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Hookbill the Goomba · 12-24-2011, 05:09 PM

Grab onto your faces, people, it's time to get all excited and hot under the collar.
If you thought The Hobbit Trailer was good, wait until you see the very cool, very exclusive, very cheap and very rushed...

PHANTOM AND ALIEN ANIMATED SERIES TRAILER!!

It will have all your favourite characters and your least favourite ones, too!
Work on the actual episode is going well and it should be finished some time in the New Year. So... Look forward to it, peoples!!

Galadriel55 · 12-24-2011, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

If you thought The Hobbit Trailer was good...

Someone really thought it was good?

/Nevermind.

This one's better anyways. I can't wait for the actual thing!

Pitchwife · 12-24-2011, 06:34 PM

This made my Christmas evening! The music is smashing, Peter looks great (the drawing style is a little different, but works well with animation I think), and there were lots of lovely moments packed tight in these 1:07 - Alien's name being corrected, Lommy blazing away with her gun, John Fillis morphing (!!!), Father Formy drenched in soap and his apprehensive look toward the end... Great work, keep it going!

Btw the festive special pic is gorgeous too, and bonus points for posting it on the winter solstice.

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Originally Posted by Agan

The festive picture is awesome, except I'm creeped out by the bare toes.

Indeed, I think all that picture misses is a little sign pointing at Morsul's foot and saying NUDITY!!!

Oddwen · 01-04-2012, 10:04 PM

KALIMAC CHRISTMAS, AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT

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Originally Posted by Special Shire Correspondent Burpy Upheaver

Of late, Yule time is not always a happy time in the four farthings of The Shire. Traditional Hobbit traditions dictate that the tiny hobbit children stay up all night with clubs to keep the legendary figure known as Sando Clausefoot from eating their Yule Breakfast. Most hobbit children fall asleep early on, while parents leave nibble marks in all of the puddings to teach their children some sort of lesson in home security. All this has changed with the arrival of a Big Person calling himself "Sharkey Clause". He is said to send his elves out in wagons to cut down trees and collect toys from all the good boys and girls.

We tried to get a statement from one of his elves, but were spat on and told to stop asking questions as it was on the List as "not allowed". This was ridiculous, as we had checked the List beforehand to make sure. Upon a second checking, the rule was indeed there, sloppily written in pencil. We then tried to get a statement from Sharkey Clause himself, but were chased away while the old man screamed out "Yule Pay!" at our fleeing forms.

"I just can't understand it," says local character Gaffer Gamgee. "Maybe his weskit is two sizes too small."

Hookbill the Goomba · 01-08-2012, 05:58 PM

The Downer would like to assure its readers that we have a very good explanation for the past two weeks hiatus. So here are the reasons our staff haven't been putting out new content;
We got freaked out by last year's solar eclipse, and barricaded ourselves in an underground bunker, where to this day we await the end of the world.
Either that, or we're trapped beneath a pile of unsold P&A t-shirts.
But then we discovered that the Downer was just a figment of our imagination - an imagination long since shredded by our chronic twin addictions to strong alcohol and horse painkillers.
We'd written the instructions on how to update the site on a marzipan wafer, which was erroneously swallowed by a clown.
Then the rozzers discovered our illegal whale ovary removing factory, and dragged us off to the cells.

So, without further delay, here is the newest issue of the Downer. With a brand new look to hide the fact that we have no new content.

Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

PHANTOM AND ALIEN
COMIC ARCHIVE THING

The Downer will be back next week. We promise. And also, Hookbill promises that he will no longer imagine that The Downer has any staff.

Blind Guardian · 01-08-2012, 06:11 PM

Oh dear God...the alien is such an idiot...

Galadriel55 · 01-08-2012, 08:00 PM

I have been taken to hospital? Cool.

Bugger Denethor.

Yay for the new looks! And news don't actually have to be new... just old enough not to be remembered anymore!

12-24-2011, 05:09 PM	#1
Hookbill the Goomba Alive without breath Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: On A Cold Wind To Valhalla Posts: 5,912	Grab onto your faces, people, it's time to get all excited and hot under the collar. If you thought The Hobbit Trailer was good, wait until you see the very cool, very exclusive, very cheap and very rushed... PHANTOM AND ALIEN ANIMATED SERIES TRAILER!! It will have all your favourite characters and your least favourite ones, too! Work on the actual episode is going well and it should be finished some time in the New Year. So... Look forward to it, peoples!! __________________ I think that if you want facts, then The Downer Newspaper is probably the place to go. I know! I read it once. THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN: The Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket...

01-08-2012, 05:58 PM	#5
Hookbill the Goomba Alive without breath Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: On A Cold Wind To Valhalla Posts: 5,912	The Downer would like to assure its readers that we have a very good explanation for the past two weeks hiatus. So here are the reasons our staff haven't been putting out new content; We got freaked out by last year's solar eclipse, and barricaded ourselves in an underground bunker, where to this day we await the end of the world. Either that, or we're trapped beneath a pile of unsold P&A t-shirts. But then we discovered that the Downer was just a figment of our imagination - an imagination long since shredded by our chronic twin addictions to strong alcohol and horse painkillers. We'd written the instructions on how to update the site on a marzipan wafer, which was erroneously swallowed by a clown. Then the rozzers discovered our illegal whale ovary removing factory, and dragged us off to the cells. So, without further delay, here is the newest issue of the Downer. With a brand new look to hide the fact that we have no new content. Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian. Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the... PHANTOM AND ALIEN COMIC ARCHIVE THING The Downer will be back next week. We promise. And also, Hookbill promises that he will no longer imagine that The Downer has any staff. __________________ I think that if you want facts, then The Downer Newspaper is probably the place to go. I know! I read it once. THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN: The Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket... Last edited by Hookbill the Goomba; 01-08-2012 at 06:22 PM.

01-08-2012, 08:00 PM	#7
Galadriel55 Blossom of Dwimordene Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: The realm of forgotten words Posts: 10,486	I have been taken to hospital? Cool. Bugger Denethor. Yay for the new looks! And news don't actually have to be new... just old enough not to be remembered anymore! __________________ You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera