More Superheroes!

So, I wrote a character called "The Warden" who was going to be a street-level vigilante with a prison guard theme. After a while, certain concepts and roles in the story needed to be filled by someone who looked a little less...fascist. But! It was still an early character design that I want to play with in the future sometime.

Later!

Terminals Character Design

Sovereign is the "Superman"-style character of our story. However, his origins and motivations are very different under the surface.

I'd share more, but I don't want to spoil too much of the story. My plan was to have the readers assume he's a Superman-copy (which he seems to be, on the surface) and later reveal him to be much more than he appears. I'm still coming up with a symbol of some kind, or at least some element that doesn't make it look like he's wearing a pair of foot pajamas. I want to avoid that "realistic" style piping that a lot of contemporary costume designers love using. It looks slick, but I see nothing wrong with the traditional spandex look.

Anyway, enough talk. 

Later!

Return to Posting!

Hello, future faithful readers. It's been a long time. While I have not continued consistently with the minicomic project, it has still remained percolating in my mind. The idea that has stuck with me the most is the Western cowboy/Arthurian narrative mash-up. It kinda speaks to the things I love. Which reminds me...


True Grit! Seriously, the American story is built on the idea that a man creates his own destiny through force, through sheer will (and sometimes a gun). Not something we can always be proud of, but gosh darn it, if it doesn't get my red, white, and blue blood running, nothing will.

Also, that is President Millard Fillmore
standing in for the horse's anus.

In the meantime, I've been apprenticing at the Studio, and it has been truly educational. I've learned so much, both through experience and direct instruction. I recently did an assignment which allowed me to draw a cartoon artist painting a horse's arse. It's not exactly the highest concept that man can aspire to, but it was a blast to do, and I got to cut my teeth on the coloring part. From step 1 to 13, this assignment was 100% me, a major turning point in my studio career, as far as production goes.

Also in the meantime, I've been working on a superhero project that that has been slowly building in my mind since high school: The Terminals. I'll scan some character sketches later and put them up on here. The basic premise is that a mysterious organization has gathered a group of superheroes who are each suffering from terminal diseases. This organization, represented by a Benefactor, offers this team all the resources they need to make the last few months of their superhero careers the most effective, meaningful, and fulfilling missions they have ever completed. The catch? The missions they accept are the "suicide missions," the ones that other heroes don't mention. These are the ones that, if revealed, would collapse the economy, cause a global panic, and end civilization.

In a choice between succumbing to disease and a glorious end, these heroes are choosing death on their own terms. But what does the Benefactor truly want? What are the motives of this mysterious organization?

Read it...once I finish writing it, that is...