tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46846863160079832162024-03-18T23:47:21.415-06:00MIDNIGHT CHRONICLEThe random blogging of Scott Griffin, creator of MIDNIGHT THEATRE: REVENGE of the OCTAGON, a neo-pulp, retro-futuristic, mad science, action-adventure thriller!
It's got jet packs!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09201177088400202987noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684686316007983216.post-86904692779095993762015-01-30T18:23:00.000-07:002015-01-30T18:23:29.915-07:00The DWIGHT HOWARD SHOW! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I thought I'd have to wait until next week but apparently they're starting promos for the show this weekend so I can officially show it now.</div>
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Root Sports had me do up a few illustrations for the intro they envisioned for the Dwight Howard Show, airing Feb. 7. The astounding Rich Ealom and his amazing crew at Root Sports handled the editing, animating, effects and music for the intro. All I had to do was draw and color for a week and then they put their <span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">magic to work and the end result is amazing!</span></div>
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This was a great project to work on -- everyone at Root was wonderful to work for and I just can't say enough good things about Rich Ealom.</div>
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And a very special thank you to my man Dennis DePrisco for recommending me for the gig. You, sir, are my hero! You have no idea how much that much recommendation means to me and I'll never forget it!</div>
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Been delayed with some very cool things lately, so today's post is a short detour from MIDNIGHT THEATRE.<br />
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My piece on Scottish Independence is currently on display at the Auld Acquaintance Exhibitions in Glasgow and London after a run in France. It's currently selling quite well, apparently, and getting some very positive attention. Take a moment to read the following article and have a think about what Scottish Independence means from both perspectives.<br />
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http://forargyll.com/2014/08/the-auld-acquaintance-leiper-gallery-exhibition-of-cartoons-on-independence/<br />
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And remember to check out the studio's website as well.<br />
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http://scottishcartoons.com<br />
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Some of my favorite people in the world do amazing work there.<br />
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My last post covered the first part of the heroes of ZEPPELIN HEIGHTS, so today we'll finish that out because to do otherwise would just be rude.<br />
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This fun little gal is GRACIE SPACE, our astronaut of the piece. She ends up going into space to overtake a kinetic bombardment satellite AKA a "Rod from God." The "Rod from God" is basically just a giant tungsten telephone pole that is dropped from orbit. The destructive force comes from the kinetic energy of the giant rod impacting the Earth. It's like dropping a small nuke without all that messy radiation. Moving at at least 9 kilometers per second -- orbital velocities, folks -- the weapon would inflict massive damage. Conceived of as a bunker buster, the weapon has the explosive yield of a small tactical nuke.<br />
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These are the things I read about in my spare time.<br />
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She originally wore mirror shades until I realized she had no way of taking them when wearing her helmet. But does that really matter in space?<br />
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Next up is one of the Nightsabers. These gals are special operations forces dedicated to personal security and special missions. There's only about a dozen of them, but they are scary lethal. This particular NIGHTSABER is the personal security for COLONEL BLACKSTORM (seen in part I) and she has dedicated her life to protecting him in any way necessary. As a result, she's kind of a bitch.<br />
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SILVER STAR is your basic infantryman, except his body's been turned into organic steel. He's strong enough to lift a city bus, invulnerable, fast, just the perfect soldier in every way. Imagine a whole platoon of these guys fighting a war. How badass would that be? The guy could punch a hole in tanks.<br />
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Then there's KENSAI. I had so much fun drawing this guy. I had just got my hands on Manga Studio 5 -- the program I use for comic book inking and production -- and was playing with the new brushes and settings and junk and stuff. Everything about inking him just flowed with such precision and grace ... Ever have a moment when you feel like your actions are guided by a higher power? Well, the bad news is that's not God. That's you tapping into the higher resources of your brain, using a greater percentage then you normally would and pushing yourself through evolution.<br />
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There is no God. There is only you on this Earth. And that is wonderful.<br />
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Miyamoto Musashi was real. That man walked our Earth.<br />
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My KENSAI is like that, except his sword is carved from an actual dragon's tooth and the spirit of that creature is now starting to overtake his body. So, y'know, drama.<br />
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Im including his raw inks so you can see my process and why I enjoyed inking him so much. I'm not sure which version I like better, to be honest.<br />
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TALOS here was a real pain in the ass to design, mainly because I was making him way too complex originally. TALOS comes from Greek mythology, the first robot, a giant man of bronze who protected Europa from Crete.<br />
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I love the Greeks and their mythology.<br />
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So I kept over-designing and screwing up the designs for TALOS until finally I stripped him back down and gave him a pseudo-Spartan helmet. Tossed the T on his chest and that was all I needed.<br />
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He is, of course, 12 feet tall. And there's a dark secret behind his creation because he comes from Greek mythology. And his illo is, of course, unfinished.<br />
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I have ADD.<br />
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See these here AEROSQUADRON SKYROCKETS? I'm gonna re-design them. I don't like them. Well, I do like the jet pack. And I kind of dig the helmet. But there's just too much crap on that outfit. I need to strip them down the way I did TALOS and get back to the core concept of a legion of flying soldiers (screw you, Air Force) who act as air cavalry instead of paratroopers.<br />
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And that's it for now. There's a couple other unfinished illos on the big spread, and maybe someday I'll tell you folks about them. For now they're just the beginnings of ideas that I took too far, as opposed to complete ideas that I haven't finished yet.<br />
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Not sure what tomorrow will bring. More MIDNIGHT CONFIDENTIAL? More MIDNIGHT THEATRE? Feel free to share your opinions in the comments and let me know what you think!<br />
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"Quickly, Robin! To the Bat-poles!"<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09201177088400202987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684686316007983216.post-59141925519402052622014-08-30T01:30:00.000-06:002014-08-30T01:30:01.074-06:00ZEPPELIN HEIGHTS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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So I had an idea ... I've always loved team-ups in comics. I love when a couple heroes get together to fight some united front of villainy. World's Finest (Batman and Superman), Brave & the Bold (Green Lantern and Green Arrow), stuff like that. But even better is when teams get together and we see whole groups of heroes forced to interact. Huge stuff, like Secret Wars or House of M, stuff that affects everyone and shakes up the status quo.<br />
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And I love sci-fi. I love mad science ideas and all the crazy stuff that goes along with it. I love sci-fi characters and weapons and gadgets and junk and stuff. I love laser guns and jet packs and power rings and ... Well, it's a long list.<br />
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So I had the idea of combining all those things into a big crossover, but I needed an event, something major for everyone to get together over. That meant WAR. But I've already trashed Victory City a dozen times over in the multiple story lines I've got coming up. I wanted to create some place new for things to happen, some place even more mad-science and crazy-idea than Victory City already is.<br />
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Don't ask me how -- because I honestly don't remember the actual impetus -- but that led to ZEPPELIN HEIGHTS, the city in the sky, suspended by dirigibles and traveling all around the world, picking up refugees and survivors, creators and scientists, in an effort to create a better world.<br />
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Now that I think about it, there's some Flash Gordon in there. Probably some of Star Wars' Cloud City as well (which is just saying Flash Gordon anyway).<br />
