VOTING INCENTIVE UNVEILED

November 1st, 2003 | by Tom
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For those of you who came back to the site this weekend, I have a special post-Halloween treat for you! If you vote for Theater Hopper on buzzComix, you’ll get to see a very special Halloween piece of art I whipped up just for you! Consider it a reward for supporting Theater Hopper.

It’s really important to me that Theater Hopper breaks into the Top 10 over at buzz before Monday. I believe strongly that if we can get to that level by then, we have a really good chance of STAYING there for the rest of the month. Be sure to remember that if you vote today, you can come back and vote again tomorrow… and the day after that… and EVERY day! Just one simple click does more to help this site than you may realize, so please vote!

I think you’ll be really pleased with the extra artwork that I put together. I tried coloring it a little differently than I do the regular strip, so you can see if that’s something you would enjoy down the road. Could it be an indication of an evolution in my artistic style? You’ll have to vote to find out! And if you like it, let me know what you think in the forums!

Thanks again to everyone for their help! I’m lucky to have one of the friendliest and most generous fan bases is web comics. Thanks again!

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HAVE YOU SEEN THE WALK OF FAME?

October 29th, 2003 | by Tom
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By the way, if the thought has crossed your mind, you should really consider getting your name on the Theater Hopper Walk of Fame. We’ve already had four people donate – Brian Carroll, Cale Block, Mari Clayton and Ryan Thomsen – since the walk became open for business earlier in the week. It’s pretty wild.

If you’d like to see your name immortalized forever, just check out the Walk of Fame page and donate whatever you think is fair! There is no set level to meet in order to be included on the walk. If you have a web site you’d like me to link your name to, let me know and I’ll make it happen!

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MUCHISIMO MOVIES

October 27th, 2003 | by Nick
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Last weekend was nothing short of a movie-watching frenzy for my wife and me. On Friday, we saw School of Rock which she kept calling School House Rock. However you’d like to refer to it, it was good. It’s refreshing to know that Richard Linklater can make another fun movie after such heady fare as Waking Life. Not that I didn’t like that movie, it’s just that I get migraines whenever I think about it.

On Saturday, we saw Intolerable Cruelty. Although I liked it, I stopped thinking about it by the time I got home. The movie was full of close-ups of George Clooney and Catherine Zeta Jones. Their beauty only reminded us in the audience how unattractive we really are, except my wife; she’s hot.

Saturday nights are meant for parties, bar mitzvahs, and discos. So of course it would make sense that we watched Philadelphia. The movie was an early birthday gift from my mother-in-law. I’m not exactly sure what it is about me that made her think of Philadelphia, but it was a very sweet gesture and she’s one of the sweetest people I know. The movie made me want to buy those action figures that they advertised on SNL. Where can I get those?

And yesterday we saw Kill Bill. Tom’s description did it justice so I won’t go into it. I just want to say that I’m glad Erin, the love of my life, is cool enough to see that movie with me. Not only that, she didn’t want to leave in the middle, when the going got bloody, like the female half of the couple next to us did. Yes, I picked a good one.

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SLAPS FOREHEAD

October 27th, 2003 | by Tom
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Guess who totally forgot to name check our most recent sponsor last Friday. If you guessed Tom Brazelton, you’d be right.

Everyone needs to drop their pencils and head over to Least I Could Do. It’s a great comic with sharp storytelling and fun art. Plus, for the fellahs… Babe of the Day! Rwar! They’re in the middle of a fun Halloween story right now. Check it out!

Also, don’t forget to visit our other sponsor Quad Boy Presents: Rants of a Madman. Quad Boy keeps churnin’ out the hits. You gotta check his site every day just to keep up with him!

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BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS SO, THAT’S WHY!

October 23rd, 2003 | by Tom
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I receieved an interesting e-mail from Shane “Smikwily” McWilliams in regard to Raiders of the Lost Ark and why one should not look into The Ark of the Covenant. Apparently, it’s actually mentioned in The Bible! Not being a Christian scholar, I always figured it to be Hollywood tacking on a solution that seemed to fit the situation a little too easily, but I guess I was wrong. Here’s Steve’s e-mail:

I did a little digging for something to back this up. I remember hearing this when I was younger, but had a hard time finding an actual page to back it up. I did understand the reasoning for looking away from the ark as it was opened.

1 Samuel 6:19

But God struck down some of the men of Beth Shemesh, putting seventy of them to death because they had looked into the ark of the Lord. The people mourned because of the heavy blow the Lord had dealt them.

