A Little Choy comic:

I’ve returned to hand-drawing for this one after doing them on the computer for quite a while. It’s also going to be my last Little Choy comic for a while. Rest assured that Choy is still out there insulting people, but I won’t be chronicling his tales on the first Monday of every month anymore, to save myself some time and effort. We will see him again, though. When you least expect it.

Still got Phone Guys, though:

School starts back up again tomorrow. I had a whole month off school there (classes at least, there were still exams), but I sure as heck don’t feel like I had any time off. Work and holidays kept me busier than I would have been by choice. Admittedly, there were a handful of days in December where I got to relax and not worry about work or school or some familial obligation, about six such days, but I had plans for all the things I wanted to get done over December (a new Hover Head story, for example) and I have definitely not had time for that.

My plan has all along been to take Summer classes, but now that I’m looking ahead to another four months of no days off, I don’t think I can do that. If I had weekends off (even just one day a week, really), I could do it, but it is tiring having seven days in a row of things to do every week. I will not take classes this Summer, instead I will make time for things like friends and writing. Try to take some time for the things I just can’t fit into six non-consecutive December days.

But that’s still a lot of weeks away.

EDITED TO ADD: It occurs to me that part of the reason I found the last semester of school more tiring is because I had classes I wasn’t enjoying. I’ve got three new classes starting this week and, who knows, maybe I’ll find myself more engaged and thus more energetic time time around.

Mr. Slime

While making an attempted robbery of a chemical plant’s payroll office, Deke Sleeman happened to be spotted by a particularly bitter security guard. The guard chased the crook, who fell over a safety railing into a vat of toxic waste. Sleeman seemed to dissolve, and the company decided it would be best to keep the authorities in the dark about what had happened. No need to draw unwanted attention. A few weeks later, a mass of ooze pulled itself out of the vat of chemicals and attacked the security guard, leaving him dead.

In time, Sleeman was able to pull himself into a shape resembling his former human self. He now had the ability to transform himself into slime, simply ooze or deadly acidic, and he was noticed by the owner of the chemical plant. He could use a man of those unique talents for certain unconventional jobs. Sleeman was willing.

I drew Mr. Slime one time years ago, at work I think, and just left him among my notes. I liked the idea and the look, a pretty conventional villain I thought, so it seems perfect to break him out now. I think that Mr. Slime could do double duty in my superhero universes, fighting regular superheroes like the Beam as a crook following the Hydro-Man archetype, but also he would be on the team of pollution-themed villains who fight CommandOak. Let’s get the most out of our slime guy.

Krygax the Killer

Krygax was created by the mystical Night Fellows to serve as their perfect killing machine. They did a good job with creating a killer, but were not as careful as they should have been with creating a loyal servant. Krygax will serve the Night Fellows as long as it allows him to kill, but given any bit of freedom and any bit of boredom and he will find new victims of his own choosing. The Night Fellows, worshippers of a demon called Karaksus the Uncontrollable, are now, ironically, burdened by an uncontrollable minion. Still, no matter how hard it is to wrangle the mystical assassin, he is useful as a weapon against the Night Fellows’ sworn enemy, Skullserpent.

Like Mr. Slime, a sketch of this character has been in my filing cabinet for years. The difference here is that, as far as I know now, I had no idea of who he was when I drew him. I certainly never gave him a name or any kind of backstory. He was just a doodle. But now he’s a guy on my website thing. No idea gets left behind.