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So war comes to Zeppelin Heights as the city is conveniently traveling to Victory City. Only this is different, because the invading army is a bunch of Fifth Reich time travelers coming back to our time and aligning themselves with Czernobog and his legion of demons from a hell dimension. The Fifth Reich has laid waste to the planet in their timeline so they figured "Screw it, we'll go back and invade someone else's time and just take all their shit."<br />
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Nazis are jerks.<br />
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So the good guys from the future come back in time to prevent the Nazi/demon takeover from happening, enlisting the aid of heroes such as the Victory Knights, the Black Hawk family, Night Shift, and many, many more.<br />
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This is planned as a Secret Wars level EVENT.<br />
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But enough of that. Let's get down to some characters and junk and stuff!<br />
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(I'm starting to think I should've named my blog '... And junk and stuff.')<br />
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First up is Electrella Eversmith. How great is that name? She's a wielder of the crimson volta, which is like ... which is a surprise. Tough shit. I loved designing her. I love her style. She's got a great hat and check out that chest! I mean the lightning bolt on the chest, not the chesty part itself.<br />
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Next up is Colonel Blackstorm. He's Electrella's battlefield commander, like Robert Duvall in 'Apocalypse Now' but with less surfing and not such a douchebag. He's the guy who has to make the hard battlefield decisions. Electrella gets to say 'Send in the ground troops!' but Blackstorm actually knows who those people are and that they're probably gonna die.<br />
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Lots of people are gonna die in this story, just FYI. I planning on squeezing the status quo by the nuts and making it scream like a bitch.<br />
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One of these days I'll post the raw work I did to make this guy happen. There's so much vector work in his turbine arm that it's silly.<br />
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The next guy is the Crimson Volt -- not to be confused with crimson volta or the Crimson Bolt. He's the embodiment of the volta and Electrella's boyfriend -- lucky bastard. He can do some serious damage with those mojo hands of his. Also a fun design.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">THE FOG</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MISTY</td></tr>
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This next guy is The Fog and I just love him. He's cold, cantankerous, bristly, blunt to the point of rudeness and maddeningly effective. Everyone would distance themselves from him but he's just too damn good at what he does. That's why he's got his three devoted sidekicks, Misty, Smoky and Cloudy.<br />
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I just realized I never finished Cloudy's illo. Gotta make time for that.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SMOKY</td></tr>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipdECzIGFtAqomlUAp7EYbJkZEMQWbYQxNLmIZC1fVLAdJ-emy1Ox0bLu0WBQbqczQw41ochdZ4qxhs1fbTIJbdHJVRpXu0VwluTs3QrUdNWl_S9V_jom6CMLkuk4XzruOczIXGjNVq0E/s1600/Fog_20AUG2013_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipdECzIGFtAqomlUAp7EYbJkZEMQWbYQxNLmIZC1fVLAdJ-emy1Ox0bLu0WBQbqczQw41ochdZ4qxhs1fbTIJbdHJVRpXu0VwluTs3QrUdNWl_S9V_jom6CMLkuk4XzruOczIXGjNVq0E/s1600/Fog_20AUG2013_2.png" height="200" width="141" /></a>Back to The Fog -- I really dig his look. I'm posting him with and without the helmet because I'm still stuck wondering which is better to use. I could draw someone in a loin cloth with that helmet and they'd be interesting enough, but I also really like the idea of someone seeing that helmet pumping fog out of the sides as it comes at them like a freight train in the dark. Then again, he's not a guy who would care about a helmet because he just kills every bad guy he encounters.<br />
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These are my thoughts, folks.<br />
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And what the hell, here's a nice detail shot of that helmet. I looked at art deco trains of the 1930s and 40s for inspiration and I think it's reflected pretty nicely here. That front lower jaw piece? That's a cow-catcher.<br />
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I'm not kidding.<br />
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Moving on, we have KLYDE. Ten feet tall with a hammer that shoots shotgun shells. KLYDE don't take no crap.<br />
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Still not happy with how the texture of his skin worked out, but don't tell him I said that.<br />
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I'm not sure how I forgot the most important guy in all of this until now, but here he is: DOKTOR NACHT, the bipolar, hypo maniac, Bavarian, rock n' roll mad scientist creator of ZEPPELIN HEIGHTS. <br />
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DOK NACHT is everything you love about rock n' roll and absolutely do not want in one of the most brilliant minds ever to strut his bad self across the face of our earth wearing a pair of leather jodhpurs. When I say mad scientist I mean that he really is crazy as hell. He's a drug addict, a drunk, a hyper genius, guitarist in a German rock band and all around lunatic.<br />
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I love him.<br />
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And with that I'm gonna call an audible. This post ran long, so I'm breaking it into two parts. Part II will introduce you to more heroes, including GRACIE SPACE, the AEROSQUADRON SKYROCKETS and KENSAI. Here's a low res version of a big ass poster to tide you over.<br />
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Until that time, Eustace. Until that time ...<br />
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I love making bad guys. I love crafting up a villain that really believes the whole damn world is wrong and he's gonna show them and then they'll all understand and he'll be the hero. I love crafting the misunderstood monster, the survivor getting by, the thief with good intentions, the hooker with a heart of gold. But more than any of them I love making THE VILLAIN, the James Bond-level baddie who's in the game just to be bad.</div>
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Yesterday we saw the HAMMOND HEIGHTS SCRAPPERS, the good guys of our opening story. Today I'm sharing the villains, THE KERES KABAL. Each of these bad guys has his own agenda, plot or scheme, but the main guy, that freaky damn albino, is THE VILLAIN. And he's got a nasty plot of his own.</div>
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I'm not gonna say too much more about these folks. Villains should be revealed slowly and plottingly, just like the way they work. So I'm just gonna throw some images down and let y'all enjoy what I'm cooking up with as little reveal as possible.</div>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-auJw9Odikpk3adBeiPGJPHLrXZ2kZrfWryz6HdWmnV3mGaJ8aOdXDLARaqsk3LBqgVL5HjMr8DHIUTuimqzmlgQN2rWTjeprFaPlL6TiOgEaCuIfN1PIgVk1Pk9Q4luG-7yNr4lotls/s1600/Albino_Colors.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-auJw9Odikpk3adBeiPGJPHLrXZ2kZrfWryz6HdWmnV3mGaJ8aOdXDLARaqsk3LBqgVL5HjMr8DHIUTuimqzmlgQN2rWTjeprFaPlL6TiOgEaCuIfN1PIgVk1Pk9Q4luG-7yNr4lotls/s1600/Albino_Colors.png" height="320" width="112" /></a>This is THE VILLAIN, the albino SIGOR SCARAVENGEN. The name is entirely made up, made to sound like some bizarre Scandinavian language that died centuries ago. SCARAVENGEN has an insane plot to take over Victory City and he's using the OCTAGON's activities as a cover for his actions.<br />
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BARON VON VELOCITY. Obsessed with speed and creator of the BULLETEER armor.<br />
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The BULLETEER armor. I think it looks like shit -- kind of like someone went nuts in Illustrator and didn't know when to quit -- but here it is anyway.<br />
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I've always loved the word 'confidential.' It implies secrets and mysteries and hidden agendas and conspiracy and collusion ... I picked up 'L.A. Confidential' by James Ellroy based on the title alone and I never regretted that.<br />
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So when I got to thinking about a side book to run as a parallel to MIDNIGHT THEATRE, the name landed smack in my face. MIDNIGHT CONFIDENTIAL is going to be about the secret stories that never see the cold light of day in Victory City. It's about heroes fighting and dying in the dark alleys and no one but the reader ever finding out how or why. It's about villains plotting and planning, colluding and conspiring in hushed whispers throughout the underworld. It's a beautiful woman with bright red lips hissing a terrifying secret in your ear and knowing you can never share it with anyone else.<br />
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So I designed some characters for it! And over the next few days I'm going to share them with you, my eight readers.<br />
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Before I get too far into this, one thing you should know is that I love poster design. Love it like a redneck loves shotguns and Schlitz. When I get enough content together for a poster I get to work, going through concept sketches, into design, letting that flow and merge into something new and really thrilling as it happens on the page. I love working in Illustrator and playing with text and copy to see what I can make that's new and reflects the story and characters at the same time.<br />
