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Deutschmaschine

by Fetternity

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  • Deutschmaschine

    • Fetternity

    • RATED: M

    • 367 ratings

    Sci-Fi / Hard Science

    Corporations, cybernetics and espionage. Hydrogen cars, politics and secret experiments. By 2140, th

    Fetternity

  • Deutschmaschine (pitch)

    • Fetternity

    • RATED: PG

    • 279 ratings

    When corporations set the world alight, she is there to stop them. (UT1)

    Fetternity

  • Christian Major, writer/artist

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    • RATED: E

    • 117 ratings

    I never thought I would be able to write until I did it! Now, to make it look good...

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  • The World of Deutschmaschine

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    • RATED: E

    • 684 ratings

    Serials

    Inspirational images for Deutschmaschine. Best viewed in full screen mode to read the writer's notes

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Just because we're waiting for the committee's decision can,t mean I can't continue these, huh? :)

So I'm posting Season 3 even though I feel I still have a plot hole or two.... Nevertheless, this isn't set in stone. Yet :)

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Just because we're waiting for the committee's decision can,t mean I can't continue these, huh? :)

So I'm posting Season 3 even though I feel I still have a plot hole or two.... Nevertheless, this isn't set in stone. Yet :)

Codename: Deutschmaschine
TV series
Season 3

Season 3's working title would be 'War in Heaven', in which a schism in the United World Economic Council threatens the very fabric of society. For the first time in the series, Connell is seen as vulnerable since he is forced into the spotlight.

Main premise #1

The Mik-Centennial Group fights for its right to remain a member of the Council despite vast amounts of evidence against it. Zahra Haarland wants this badly since losing the seat would render her prey to all other lesser corporations. She also needs the connection to the Council to advance her secret cause.

Main premise #2

At the same time, Deutschmaschine must combat a shadowy outfit that uses hackers and programmers as living repositories and conduits for special endeavors, threatening world security. Their brains and an induced vegetative state increase their neural responses, allowing them to commonly become the world's most lethal hacking supercomputer.

Season Premiere: The Quick and the Dread
Deutschmaschine (as Mariana Steinberg), Karalee Haarland and her mother Zahra attend a preliminary hearing. After a brief argument, Itsuki Saito, head of the committee, admits the case in special court. Connell, threatened by Winters, strikes a shady deal involving the protection of Toson Zaibatsu interests. Wiretrip, in special care due to his comatose state, is kidnapped by assailants unknown. Codename Copper, separated from Colonel Winters, begins suffering from chemical dependencies related to his cybernetic augmentation, and ponders revealing Deutschmaschine's identity to the highest bidder. Lorie is notified of Wiretrip's kidnapping; she embarks on a mission to track down Mail Veillans and enlist his help.

Story Arc 1: Bluefire
Evidence is steadily being piled up against Mik-Centennial. Connell is revealed to be working with the Toson Zaibatsu in providing and archiving evidence for the trial. Copper goes to the one man he's told has need of everything but never reveals his hand: casino mogul Edgar Lemaitre, who, uninterested by the secrets Copper keeps, will offer him employment instead.

Sub-Plot: Intelligence 3.0
Deutschmaschine, infiltrating the technological high-rise of Tokyo, tracks down and finally corners Connell. He reveals that he works for the CIA, and that his government has no obligations towards Mik-Centennial, whose headquarters are established in a foreign country. He hints at another, more dangerous plot, but is unable to reveal more.

Sub-Plot: Love by any other name
Against all hope, Lorie will find Mail Veillans with Karalee?s help. She informs him of Wiretrip's kidnapping and asks for his help. He will initially decline until she bribes him into complying with considerable and surprising assets.

Sub-Plot: Snake Handling
Eager for more allies, Alex Galliano strikes a deal with Teresa Clarke, springing her from prison legally in exchange for her cooperation in bringing down Mik-Centennial. They will slowly amass data and attempt to submit it to the inquiry against Mik-Centennial through its head security officer, Connell.

Story Arc 2: The Sins of the Father
Karalee is in attendance on behalf of Mik-Centennial dexterously rebuking all sorts of allegations, i.e. prostitution, drug trade, lobbying, discrimination against men and slavery, when a revelation is made by Connell: her deceased father Nikolai Haarland's connection to an illegal German military project called Panzertraum. When the three representatives finally discuss the issue in private, Zahra chooses to fire Deutschmaschine for everyone's protection.

