Who is Rocket Llama? "The world's oldest webcomic - since 1916." Tongue-in-cheek tales of a high-flying llama, a sword-swinging cat, and a rocket as loyal as a cowboy hero's horse. With time traveling cavedogs, a persnickety penguin, and surprise parodies of Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, and more. Creators have presented their work at Internation Comic-Con Comicon International in San Diego, California, with Danny Fingeroth (The Amazing Spider-Man, Dazzler, Superman on the Couch, Disguised as Clark Kent), and WonderCon Wonder-Con in San Francisco, California, as part of the Comics Arts Conference a.k.a. Comic Arts Conference; and Wizard World Texas, the Wizard World University Texas academic meetings in Arlington, Texas, near Six Flags Over Texas, with Phil Hester (Green Arrow and Clerks with Kevin Smith), Jason Henderson (The Sword of Dracula, Dracula Wars #1), Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night with Steve Niles, Fell), Jacen Burrows (Crossed with Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis), Ethan Van Sciver (Green Lanter).
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Pretty slow week for the entertainment industry… not much in the way of movie, tv, or video game news. So, I guess we’ll turn back to our old faithful of ‘net news, Wrath of the Lich King. Time for you to-

Meet the Warlock!

Time to hit the different talent trees, and show how these trees have blossomed!

AFFLICTION

Pandemic- Every time you deal damage with corruption or unstable affliction, you have a chance equal to your spell crit chance to deal double damage.
What’s this mean? Critical hits on your damage over time spells, that’s what. Mass insanity, that’s also what that means. Cats and dogs living together, that kind of craziness.

Everlasting Affliction- Your main DoT spells gain an extra chunk from your spell damage, and every time you cast drain life or the new end affliction talent, Haunt, your corruption resets.
What’s this mean? Extra damage from your DoTs, less time spent refreshing corruption. Not having to spend so much time on keeping your DoTs up gives you more time to do other stuff. Like increase your tradeskills or something. I mean, you are a warlock. Why do the work when you have DoTs and pets to do the work for you?

Haunt- Haunt is a brand new spell, dealing a nice chunk of damage over time, increasing the damaging effects of all other DoTs on the target by 20% for the duration, and healing you for the damage caused directly by the haunt spell.
What’s this mean? Haunt not only gives you a nasty edge in terms of boosting your DoT spells, but it also heals you up a nice little chunk, adding to the warlock’s much feared repertoire of spells that hurt them and heal you.

DEMONOLOGY

Fel Synergy- Your pets get an extra 10% bonus from your armor, stamina and intellect, and they are healed for 15% of the damage you do.
What’s this mean? Well, any talent that gives your pets such a nice stat boost is nice, but the healing to them is the real appeal for this talent. The healing from your damage means that you don’t have to spend as much time either healing your pets or waiting for them to recover their HP.

Demonic Empathy- When you or your pet gets a critical hit with a spell or ability, the other gains 3% damage output for 15 seconds.
What’s this mean? This talent seals you and your pet as a team, with the two of you providing a synergestic bonus to one another. With this, you and your pet will be constantly granting small, but noticeable, power boosts to each other.


Metamorphosis- You turn into a demon, gaining a bunch of new abilities and boosted stats.
What’s this mean? This talent is one of those talents that will make people that don’t play warlocks cry. As a demon, you look so cool that if you weren’t spewing dark, hellfire energy from your billowing, sinewy form you’d probably be freezing the place solid. You’re cooler than being cool, you’re ice cold.
All right, all right, all right, but what else does this demon form have outside of its looks?
You get a snazzy demon leap form, which in the beta made you leap like an absolute freak into the nearest wall/floor/ceiling adjacent to your target. You also get a couple of other tasty spells, but they didn’t have anything all that special to them.

DESTRUCTION

Soul Leech/ Improved Soul Leech- Most of your destruction spells have a chance to heal you for a chunk of their damage.
What’s this mean? Again, the warlock kills and heals. Since a destruction warlock can’t rely as frequently on his or her pet to hold aggro, and won’t be using life drain as much as an affliction warlock, spells that help keep the warlock healthy are always a welcome sight. Now, Soul Leech is an existing talent, but improved soul leech is the new twist to this lil shindig. Improved soul leech grants you a chunk of mana back whenever soul leech restores some health. So, keep on zapping forever, dear warlock! Your health and mana will hold strong whilst thy foes crumble like paper mache.


Chaos Bolt- Blasts the target with a hellish bolt of energy, piercing all resistances and absorption effects.
What’s this mean? Chaos Bolt can’t be stopped by anything other than a paladin bubble (and that bubble has yet to be put to the test). Say bye-bye to rogues thinking that their cloak of shadows will keep them out of reach of your spell's deathly fingers, and any death knight that thinks their talents will protect them from this better think again.

 


-Alex L.

