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Happy New Year, folks! How about a little director’s commentary?
I’m riffing on Frank Miller for this story, and I sure hope it is a passable rip-off by the time I am done! I thought that working with simple, abstract shapes would speed-up the drawing the process (as well as looking dope), but all this extra black is a bitch to lay down!
I am also realizing that I have to think more about the shapes that are being created by the negative and positive spaces. With less detail to distract the eye from my draftsmanship, those silhouettes have to do a lot of heavy lifting. Odd shapes will mislead the reader as their brain tries to figure out what kind of bullshit I am trying to get away with.
I am pretty psyched to finally be showing off designs for Chuck’s former comrades. I am keeping their cyborginess™ kind of simple and clunky, but I have never before imagined how the other members of Project Peanuts turned out (except for one quick shot in the original Weapon Brown arc showing another subject in the same lab where Chuck was created, I have never even sketched them).
In keeping with my theme of making sure every character in Weapon Brown is an actual comic strip character, I will have to decide who Weapons Green, Blue and Red actually are. Since I am imagining them as ancillary characters from Peanuts, and since they are mostly stripped of distinctive features, it’s really a non-issue. For the record, though, let’s say that Weapon Green is Harold Angel, Weapon Blue is Larry and Weapon Red (who I should have made Shermy, but that ship has sailed) is Joe Shlabotnik.
(Robotic? Shlabotnik? There’s a joke in there somewhere.)
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The properly English Samuel George London interviewed ME of all people for his “Comics For The Apocalypse” podcast!
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Frank Miller, the genius behind Bat Man: The Dark Night Returns and Sin City (also the declining genius responsible for 300 and the jaundiced hack to blame for The Spirit) recently posted a blog condemning the Occupy movement. This follows a previous blog in which he touted his latest work, Holy Terror, as unapologetic anti-muslim “propaganda”.
I have no objection to Frank Miller’s politics. He has always hinted at certain reactionary leanings. Still, it is puzzling that the man responsible for turning DC Comics’ biggest poofter, Batman, into the world’s most well-known dissenter (for what else is an angry vigilante?) should feel such such strong negatives towards the Occupiers. They are, after all, engaging in the legal form of retaliation Miller has always endorsed when it took the form of violence.
“The “Occupy†movement, whether displaying itself on Wall Street or in the streets of Oakland (which has, with unspeakable cowardice, embraced it) is anything but an exercise of our blessed First Amendment.” Miller writes, slurring his text.” “Occupy†is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.”
How did the author of America’s favorite antiheroes wind up sounding like Abraham Simpson with a hemorrhoid? Marv, the chiaroscuro star of Sin City, was never ashamed to grind the faces of high society’s phonies into the asphalt. Back in the real world, however, asking that the richest scions of Mammon be held accountable for devastating the economic fortunes of roughly one billion people exceeds the threshold of a cartoonist who would normally recommend removing the kneecaps of a common purse snatcher.
Perhaps it is because Occupy has adopted the Guy Fawkes mask made popular by comic writer Alan Moore as its symbol instead of a Batman halloween mask, the kind with a slit for a mouth. If anyone knows which lounge/casino Frank Miller spends his mornings passed out in, can they ask him if this is what it will take to win him over?
