Harakiri

I wonder if the boy thought that if he throws the knife at his sister, she would explode into sparks?

I hate that GI JOE song. Actually, I hate any song that gets stuck in my head for days on end.

I don't think anyone will fight you for Airforce. I'd like to be either ground units or Navy commander or strategist. If anything, I think the tipitopia government should be by the people for the people.

This is the order in which I think we should take the world. Wikipedia needs to be last because they could become our allies and feed us incorrect data, which is not good.

[hide=] [/hide] I like it! Also, I will be the town drunk with the tin hat! And I would also like to run for leader of the navy, or at least naval strategist. Mod edit: Please add hide tags when quoting big pictures. ~meol

I feel the same way. I write a lot of stories, I do read a lot, but nothing compares to creating your own work. I found this book called Homeland by John Jakes. Sounds cool since its historic fiction and I'm into history.

Well, we need to take the blogipelago. Its probably going to be the easiest, all we need are a couple thousand spam cannons, and they will submit to us. We will then use their islands and people to build up a spam wall that will protect the area from invaders. From there, we should take piczo. Their islands will be a good place to watch Facebook. If Facebook makes a move, we let them go to the Spam wall before invading. Without their navy, we can completely obliterate them. We should make a Zimmerman Telegram kind of thing. Send it to Myspace saying if we band together and take down Facebook, they can take 3/4 of the taken land. The Facebook people will intercept it and will come after us. Then, we take out everything to the west. Once we have taken all of that, we cut through the myspace mountains descretely. We will take Friendster and everything in that area before making our first attack on Myspace. While the army is busy in the North, focusing on our men we will attack Myspaces bands and The Series of tubes. We will set up a spam wall and attack their key cities. The army will have to divide, and as our two armies attack and our navy keeps the waters safe from any allies of the Myspace peoples, we will have a third army attack from the southwest. All of the Facebook army will take the southern part of Myspace, and soon, Myspace will have to surrender as we split into multiple armies and attack from every possible side, closing in on them. With Myspace, we have more possibilities than ever. We'll go take Second Life and all the role playing games. Take WOW first because the bulk of their army will be sleep deprived people. Then take all the surrounding areas. Move to Yahoo games and all other things surrounding Windows Live. Then, we take it. We will use same tactics as myspace and attack with many seperate armies, overwhelming them. Maybe the second life people will act as suicide bombers. That'd help. From there, we can take the rest of the world, build a spam wall and protect our selves from any other invaders.

Do you have any sicknesses or diseases of ANY SORT? Even a cold. :-k Any sickness at all. Yeah, I keep seeing Barry Manilowe and he keeps telling me to eat my creamed corn. When I wear my tin hat, he disappears. I don't know what its called. Insanity, the doctor called it, can't remember.

That was pretty creepy. Not like that. All my friends and all the other kids they know are on Myspace, and it seems like the rule to be 18 before you join is kinda obsolete. We do need slaves though. If we take Facebook, we get all the older people.

Been a long minute. I was bored, so I made one. Not very good, made in paint. Any critique? If we could get a background, its a good start.

Stephen R. Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Really good fantasy books. I also just finished the latest Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child.

Can I be the leader of the clan of People Who Wear Tin Hats? This is a good idea though. I personally say that we need a strong Navy to invade islands around Myspace. Once we have Myspace, we control all the children. We can use them as slaves and they can make bows and other weapons. And then, we can take the rest of the world! And also, I want Direct democracy. How do I become a citizen? I just got deported from Fark Land.

Zach Snyder hired on Broadway actors, nobody anybodies heard of. I can't believe they are taking out the monster though, it was an integral part of the story. Plus, I'm happy they took out the black freighter, I hated those parts of the comic so bad. They bored the crap out of me. Can't wait to see Rorschach stand there while the guy gets his throat slit open. Thats gonna be great. So will the part where he puts the dudes head in a fryer. And, as all my friends say: "Everyones going to IMAX theaters to bask in the glory of Dr. Manhattens giant glowing wang." I'm sure though he's going to be wearing something though...

Its been a while:

