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Summon the Lulz

article by Ben Lincoln

 

I spent more time than I expected making my Destiny Costume for Halloween in 2017, so I decided to try to get some extra use out of it. I'd had an idea kicking around in my head for a few years, and decided to give it a shot. This is probably one of those things where I'm literally the only person that catches all of the references, but hopefully there are a few laughs in it for a few other people.

Summon the Lulz
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The entire comic, plus individual frames.

 

This was originally going to be a series of (heavily-edited) live-action shots. For example, the heptadecagram summoning circle is something I actually put on the concrete floor of my barn in fluorescent paint, and lit up with UV lights.

However, I wasn't able to get the Lulz looking good enough in live-action form to finish this variation, and moved to a comic form as a result.

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The bits of the live-action version that I finished before deciding to make this a comic.

 

Why a heptadecagram instead of a hexadecagram?

I ended up liking the symbol enough that I put some designs based on the heptadecagram on CafePress so I could order them myself.

 
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