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Alternate Alley Oop Chapter 17 “Deader Than Dead”(23) 2/23/2013 Saturday
Panel One
Brucutu and his partners Thorn and Shard next stop is the last place Alley has been and should still be—-the base. The strange an powerful teleporting lightning bolt sears its way to the inner part of the visible base of Ft. Mitchum. They appear at night’s false dawn.
Panel Two
The sun doesn’t bother them but they function better at night. Most humans fear the night, and with good reason. Many things inhabit the night and will prey upon humans if they can.
Panel Three
At the same time, Alley’s feet started itching so much he fell over onto the floor, it was so strong. “You hurt, Alley?” Lavainge asked worried. “Naw, go on an tell me what you found.” He replied annoyed. He knows dire things are here.
I asked the question a couple of hours ago of why didn’t the Wizer say “Alley Oop” and the Bendrs comply. Maybe a day or so late but at least Carole did it.
Only in comics can you lose your head piece and run further from it and have it on in the next couple of panels a day later. Guess Carol forgot he lost it.
Thought you might be interested in having a look at how Comic Life Deluxe comics can be posted to Life Journal. Back when everyone began writing their own Alley Oop stories, I tried to sign up for Larry’s page but learned that you had to belong to some other board in order to sign up there. So I chose Live Journal. I have been posting some Daily Devotions there in Estrelita’s Blog to help my grandchildren with their Spanish, Latin, Greek and Hebrew translations for school. So I have discovered that you can post a whole lot of narrative in one journal entry. Plus, the archives are pretty good.
I also noticed recently that it is possible to post pictures in a Life Journal blog, so I have been experimenting with some of the Comic Books which I have been making for my grandchildren.
The comic books which I post for my grandchildren are posted at a Family-Members-Only Yahoo group, because the comic books which I make for them usually “star” them, and I use actual photographs of the children. We all thought it would not be too wise to post photographs of children anywhere on the Internet which would be accessible to just anybody – which is why they are all posted at a Family-Members-Only Yahoo Group.
However, you might want to take a look at how some of the Comic Life Deluxe comic pages turned out. There are THREE posted now at my Life Journal Blog.
Since I am no artist, I just used stick pictures to make a small comic page about the discovery of Pike’s Peak in Colorado. This was to help the grandchildren while they were studying Colorado history. I have found that it is easier for children to study subjects like history if you can make it fun.
In the second Comic page, in one of their history classes, the grandchildren were told to “interview” an “older” relative about family history. So I made a comic book about some of the family history which I know – and then I posted one of the comic pages from that book at Life Journal.
The third one is a cover page for one of the comic books which I made for the grandchildren.
I would really love to see the way that you are visualizing your stories and, since you are already an illustrator, it seems to me that it would certainly be possible for you to post some of those illustrations, using Comic Life Deluxe and and IPhoto or whatever equivalent of I Photo which you use.
We discovered that one of the advantages of posting at Life Journal was that we could keep the Greek and Hebrew lettering on the Daily Devotions. Then the grandchildren can check out my translations and let me know whether or not I have made a mistake. We couldn’t do that with the Yahoo Group, because Yahoo Groups turns the Greek and Hebrew lettering into gibberish.
However, the advantage which we like with posting our comic books in our Yahoo Group is that Yahoo Groups in includes an option which allows you to rearrange your comic pages. That is very helpful in the event that you get some of the comic pages out of order. With Live Journal, you are pretty much stuck with the order of your pages as you post them.
You can check the Comic Life Deluxe samples which I posted at Live Journal by going to
ESTRELITA’S BLOG at Live Journal http://estrelitaj4.livejournal.com/
You will know when you have arrived at the correct blog by checking out the Avatar. I use the same Avatar for Estrelita’s Blog that I use for Go Comics.
Aside from the fact that I can’t draw and used only stick pictures, the method which I used for the Pikes Peak comic was to go to Comic Life Deluxe, choose the right number of panels for the comic page, then print out that page. Once I had the printed panels, I drew my pictures onto the panels. Then I scanned the comic page with pictures back to I Photo. My scanner scanned each picture on the page separately. Once at I Photo, I cropped each picture to make sure that it would fit in its assigned panel. Then, after I had cropped all of the pictures, I dragged them to a special album which I had created for the grandchildren’s history project – which I titled Family history.