 

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The Ongoing Adventures of Rocket Llama[1] is a webcomic starring "a high-flying llama, a sword-swinging cat, and a rocket as loyal as a cowboy hero's horse."[2] Created by Alex Langley while he was a student at Henderson State University, the comic first appeared in a comic book titled The Workday Comic. For the Workday comics anthology, a spin-off of Scott McCloud's 24-Hour Comics, comics creators each wrote and drew their own eight-page stories in eight hours in April, 2007, on Friday the 13th[3], which turned into an ongoing publication.[4]  Co-presenting with comics author and scholar Danny Fingeroth (Dazzler, Spider-Man, Superman on the Couch), the creators described the webcomic's evolution as members of a Comics Arts Conference panel at 2008's Comic-Con International in San Diego, California.[5][6][7]  Contents [hide] 1 Debut  2 Webcomic  3 References  4 External links      [edit] Debut The full title of Rocket Llama's debut story in The Workday Comic #1 (spring, 2007) was "The Ongoing Adventures of Rocket Llama #112: 'Trouble in Paradise'".[8] The story introduced the taciturn hero Rocket Llama and his talkative sidekick, an anthropomorphic cat named Bartholomew Meowsenhausen, who find themselves stranded on an island after a battle with an enemy called Jetpack Dog. Spherical islanders capture them and then challenge them to combat. A villain named Böwser vön Überdog arrives with Jetpack Dog and, in a sudden Star Wars parody, summons a giant robot known as the Super Robot Dog Walker which blasts a volcano to bits. Before it can fire a second blast, Rocket Llama destroys it by getting it to swallow a pot of water and backfire. The story ends with Böwser tied up and the heroes using the giant robot dog head as a boat to get themselves home, with the promise of the next story to be titled, "Yuck! Yukon!"[9][10]  Whether despite the original story's childlike art or because of it, the Rocket Llama story proved to be the most popular in the 2007 anthology collection of the eight-hour comics.[11] After comic artist Stephen R. Bissette, an instructor at the Center for Cartoon Studies and comic book artist best known for his work on Swamp Thing with Alan Moore, read all of the stories in the first volume of The Workday Comic, he remarked, "That llama's gonna stick with me."[12]   [edit] Webcomic Nick Langley redrew the story with a less childlike drawing style in webcomic form for online publication[13] as the flagship title for the website rocketllama.com which grew into an affiliation of websites featuring webcomics, art, entertainment reviews, and scholarly studies of comics.[14] The online story featured a new cover[15] and omitted a one-page gag, a preview for an unrelated Stealth Potato comic, which had appeared as an intermission in the middle of the original story.[16] The original story also appeared online as the comic's "ashcan copy."[17]  The authors present the Rocket Llama stories metafictionally as the world's oldest comic book, established in 1916, which they allegedly rediscovered and are adapting into webcomics. "Deep underground, in an archaic vault we searched until we found the fabled tales. As both the current production team behind The Ongoing Adventures of Rocket Llama and appreciators of such groundbreaking literature, we have taken it upon ourselves to restore these classic issues to a glory more befitting a modern, digital age."[18]  Although every "issue" is presented with panels and screens in the correct order for each story, the issues are presented out of order as if readers were discovering old issues of a classic comic book in a seemingly haphazard order, however they come to find them. After the redrawn number 112's online publication came the serialized time travel story #136-137, "Time Flies When You're on the Run," appearing one page at a time throughout each week.[19][20] Special Rocket Llama Says bonus features appear only in "ashcan" form drawn by the original creator.[21]   [edit] References ^ Rocket Llama World Headquarters  ^ You are here.  ^ Waddles, Joshua. (2007, April 2). Comic book club puts in a full day's work. The Oracle vol. 99 (25), p. 3.  ^ Beard, Sarah. (2008, August 25). Comic Arts Club offers excitment. The Oracle, vol. 101 (1), p. 5.  ^ T. Langley & R. Duncan, panel moderators, with respondent Danny Fingeroth. (2008, July). "Capes and Tights, Caps and Gowns." Panel presented at the Comics Arts Conference, Comic-Con International. San Diego, California.  ^ Recent and Upcoming Research Presentations  ^ Pannell, E. (2008, July 27). Comic communication part of professors' classes. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, T-1, T-4.  ^ Page 1.  ^ The Workday Comic #1. Spring, 2007.[1]  ^ The Workday Comic - online edition.  ^ Sorrell, M. (2008, April 14).Club produces second annual workday comic. The Oracle, vol. 100.  ^ Quoted in "The Workday Comic: Not Just One Third of a 24-Hour Comic." Comics Arts Conference, Comic-Con International. San Diego, California. July 27, 2008.  ^ The Ongoing Adventures of Rocket Llama #112: "Trouble in Paradise." Script: Alex Langley. Art: Nick Langley.  ^ You are here.  ^ #137-Cover.  ^ Sneak Peak at Stealth Potato #75.  ^ Rocket Llama Ashcan Copy.  ^ Who Is Rocket Llama?  ^ "Time Flies When You're on the Run, Part 1." Script: Alex Langley. Art: Nick Langley.  ^ "Time Flies When You're on the Run, Part 2." Script: Alex Langley. Art: Nick Langley.  ^ e.g., "Tanks a Lot." Rocket Llama Says #8. Script and art: Alex Langley.