Exploding Dragon

This is a set of character designs I did on Champions Online, of...

Sat, 26 May 2012 13:55:55 -0700

This is a set of character designs I did on Champions Online, of my friend Rei’s character concept “Black Metal”.

Not shown: Totally 1960s styled moon base with lava lamps and stuff, if you look the other direction.

Miller hurt his hand playing Mad World on the Wii. His finger is...

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:03:37 -0800

Miller hurt his hand playing Mad World on the Wii.

His finger is now all bandaged to near-immobility.

I told him he has a chainsaw finger.

pages 15, 16 24hr comic day

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pages 15, 16 24hr comic day

Pages 13 and 14 from 24hr comics day

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Pages 13 and 14 from 24hr comics day

Splash page! 12 and 13

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Splash page! 12 and 13

Pages 10-11 of the 24hr comic day comic

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Pages 10-11 of the 24hr comic day comic

dduane: Something most unusual is about to happen in the Young...

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:40:26 -0700

dduane:

Something most unusual is about to happen in the Young Wizards universe…

Ronan burst out laughing as the tatty dark shapes came lurching and staggering closer and closer to the wizards in the darkness, bits and pieces occasionally falling off them as they came. The laughter had a slightly panicky edge to it, though, and after a moment Ronan got his control back as he reached inside his costume’s tunic. “Sorry, sorry,” he said as he pulled out something hard to see, “honestly. I just keep expecting them to start dancing. By any chance, are you guys carrying?”

Nita chucked her candy tote away, ripped her wand out of its sheath, and shook the safety spell off her charm bracelet. Kit threw his bag off to one side and his plastic sword off to the other and pulled his wand out too.

“Time to make a stand,” Nita said. “We let It mess up Hallowe’en, it’ll be coming after Hanukkah or Christmas next!” She whispered a couple of words in the Speech, and the rowan wand blazed with ready power. “You hear me?” Nita yelled, not just at the shambling undead but at the amused Power responsible for them and doubtless watching this whole thing. “I am taking Hallowe’en back, and you are not getting away with this! Not on my patch!”

Help us celebrate UNICEF’s 60th birthday as we publish the first-ever Young Wizards Halloween story, “Not On My Patch”, this Hallowe’en weekend!

Keep an eye on this page for info on how you can be one of the first readers! (And please reblog or otherwise share this message with others so that word will get around.)

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pgs 6-8 of 2011 24hr comic creation day

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pgs 6-8 of 2011 24hr comic creation day

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24 hour comics day 2011 - page 5 Again, still missing...

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 11:22:15 -0700

24 hour comics day 2011 - page 5

Again, still missing dialogue.

As it’s now 24 hours, I officially fail the challenge. However, I’m going to keep on it. Also, I think there should be a variant for narcoleptic, people with fibro, and with MS.

The very nature of the challenge is physically risky to fatigue disorders. By screwing with my sleep schedule, I might be unable to function for days until
my brain stops freaking out; it’s worse by far for MS (triggering an attack literally shortens their lives) and fibro (fatigue like narcolepsy but with chronic pain and a screwy immune system on top)…

I might have been able to pull off two 12-hour sessions. The brain crashing was annoying and it’s acting as though I haven’t taken my meds, which I totally have done.

Was great fun. Would’ve been better with other people also doing it, physically present.

Back to inking now.

Script for 2011 24 hr comics day

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 08:04:04 -0700

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.
P3: Colored word balloon: <what do you think is here, Rala?> as Man begins taking a sample. Man answers, “Not sure, Ley. It’s not in the right place…”
P4: Micrometeor flies through man’s head shattering faceplate, spattering blood etc.

Page 3
P1: <Rala! Dammit, you were a good partner.> … as ghost-image separates from body.
P2: Ghost image drifts back to “cycle”
P3: Ghost image flips a switch on the cycle.
P4: back to mini-of splash page.

Page 4
P1 Half-page: Ruins of Terra. Ring around lava-glowing husk
P2: move in to one part of ring.
P3: move in to open “Star Wars” window where a ship is leaving.