Then I opened up Comic Life Deluxe again, and found the page which I had just printed out. I next moved each completed pictures into each panel, and used the Comic Life Deluxe lettering process to include the dialogue and narrative. Then I printed out the completed comic page. Next, I scanned the comic page with pictures, dialogue and narrative back to I Photo. This time, I chose to scan the entire page as one whole. Once the whole, completed comic page had been scanned to I Photo, I went to the Life Journal page and chose “add Photo.” When it came time to choose the photo, I went to the Family History album which I had created for this project, found the completed Pike’s Peak stick picture comic page, and added that page to the blog.
Also, didn’t know if you had noticed it or not – but Office Depot is currently in the process of merging with Office Max. Part of their big celebration includes a big sale, with a whole lot of office supplies being offered at reduced rates, and that would include stuffy like Comic Life Deluxe and printers which include scanning and copying capabilities.
Good luck. Hopefully, we will be able to see your stories the way that you visualize them.
I would love to be on Larry’s Yahoo Group E mail list!! I know he gave up the other page which he was trying out but I think that Go Comics wiped out his link every time he tried to post it at Go Comics. I have found that you can oftentimes get away with posting a link at Go Comics if you put the link in the middle – rather than at the end – of your post. I would love to catch up on Larry’s stories! Once I have the link, I can just join his group and get on the regular E mail list!
A little after 6:00 AM, and already 16 comments here – many shown as six hours old. Almost seems like some people are just waiting to pounce on the Benders. So I went through the index to look at some of the other comics, and see how many comments they had.
Pibgorn, a newish comic, had none.
Dick Tracy had a few.
Gasoline Alley had a few.
Tarzan had none.
Mutt & Jeff had a few.
And one common respondent sent submissions to four of the “old line” comics.
The color of the headlight spill in Dick Tracy is whatever suits the creator of the panel. That’s the privilege of doing the drawing.
Oh, and maybe Wizer’s hat is actually alive? The crow’s facial expression changes, It’s wings sometimes flap. Wouldn’t be my first choice for head gear, but I suppose it would impress a lot of people.
Folks, if you don’t like how Alley Oop is presented, there are plenty of other strips to choose from. Or, you could start your own, rather than infringe on the copyrighted property of others. I’m actually surprised GoComics allows an alternate version on their website.
I’ve been following Alley for a few years now. I remember when he drove a race car in the Arizapolis 500. I think life is too short to allow oneself to be frustrated by a comic strip. I think we can all accept a little constructive criticism, but the grinding on the Benders is getting a little old. Can we move on?
The cat is insisting I make a lap. See you tomorrow.
Estrellita P. : That was an amazing detailed report about your “doings”…. I am curious about the grandkids…. do they deal with those diverse languages in a particular school curriculum, or is this offered in different schools and areas ? In Ontario, Canada in the 1940’s we all were required to take “composition” and “literature” separately in English, French and Latin.. those who were going into science and math also took elementary Greek, and if chemistry was going to be the career, then German was offered.
Good Morning Benders and all. So Wizer is trying the key phrase Alley Oop. It probably won’t work as he has put too much emphasis on the Dinos to do whatever the T-Rex does. He violated the KISS ( Keep it simple stupid) rule. Dinos with small brains should have one backup phrase no more. It is impressive that he is still outrunning the Dinos.
Alley Oop is the classic caveman comic strip revolving around the irrepressible Alley Oop, who travels from prehistoric Moo all the way to the 21st century in his friend Doc Wonmug's time machine.
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Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago
Alternate Alley Oop Chapter 17 “Deader Than Dead”(23) 2/23/2013 Saturday
Panel One
Brucutu and his partners Thorn and Shard next stop is the last place Alley has been and should still be—-the base. The strange an powerful teleporting lightning bolt sears its way to the inner part of the visible base of Ft. Mitchum. They appear at night’s false dawn.
Panel Two
The sun doesn’t bother them but they function better at night. Most humans fear the night, and with good reason. Many things inhabit the night and will prey upon humans if they can.
