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DAMN NATURE,
you scary!

Black And Yellow

You've seen the POSTS,
http://www.silentsanctummanga.blogspot.com/2012/05/post-traumatic-zest.html
http://www.silentsanctummanga.blogspot.com/2012/05/assembling-moanster.html
http://www.silentsanctummanga.blogspot.com/2012/05/french-kissing-france.html
http://www.silentsanctummanga.blogspot.com/2012/05/git-your-freek-on.html
http://www.silentsanctummanga.blogspot.com/2012/01/belated-kaptain-bomba-appreciation.html
and you've read the BOOK,

NOW, this here'a tribute to all of the wonderful JUNGLE LADIES OF COMICS
/MANGA/GAMES. Many of which had paved the way and would have consiously
and subconsiously influenced us in more ways than one to come up
with our very own JUNGLE GIRL character.

The photo salute starts right here.

Ok, you got us! That's just RANMA in a cat-suit.

and of course the realQUEEN of pin-ups, The incomparable and the notorious
MS. BETTIE PAGE

As you might have notice most (or almost all) of them  have names that end with the letter the letter "A" or the very similar "AH" sound. Prompting us to follow the same trend as a form of tribute/ homage to all of our predecessors.

Thank you ladies, you'd all been so gracious & more than accomodating.
So that's about it,
See you again next time on the funny pages of MONA : 
Queen Of The Babes.

SSM!, over and out!

PEAS out!

Assembling The Moanster

Although we were able to pull it off. Getting there is half
the battle.

As aforementioned before this entry would be tackling no less
than the creative process on how to think and act like a SSM! member.
Of course, who wouldn't wanna plumb the innerworkings of a SSM! mind.So...
Let's do this!

So for starters, a good computer could really do a lot.
Unfortunately for us, we were stucked with this oldie but goodie pc.

The monitor is as thick as a wall.And as you can see the keyboard
had been replaced due to a malfunctioning 'ENTER' key.But it's
PENTIUM 4 and Y2K compliant and it runs on WINDOWS XP.
We loved it to bits and it had helped us edit and produce
almost all of the issue you can see right down below....

and...Oh yeah the CPU is a whole another story...

This baby is a victim to some 3 years ago's TYPHOON ONDOY(or more
commonly known as KETSANA).Everything was a wreck.Hopefully,
we were able to back-up on a lot of our MANGA files and the damage
wasn't much of a trouble for us digitally.But in the tangible
sense,we did spend a bit on buying some brand new parts and having
it repaired and stuff. The experience was pretty upleasant.And
this was when we were doing SSM!#5.

So those had been like the HELL ISSUES for us.
But on a happier note, all of the books that were produced from
those period onwards had been best sellers @ live events and store consignments.
Namely SSM# 5.5

and SSM#6

In fact, SSM!# 6 sold out so quickly that the only copy that
we currently own is a worn out browsing copy.(Aah, how we miss you STARMALL days...)

So what else should we talk about....
Oh right, for eveyone who had been wondering where we get all of those
wonderful vintage toys we display at various cons and similar events.Let us
just clarify that we actually own ALL OF THEM.And the reason
why we couldn't tell you what our gimmick for the day would be
is because you're guess would be as good as ours.For the gimmick
of the day would more often than not come from any of these 4
boxes.

COPS, trying to snatch my CROPS!

We usually just pick one(on the last minute) and would more often
than not be the GIMMICK OF THE DAY.It's more fun that way.It
makes our decision much more spontaneous hence making us less
predictable.

Of course, this entry wouldn't be complete if we didn't discuss
the creative process on how we created our very lovely and rather
new character MONA.You've seen the drawings and we bet you already
know who she is.But here's the 411 on her creation.

MONA, is basically your standard JUNGLE GIRL.
She was originally to be called just that.But it seems as though
that DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT had beaten us to the punch and that GENERIC TITLE
could no longer be ours.

DARN IT!

Along the lines of having to name our new(i.e.:nameless)
amazonian character, we chanced upon one of our favoritest CAPCOM
game (outside of STREET FIGHTER 2), namely...

The game featured a whole lot baddies named after  BANDS, WRESTLERS (The Berlin Manalaysay Syndrome) and other stuffs. But none of which more striking than to having to
beat up these guys.

Named after GUNS N' ROSES front man and lead guitarist.
AXL & SLASH(yes those are their names) provided what we here at SSM! would like
to call as "JUNGLEMANIA 2012".

So with a solid game plan on where we should go.
The next couple of days and months were spent drawing and sketching
while listening to a whole lot of 'WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE' originals
covers and just about every variations there is to it.

(For the complete list of all of the songs
we've been listening to please visit:
http://silentsanctummanga.blogspot.com/2012/05/definitive-welcoming-party.html)
It had given us the angst and the tenacity of which the title
needed. And we couldn't been happier with the results.

We started off with a lil over like 2-3 months worth of preparation.
And we eventually made it and just in the nick of time before
the dreaded KOMIKON WEEK.

And we were tasked to change the landscape of indie komiks(yet again!)
with our new A3 sized comic book. The only one within the
community to be printed and made in the said standard size as
popularized by the big 3.

This image was sadly left out in the book.

We don't wanna spoil
too much but if you'd buy the book this saturday.You'd notice that
this image should've been there all along.

SSM! is only human and also capable of err.As evidently by
the following pics of last minute corrections.

If we fucked up,we actually tell you guys about it.We would
feel much better with telling you the truth rather than just
sweeping it under the rug and blaming somebody else for our own
misprints.

But rest assured those corrections doesn't affect the quality of the
works within the pages. These corrections are more likely
minor errors and you probably wouldn't even notice them
not unless you've read this entry.

So that's about it on this edition of this entry.We'll be
seeing you at the event and would probably do a
post event review afterwards. Happy reading and sayonara, bitches!