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    hahaha! Too funny!
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    Wow. I'm gutted. He seemed so smart!
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    Vanir, this isn't the first time I think you brought this up and I wanted to ask: 30% is a min, or a max? If it's a max, do you have a minimum (or vice versa) ?
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    Tomorrow you'll be treated to a ROAR!
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    Ken, tigers are indigenous to India. Surely JagdTiger movers will be able to help!
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    Mines might have been an interesting nuisance, yes. I considered getting them, but the premise of this scenario is that the American forces did not have the resources nor reason to extensively fortify this location - they are expecting to be be resupplied and pulled back for replacements. When buying things here I purchased units with reduced ammo, low morale (though experienced) and sub-par leadership. Fixed defences were not in the cards for this lot.
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    Ken, if you really want us to be envious of your collection of torpedoes in that city you live, just say so. Leave the poor elephants at Starbucks. They have a conference.
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    Agreed. I read that production of the 100M began Sept 1944 and entered service in Nov 1944 (Gander, Anti-Tank Weapons, 2000).
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    I still use "came a cropper" myself! Pity about losing them like that - they are re-publishing them in collections of 3-4 books a time in one hardbound, reasonably priced.
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    ROFL! So true!
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    Likewise, so happy to see a fellow Tintinologist! Yes, I love Asterix too! You have it right...the rocket tried to take off leaving everyone behind and Wolff sabotaged the nuclear motor by cutting the wires. 20 years is far too long. I have all the Tintins but Alph-art and Soviets, and re-read them pretty much every year. Hergé's style and motifs are something that profoundly informed how I approach my own comics. My copies of Tintin were of course translated to English - with British expressions and pop culture references that you don't see any more, like "came a cropper" "gaol" "drives like Jack Brabham" "done for" "puts paid" and so on... I raise a pint to you, Sir.
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    That means they feel no pain! Ken, help me out here! There's a plus side to this, right?
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    I don't have a clue what he has, to be honest. Other than that this is a Beta CAAR, so some form of demonstration of handy nick-knacks available to both sides will be...er...field-tested. I'm really delighted that you told me the flow is understandable. It's one of my big worries: balancing reasonable length (and avoiding too much detail) and clarity. Not to mention, I want these to be visually appealing, and above all, fun for the reader. So yes, there is a lot of work involved. What you need to understand is that while it may take only a couple of hours to do each panel itself, the dozens of screenshots I go through to find the right one, to compose a story to tell, to find the shots that will tell that story most effectively, to check for consistency of design, colour, etc. Finally, I need to be able to tell something worth reading, or it's just a collection of screenshots to peruse. I need to give some characters personality, etc. There is a lead up time too, in that each comic has a unique colour scheme that I am trying to tie to national identity. I have to figure out these things before I start, and often as I work I see that something isn't achieving one or more objectives - colours clash, it's hard on the eyes, etc, and I have to redo a half dozen panels before I can settle on a design. All told, when you put this together, I approximated that 3 panels is about an 8 hour day's work. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but this would be the average. Thank you for your question, it's nice someone considers the effort.
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