Panel Three
At the same time, Alley’s feet started itching so much he fell over onto the floor, it was so strong. “You hurt, Alley?” Lavainge asked worried.
“Naw, go on an tell me what you found.” He replied annoyed. He knows dire things are here.
Rod Gonzalez said, 4 months ago
I gotta say, next week should provide one heck of resolution, hopefully with Alley coming to the rescue.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago
Will the cue word stop the half drugged dinos? Will Alley be able to save Wizer before it is too late? Will the dinos fill their stomachs?
Wootietoot said, 4 months ago
Wonder how the Wizer will explain all the dino’s gathering in one place?
Unca Scrooge said, 4 months ago
I asked the question a couple of hours ago of why didn’t the Wizer say “Alley Oop” and the Bendrs comply. Maybe a day or so late but at least Carole did it.
Fusnr said, 4 months ago
Only in comics can you lose your head piece and run further from it and have it on in the next couple of panels a day later. Guess Carol forgot he lost it.
Fusnr said, 4 months ago
Maybe some of the Dino’s kicked it forward and it landed on his head. Too bad we didn’t see that..
Estrelita Phillips said, 4 months ago
@Night-Gaunt49
Thought you might be interested in having a look at how Comic Life Deluxe comics can be posted to Life Journal. Back when everyone began writing their own Alley Oop stories, I tried to sign up for Larry’s page but learned that you had to belong to some other board in order to sign up there. So I chose Live Journal. I have been posting some Daily Devotions there in Estrelita’s Blog to help my grandchildren with their Spanish, Latin, Greek and Hebrew translations for school. So I have discovered that you can post a whole lot of narrative in one journal entry. Plus, the archives are pretty good.
I also noticed recently that it is possible to post pictures in a Life Journal blog, so I have been experimenting with some of the Comic Books which I have been making for my grandchildren.
The comic books which I post for my grandchildren are posted at a Family-Members-Only Yahoo group, because the comic books which I make for them usually “star” them, and I use actual photographs of the children. We all thought it would not be too wise to post photographs of children anywhere on the Internet which would be accessible to just anybody – which is why they are all posted at a Family-Members-Only Yahoo Group.
However, you might want to take a look at how some of the Comic Life Deluxe comic pages turned out. There are THREE posted now at my Life Journal Blog.
Since I am no artist, I just used stick pictures to make a small comic page about the discovery of Pike’s Peak in Colorado. This was to help the grandchildren while they were studying Colorado history. I have found that it is easier for children to study subjects like history if you can make it fun.
In the second Comic page, in one of their history classes, the grandchildren were told to “interview” an “older” relative about family history. So I made a comic book about some of the family history which I know – and then I posted one of the comic pages from that book at Life Journal.
The third one is a cover page for one of the comic books which I made for the grandchildren.
I would really love to see the way that you are visualizing your stories and, since you are already an illustrator, it seems to me that it would certainly be possible for you to post some of those illustrations, using Comic Life Deluxe and and IPhoto or whatever equivalent of I Photo which you use.
We discovered that one of the advantages of posting at Life Journal was that we could keep the Greek and Hebrew lettering on the Daily Devotions. Then the grandchildren can check out my translations and let me know whether or not I have made a mistake. We couldn’t do that with the Yahoo Group, because Yahoo Groups turns the Greek and Hebrew lettering into gibberish.
However, the advantage which we like with posting our comic books in our Yahoo Group is that Yahoo Groups in includes an option which allows you to rearrange your comic pages. That is very helpful in the event that you get some of the comic pages out of order. With Live Journal, you are pretty much stuck with the order of your pages as you post them.
You can check the Comic Life Deluxe samples which I posted at Live Journal by going to
ESTRELITA’S BLOG at Live Journal
http://estrelitaj4.livejournal.com/
You will know when you have arrived at the correct blog by checking out the Avatar. I use the same Avatar for Estrelita’s Blog that I use for Go Comics.