Sub-Plot: Karma
Mail Veillans tracks Wiretrip's implant serial to Edgar Lemaitre's secret compound and urges Lorie to spring him out of there fast. In doing so, he sends her out of harm's way: he secretly summons Lemaitre's security his way. Unfortunately, Codename Copper is dispatched and despite a worthy fight, Mail Veillans is assassinated in cold blood.

Sub-Plot: League of Character Assassins
Alex Galliano, ever the shrewd businessman, manages to track down Colonel Winters. Mentioning Winters' failure to deliver Deutschmaschine, he strong-arms him into joining his special delegation meant to take down Mik-Centennial once and for all by allying with the Toson Zaibatsu. Winters, seeing the potential to renew his corporate funding, reluctantly accepts.

Story Arc 3: Higher Ground
Lorie fails to deliver her lover: Wiretrip is found in one of the most unattainable reaches of Earth: Mik-Centennial's Sky Space Resort, the world's only entertainment satellite, guarded by Copper in a permanent luxury suite owned by Edgar Lemaitre. He and several kidnapped hackers are bound to the first human-powered computer ever, intend on hijacking satellite signals to hack into every database imaginable.

Sub-Plot: Lift-off
Deutschmaschine catches up to Lorie in time to learn about Wiretrip's location and condition. Hijacking a shuttle Lorie has always studied and dreamt to fly, they lift off, intent on reached the Sky Space Resort and exposing Edgar Lemaitre's threachery.

Sub-Plot: The Rise and Fall of a Foul Alliance
Karalee and Zahra Haarland, along with their lawyers, are left to fend off the accusations brought by Connell and Itsuki Saito when Alex Galliano, Colonel Winters and Teresa Clarke are brought in to testify against Mik-Centennial. With these odds stacked against them, it seems the battle is lost.

Sub-Plot: MetaConductivity
As Wiretrip is freed from cyberslavery, he uplinks with Connell by hijacking powerful satellite signals. The strength and danger of the high-resolution connection threatens to destroy Connell's cerebrum, and he agrees to relay the evidence Wiretrip amassed while connected to the Rampage program against his best wishes, upsetting Galliano's and unwillingly betraying the pact with Winters.

Sub-Plot: First Law of Business
When made aware of the loss of the Rampage Unit, Edgar Lemaitre, safe in his beach manor, deactivates the Sky Space Resort's thruster systems as well as detonating a bomb on board. Almost instantly, the station begins spiraling back towards Earth, to destroy all evidence left on board - as well as its unfortunate occupants.

Season Finale: Wotan Falls

Wiretrip's timely intervention reveals Alex Galliano's alliance with the Toson Zaibatsu, invalidating the trial process with proof of cartel involvement. As the Sky Space Resort fails, Deutschmaschine, Lorie and the exhausted Wiretrip assist the emergency evacuation efforts before leaving themselves. A pitched battle with Copper stalls everyone until they strike a truce in order to make it out alive. Following Connell's betrayal, the exiled President of the Unites States is assassinated by a cybernetic warrior on live television. The shuttle Deutschmaschine, Lorie, Wiretrip and Copper are in just barely manages to disengage and attempt the return home when the space resort suffers a dramatic collapse, plunging after them in a mass of fiery debris. TO BE CONTINUED...

 

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An article about webcomics by Al Kratina, featuring amongst other things, Zeros 2 Heroes and Deutschmaschine.

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An article about webcomics by Al Kratina, featuring amongst other things, Zeros 2 Heroes and Deutschmaschine.






(yes Jessica, a copy is on its way to you guys :D )

Despite a shitty week, this is pretty uplifting.

In English this time:

"Webcomics

The Internet liberates comic book artists both in a creative sense and in allowing their work to find a wide audience

AL KRATINA, Special to the Gazette

Published: 7 hours ago

For better or worse, the Internet is changing entertainment. Once ruled by radio hits and CD singles, the

music industry is now geared mainly towards pre-teens desperate for Timbaland ringtones. Rather than supermarket tabloids, showbiz gossip breaks on websites that can't figure out how to use apostrophes. And as the film and television industries cry foul over lost business, consumers are flocking to the web for illegal downloads, streamed SNL skits and the faint hope of a Lindsay Lohan sex tape.

Sequential art, which is what you call a comic book when trying to impress the bartender at a vernissage, has been no less affected. Webcomics have existed since the early days of the Internet, ranging from wildly experimental artistic projects to standard comic strip layouts. But recently, major companies and publishers have begun taking an interest. DC Comics has been running its webcomics imprint Zuda for almost a year, and last week, Marvel announced the release of exclusive online content through its pay service, Digital Comics Unlimited. But even without this added attention, the medium has begun to find its own audience and style, distinct from its pulp and paper origins.

