I’m sick again! Dammit! If there is one thing I have learned by going back to school, it is that schools are very efficient at spreading viruses around. I did not become ill this often when I was in the working world.
I don’t care for this.
Y’know, I sometimes forget to note the minutia of my life on here, which is insane because that is the ostensible reason for this site’s existence. So here I go:
On each of the previous weekends I saw a movie. First was the Hobbit, which I watched with Kip. Secondly, Django Unchained, which I saw with Marq. If these wind up being the only movies I see this year, I will have had a good year in theatres (That scenario is entirely possible, of course, since I can’t afford to see movies. Those ones were paid for by the fine fellows I was with).
Haiku!
It’s Gandalf Unchained!
Coming soon to cinemas!
But your tickets now!
Apparently a local theatre recently had an incident in which a man stood up during a screening of Django and began yelling at the audience calling them sinners and such. According to what I read there were about twenty minutes left at this point. The way I see it, the timing of the outburst makes it much worse for both sides. By this late in the show, the audience really paying attention to the thing. We’re talking the climax here. An interruption at that point is not going to be well received at all. And if the guy wanted to get his message out not to watch the movie, he should have done it much earlier, so that they would have time to get out. Man, I would be so much better at creating a scene in a movie theatre than that guy.
The Phone Guys:
Pedro was born into a family of established superheroes who all took animal-themed costumed identities. The Family Animalia was founded by Pedro’s grandparents and was quite successful back in the day. Pedro’s parents, aunts and uncles were the high point of this team, saving the world a handful of times, but Pedro’s generation has mostly abandoned their noble traditional vocation. Pedro’s cousins are mostly content to live off their celebrity, his sister has opted out of a dangerous action-filled life to serve as the tech support to the Team of Superheroes. Pedro alone remains an active participant in the fight against crime as the grim vigilante called: The Volcano Rabbit. Some call him obsessed, but none can deny that his fast feet and fiery fists have brought down more than their share of criminal scum.
I first conceived of this guy when I was thinking of the background of Rosita from the Hover Head stories (It is worth noting that even a character like Rosita, who has appeared in roughly two pages to date, I have put a lot of thought into. I’m obsessed with this stuff, but very slow with the output). She was once Techtudinidae, a superhero in turtle-shaped high-tech armor, and from there I got to the idea about the family of animal-themed heroes. After that it was a natural progression to make one of them based around one of my favorite species of animal. Naturally, since the universe with Hover Head is my most overtly comical superhero universe, I had to make the guy based around the cute and harmless critter a badass Batman-style guy.
Starting tomorrow, I’m going to be doing something new here. To make up for the drop from three SecGov pages a week to two, I wanted something I could put up on the weekends that would be easy to get out there.
Over the course of my life I have created a lot of superheroes. As far back as I can remember I have been creating superheroes. The earliest I recall was Pat-Man. He was me with the power to turn into a wolf. That’s all he was. I’ve mentioned on the site before that around grade five or six I created a comic starring a guy called Zappo who had electrical powers (and an electrically-powered frog called Zap-Frog). Anyway, I never stopped and don’t plan to soon.
I’ve been a fan of the Marvel Universe since around age ten when I learned of it through trading cards and reading a library copy of the Marvel Handbook A-C a dozen times. The idea of a coherent fictional universe filled with all different types of heroes and adventures is what I wanted out of things. I figure that I have enough notes to populate at least four Superhero Universes with characters. So that’s what I’m gonna do.
For at least a year I’ll be putting up a sketch of a superhero each Sunday. Some will be totally new that I come up with as I sketch, others will be ideas fro Little PDR’s notes. I’ve said more than once that I don’t consider myself an artist and that I only draw my stuff because I don’t have someone else to do it. I will not be designing particularly great costumes or anything, but at least I’m getting ideas out of my head. That’s my goal. That said, at least sketching is easier than doing a whole comic page, that’s for damn sure.
