| Now go burn down Parliament |
[Nov. 5th, 2009|01:04 pm] |
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Happy Guy Fawkes Day everybody. Go watch V for Vendetta and your politicians they need to be afraid of you, not the other way around. |
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| Suffering for my art |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|06:19 pm] |
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Ever try to fit five Crimean War references in one comic strip about a Halloween party? Ain't easy. |
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| It's called humor |
[Nov. 2nd, 2009|09:05 pm] |
Was working on a storyline for DE in which one of the plot points has Blackbeard luring out a killer leprechaun by trying to find a rainbow. His solution is to stage an impromptu pride parade. This does lure out the killer faerie, but due to Blackbeard's shortsightedness his plan never never planned past 'Step 1'. So the Leprechaun just starts shredding the parade until under pressure they implement Plan A (just shoot him). They started with Plan B because Plan A never works.
And I get accused of homophobia and gay bashing. Take out the gays, put in boy scouts, Tibetan monks, Vandal raiders, or the entire population of Wichita, Kansas and you have the exact same joke. No where does the word 'gay' even appear in the comic. It never shows any part of the parade (though the joke does mention in passing there's only five people in the parade). Some people wear that chip on their shoulder a little too loosely.
We also used the Leprechaun storyline to suggest the hero's house is equal parts Tardis and Winchester Mansion. |
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| What the hell dude? |
[Oct. 31st, 2009|11:16 pm] |
What's up the lightsabers? You've given no apparent thought to who's got what color, you have Washington with a red lightsaber. Washington was the rebel, he gets the green lightsaber. Britain was the Empire, they get red lightsabers. |
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| Suffering for my art |
[Oct. 29th, 2009|08:13 pm] |
I've had to watch 3 Uwe Boll movies to research Dying's Easy. You guys had better appreciate this. Those damned shadow monsters are hard to find pics for. And nobody can tell me if those chicks were Cirque Du Soleil Amazon Lesbian Hippies or Cirque Du Soleil Hippie Amazon Lesbians.
And happy birthday Winona, we tried to get your character sketched up for your birthday but real life interfered. |
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| And more research |
[Oct. 29th, 2009|07:59 pm] |
Doing the Halloween episode for Dying's Easy. In which our intrepid heroes invite all their friends over for a Halloween party and proceed to accidentally slaughter a whole mess of masked serial killers. Problem is, I need masked serial killers.
This is who I got (Jason's been done previously in Story #4)
Michael Myers (Halloween)
Miner (My Bloody Valentine)
Edvard Munch Scream Killer (Scream)
Dollface/Man in Mask/Pin-Up Girl (Strangers)
Leatherface (Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
That's seven, need 3 more.
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| The answer is...nobody has a clue |
[Oct. 28th, 2009|09:01 pm] |
Doing research for the webcomic, mainly how tall were the various characters in real life.
Uwe Boll 5'8
Rob Zombie 5'11
Ted Nugent 5'11
Audie Murphy 5'5
Winona Ryder 5'4
Miyamoto Musashi 6'1. YES SIX FOOT 1 INCH. Multiple confirmations.
Simo Hayha 5'0
Ron Hextall 6'1
Blackbeard 6'2-6'6 (no accurate size, just tons of speculation, but we're going with 6'6, the man is a legend, that makes him taller)
Then I get to the Mad Monk Rasputin. 5'4-6'6. Nobody has a clue, I got multiple sites quoting a variety of heights, either the man was a midget or a giant, nobody seems to be clear on the subject. Even Russian government sites contradict themselves. Blackbeard's height difference was 4", Rasputin has a 14" disparity? The guy was alive in the age of photography and we can't figure out how tall he actually was? |
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| Unhappiness is... |
[Oct. 27th, 2009|11:07 pm] |
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Finding your freezer door cracked and all your ice cream melted. |
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| Geek test |
[Oct. 26th, 2009|08:33 pm] |
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Somebody with a D&D 1st Ed MM, what's the entries before and after Griffon? Doing some research for webcomic. |
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| Changing as I write |
[Oct. 24th, 2009|10:09 pm] |
The new Audie Murphy, re-aged from his previous drawing. Problem with Murphy is he's really a very average looking man, no real outstanding features. This picture is based off Hunter Pence to make him look like a teenager. Couldn't find a pic of Murphy when he won his medals.
I've got 6 months of storylines written up and sent off. Two and half years worth are sketched up and being fleshed out. Had to make changes due to other joke arcs being funnier than the first idea. Had the concept of Winona being a Highlander-style immortal killing other youthful celebrities, but wasn't enough material to keep it fresh. Instead Blackbeard gained an unhealthy interest in proving she's a supernatural creature. Of course Blackbeard's suspicions are frequently baseless, contradictory and have nothing in common with Winona.
