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Online Epic to Release Penultimate Episode

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the stuff-to-watch dept.

Brokensaint writes "The award-winning 3-year epic 'Broken Saints' is preparing to launch it's 23rd installment in its cult hit saga. Winner of the Sundance Online Film Festival Audience Award for Animation, 'Broken Saints' contains over 10 hours of original flash storytelling in 'cinematic literature' format (think animated comic). Having been seen by over 2 million people worldwide, this free web project will be launching the penultimate episode in the series next week, and will close out its run with a 1 hour finale in June. 'Broken Saints' follows the paths of four protagonists from different cultures that receive an ominous vision of the future - a vision that is somehow tied to the launching of a global telecommunications network. One of the main characters - the Muslim mercenary Oran - was created as a direct protest of the continued sanctions against the nation of Iraq. His role in the story chillingly mirrors the direction of current global events. The 3-person team from North Vancouver, Canada hopes to release a tradition graphic novel and DVD box set of the series by Christmas 2003. They are also in talks with production companies ranging from HBO to the Sci-Fi Network to do a mini-series adaptation of the epic. If you want to help the lads chip away at their mounting bandwidth bills, please consider dropping a dime in their kitty."

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  1. Speaking of epics... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    That's one long story blurb for the front page of Slashdot...

  2. Umm by cethiesus · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you want to help the lads chip away at their mounting bandwidth bills, please consider dropping a dime in their kitty.

    humor

    Also, please consider helping by not posting a link to their site on Slashdot for crying out loud. :)

    /humor

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  3. Wazat?! by foo+fighter · · Score: 4, Funny
    ...this free web project will be launching the penultimate episode in the series next week [leading to its finale in June].


    Holy shit, someone used the word "penultimate" properly! On /. no less.

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  4. NEVER DO THAT by Doktor+Memory · · Score: 4, Funny

    You said his name three times! Are you insane?

    I'd sleep in aluminum body armor tonight if I were you.

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  5. Re:Benefits of Slashdotting by DarkZero · · Score: 3, Funny

    I pulled down 131mb of zipped episodes (1-22, plus trailer) from http://bs.brokensaints.com/av/downloads/ [brokensaints.com] just now, and so in a sense I guess that's a bit of bandwidth hurt.

    You "guess" that 131MB of tranfers to one user in one day during a Slashdotting is, "in a sense", "a bit of a bandwidth hurt"? That's like saying that you might have, "in a sense", killed your next door neighbor "a bit" when you "stabbed him in the chest forty-two times".

    Seriously, though... downloading 131MB of files from a site that is currently on the front page of Slashdot is not cool. Practice a little restraint next time by bookmarking the page and coming back to it in a couple of days or something.