Posts Tagged ‘Dr. Synn’

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Let the Games Begin!!!

by Scott Story on January 12, 2009 at 12:01 am

Howdy, folks!

Scott and I are continuing to have very detailed business meetings all aimed at what we want out of the website for 2009 – The Year of Johnny Saturn (Da-Dummm!)

Beginning this past Monday, there is a contest for all of you die-hard, rabid fans of Johnny-Saturn: Synns of the Father. The contest is “Who Said That?” and has 20 quotes from throughout the first story-arc. So, put on your thinking-caps, go through the archives or pull out your issues 1-5 or your copy of the graphic novel and see if you can tell us who said the quotes.

Email your answers to storyartstudios@yahoo.com and the first 10 people to send us the correct answers will win a calendar (Johnny Saturn or Scott’s Fantasy Art calendar), a copy of the Scott Story 2005 Sampler (which contains lots of full-color art, an interview of Scott and full color concept art for Johnny Saturn and Dr Synn), and a copy of the 2006 Scott Story sketchbook (which is jam-packed with tons of Scott’s art from over the years). This contest is not limited to those within the continental United States, but is for all our fans, no matter where in the world you live. We will even mail a package to Timbuktu!

The questions can be found on the Contest page, or right here in this blog post.

Let the games begin!!!

Who Said That?

1. Bless me gnarly bones!

2. Can you imagine a machine with instincts?

3. Come on, boys! You’ve been invited to dinner!

4. Distractions! Why are there always distractions?

5. He never disgraced the badge, and he died a hero!

6. I shoulda’ just let you arrest me. It beats owing you a favor.

7. I’d like to think that, at the last moment, Johnny laughed in the face of death… or at least, smiled.

8. I’ll give you another example if you say ‘pretty-please.’

9. I’ve got our bloodhound on the scent!

10. It is time to move the world.

11. Not on my watch, mortal!

12. Nothing like a mini-twister to take the starch out of your shorts!

13. Okay…Now that I have taken your measure…it’s my turn!

14. Tell all your friends that you kicked my ass.

15. This day just keeps getting better and better!

16. We’ve had a special cell created just for you… in the eighth ring of Hell!

17. Wow, cool costume!

18. You c-can’t be Johnny S-saturn! He d-died!

19. You’re a mess and you smell bad!

20. Young people never listen.

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Interesting Johnny Saturn Review

by Scott Story on February 23, 2009 at 8:02 pm

This is from the blog Topics For All, posted on February 10, 2009.  Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the author’s name, even if I like what he says:

Johnny Saturn

Designed by Benita and Scott Story, Johnny Saturn gave a new definition to the concept of web comic. There is a main super-hero tale at the core with a mystery man that’s been through lots of challenges in a life where there is an eternal battle between the forces of good and evil.

Hence, the typology of the characters animating the world of Johnny Saturn is close to any Romantic plot with legends, angels, demons and lots of fights between them. But there are also mad scientists and demigods as well as all sorts of conceptual beings, making up the puzzle world that is the very charm of the Johnny Saturn comic.

Basically, Johnny Saturn represents both a web comic and a superhero and fantasy book; yet, many fans consider it as the figurative representation of the way our life goes in or away from the acts of justice. On top of these all, good seems to spring from questionable deeds too, not only out of purity.

Johnny Saturn is who faces the evil Dr. Synn and his schemes. We will not consider Johnny Saturn a real hero, since he lacks the powers and the personal history that would make him one: he is the average man caught up inuncommon circumstances who has to do what he has to do. As the story in the comic {moves on|evolves, Johnny Saturn gets to other inspirational life knots: he shows the sacrifice of a savior and the determination of a leader.

The creators of the Johnny Saturn comic got something more than fame and success with their ongoing story of the character. The Storys manage to be witty and interesting in creating moods, profound messages and lots of complexity without assaulting the reader with visual tricks.

Mondays and Wednesdays are the regular days when new episodes from Johnny Saturn are uploaded; four years have passed since the release of the strip, and it still enjoys an ongoing success as thousands and thousands of fans get on the Storys’ official site every day.

Johnny Saturn is imbued with the concepts, issues and taboos of our world: yes there is drug addiction, depression, suicide, anger, grief and lots of others, but they are all approached in a very straight-forward manner without dramatizing. Even political themes become manifest in the story of Johnny Saturn, but the advantage here is that a comic leaves freedom enough for allegories without hinting directly at people and events from real life.

