Archive for May, 2006
Here you see a low-tech special effect. Smokescreen’s smoke is a bit of pulled cotton. LEGO is a toy that has spread around the world, to just about every country on the globe, and yet there are so few non-white[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have a lot of Star Wars LEGO kits. A lot of the characters in the S-Team utilize parts from Star Wars minifigs. Shellshock has his basis in one of the more esoteric ones: the pilot of the T-16 Skyhopper[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I never bothered to name any of the three of these “throwaway” hero wannabes. I suppose if I ever reuse any of them I’ll have to.
More special effects work here. I’m slowly figuring out ways to improve and accelerate the process of representing superpowers.
Fromann is my favorite barbarian. He’s also related to the Sausage King of Chicago (for you Ferris Bueller fans) and he always refers to himself in the third person a la The Hulk.
All the current members of the S-Team are in these four panels, as well as some characters which I will explore more later.
Our first introduction to Charlie, Silverstein’s assistant. He’s got a lot more on the ball than his boss. He is almost never without his trusty clipboard. If you look closely, you’ll see the edge of the cardboard box in which[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The “silent” panel is a device that Charles Schulz used frequently. It’s the part where one character says something patently ridiculous and the other character mulls it over for a panel before providing a choice bit of (hopefully funny) wisdom.