Posts Tagged ‘Zperdoch’
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Dec09
Forgotten about Zperdoch and Beacon, hadn’t you? This is arguably the raciest page I’ve ever drawn. Another one of those that even made me kinda uncomfortable to draw and I did a couple different drafts before I decided on the level of clothed-ness of Jayce and Angelique. Angelique is a lot of fun to draw and write and I kinda wish I had more time to focus on her, but this issue was really written to showcase Hailey and Chuck. Sometimes I regret not fluffing this story out to multiple issues, just so I could develop the Dark Universe versions of everyone more. That’s not to say we’ll never see them again, but I also felt it might confuse people to develop the Dark Universe version, when the Prime Universe versions had barely been introduced.
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Dec20
As is often the case in real life, a gun is the solution to the problem.
Where are the adults in this universe? I mean the kids apparently have easy access to guns and dress like prostitutes. It’s almost like they’re living in… current times.
So, what does everyone think? Is this a satisfying end to Dark Jayce? Was it super-predictable? I felt like it was but then I originally wrote this plot outline like a year-and-a-half ago, so everything was always leading up to this. I’m really starting to enjoy the morally ambiguous endings I’m leaning towards. Did (Dark) Chuck kill (Dark) Jayce out of anger or mercy, knowing his best friend would never truly be in control of himself again? Or was it revenge/jealousy for corrupting Hailey and taking her away?
After all, we know Prime Universe Chuck finds Hailey attractive at least judging by his space fantasy here and both Chucks’ reactions in this scene indicate the feeling is not universe-exclusive. Not to mention Dark Chuck’s lament here. Exploring Chuck and Hailey’s relationship is one of, if not THE main theme of this issue. It’s why Jayce was spun off into a sub-plot, to keep him from crossing over and give the others a chance to interact (and solve a problem) without him, especially Hailey and Chuck. Jayce had thus far been omnipresent, even when Patrick was AWOL for nearly the WHOLE FIRST 2 ISSUES and ALL OF ISSUE 5!! Chuck and Hailey’s dynamic will continue to be explored in the epilogue of this issue and most likely in future issues as well. How will it end up? Who knows? After all, Jayce’s future no longer seems set in stone, so who’s to say Hailey won’t end up with Chuck?
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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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