Still Alive - Happy 4th

Like psychotic computers and hockey masked killers, I return once again.

In regards to the long absence, I do this as a HOBBY in my free time. And since my free time is limited I have to prioritize. And to be quite honest I haven't felt the urge to do much translating until lately.

Yes I do feel guilty about it.

But such is life. I've been busy. I work fulltime. My brother needed help moving. I have other interests that I wish to indulge. My dad busted up his knee shortly before going to Canada with my Mom and Brother to compete in an International Choir Thing That I Can't Remember The NAme Of out in Toronto, while leaving me behind. :(

Oh and I got a new computer, and found out that several of my old programs and files are not compatible with it... :(
Does anyone know of any good converter progams for .wps files?

Also does anyone know how to enhance the text in old/poor scans like the ones I have for early Meteorix comics? PArt of the reason there hasn't been anything new until now is because of my frustration at deciphering the text of those images.

Anyway thanks to the 4th of July and the translation skills of the awesome (and dare I say lovely?) Shippo, here is a new Cyberisx page with hopefully more to follow.

Also Shippo I never got that second batch of translations you mentioned. we really got to figure out why that keeps happening.
-Also also did you translate the text colums from the two pages before this one? they didnt seem to be included in the file you sent me.

Some New News

Heya Folks I'm still kicking. I actually got some fresh info for you all!

First of all I've updated the links on the Cybersix page. If the link for #5 still isn't working let me know and I guess I'll have to re-upload the whole the thing.

Shippo my friend the email I use for my translation stuff is still Pharmadantrans@yahoo.com.
Every 10 pages is perfectly fine, you can send them when you have the time.
Don't worry about holding me up I've been slowed down considerably by working 9 hour workdays with a half day on Friday. I haven't made nearly as much progress with the current issue of Meteorix as I would have hoped.

Larry- All of the images I have are from various sources online. Unfortunately those sources tend to only have the cover image or an individual panel.
As for the comic scans I have I'm missing at least half of the entire series, as i only have the French Volumes and a few misceleanous scans from Mexico.
I'll gladly accept any scans you have to share. I'm not quite sure where the French and Italian editions sync up exactly so there is a good chance you have something I don't.

That's all for now, with a little luck I'll be able to make some progress today with Meteorix.

New News For A New Year

Hiya folks have some belated New Year News for y'all.

First of is some news on your translator.

I'm doing alright; I'm working fulltime now (I believe I mentioned this before, but meh...), and it's a fairly decent job with 7-4 Monday-Thursday and half days for Friday. My only real complaint is that I need to wake up at 5:30 in the morning and drive 40+ minutes to get there on time. (That and the occassional fear that I'll be working there forever sending shirts on down to be printed/embroidered until I retire.)

Family is doing ok, nothing too unusual there.

The holidays were pretty good. I got a Nook HD that I've been playing around with a bit. (I'll have to add .epub versions of the comics to the downloads later) I got some ninja turtle stuff and Last Stand of the Wreckers in hardcover, along with the regular scattering of shirts and movies.

I had a bit of a cold over New Years and didn't even stay up for it.

Now for some translation news.

As I'm sure you've noticed I've uploaded all of Part 1 for Cybersix volume 2. If I haven't put the link on the downloads page It'll be there soon.

So that I don't get burned out I've decided to do some Meteorix translating. I recently was able to find the last two issues and possibly a non-corrupted version of a page I was missing for number seven.

I do have one minor problem though; the raw scans I have for issues one through twenty are of poor quality, making them rather hard to read and therefore translate. If there is anyone who is willing to maybe take a whack at enhancing the pages in photoshop or something so that I can read the text, I would be very greatful. And remember the faster I get through some Meteorix the quicker I'll get back to Cybersix.

That's about all I have for a you now, so I'll post more later when I have more to type about.

Christmas Is Coming

Allrighty folks Christmas is almost here, and I've got a new post for you.

What I would like to do is finish Part 1 of Cybersix Volume 2 before the 31st of December, before Christmas really.

What's actually going to happen is that I most likely won't finish in time...

I'm currently THINKING, just thinking, about maybe instead of going right into the next half of Volume 2, that I will work on the next issue of Metoerix. I've been feeling the itch to do some more work on it, despite the low quality images of the first several issues.

I've actually had a fair bit of luck regarding Meteorix lately. I've found a scan of the corrupted pages from Issue 7, I've come across a collection of unedited covers for the entire series, and just general good fortune regarding the series.

That being said here after the jump is a new page of Cybersix. I'm a little concerned about some of text balloons making sense in this page and some of the coming ones so if people could help me out and let me know what they think it would be very much appreciated.

Curiosity

I'm kinda curious at the moment, the vast majority of us here on my blog are fans of Cybersix, and I was wondering a few things;

1. How did you first learn about Cybersix?
2. How did you find my blog?
3. Do you have any inteterest in my translations of Meteorix?

Myself I first found Cyber through the shortlived FoxKids run. I particulary remember the last bit of Lori is missing when Cyber is imploring Lucas to forgive her, and the Eye of the Beholder episode, in fact I think that was the last one I saw until I "found" the series again online.

Obviously I started the Blog.

Also obviously I am interested in Meteorix or I wouldn't be doing my slow-ass translations of it.

OKey Dokey Floks its your turn now. Also the more responses I get the faster the next few batches of Cyber may come out.

