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Title: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: The Fugitive on September 05, 2011, 12:33:39 PM
Well, real life has been pretty busy for me over the last few weeks with vacation, work stuff, and my youngest adventures in going for a second Bachelors degree. When I had a minute or two I thought about what I'd like to do for a cartoon. This is the 50th, and it has been a year since I started doing these. Personally I couldn't come up with anything that I thought was worthy of such an important milestone.

Morfiend suggested a "Spy vs Spy" kinda thing adding a 3rd spy with a "B" on ones chest and an "R" and "K" on the others, and I could have them run through any number of trials in the game. While I think that that, or some other type characters would be a great strip to do I know I would need a writer for those and they may take more time to get out.

Volron suggested an "Evolution of Man" type thing, you know the picture of the ape evolving into man through the different stages. He gave me a start with an ape in a cardboard box, and of course the other end would be one of us sitting in front of our computer screen, but I couldn't come up with anything in the middle. So I went with this...

The Evolution of Aces High

In the beginning, there were fighters, and all was well...

(http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii253/maddogjoe_photos/fighterpilots.jpg)

The price dropped from $30 to $15 and EA had killed Air Warrior. Everyone flew fighters and some were gods. Collisions were ON  and you learned fast how to avoid slamming your plane into another.  History was the leader in "why" most people flew. Where else could you spend 6-10 hours flying and fighting in WWII aircraft and NEVER die!

Then came the extras. HTC added more and more content giving all of us more toys to play with and soon, base capture became a popular game action. With this came team work, tactics, and strategy play. Again there were gods among the mission planners....

(http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii253/maddogjoe_photos/planners.jpg)

The planners would spend hours building plans. Creating missions that used terrain and radar circles to govern in-bound routes. Porking missions, other to draw an enemy away for the real attack, others just to relive a mission from history. Missions were skill was important, and not numbers. Were players were responsible for their assignments and took the mission seriously enough to practice these missions on their own time. Being sure that they could dive bomb in any plane and still hit the target with out aurgering. Being sure they could survive long enough to help suppress fighters and continue to contribute to the battle.

As the planners mission grew more successful more and more people jumped on board. Soon the planners couldn't control the missions any more and a new being has taken over. To borrow from a friend....

(http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii253/maddogjoe_photos/lemmings.jpg)

Welcome to the "Lemming" stage.  :devil
Title: Re: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: DMGOD on September 05, 2011, 12:39:42 PM
 :aok
Title: Re: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: Beefcake on September 05, 2011, 02:18:05 PM
 :rofl

Yep that pretty much sums up the current game.
Title: Re: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: MarineUS on September 05, 2011, 03:17:08 PM
 :aok
Title: Re: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: DarkHawk on September 05, 2011, 03:41:21 PM
great work
Title: Re: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: SEseph on September 05, 2011, 04:02:41 PM
 :aok

Awesome! Thanks for a great 50!
Title: Re: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: LCADolby on September 05, 2011, 04:16:37 PM
 :aok
Title: Re: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: Oldman731 on September 05, 2011, 04:35:31 PM
I really like your lemmings.

- oldman
Title: Re: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: Dichotomy on September 05, 2011, 05:33:45 PM
 :rofl :aok
Title: Re: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: B4Buster on September 05, 2011, 07:04:41 PM
 :rofl
Title: Re: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: oakranger on September 05, 2011, 07:22:30 PM
 :lol     :aok
Title: Re: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: steely07 on September 05, 2011, 07:27:54 PM
Very nice Fugi! :)
Title: Re: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: morfiend on September 05, 2011, 09:13:39 PM
 :lol :lol
Title: Re: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: MaSonZ on September 05, 2011, 09:25:47 PM
I like the lemming scene. Very creative thought. :aok
Title: Re: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: Pigslilspaz on September 05, 2011, 09:55:51 PM
Very funny
Title: Re: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: The Fugitive on September 05, 2011, 10:07:04 PM
I really like your lemmings.

- oldman

I didn't draw the Lemmings scene. Delirium got the picture frm some place and posted it on the boards last week or the week before. Thats why I said "....to borrow from a friend" before the picture.
Title: Re: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: Delirium on September 05, 2011, 10:40:14 PM
It was a joke from another thread, where Corky was asking why an entire NOE mission augered because TWO P38s saw them.

(http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff14/DeliriumP38/vlemmings.jpg)
Title: Re: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: 10thmd on September 05, 2011, 10:42:01 PM
 :rofl They look like one of the mega horde squads
Title: Re: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: camnite on September 06, 2011, 01:33:34 AM
the sad thing is, the lemming picture can be applied to alot of things these days
Title: Re: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: Volron on September 07, 2011, 12:02:18 AM
I could've given some detail behind the idea, but I honestly wanted to see what you'd come up with. :aok  Wonder if we could get these in a sticky thread... :headscratch: :lol

"Welcome to the "Lemming" Stage."  :rofl
Title: Re: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: Rob52240 on September 07, 2011, 12:08:41 AM
All artwork drawd by others.

(http://i972.photobucket.com/albums/ae209/thedevilsbrigade1/lemmings.jpg)
Title: Re: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: GreenEagle43 on September 07, 2011, 07:31:19 PM
lol. baa baa baaa.
Title: Re: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: 007Rusty on September 07, 2011, 08:03:39 PM
 :rofl :rofl     :aok
Title: Re: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: Dragon on September 07, 2011, 08:29:44 PM
 :lol :lol   




 :aok Fugi
Title: Re: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: 4deck on September 08, 2011, 07:35:28 AM
 :aok
Title: Re: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: BulletVI on September 08, 2011, 07:25:20 PM
 :rofl :rofl :rofl

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I was one of those Lemmings once  i never knew the bail out button so i kept nose diving to my DOOM lol

Well done Fug
Title: Re: Cartoon #50 Happy Anniversary !
Post by: Lab Rat 3947 on September 10, 2011, 04:34:25 AM
 :rofl    :aok    :old: