Posts Tagged ‘Chuck’
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Jan27
Man it’s hard to draw Hailey older, especially since one of the powers that runs in her family is slowed aging (which you will see when you meet her real mom and grandmom) and it’s not THAT FAR in the future this scene takes place (15-20 years?). Hailey does have prematurely graying hair though (due to a certain very stressful event in the future) as well as a noticeably bigger bust and butt. I think she and particularly her dress turned out really good though.
If you’re wanting to know what exactly is going on in this scene, I’m gonna warn you: this scene takes place simultaneously in the final issue (probably issue #39), so you’ll be waiting a while for the answer. Just wanted to let everyone know that I do, in fact, have a Master Plan.
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Feb03
I thought this scenario would make for some great personal drama. Now the heroes have to keep a secret from one of their own. Not only their friend, but the unifying element that brought them all together. But it’s for his own good, right? Even they don’t know for sure. The next few issues are rehashes of stories I did in college, so it will be interesting (for me, at least) to see how they play out with this new story element in the mix.
The next page is a big landmark for me! Found out exactly why next week…
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Feb10
In real life, I wasn’t there when they tore it down. Sometimes I wish I had been, because if there was ever a place which was home to me it was that dank, old cinder-block farmhouse. It was to there my parents took me home from the hospital. It was there I got my first puppy for my birthday (I thought he was a rat at first) and it was there I would later bury him. It was there I followed my grandfather to work as he milked the cows and rode the tractor with him. It was there I went through 80 years worth of photo albums with my mom and grandmother. It was there that Travis (the real Chuck) and I slayed many a monster in the halls of Castlevania and sewers of New York City and waged some of the most vicious playroom battles between the Autobots and Decepticons. It was there I drew quite a few comics that would eventually evolve into this series. The house may only exist in my heart and mind now, but I still dream about it quite often. And in my dreams, it’s as if it’s still out there somewhere to be found, since I never saw it torn down with my own eyes. Kinda like the mysterious island. See how I kinda tied that together thematically? (Even if only in the commentary).
This is the 148th page of “the Radicals”. Seems an odd number for a “milestone’ as I hinted at last week, so what’s the big deal? Well, it’s the end of our sixth issue. This is the farthest I’ve ever gotten into a published work without wadding it up , throwing it away, and starting over. I feel like this has probably been my best written, drawn, and colored issue so far. Thanks and credit go out to Wade for this too, but I can definitely see that I’ve improved a lot since I started doing this as a webcomic five years ago and especially since my first published comics over 10 years ago.
Previous issues had ended on pretty serious notes, so I’m glad I got to end this one with a funnier scene. There’s a a bit of a dual tribute on this page: Jayce’s shirt is a tribute to the Lego Classic Space theme, as well as Commander Schwartz of Space: the Comic (which, in turn, is a tribute to said theme.)
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Decided to take a week off to get wound up for the next issue, but here’s a little sneak peak at the cover.
Feb24
Pencils by Roberta. Bad composition and inking by Me.
This is how it all started. Originally, anyway. Ten years ago, I self-published a 2-part graphic novel called “Guardians of Zero Nexus: Alpha & Omega”. It had the same core cast as “the Radicals” and largely the same premise. It was a tale of terrorism on a scale that staggered the imagination. Well, at the time I wrote the script, anyway. I finished drawing the first chapter “Alpha” on September 9th, 2001. Two days later… well, you know.
This caused me to water the second half of the story down a bit and heighten the anti-terror message of the book. “Alpha and Omega” was always meant to be part of this series and I always wanted a chance to do it over and punch it up a bit (also, I’ve had 10 years to get better at drawing). There were also lots of little “director’s cut” scenes I had either cut for space or thought of after the fact that I wanted to add in to explain certain things. Some of these were included in the three follow-up issues I did 6 months after the first two, but those still needed redone too. So while I have wanted to revisit this story for a long time, I did not want to open the series with it again.
Also, since you’ve met most of the characters already, this time at least you got to know them a little better before they die. Oops. Oh well. With a subtitle like “God of Death”, you know all eleven character on the cover aren’t going to make it through alive, anyway.
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