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For MIDNIGHT CONFIDENTIAL, I'd already designed up all these characters. Seven friggin' teams of heroes and villains, all with their own back stories and agendas and missions and plots. But before that it all started with one guy, DEADLINE, the ghost reporter. Not sure how the idea bubbled up in my head -- probably another couple of days without sleep that led to an 'AHA!' moment -- but I just loved the idea of having an almost-omniscient narrator who could barely affect the plot. I wanted someone with personality, a little style and a through-line of his own that could walk us through the first chapter of MIDNIGHT CONFIDENTIAL. Also, MIDNIGHT CONFIDENTIAL sounds like the name of a newspaper, so ... I don't think I need to explain that part.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm4XZxjc2y5Ita89Ku3hUHisGdBvu2aZiqHid8l5VdxKzHg2e1cXHrWRtttjj7Q78RtYoT5n4mhnoOh8JpIaNzBD4K5fb9OCEMp5wGChyphenhyphen-wG0vrbp_Lv-CtV1eZOSp4Sh72EeruPdzDbg/s1600/Avenger_Colors+copy.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm4XZxjc2y5Ita89Ku3hUHisGdBvu2aZiqHid8l5VdxKzHg2e1cXHrWRtttjj7Q78RtYoT5n4mhnoOh8JpIaNzBD4K5fb9OCEMp5wGChyphenhyphen-wG0vrbp_Lv-CtV1eZOSp4Sh72EeruPdzDbg/s1600/Avenger_Colors+copy.png" height="200" width="88" /></a>Anyway, DEADLINE is a great guy to write. He's a loner by nature -- he didn't even realize he was dead until after a full weekend had passed -- and he's been a ghost long enough to have figured out some tricks. He doesn't haunt any place so much as he sort of drifts around, gathering stories and trying to do some good with what little effect he has. In his drifting he comes across the murder of THE PHANTOM AVENGER -- ironic name on purpose -- a crime fighter who's had his head beaten in with a pipe then shotgunned almost in half at the torso. PHANTOM AVENGER is now trapped in limbo, a specter shouting a silent scream until someone can solve his murder and put his soul to rest.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5TH1va6cheVMyi2VRodCmOWRIOaCAAmpKHaQaZN1gJyLfqeoxZcknsONp-NNKSvG58UFRnIeUlK5meRlamJmTmQGyB3WEX-1E9gKUODdQf_ZTPrEYDDYHRvuaCseNe4PvnFLGF5TKGOc/s1600/DD_and_DO+copy.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5TH1va6cheVMyi2VRodCmOWRIOaCAAmpKHaQaZN1gJyLfqeoxZcknsONp-NNKSvG58UFRnIeUlK5meRlamJmTmQGyB3WEX-1E9gKUODdQf_ZTPrEYDDYHRvuaCseNe4PvnFLGF5TKGOc/s1600/DD_and_DO+copy.png" height="200" width="132" /></a>DEADLINE and STREET decide to enlist some more help in their search for justice. DEADLINE has been drifting around for awhile now so he seeks out some people he's been keeping his undead eyes on to make sure they don't tip over the line into eeeeevil.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLZZpyrtBlQe26CZhgQNCHFjjOVzXHA1VX8QP5tHM4vwFQtM8N1-8JpZ0v0N_Eqm5fCCDmcboNXSdC8LKMUHpItgPRTUj1mhEs_EpO35p26LvYZLL9M2oU78OoDFY6-4j81Cnu8F2y098/s1600/Renard_and_Corbeau_Colors.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLZZpyrtBlQe26CZhgQNCHFjjOVzXHA1VX8QP5tHM4vwFQtM8N1-8JpZ0v0N_Eqm5fCCDmcboNXSdC8LKMUHpItgPRTUj1mhEs_EpO35p26LvYZLL9M2oU78OoDFY6-4j81Cnu8F2y098/s1600/Renard_and_Corbeau_Colors.png" height="200" width="124" /></a>First there's the twins, DEVIL'S DUE and DEVIL'S OWN. They grew up in a family that were servants to Victory City's blue bloods and aristocracy. Something horrible happened to their parents and they've now sworn vengeance on the old money family responsible for it. DEVIL'S DUE is fairly level-headed -- he's coldblooded, calculating -- but DEVIL'S OWN is just bloodthirsty for vengeance. The two make a nice balance for each other.<br />
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Corbeau and Renard -- French for the Raven and the Fox -- are two wealthy brats into roleplaying on a level like no others. Corbeau and Renard are not their names, of course. That's just the roles they're currently playing. Renard steals some shiny bauble or priceless gem and then Corbeau has to chase her down and catch her. It's a little weird, too, because they're cousins and he's gay. Also, I don't like the way she's drawn. Her butt looks funny.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2qJ7kj2KdhwhPY2-_ZrEwpp0Bn1f3RTgMiV0G5TJp1GdgzxC9Ar6APu6mJrZmoiEfags-lHPtCVfJm0zZJi7VFE_GIyIjkbOr1AHN-v1TPMyFeNWBgd_HQLV2oqfhyA2Ucaxzor6u0Gw/s1600/Doughboy_Colors.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2qJ7kj2KdhwhPY2-_ZrEwpp0Bn1f3RTgMiV0G5TJp1GdgzxC9Ar6APu6mJrZmoiEfags-lHPtCVfJm0zZJi7VFE_GIyIjkbOr1AHN-v1TPMyFeNWBgd_HQLV2oqfhyA2Ucaxzor6u0Gw/s1600/Doughboy_Colors.png" height="200" width="119" /></a>DOUBGHBOY is interesting. She took the name from her brother, a WWI vet who came home and fought crime. He was, of course, chewed up by the city and spit out so now she fights on in his absence.<br />
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SHAX BANSHEE is our last guy. He's actually possessed by a banshee and has to constantly feed it or it will start feeding on him. He's a good person but his mother crossed the wrong Pikey gypsy and SHAX found himself cursed. Now he's got a friggin' banshee stuck in his chest.<br />
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So that's the initial line-up of good guys for MIDNIGHT CONFIDENTIAL. I don't have a subtitle for this on yet. GHOST OF A CHANCE? DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES? I'll keep playing with it until something appropriately pulp-ish pops into my head.<br />
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Tomorrow we'll meet some of the villains of the piece.<br />
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So, yeah ... I had fun with it.<br />
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P.S. Here's the initial background design I did for the big poster. I'm sharing it with you as a teaser.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09201177088400202987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684686316007983216.post-61722160275945043642014-08-26T19:51:00.001-06:002014-08-26T19:51:19.494-06:00Dead Ringers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So I had another idea for a story.<br />
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Happens a lot in my line of 'work.'<br />
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Anyway, I wanted to create a group of villains that would be ... I suppose bespoke is the best term. Some baddie grabs a group of nefarious types, powers them up specifically with the skills needed to counter the Victory Knights, then cuts them loose on our good guys. So this is as far as I've got to designing.<br />
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I'm placing our good guy images next to their villainous 'mirror' so you can get a sense of how they match up.<br />
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The biggest thing was that I didn't want to do the opposite of our good guys. My guys' powers aren't really suited to that. Jack Bandit has a bulletproof suit and half a dozen guns. And a hand grenade. What's the opposite of that? So I didn't go that way. Instead I created 'black mirrors' of all the good guys, dark reflections that are kind of coming from the same perspective but with an eeeeeevil twist. It's sort of like the Jedi and the Sith: they both use The Force, but in different ways and for different results and man, those Sith guys all look way cooler, don't they?<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNnMKqusl91w3HatzpZ5IW3PR_kj06yobNAAz-zmZSDdfYc-nqAbaDSuXa5_KuZ5DIORHBArgSuOWLN3wtxHZ7MgjTancsfwXWFsyclqUXyqAP3IJV02r3ft-_sKKWDCOVftMOiyay3Hc/s1600/0Bandit+1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNnMKqusl91w3HatzpZ5IW3PR_kj06yobNAAz-zmZSDdfYc-nqAbaDSuXa5_KuZ5DIORHBArgSuOWLN3wtxHZ7MgjTancsfwXWFsyclqUXyqAP3IJV02r3ft-_sKKWDCOVftMOiyay3Hc/s1600/0Bandit+1.png" height="200" width="89" /></a>I mentioned my favorite Knight, Jack Bandit, previously, so we'll start with his 'mirror,' Jesse Hell. There's two things to understand about why I went the way I did with this guy. First, he had to have a lot of style. Jack's got style and his reflection needs to be stylish as well. Second, I fucking hate most rockabilly types. They're usually assholes with too many tattoos, they play at some ridiculous posturing and they get some gorgeous girls. I kicked around quite a few ideas for Jack's opposite before internalizing a bit and asking my id what would really grate on my nerves. The answer: a rockabilly greaser that Lana Lash would probably have the hots for.<br />
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So it made drawing him kind of tough. I had to put aside that chip on my shoulder to make sure I still did the character justice and got a cool design. Jesse Hell is invulnerable himself, instead of wearing a suit like Jack, and as a result he can be more of a hand-to-hand guy, getting in close to Jack and really delivering some damage.<br />
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What an asshole.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuEpAl5Rn1RjYi-PS4Q4GuZc9bHk8o4hl1GWci5lpdWdmDcdr4R6TSYG5nVT1516Oyu0wwUNGwQxXA9xTUF-V8zAGB_9NZT5gGXYbgBjpMeJUgzJr1KMQ3_IRXSDxe_Y6kV9ygy2Mn_mg/s1600/Dani+Danger.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuEpAl5Rn1RjYi-PS4Q4GuZc9bHk8o4hl1GWci5lpdWdmDcdr4R6TSYG5nVT1516Oyu0wwUNGwQxXA9xTUF-V8zAGB_9NZT5gGXYbgBjpMeJUgzJr1KMQ3_IRXSDxe_Y6kV9ygy2Mn_mg/s1600/Dani+Danger.png" height="200" width="96" /></a>Next up is Miss Fortune, the anti-Dani Danger. Another tough one, she went through a lot of sketches and designs before I settled on this look. Dani is a very carefully precise woman, very ordered out of necessity, and her reflection is that order and drive to perfection taken to a domineering level. I then gave her a flexible electro epee, a fencing foil, that would work well in battling Dani's ricochet boomerangs. Miss Fortune also manipulates bad karma to counter Dani's good luck, essentially nullifying the one powered trick Dani has up her sleeve.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizP760HJmor3kCvVP-UjhKSIWXkyo54bgHCg2HGuFXOkZRJURr8Ic5oZDEfLQ257cDEhemLdMkVY3uMuPwPdFA-6QR8ZR9p1x3J-eyvFavrq0TCUi7XHAqaMmKkGxYbbbaHpaYJkZUSIo/s1600/Sabra+Stingray-Colors.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizP760HJmor3kCvVP-UjhKSIWXkyo54bgHCg2HGuFXOkZRJURr8Ic5oZDEfLQ257cDEhemLdMkVY3uMuPwPdFA-6QR8ZR9p1x3J-eyvFavrq0TCUi7XHAqaMmKkGxYbbbaHpaYJkZUSIo/s1600/Sabra+Stingray-Colors.png" height="200" width="80" /></a>Finally there's Sabra Sting, the doppleganger for Lana Lash. She's got taser glovers and some other tricks, including wall-crawling and agility. And she knows Jack's gonna be hot for her because she's wearing very little clothes, which is gonna drive Lana nuts.<br />
