Just Say It’s A Homage.

Another new panel today.

Just been reading up on the Nick Simmons, plagiarism story that’s been happening over the last couple of days. I’m sure Superhero comic book artists always used to swipe shots from one another, years ago. And back in the 90’s when every comic looked like an Image comic, everyone was swiping from everyone else.

Still… I guess that doesn’t necessarily make it ok.

Project B.O.B.

Decided now would be a good time to start putting up some full pages on Deviant Art from my latest comic, Project B.O.B.

There are three pages in total, for the moment at least. All unlettered. They are...

Splash Page: Page 1.

The scene of the guys and Yana pulling up at the Hotel: Page 3.

And the scene of Raymond Moon dropping his razor: Page 7.

You’ve seen them posted up here in little bits. Now see them in the full. Hopefully, a chance for people to see how Project B.O.B. is shaping up.

Deep In Thought.

He’s just walking along. Lost in a world of his own.

Alternative Basterds.

I think I’ve probably said before, I’m not really a fan of modern movie posters. Now a days, I think if people saw a film poster that’s been illustrated, they’d probably think the film itself was an animation. Which is a shame as looking at a lot of these alternative posters for Inglourious Basterds from a new exhibition, I’d love to see one of these hanging outside an Odeon with all the other over Photoshopped bollocks. It would stand out a mile. But sadly, would it sell more tickets?

That reminds me, I really need to see Inglourious Basterds. It took me ages to get round to seeing Death Proof.

(Not) Worth The Wait.

I’ve already done a rant on owning too many copies of Night Of The Living Dead, and with the internet you never really have to look far to find the film free online now anyway…and yet I’m still counting down the days until Night Of The Living Dead 3D is out on DVD. A film that got 3.6 out of 10 on IMDB and based on a film that’s already been remade once already.

I blame the fact that there is so few decent 3D movies out on DVD at the moment. I don’t know why this is? 3D glasses are probably pretty cheap to make and give away and you can watch these film on a normal DVD player. I keep hearing people saying that Hollywood is jumping onto the 3D trend, but for me, it looks more like a half arsed hop at the moment.

I know that this film will be shit, but I tend to be more forgiving if it’s a Zombie flick. Apart from the remake of Day Of The Dead, which was just crap. It was out in 2006 and they’ve only just released it and I never heard a good word said about it… but I’d still pay to see 3D Zombies… Wouldn’t pay that much… but I’d still pay.

Now It’s A Party.

This shot been a long time coming. So far it’s just been four guys and one chick. Then around midway through the first issue, suddenly the girls outnumber the guys. It’s a big turning point in the story and a chance to draw a nice big party scene.

In other news…

Some people might not believe in an Sharktopus. But do they really know for sure that Sharks and Octopuses aren’t breeding deep down in some ocean? If nature was to start to fight back against the evil that is man, a Sharktopus would surely be the way to go. It would be like if nature started fighting dirty.

Robotech.

Or should that be Super Dimension Fortress Macross?

Whatever you’re calling it… I’ve been catching up on them on Blinkbox recently. I was really getting into big, Japanese, Robots early last year when I was working on a short Sci-Fi story. I was looking at stuff like Patlabor, Robotech and maybe slightly going for that feel in my design. I did put one of my pages up on my DeviantArt page, so you can judge for yourself, if that big, Japanese, Robot look comes across in the end result.

Watching this show has really gotten me wanting to draw some more giant Robot action again. But sadly at the moment I just don’t know when I’d find the time. Last year I seemed to draw Sci-Fi for most of the year. This year it looks like I’m going to be drawing mostly horror all year. 2011 It’ll probably be Westerns or I’ll do a War comic or something. Maybe do a Crime story.

Walking And Talking.

Enjoy this shot while you can, as most of the background got covered up when I lettered this panel.

Wow, That’s Depressing.

When your looking through Myspace profiles and see how many of them suddenly just go dead around 2008 when Facebook started taking off. It like a bomb went off and took out the casual user leaving only bloody musicians and their profiles. Filling up your comment section, where once friends used to leave amusing and sometimes just random comments. Or maybe a funny little animated GIF or something.

I have this reoccurring nightmare that a bomb goes off wiping out all of civilization apart from me. And the only other survivor, is some wannabe musician and his acoustic guitar. In this nightmare I spend my last days living in the ruins of what was once was a major city, eating dead rats, waiting for death and just being followed around by this pretentious musician who ever few steps asks “do you want to hear my latest song?” and I’m too polite and too British to tell him “I really, really don’t.” and I envy the dead around me. Their suffering is over, while mines just goes on and on.

Still Way Better Then The Phantom Menace.

you know it is.