Welcome to the meanest city in Florida, as well as the nicest. Welcome to Sunnyville. Clubs, exclusive restaurants, and huge houses make the place a hotspot for the rich and famous. The beaches are the best around and the cigars are world famous. You just transferred in though, and as a criminal, you know that its going to be easy to hide behind the cover of bigger crimes in the area. Too bad you went to that bar. 1. CHARACTER CREATION ______________________ Name: Birth: Clothes: Nationality: Police Record: Previous Gangs: Anything else: 2. Playing __________ I give the scenario and help guide it, while you find ways to help each other in the ganglands. 3. Everything else: ________________ The rules of the game are the same as any other RPG. I will make sure that I clearly explain the scenario and that all characters will get a chance to play out things. This RPG will also involve PM'ed information, such as if you want to do races or smuggle things in order to gain more favor with the gangs or get more XP. Your characters experience points will be placed on this post when all characters are set up. Basically, you can start a mission at any time, except during a mission. The first mission will start when everyones ready and will get you used to your character. After that, you can go off and do what you want. Tell me, and I will PM you the mission you chose. If someone decides they want to continue the story mission, all started side missions will be finished up, and everyone will meet up and do the mission. After that, you can choose to do a side mission or tell me to continue the story. The story is divided into parts, each with five mission increments. Every increment will contain four new side missions for each of the categories listed: Races Smuggling Cage Fights Assassinations Each one will give you XP in a new category, and also, the compltion of all four of the missions in a part will give you new upgrades. So...when I say mission complete, anyone who would like to do one of the side missions can post that down below, and I will PM them the scenario. Once its complete, they earn XP. But, if someone says to continue the story, I will finish all side missions and you cannot do one until after the next mission is over. So on and so forth. Every mission, you will earn XP. Also, before you can start a side mission, you must pass an initiation test. After that, all side missions in the category chosen are open. Completing all four initiation tests is probably the smartest move after the first mission is over. I will explain things as we go that you may want to know about, but here is an XP tracker for future reference: Driving: Shooting: Sneaking: Hand to Hand: SPECIAL WEAPONS: Special Weapons are weapons you have earned that will give you more power or speed or whatever and last the whole game. Now, make a bio and we will start the first mission.

My grandma died yesterday, so we made an emergency trip to St. LOuis. I guess you'll have to wait next week for the next issue, because I have too much to think about at the moment.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Issue 7 will be posted Monday. I am switching days because I have too much going on on Fridays. So check tomorrow for the next issue! Also, it will be the first issue to include puzzles, and will be around the length of last weeks double issue. Every week I will try to find new ways to entertain you as well as inform you. Another quick announcement is that I am not getting many submissions of articles or questions. I am accepting everything so if you have a story or stupid question you want answered, I got space. We have not used to the reader submission part of the paper once, and it would be cool if we could get some questions and SUGGESTIONS! We want to know what will make you want to read the paper all the time. I know the articles every week aren't keeping you entertained enough and you want something that has to do with your field of interest. If you want a weekly fantasy column, just PM me and I will make one. Anything to get people to start reading or keep people interested. Thanks a lot reader, and I hope to see you on tomorrows paper! PS: Only four more issues left until the first volume of papers are done. Every issue I'll be asking you to submit articles for our eleventh issue. All it will be is reader submitted content. There will be four categories and everyone who wins gets bragging rights, and a signature containing a cookie. Good stuff :) Also, anyone who submits will be on the list of Coffee Shoppe regulars. That was a big announcement, but I really am trying to make this weekly army of words to be the best it possibly can, and with your help, we will be able to make the army of words a force to be reckoned with.

