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While it may seem like things have been pretty quiet on the Powers Cosmic front lately, nothing could actually be further from the truth. The main reason that no new episodes have been released is because I've been working on cleaning up the old ones. Some have new dialogue tracks that were recorded when I flew to Adelaide and caught up with Simon (Furious) a while back, there's a new theme (thanks to the awesome band Deadly Fists of Kung-Fu) and some other tweaks here and there to keep us out of legal trouble as we move forward with the series.

So, all that has meant that new stuff is still a little way off. However when the ABC's Good Game announced that they were running a competition and that the first prize was a life size zombie (mannequin) from the brilliantly fun game, Dead Rising 2, well... we knew we...

If you're following @powerscosmic (the official Powers Cosmic twitter feed) or if you're a fan of our facebook page... or if you're following @furious_tfm or my twitter account then you'd know already that I flew to Adelaide for a few days at the start of this week, so that Simon (Furious) and I could knuckle down and get some of the audio for a couple of the early episodes of Powers Cosmic re-recorded, as we've never been happy with the original quality and didn't feel that they were 'broadcast' ready... you know, should anyone ever want to broadcast them for any reason.

We didn't get through as many of the old episodes as we'd have liked, mostly because we underestimated the difficulty presented by trying to match the original audio as precisely as possible (a technique called looping or ADR [Automatic Dialog Replacement]). We did, however, manage to get a our...

What's this? A second Powers Cosmic release in less than a week! Consider yourself spoiled!

So, what's this all about then? It's not a new episode, it's just a promo... the idea being that it's a bit of an ask for a potential new viewer to part in front of a WHOLE 6 minutes of Powers Cosmic, without knowing what they were getting themselves in for. So we thought we'd make a promo or two (so far, just one) to throw about and maybe hit a few of the commitment phobic potential viewers out there.

This particular promo is a parody of the advert that Chrysler ran during he Superbowl. You can see the original on youtube. Theirs is called 'Man's Last Stand', it's pretty dumb (and more than a little insulting to women)... ours is dumber still.

The more observant of you may have also noticed that the custom player that I've...

It's been another long delayed release, but it's finally here! Episode 09 differers from the ones before it, mostly because it takes place after the events of Episode 08, which none of the other episodes managed to do. It also has new characters, new sets, and marks the beginning of the end of this first season of Powers Cosmic. The plan is to finish up this season with 12 episodes, but I'm getting ahead of myself now.

When the ship's computer detects possible life signs in its trash collection bay (after collecting a whole bunch of old robot parts that it found floating about in space) it wakes The Romulans -- the one and only known life form on the ship -- and encourages him to investigate the matter. The problem is that the ship's computer isn't exactly reliable, but at least it's trying... Unlike The Romulans, who's VERY trying!

For me,...

If you’ve been following the Powers Cosmic facebook page, or our twitter feed, then you’d be aware already that we’ve announced that we wont be releasing any new episodes until sometime in the new year (which isn’t really that far away). We’d been working towards getting the next episode out before the Xmas break, but given that there are new elements in the upcoming episodes — including characters and sets — we decided to delay the release so that we could get past the silly season and concentrate on building the new stuff properly.

This first season of Powers Cosmic will come to an end with the 12th episode. From there we’re going to start work on the next season pretty much right away, however we’ll be working very differently from that point on. Hopefully the lessons we’ve learnt making this first season will mean that production of season two...

When your animations are too craptacular for even the internet, there's no place else for you to go, other than television! Well, for 30 seconds at least! Anyone who's been around this site for any length of time will know that elroyonline.com and Powers Cosmic has had a long association with The eGames Expo - which has, over the last couple of years, happened alongside the Digital Lifestyle Show. At last year's event we even had a poorly manned booth with distributed woefully designed fliers pimping out Powers Cosmic.

This year Simon (Furious) will be pre-occupied with he and his hetro life parter, Nick's latest cockamamie, get-rich-quick-scheme, WIth the Band (They're running the 'Virtual Pop-star' comp on the main eGames stage for the whole weekend!). So chances are that there wont be a Powers Cosmic booth this time around (unless there's an overwhelming groundswell of support from folks who want to...

On paper (well, pdf) this episode seemed like far less work than it actually turned out to be. There's a whole lot of animation going on this time, which defies my rule of being as lazy as possible when it comes to producing these things. That said, I'm pretty happy with the results.

Last we saw Elroy and Furious they'd been dumped into the garbage hold of the Alien Robot's ship, with their further dumpage into the cold void of space soon to follow. So doing what any self-respecting nerds would do, they talk about comic books! More specifically, they start looking for potential escape routes in the pages of The Fantastic Four!

Can their knowledge of Marvel's first family save them? And what the hell does this have to do with global warming!?

The undeniable scope of what I'm about write isn't lost on me, after all, I'm about to write it, and the thing that I'm about to write is making reference to other things that I've previously written. So, in a sense, I feel vastly qualified to make the statement that I'm about to make. If anything, I'm probably over qualified. Which I only say as a means of adding even further weight behind the statement which follows:

It is my (vastly over qualified, as previously stated) opinion that this episode -- Number 7, for those playing at home -- is possibly the nerdiest thing I've ever written.

I hope it amuses... actually, I just hope it plays correctly.

On a technical note: I've tweaked the effect used on the Robot voices and employed a cunning technique in the actual writing of the script which, I hope, alleviates the problems that some people were...

The last we saw, the Powers Cosmic duo of Elroy and Furious were completely unaware that they'd been targeted by a race of Alien Robot Invaders who believed that the pair had discovered their plans to turn the human race into Zombie slaves! Of course, they're wrong. But the Robots are back in this episode!

If you want to share, or embed this episode in your own site, here's the youtube link: [Powers Cosmic: Episode 06]

It may not look like it, but this episode pushed us pretty hard. There are more (new) elements in this episode than in any of the previous, not to mention that the special effects budget was completely blown in the opening shot!

Just a note to anyone following the @powerscosmic account on twitter: It's currently suspended! Mostly due to my screwing about with things. Hopefully the twitter gods will take pity on me and recognize that I'm...

This is something of a first here at eol. I don't think I've ever posted two videos back to back before. In fact, I'm not entirely convinced that having two versions of the flex player on the front page wont cause some kind of cataclysmic meltdown when I hit the submit button... but, what the hell, lets live dangerously!

Speaking of which, I'm really hoping that this video is taken in the spirit that it is intended. As I've made clear on this site (and elsewhere) I'm a huge fan of Joss Whedon's stuff. But when I started thinking about the whole Dollhouse situation again -- after we had a few requests for another Save Dollhouse PSA -- I realized that there was a motivation to get Dollhouse renewed OTHER than the fact that it's a great show.

I'll add a link to the YouTube version of this video as soon as...