Page five is done, so now I'm a third of the way through the first issue!
This page wraps up the scene in Stickboy's room from page four. And then we finally meet Psychoboy! Psycho's first panel is more low key than Stick's, but after a page or so of Stick freaking out, a change of pace is good.
Psycho is easily influenced and spends his life leaping headfirst from bandwagon to bandwagon. Every time you see him he's into something completely different: a different hobby, job, car, girlfriend, room decorations, etc.
So, of course, Psycho has a collection of everything on the shooting. Newsweek did have a diagram of the shooting though, of course, it wasn't a fold out poster. And the panel with the tower of magazines on the shooters is exaggerated...there's just no way Psycho's ceiling is that high.
And Psycho's house and room turned out to be purple. I went through several possibilities. Typical bland household colors (like typical hairstyles) didn't seem to fit the character. I was looking for a background color that hadn't or wouldn't be used in other scenes. The color purple popped into mind.
The friend who kinda inspired Psychoboy is a huge Joker fan. Since Joker is a sociopath, using his signature color seemed to go along well with Psycho's current infatuation. It (along with the reds) gave Psyco's home a weird, unique and slightly ominous tone. Though, since this is Psychoboy, chances are everything will be a completely different color next time you see it.
Another odd note, I stumbled on an online radio station that plays vocal music from Power Rangers and Super Sentai (the Japanese show Power Rangers is based on) and was listening to it most of the time I worked on this the Psychoboy scene. A combination of 1990's rock and J-Pop seemed oddly appropriate to me.
So here's page five, with more Psycho coming next page (along with a collection of action figures that has to be seen to be believed!).
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