| Anyone remember E-Sheep? |
[Apr. 23rd, 2009|02:13 am] |
It went away a couple of years ago. I lost my archives... I liked my archives.
The sacriligious, if very literal, Apocamon--episodes 1 and 2:
http://web.archive.org/web/20031120114609/http://www.saturn5.com/~esheep/apocamon/APOCAMON_1.swf
http://web.archive.org/web/20050514134852/e-sheep.com/apocamon/APOCAMON_2.swf
(Episode 3 may be lost to time; it was behind a Bitpass thing for $0.25. Bitpass kicked the bucket. Shame, it was good stuff.)
The website used to be at e-sheep.com, and is supposed to be at electricsheepcomics.com as of this year, but that never came up online.
Nevermind. There is a LIVE mirror of E-Sheep floating around.
http://e-sheep.sansara.net.ua/www.e-sheep.com/main.shtml.htm
The main page is up here but is a little broken, you need to click the "main table of contents" text link (not flash link) to make that work. OH MY GOD FULLY FUNCTIONAL E-SHEEP I HAVE MISSED YOU.
Look guys, it's like this. EVERY story on that site is required reading. A very few of them are very offensive (Apocamon), several are slightly explicit, but they are all TREMENDOUSLY good. "The Jain's Death" is required reading. "Overheard at the Rave" was a feelgood classic. "The Guy I Almost Was" made me rethink my career path. "Spiders" should not under any circumstances be missed. Don't read "Saturnalia" from work, specifically, and be careful with most of the others. Or, you know, don't.
(Oh yeah, and there's another one by the same guy here: Don't Look Back)
E-Sheep had the first really genre-transcending WEBcomics. It is still unique on the internet today. Patrick Farley defined a big chunk of what webcomics could do. |
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I'd forgotten about it for quite a while. I still have a local copy I made of Apocamon 3 just in case... I effectively spent three dollars for it because I never found anything else to buy with Bitpass. @_@
Scott McCloud had a $0.25 second chapter of a story on his site, that "The Right Number" thing or something like that. I blame Scott McCloud for killing BitPass.
Why? Because he was all "Micropayments are totally awesome and are the future", and then he releases just one to-be-continued chapter...and doesn't do anything with it. Hey, I would have paid more. You have to put THREE DOLLARS in there, he could have charged $0.50 or $0.75 or even $1.00, I could have gotten Apocamon 3 and two chapters of Scott McCloud's thing. But no, he abandoned it, and everyone else kind of went "meh".
OH MY GOD! I love you!!!!! I have been mourning the loss of this site for years and angry and the internet archives link depth limitation (it has only part of the some of the stories).
I just spent the last half hour archiving the site so I won't lose it again.
Yay! Thanks! I was going to put a request for that in my post, but figured someone would do it on their own.
I'm just upset that I don't have the ORIGINAL Spiders chapter 1 anymore. Patrick Farley changed it a couple times a week or two after release to make the 'bad' Taliban officer seem less fundamentalist and come off less harsh against Islam. Which I guess is admirable, except he seems a lot less authentic now, and I never had a problem with the whole "religion good, psycho taliban bad" thing.
There were also some bizarre other pages hosted on e-sheep, tech demos and weird other one-page sites, cool things like that that I lost. Ah well...
By the way, you can thank Glenn Beck for my going looking for this. He pulled a Rush Limbaugh Eats Everything on Earth Day, surprisingly accurately.(He was on the air with a logging company, clearing some trees for a land owner who wanted better deer hunting. They cut down some trees in his name for Earth Day. Which might be a little offensive if they were really clearcutting like he said, instead of doing the normal and sustainable thing and leaving a vast quantity of good, healthy trees in a not exactly old growth forest...) | |
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