| | For no discernible reason, having this extra day on the end of February on leap years always kind of weirds me out. So I'll keep it to a minimum today and present the fourth page of GC-7. | |
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| So we're taking a break from the pictures today to present the third issue of Project Menagerie. This issue finally gets around to touching on the themes I had previously mentioned, including the affect that the U.S. drug problem has on our society and the societies of our neighbors to the south. Of course, this is a comic book, so I try not to be too heavy handed with this. Read it and let me know how I did. |
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| I had a teacher once who told me that anything used improperly can kill you. Unfortunately, that is never more true that with social networking.
Page 3 for GC-7 below. | |
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| Death is still knocking on the door and I huddle beneath my blankets, pretending not to hear him. Hopefully, the odyssey of GC-7 will begin soon. | |
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| I've developed a stomach bug that seems to have the fun side effect of me trying not to shit myself, so nothing clever to say today. Below are two concept covers for The Reckoners. Enjoy. | | |
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| It's frightening when school shootings happen frequently enough that they seem fashionable. Shall we all agree something is seriously wrong or ignore it?
Ignore it? Fabulous.
In less scary news, the fifth page to Underside is up. | |
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| Goodbye Mr. Gerber.
Typically, it's a bad idea to try and emulate the style of someone who has far more talent than you. That way lies razorblades and candy canes. And there's no doubt about it Mr. Gerber had talent. I take my own advice in that I would never try to write like him, but I feel a strong affinity for him. I can't imagine how difficult it must have been to convey some of the ideas he had in him to artists, editors and other professionals. When developed Howard the Duck cartoon animals were strictly for children and when he made Omega the Unknown super-heroes fought crime. It's what they were. But Gerber came along and changed that. I don't know if he set out determined to ignore these things or to intentionally invert them but he managed to somehow do both.
Many of us continue to wallow in our mediocrity. Underside, I have been told by many others, is a story that has been done before. While I always argue you can say that about any story, Underside is more about the things we ignore in our every day lives than it is about monsters. Ultimately, if I ever get a chance to tell the complete story, it's about our ability as a species to ignore these things, our need to ignore them, and one man's fight against that instinct and what it costs him. On that note, I present to you, page 4. | |
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| Joshua Dysart was kind enough to sit down with me over the weekend and discuss his work on Dark Horse's BPRD: 1946. BPRD, which comes out of Mike Mignola's Hellboy, is a long established property. So as a relative newcomer it was a bit intimidating for Dysart to get to work with Mignola on this. On the other hand, as BPRD: 1946 was throwing back to as yet not explored portion of Hellboy history, Dysart had a lot of room to play in. Go read the interview to see his take on this, working with a comic book industry giant and his take on the end of World War II.
In other news, TRUE ADVENTURE! |
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| So a slightly new look for the site with robots and cowboys. An associate of mine refers to this type of mixing as "Donkey Punch Monkey". I prefer "Donkey Kicks Ninja" but there is a method to the madness. The robot icon in the upper left corner is the icon I use on various forums, so if you're looking for that MadBastard, you've come to the right place. The new center picture is a concept cover for The Reckoners and…I thought it was cool. OK, so maybe there isn't so much a method, but if you wanted the world to make sense, you wouldn't be here now would you?
Jaymes Reed figured out the problem with the Underside pages. Something to do Mac and PC transfers. Apparently, the commercials are just a funny version of the platforms' animosity towards each other, when in fact they are intent on poisoning anyone who crosses the line from one to the other. But, we've made it through, so here are the first two pages. | | |
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| I was going to post some fancy new art this morning, but I've run into a problem that I've never even seen before, moreorless know how to fix. Some time between the transfer myself, the artist and the letterer all of the Underside pages have turned green. GREEN. Example: | |
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| Even to a man who frequently imagines horrible acts of violence in his storytelling, the world continues to be a scary place. You can't make this stuff up. |
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