Ron Hextall has gained the behavior of a a feral cat that's adopted the heroes. He lives in their woods, having gone native after retiring from NHL. Musashi became a loving father with a fondness of foreclosing and evicting people on weekends. Nugent is still Nugent, though he's become a plot device as the heroes trick him several times into killing what's bothering them by putting up notices of new hunting seasons open. Like paparazzi season, no bag limit. More as it evolves.
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| Here we go again... |
[Oct. 23rd, 2009|07:27 pm] |
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Obama's fighting with Fox news. What did Franklin say about picking a fight with somebody that buys his ink by the barrel again? |
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| Rasputin & Blackbeard 2nd version |
[Oct. 22nd, 2009|07:38 pm] |
Minor tweaks, Rasputin got a hat. Audie's up next, we're basing him slightly off Astro's RF Hunter Pence, they both have that eternal youth look. Then Winona and the Nuge. Nuge we had to decide short hair Nuge or long hair Nuge. We've decided the only way to honor Steady Teddy Nugent, the Right Wing Rocker, The Motor City Madman, Captain Gonzo and the Whackmaster was definately long haired Ted.
Winona we decided to make our Straight man in the series, and had to pick between short hair Winona, or shorter hair Winona. With twelve story lines written so far she's the only major character hero not to have killed anyone. Or vast swathes of people in the case of, well, everybody else.
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| Concept Art for Dying's Easy |
[Oct. 21st, 2009|06:24 pm] |
These are first drafts, just the three primary characters:
Audie's going to be aged down to about 17, give him a combination of youth and large caliber fire arms. Because those always work great in tandem.
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| Update on Dying's Easy |
[Oct. 20th, 2009|06:18 pm] |
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Since the comic is about paranormal investigators, we're going to have the first intro comic on Halloween. The full comic launches 1/1/10. I'll have some concept art up soon. |
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| Slanted journalism? Nah... |
[Oct. 19th, 2009|06:40 pm] |
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So flipping through the paper and there was a story on 'State Mandated Anti-Blasphemy Laws'. Ok, curious. The picture attached was of a County Attorney from Arkansas in a flap about the 10 Commandments. The story attached talked about Obama and the UN trying to ban Blasphemy laws in nations around the world. Well, Muslim nations. There are no non-muslim nations with Blasphemy laws it turns out. The picture with the attorney? Never gets mentioned in the story. Not once, it never even brings up anything about religion and laws in the US. But they ran a pic of a Southerner in a religions spat on a news story about Islamic laws people don't like. There's a reason print media is failing. |
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| Stole this from Rollick |
[Oct. 19th, 2009|06:32 pm] |
DO NOT DRINK ANYTHING AND WATCH THIS.
Sad these guys spent maybe 1/1,000,000 of the budget of the movie and made a better show. |
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| WW2 heroes and Roller Derby |
[Oct. 15th, 2009|10:38 pm] |
One of the reoccurring stories in Dying's Easy is Audie is on a roller derby team that you seldom see in action. Due to popular demand by the artist and several contributors, I was asked to expand them and include them in some stories. So I'm moving some stories around and expanding their role. They won't be major characters, but they've earned part time status in the strip.
Murphy
Simo Hayha: The Finnish sniper, already a major character, included to make the expansion not as much.
'Mad' Jack Churchill: British bad ass, more confirmed Claymore sword kills in WW2 than any other man. Due to his legend and the fact good pictures of him aren't easy to find, he's done way larger than life and doesn't actually completely fit into the frames he's in.
Chesty Puller: Patron Saint of the Marine Corps, bulldog of a man, looks like Arnie in the comic and apparently is immune to small arms fire, though they do sting a bit and piss him off big time.
Ronald Spiers: The crazy brave Lt from Band of Brothers. Shown in proportion but always with his face partially obscured, usually from his helmet pulled down. Likes to ask people if they want a cigarette. He's called an ambiguous bad ass, nobody's really sure if he's a total bad ass, but everybody's too frightened of him to try and find out.
Audrey Hepburn: Yes, Audrey Hepburn. Her biography states during her time with the Dutch Resistance she killed almost 4 dozen nazis, all through planting bombs. Germans would ogle, she'd walk in, leave the bomb, walk out. She's in full Breakfast at Tiffany Mode, bad guy does the hearts in eyes look where she then proceed to rack them/sucker punch/twist neck completely backwards.
Currently trying to put together a story line combining the movies Dirty Dozen, Victory and the Sound of Music.
Should have promo comic end of the week or next week. Slotted start up is January. |
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