"It's a perfect place to get stuff out there," says Scott Allie, the senior managing editor at Dark Horse Comics, one of the largest North American publishers of independent comics. "Words and pictures. It's what the Internet is made of."

In 2000, Dark Horse cancelled the print edition of Dark Horse Presents, a seminal anthology that helped launch a boom in independent comics. But in August 2007, the book was relaunched online through the social networking site MySpace. Like most webcomics, the content is free, with revenue coming from print editions collecting six month runs. To Allie, the venture provides an opportunity to expand the comic audience, and bring in the next generation of readers.

"Traditional comic book demographics are 18- to 35-year-old men," says Allie. "We figure here we're skewing way younger. ... (and) probably getting a better mix of male and female." To that end, the inaugural web edition of Dark Horse Presents featured a story by Buffy creator Joss Whedon, and several issues have featured work from Gerard Way, whose band My Chemical Romance speaks to angsty youth as only mildly distorted guitars and rhyming couplets can.

Rather than using an existing social networking site to present online comics, Vancouver-based company Zeros 2 Heroes decided to create its own. The whole idea, says president Matt Toner, is to harness the interactivity of the Internet and build a community that creates its own content. "We call ourselves 'the people's publisher' because we want to help people who love comics have a say in what stories get told," says Toner.

This led to Comics Creation Nation, a Telefilm Canada-funded project in which user-generated pitches are voted upon, with the top 12 transformed into digital comics to vie for a $15,000 screenplay grant. "Every story that's been done through Comic Creation Nation must be picked by the fans," continues Toner, "not hairy-chested, gold-chained L.A. executives."

Surprisingly, considering the nature of the Internet, this did not result in a dozen comics about dragons in lightsabre duels or a Borg vixen making out with Xena, Warrior Princess. Instead, comics like Montrealer Christian Major's inventive and exciting cyberpunk thriller Deutschmaschine made the cut. The project has given Major his first break in the industry.

"That's the advantage of webcomics. You don't have to publish. You just have to broadcast," says Major. "It's revolutionized the field."

But the distribution system is not all that has changed. The DIY approach, with its lack of editorial oversight, allows for more experimentation with subject matter, tone, and, in the case of runaway hit Cyanide & Happiness, drugs and violence. "Thanks to the Internet, we're able to get material out there without fear of censorship or repercussions from hard print publishers," says Dave McElfatrick, one of the four contributors to the strip, which builds punchlines around early warning signs for childhood sociopathy.

"Luckily for us, the Internet is an unfathomably evil place," says creator Kris Wilson, inadvertently explaining why my initial Google search for "webcomics" resulted in drawings of nude characters from The Simpsons, "compared to the immoral and wretched content that most people have to swim through every day while on the web, we seem wholesome and almost family friendly."

This experimentation is not limited to content. In his 2000 book Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form, Scott McCloud touted webcomics' nearly unlimited potential for formal experimentation. His predictions have yet to fully materialize, but some creators, such as Aaron Diaz, have experimented with McCloud's concept of the "unlimited canvas."

Diaz's Dresden Codak webcomic, which presents advanced scientific concepts with the moody iconoclasm of Heisenberg deep in his cups, began as a traditionally formatted strip. "It got to the point to where I realized that (format) didn't interest me," says Diaz. "A little switch clicked in my head, and I thought, 'Well, I'm just going to make them as long as I want, because I'm not limited by print constraints.' " Diaz's pages now vary in length, shape, and scope, ignoring the traditional constraints of comic books or newspaper strips.

And he's not alone. "There's much more going on in experimentation these days," says Diaz, "I think webcomics attract creators and audiences that are looking for something new, something ambitious." And something, I hope, that features dragons.

Al Kratina is a writer and filmmaker who reviews comics and movies for www.comicbookbin.com."


- C -

Top Rated Comment of 8

Tenzil Kem

Sat Nov 15th, 2008 09:24

Great ink, Fett!  It's fantastic how much you, DM and z2h are featured!  Did you contact them or did they contact you?

