Oh look! A new comic!

And no, not an entirely true story. The weird stares I got at Target however, are true. And no, they do not carry Catherine. Either way, I did drop by Best Buy and had to ask them specifically to get the game out and a chick I knew passed but I avoided contact with an SMART maneuver. That parts true, and inspired this comic.

Never the less, practice on caricatures and lots of new coloring techniques being deployed. Tell me what you think!

NEW COMIC + PANDA STINGER!

Heh, everytime I try and work on an animated peice myself, I find myself lacking for two things: People to help me animate (truth be told, I am an illustrator. I can animate however I am not confident enough sometimes to get things complete) and I am not good at making music. Thus, my quandary explored in this comic.

I can however, draw, ink and color like a mofo. This is one of my better peices. I will play with it and clean it up a bit more before I post it to deviant art alone but still, figure the finish product should be up here.

Panda 3 Progress Report

Quick status update. Comic is actually done, just finishing this puppy up.

Like it? Imagine, if you will, if it were inked. And colored. Team Fortress 2 style. Might be awesome right?

Give me a night or two. New comics here and on Fragworld too.

And original character.

Me and Stephen been talking about the honey badger for a while. It's badassery knowing no limits, its only right he get a comic book character named after him.

So meet Ratel.

He's a sorta anti villianous guy with a bad childhood checkered past and a few years in the marines. Somehow connected to Wolverine, I plan to introduce him tugging on Thor's cape (He's that fearless) to ask him where Wolverine is. Thor of course, lands him in jail with a black eye. But Ratel isn't that dumb, it's all in his big plan ....what plan?

Well just wait till I can do the fan-comic I've got in the works for it =D

Anyway thanks to some mutant genes or Weapon X balonga, he now feels no pain and has regenerative capability similar to Wolverine: albiet slower and less effective than Wolverine's. If Wolverine gets shot in the head, typically he gets back up, wonders why some guy with a smoking gun is looking at him crazy and can't remember what he had for breakfast that morning. Ratel gets shot in the head, hes pretty much dead. He won't feel it but yeah dead. Stabbed in the torso or shot in the extremities give him an hour and hes ok. The litmus test is if its something that would instantly kill a normal man or something that isn't fixable by a trip to the ER, its light's out Ratel.

Anyway initial design. Might clean it up and make him look meaner. More scars.

Crysis 2 Comic

CRYSIS 1 SPOILERS GO CRYSIS 1 SPOILERS ARE IN THIS!!!! 

Outside that, enjoy my first impression of the first 15 or so of Crysis 2. Beautiful game and so far the only one I've paid the 59.99 for and so far, so good! It's pretty awesome.

Still kinda mad that we aren't able to play as Prophet unless he does what he did in the first game, which, is play dead early on and come back and kick ass. Hard to say at this point as the comic illustrates he was taken out pretty graphically. Not by Alcatraz. Heh, Alcatraz is your typical AFGNCAAP so far, which, I kinda tire of this trope. Namely after playing Heavy Rain, in which, you play as 4 distinctly different characters, all of whom have concrete sets of characteristics.

While I guess I don't want a lot of characterization getting in the way of my action, I also wish developers wouldn't shy so far away from letting you play as a set person.

It would'a been cool to play as Prophet. Least maybe the introduction where you see him with the mini gun destroying aliens. What a way to introduce a game than to throw you in head first kicking ass?

Never the less, art wise, this was probably one of the most labor intensive ventures. Shading the Nanosuit 2 and the gun porn was a pain.

Panda Banner

A banner I did for the Panda Comics. Didn't come out as well as I'd hoped, first run at sprite making. Gonna post all the sprites here later but check it out. Cool banner, I dig the retro look for all the this comics 'packaging'.