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Y'know, Jack and Lana really would be a good couple if they weren't both so damn self-destructive.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcrqJGx2Jw5yuqAqqsTofr-PMAsUVnZYArFocwF8hUecHi2lrZIOwoLuBDM_eJHDYD4N9F_lYUjkWV21SQWLqFnhcEYw9bd7cx_xlluJYXlmw_GKAsgUnwCLNNUKZZenWWhsL7dUHFGQM/s1600/Lana+Lash+26JUN2011.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcrqJGx2Jw5yuqAqqsTofr-PMAsUVnZYArFocwF8hUecHi2lrZIOwoLuBDM_eJHDYD4N9F_lYUjkWV21SQWLqFnhcEYw9bd7cx_xlluJYXlmw_GKAsgUnwCLNNUKZZenWWhsL7dUHFGQM/s1600/Lana+Lash+26JUN2011.png" height="200" width="91" /></a>Anyway, Sabra's really gonna give Lana a run for her money. The more I write the Knights the more I enjoy delving into the little nooks and crannies of their personalities. I really enjoy getting those moments when the characters 'speak for themselves' and tell me what they want to say or do, and Lana is really starting to shape up into someone special. I've got a very personal story lined up for her when I get around to everyone's origins and I can almost guarantee that hers will make you cry, just a little bit and only for a minute, but cry you will indeed.<br />
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Or at least get a little misty.<br />
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Coming soon are the other 'mirrors' for the Knights and their extended crime fighting circle. Corset's mirror is Cobalt Corsair, a pirate, and her sidekick Blue Bowman will be targeted by Deadeye, a sniper. Yellow Jacket and Fetish are going up against Silver Bullet and Kink, respectively. Fetish is another gal who's got a great background story and Kink is a connection to that. Furious is going up against a guy named Edge -- that may change -- a massive body builder-type who's resistant to the trembling hand of rage. And we'll see the return of Crucible when his counter shows up, the Inquisitor. Ever heard of the Spanish Inqusition? Condense that all into one woman.<br />
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Those last folks have been sketched up some, played with, kicked around a bit, but nothing's come to fruition yet. I'm not even really ready to post the sketches just yet. I know Edge looks like an accountant with muscles like Schwarzenegger and a baseball bat, and I have some good ideas for Kink now, but the rest ... Art is hard sometimes, folks. Rewarding when it works, pure joy when it flows, but total frustration when it jams up.<br />
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So, yeah ... there's all that.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09201177088400202987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684686316007983216.post-73108633539063271102014-08-25T13:24:00.002-06:002014-08-25T13:24:59.572-06:00The Black Hawk Family<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I'm still in that place, doing that thing, and frustrated as hell creatively. I've had almost no time to work on MIDNIGHT THEATRE, but that isn't the worst of it. The worst is that I've hit a creative wall. It's like writer's block for drawing. I can write like crazy at the moment -- I've started re-writing HATE WEARS JACK BOOTS!, the sequel to REVENGE of the OCTAGON, in addition to my regular journalistic duties. I'm taking some great photos and I'm even getting a little creative in the community relations department.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why yes, that is a double entendre.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I can't draw for shit right now. No new ideas. No satisfactory work on sequential pages, even with Peter Cacho's amazing breakdowns to work from. Nuthin'. And I hate it.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW7g-8E6iiVeSFt70PTq6ukJ1NPvwhE8Qk3G1DUub0PpS8UpvMukpxwu23qgCmsZsCf-mXE3xQIESDLTlvEyRCfiTKdS2HzEh4uBGrMRIcwLr8qxWnx5ghyphenhyphenTOtrH3aO-TP7XSCiyh7IZo/s1600/Kestrel-Inks.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW7g-8E6iiVeSFt70PTq6ukJ1NPvwhE8Qk3G1DUub0PpS8UpvMukpxwu23qgCmsZsCf-mXE3xQIESDLTlvEyRCfiTKdS2HzEh4uBGrMRIcwLr8qxWnx5ghyphenhyphenTOtrH3aO-TP7XSCiyh7IZo/s1600/Kestrel-Inks.png" height="400" width="190" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I managed to get this guy done. This is Kestrel, an extended member of the Black Hawk family of crime fighters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kestrel is the bad boy, the Jason Todd of the bunch, the guy who goes to the dark side. He's pretty mean, got a chip on his shoulder, rides a motorcycle, hangs out with easy girls with names like 'Tami' and 'Whisper' who listen to rock and cut themselves when no one's looking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He thinks Whitesnake is an awesome band, the sad, misguided bastard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And for the hell of it I'm gonna put Black Hawk and Cardinal up here so I have something to write about.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDfxfpuUu2L5RCXEahZmWTEw9qRdFUpfBgOftzCSlMUXkpm6qCarkkVgT7RS4JPp46RMpQOSDUUEbm6fgAUBlmhyphenhyphen7X5oUJLRW7LFGVm_KC1ZUg7L3HO2vwaxrX-OkHuGTJnpC1tvMBpHM/s1600/Black+Hawk-Colors.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDfxfpuUu2L5RCXEahZmWTEw9qRdFUpfBgOftzCSlMUXkpm6qCarkkVgT7RS4JPp46RMpQOSDUUEbm6fgAUBlmhyphenhyphen7X5oUJLRW7LFGVm_KC1ZUg7L3HO2vwaxrX-OkHuGTJnpC1tvMBpHM/s1600/Black+Hawk-Colors.png" height="320" width="197" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Black Hawk is my take on the Batman archetype. He's just purely a good guy, albeit a stern, aristocratic, egotistical asshole of a good guy. He always wins. Always. And he's got an extended 'family' of crime fighters, like Kestrel, who always think he's a dick but keep following him because A) He always wins B) They're all screwed up orphans and stuff searching in vain for parental role models and C) The dude is insanely rich and if your life is screwed up you may as well have nice stuff to make you feel better about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seriously.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cardinal here is not the first to wear the red tights, nor will he be the last. The original Cardinal was killed in action -- not sure how yet -- followed by a guy who now goes by Night Hawk. Then there was Kestrel, who quit because he's the bad boy. There's also a gal named Osprey, who's like Black Hawk's Catwoman -- smoking hot in skin tight leather with great hair -- and Peregrine who really needs to wear more clothes. Then there's gonna be a couple of members-in-training named Talon and Raptor, but they don't get to do too much. Maybe I'll make a Teen Titans-type group for them to join and get up to shenanigans with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, I did all this work on these folks months ago. I've been trying to design up the others but the pencil just ain't meetin' the paper the way it needs to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So that's my update. A little sad, a little bitter. At least I'm posting this from a bar full of beautiful Lithuanian women.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My sad life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">P.S. I'm generous. Here's an attempt I made at rendering Black Hawk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ENJOY. </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09201177088400202987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684686316007983216.post-48183481773297140172014-07-31T10:58:00.002-06:002014-07-31T10:58:55.779-06:00That thing I did in that place that one time ...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So I'm in Lithuania for a few months.<br />
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I'm an Army Reserve photojournalist on the side so I got pulled to support Operation Atlantic Resolve. That's the combined training stuff the U.S. is doing with Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Romania --and obviously Lithuania -- to show our support for our partners in the region and to try provide some assistance with stabilizing the troubled waters. As one Lithuanian general said to me "<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Because of the events, because of some military
clashes that are taking place not so far away from Lithuania, we feel it."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Better put than I could come up with on my own, for damn sure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;">Anyway, while I'm over here doing the thing in that place, I'm kind of jammed up on MIDNIGHT THEATRE: REVENGE of the OCTAGON. I scored myself a Wacom Hybrid (Thanks, Julie!) to work on, but being assigned to 1st Squadron, 91st Cavalry Regiment of the 173rd Airborne Brigade means that we cover all of their training </span><span style="font-family: Cambria;">along</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"> with any community relations events they undertake. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;">Which means I'm busy as all hell. We haven't had a day off in over a month. Goes with the territory, but it doesn't mean I don't miss working on my own stuff. And if I can't work on pages for MT: RotO then I'm damn well gonna fill up a sketchbook with new ideas to work on when I get home in a couple months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;">What does that mean for you, dear reader? It means posting crappy iPhone photos of stuff from my sketchbook since I don't have access to a scanner! (I'm not knocking the iPhone -- it just can't do what I need a scanner for).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;">*** Note to self: price a portable 8 1/2 x 11 scanner in the next few days. ***</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">Enough with the horse shit. On to ideas!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;">These two guys are part of a fun idea I had about a group of young ... I guess they'd classify as heroes, but they're definitely more revolutionary minded. They've got that spirit of youth that makes them want to affect serious change in the world, but they're faced with the dangers that go along with that. They're gonna screw up a lot and face the consequences, good intentions or not. Their methods are going to bring them into a lot of conflict with the good guys.