Page 5
P1: front detail of ship, “Cwn Annwn”
P2: voice bubble as ship clears bay, “CD 2812, confirm please, date of death 2.1-4001?”
P3 half-page: inside, a humanoid-bug pilot operates controls. Speaker: “Yes, 20 years ago. System glitch lost the records.” Copilot: “Terrible. I hope this ‘Rala Andraws’ isn’t too angry.”

Page 6
P1: Ship approaches asteroid.
P2: bug copilot moving “cycle” into cargo hold.
P3: Pilot calling in. “Confirm, skipjet collected, bioframe collected. Copilot is collecting Recall Stone.”
P4: Copilot opening spacesuit (do not show face) with a shining jewel on chest visible.

Page 7
P1: Copilot pulls stone from chest.
P2: ghost-man Ley reappears, and says, <Hello, Copilot CD 132E. Please forget that you saw me.”
P3: Ley jumps into COPILOT.
P4: Pilot, “Hello, 132E, are you done yet?”

Page 8
P1: Copilot (blink) “Uh. Yes. I am.” Pilot, joking, “Seeing space ghosts?”
P2: ship jetting away, Copilot’s voice, “Hah, very funny.” Ley:<Laugh riot.>

Page 9
P1: Half-Panel. In “lounge” in Terra-Ring, with lots of bug-people around, Copilot sits at a data-spire.
P2: Connecting by wire to head.
P3: <Hello, Coordinator Rea. I’m back.> in Ley’s colored-bubble effect.

Page 10
(all panels showing same image, Copilot on connection, but display is of some sort of game or facebook type page, all translucent. Ley/Rea talk is in solid color.)
P1: <What happened?>
P2: <Chaos surge, the Swarm has to be up to something.>
P3: <Was it successful?>
P4: <Not yet, I think. I need to leave this Citizen, before I start to impinge.>

Page 11
(continue spire sequence)
P1: <Agreed. Find your way to the Decantery, there’s an outbound spare that we can activate for you.>
P2: <Wait, before I go, how is Rala?>
P3: <He’ll be completely recovered, but two years before he can be reincarnated.>
P4: Copilot gets up even though his communication isn’t done yet. <OK. I’m off.>

Page 12
P1: Double-page: Copilot in the Decantery, rows and rows and rows of body-bottles, going up and down.
Inset: 132E stopped before one with a green light, touching the bottle. It’s marked ‘FAILED UPLOAD/DISCARD SCHEDULED.’

Page 13
P1:(inset as before) <Thank you for being such a helpful steed, CD 132E. Your account will be credited for the inconvenience, but I’m afraid you can’t remember any of this. Sorry.> ”That’s OK, I don’t mind helping.” <Good. But you forgot this already.> (ghost leaving CD)

Page 14
P1: the FAILED marker changes to “ACTIVATING”
P2: the shadowy body inside is lit; a normal-enough looking human female, not a bug.
P3: the fluid drains,
P4 the glass rolls back, and in Ley’s voice, “Why am I female?”

Page 15
P1: CD 132E shrugs, “I don’t know, weren’t you before? Who are you anyway? Also, why am I here? I detect a memory error.”
P2: CD heads off, saying “Reporting to emergency antivirus scan station, memory error…”
P3: Ley puts on a jumpsuit from a drawer on the side of the tube.
P4 “Coordinator, we’re going to have words. This is the third time you’ve assigned me a female corpus.”

Page 16
P1 (Coordinator voice as Ley dresses) “You might like it, third time’s a charm.” “Not funny.”
P2 Ley, touching tube, “Also, where am I going?”
P3: “You tell me, Ley. You’re the Chaostician.”
P4: “Then… Triton, I think.” (image of Neptune and moon.)

Page 17
P1: Halfpage On Titan, McIvor 12 (per the label on his armor) is on the surface, doing obscure things to a machine on a craterside.
P2: A ship emerging from some sort of odd wormholish thing.
P3: Ship landing in center of crater.

Page 18
P1: Male Person in suit approaches McIvor from behind.
P2: McIvor pushes a button, and a force-field globes the person coming up behind him.
P3: McIvor turns. “Well. What have we here?”

