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New panel time, and I’m saying nothing about this shot. For such a small panel, I had a big debate in my head on if I should post it or not.
Can’t believe the movie adaptation of John Dies At The End has finally got a release date. Been a long, long time coming. Not sure if I’ll watch it VOD or just wait for the Blu-ray. I kind of hate watching movies online. No buffering on my dime, thank you. At least it gives me time to read the follow up novel, first.
So I’m gonna post a finished lettered page fast, before I forget again. Let start with one of my favourites from the very first issue. Ok, there’s only a few speech-bubbles on this page, but the good thing about this page is it works pretty well on it’s own as a one-page story. So I thought it would be a good place to start. Plus, like I say, I think it’s one of my best pages, even if it is from late 2009. This short scene is from very early on in the book. It’s drawing this scene that really made me feel like I was doing a horror comic. I always think of this scene as a little nod to a certain famous scene out of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. As horror omens go, ownerless teeth appearing out-of-nowhere is usually a sign that things are about to turn very unpleasant. Plus it’s really fun drawing teeth.
I will try and post a wordier page or two in the coming future. I’m trying to find the perfect page that gives away a little, but not too much. But anyway, that’s how a finished lettered page of this graphic novel looks. That’s my attempt at comic-book lettering. Hope you enjoy. More to come.
I’ve posted this image before as part of my ID montage on Deviantart, but here it is officially. I’ve also left the speech-bubble on, as I think it looks cool. I have a nasty feeling, previously, I’ve said I’d posted more artwork complete with lettering, so people can see the finished artwork… and then forgot I’d made this promise and never did. Whoops! What I may do in the coming weeks (if I don’t forget I’ve said this, too) is maybe post some fully lettered finished page at some point. I have unlettered ones up on my Deviantart page, considering I’m in the final stages of this mini-series, maybe it’s about time I started to leak more details about this book. I will try and keep this in mind as we plough through what’s left of 2012.
I do like this above panel. Not being able to post any gory (or just scenes of a macabre nature) spoiler heavy panels, it’s maybe sometimes hard to set the tone of this mini-series without giving too much away. But I’m hoping panels like the above one do set some kind of sinister atmosphere. The day when I can stop being all tease, no show, is happily not too far off in the distant now. This ain’t gonna be the sequential counterpart of the Blair Witch Project, there will be payoffs (although I do remember some publisher did a really good one-off Blair Witch comic back in the 90’s drawn by Guy Davis, which was actually very good. Way better than the awful studio sequel, that’s for sure.)
I have no idea how I’m gonna handle posting panels from Issue #4 yet. I think it’s fair to say I’ll be posting considerably less on account of every panel is pretty much a massive spoiler.
Does the world really need an Evil Dead porn parody? All I know is my heart says… maybe.
Don’t get me wrong, I love drawing horror comics, but I’m very jealous of people who get to work in special-effects. That just looks like such a cool job.
The teddy army rolls on in this latest panel. But what are they witnessing?
Been suffering from a nasty sinus infection this week. I don’t want to jinx it, but I think I’m over the worst of it, now. Nothing weirder then having infected eye-sockets. It’s been like I woke on Tuesday, and my skull had shrunk in my sleep. It’s becoming a yearly tradition, sadly, when the cold weather sets in (you could probably scroll back to my posts from this time last year, or the year before that, and find similar tales of woe.)
I plan to get my sickly hands on some hot chocolate, whip-cream and marshmallows in next 24-hours. Wrap up warm in a big blanket, and spend as much of this weekend as I can watching dvd boxsets of Kolchak: The Night Stalker and Tales From The Darkside, relaxing and keeping my fluid levels up.
I plan to fight nasal inflammation with cosiness.
I’m just saying…
Just because you tart it up as a gif, or a meme, or some other bollocks, doesn’t mean you’re not ruining it like a regular blabber-mouth. Just because it’s animated or meant to be ironic, doesn’t mean you haven’t just blown the ending for other people just because you did it in a trendy way.
I’ve never been able to watch a season of Dexter without already knowing how the season ends. When a new series of Doctor Who comes around, I’m tried of having to go into tunnel-vision mode. I feel these days like I need to pay someone to go online just before me, and check the way for spoiler-mines that people just lay all over the web.
How feeble is your headspace, that the moment you see something you know other people haven’t, you have to make sure people know that you know, by plastering the net with your little, crappy homemade banners.
They reserve the lowest circle of hell for hipsters and their ironic, glittery memes, as far as I’m concerned.
NOTE: I think you’re meant to spell meme in capitals, but I have so little respect for them, I didn’t bother. I didn’t want to bring grammar into this war, but they started it.
I’m gonna pepper this bitter rant with something sweet, too. File this under every thing sounds better in 8-bit. Feels weird that it’s probably been about ten years since I went to see the Pixies reunion show in London in college. Still waiting for that new pixies album… been a long time coming. Really long. Like… really, really, really long.
Something a bit sinister to end the week on. This shot is me trying to ’Bring It’ with the horror ambience. My best attempt to set a spooky tone, as it were. I’m 99% sure I haven’t posted this shot already. Hopefully this panel doesn’t look too familiar?
Been watching old episodes of Tales From The Darkside, this week. They go well with the dark, cold autumn nights that are setting in. They remind me of when I would watch these on late-night TV as a kid in the 90‘s. I still think the pilot Trick Or Treat, written by George Romero, still has a great chilling ending. Only downside is I’ve got the creepy intro theme-tune going around in my head, these last few days. Having that jingle playing in my head as I walk around at night, or trying to get to sleep, is an unwelcome side-effect. I still think it’s the creepiest opening to a horror TV show, ever.
Speaking of Halloween (which we kind of were… I mean, the episodes called Trick Or Treat, right?), I think I’ve figured out my game-plan for Halloween. I don’t think I’m going to be able to beat pumpkin-headed zombies from a couple of years ago. But I do at least this year have a design I can run with. I’ll see where it goes. And hopefully I’ve had this idea early enough in the year that I can get it done little-by-little, just in time for the big day. Fingers crossed.
