May 2012
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October 2011
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Script for 2011 24 hr comics day
This won’t be up for very long — putting on for a friend to read.
Page 1 Full page splash. The sun, seen in the distance, as a man in a spacesuit, tethered to a sort of ‘space motorcycle’, reports that he’s approaching an asteroid. Asteroid is visible in foreground before sun.
Page 2 P1: Man jetting to towards asteroid. P2: Man attaches to asteroid....
September 2011
10 posts
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30 Day Writing Challenge Hiatus
OK, so I’m slightly overcommitted. I’m going to have to postpone the writing thing a week or so, since work, my long overdue comic challenge, and actually having people in my life who demand my attention, are all competing for their 100% of my time.
I’ll catch up, promise ;) And will try to make the background-info more data-chunky, thought honestly that’s not really...
30 Days of Superhero Drawings: Day 27 - Surrounded...
The long-delayed Day 27 of the 30 Day Superhero Comic Challenge!
Surrounded by … well, in this case, Ninja Pirate Robot Monkeys with Zombie Brains.
I had and have a really hard time visualizing this. However, it IS a view from a real place.
So, as anyone knows who has seen the tabletop RPG “torg” there are parts of the multiverse where the branchings of reality are organized...
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30 Day Writing Challenge: Day 6 -...
This is actually pretty difficult. Day 6 is supposed to be 500 words about how the protagonist and antagonist know one another.
They don’t. They won’t meet until somewhere into the story, and I don’t know how that will happen yet. So I can’t write 500 words about it, because it hasn’t happened.
Their meeting will probably be a turning point, and might be the...
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30 Day Writing Challenge: Day 5: Antagonist...
There’s quite a bit of repetition, which I had wanted to avoid. I’m not terribly happy with this one, but it will serve for what it is.
Antagonist Backstory, 500+ words (970 words)
They began in a small galaxy that fell into the Milky Way. Their first world was very like Earth, though its dominant chemistry was a bit different; more methane, less oxygen, less nitrogen.
They were...
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30 Day Writing Challenge: Day 4: Protagonist...
Day Four, only 500 2820 words of Protagonist back story.
To be honest, I think I’m getting ahead of myself in places. I’m putting in back story which maybe shouldn’t be there, but then, I need to do world-building before I could do physical descriptions, and I already had elements of backstory to my protagonist.
On the other hand, exploring this a little more gave me a better...
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Day 3 - Three Minor Characters, physical...
Day 3. Three Minor Characters in at least 300 words.
Seriously, “minor” characters? How are we going to know that at the outset?
Meet Chad 6e88, Alrek Dunham, and McIvor 12.
1289 words.
The dimness of the tunnels in Terra-Ring is comforting to most of the Citizen-Drones who lived within their immense volume. Warm, slightly humid, circular, with room for three Citizen-Drones to pass without...
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30 Day Writing Challenge: Day 2: Antagonist...
Day 2
Antagonist Physical Description.
Ant-agony is small and comes in swarms.
359 words
The torture of insects was the thing that drew it to the water-world. It was coincidental, or it was the subtle working of an arthopod-deity calling attention to the murder of tiny lives, notable only because it was intentional, and cruel, not the act of an animal seeking food, or keeping them away...
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30 Day Writing Challenge: Day 1: Protagonist...
30 day writing challenge.
Day 1. Describe my protagonist. (physical description, 300 words.)
Oh good grief. How would I know that, I don’t even know what kind of story this is.
I know what this is, you want me to COMMIT to something. Right. OK. Science Fiction it is.
Somewhere in this mess is a physical description.
689 words (appx):
The standardized Human Male Adventurer...
August 2011
5 posts
Avatar Spider is Spidery.
I picked this charming fellow to be an avatar here, but he’s a place-holder, since l know a lot of people find even the friendliest of giant arachnids to be intolerably creepy. He’s a baboon spider.
30 Days of Superhero Drawings, Day 26 - Turned...
Circe fell on hard times, after a while. She had turned Ulysses’ men from pigs back into sailors, in exchange for a night in the sack with the wandering hero of the Trojan wars, and in time their son Telegonus found his father, killed him by mistake, and returned with his half-brother and her mother back to Circe (along with the body) … she revived the hero, made his wife and son...
30 Days of Superhero Drawings - Day 25: Evil Twins
There are several ways that evil twins happen, but since 1967, the most logical has been the Alternate Universe of Flipped Alignment.
In another world, where things weren’t so nice…
Blu Garibaldi, failed hockey player and drunken thug, found the exobytes and thought they were booze. He transformed to living ice, and was enormously pissed to learn that he couldn’t get drunk...
30 Days of Superhero Drawings: Day 24 - Album...
It hurts my brain to even think about how this was created. I won’t venture to say why, or what’s on it.
July 2011
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30 Days of Superheroes - Day 23, One Remains...
This is how Team Misdirected met Drider.
It seems that someone of unusual mundanity (or with a severe arachnophobia) objected to the horse-sized half-tarantula surfer hanging on their beach. (In California, there are still places where beachfront can be presumed to be private property, as offensive as that is to the common weal.)
They reported a monster, and the other Misdirected were...
30 Days of Superheroes - Day 22, Matching Uniforms
Team Misdirected wasn’t formed as an intentional super-team. Thus, they normally have no unified look.
They met in several accidental encounters, to be chronicled later, but in brief here.
Technomancy met Blu Ice in a bar fight.
Handler and the Axe met Kid Magic at a Cirque performance, where MinMax was the ringmaster-of-ceremonies.
Drider met them in… well, the scene will be shown...
Still drawing
My next drawing is taking forever, not because I don’t know what to draw or anything - but rather because I have no time!!
