re always looking for volunteers to prepare images for the site – even if it’s just the initial scanning as explained in the guide.
- Chapter 2 of the FAQ has a new answer about the Amazon adverts and how we select them.
- Mike wrote up Jax Teller, from the Sons of Anarchy TV series.
- The individual entries for the Weird Sisters – Charm, Beauty and Truth - had a lot of repeated material between them. Now that we have a layout that allows for it, the three entries have been merged into one. The extra two entries have been deleted, so that’s two steps back from making it to 5,000, heh.
- The entry for Conan’s buddy Janissa the Widowmaker has been significantly enhanced, with lots of new content (texts and illustrations).
- MINOR ILLUSTRATION WORK.
- Three better shots (from a TPB) for Doctor Cyber.
- Half the illustrations for Kinetix redone for no reason
- Redid the pictures for Kid Quantum II
- Two shots redone for Reactron, the rest reprocessed
- New illustration for Bat-Girl (Betty Kane) now that we’ve located it.
- THE MATRIX. Morpheus‘ very old entry has been overhauled.
- EMBIGGENED ILLUSTRATIONS. There are now 4,350 large-format pictures in the right-hand illustration columns of the site. Which is still a small number compared to what remains to be done. Note that it is still mostly a dumb process where I don’t stop to think. Some pictures will have to be removed later due to poor quality, there are still unauthorised fan art pieces that need to be tracked down, etc. But for now the idea is just to keep ploughing through the mass.
- DC HEROES. More new Powers in the New Rules File – Powers :
- Time Slow
- Time Stop
- Ultra-Vision (modified)
- Weakness Detection
- Plus the Bloodless Gunfighter Schtick in our slick Schticks File.
- DOLLHOUSE. Where were we, who were we… ah yes, Gareth’s first of two profiles for Echo, as played by Eliza Dushku.
Headcount is still 4,964 due to the two deletions.