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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Shrike on March 06, 2003, 03:38:12 am

Title: The Red Star
Post by: Shrike on March 06, 2003, 03:38:12 am: Anyone here heard of Red Star by Archangel Studios?

http://www.archangel-studios.com/comics/redstar/frame.htm

Very impressive. This is the first comic I've gotten in a loooong time, and I just dropped 80 Cdn for the two graphic novel compilations available so far. Takes place in an alternate Russia, on an Earth where magic is a fact of life and has become industrialized.

Those ships below - Skyfurnaces - are somewhat bigger than an Orion, at three kilometers long and 22,000 crew.
(http://www.archangel-studios.com/comics/redstar/images/redlining/MakingOf_final_lg.jpg)

The Red Woman, fighting to save the URRS from the grip of Imbrohl.
(http://www.archangel-studios.com/comics/redstar/is1_l.jpg)
Title: The Red Star
Post by: Turnsky on March 06, 2003, 03:40:42 am: Sorry, haven't heard of it.. hell, i haven't seen a marvel comic for a good year now due to the local distributers arguing with marvel
Title: The Red Star
Post by: RangerKarl on March 06, 2003, 03:40:45 am: URRS? You sure about that?
EDIT: Wow, it is URRS. Nice pun there...
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Post by: Turnsky on March 06, 2003, 03:42:51 am: i always thought is was ussr (united soviet socialist republics)
Title: The Red Star
Post by: Nico on March 06, 2003, 03:53:07 am: Quote
Originally posted by Turnsky
i always thought is was ussr (united soviet socialist republics)

well, not in that comics.
I just love the first pic you posted, shrike.
Title: The Red Star
Post by: Turnsky on March 06, 2003, 03:54:00 am: nevermind then
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Post by: Warlock on March 06, 2003, 07:00:38 am: i'll have to get my hands on some of these.

Very interesting looking!
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Post by: RangerKarl on March 06, 2003, 07:05:24 am: I'd get them, but I'm broke. They look awesome though, gotta love having Ruskies, magic, and monolithic tech in stuff.
Title: Re: The Red Star
Post by: Razor on March 06, 2003, 09:32:02 am: Quote
Originally posted by Shrike

Red Star

Bah screw commics. The Red Star is the name of the YUGO's best football team. :p They sure kick some ass!

http://www.computec-int.com/zvezda/index.htm :p
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Post by: Shrike on March 06, 2003, 09:58:31 am: The basic concept is, as the guy who recommended it to me said, 'what if Stalin was actually a powerful sorceror who continued to steal his people's souls after his death'.

And the URRS is the United Republics of the Red Star.

Some of the **** they pull is incredibly cool...... like using the powerplants on their skyfurnaces to glass a desert.
Title: The Red Star
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on March 06, 2003, 01:38:45 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Shrike

And the URRS is the United Republics of the Red Star.

That's just silly.

Looks good, though. What sort of timeframe is it?
Title: The Red Star
Post by: Shrike on March 06, 2003, 03:04:49 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
That's just silly.

Looks good, though. What sort of timeframe is it?
Silly? Why?

And the timeframe is roughly current. In the second book there's a cameo by 'Americans', who have just invaded Al'istaan after the attack on Imperial City, Al'istaan is where the URRS got their butts kicked a decade previously. Starting to make sense now? ;)
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Post by: aldo_14 on March 06, 2003, 03:30:55 pm: Not much background info on the site, but it looks an interesting concept.
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Post by: Galemp on March 06, 2003, 06:06:30 pm: Mmm, parallel universes. :drevil:

Stalin is a sorcerer? That would explain Stalin vs. Hitler (http://www.comics.aha.ru/rus/stalin/1.html) then.
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Post by: Nico on March 07, 2003, 03:12:19 am: Quote
Originally posted by GalacticEmperor
Mmm, parallel universes. :drevil:

Stalin is a sorcerer? That would explain Stalin vs. Hitler (http://www.comics.aha.ru/rus/stalin/1.html) then.

never gonna be a movie or a series of that. As Buichi Teresawa discovered, nazi crosses and TV/cinema don't please producers much nowadays ( too bad for him, he was using the so called "nazi" cross as it's first, original use: a bhuddist symbol. Talk about hijacking :doubt: ).