Ebook Part 2

Hello folks. This week I took a bit of a break from new pages as I've started selling plasma, but I didn't stop working on this completely. I've complied all of volume 1 (minus the bonus stuff) into a MOBI file using Calibre. I also did the same for the 3 Meteorix issues I've released. I don't know how many of you will be interested in this but here are the download links.

Cybersix Volume 1 Ebook

Meteorix 1
Meteorix 2
Meteorix3

Is this something you all think I should continue?

Updates

So got some news for for you all.

I've updated the Intro page for Cybersix volume two. Thanks to both of you who commented with suggestions and corrections. I didn't use every correction though, due to wanting to keep to the page's narratory tone (if that even makes sense to anyone but me...). Though most suggestions did lead to revisions of the affected parts.



I've got another page of Cyber for you all to preview. I hope you enjoy it. Pic after the jump.

A Reminder

Just a reminder for everyone; After MEgaupload went kerflooey I reuploaded everything to another site. All the new download links are on the Cybersix page, use those instead of the old ones in the posts. Someday if I'm not feeling lazy I'll go and udate every old post...

In short working download links are the Cybersix page. If they stop let me know. Don't use the links in the old posts. :P

Ebook conversion

So hey it's looking like the test conversions have finally worked allright. I still need to stick them on the Kindle to test them out but I'm feeling confident about it.

Currently I got the stuff in Zip, cbz, and Mobi files, does that work for everyone?

The files are a fair bit larger than the standard ebook but I suspect thats due to the fact that these are all images. If anyone has any suggestions on how to reduce the file size that would be awesome.

Once I confirm that the test files are good I'll post them here so you all can take a look and tell me where I screwed up with them.

Meteorix #3

Well here we have Meteorix #3 on the 1 year anniversary of my starting the series.

http://www.mediafire.com/?8bk67dg9ouvqqjf

The other Meteorix downloads have been reuploaded and are once again available, as are all other downloads. To find them please use the series pages.

Cybersix Nightmare Fuel

I present to you the most disturbing individual I've seen so far in Cybersix.

On a side note I was skimming hte Cybersix tvtrope pages and noticed that there was no entry for Nightmare Fuel (which this dude works for), or VaporWear (Lori). If someone wants to correct this that would be awesome. I don't have the time to do so right now. It would also be awesome if someone started a page for Meteorix, but... eh.

Whoa, I got something to post

So yeah I got something to post... somehow...

Anyway here's a pair of Meteorix pages.


Poor guy. Janitors aren't paid enough to deal with that...



Will let ya know when I have more.

Little News

Not much to report at the moment, mostly just the background parts of translating being done at the moment.

Meteorix- nothing new though the guy who's been uploading them may no longer do so due to Cease and Desist type of thing. This is really annoying as there are only 2 issues that arent online.

Cybersix- Only a chapter and a half left until volume 1 is done. I may need help with one of the pages for the final chapter. It's a near page sized letter with some of the top corner missing. I think I may need a bit of help filling in the blanks with that.

Other stuff- I may be posting crossbow pictures or some lego stuff I'm fiddling with.

Yeah other than that not much else to say.

New page

Lets mix it up a little

Apologies again

Sorry Folks stuff did come up so I havent been able to make any progress.

I aint going to whine about the shit thats been going down since thats not what your here for.

I'll let you know when I make some more progress.

Oh and Cellthirteen Feel free to host the comic on SmackJeeves if you want. All I ask is that you use the better versions of my initial translation. I would also like it if you hosted Meteorix as well, but it's your call.

Progress

Currently working on some translations. Here's the Meteorix page I literally just finished.

Depending on my mood I may switch over to Cybersix later today.

Holy Crap I actually acomplished something! Meteorix #1 V2

Ok folks due to leaving for Staples earlier than planned (stupid heat) I didn't have the materials i wanted ready, so instead I worked on the better version of Meteorix #1 and actually got some Cybersix scripts partly done!

Here is the link for Meteorix #1 v2. With a little luck I'll have some more stuff for you soon!

EDIT: New link on the Meteorix page.

Translations and Pictures

So heres a little update and some pictures.
First a Cybersix vampire-esque pic I dont think I've shared.

More stuff after the jump

Photoshopping Type Questions

Strike that. Did a little net hopping and found a better version of the image.

I'm currently prepping images for translation and noticed one of my Meteorix images was corrupted a bit, and so discolored on part.


I was wondering if any of you dear readers knew how to fix this sort of thing. I tried fiddling around with it in the program I use (G.I.M.P.) but couldn't make any decent progress.


This is the image, it's not so bad that I can't use it, but it is rather vexing.

See, not too bad...

Thank you to anyone and everyone who wants to help.

Guh, Humid, Tired, and Busy

Great Zombie Cthulhu it is like walking through a gym shower outside. Graduation stuff is done but I'm still busy for the coming week. Boss lady has scheduled me for Tuesday through Saturday due to other workers dealing with Graduations and another going on a trip. So don't expect too much of a change right now. Currently translation plans are a possible page tonight MAYBE, and a potential upgrade to Meteorix #1on Friday since that is not quite as strenous or intensive work. Thus it is more probable to get done than other Cybersix translations or new Meteorix issues.

Also I just have to say Plants Vs Zombies is awesome. I picked up the DS version so I could have something simple to do to kill time inbetween various things since my regular stuff would be too time consuming. It is highly addictive and scary cute. The ending song and music video are just hilariously awesome. Highly reccemended.