Production Blog 4

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Well the hangover from Comikaze lasted a bit longer than I'd like. and I started no new pages this week. However I did finish all of the pages I had in progress. So the first full scene (though it will be 'intercut' with the big fight scene) of the book has been finished. As well as that I did a lot of design work on the characters that hadn't been fleshed out the Monster and the two blokes. 

Production Blog 3

 Hello Again. Last weekend I didn't work on Issue three. Because I was at Stan Lee's Comickaze! The con was a lot of fun and I sold pretty well for me, better yet everyone who bought seemed to really like the book's idea. But it was the biggest con that I've ever done, so I was in survival mode for about half of Sunday. I literally can't remember much of what happened after 1:00 PM.

Anywhoo...

The Last Flight of Endevour.

This morning I took this picture of Endevour taking off on it's last flight over the town in which it was built. It was exciting to see the old girl in flight one last time but sad because it was so final. I look forward to visiting her in retirement at the California Science Center.

Production blog 2

 Here we go week two. I got three pages started and one finished. It's not unusual for me to work up multiple pages at once, keeps things fresh and the continuity good. All in all it was going good until I spilt coffee on one of the pages.

And the page was going so well too. So yesterday instead of Finishing a second page I was light boxing the good bits onto a new board and starting over. the good news, the lettering looks better. Well, that's all for me this week! see ya next Friday.

Production Blog 1

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Welcome to my first production blog for "The Super Cliche Hero Chick #3". This week I began work on my first page of the story. However it is not the first page of the book. That's right I'm doing the book out of sequence. The reason I'm doing it this way is so that I can get a better consistency with each setting and group of characters. For instance scenes set in the lab will all be drawn together, thus the lab will look the same in all of them because I'll be drawing it all at the same time. It's kind of like how a movie will film all of it's scenes on one set then move on to the next. I've done it before back on Neuropsychosis, but stopped when it became a twice a week web comic. I'm glad to be doing things this way again. of course the key to doing things this way is to have a tight script and thumbnail sketches. For info on that see the prologue.

The Hero Chick Production Blog: Prologue

I find that when I'm working on my comics I neglect my blog. I know all three of you are saddened beyond belief. Silliness aside I really do try to keep writing something on this thing just to keep up my writing skills at the very least.  So what I've decided to do, is make a production blog following the creation of "The Super Cliche Hero Chick #3". That way I'll be motivated to keep moving on the project and keep the Wonderblog active. I plan to update every Friday night, but may post on Saturday if schedule doesn't permit. Next week due to my appearance at the Comickaze Expo (Sept.15-16 at the LA convention center), I'll be posting on Thursday (Sept. 13). However since I decided to do this only when I'm starting on the artwork. I noticed it would skip an important part of the process, the writing. That's the purpose of this prologue.

I decided to do something new that I have never done before with Hero Chick #3. Write a good comic! Actually, it was taking on a co writer, my cousin Ruben. I wanted from the beginning to be open to collaboration on this project,  and when I was showing Ruben my stuff while drawing the first issue I noticed he had ideas for the book and not just ideas of the "hey I got an idea" variety that every writer hates to hear, but good ideas that gave me ideas. So at our niece's birthday I asked Ruben if He'd like to be a part of Team Hero Chick*

Happy Birthday Batman The Animated series!

Twenty years ago today, Batman: The Animated Series began to air of Fox TV. And the world of Super Heroes on TV Changed. The DC Universe began in this series is still going strong today.

So I'd like to thank Bruce Timm and all of the folks who helped this part of our childhood come to be.

Kevin Smith interviewed Bruce Timm on his Fat Man on the Batman podcast during Comic-Con last July*. He had some great things to say about the origins of the show, check it out.

Batman the Animated Series © Warner Brothers

* I was in the audience neener neener neener.

Because No One Asked.... My Opinion of DC's New 52 One Year Later.

Last Wednesday saw the release of the final twelfth issue of DC's line wide relaunch, which was an apparent attempt to gain new or lapsed readers. Since a year is passed I figured I'd  Hop on the Internet machine, and give my thoughts to the first year. And overall it's a resounding.

Meh!

The New 52 as it was so "hiply" called Started out strong, mostly on hype (Everything except the bat books is gonna change!!!) but very soon it devolved into same shit different day. True we had status quo changes except the bat books and hip and not so hip artists and writers on all steam but it really scarcely amounted to anything. I think it comes to two things.