Volume 1 Issue 6 DOUBLE ISSUE ________________________ NEWS ------- Due to Nom and I having made no issue last week, I put it upon myself to put together two weeks worth of information. As you may have noticed over the past couple weeks (almost two months now), the format changes a lot. We here at The Authors Corner are trying to find a more enjoyable format for both of us. A couple weeks back, Nom wrote an issue, and thanks to him for filling my shoes while I was gone, he did a great issue. Also, he gave me the idea to buy "A Game of Thrones (pretty good so far, if you want to know). This week, we focus on comics. If anything, we will focus more on various forms of writing instead of just novels. There are quite a few jobs to do with writing, including journalism, comic writing, script writing for movie and TV, and critic. Comics such as Batman and Spider Man will be examined, as well as Japanese Manga's. Also, we will have a whole section based on web comics, and sprite comics. _______________________________________________________ DC COMICS ------------- DC comics started a large boom in the comic industry. In the late 30's they created Detective Comics (what the company's named for) and it would usually involve a couple short comics with various heroes and villains. Soon, Batman came out of it, one of the first "real" superheroes. Though he really isn't super. Before that, Superman was created, making him the basis for generic comic characters. Over the years, DC has brought out the Justice League and other huge comic icons. Including the Watchmen, which is considered the single best comic series ever. Combining psychological and real world situations to create the perfect imitation of what a super heroes life would really be like. The comic, in my opinion, is one of the most depressing pieces of fiction ever and it is ruthless in the telling of the story. ------------------- OPINION ----------------- Yes, I am giving my opinion. I like DC. Batman has always been a kickarse character. He needs no superpowers to fight crime, all he needs is gadgets and pure brute strength. Superman used to be my favorite. He was kind of neat, had a lot of power, and was an alien! But I got older and found it was too boring. The storylines never seem to change and I still do not understand how in the hell nobody can tell that Supes is actually Clark Kent. If I put on a pair of glasses, everyone would think I'm someone else? I love Watchmen and love Rorschach the most. He's awesome. Plain and simple. If the upcoming film adaption sucks, the people who made it should either kill themselves, or run into a cave somewhere no one would look, because the fans are murderous. ______________________________________________ MARVEL COMICS: ------------------- Marvel is the biggest comic book company, pumping out fifty something comics a month. They created such greats as the Incredible Hulk, Spider-man, The Fantastic Four, and (my favorite) The Punisher. Anyone who has ever read an older Marvel Comic might notice the amazing amount of story that went into most of the characters. All the bad guys had back stories and there was a huge amount of characters in the background. Also, they made a world where heroes fight and nearly always have fights between favorite heroes. While DC has had Batman and Supes fight thirty thousand times, the latest Marvel epic, Civil War, brought together all characters in a series that took up nearly every characters comic. The fights were great, and it was a nerd-out. They are also comedic. The Marvel Zombies were a hilarious look at the world of Stan Lee and others, and then the spin off Army of the Dead Vs. Marvel Zombies was awesome. It had Ash in it. Bruce Campbell. The single greatest actor alive. Anyone? ---------------------- OPINION ---------------------- I love Marvel. Though they did have endorsed Who Wants to Be a Superhero, the epitome of "This show is sooooo bad but I can't stop watching". The Punisher is cool I think. He was a character that could compete with Batman. He was a human with gadgets, and a bunch of guns. But, he was different from Bats because he was poor. He drove around in a beat up van and usually staked out in abandoned buildings. Also, as mentioned, they continued the epic Evil Dead series with the comics. Anyone who does that wins forty thousand brownie points in my book. _____________________________________ OVERALL: -------------- These companies have really gone down in quality lately. It does not reflect the original product, the original character. Pick up the latest issue of the Punisher for instance. Inside, there are tons of panels were all it is is a drawing, and no dialogue. And all of the dialogue usually has some kind of cussing in it. There are also tons of ads. But not the cool ones with clipouts for magic kits and all that stuff, but instead for other crappy comics. Remember when Spiderman had to explain why he was web swinging down the street after he explained he was chasing a bad guy? Remember when every panel contained everyones thoughts, forms of dialogue. Sure every once in a while there would be some fight and there would be no dialogue, but it still reflected that they cared. Also, the prices are rediculous. Four to five dollars for a 32 page comic that I'll read in ten minutes and then either throw away or put in a sleeve and let rot for twenty years till its worth its face price on Ebay? I've given up on comics to tell the truth. I have behind me about two hundred old 90's superman comics and maybe 500 other random early 90's DC comics. Those are probably the only comics that will be in that box until something groundbreaking comes out, or theres a comic book about Bruce Campbell's chin coming alive and killing the Marvel Universe. ______________________________________________ MANGA ------------ Shonen Jump and other make up the Japanese comic medium known as Manga. I got my first Shonen Jump magazine in July of 2004 at an airport. On the front was Shaman King, which I liked, and it also had Yu-Gi-Oh and Naruto (which would not be on air for another couple years). I bought it and was quickly obsessed with the magazine. I got every months. I loved it. But soon it got way too much into Naruto (which I think is way overhyped). So I gave up on it. I have not read manga in a while mostly because of how annoyingly bad its gotten. Everythings the same. Teenage angsty peoples with giatn swords and wierd hair either with giant robots or fighting demons. http://www.onemanga.com Here you can read nearly any manga for free. It has some rough translations but is still a cheap way to read manga. I used to like the medium, but it, like our American comics, is begging for something different. The same series keep going on, everyone rips everyone else off, and the stories start cool but keep going to the point that you want to murder. Also, there is the (I swear if you don't pick up a copy I'm going to keep mentioning this) Vampire Hunter D series. They are books and a manga, though I would suggest the books. The translation can be rough and quite a few of the books follow the same formula (which does get boring), but its different and its the first time I have read any Japanese authors books. ________________________________________________ WEBCOMICS: --------------------- I've been reading a lot of these lately. There are a couple different sub categories, but I won't mention them all because I only read one kind of webcomic, the sprite comic. There is an exception with one I'll mention though. There are tons of sprite comics out there, and they litter nearly everything. Most are crap, and I can barely read past the first strip without giving up. Anyone can do it, which is one reason its hard to find a good one. Basically, finding a good webcomic is hard. You have to wade through the crap to find the gem that you were looking for. Here are a couple I like. http://www.bobandgeorge.com Bob and George is a comic making fun of megaman. I thought it was really funny and it is over, so you can read through and don't have to wait every day for a new strip. http://www.mgcomics.com/ A whole site dedicated to sprite comics. Here you can find Sonic ones and a couple odd balls. I would suggest Tony the Hedgehog (it starts slow and mediocre but I thought it got pretty good later), Digglet and Pals (makes fun of pokemon kind of, its pretty funny in the obvious sense). The others range from bad to alright. --------------------------- OTHER: http://www.hlcomic.com/index.php?date=2005-05-01 Makes fun of Half Life 2 and is one of my all time favorite web comics. It is over, so you will be able to read through it. Its relatively short for a web comic. As the saying goes "short and sweet". _________________________________________________________ BOOKS: ------------ THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT THE UNBELIEVER --------------------------------------------------------- Stephen R. Donaldson wrote the first book in 1977. It was a fairly in your face rip off of Lord of the Rings. The writing style was the same, it borrowed a lot of stuff (there is a ring involved, the bad guys are called ur-viles). But, after reading the first book "Lord Foul's Bane", I grew to like it and enjoy the adultier side of it. Its about a guy with leprosy who's wife leaves him, and he is basically an outcast in the town. One day he gets run into by a police car and is taken to a fantasy land where he is hailed as the reincarnation of an ancient hero, Berek Halfhand. Thomas has only three finger left, so that is how they get that. People also think he is a hero because his ring from his marriage is made of white gold, which is magical and powerful in the land. I won't go into much detail because the story is so short that if I told you anything else I would spoil everything. His style makes the book 500 pages, when a more simplistic style could tell it in maybe two hundred. So far, there are eight in the series with the ninth coming out next year and the tenth and final coming out in 2013 if wikipedia is to be believed. A very good series for all fantasy fans out there. __________________________________________________ QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Who's better, DC or Marvel? Why? ___________________________________________________ Next Week Volume 1 Issue 7 Something exciting __________________________________________________ HELP WANTED --------------- If you want to contribute to the Authors Corner, then send me a PM with your article (anything you want to talk about). Also, if you have art you want showcased here, we have space for you! ALSO, if you have any question, any random question you want answered, either post it/them down below or PM me. WE USE EVERYTHING! NO ARTICLE OR QUESTION OR ART PIECE WILL GO TO WASTE! WE SWEAR ON OUR PEN AND PAPER!