Work is being VERY busy.
30 Days of Superhero Drawings - Day 21, Leaping...
Scene: a rather spare boardroom, with a good many shadowy-looking people sitting around a highly polished table. Nameplates on the table identify them.
(Diebold has the floor.)
Profits!
In these tough economic times, they can be harder to come by, especially for us BIG corporate entities!
We all remember that most recent Glad Day, on January 21st, 2010, when our friends in the highest court...
30 Days of Superheroes - Day 20, One Injured, One...
The Scots Ninjas are the ones nobody expects.
Baile Droch Ainser is the ninja town of the bad-weather ninja clan of northwestern Scotland. It’s on a small island, where the traditional food is haddock, gorse, and fried wool. (They never eat sheep; it’s too much like eating family.)
The ninjas of Baile Droch Ainser are each students of some facet of bad weather.
...
30 Days of Superhero Drawings, Day 19: The...
The Blur Man Group is a terrorist cult of evil performance artists which uses nanotechnology and social engineering to spread their message of anarchy and despair to the masses.
They typically “recruit” by “flash crowds” for unrelated, innocent events. First, a random person will “go blur”, changing from a normal person into a programmed drone, their...
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A Quick nort nailed to the door..
Rather than drawing the “competition” for day 19, I have found that I need to do the full team lineup. This is just necessary for most of the other groupings.
For version 2.0 of this challenge I suggest that we have fewer characters, say the classic 5 person team, and do a few “mandatories” at some point. Day Six could be the Lineup, and day 7 the facial profiles.
That way, we could get some...
30 Days of Superhero Drawings: Day 18 - the Prank
Whilst SOME of us are slower than others, that doesn’t mean we won’t keep going. We shall not be the ones who say, “Their Marathon is run, so it’s all over now, why keep the race going?” It’s not a race. The challenge is to draw 30 drawings, and if we can do it in 30 days or 3 or 60, we still draw.
Today, we have the Pranking.
A bit of Loki seems to have...
30 Days of Superhero Drawings - Day 17: Taking on...
Taking on a Giant Together
I am a little disturbed to find an increasingly Norse flavor to my stories.
So it’s those darn Gremlins again. Ymirette Laufeysdottir — half-sister to Loki — somehow received someone ELSE’S GetFlix copy of “a recent movie” featuring a “god of thunder,” and decided to follow it back to Midgard to ask two questions.
...
30 Days Super Heroes #16: The Duel
Cary Ambrose was perfectly happy being just another surfer kid, but then some gremlin decided to mess with someone else, and Cary ended up with the misdirected blessings of the spider goddess, and an involuntary but profound appreciation of his Elfish ancestry and heritage.
Cary, now a superhero under the nom-de-guerre “Drider” mostly enjoys his new status, and he can use glamourie...
30 Days of Super Heroes Day 15: The Argument
This took about 2 days to draw.
Blu Ice and Technomancy have just failed at civil discourse. Some people would expect politics was the subject. Not so!
TM just made a snide remark about the Football Lockout and overpaid sports stars, forgetting that Blu IS one of those allegedly overpaid sports stars, only now, he can’t play because even hockey has limits, and super-strength means the...
30 Days of Superheroes: Day 14, Opposite Gender
Microsoft Handwriting Recognition wanted that to be “opposite gander” which makes it a silly goose.
Today, Kid Magic learned that with runes, grammatical gender isn’t just a linguistic convention, when he tried to cast a disguise spell and used the wrong form of the word for “magician” … Observe how completely helpful and sympathetic his familiar is being....
June 2011
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30 Days of Superheroics - day 13: Rescue or Heavy...
This one took longer than I wanted because I simply did not have time and energy overlapping, to sit and grind it out. Not only that, but I had a fairly complex image in mind: MinMax rescuing someone from a collapsed building.
The initial image was more difficult to figure out than I expected, and I used several cheats. You may mock me for them if you wish, I know I have.
Max is braced under...
30 Days of Superheroes: Day12 - Busting Through A...
I have no idea why Gremlin felt it necessary to break through this wall, rather than the usual trick of going over it, or when nobody is watching, walking through it. Perhaps he just felt that a cat door was needed there.
I just realized, I forgot to put the “light source shinny” on the wall behind the brightly glowing cat, but makes the excuse that the glow is dimensional energy not...
30 days of SuperHeros, Day # 11 Cowering in...
It was fairly hard to find an appropriate thing for my heroes to be afraid of, but then it occurred to me that what one person finds terrifying, another might find to be profoundly cute.
Here, Ax (thousand-year-old sentient magic weapon) feels that Handler (his descendant, too complicated) is being deliberately cruel by feeding the rust monster.
He’s right.
30 days of superhero drawings: Day 10 - getting...
This is Kid Magic on his way to something and going quite fast, though I have next to no idea where. Given that he’s making Gremlin nervous, he may simply be going fast for the sake of going fast.
30 days of superhero drawings: Day 10 getting...
This is the prelim cleaned “pencil” for this challenge.
I did the original as an attempt to do the day05 challenge and liked it for this one instead.
30 days of superhero drawings: Day 09- victory or...
One of the drawbacks to being a hero is that you are recruited to clean up infestations of the restless dead. In particular, Zombies.
Technomancy is showcasing the “tank” function where he attracts the shambling and messy attention of the sleep-deprived corpses until they swarm around him like yellowjackets at a barbecue - and then, the big fat Kaboom makes them all go back to...
Drider, colored
I decided try coloring my Drider pic. It lacks the “hairy” factor that distinguishes most tarantulas. Not sure how to add that without becoming messy.
