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Online Epic to Release Penultimate Episode
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.
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Seriously, that is the biggest description I've seen in the 5-6 years I've been reading slashdot. Reminds me about Katz; just keeps going, and going...
Speaking of The Man Everyone Loves to Hate, the King Of Pontification...where is the guy? We haven't heard a peep from him in ages(not that this is a bad thing, actually.)
Please help metamoderate.
This is very true, but on the other side of the coin I like a little dating. Carrie Fisher not wearing a bra (and to a lesser extent being coked off her ass) gives the geek of 2003 a better perspective of life in the 70s than any history book.
What part of "The 3-person team from North Vancouver, Canada" did you not read? Anime, in the terms commonly used by American fanboys, refers to Japanese Animation. This is hardly Japanese; hell, it's hardly even Anime-styled.
Perhaps slashdot should create a generic "animation" catagory so all you people who whine about anything that might be anime don't have to see stories like this.
Broken Saints is all fine and good, but when is the next episode of Ninjai coming out?
Actually, "animated comic" is a far more accurate description of Broken Saints (BS) than "cartoon". Cartoons usually have a lot more animation than BS does. Cartoons usually have spoken dialogue, not animated text balloons. I think you get the idea.
Have you watched/read any Broken Saints episodes? I'm not sure if "cinematic literature" or "animated comic" are the right terms for it either, but if you have seen any BS then you'd understand the grasping for terms. "Flash comic strip" is the best I can manage, but it's too web-specific and will not really apply when the series is transferred to DVD.
Since Brokensaint isn't a slashdot user, I guess the article author will remain anonymous. It's hard to tell whether their intentions were good or bad; I pulled down 131mb of zipped episodes (1-22, plus trailer) from http://bs.brokensaints.com/av/downloads/ just now, and so in a sense I guess that's a bit of bandwidth hurt.
It seems kind of odd that the second-to-last episode, and not any of the others (like, say, the first) would merit a Slashdotting, but really now is a good time since there's more to see--better late than never.
But if even nine other people do what I did then that's 1.31gigs of data transfer; someone's got to pay for that. With any luck there'll be a benevolent user somewhere among the mix who's willing to contribute. The benefits of willfully Slashdotting are thus mixed at best: greater exposure but probably a low click to pay ratio.
At any rate, the comic is good. Hooray for pseudo-animation.
We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.