Chapter 2: All for Science Coleen smirked as she typed numbers into her computer. The atmospheric stabilizers were holding up just fine, and they were easily projecting the fake electric storm. The crew were too stupid to notice how fake it was though. She quickly typed in a ten number sequence. She heard a low buzzing in her closet. She shut off her computer, and opened the wooden door. The closet did not contain clothes anymore. A cylindrical elevator stood in the pile of clothes place. She got in, her shoes making hollow echoes on the thin sheet of steel keeping her from falling three hundred feet. During the building of the facility on Mars, the workers built an underground hangar. For what, they didn't know. It took a while for this place to be built, but thanks to depleted reservoirs of water under the surface of the planet, there was no need to dig much. Stick in an atmospheric stabilizer, a couple tables, a load of computers and other things, and you had yourself a secret lab. The elevator stopped in the middle of the reservoir, and Coleen exited. She walked towards a large cylindrical machine, like the elevator. It was connected to fourteen generators, all running at their highest output. She opened a laptop connected to the machine, and checked a few graphs and charts before staring at the slab of rock next to her. Embedded in it were small bones belonging to a cat-like creature. A messager popped up on the left side of her computer screen, and she quickly typed: READY WHEN YOU ARE. Jack Reacher slowly awoke. His back ached and his head throbbed. He then noticed he was lying on the floor. He got to his feet and rubbed his temple slowly. "Goddam." He murmered, opening the rooms door. Outside of the hall, Bob Duress stood, his fist in the air, about to knock. He brought his arm to his side. "Guess what I found last night?" "What?" Jack muttered, rubbing his eyes. "Two sets of alien fossils. Awesome huh?" Bob was giddy as a school girl and Jack was too sleepy to care about anything. "Where's Susan?" He asked, grabbing a shirt from his dresser and putting it on. Bob stared at the shirt. "Planet Hollywood, Orlando? I went there once." Jack pushed Bob out of the way and exited the building, heading for the comp center. Above, he saw lightning streak across the sky. The storm was getting stronger and stronger. He just had an odd feeling about it though. Why did the lightning never hit the half sphere that protected the scientists from the vaccuum outside? They always came close, but never directly made contact with the sphere. Jack didn't want to worry about it at the moment. He would ask Coleen that night at the assembly. He pushed open the doors to the comp center, and then walked straight forward to the window. Susan stood at it, and watched the lightning. She turned around and kissed Jack. Her lips were like a vaccuum and it took Jack a couple seconds to pull himself away from their suction. "Have you noticed something about the lightning?" He asked her. "It never hits the stabilizer shield? Everyones noticed that." "Is it normal?" "No." Coleen screamed out loud in the reservoir. "IT WORKS!" She jumped up and down. A man in a suit and dark sun glasses stood before a cylindrical device that looked exactly like the one Coleen had in the reservoir. A slab of rock had appeared in it, and he slowly took it, and placed it on the desk next to the machine. CAN I GIVE POWER BACK TO THE FACILITY? His computer popped up. WHEN EVERYONES ASLEEP, he answered back. He looked the slab over and then laughed. "Gentlemen." He turned to the ten men in lab coats and grinned. "We're going to go places with this."

