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Imitation, Helena 128.

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As you can see, we are having a party for dust pam at Desert Island in Brooklyn next week! Its from 7 pm and if you like facebook events check it out here, or you can just come by and get a book and get it signed by Thu! 

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HOT SUMMER NIGHTS

by Freddy Carrasco @fredbread Published by Us. 60 Pages, black and white (our first black and white book!).

This book (as seen in Shortbox!) Is now out on solo release, debuting next weekend at SPX in Maryland. You can also pre-order the book from our website and it ships out sept 19th. 

It’s a book about three young people trying to do some things before high school starts! It’s exciting! There is skating, joint rolling, and toy crushing. We really like it. 

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If you attempt to kill a god, you must also be prepared for divine intervention…. 

This is DARK ANGELS of DARKNESS, by Al Gofa. 170 pages of raw muscle energy, debuting next weekend at TCAF. Alex will be signing at our table throughout the festival, and if you can’t make it, the book’ll be in the webshop after TCAF.

It’s always hard to hype up our own babies, but…. this book is legit 🔥🔥🔥 , expert level comic artistry and completely unlike anything else we’ve published. It’s a perfect fusion of everything in comics and we’re so happy to have had the chance to publish this book. Hope you enjoy it!

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What changed in Rogue One's reshoots?

First things first - basically every major film has reshoots. They're built into the schedule to solve problems that come up in the edit. Lotta good things happen in reshoots (arguably one of the best scenes in Rogue One happened cos of reshoots).

BUT the Rogue One reshoots were so significant they weren't just fixing problems, they were restructuring the entire film. It takes up a full ep of the Going Rogue podcast but the TL:DR is: Tony Gilroy, the Oscar nominated writer and director who is now the showrunner on Andor, came onto Rogue One after the directors cut. He has a screenplay credit. To get that, he had to be responsible for at least 33% of the final film's script.

Again, he came in after the directors cut.

So what exactly did he change? Hard to get specifics for everything but here's a bunch of things that were added in the reshoots:

Jyn's Prison Breakout and Cassian's mission to the Ring of Kafrene

The film originally cut from child Jyn to adult Jyn in rebel custody. These scenes were added during reshoots to set the scene and establish the characters better. It's also likely that Bodhi's first scene on Jedha was added in reshoots, but that also might have already been in the film and just moved earlier (although it was shot on a Volume LED background which makes me suspect it was a last minute addition, as the Volume was still being tested/developed during principal photography)

2. Most of Scarif

This was significantly restructured to make it less complicated and shorter (the original cut was probably over an hour). Not all of it was reshot - often new scenes would be spliced into old ones. Jyn and Cassian climbing the data tower, and Cassian's apparent back-breaking fall, were reshoots - but Jyn's face off with Krennic on top of the tower was from the original cut (in that version, Cassian and K2 were probably guarding the bottom of the transmission tower and were shot down - there's some BTS footage of this with K2 dying dramatically next to an apparently dead Cassian, but Cassian and Jyn always died on the beach together so presumably Cassian still got a "return from the dead" hero moment.)

Other things on Scarif that changed included Chirrut and Baze's deaths, but probably not Bodhi's (although Bodhi was likely the first person to die in the original cut).

3. Most if not all of Saw's scenes

This all gets a lil tin-foil hat vibes but the first few trailers/images of Saw Gerrera look much more like the younger Saw in the opening scene with a bald head/no beard. That could mean there were originally more backstory scenes of Young Jyn and Saw, but there's also some BTS footage of Felicity Jones in Jyn's Jedha costume talking to a bald, beardless Saw in what looks a lot like the Death Star attack scenes (lots of wind effects and blue screen). So unless Jyn has had exactly one set of clothes for the past 10 years, it's likely all of Saw's scenes on Jedha were re-shot.

4. Jyn and Cassian's argument after Eadu

This is a vibes call rather than direct evidence but all the dialogue in this scene is very Tony Gilroy-esque. (Gilroy loves to write a smart, competent man who does what needs to be done in spite of grey morality, surrounded by and struggling against malignant bureaucracy.)

** EDIT: just realised this isn't as clear as it could be - there was probably a confrontation here in earlier cuts but the dialogue was almost definitely re-written by Gilroy, esp. because it plays into a mirror line from one of the first scenes ("I've never had the luxury of political opinions"/"We don't all have the luxury of deciding when are where to care")**

5. The Darth Vader Corridor Scene

This one is thanks to editor Jabez Olssen - Rogue One always had at least one Darth Vader scene with Krennic, but during the edit everyone realised that they needed a "Jurassic Park T-rex" ending. Olssen pitched bringing Vader back for a final scene to slaughter Admiral Raddus and his crew while Princess Leia just barely escaped. The idea was approved by Kathleen Kennedy and workshopped into the final scene in the film, which Olssen's friend and mentor Peter Jackson was on set to watch. (this is why there's two credited actors as Darth Vader - one did the talking scene, the other was a stunt man who just did this fight).

As always, there's a full podcast episode on the reshoots that covers much more of Gilroy's career and style and how and why re-shoots happen, but also a much broader issue of how the reshoots stripped away a lot of who Jyn was for the sake of narrative simplicity, and why I don't think that would have happened if she was a male character.

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-A.T. Sketch Dump PART 2-

Annnnd here are some drawings I did while working on the finale.

I tried to put a lot of answers in the finale’s intro and I wanted to include a new fire elemental and slime elemental to give closure on Flame Princess and Slime Princess (The other elementals are accounted for in the intro.)

Also seen here is a new Lumpy Space Princess, and possum named Clover that I came up with for a pitch that eventually turned into “The Moe You Know / The More You Moe”, the original drawings of BMO as the King of Ooo, the finale-era Ice Thing and Turtle Princess that I drew on a plane, and some Shermy and Beth notes (I changed Shermy’s sword design so it could fold up and fit in his little bag)

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I love to play phasmophobia with my friend My..

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here are some cover sketches that tried their best but did not succeed. (except the computer one who did succeed in the end)

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Fingolfin, Béren & Lúthien, Feanor, Túrin, Tuor e Morgoth

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Tintin Au Brésil

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Concept fantasy art

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GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH 1990 › dir. Joe Dante

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CROIX POINT - by VALENTIN SEICHE (@airfortress)

A new Box-Set Book and Pin from Peow. The 60-page book dives deeper into the lore of THE WORLD, exploring the Blue Soldiers Army, the little soldier, Croix Point, and the Magicians. The book also comes with a random pin (5 different designs), but approx 1 in every 188 boxes contains a SUPER MYTHIC RARE full gold pin (pictured above). We don’t know if anybody in the world has gotten the mythic gold rares yet. Will it be you? I dunno. 

Oh, and the book comes with a digital copy of THE WORLD. such value. Its 130 (our cheapest book!) and in da peow shop right now -> www.peowstudio.com

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Y5 sketches drawn in 2019 while writing on AT: Distant Lands - BMO