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;">Anyway, I can't just name him Maverick, so he's actually 'Maverick' Rick Martin. His partner there is 'Radical' Calvin Reynolds. See what I did there? They picked their names based off their actual names! I'm clever! Anyway, they're kind of folk heroes and most folks in that part of the city know who they are. They're not too obsessed with secret IDs, which is also gonna bite them in the ass. Along with Maverick and Radical, I've got Rob 'Rogue' Gordon, Mira 'Minx' Nixon, Leo 'Hellion' Hansen and Ogden 'Outlaw' Lawrence. Together they make up The Vindicators -- meaning someone who is proven right.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;">I had fun coming up with these guys.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Gottesklage</i></b> is going to be a member of the Axis Champions. Yes, they are evil nazis, but it always bugs me that people have the nazis name their groups things like "Evil" and "Supervillains." They don't actually think they're vill</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ains, they think they're heroes doing grand shit. So I gave them a heroic team name. I am NOT condoning nazi evil in any way, shape or form.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, <b><i>Gottesklage</i></b> means something li</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ke a 'death song' or lament in German. She's a nazi super woman.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A schratt is a 'forest goblin' in German, but my goal is to make <b><i>Schratt</i></b> like their Batman. He's the creepy guy in the shadows, the night stalker type. The pervert in the leather trench coat with the heavy breathing. The guy's a Nazi so I don't have to feel bad about anything I say about him.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8rJhI6_SXTRRHcIm2hoabA3HNq9LruRISgi0pi9CtMbWE34WJe8K8om30vd2QaTrb_ksXT1LynISAbb-Zd6xyH_4LzRHFRYx4He6rdJuKzkGXr9b_mNh7m4Pq-_KamhuyG4sN1tHMOtA/s1600/photo+3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8rJhI6_SXTRRHcIm2hoabA3HNq9LruRISgi0pi9CtMbWE34WJe8K8om30vd2QaTrb_ksXT1LynISAbb-Zd6xyH_4LzRHFRYx4He6rdJuKzkGXr9b_mNh7m4Pq-_KamhuyG4sN1tHMOtA/s1600/photo+3.JPG" height="320" width="240" /></span></span></a><span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Following those jerks, we move onto another guy that deserves slapping: <b><i>RIVAL</i></b>. He's dedicated himself to becoming the ultimate nemesis to<b style="font-style: italic;"> Reflex </b>and<b style="font-style: italic;"> Rebel</b>, who you can see here getting some re-design treatment. I'm not entirely unhappy with the designs I have for Reflex and Rebel now, but I'm not entirely happy, either. I think I'm just forcing the issue as it is, but screw it. It's just chicken scratch on paper for now and it keeps my creative juices engaged. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reflex and Rebel both wear black body armor, so I'm having to challenge myself with some of the designs of them as well as finding ways to add color and texture. Same goes for Rival, although his color scheme is split as a red upper body with black pants and boots. At least that much is decided for me. My previous designs on Reflex had him in green glowing tones in the black armor with a red cape, and Rebel with yellow glowing tones and blue ... nodes, I guess. He friggin' circles on his armor.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, I'm thinking of a really dark blue uniform with silver trim to offset from Schreckengost's black with gold trim look. What color should those goggles be? Yellow? Red? Looking forward to playing around with this one.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next up is the <b><i>Black Hawk</i></b> family of characters, inspired by Batman and his supporting cast. I think I have a pretty good take on what I want to do with their storyline. It's been a lot of fun finding the different names and developing the unique looks for each character while still maintaining a common theme.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First up is <b><i>Night Hawk</i></b>, a pretty blatant analogue of Nightwing. He's the former sidekick who's since broken out on his own. I've always loved Nightwing and this was an excuse to make my own version to play with. I'm not even trying to hide that.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then we've got <b><i>Kestrel</i></b>, who would be the Jason Todd-version of Robin, except not dead and brought back to life by having Superboy punch through a reality membrane you know sometimes comics are just stupid. The next time someone suggests a character punch through a reality membrane someone from editorial should come along and punch through their cerebral membrane.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw2Pc3g6Inn8fDVElu_HhVex-K9nuDxrR9XvaB2EFO0zq8zJIfc5nr63wvlPvOGsl5d8gsuiOWOMwaBvZlQNlgLpEoiVbm3KO2CZ2yPsPtHwejbg0Zc0EcxVnpED2EbksMppv_nBVL99E/s1600/Death+Stalker.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw2Pc3g6Inn8fDVElu_HhVex-K9nuDxrR9XvaB2EFO0zq8zJIfc5nr63wvlPvOGsl5d8gsuiOWOMwaBvZlQNlgLpEoiVbm3KO2CZ2yPsPtHwejbg0Zc0EcxVnpED2EbksMppv_nBVL99E/s1600/Death+Stalker.png" height="320" width="223" /></a>Tried the new coloring method on a new character, the Death Stalker, and I thought "Why should I deprive the world of seeing my process? Who am I to keep that from them? Some kind of asshole? Nay, not I!"<br />
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So with that said, here's how I get shit done.<br />
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STEP 1: Find a sketch I did of a completely different character several weeks ago. I think this was when I was trying to work out the costume for Sabra Stingray.<br />
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STEP 2: I inked her up in Manga Studio. Love that program. Changed everything about the way I work. Also helps that I have a 22 inch Cintiq monitor to draw on. That means all those different colored lines are done on different layers. I worked out costume details and and shaped the character of the character a bit more (if that makes sense).<br />
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Pretty drastic difference from that little sketch.<br />
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STEP 3: Next I flatted in colors and played around with her final color scheme. This is one of my favorite steps -- playing with color, not the flatting. Flatting is tedious and boring. Color theory is amazing and not boring. I have to reign myself in when I'm working out the colors because I'll just keep trying combo after combo after combo. I originally had a purple cold scheme in mind for her until I decided I wanted her to be adaptable to urban and desert setting. Hence the cool gray jump suit -- gray is strictly value and blends in easier with most stuff. It should be a broken up, muddled mix of grays and browns but camo looks stupid on the page and it's a pain in the ass for the artist and colorist and right now I'm both of those people and it's my character so I get to do what I want.<br />
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STEP 4: So here's the airbrush style render with fog and lighting effects (because SCREW YOU, BACKGROUNDS). I'm still working out the best way to get speedy on this style. I'm not entirely sure it will work for REVENGE of the OCTAGON. I want a unique look -- something different from the other pulp and neo-pulp books. Don't get me wrong, I love those books, but this one's mine and it's gonna look different.<br />
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The best way I can describe the overall look would be if you saw police lights spinning in the night while it's lightly raining to create fog or a mist in the air while flashbulbs are going off. It's dark -- the book is almost always set at night -- but there's color and light in the dark as well as something for those to reflect off of. That's where the rain or fog comes in. There's a nice glamour to it, a slick surface sheen, but underneath all that is the dirt and mud and scum.<br />
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So, yeah ... I just need to perfect that and find the time to do it all while I'm off on this little European mission I got coming up for the Army Reserves (more on that when I'm allowed to talk about it). Either that or I gotta find some ace who already knows what I'm talking about and wants to work for cheap up-front with a good back end cut. And that just ain't gonna happen.<br />
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Anyway, for STEP 4 I added colored light to play with -- the yellow behind her -- then dropped in the fog. I tried to do the render as quick as possible while staying accurate on the details. On my last post I notice that I missed Black Phantom's belt and it really drives me nuts now. I used just black and white for a lot of the render so I could work over any color, but that get's tricky when you get into yellow and greens -- they can get ugly and muddy when you add black, and Death Stalker here has both in her outfit. But I managed to handle it okay. I definitely colored this piece faster than the last one, so I got that going for me ...<br />
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So I'm slightly pleased with this one. I still don't entirely like using the airbrush, though. It's took damn soft and the harder edges are too hard. I need to learn some of the new techniques for Photoshop I've seen going around. But the, there's the Army sending me off to somewhere remote enough that we likely won't have internets so online tutorials will be waiting for ... awhile.<br />
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Anyway, make with the feedback. Stroke the ego or flame the comments. Either way, I just want to engage in a discussion about the piece and the process.<br />
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Almost forgot: Death Stalker is the name of one of the most deadly scorpions in the world and it's found in tons of places, to include the Kasmhir. One of my bed friend's, Yasmin Anderson, is from the Kashmir, so when I read that I figured I'd dedicate this character to her. DEATH STALKER, THE KASHMIRI SCORPION. She's a fighter for Kashmiri independence from the forces in Pakistan and India that would claim the Kashmir as their own. And she has a lot of nice sweaters.<br />