No cuz I've worked on this one for a long time...Plus, I think its much better than half the [cabbage] I throw onto this site.

Act I: Men as Gods Chapter 1: One Month Later What the hell is going on? Jack Reacher screamed as his computer screen blanked. We're entering an electric storm. Susan Kolt answered, standing from her cubicle and walking over to the window in the side of the building. She stared out at the red planet's terrain and stared toward the sky, where the stars twinkled. How the hell're the lights working? Jack asked, going to stand beside Susan. Back up generator. You really are new to this aren't you? She turned to him and stared into his pretty hazel eyes. They twinkled like those of a young boy. His chin was covered in stubble and his hair was all over his head. He looked like hell. I just joined the team two months ago. He turned his back on her. And to think that the first major assignment I get is to come to Mars to help the scientists here search for other forms of life. That's not the only reason we're here. Susan looked at Jack's back. Her gaze then went to his muscular arms that he so prominently displayed. How old are you? She couldn't not ask. Twenty-six. He said without so much as a seconds hesitation. Thats still pretty young for a scientist being shipped to another planet. You'd think. He started toward the door of the building. Where you going? Susan chased him, her white scientist coat billowing out behind her. No point hanging around here while the comps are out. I'm going back to my quarters. I need some rest. Susan stopped about three feet from him and let him leave without any other words. The door to the offices slammed in front of her, and she went back to her spot in front of the window. The [cabbage] has hit the fan people. Coleen said, pacing back and forth on the stage. Everyone that was living and working at Mars Station sat in the hard aluminum chairs that surrounded the raised wooden platform. Atop it was a podium and different screens hooked up to computers beneath it. Coleen was the only one on the stage. As the leader of the scientists, she had all authority over the facilities. If she wanted someone to kill themselves than have another person eat his guts (the exact thing she had said at the first meeting) she would get it. Everyone knows that we are in an electric storm. Its taking a piss on our machinery, and everyone knows there is one machine we need to keep up and running. The atmospheric stabilizers. Someone yelled out from the back of the room. Bingo. To put it kindly, we're screwed if it goes out. We'll all be floating corpses in space if it goes out. Lovely picture, isn't it? Jack sat in the front row, trying to keep his heavy eyelids up. He was more tired than he had ever been in his life. He had gotten but twenty-four hours of sleep in the past two weeks of his stay on the red planet. No one seemed to care though. Other than Susan, who took a liking to him from the very start. She wasn't a bad looking girl. She was thirty years old, had long black hair and had the face of a goddess. She wore a short skirt whenever he was going to be in the computer center for the day. He smiled at the thought of the woman. He would end up getting her in the end. He just knew it. She sat next to him at the moment, and whispered in his ear, I can read your thoughts. Part of his body froze over while the other half tried to make up an excuse. That's just silly though, he thought as he regained himself. What am I thinking? He asked. This would prove if she was a liar or a real Silvia Brown (who he knew was also a liar, but she probably hit one or two nails on the head). Sex. Like all boys your age. She whispered seductively. He barely heard her over the screams of Coleen. She gripped the podium as if a vortex were trying to suck her in. LISTEN TO ME! We need all the help we can to keep everything running! The generators won't last long if we are stuck in this storm for the next month, as is predicted! Jack tried to listen to both of the women, but Coleen was a fifty year old lady who's legs were saggy, unlike the perfect woman beside him. Screw the job, he thought. If I get a girl to take with me to Earth, what the hell would I care? She started to lick his ear. Jack then stood up, Susan losing balance and falling onto his chair. What is it Reacher? Coleen asked, her little tirade put at a pause. I gotta leave. He said. Susan looked up at him and slit her eyes. What are you doing? She mouthed. Meet me at my room. Jack mouthed in return. Jack and Susan rolled in the sheets, sweat pouring down them in torrents. That felt...great. Susan gasped, lifting her face to the ceiling. Yes. Jack responded, clasping his lips on hers. As their tongues wrestled, Jack's lights started to blink. Jack brought his tongue back into his mouth and rolled off of Susan and onto his back. I think the generators are dying. Not good. Susan said, getting out of the bed and finding her clothes. She pulled on a pair of Levi's and a blouse. I'm sorry. That was very unprofessional of me. I'm an amateur though. He smirked as he pulled on his own pair of jeans, leaving his bare chest open for everyone to see. He has great muscles Susan thought as she exchanged one last kiss with Jack. Your not married are you? She asked afterwards. No. You? No. Good. His rooms lights continued to flicker. See you in the morning Mr. Reacher? Of course Ms. Kolt. With that, she left. Jack shut the door behind her before falling to the floor. COLEEN Coleen awoke with a start. Her computer screen had lit up. She slowly went to it. She sat on her leather swivel chair and quickly typed on her keyboard: HELLO SIR. NICE TO KNOW YOUR STILL ALIVE. ITS HARD TO LIE TO A WHOLE CREW SIR. WE NEED TO HAVE ALL THE POWER THOUGH TO OPERATE THE TRANSPORTER MACHINE. THEY CAN LIVE OFF THE GENERATORS FOR A COUPLE MORE DAYS. BOB DURESS FOUND TWO MORE FOSSILS JUST THREE MILES NORTHWEST OF THE FACILITY. GOOD. KEEP THEM. OUR SCIENTISTS OUR WORKING ON A DNA SCANNER. IT SHOULD BE HELPFUL IN RECREATING THESE CREATURES. WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GIVE YOU HUNDREDS OF SLAVES WHO CAN SURVIVE THIS PLANET'S CLIMATE AND HELP YOU BUILD CITIES AND FIND MORE FOSSILS. I WON'T BE ABLE TO LIE FOREVER. TELL THEM IT WAS A TEST TO SEE HOW WELL THEY WORK UNDER STRESS OR SOME OTHER LIE LIKE THAT. WILL THEY BE AMAZED WHEN THEY FIND THAT THEY HELPED IN THE RECREATION OF A CIVILIZATION. THEY WILL BE HAILED AS HEROES BY BOTH EARTH, AND MARS. THIS IS JUST TOO HARD TO BELIEVE...AFTER SO MANY YEARS OF SEARCHING AND WONDERING, WE FINALLY WILL BE ABLE TO SEE WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE. HOW IRONIC IT IS THOUGH. SOME THINK HUMANS WERE CREATED BY THEM. BUT WE ARE RECREATING THEM. WE CAN LEARN WHY THEY HAD FALLEN. WE CAN LEARN THEIR TECHNOLOGIES! SIR, I HEAR SOMEONE COMING DOWN THE HALL. I HAVE TO GO. GOODBYE COLEEN.

