Robert Strovesco begins his search for Captain Euchre in the likeliest of places — The Internet.

Welcome to Episode 16!

Another Episode featuring Scott Watkins as The Plumber. The Plumber knows he has to find Captain Euchre… maybe the internet can help?

Robert Strovesco has a pleasant conservation with his Uncle Sal in an attempt to get his job back.

The Plumber tries to convince Uncle Sal to give him his job back. It doesn’t go so well.

Hope you’re enjoying watching the episodes! Do you have a favourite character yet?

The Major worries that his inactivity might not be going over so well with his wife and, naturally, he resents her for it. No matter. With the sound advice of his former cellmate Tubsy for inspiration, Faultline devises a plan to rejoin Ronin Force and restore his respectability.

We haven’t heard too much from the Major – unless you have been following him on Twitter, that is!

Last Thursday we had our first live Twitter performance. We didn’t tell too many people about it, because we wanted to use it as something as a dry run. But it does explain why the Major is jacketless in this video!

When our new website launches on November 12, it’ll be easy to peek in and see all the various elements of the show. For now, if you want to see what went down with Leopard Woman and The Major, you can click here!

Twitter Performance List

We’re still working out the bugs, so to read it in order you’ll have to scroll down until you see these posts…

It’s easiest if you look for posts from Tights and Fights. There’s less of them, so they stand out more.

We hope you enjoy today’s episode!

Leopard Woman celebrates her promotion as head of Ronin Force.

Leopard Woman has a good day, except for Major Hubby’s bitterness. The only real problem is that now she might actually have to start looking for the missing Captain Euchre…

Fantabulous Gal returns after a two-week holiday to find that’s she’s out of job and home.

Get to know Fantabulous Gal… before she’s Fantabulous Gal!

Played by the remarkable Melanie Hunter, Fantabulous Gal is the forth of five characters to be introduced.

All this month we meet our characters. Next week we get a little more of the weirdness that is Evil Trojan Borscht, we see Major Faultline and Leopard Woman begin online Couples’ Therapy, and then next Friday we’ll meet our last wacky character!

What do you think of our gang so far? Leave a comment and let us know! We love hearing from you!

Lookee lookee!

All this month we’re getting to know our characters – and to brighten your Monday, allow me to introduce you to Major Faultline!

Our next episode isn’t until Thursday. This is still our soft launch, after all.

If you haven’t yet, there’s a bunch of way to subcribe or follow all the action.

1) Go right to the Tights and Fights mother ship!

http://www.tightsandfights.com

2) Subscribe to the YouTube channel (don’t forget to leave a comment!)

You’ll have to have a YouTube account

http://www.youtube.com/user/TightsandFights

Click “Subscribe” near the top of the screen.

3) Friend tightsandfights on YouTube

Again, you’ll need a YouTube account

http://www.youtube.com/user/TightsandFights

Look for “Add as Friend” – you may have to scroll down a little. It is on the left, near the profile picture.

4) If you’re on Facebook, join our Facebook page!

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Tights-and-Fights-Ashes-Production-Page/146928545351381

5) Follow us on Twitter! We’re @gopherxdotnet

http://twitter.com/#!/gopherxdotnet

Happy watching!

We want to thank our friends over at Ruby Sky PI for having us on set this week.  They have a really great production underway full of positive energy and vibrant talent.

This is Scott Albert, co-owner of GopherX.net, writer, story editor and producer of Tights and Fights: Ashes. I played Captain Euchre in Tights and Fights: Captain Euchre (watch it again!) and I’ll be the face of Evil Trojan Borscht in Ashes. Yeah… I work cheap.

Besides the performing, which I muddle through with lots of help, I’m mostly responsible for the writing. I do work with talented collaborators, like the writer/performers who… er…  write and perform the other comic book heroes that populate Ashes, so I can’t claim credit for the actual good stuff in the scripts, but the scripts themselves are only the tip of the iceberg of all the writing involved in such a sprawling story in the digital space. There’s synopses, character descriptions, web page text, Transmedia updates (Twitter posts, Facebook updates, Youtube comments, blah blah blah), don’t forget the production blog, press releases, copy writing for ad text. . . oh and the endless applications that is a fact of life in the entertainment industry of Soviet Canuckistan.

While I try to stay on top of all that, in practice Christopher ends up writing a lot of the online stuff too. I’ll try to be better, Christopher!

Up until now, our work on GopherX.net productions has been a passionate side project. Witness the state of “Job Review with a Vampire,” a 6 part single camera comedy of which we are very proud and can’t wait to show to you. It’s been in postproduction for the better part of a year because there’s only so many hours in a day. Now, with Tights and Fights: Ashes receiving funding, that’s gonna change. We’re still a small company, so don’t expect a slate of 12 feature films anytime soon, but our expectation is that our little dream (and a cute cyborg gopher mascot!) will continue to grow.

There’s a good reason this post is called “Starting in the Middle.” We’ve been working on Tights and Fights in various ways for 3 years. I’ll try to bring you up to date in subsequent posts, but for now there’s a few things I would be remiss if I didn’t say upfront;

Number one, thank you to the Independent Production Fund for believing in a (quite frankly) ridiculous series about people in silly costumes. There were so many times in the past couple of years where we were convinced we just needed to give up that when we got the results I might have cried a little. Thank you to Andrea Sheffer, Executive Director, for being a shining beacon of hope for all of us toiling in the web series (or multiplatform) space.  This program is the first of its kind, and hopefully is an example of what is to follow. Thank you to Carly McGowan and Lisa Baylin for all of your help and support in these hectic early days.

Thank you to my fellow gophers, Christopher and Courtney, for enduing endless hours locked away with me. Thank you to all the talent people who have gotten this project to where it is; you will each get your due in this blog, I promise!

Thanks to Jill Golick for being our guru of Transmedia. Long may she reign!

And thank you to the gorgeous and brilliant Stephanie Dickison, who after 8 years of living with me is not only patient and understand but a delight and a constant source of inspiration.

I know this post has grown rather long and very speechifying. I promise more exciting posts to come!  Stay tuned!  In the meantime… have you seen Team Leader?

We’d like to thank Movieola for believing in us. If you get the channel, check us out!

Tights and Fights airing schedule

If you don’t get the channel, you should look into it. They’re doing great things. You can watch a whole bunch of stuff on their website, too!