The Greys

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Time for a little self-indulgence to celebrate the end of Season 1. After a full 12 months of comics, we've decided to reveal a few of the characters that, until now, have been hidden away in our Easter Eggs, in the hope that Season 2 might see an increase in the number of egg hunters once you know what you've been missing out on.

We've also launched a Facebook page for The Greys. If you enjoy our comics we'd really appreciate it if you would "Like" us on Facebook. In return we'll let you know whenever we post a new strip.

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With a couple of days to go until the launch of Season 2 of The Greys, we've uploaded the whole of Season 1's comics to a couple of places. They are also still on our website, of course, but some people might prefer a gallery type view.

• Facebook
• Deviant Art

If you "Like" our Facebook page we'll also let you know when we post new strips.

We've only posted the rendered PNG files to these sites. If you want any of the original Inkscape SVG files, complete with their various Easter Eggs, then you'll need to download them from our main site. Each of the PNGs on Facebook and DA have a link to their corresponding page on our main site within the associated notes so you can just click through if one takes your interest.

As usual, feel free to share any or all of these strips with your friends if you want to.

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First strip of Season 2. To mark the second year, we've also changed our site header - click on the image to visit the comic page, read the blurb associated with it, see the new header and leave a comment if you want to.

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Something slightly different from The Greys this time round: a film poster parody. This is the first of a trilogy (assuming we finish the third one in time).

Click through to see the original 15-year-old sketch, and an early Corel Draw version.

[quantumsheep]

New here, but wanted to say I really enjoyed your comics!

QS

[PVB]

Welcome quantumsheep, to the fluffiest forums on the net!

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Thanks for the comment quantumsheep, it's really appreciated - and welcome to the forum.


Time for Part II of our trilogy of film poster parodies, "The Unusual Suspects". As with the last one we've dug out 15 year-old sketches and Corel Draw artwork so you can see how it's evolved since its first inception - just click on the comic to go to the post on our site.

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We interrupt our series of file poster parodies to bring you a quick-n-dirty topical strip:

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A couple of housekeeping points:

1) For anyone playing along at home, the SVG of the previous strip is now available for download (actually it's been there since Sunday, but it didn't seem worth spamming the board with that).

2) Unfortunately this board creates far fewer click-throughs that most other places I post to, we'd like to get a better idea of how many people are actively looking at our strips by getting more of them to actually visit our site and show up in our hit counter. So this will be the last strip I post here on the day of release, at least for the time being.

From now on I'll post a link on release day, and hope that you're all good enough to click through and visit our site. If you really don't want to click the link, then if you wait a couple of weeks I'll still post the comic itself when the next link goes up. So 22nd July should be a link to the next strip; 5th August should be a link to that strip plus a copy of the 22nd July's strip.

Just to clarify, we don't have any ads on our site, and don't even have any merchandising or PayPal links at the moment. We do have a flattr button, but that's all. This isn't an attempt to get you to visit the site so that we can sell you things, make money off you or harvest your organs (but if anyone's got a spare Hammond B-3 that they don't want...), we're just interested in finding out roughly how many people are looking at our comics.


Now, onto the current strip... the final part of our movie poster parody series: Star Wars meets Michael Caine in "The Endorian Job":

[quantumsheep]

Loved 'The Endorian Job' poster - very nicely done!

Oh! LOOK!

Sheep smilies! AWESOME:


QS

[quantumsheep]

Welcome quantumsheep, to the fluffiest forums on the net!

Thanks to you and Xav for the welcome btw!

I was wondering if it would be a little outrageous for me to post info about an iPhone game I'm making?

There are involved!

And it's been influenced by an old Mr. Minter game I used to love...

Thoughts?

QS

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As I explained last time, I'm just going to post a link to the current strip in the hope of getting a better idea of the number of people viewing our comics:

22nd July 2010: Murder on the Orion Express

We'd love people to click the link, but if you really, really don't want to, I'll be posting the image itself with the next strip, in a couple of weeks.

I was wondering if it would be a little outrageous for me to post info about an iPhone game I'm making?

You wouldn't be the first person here to plug their own game - but it might be best in the "Playing The Games" section when it's near completion.

[quantumsheep]

I clicked on the link!
Very nicely done

QS

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Previous Comic: Murder on the Orion Express




The current strip is:

5th August 2010: Rings of Mongo

[quantumsheep]

Heh - really like Rings of Mongo - nice nod to Lex at the start

QS