2 Samuel 2:6-7 (also 1 Chr 13:7-10)

He and all his men set out from Baalah of Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name, the name of the Lord Almighty, who is enthroned between the cherubim that are on the ark. They set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart with the ark of God on it, and Ahio was walking in front of it. David and the whole house of Israel were celebrating with all their might before the Lord , with songs and with harps, lyres, tambourines, sistrums and cymbals.

When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen stumbled. The Lord’s anger burned against Uzzah because of his irreverent act; therefore God struck him down and he died there beside the ark of God.

http://www.rationalchristianity.net/touch_ark.html

Remember, most of the Trilogy deals with Christian artifacts, so I’m sure Indy knew all the details going in.

I never was one to doubt Indiana Jones and his level of research. He always seemed like of of the most competent, composed and, most importantly HUMAN action hero in modern cinema. I guess I just underestimated Hollywood’s ability to inject secular history into mainstream cinema and retain some level of truth.

Show Shane your appreciation for his research by visiting his site http://www.playmoreconsoles.com/

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SOME THINGS ABOUT THE SITE

October 22nd, 2003 | by Tom
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Since I’ve been working on reorganizing the site, I wanted to take a minute or two to outline some of the new features and general changes that are going on around the site.

The first thing I want to mention is the forum. It’s up and running again and charging at full steam. It’s got a ton of great new features and new ones are being added all the time. We’ve got some great conversation going on in there right now, so please join!

I also want to talk about the newly created store. I never really took the time to chat this up, so I’m going to correct that now.

** THE REST OF THIS BLOG POST WAS LOST WHEN THEATER HOPPER MOVED TO WORDPRESS IN JANUARY 2009 **

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OH, BY THE WAY…

October 20th, 2003 | by Tom
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Just for fun, I thought I would mention that Ryan Sias, author and creator of a jounral comic called Urban Transmission Project was the character designer for the animated sequence in the middle of Bowling For Columbine. It’s a fun fact and I wanted to throw a little traffic Ryan’s way since I’m a fan of his comic. Check it out! He has a whole page decided to his experience with the production of the film!

And for those of you who are critics of Michael Moore, I thought I would post this link so you can read his response to those who claim contextual and historical inaccuracies in his documentary. Best to let the man defend himself than for me to do it for him.

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BUZZ COMIX

October 17th, 2003 | by Tom
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Some of you may have noticed the handy, new graphic underneath the comic navigation. This is a link to buzzComix – a top 100 webcomic resource list not unlike Top Web Comics.

Since it appears that the TWC is no longer functioning and is without aim to bring its service back to those who rely on it as a source of free advertising, I’ve turned to buzzComix to help spread the word about Theater Hopper.

The way it works is disarmingly simple – Just click on the graphic every day and watch as our vote totals rocket us toward the top. I know many of you have fallen out of the habit of doing it, so when you remember, just give us a little clicky-click. To help things along, you might see this graphic in the news post from time to time:

Thanks to all of you in your continued support of Theater Hopper!

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FORUMS BACK UP!

October 17th, 2003 | by Tom
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Well, they may not be much to look at, but the forums are up and running again.

I pretty much had to start from scratch since we moved servers, so if you had registered in the past – I’m sorry – you’ll have to register again. For those of you who never got around to it… Well, now’s a great opportunity!

I can’t tell you everything I tried to make this work out better the first time around, but it just didn’t happen that way. In the meantime, you can expect more features and styles to be added to the forum in the coming weeks and months. Get in on the ground floor and your suggestions could help to shape how things develop!

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PUTTING THE HOUSE IN ORDER

October 16th, 2003 | by Tom
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Sorry, guys. But I just couldn’t wait to break out the new site design on ya!

Yep, so you may have noticed that some things have been shifted around. Really I was doing more pixel pushing than a flat-out redesign. But I felt there was so much space on the site going unused, I needed to rectify the situation.

Hopefully the site should load a little faster for everyone. I parsed down the background image and removed a lot of the includes that may have been slowing down some of the pages. The largest download you’re going to have is the most recent comic. Beyond that, things should be running much more smoothly. I think I’m already detecting a difference. Let me know if you guys encounter otherwise.

And while I mention it, if any of you notice something odd – a link that should or shouldn’t be, broken images, whatever – please contact me.

You’ll notice at the moment that two of the navigation links aren’t connected to anything – the store and the forum. Expect the store to be up later today. The forum will be down for the foreseeable future until I completely eliminate the bugs and can present to you a community hub that has all the bells and whistles I want on it.

Until then, wander around and check out the place. I feel like I did some major house cleaning – even if I didn’t go so far as to give the old war horse a new coat of paint…

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