Lorc Blorg

The Shattered Lance expansion for Turnip28 is finally in balance testing, and that has motivated me to draw (and post) some Turnip28 stuff again.

If you don't know, Turnip28 is a completely free tabletop war game. It takes place in a strange alternative future, where technology has stagnated around the Napoleonic age, and a weird root has infested the world, turning most people and things in some kind of turnip based mutants. The setting does not take itself serious AT ALL and I have seen it described as the Monty Python of war games. You can get the rules here. Official minis exist, but kit bashing is allowed and encouraged.

I always wanted to design tabletop armies, but I don't have the time, money, space, skill or patience to get into miniature crafting and painting. So I made my army from paper standees.

...well... I have read trimax way too many times to count over the past 18 years or so...the same applies to the 98 anime (and sort of the badlands rumble movie which is slightly younger).. Trigun is one of my most beloved pieces of fiction that I keep on coming back to and that shaped me as a person..

I have also watched Stampede and am keeping updated on Stargaze, n my emotions on them are mostly mixed.. -> apathy, boredom, boiling rage n hate, and being entertained by the comedy of errors.

Its so completely different from the source material, it could be a whole new show with whole new cast of characters, if it wasnt for some of the manga inspired story beats that its checking off at breakneck speed, and without, in my opinion, any deeper thoughts.

+ I really dislike the new broken cyberpunkish aesthetics... And miss the scifi wild west thing with the postapo mad max bdsm fashion peppered in to spice it all up...

Its also like... if you were comparing a Spaghetti western by Sergio Leone, mixed with some profound scifi the likes of 2001 Space Odyssey or Solaris, and some comedic absurd action of El Mariachi and Desperado by Rodriguez....

VS

Admittedly I'm a little salty that we're missing out on manga Livio, Razlo and Elendira. But just being different isn't a flaw. Introducing Knives and making him an active participant much earlier in the story was an interesting move and I was on board for that.

But there's barely any time spent just enjoying our main characters. I'd gladly have skipped a few of the gung-ho guns for more character beats. It's hard to feel much for this Vash when we never really get to know him.

...well... I have read trimax way too many times to count over the past 18 years or so...the same applies to the 98 anime (and sort of the badlands rumble movie which is slightly younger).. Trigun is one of my most beloved pieces of fiction that I keep on coming back to and that shaped me as a person..

I have also watched Stampede and am keeping updated on Stargaze, n my emotions on them are mostly mixed.. -> apathy, boredom, boiling rage n hate, and being entertained by the comedy of errors.

Its so completely different from the source material, it could be a whole new show with whole new cast of characters, if it wasnt for some of the manga inspired story beats that its checking off at breakneck speed, and without, in my opinion, any deeper thoughts.

+ I really dislike the new broken cyberpunkish aesthetics... And miss the scifi wild west thing with the postapo mad max bdsm fashion peppered in to spice it all up...

Its also like... if you were comparing a Spaghetti western by Sergio Leone, mixed with some profound scifi the likes of 2001 Space Odyssey or Solaris, and some comedic absurd action of El Mariachi and Desperado by Rodriguez....

VS

Admittedly I'm a little salty that we're missing out on manga Livio, Razlo and Elendira. But just being different isn't a flaw. Introducing Knives and making him an active participant much earlier in the story was an interesting move and I was on board for that.

But there's barely any time spent just enjoying our main characters. I'd gladly have skipped a few of the gung-ho guns for more character beats. It's hard to feel much for this Vash when we never really get to know him.

Seemed like a wizard-mech was a good candidate for some iteration on the arm-cloak idea from one of my mechatober mechs.

“wheeeewww what if i just tossed it in the air just a little bit hoo hoo hahahahajssa”