Comic-Con Part 1

So I'm in san diego right now. I meant to make a whole post about this, but I didn't get a chance in my rush to leave.  I'm going to comic-con tomorrow. Hopefully I'll have tons of pictures and stuff sometime this weekend. 

Cover Reviesed

So after I sat on the Homage Collage cover for quite a while I realized it didn't really fit the music at all. First of all it made it look like I was a band. Which I'm not. The original idea was a bunch of people all spawning from the same thing, representing a one band. The final version really lost that. So I decided to redo it. Here is the redone version.

As far the music goes. It's finally done. The album has been like 95% done for like 2 months, and I finally hunkered down and finished it. It turned out pretty good. I'm gonna listen to it all the way through tomorrow and make sure that nothing is wrong, and then I'll probably post it a bunch of songs on the myspace. So look forward to that.

Stickers IV: The Final Battle

Epic title huh. But yah. These are the last of the stickers pretty much. These are the small ones. I still need to do the big ones. Hopefully tomorrow if I get a chance.

Update Time

Here is a full version of Sam out of his normal gear. Since Early Years is over now, I thought I'd give an update. Well the other day I finished the script for issue 1, and worked more on the next 3 issues stories. I think it's turning out really great so far. I'm start working on more pages some time this weekend.

Early Years: Age 17

Ah. So we've come to the end. So this is the that pivotal last page. It's kind of a little bit of Clif-hanger. There is going to be a lot of mystery surrounding the death of Sam's parents. Originally the last page was very different. I was wondering to myself why I decided to have his parents die (since I just did this in Tales of Sub-Riviera), but after I thought about all great super heroes lose their parents when they are young. Super-Man, Batman, and Spider-man had to lose his parents and uncle Ben. It's a great starting point, and I'm going to really use this device. Most of the first series will be searching for Sam trying to figure out what happened to his parents. I've probably said too much already, so I'm going to cut myself off.

Art wise this is my favorite page. There isn't anything I don't like about it. The crosses on the coffins turned out really cool I thought. I also really liked how the expression on Sam's face came out. My only problem was that he is supposed to be crying, but it's kind of hard to tell.

Well I hope you enjoyed this little mini-series. I should be back tomorrow with another post, and I'm just about done with my internship so I'll be getting back into working on my comics very soon.

Early Years: Age 16

Sam In Love. One of these panel's already got posted a couple days ago. I really liked how this page turned out. This page unlike the other has a pretty clear purpose. It's obviously the first Time Sam and June met. This was probably one of the first pages I came up with for this story. I really wanted it to seem kinda awkward. I'm not sure if it came out the way I hoped.

Art wise the only real problem I had with this page was that second panel. I tried reworking like 3 or 4 times, but finally conceded that I couldn't make it any better. I'm still in love with (hehe) with that first panel. I thought the 3rd panel durned out good too, I just like how the halftone and colors fade into the background.

Early Years: Age 12

We're getting up there now. Age 12. Sam is starting to look older now. I kind of had 3 different age looks for Sam, this is the middle one. This page was made to really reinforce the fact that Sam's Dad has been drilling this stuff into him. This had to be done, or this first arc of Sam wouldn't really be believable.

As far as the art goes I really like this page, the only panel that really gets me is that last one. And actually I think it's all fine except for Sam's Dad. He's standing at the wrong angle. I think I might actually redraw that part for the final issue, because it really bothers me. But I really like the first two panels. I actually really like the pose Sam is in in the second panel. I also tried to really put this page in a setting, which is the family dojo. I hope you enjoyed this page.