Curly was never intended to be a hero. In my mind, he is an opportunistic, greedy, and self-serving brat. Does he have a good heart? Do his actions speak louder than his projected self-image? I guess we have to wait and see if he will abandon the rascally Pascal or not. However, Black Billy Phil really raised the prices of train tickets!
Looks like the tables turn in our con man’s favor, having the fight depend on a figurative coin toss! Or rather, a toss and tumble with a coin.
A new year has come around and I guess we all just have to see what disasters will unfold now. The long-awaited rise of Cthulhu? An asteroid coming crashing down and ruining everybody’s day? The world’s squirrel populations banding together to defend the last pieces of forest, killing everything in sight?
Chestburster? Secret third arm? Aggressive chesthair? You all just have to wait until next year to find out!
Christmas has come and gone, and I hope everyone had a lovely time with family and friends. I got my Tintin fix and ordered a couple of new mini-figures and introduced my youngest son to the exciting adventures of the Belgian journalist. We enjoyed both the old cartoons and the now decade-old movie (seriously Jackson and Spielberg, get on with the sequel already!) Aside from a wifey catching a mild cold, the new year is coming at us with a lot of promise and new cool projects!
Christmas is already around the corner and the kids are getting restless for the big jolly fellow who brings them all too many gifts each year. It has been a good year all things considered and I am looking forward to spending the holidays with family and other relatives. I wish you all a Merry Christmas and I will see you peeps one last time before the new year comes knocking!
In horror movies, we always get that last stand where the monster, murderer, or cryptid goes for that one last all-out attack. So yeah, I did that.
Back where it all started, that is storytelling 101 for you!
Going from bad to worse! And if anyone is wondering, William van Wabbit III (the bunny) is melting, his ink is dissolving slowly in front of our very eyes!
One of the things that I like about doing a comic within a comic, is that I can bend the rules on how reality works for the story. In Pascal’s world, they can just reach out and get props from wherever, whenever, and use them against their foes. Need a context-effective costume change? It is right there to use! In Curly’s world, I would have to show them get changed, or get their props and/or tools from somewhere but right now I can just wing it and let Pascal become a boxer for two panels without needing to explain how.
In other news, I have been playing a ton of Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden this week. I am a fan of the modern XCom series but the added stealth and anthropomorphic animal mutants make this game feel even better to play. I love isolating individual enemies and taking them out as stealthily as possible, thinning the herd before attacking the main group. Sure, there is a lot of saving and loading, but I have fun. It does not hurt that the game uses Swedish signs, cars, and music either, making me feel right at home with Dux, Bromir, and the other mutants. I highly recommend this awesome game, especially if you like some added challenge to your gameplay.
All that money was a pain in the arse to do, especially trying to balance the composition enough to still give the readers a clue what the heck is happening in the scene!
THis rubber hose style is so much fun to work with since it lets me go for a looser style and play around a lot more with cartoony expressions. I could get used to this!
I always wondered about those cork guns as a kid, since you could not get one anywhere. Still, I saw them in cartoon shows such as The New Adventures of Winnie The Pooh, old Disney and Warner Brothers shorts, and older comics. My mum even told me that my uncle had one of those as a kid. So I guess I just wanted to draw one since it was kind of era-appropriate for the story. Add, of course, it is useless because why not?