In yesterday’s blog post, I explained how I want this comic to have a serious tone, and yet I’m fine with an evil carrot saying the words, “Squash them, my squash!” For some reason my creative approach is often to take seemingly-dumb[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Page 13 offers up all-out action, as the Electric Team battles Commander McCarrot’s villainous vegetroids! I really enjoy the flow between the two panels above; not just Mr. Amazing, so confident and then so quickly brought low, but Leeta in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m off at Gen Con in Indianapolis this weekend. If you’re there, come say hi. Here’s what I’m doing on Saturday, from noon to 4:00 . . . Laser Ponies: The Mind Mummies of Memnon GM: Leighton Connor Time: 4[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On page 14, the fight scene is well under way–Plant Man battles Commander McCarrot! Leeta jumps into the fray! When I was writing the script for these pages, I ran into an age-old question–how do you write dialogue for a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On Page 15, we see Leeta, the Girl Who Was Raised By Unicorns, slashing and kicking Commander McCarrot. You may ask, “If Leeta’s such a great warrior, how is she outclassed by a walking carrot?” The answer is simple, friends,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The amazing Samantha Albert killed it on page 16, don’t you think? In the script I specified that panel 5 “should be crazy, trippy, psychedelic, visually stunning, with bizarre occult symbols in the background, strange lighting effects, etc.” That’s pretty[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(This post originally appeared on my old blog, Comics Class GO!, which was about my experiences teaching a class on comic books. This post has nothing to do with that class.) In Moby-Dick, Herman Melville makes some basic mistakes that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been trying to put up at least three blog posts a week but, unfortunately, I seem to be writing this week’s first post on Wednesday night. Why the sudden drop in productivity? Well, as I mentioned in my very first[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I am really not doing a good job keeping up with blog entries. As I mentioned last time, it’s because school has started again and I suddenly have a million extra things to do each day. This is my second[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Page 22 is here, and it includes my favorite dialogue exchange in the comic so far: Ours is the sort of fictional world that includes both unicorns and supercomputers, but the two still don’t tend to mingle. Younger readers may[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…