The The Zine Volume 4 Issue 7

The topic for this issue of The The Zine is Random. What on earth were we thinking with such a random topic? That could mean anything! Flinging the doors open to such creative possibilities is overwhelming! For some of our contributors pent up objectives, an open topic, and spring break all came together to produce some serious output!

Speaking of output: Waoooweee! What a week! The Harding Comic Club is releasing two, count them, TWO publications simultaneously! First the one everyone has been expecting Issue 7 of The The Zine, but we are also releasing the first volume collecting Annie Moua’s Shine!

Shine is the story of a sophomore attending Harding High School and all the dramatic heartache and romantic intrigue that faces her. It’s full of fun and excitement set in dream locations with an astronomical costuming budget. I highly recommend finding a copy or checking it out online. You will not regret reading Shine!

We are announcing the every hive needs a queen logo design contest! The solitary queen is a matriarch and symbol of the honey bee colony. Thousands of worker bees labor tirelessly toward a common objective under her unwavering leadership. The Harding Comic Club is just like a bee colony, except we have no symbol to guide us. Nothing, but you could change all that in our logo design contest! The winner will have their logo represent The Harding Comic Club and will be featured on our publications like The The Zine and on our website www.hscclub. net. It will be seen everywhere the Harding Comic Club is seen!

As with all comic club activities everyone is welcome to submit an entry whether or not you have ever attended Comic Club.

Entries are due at the comic club meeting April 22nd immediately after school in room 1440. If you can’t get your entry to the meeting an entry can be turned into a comic club officer or Mr. Brandt before the due date.

OK, now for the meat and potatoes!

We start off with an illustration by Maxamillian Jay on (page 1) this leads us into another example of his masterful poetry (page 2). If you still haven’t caught the bug for his poetry and are scratching your head wondering “Why do so many people think this stuff is great?” Do yourself a favor and lock yourself in the bathroom. Then read it aloud to your self. Max. J’s genius really comes out when you read his work out loud. It’s meant to be performed. His sense of rhythm turns words on a page into music. While the imagery he writes will make movies in your head.

Following Max. J are two Naruto parodies the first is by Nana in which Sasuke must make a choice. Nana is experimenting with new pencil shading techniques (page 3). The second parody by Wangsta is a great example of her inking talent and a fun submission as well (page 4).

We have another exciting moment in the life of Hue Lor (page 5). He’s sorry he was unable to ink it, but this gives you a chance to see how tight his pencil work is.

Robert Griffen and Hannah Moreno are back with another Angry Eddie comic (page 6). Pore Angry Eddie always tormented by his creators.

A I has a fun new two page story called Tazan (page 7). If you ever wanted to see Tarzan as a girl check it out something that is like Tarzan with a guy named Tazan (who isn’t a girl) check it out. She also did our beautiful cover!

Star felt very random for her submission in this issue (page 9). What does it mean!?! Then continued the senseless randominity on our back cover.

Now our editor Konoha is the heavy hitter for this issue coming in with a whopping 14 pages! Her first submission is a short autobiographical piece (page 10). She follows this with a random episode of Dragon’s Dream (page 12). Finally she closes the issue with a bit of a formatting experiment that reads Japanese manga style starting on page 28.

Wait! What’s this? Oh my, you’re going to have to sit down for this one. Are you sitting? Good because the second installment of Charles McGregor’s action story ‘Tribal’ is hitting the presses! (page 20) Ok, ok stop screaming and start reading. There are some very happy Tribal fans out there. Wow, I have a feeling we are going to be seeing some serious exposition in the next episode.

Well, that’s all I’ve got for this issue. Don’t forget to check out Shine and your logo contest designs are due in one week!

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The The Zine Volume 4 Issue 6

Ninja. What a great topic! You could have happy ninja, sad ninja, emo ninja, ask a ninja, and FLYING NINJA!!! Yes Flying Ninja is back, but first.

We have a nice little cover featuring the stylings of Max J who has been busy in this issue. He also wrote and illustrated two poems which Flare claims will be inspiring to the artist in us all (p3). Then he also submitted some nice art (p5).

Speaking of Robert aka Flare we start this issue off with a poem of his recommended by Max J (p1). Flare seems to be reaching for some new forms and I’m excited to see where it takes him.

Lu² is back with her second submission of the year (p6). I’m sure it’s hard being a senior trying to squeeze everything you can into that last year.

