BakaBreakers Strip 000

Welcome to BakaBreakers. By far you know who I am by now, this slightly quirky cartoonist who latched onto the "Murder at Small Town X" fandom and decided to make a comic strip which is part fanfict, a first for Reality Television or so I'd like to know about. (I don't want to know if there's any Survivor lemon's [Fan-made stories of rather . . . questionable material] out and about on the Internet. If I'm right, this would be a first for this genre.

In this project, I intend on making a combination of two of my favorite genres in the media: Online Comic Strips, preferably Anime-themed, and Reality Television. Set in a fictional alternate reality where the murder depicted in Fox's Sleeper Reality Hit which I've mentioned . . . actually did happen one year before the time this strip takes place. (Note to FOX: Names and characters will differ in variable extent, and any remembrances are merely coincidence. You can ask the guys who made the X Files to explain alt. realties to you.) As the town of Sunport (get it? Sunrise . . . Eastport) is progressing nicely on it's way to recover from both 'The Sunport Killings' and the tragedy of September 11 which took the heroic New York fireman who solved the mentioned case. New townspeople arrived to fill in the ones lost and new businesses and companies bring a restoration to the community and economy of the quiet town in the Northeasternmost corner of America. . . .

It was a perfect time for another murder case to show up, and this one has a young man who drifted in with the wind stuck in the middle of it.

This strip will be about the case, the city it's in, and the people affected by it, including the young man and his best friend, an android girl who provides the point of view of the story. Additional footage includes security cameras, sidebar interviews with the variable players in the game, and the occasional 'shotgun camera' strapped on some people. It is my hopes that I can put a 'Reality Televison' feel to a completely fictional and mostly graphic novel [that's an elegant name for Comic Strips].

I also hope that I can get more people to become avid readers of the upcoming projects I have at this time, which is also why I tend to be newbie friendly and more of that than usual here in these 'Envelopes' which I call the rants that commonly appear below Online Comics. The one you're reading now, the Red Envelope, will be for people who just pop into the site for the first time, mostly because of my postings on "Small Town X" boards as well as other places where I think my audience would gather. To your right should be the Black Envelope, which is for those who have been with me for quite some time and whining about me getting off my self-depreciating 4$$ [I will self-censor, in case your kids are around] and get something started on my site again. In this second rant, I'll discuss the more technical side of my storywriting and artwork, not counting on the reader knowing anything about Anime or Reality Television (or know too much and moans at it's mention) but knows enough about me, my shortcomings in previous attempts to make a comic strip, and would want to know more about my reasons behind how--and what--I'm doing here. As I go along, I'll provide little tags [like this] to explain terms that I use that you may not be privy to. In time, with enough patience on both parties, you'll be understanding G0n73rl33t [Gonterleet, personalized Internet Slang--referred to as 'leet'--used most often when typed. Will be translated unless used as censor.] as well as you do English.

I do hope that you enjoy the new strip, and hope that you can become as much as an avid reader as those who have been around for about 5 years back. Keep posted on this page for progress on future strips, as well as other kewl stuff. Thank you for your time and I hope you'll enjoy this comic strip.

Well, people, here I am. Tonight I get off my whiny 4$$ and get started on a decent project for once. It's about phracking [Generic cuss word, which I have made famous] time I did so, eh? Here's my first round in my ultimate turnaround from me feeling sorry for writing crappy fanfiction with this Anime [Short for Animation, used to signify that the Animation came from Japan] Otaku [Overly Zealous fan of the previous word, mostly to a huge fault]-themed strip about a murder case and those affected by it.

In BakaBreakers, I take two genres I really enjoy--online comics and reality television--and combine them in what I hope is a really intriguing story with a cutting edge presentation. I take exceptional inspiration from one such Reality series, Fox's "Murder at Small Town X," where the players solve a fictional murder mystery. But in this strip, the murders happened for real one year in the past, and the sole surviving investigator who solved the case is remembered--their 'Hero' died in the World Trade Center disaster--in a statue unveiled in the day of the town's 'Founder's Day'. It is not too long afterward when another murder takes place, and Adam Packbell and Tara Kit is stuck in the middle.

I know that some of you moan when you hear of Adam, my Author Avatar [pc-like description of a character who is designed after the story's writer, a method known as self-insertion. It can be regarded as cheesy and at times counterproductive for the story.] In a way, that is the main reason why I started my return with Adam in the first place. There are a lot of storylines that can only be fitting for certain characters, especially those who still demand my attention in this Macadamia Ranch they call my brain. So here I am clearing all of this baggage and give all of my older characters a good home before I can make some new stuff in the future. Consider it like the process of emptying the cup before you fill it [A common word picture regarding to learning martial arts, or how to be a jedi, but it also applies in my own creative process as well] ; the water in that cup has to go somewhere, right?

However, there are steps taken to keep Adam from hogging the spotlight. The best feature of this is the 'Reality TV' style point of view through various inexpensive camera angels, from security systems to interviews taken on the spot, and 'shotgun cameras' which are strapped physically to certain characters. The majority of the raw footage comes from the actual main character in this story: Tara Kit, the android foxgirl. Please excuse her if she swoons over Adam occasionally.

It can be apparent that I'm not gearing BakaBreakers to those among you who don't like my rehashing of older characters, but I do have people who are meeting them for the first time--mostly Reality Television fans--and consider them fairly interesting. Those people as well as those who find robots attractive are my intended audience, and I will be addressing them more from the other column of my rants.

It is my hopes that I'll be able to use whatever success I get from BakaBreakers to lead into the rest of my projects and hopefully lead into a title that you'll enjoy more than BakaBreakers. But maybe you'll enjoy this anyway, with the hope of better things along the line. I hope that the latter is the case.

Oh, yeah, one more thing: I know that some of you know about the story several chapters down the road, and they can make for some seriously juicy spoilers. I don't have the spoilers into account here in the actual site, and I won't have any data for the inspectors, suspects, notes, and what not, which the current strip has not gone through yet.