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Also, that roscoe she's holding? It's a VZ-61 Skorpion! See what I did there? The silencer was just to add some mass to the silhouette, but then that made think more about making her versatile as a mountain and desert hunter and junk and stuff and now she's a lot tougher character which is totally cool.<br />
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I'd like to take a moment to introduce a new collaborator to the MIDNIGHT THEATRE creative team, Mister Peter Cacho. Hailing from the city of Taguig in the Philippines, Peter is quite a find. He's already done some comics work after a career in portrait painting and now he's the 'breakdown artist' for MIDNIGHT THEATRE: REVENGE of the OCTAGON.<br />
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So what the hell is a breakdown artist, and why ain't I drawing the whole thing myself?<br />
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As the breakdown artist Peter takes my script and interprets all my little panel notes and whatnot into a cohesive, visual layout that a reader should be able to understand (generally) without word balloons. Strong narrative art skills are a must for the breakdown artist as they have to show the story clearly while also providing visual interest. It's a comic, after all, and we all want it to look cool and fun.<br />
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From there, I take Peter's loose layouts and begin drawing and inking over them. Peter's done most of the hard work at this point, providing the perspective grids and making sure all the figures are in proportion. He's figured out the best way to move the 'camera' around the 'actors' and whatever action is going on. I've found that his breakdowns are even thorough enough that in most cases I'm proceeding directly to inking, skipping that time consuming pencilling stage.<br />
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So what am I then? I'm the lucky guy who gets to draw over his stuff and finish it up into a well-inked black and white page that can then get colored and lettered. I can be terribly slow when it comes to drawing comic pages, obsessing over unnecessary details and second-guessing every decision I make. By working with Peter and trusting his skills I can put aside all that foolishness and get down to finishing those pages. Also, Peter's work is much more loose and dynamic than mine, so when I work over his layouts it forces me to loosen up as well.<br />
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I'm posting the pages Peter's provided so far with his permission. I'm already well under way on my end of the job and having a blast with it. Hopefully the end result will be something people want to keep coming back for. I'll post my finishes when I've got something more complete to show. For now you'll have to content yourself with the full finished pages I originally did for pages 1 and 2 that I decided to scrap once Peter came on board.<br />
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I'm posting pages 1, 2 and 4 as well as the scripts for those pages so you can see what Peter had to work with and the challenges he faces in 'breaking down' my script.<br />
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You can find more of Peter's work at http://porcholino.deviantart.com and on his Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/porcholino. Check out his stuff. He's got some great finished work at those sites that will show you why we chose him over everyone else!<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b4a7d6;">HEIGHT: Short and tall </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b4a7d6;">DISPOSITION: Surly </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b4a7d6;">OCCUPATION: Drug distributors</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b4a7d6;">Bloody Gus and Black Max Crowe claim to be twin brothers, offering only that they “have their mother’s eyes” as proof. Most people assume that they mean they have their mother’s eyes placed in a jar of formaldehyde, locked away in a safety deposit box somewhere in Toronto. Others figure they’re referring to a nun chained to a wall in a private prison somewhere north of Nova Scotia. Still others think they’re just criminal morons who formed some co-dependent attachment during their years in various juvenile detention facilities across the chilly, Canadian landscape.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b4a7d6;">Oddly enough, there’s truth to all three.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b4a7d6;">Now the Bros Crowe are branching out, running their drug pipeline down into the States and tapping into the sought-after syrup known as Victory City. They’re making a fortune doing it, too, because someone with influence is backing them and getting that insidious supply of syrup flowing from the metaphorical tree of narcotics.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b4a7d6;">LIKES: Drug money DISLIKES: Other money</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09201177088400202987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684686316007983216.post-44849992486712453182014-05-22T09:00:00.000-06:002014-05-22T09:00:01.601-06:00OCTAGON BIO #7 - THE STREET RONIN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b4a7d6;">CHET TAKAGI and the Street Ronin </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b4a7d6;">NAME: Chet Takagi </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b4a7d6;">HAIR: Black </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b4a7d6;">EYES: Brown </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b4a7d6;">HEIGHT: 5’ 7” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b4a7d6;">DISPOSITION: Self-involved and petulant </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b4a7d6;">OCCUPATION: Yakuza oyabun</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b4a7d6;">Chet Takagi was raised under the Japanese Yakuza tradition of ‘oyabun/kobun’ (literally ‘father figure/step son’) to take over the Warlords when his master retired. Unfortunately for everyone, Silvershade emptied a magazine of .45 caliber rounds into his oyabun’s face before Bob came of age. He was left to be raised by the detritus of the gang, those so far without honor that they did not commit seppuku (traditional suicide with a friendly back-up for assist) but instead wandered the immigrant ghettoes claiming to be ‘ronin’ (samurai without masters) when really they were just b-holes with swords.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b4a7d6;">Bob’s oyabun at least had money stashed away for the kid’s education, so he got a pretty good one at that, but influence can never be underestimated. The sleaze he was raised by remained sleaze while every Yakuza of honor remained deader than Kelso’s nuts and unable to do anything about the royal d-bag Takagi was raised to be. He actually changed his name to Chet while he was in college just so he could be ‘The Chet-ster.' Supposed to sound like jester, but if you have to tell everyone it just isn’t funny, right? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b4a7d6;">Well, don’t say that too loud because now he has a small army of katana-flailing frat boys on crotch rockets ready to do his bidding. They may be d-bags, but they’re well-financed, well-armed d-bags with enough numbers to stagger their way through taking down at least a lone Victory Knight.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b4a7d6;">LIKES: Blind followers DISLIKES: The Drugstore Cowboys</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09201177088400202987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684686316007983216.post-57637617133799001462014-05-21T09:00:00.000-06:002014-05-21T09:00:02.614-06:00OCTAGON BIO #6 - THE DRUGSTORE COWBOYS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">SHE-BANG & FRANK MULLET and the Drugstore Cowboys</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">MEMBERS: She-Bang, Frank Mullet, Rod Crotch, Muzzle</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">She-Bang and Frank Mullet are prime examples of humanity gone all wrong. She-Bang formed the gang when she met Frank Mullet more than a decade ago – she was a teenage candy striper and he was a hard-living, booze-addled, crank-addicted late-20s entrepreneur billing himself as a “proud purveyor and performer of fine erotic adult entertainment.” Once he showed her what that meant – and let her sample a rail or two from his never-ending stash of illegal synthetic drugs – Sheila Bandorski disappeared and the venal, bloodthirsty, hellish partnership of She-Bang and Frank Mullet was born. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Never one to miss an opportunity, Frank recruited several of his friends into the gang. Most of them are now dead from a variety of causes such as narcoleptic fits while on cross-country motorcycle trips, overdoses on a variety of untested drugs stolen from pharmacies and veterinary hospitals, and shotgun blasts to the face (She-Bang doesn’t like having her orders questioned). Rod Crotch is still around, but how do you honestly like a guy known as Rod Crotch?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">She-Bang recruited just one person: her sister, Martha, now known as Muzzle. She doesn’t talk much, she likes to screw around, and she is probably one of the best shots in the world.