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So TK Jr. decided it was time to earn a few more fridge magnets to expand his set, so he came up with this, the third installment in the eagerly anticipated, always exciting, wacky and wonderful "Invasion of the Zeds" courtesy of his fridge magnet...
So TK Jr. decided it was time to earn a few more fridge magnets to expand his set, so he came up with this, the third installment in the eagerly anticipated, always exciting, wacky and wonderful "Invasion of the Zeds" courtesy of his fridge magnet art.  Enjoy!

It can be a little hard to take it all in at that size, so he has broken it down into panels for you.


And here is the chapter and title.


Panel one of the action, featuring Deutschmaschine.


And the final panel featuring Blake and a dragon!

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genrewriter

Fri Nov 14th, 2008 02:13

Cool dragon! Great job, TK Jr.

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So TK Jr. so much enjoyed his first foray into the creative world of Fridge Magnet Art (along with more prized CCCN magnets!) that he decided to do a Chapter Two.  And just so you know where to give the credit he did this one entirely by...
So TK Jr. so much enjoyed his first foray into the creative world of Fridge Magnet Art (along with more prized CCCN magnets!) that he decided to do a Chapter Two.  And just so you know where to give the credit he did this one entirely by himself (though I did take the pictures).  That's right, written, titled, drawn, colored and magnetized by a nine year old.  Pretty awesome, wot?
I know it's pretty small, so I have broken it down into panels.

Then comes the title: November's Gong.

Followed by Panel # 1.  Knightcap on the Gong Show.


Panel # 2 features Moondog.

And then the final panel.




We hope you enjoyed it!




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Steven Menszer

Tue Nov 4th, 2008 23:59

I think I'm going to have to kidnap your son just so I can claim his awesomeness as my own.

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Just because we're waiting for the committee's decision can,t mean I can't continue these, huh? :)

So I'm posting Season 3 even though I feel I still have a plot hole or two.... Nevertheless, this isn't set in stone. Yet :)

...
Just because we're waiting for the committee's decision can,t mean I can't continue these, huh? :)

So I'm posting Season 3 even though I feel I still have a plot hole or two.... Nevertheless, this isn't set in stone. Yet :)

Codename: Deutschmaschine
TV series
Season 3

Season 3's working title would be 'War in Heaven', in which a schism in the United World Economic Council threatens the very fabric of society. For the first time in the series, Connell is seen as vulnerable since he is forced into the spotlight.

Main premise #1

The Mik-Centennial Group fights for its right to remain a member of the Council despite vast amounts of evidence against it. Zahra Haarland wants this badly since losing the seat would render her prey to all other lesser corporations. She also needs the connection to the Council to advance her secret cause.

Main premise #2

At the same time, Deutschmaschine must combat a shadowy outfit that uses hackers and programmers as living repositories and conduits for special endeavors, threatening world security. Their brains and an induced vegetative state increase their neural responses, allowing them to commonly become the world's most lethal hacking supercomputer.

Season Premiere: The Quick and the Dread
Deutschmaschine (as Mariana Steinberg), Karalee Haarland and her mother Zahra attend a preliminary hearing. After a brief argument, Itsuki Saito, head of the committee, admits the case in special court. Connell, threatened by Winters, strikes a shady deal involving the protection of Toson Zaibatsu interests. Wiretrip, in special care due to his comatose state, is kidnapped by assailants unknown. Codename Copper, separated from Colonel Winters, begins suffering from chemical dependencies related to his cybernetic augmentation, and ponders revealing Deutschmaschine's identity to the highest bidder. Lorie is notified of Wiretrip's kidnapping; she embarks on a mission to track down Mail Veillans and enlist his help.

Story Arc 1: Bluefire
Evidence is steadily being piled up against Mik-Centennial. Connell is revealed to be working with the Toson Zaibatsu in providing and archiving evidence for the trial. Copper goes to the one man he's told has need of everything but never reveals his hand: casino mogul Edgar Lemaitre, who, uninterested by the secrets Copper keeps, will offer him employment instead.

Sub-Plot: Intelligence 3.0
Deutschmaschine, infiltrating the technological high-rise of Tokyo, tracks down and finally corners Connell. He reveals that he works for the CIA, and that his government has no obligations towards Mik-Centennial, whose headquarters are established in a foreign country. He hints at another, more dangerous plot, but is unable to reveal more.

Sub-Plot: Love by any other name
Against all hope, Lorie will find Mail Veillans with Karalee?s help. She informs him of Wiretrip's kidnapping and asks for his help. He will initially decline until she bribes him into complying with considerable and surprising assets.