Prologue: Reaching to the Stars Ready? The voice crackled over the radio inside the cockpit. Ready. The man replied, bracing himself for his partner to activate the ship. NASA's computers are online and ready for all observations of the ship's takeoff. A woman said into the radio. The pilot of the long, sleek space ship adjusted various knobs and flicked switches as the computer in between the two pilots lit up, telling the current status. We are no-go for two minutes HQ. Please send a report on weather. I see the trees out beside the airstrip and I have to guess there are twenty five mile gusts. The radio crackled again. Twenty-three to be precise. Adjust the ship accordingly. Roger. The pilot continued flicking switches, smiling. Its finally happening. He said, adjusting a knob. Its been ten years of hard work to make this. The co-pilot smacked the control panel in front of him. Can't wait to see if this enviro-shield will work. Hopefully it does or we're dead. The pilot laughed. Our bodies will be floating there in space forever. Not a great burial. The co-pilot grabbed the radio and gave HQ an update. Thirty seconds till we start this puppy up. Great! The people in HQ were biting their nails and the co-pilot swore he could hear it. Ten seconds. The pilot started pushing buttons and screamed. You all ready back there? The people behind them nodded. Eight scientists of different backgrounds sat there, waiting for their takeoff into space. Thirty seconds till we start this puppy up. The radio cackled. Everyone in HQ was sweating profusely, staring intently at their computers, making sure absolutely nothing would interfere with the take off of this ship. NASA's director stood before everyone, staring at a large television screen on the wall, flanked on both sides by smaller ones. Come on... He wanted to scream at them, tell the pilot of the ship to get it over with. The large television screen had a live video broadcast of the silver ship. It was shaped like a bullet, and stood up like a normal spaceship. It also lifted off like a normal ship. The only special thing was that it was so fast, the scientists aboard would get to Mars in six days. Fire started to burn from the back of the ship. It blew out and the ships supports started to push off as the ship lifted ever so slightly, preparing for that last blast that would send it to space. Suddenly, HQ got a message. We're going... The ship slowly lifted into the air. Going... The ship suddenly sped up until it was nearly out of sight. The camera panned up and showed that the ship was nothing but a dot in the sky now. Gone. The director whispered. There were ten seconds of silence, and then HQ abandoned their computers to instead scream. YES! They yelled out, throwing paper in the air like confetti. People hugged each other and the director felt inclined to join the festivities. He hugged one of the designers of the ship, and then ran out of the room toward his office where bottles of champagne were being cooled. Never in history had there been a better reason to crack open a bottle of champagne, he thought.