Oh. eM. Ge. Geee. You can’t see me. Mee. I’m blending in just like a pine tree. TREE! Sorry about that I just got a little distracted for a moment. Ahhh speaking of pleasant distractions Pa-San has placed two of them in this issue (p8 & p39)!

With a theme like Ninja Chewy is in her element so of course we can expect something great coming from her. She has submitted her first work as an author (p9) and she has been inking Big Pride’s work again Where we discover the origins of the FLYING NINJA (p10)!

Wangsta’s back (p11) and with a great new story involving ninja and coeducational intrigue. Can you say layout talent? The execution is so good on this one: layout, pacing, character variety. I hope there is more!

AI the once and future mangaka has some laughs waiting for you on (p17). All sprouting from a very little ninja surprise in the world of Sin!

Then Star continues to explore the relationship between Star, Biocide and Bio’s brother (p20). There is nothing like familial competitiveness to add drama to a story.

Winding down the issue is the continued team effort by club officers Kage and Konoha in Bonded (p 23). Then Konoha brings us back from the Land of Muse in Dragon’s Dream (p 28).

Finally we close the issue with the latest contribution by our dark horse contributor Lil Usagi Rikku taking up the coveted back cover location.

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The The Zine Volume 4 Issue 4

First Kiss

How do they do it!?! Quality work keeps rolling in!

Did you see the cover by Cocoa? Isn’t it great! She’s taking a break from contributing a story this issue, but she did turn in some art to tide you over! (p1) Genius!

Max J’s at it again busy with another great back cover and poem with illustrations! (p2) Don’t forget
to check out his other pieces First Class (p3) and Soul Relaxation (p5) I’m sure you will agree he’s the king… er president of style!

We also have a poem by Robert Folayan! (p4) Just as I promised in issue 2. He’s throwing in some graphic stylings of his own just to keep up the visual interest. You will not be disappointed!

Jack Ferobruesse is making his debut contribution on (p5) with a great little character sketch he did in his notebook! He’s a hard guy to track, but when he stops long enough to put pen to paper craziness is quick to follow!

There is so much to be excited about in this issue of The The Zine. Like the return of Flying Ninja! (p6) I love Flying Ninja! I want the shirt, the lunch box, the plushy! Most of all I want more Flying Ninja Comics! I can not gush enough! You must read Flying Ninja! … Flying Ninja!!!

Then Pa San cracks open our minds with her unique collage of kissing culture and some tongue in cheek commentary at the end (p8). Continuing to blow comic making conventions out the window Pa San’s work is exciting both for it’s content and it’s form.

This is Wangsta’s debut issue and what a piece to come in on! Already a master of pacing 1st Kiss (p10) is a 5 page roller coaster of love! You’ll feel like you’ve lived a whole life when you’re done.

Then the stuff that keeps bringing me back, Sin! (that sounded bad) (p15). Wrath seemed pretty determined to put the moves on the royal hostage. What’s this!?! Where is Baka Ranger Red and who is this A. I. impostor? Has the author of Sin been taken hostage too? No worries folks; I did some investigative work and found out that B.R.R. is just changing her name. Different name same great work. Enjoy!

Then the trials of Star and Biocide continue in Shadows of Doubt (p21). The tension is so thick you could cut it with an axe, but I prefer a chainsaw. It’s a real hand wringing nail biter and frankly it’s giving me an ulcer. Star is doing an excellent job at keeping everyone even the Zine crew on the edge of their seats!

I am so happy to say that Konoha is continuing to reveal more about the land of Muse in Dragon’s Dream. (p24) including some exciting back story on Cia Siab aka Emajin8: 122.13.7’s muse. I’m really enjoying this one. With subtle and deep back-story behind every character the more I read the better it gets!

Then Hue Lor is back with “Moments in My Life” (p28) his tell all biography of what he’s been doing in the years since he published last. This time I know he’s here to stay because he’s got the next two issues canned and ready to go.

Remember that piece by Charles McGregor I promised you back in issue 1? Well he is finally presenting the first installment of Tribal. (p29) If you’ve been waiting for an action story it’s here

Then if you’re looking for something short funny and sweet we’ve got Alice’s First Kiss by first time contributor Kaname (p36).

Finally we end on the dark side of love with this amazing first time contribution by the talented storyteller Annie Moua (p37)

Where does all this amazing talent come from???

Harding Comic Club of course!

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