Sub-Plot: Snake Handling
Eager for more allies, Alex Galliano strikes a deal with Teresa Clarke, springing her from prison legally in exchange for her cooperation in bringing down Mik-Centennial. They will slowly amass data and attempt to submit it to the inquiry against Mik-Centennial through its head security officer, Connell.

Story Arc 2: The Sins of the Father
Karalee is in attendance on behalf of Mik-Centennial dexterously rebuking all sorts of allegations, i.e. prostitution, drug trade, lobbying, discrimination against men and slavery, when a revelation is made by Connell: her deceased father Nikolai Haarland's connection to an illegal German military project called Panzertraum. When the three representatives finally discuss the issue in private, Zahra chooses to fire Deutschmaschine for everyone's protection.

Sub-Plot: Karma
Mail Veillans tracks Wiretrip's implant serial to Edgar Lemaitre's secret compound and urges Lorie to spring him out of there fast. In doing so, he sends her out of harm's way: he secretly summons Lemaitre's security his way. Unfortunately, Codename Copper is dispatched and despite a worthy fight, Mail Veillans is assassinated in cold blood.

Sub-Plot: League of Character Assassins
Alex Galliano, ever the shrewd businessman, manages to track down Colonel Winters. Mentioning Winters' failure to deliver Deutschmaschine, he strong-arms him into joining his special delegation meant to take down Mik-Centennial once and for all by allying with the Toson Zaibatsu. Winters, seeing the potential to renew his corporate funding, reluctantly accepts.

Story Arc 3: Higher Ground
Lorie fails to deliver her lover: Wiretrip is found in one of the most unattainable reaches of Earth: Mik-Centennial's Sky Space Resort, the world's only entertainment satellite, guarded by Copper in a permanent luxury suite owned by Edgar Lemaitre. He and several kidnapped hackers are bound to the first human-powered computer ever, intend on hijacking satellite signals to hack into every database imaginable.

Sub-Plot: Lift-off
Deutschmaschine catches up to Lorie in time to learn about Wiretrip's location and condition. Hijacking a shuttle Lorie has always studied and dreamt to fly, they lift off, intent on reached the Sky Space Resort and exposing Edgar Lemaitre's threachery.

Sub-Plot: The Rise and Fall of a Foul Alliance
Karalee and Zahra Haarland, along with their lawyers, are left to fend off the accusations brought by Connell and Itsuki Saito when Alex Galliano, Colonel Winters and Teresa Clarke are brought in to testify against Mik-Centennial. With these odds stacked against them, it seems the battle is lost.

Sub-Plot: MetaConductivity
As Wiretrip is freed from cyberslavery, he uplinks with Connell by hijacking powerful satellite signals. The strength and danger of the high-resolution connection threatens to destroy Connell's cerebrum, and he agrees to relay the evidence Wiretrip amassed while connected to the Rampage program against his best wishes, upsetting Galliano's and unwillingly betraying the pact with Winters.

Sub-Plot: First Law of Business
When made aware of the loss of the Rampage Unit, Edgar Lemaitre, safe in his beach manor, deactivates the Sky Space Resort's thruster systems as well as detonating a bomb on board. Almost instantly, the station begins spiraling back towards Earth, to destroy all evidence left on board - as well as its unfortunate occupants.

Season Finale: Wotan Falls

Wiretrip's timely intervention reveals Alex Galliano's alliance with the Toson Zaibatsu, invalidating the trial process with proof of cartel involvement. As the Sky Space Resort fails, Deutschmaschine, Lorie and the exhausted Wiretrip assist the emergency evacuation efforts before leaving themselves. A pitched battle with Copper stalls everyone until they strike a truce in order to make it out alive. Following Connell's betrayal, the exiled President of the Unites States is assassinated by a cybernetic warrior on live television. The shuttle Deutschmaschine, Lorie, Wiretrip and Copper are in just barely manages to disengage and attempt the return home when the space resort suffers a dramatic collapse, plunging after them in a mass of fiery debris. TO BE CONTINUED...

 

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I'm still too shaken up by the outcome and the stress leaving my muscles, so I'll just say this:

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I'm still too shaken up by the outcome and the stress leaving my muscles, so I'll just say this:



Deutschmaschine
2 parts freezer-cold vodka
1 part Midori Liqueur
Fill with white cranberry juice to preserve the green tint of the Midori (we only had red on hand, too bad)

Cheers and thanks for the support! CCN winners, Beta-Bookers, the real fun begins for ALL of us!
This is when Z2H starts pimping our books in style! :D

*jazz hands*

- Christian