Well then it should either: A.) Tell us who origianlly wrote this (in this case not an option if its that old). B.) Never have been posted This is a forum for us to place stories that WE have written. If you have nothing to post that you have written, then consider anything else spam and do something else. RATCHET THE WANNA BE MOD!

I meant the newer manga Hawkxs. I think the Yu Yu Hakoshaw manga was awesome. That one du8de could flick his fingers and blow a dudes head up. BRUTAL VIOLNCE FTW! One Piece of Crap has gotten too repetitive (Like most anime/mangas) I used to play Yu-Gi-Oh and I believe I saw every episode of the anime. I remember waking up saturdays to watch it and go use my allowance to buy a new pack of cards. The millenium island was good, and the Marik saga was pretty good, but after that (what was after that?) I remember it started to suck. Also, theres a new Yugioh series "Yugioh 5D's". Its about playing duel monsters on motorcycles!

Volume 1 Issue 6 DOUBLE ISSUE ________________________ NEWS ------- Due to Nom and I having made no issue last week, I put it upon myself to put together two weeks worth of information. As you may have noticed over the past couple weeks (almost two months now), the format changes a lot. We here at The Authors Corner are trying to find a more enjoyable format for both of us. A couple weeks back, Nom wrote an issue, and thanks to him for filling my shoes while I was gone, he did a great issue. Also, he gave me the idea to buy "A Game of Thrones (pretty good so far, if you want to know). This week, we focus on comics. If anything, we will focus more on various forms of writing instead of just novels. There are quite a few jobs to do with writing, including journalism, comic writing, script writing for movie and TV, and critic. Comics such as Batman and Spider Man will be examined, as well as Japanese Manga's. Also, we will have a whole section based on web comics, and sprite comics. _______________________________________________________ DC COMICS ------------- DC comics started a large boom in the comic industry. In the late 30's they created Detective Comics (what the company's named for) and it would usually involve a couple short comics with various heroes and villains. Soon, Batman came out of it, one of the first "real" superheroes. Though he really isn't super. Before that, Superman was created, making him the basis for generic comic characters. Over the years, DC has brought out the Justice League and other huge comic icons. Including the Watchmen, which is considered the single best comic series ever. Combining psychological and real world situations to create the perfect imitation of what a super heroes life would really be like. The comic, in my opinion, is one of the most depressing pieces of fiction ever and it is ruthless in the telling of the story. ------------------- OPINION ----------------- Yes, I am giving my opinion. I like DC. Batman has always been a kickarse character. He needs no superpowers to fight crime, all he needs is gadgets and pure brute strength. Superman used to be my favorite. He was kind of neat, had a lot of power, and was an alien! But I got older and found it was too boring. The storylines never seem to change and I still do not understand how in the hell nobody can tell that Supes is actually Clark Kent. If I put on a pair of glasses, everyone would think I'm someone else? I love Watchmen and love Rorschach the most. He's awesome. Plain and simple. If the upcoming film adaption sucks, the people who made it should either kill themselves, or run into a cave somewhere no one would look, because the fans are murderous. ______________________________________________ MARVEL COMICS: ------------------- Marvel is the biggest comic book company, pumping out fifty something comics a month. They created such greats as the Incredible Hulk, Spider-man, The Fantastic Four, and (my favorite) The Punisher. Anyone who has ever read an older Marvel Comic might notice the amazing amount of story that went into most of the characters. All the bad guys had back stories and there was a huge amount of characters in the background. Also, they made a world where heroes fight and nearly always have fights between favorite heroes. While DC has had Batman and Supes fight thirty thousand times, the latest Marvel epic, Civil War, brought together all characters in a series that took up nearly every characters comic. The fights were great, and it was a nerd-out. They are also comedic. The Marvel Zombies were a hilarious look at the world of Stan Lee and others, and then the spin off Army of the Dead Vs. Marvel Zombies was awesome. It had Ash in it. Bruce Campbell. The single greatest actor alive. Anyone? ---------------------- OPINION ---------------------- I love Marvel. Though they did have endorsed Who Wants to Be a Superhero, the epitome of "This show is sooooo bad but I can't stop watching". The Punisher is cool I think. He was a character that could compete with Batman. He was a human with gadgets, and a bunch of guns. But, he was different from Bats because he was poor. He drove around in a beat up van and usually staked out in abandoned buildings. Also, as mentioned, they continued the epic Evil Dead series with the comics. Anyone who does that wins forty thousand brownie points in my book. _____________________________________ OVERALL: -------------- These companies have really gone down in quality lately. It does not reflect the original product, the original character. Pick up the latest issue of the Punisher for instance. Inside, there are tons of panels were all it is is a drawing, and no dialogue. And all of the dialogue usually has some kind of cussing in it. There are also tons of ads. But not the cool ones with clipouts for magic kits and all that stuff, but instead for other crappy comics. Remember when Spiderman had to explain why he was web swinging