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A Conversation With Benita Story

by Scott Story on April 27, 2009 at 7:02 am

A Conversation with Benita Story, Co-Writer on Johnny Saturn, by Scott Story

Most of you know it by now, but Benita Story is an integral part of the team that creates Johnny Saturn. She is also my wife. What follows is a casual conversation about what she does, and her views on it.

Scott: Benita, how did your role as a co-writer on “Johnny Saturn” come about?

Benita: I’m not really sure, actually. I think we just started tossing ideas around about a story we’d like to tell, and one thing lead to another. I remember a lot of “What if…” and “What about…” and “That’s a great idea, but what if we did…” It’s like the story of twin boys – what one doesn’t think of, the other will. That’s us!

Scott: Well before you assumed the co-writer’s mantle, you were making up characters for the series. Would you tell us about that?

Benita: Ahhh… Dr. Synn. Well, you had this temporary name for the villain of the Johnny Saturn story, Dr. Synn. I liked it and it immediately conjured up the character pretty much as he ended up being. First, though, I knew what he looked like. I remembered a line from the movie “Addam’s Family Values.” They were at a school function (Halloween?) where the kids were supposed to be in costume. The teacher looked at Wednesday, who was not in costume, and asked, “And what are you supposed to be?” Wednesday deadpanned, “I’m a homocidal maniac.  We look like everyone else.” That’s why Dr. Synn is dressed like a businessman in a white linen suite, fedora and walking stick. I wanted him to be able to walk down the street in any city and no one pay much attention to him. I wanted him to be proper and polite, even to the point of leaving a tip in a café that he blows up theminute he’s out of it.

And then, there are Tara and Mollie. You had drawn a picture of a blond girl with cupie-hair in your sketchbook. She just spoke to me and said, I am Tara, the grand-daughter of Karl Wissenschaft. But, the further I delved into her character, the more conflict I felt in her for all her perfect exterior. It was then I realized she was a robot based on the successful experiments Dr. Wissenschaft had done on a homeless girl.  Also, I realized he had done more than based her physical aspects on this girl, but had gone so far as to download the memories and personality of this girl into Tara. But who was this homeless girl? Mollie. She came to me whole and complete as she is. A mutilated survivor of Dr. Wissenschaft’s life’s work. The Yin to Tara’s Yang. And that’s all I can say, because I don’t want to give away some important plot elements.

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Inside The Book No. 40

by Scott Story on May 21, 2009 at 12:02 am

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My first drawing of Eris, aka Lady Chaos.  It is of note that her energy, rising from her head, always extends off the panel, indicating that she is hooked into the universe itself.  This is so, because she is the embodiment of chaos as an elemental, universal force.  Up till now, Eris has been seen in the company of Dr. Synn, but she will soon become a major player in the Spire City universe.

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Fan Art From Antoine Gagnon!

by Scott Story on August 13, 2009 at 6:15 am

Here is a Antoine Gagnon’s rendition of Dr. Synn!  Antoine is a good friend and fellow Webcomic Planet Collective member, and his comic is The Drunken Fools.

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Click on picture for full-sized version.

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Inside The Book No 54

by Scott Story on November 10, 2009 at 12:00 am

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Ah, my first concept sketch of Dr. Wissenschaft.  The idea of this old villain came to me complete, as sometimes happens.  Where a character like Titanium Tom called for almost endless design sketches, I guess the idea of an ancient Nazi villain is so engrained in our collective unconsciousness as to be a no-brainer.  I remember seeing the “The Boys from Brazil” in my teen years, and I believe that movie had a big effect on characters like Dr. Wissenschaft and Dr. Synn.  The idea of this frail, ancient villain being more dangerous than all the super-powered muscle heads in Spire City appealed to me.  There is no super power that trumps genius, even a dark genius like that of Dr. Wissenschaft.

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Inside The Book No 57

by Scott Story on November 20, 2009 at 12:00 am

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Ah, Freak Daddy—May he rest in peace.  Freak Daddy died in an all-out assault on Dr. Synn during the War in Heaven, and Freak Daddy died there, impaled on a humongous talon, then dropped several thousand feet to the earth below.  His body, what could be found of it, could only be identified by a process of elimination.  Coming up with a disco themed character is easy, because most of the work is already done for you!  I remember seeing “Saturday Night Fever” at the theater in its first run, and that was my sole exposure to that world of vice and dancing.

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