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">DISPOSITION: Schizophrenically tweaked </span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09201177088400202987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684686316007983216.post-2695356586607407712014-05-20T09:00:00.000-06:002014-05-20T09:00:01.056-06:00OCTAGON BIO #5 - THE CHAOS AGENTS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b4a7d6;">JENNY REBEL and the Chaos Agents</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b4a7d6;">HAIR: Short and bleached blonde </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b4a7d6;">EYES: Brown HEIGHT: 5’ 2” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b4a7d6;">DISPOSITION: Cheerfully sociopathic</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b4a7d6;">OCCUPATION: Part-time daddy’s girl, full-time sociopathic rabble rouser</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b4a7d6;">Jenny Rebel is a vicious little thing, mean of spirit and short of fuse, that gets off on chaos of any kind. She spouts off her agenda of anarchy and discord when she is in fact a perversion of anything those concepts stand for. She’s just a mean little kid who likes to screw around with the punk rock scene and recruited some of the more like-minded into her cabal of catastrophe. They don’t question anything because she’s already rich and gets them some of the best illegal narcotics available on the streets of Victory City.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b4a7d6;">LIKES: Hand grenades, hot fudge sundaes and kittens. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b4a7d6;">DISLIKES: Order. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09201177088400202987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684686316007983216.post-6211329537821946172014-05-19T09:00:00.000-06:002014-05-19T14:57:15.642-06:00OCTAGON BIO #4 - THE WRECKING CREW<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">TORSO & CHUCK MURDER and the Wrecking Crew</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">NAMES: Unknown </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">DISPOSITION: Bullying OCCUPATION: Bullies </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Torso likes guns so much that he had his mid-section replaced with a turret. Chuck Murder doesn’t care so much about the weapon as he does the opportunity to smash it into someone’s skull. The rest of the Wrecking Crew goes along with it because it keeps them in flashy cars and free booze. Not a whole lot else to say about these goons. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">LIKES: Cars and broads and guns and bullets. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">DISLIKES: Crappy cars and mouthy broads and sissy guns and not having enough bullets. </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09201177088400202987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684686316007983216.post-9215252887292097822014-05-17T11:45:00.000-06:002014-05-17T11:45:04.444-06:00OCTAGON BIO #3 - THE AEROSTALLION SKY BRIGANDS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #d5a6bd;">‘BUNNY’ BONAPARTE Commander of the Aerostallion Sky Brigands </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #d5a6bd;">EYES: Brown HEIGHT: 5’ 10” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #d5a6bd;">DISPOSITION: Perpetually pretentious </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #d5a6bd;">OCCUPATION: Air pirate commander </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #d5a6bd;">Bunny Bonaparte, commander of the Aerostallion Sky Brigands, has got a face like an ice pick and the personality to match. Why anyone chooses to work for her is unknown because she is such a cold, narcissistic wench. I’ve met rectangles with softer edges than her. I’ve gone ice fishing in warmer water than her blood. I’ve eaten lemons less sour than her face. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #d5a6bd;">That said, she is a marvel in the air. Her Aerostallion Sky Brigands are rivaled only by the Norwegian Lesbian Sky Pirates in terms of skill and bravado, and that is really saying something. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #d5a6bd;">Bonaparte seems to command an unending line of pseudo-equestrian, postgraduate-age, sturm und drang-banger women who will do her bidding without question. They fly and fight with military precision and yet no one knows where they train or who with. And the only thing they seem to spend their money on is better aircraft. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #d5a6bd;">LIKES: Unachievable perfection. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #d5a6bd;">DISLIKES: All the rest of you filthy, unwashed masses. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09201177088400202987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684686316007983216.post-67776981819842372352014-05-16T09:00:00.000-06:002014-05-16T09:00:07.327-06:00OCTAGON BIO #2 - JIMI SCIMMIANO<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #d5a6bd;">JIMI SCIMMIANO Paraplegic Pimp Prosthesis</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #d5a6bd;">NAME: His name really is Jimi Scimmiano </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #d5a6bd;">HAIR: Varies EYES: Vary HEIGHT: Varies</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #d5a6bd;">DISPOSITION: Goonish </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #d5a6bd;"> OCCUPATION: Mafia Capo</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #d5a6bd;">Jimi Scimmiano was an entrenched, mid-level mafia capo during the reign of the original Octagon. Note that he was not a member of the Octagon itself, just an annoying mob boss with an uncanny knack for escaping capture and being incredibly hard to kill. Silvershade found this out the hard way so he made a simple – and theoretically effective – decision … He threw Scimmiano in front of a moving train. Assuming him dead, Silvershade went about his business of dismantling Scimmiano’s criminal operation and its limited ties to the Octagon. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #d5a6bd;">But somehow Scimmiano survived even that near-splattered experience, albeit paralyzed from the neck down. Some of his men found him and scooped him up and managed to save his rotten life. His brain works fine – if you call the brain of a sociopath with a junior high school education ‘fine’ – but his body is a prison and all he can think about is revenge on Silvershade. Now, somehow, he’s back, utilizing a chimpanzee’s body … and an orangutan’s body … and a howler monkey in a tuxedo for formal occasions … Taking Scimmiano down is probably gonna get messy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #d5a6bd;">LIKES: Bananas and hookers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #d5a6bd;">DISLIKES: Tarantulas.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09201177088400202987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684686316007983216.post-53315191755609728372014-05-15T21:41:00.000-06:002014-05-15T21:41:00.171-06:00OCTAGON BIO #1 - ANNA CONDA, MISTRESS of the MAN-WHORES<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">ANNA CONDA Monarch of
the Man-Whores<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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HAIR: Zero </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">EYES: Green HEIGHT:
5’ 8<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">DISPOSITION: Scandinavian
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">OCCUPATION: She-pimp<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Anna Conda originally
hails from Norway, as does her selection of overly muscled, leather-clad
bodyguards. Anna feels she is the queen of female pimps and this is true,
largely because she is one of the only female pimps anywhere. There’s a few on
the West Coast, a couple in England, a really mean one in the Congo and four in
a trailer park in Florida (all half-sisters no less), but none can hold a
candle to the quality of Anna Conda’s prostitutes. She takes pride in hunting
them down herself, often targeting Boy Scout groups because “they travel in
herds.” Anna’s words, not mine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">LIKES: Roving packs of
naïve adolescent males.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I normally wouldn't post anything quite this personal but I've chosen to for two reasons:<br />
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1. 12 pounds of C4 explosive.<br />
2. Revenge, of course.<br />
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I hope you all enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it. Thanks to A-Rog for shooting the video and Team 13 from the 348th Engineer Company out of Belton, Missouri, for all the bad ass things they do.<br />
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I've put a lot of effort into developing the primary, secondary and even tertiary characters that populate Victory City and the Midnight Theatre so I like to share as much about them as I can whenever possible. I loved the 'Marvel Universe' and 'DC Who's Who' books when I was a kid, so I whipped up a little background on our primary good guys from "REVENGE of the OCTAGON" to share with y'all.<br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">NAME: Steven DeWitt AGE: 50-ish HAIR: Black and gray </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">EYES: Blue HEIGHT: 6' 4"</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">DISPOSITION: Always serious but somehow still charming </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">OCCUPATION: CEO, Titan Enterprises </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">HISTORY: Born to Sylvester and Diana DeWitt, Steven was raised in boarding schools with a silver spoon in his mouth. While in law school, Steven's mother was murdered. As the police sifted through a laundry list of suspects, Stephen began obsessively training to fight crime. His private investigation eventually led him to the criminal organization known as the Octagon and their leader, the elusive Lord Nyx. After years of fighting corruption as Victory City's district attorney and battling crime by night as Silvershade, Steven finally took on a partner, Ophelia Rose. Rose was of great assistance in the fight on crime but was critically injured while experimenting with DeWitt's terror gas grenades.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">His resolution stronger than ever, DeWitt finally took down the Octagon only to discover that Lord Nyx was in fact <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I AM NOT GOING TO TELL YOU.