Page 19
P1: Man in suit “Are you McIvor?”
P2: “Who wants to know?”
P3: “Do you know the Cabal” “A myth. A children’s story.” “They’re real.”
P4: closeup on face of man in suit, which looks like Ley’s ghost: “I’m one of the Cabal. I want your help.”

Page 20
P1 halfpage: cut to an inside room. McIvor is in armor but helm removed. “Ley” is in electro-cuffs, sitting in a chair with arms behind back.
P2: “Why should I believe anything you tell me?” “Because you’ve seen the Swarm. You know what they can do. We can stop them.”

Page 21
P1: McIvor, scanning “Ley” with gadget, “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
P2: “You do. You’ve seen the hive on Titan.”
P3: “and if I have?” McIvor datasearching.
P4: “So you know that they’re the ones who killed the Earth.”

Page 22
(All images appear on virtual screens as McIvor talks.)
P1: “If I did know about a mysterious race of”
P2 “Intergalactic hive-minded insects”
P3 “who could convince the sun to erupt”
P4 “Into a planet-destroying flare”

Page 23
P1 “Why would I think that you could stop them?”
P2 “When you’re not even the person you clain to be?” (“Ley”, astonished)
P3 “What? I am. I’m Ley Alvaro, the Chaos master.”
P4 “Really? Because I’ve already met Ley Alvaro.”

Page 24 full page (Cut to Ley-female in door,) “You’ve gotten slow, Yom. Although you seem to be wearing my body well.” ”Ley…” ”And what’s your angle, ex-boyfriend? Anti-Cabal recruitment?” McIvor: “Gentlemen, this is all amusing, but there’s a Swarm missile closing on this base. You have two minutes.”

24 hr comics day 2011 page 4 No lettering or dialogue yet, and...

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 07:28:01 -0700

24 hr comics day 2011 page 4

No lettering or dialogue yet, and it needs it

24 hr comics day 2011 page 3 No lettering or dialogue yet, and...

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24 hr comics day 2011 page 3

No lettering or dialogue yet, and it needs it

24 hr comics day 2011 page 2 No lettering or dialogue yet, and...

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24 hr comics day 2011 page 2

No lettering or dialogue yet, and it needs it

24 hr comics day 2011 page 1 No lettering or dialogue yet

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24 hr comics day 2011 page 1

No lettering or dialogue yet

deliciouspineapple: extinguish-me-with-a-tornado: I’m a...

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:01:49 -0700

deliciouspineapple:

extinguish-me-with-a-tornado:

I’m a little saddened by the fact that this only has 1.7K notes while this has 59K.

*shakes the cane angrily* Young whipper-snappers! :D

21~ :D

Even though I loathe me-too memes, I cannot believe that the 14-18 equivalent was so overshadowing this. Get off my lawn ftw! (also, it’s up to 5641 now)

30 Day Writing Challenge Hiatus

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:57:21 -0700

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 the way I write most easily.

30 Days of Superhero Drawings: Day 27 - Surrounded by N-P-R-M Z-b Swarm!

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 23:48:51 -0700

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 into teleological frameworks that create natural law; where natural law is based on a set of basic axioms powered by an abstract but measurable “possibility energy” that permits and empowers changes in the axioms; four axioms dominate the TorgTree, and there are meta-operators, devices which permit their owners to do horrible things, breaking into other cosmoi on the tree and sucking away their possibilities,leaving them sterile, lifeless, hackneyed.

The swarm of robo-piratical zombie ninja-monkeys are the agents of one powerful overlord who has tried to break into the world of Team Misdirected.

Kid Magic and Gremlin are casting a chaos seeking to locate the being who has transformed the people of Paris into clockwork undead.

In the background, MinMax, fighting Giant Captain NPRM-ZB, both bodies active due to the twisted reality.

In midground, Ax and Handler join Technomancy in protecting the Kid, while in foreground, Blu Ice and Drider combat the incoming swarm.

30 Day Writing Challenge: Day 6 - Protagonist/Antagonist Back-History

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:48:56 -0700

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 fun part of the story.

I believe (but am not sure yet) that they will meet while pursuing the same objective with different goals. I don’t know for sure though. That part of the story hasn’t uncovered for me yet.