Aside from the fact that I can’t draw and used only stick pictures, the method which I used for the Pikes Peak comic was to go to Comic Life Deluxe, choose the right number of panels for the comic page, then print out that page. Once I had the printed panels, I drew my pictures onto the panels. Then I scanned the comic page with pictures back to I Photo. My scanner scanned each picture on the page separately. Once at I Photo, I cropped each picture to make sure that it would fit in its assigned panel. Then, after I had cropped all of the pictures, I dragged them to a special album which I had created for the grandchildren’s history project – which I titled Family history.
Then I opened up Comic Life Deluxe again, and found the page which I had just printed out. I next moved each completed pictures into each panel, and used the Comic Life Deluxe lettering process to include the dialogue and narrative. Then I printed out the completed comic page. Next, I scanned the comic page with pictures, dialogue and narrative back to I Photo. This time, I chose to scan the entire page as one whole. Once the whole, completed comic page had been scanned to I Photo, I went to the Life Journal page and chose “add Photo.” When it came time to choose the photo, I went to the Family History album which I had created for this project, found the completed Pike’s Peak stick picture comic page, and added that page to the blog.
Also, didn’t know if you had noticed it or not – but Office Depot is currently in the process of merging with Office Max. Part of their big celebration includes a big sale, with a whole lot of office supplies being offered at reduced rates, and that would include stuffy like Comic Life Deluxe and printers which include scanning and copying capabilities.
Good luck. Hopefully, we will be able to see your stories the way that you visualize them.
Estrelita Phillips said, 4 months ago
I would love to be on Larry’s Yahoo Group E mail list!! I know he gave up the other page which he was trying out but I think that Go Comics wiped out his link every time he tried to post it at Go Comics. I have found that you can oftentimes get away with posting a link at Go Comics if you put the link in the middle – rather than at the end – of your post. I would love to catch up on Larry’s stories! Once I have the link, I can just join his group and get on the regular E mail list!
susanwobb said, 4 months ago
Didn’t he already say “Alley Oop” on Monday? Isn’t that what started all the trouble? Snapped the T-rex out of his Wizer-juice high, anyway.
davidf42 said, 4 months ago
Can’t wait till Tuesday to see what happens.
Fuddy Duddy said, 4 months ago
The cat woke me up early this morning.
A little after 6:00 AM, and already 16 comments here – many shown as six hours old. Almost seems like some people are just waiting to pounce on the Benders. So I went through the index to look at some of the other comics, and see how many comments they had.
Pibgorn, a newish comic, had none.
Dick Tracy had a few.
Gasoline Alley had a few.
Tarzan had none.
Mutt & Jeff had a few.
And one common respondent sent submissions to four of the “old line” comics.
The color of the headlight spill in Dick Tracy is whatever suits the creator of the panel. That’s the privilege of doing the drawing.
Oh, and maybe Wizer’s hat is actually alive? The crow’s facial expression changes, It’s wings sometimes flap. Wouldn’t be my first choice for head gear, but I suppose it would impress a lot of people.
Folks, if you don’t like how Alley Oop is presented, there are plenty of other strips to choose from. Or, you could start your own, rather than infringe on the copyrighted property of others. I’m actually surprised GoComics allows an alternate version on their website.
I’ve been following Alley for a few years now. I remember when he drove a race car in the Arizapolis 500. I think life is too short to allow oneself to be frustrated by a comic strip. I think we can all accept a little constructive criticism, but the grinding on the Benders is getting a little old. Can we move on?
The cat is insisting I make a lap. See you tomorrow.
nottawasaga said, 4 months ago
Estrellita P. : That was an amazing detailed report about your “doings”…. I am curious about the grandkids…. do they deal with those diverse languages in a particular school curriculum, or is this offered in different schools and areas ? In Ontario, Canada in the 1940’s we all were required to take “composition” and “literature” separately in English, French and Latin.. those who were going into science and math also took elementary Greek, and if chemistry was going to be the career, then German was offered.
firebrand1 said, 4 months ago
Good Morning Benders and all. So Wizer is trying the key phrase Alley Oop. It probably won’t work as he has put too
much emphasis on the Dinos to do whatever the T-Rex does. He violated the KISS ( Keep it simple stupid) rule. Dinos with small brains should have one backup phrase no more. It is impressive that he is still outrunning the Dinos.
exturk said, 4 months ago
Come on Wiz – your plan is working! Just lead them down the main street of Moo!!