</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">With Victory City safe, DeWitt retired from law and crime fighting alike, dedicating his time to business and social reform. Eventually, he saw the need for new protectors in the city and recruited his Victory Knights -- Jack Bandit, Dani Danger, Lana Lash and Furious. DeWitt now uses his vast fortune and the resources of his company, Titan Enterprises, to provide funding and equipment for the Knights.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">POWERS: None. Just a background in boxing, the ability to take a whole lot of damage and the willpower of a god.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">EQUIPMENT: A couple of Colt .45s, some body armor, and his terror gas grenades.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">NAME: Unknown – He always goes by Jack Bandit AGE: Mid-20s HAIR: Black</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">EYES: Green HEIGHT: 6'</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">OCCUPATION: Deputized vigilante - Victory Knight</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">HISTORY: Very little is actually known about Jack Bandit and he prefers to keep it that way. At some point he was a smuggler in Ireland who got stuck in the middle of an arms deal that went bad. He won't talk about that. At some point he was shot several times and actually died. He won't talk about that. At some point DeWitt -- in Ireland on separate business -- forced a doctor to keep working on Jack and saved his life. He won't talk about that. Somewhere in there he found his famous bulletproof suit -- yes, even the tie is bulletproof -- but he won't talk about that, either. DeWitt saw Jack's heroic potential and offered him a spot with the Victory Knights, which Jack promptly refused. But DeWitt isn't stupid so he offered to pay Jack a ton of money to be a hero. Jack had grown up a poor orphan in Belfast and wasn't stupid either so he said yes. Also, he'd been targeted for death in Ireland and always wanted to see America. Now he spends his time keeping Victory City safe and his spare time being treated like some kind of crime fighting rock star. He'll happily tell you all about that.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">POWERS: None. Great sense of humor, though.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">EQUIPMENT: A bulletproof suit -- literally every piece of his suit is bulletproof. Other than that he's always got half a dozen weapons on him -- pistols, night sticks, brass knuckles, derringers, you name it. Jack's philosophy about weapons is that he'd rather have them and not need them, rather than need one and end up dead like he did last time. But he won't talk to you about that.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">NAME: Danielle Sterling AGE: Mid-20s HAIR: Red EYES: Green Height: 5' 8"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">DISPOSITION: Super professional but still has a sense of humor </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">OCCUPATION: Deputized vigilante - Victory Knight</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">HISTORY: Danielle Sterling came over from Scotland with her parents as a teen only to shortly thereafter see them gunned down in the streets when caught in the middle of a gang fight. Swearing revenge, she put her athletic gifts -- and her unnatural, inexplicable good luck -- to use and began systematically hunting down each gang member responsible. This brought her to the attention of Steven DeWitt at a time when he was looking for someone with skills and motivations just like hers. Providing her with more training, a costume and weapons, Danielle Sterling became Dani Danger, the first of the Victory Knights.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">POWERS: A natural acrobat, Dani combines her agility with her supernatural luck to confuse and then devastate her enemies.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">EQUIPMENT: She's got a couple of collapsible boomerangs she keeps in her shoulder holsters that can also give off an electrical charge when they strike an enemy. Or Jack Bandit. She knocked him out once.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">NAME: Ray Noble HAIR: Blond EYES: Hazel HEIGHT: 6' 6"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">DISPOSITION: Surly and serious with almost no sense of humor</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">OCCUPATION: Deputized vigilante - Victory Knight</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">HISTORY: Ray Noble grew up on the rough streets of Victory City with his brother, Russ. The two were known for their daring, their inseparability and their absolute unwillingness to back down from a fight. When the second war broke out Russ -- nicknamed Fearless by the locals -- was old enough to enlist and had to leave Ray at home. Every bully in town came looking to settle up with Russ gone and Ray was forced to fight on his own. Nicknamed Furious, Ray eventually came of age to enlist and joined the war effort. Ray soon learned that his brother was missing in action and his fury amplified a thousand fold. A burning, seething anger was trembling inside of of Ray.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">Returning home, Ray joined the police force and his Furious reputation followed him. He was tough but fair with a particular intolerance for wife beaters. Eventually he stuck his nose in the wrong case and the wonderfully corrupt officers of the VCPD framed him and kicked him off the force. Ray's trembling anger began to spill over as he went after the dirty cops responsible and it was then he discovered his trembling hand of rage.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">Once he'd cleaned up the rotten cops he was offered his old spot on the force, but he'd been made another offer already. Ray went to work for DeWitt under his moniker of Furious and instantly found himself hating Jack Bandit.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">POWERS: Furious is the wielder of the trembling hand of rage, allowing him to channel all his fury and anger into his right hand and swing with enough force to punch through steel. The limits of his abilities are still unknown.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">EQUIPMENT: A nightstick. The trembling hand of rage isn't exactly subtle and Furious' control isn't all that refined, so when lighter work is necessary he beats the crap out of crooks with his old police nightstick.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">NAME: Lana (Last name unknown -- even to her) AGE: Early 20s HAIR: Dark purple</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">EYES: Blue HEIGHTS: 5' 2"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">DISPOSITION: A kind of naive cheeriness but without getting on your nerves, she always tries to see the light in the darkest nights</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">OCCUPATION: Deputized vigilante - Victory Knight</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">HISTORY: Another orphan, Lana was found in a house by herself and not a stick of furniture in it after an anonymous call to the cops. She was 13 years old, couldn't speak and apparently had no memories. All she had for identification was a name on a piece of paper pinned to her shirt: LANA. Taken into state custody she was raised in a series oF institutions that eventually got her speaking again. She exhibited no signs of mental or emotional trauma but did display an uncanny athleticism and a dangerous lack of fear. Lana was often found up in trees or incredibly high rooftops, relaxing and enjoying the sights below. She was sent off to another institution for at-risk youth, but this one bore the Titan logo. DeWitt's attention was soon drawn to fearless little Lana and her unique abilities. He silently funded her education and training and when she turned 21 made her aware of her benefactor and gave her an offer to join the Knights.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">POWERS: Just as acrobatic as Dani Danger, Lana also seems to be able to climb anything without fail. She uses her agility, fearlessness and electrowhip to scale the greatest heights of Victory City. She's also becoming aware of pheromones she can project for a hypnotic effect but her control is limited.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8;">EQUIPMENT: Twin electrowhips that can extend for swinging around rooftops, they can grapple opponents and electrocute them, or she can just whip the hell out of them.</span></div>
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I know what you're thinking, and yes there is just enough room left on the internet to squeeze in one more blog. I resisted this for some time, largely because I reckoned no one wanted to hear my opinion on anything, and for the most part I was right. Then someone told me I could potentially make money off it and with a shout of "Screw the world!" I set off to start my own proper blog.<br />
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I'm doing the world a favor and keeping this to a couple of subjects for now: my graphic novel, MIDNIGHT THEATRE: REVENGE of the OCTAGON and its ancillary properties, my separate properties BLUE BEAT and ZEPPELIN HEIGHTS, and then someone suggested I do some comic and movie reviews. Just to make things a little different I'm gonna review some old and new comics and movies in the hopes of exposing some lesser known titles to new audiences and finding new ways to make fun of old stuff while still using old techniques to crack on new stuff but never ignoring the opportunity to develop innovative methods to lay waste to new garbage.<br />
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Read that sentence slowly and it makes total sense.<br />
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I also like to cultivate interaction and collaboration, so please comment away. I've developed a seriously thick hide over the last 40 -- OH DEAR GOD I'M ALMOST 40 -- years, so speak freely. Worst I'll do is delete your comment. Should you happen to fall down an uncovered manhole a week later or be viciously mugged by four hoboes who smell suspiciously of Aqua Velva aftershave then that's just a happy coincidence for all of us.<br />
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So, yeah. On with the content then.</div>
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