down the street after he explained he was chasing a bad guy? Remember when every panel contained everyones thoughts, forms of dialogue. Sure every once in a while there would be some fight and there would be no dialogue, but it still reflected that they cared. Also, the prices are rediculous. Four to five dollars for a 32 page comic that I'll read in ten minutes and then either throw away or put in a sleeve and let rot for twenty years till its worth its face price on Ebay? I've given up on comics to tell the truth. I have behind me about two hundred old 90's superman comics and maybe 500 other random early 90's DC comics. Those are probably the only comics that will be in that box until something groundbreaking comes out, or theres a comic book about Bruce Campbell's chin coming alive and killing the Marvel Universe. ______________________________________________ MANGA ------------ Shonen Jump and other make up the Japanese comic medium known as Manga. I got my first Shonen Jump magazine in July of 2004 at an airport. On the front was Shaman King, which I liked, and it also had Yu-Gi-Oh and Naruto (which would not be on air for another couple years). I bought it and was quickly obsessed with the magazine. I got every months. I loved it. But soon it got way too much into Naruto (which I think is way overhyped). So I gave up on it. I have not read manga in a while mostly because of how annoyingly bad its gotten. Everythings the same. Teenage angsty peoples with giatn swords and wierd hair either with giant robots or fighting demons. http://www.onemanga.com Here you can read nearly any manga for free. It has some rough translations but is still a cheap way to read manga. I used to like the medium, but it, like our American comics, is begging for something different. The same series keep going on, everyone rips everyone else off, and the stories start cool but keep going to the point that you want to murder. Also, there is the (I swear if you don't pick up a copy I'm going to keep mentioning this) Vampire Hunter D series. They are books and a manga, though I would suggest the books. The translation can be rough and quite a few of the books follow the same formula (which does get boring), but its different and its the first time I have read any Japanese authors books. ________________________________________________ WEBCOMICS: --------------------- I've been reading a lot of these lately. There are a couple different sub categories, but I won't mention them all because I only read one kind of webcomic, the sprite comic. There is an exception with one I'll mention though. There are tons of sprite comics out there, and they litter nearly everything. Most are crap, and I can barely read past the first strip without giving up. Anyone can do it, which is one reason its hard to find a good one. Basically, finding a good webcomic is hard. You have to wade through the crap to find the gem that you were looking for. Here are a couple I like. http://www.bobandgeorge.com Bob and George is a comic making fun of megaman. I thought it was really funny and it is over, so you can read through and don't have to wait every day for a new strip. http://www.mgcomics.com/ A whole site dedicated to sprite comics. Here you can find Sonic ones and a couple odd balls. I would suggest Tony the Hedgehog (it starts slow and mediocre but I thought it got pretty good later), Digglet and Pals (makes fun of pokemon kind of, its pretty funny in the obvious sense). The others range from bad to alright. --------------------------- OTHER: http://www.hlcomic.com/index.php?date=2005-05-01 Makes fun of Half Life 2 and is one of my all time favorite web comics. It is over, so you will be able to read through it. Its relatively short for a web comic. As the saying goes "short and sweet". _________________________________________________________ BOOKS: ------------ THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT THE UNBELIEVER --------------------------------------------------------- Stephen R. Donaldson wrote the first book in 1977. It was a fairly in your face rip off of Lord of the Rings. The writing style was the same, it borrowed a lot of stuff (there is a ring involved, the bad guys are called ur-viles). But, after reading the first book "Lord Foul's Bane", I grew to like it and enjoy the adultier side of it. Its about a guy with leprosy who's wife leaves him, and he is basically an outcast in the town. One day he gets run into by a police car and is taken to a fantasy land where he is hailed as the reincarnation of an ancient hero, Berek Halfhand. Thomas has only three finger left, so that is how they get that. People also think he is a hero because his ring from his marriage is made of white gold, which is magical and powerful in the land. I won't go into much detail because the story is so short that if I told you anything else I would spoil everything. His style makes the book 500 pages, when a more simplistic style could tell it in maybe two hundred. So far, there are eight in the series with the ninth coming out next year and the tenth and final coming out in 2013 if wikipedia is to be believed. A very good series for all fantasy fans out there. __________________________________________________ QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Who's better, DC or Marvel? Why? ___________________________________________________ Next Week Volume 1 Issue 7 Something exciting __________________________________________________ HELP WANTED --------------- If you want to contribute to the Authors Corner, then send me a PM with your article (anything you want to talk about). Also, if you have art you want showcased here, we have space for you! ALSO, if you have any question, any random question you want answered, either post it/them down below or PM me. WE USE EVERYTHING! NO ARTICLE OR QUESTION OR ART PIECE WILL GO TO WASTE! WE SWEAR ON OUR PEN AND PAPER!