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AUTUMN SPRING - THE WEB COMIC SERIES

based on characters and situations created for the novel Autumn Spring

copyright © 2020, all rights reserved

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Whew! Only one page over after all! Oh, and those of you who were following this as I posted it might want to go back and re-read it again. I had to go back and fix some dialog on some of the pages due to internal consistency issues.

This is the first time ... I've seen you wearing clothes period - See the very first page of this episode. (big grin)

For those of you just tuning in, the Oriental woman who announces Brandy's performance is Reina Flannigan, wife of bar owner Jack Flannigan and also his assistant chief bartender. She's being played by Reina Yamazaki from Sega's Yakuza series. Reina was in the bar business in that series of stories and was eventually killed in that; however, she was such a memorable character that I brought her back to play Reina Flannigan for Autumn Spring. No offense or infringement meant, Sega, hopefully none implied. (grin) You can find out more about Jack and Reina by revisiting Season One of Autumn Spring.

Remember Jack and Reina's house band from Season One's "The Party?" I brought them back for this episode, and they're probably going to be a semi-regular fixture in Jack's bar during the evenings from now on. The guy standing in the background is their lead singer, (Brandy's singing so he has nothing to do) played by the male spaceman from lezisell's Sci-Fi Heroes Pack. The two guitarists are The Saboteur's Luc Gauldin and Half-Life 2's Barney Calhoun respectively. Bad camera angles prevent you from seeing the keyboardist, played by Carolina Bekker from Wolfenstein: The New Order.

The song Brandy sings to close the episode is "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head," written by noted songwriter Burt Bacharach. It first shot to popularity when it was performed by pop singer B.J. Thomas for the soundtrack to the 1969 feature film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford in the title roles. The film was a big hit when it was first released and has endured in popularity over the long haul. The song appeaers roughly three-quarters of the way through the film, when Butch and Sundance and Etta Place, Sundance's girlfriend (played by Katharine Ross of The Graduate fame) are trying to take it easy for a while, and live something close to a normal life. That doesn't last of course - but the movie won four Academy Awards and "Raindrops" went to #1 on the American Billboard music charts in 1970. Its enduring popularity has translated into it getting reused a lot in subsequent media over the years (and that now includes Autumn Spring too). Here's a YouTube link to the song case you're unfamiliar with it:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sySlY1…

Special thanks to FleetAdmiral01 for his Star Trek Online hair wigs. I found one that was almost perfect for covering the missing top half of the head of Owen Odell, the Half-LIfe 2 beta character who plays Richard "Dick" Dickman. A little vert tweaking here and some custom retexturing and light mapping there, and it worked out rather nicely. Not perfectly, but nicely. It's good enough to go with as far as I'm concerned. XD

Oh, and did you notice that I've now hacked a proper ukulele for Larry from the FONV guitar? It too isn't perfect, but it works. XD

Description

AUTUMN SPRING - THE WEB COMIC SERIES

based on characters and situations created for the novel Autumn Spring

copyright © 2020, all rights reserved

PREV: FIRST: NEXT:

--------------------

COMMENTS

Whew! Only one page over after all! Oh, and those of you who were following this as I posted it might want to go back and re-read it again. I had to go back and fix some dialog on some of the pages due to internal consistency issues.

This is the first time ... I've seen you wearing clothes period - See the very first page of this episode. (big grin)

For those of you just tuning in, the Oriental woman who announces Brandy's performance is Reina Flannigan, wife of bar owner Jack Flannigan and also his assistant chief bartender. She's being played by Reina Yamazaki from Sega's Yakuza series. Reina was in the bar business in that series of stories and was eventually killed in that; however, she was such a memorable character that I brought her back to play Reina Flannigan for Autumn Spring. No offense or infringement meant, Sega, hopefully none implied. (grin) You can find out more about Jack and Reina by revisiting Season One of Autumn Spring.

Remember Jack and Reina's house band from Season One's "The Party?" I brought them back for this episode, and they're probably going to be a semi-regular fixture in Jack's bar during the evenings from now on. The guy standing in the background is their lead singer, (Brandy's singing so he has nothing to do) played by the male spaceman from lezisell's Sci-Fi Heroes Pack. The two guitarists are The Saboteur's Luc Gauldin and Half-Life 2's Barney Calhoun respectively. Bad camera angles prevent you from seeing the keyboardist, played by Carolina Bekker from Wolfenstein: The New Order.

The song Brandy sings to close the episode is "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head," written by noted songwriter Burt Bacharach. It first shot to popularity when it was performed by pop singer B.J. Thomas for the soundtrack to the 1969 feature film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford in the title roles. The film was a big hit when it was first released and has endured in popularity over the long haul. The song appeaers roughly three-quarters of the way through the film, when Butch and Sundance and Etta Place, Sundance's girlfriend (played by Katharine Ross of The Graduate fame) are trying to take it easy for a while, and live something close to a normal life. That doesn't last of course - but the movie won four Academy Awards and "Raindrops" went to #1 on the American Billboard music charts in 1970. Its enduring popularity has translated into it getting reused a lot in subsequent media over the years (and that now includes Autumn Spring too). Here's a YouTube link to the song case you're unfamiliar with it:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sySlY1…

Special thanks to FleetAdmiral01 for his Star Trek Online hair wigs. I found one that was almost perfect for covering the missing top half of the head of Owen Odell, the Half-LIfe 2 beta character who plays Richard "Dick" Dickman. A little vert tweaking here and some custom retexturing and light mapping there, and it worked out rather nicely. Not perfectly, but nicely. It's good enough to go with as far as I'm concerned. XD

Oh, and did you notice that I've now hacked a proper ukulele for Larry from the FONV guitar? It too isn't perfect, but it works. XD