Page Ten Pencils...Rangers Talk With Their Hands

Finished page 10 pencils last night. Just two more to go in the third issue. Those should be relatively quick. I can't show you much without spoiling the ending so here's a panel of Psychoboy making weird gestures in his zord's cockpit...

 

 

 

 

Page Nine Pencils...Think You Can Take Me Down?

Finished page nine pencils last night. Here we have a classic face off between the monster and our heroes. Didn't have time to shade in the inked areas on Psychobot, but by now you know what's black on him. Psychobot holding Fishbot here just cracks me up...

 

 

And just for fun here's another close up of dear old Killamari... 

 

 

He's looking pretty scared here. I wonder what got into him? Guess you'll have to buy the issue when it comes out to find out.

 

So up next up, our heroes strike a pose in page ten....

 

What prints should I do?

So I've got an creator table for a local comic convention at the end of April. I was wondering which (if any) already existing image I've done might make a good print to sale. They'll probably be 12x18 on UV coated paper that'll sale for $5. So what do you guys think? Which, if any, would you buy?

Page Eight Pencils...Bots Combine!

Alright, since this is an action oriented issue, the storytelling is very visual. So if I keep showing you entire penciled pages, I'll pretty much be giving away some major gags in the last half, so instead I'll be showing you some exerts.

So here's a scene from page eight with a particularly cool shot of Psychobot holding Fishbot, since that's what friends do for each other.

It'll be later in the week when I can do more pages and, with any luck, wrap up the pencils for issue three!

Page Seven...Summon Fishbot!

Alright, page seven pencils! I've actually become pretty comfortable drawing Killamari. I'm starting to like the fellow. Here we have him expressing his appreciation  for being hit by the barrage of missiles from last page. I had to work in sparks when the hero gets hit, since it's become something of a signature of Power Rangers fight scenes.

 

After Killamari gets through giving Psychoboy a good look at his dental work, we finally come to Stickboy's zord. In the long tradition of useless zords I present to you...Fishbot! It was a lot of fun to design him.

 

 

And at the bottom we show the Fishbot's only attack ability and a cool shot of Stickboy in the cockpit. 

 

 

 

So page eight pencils are done as well and I'll post an exert from that tomorrow as the fish-on-fish action continues!

Page Seven Pencils...Fight!

Finished the pencils for page six last night. It starts off with a vital part of any Power Ranger monster battle: the taunting. The monster and ranger(s) must exchange smack talk. It's a rule.

 

 

 

Then we have the classic monster charging at our hero moment...

 

 

 And the first strike from our hero. And, yes, Psychobot's hair turns into missiles. You're welcome.

 

 

Should be able to complete and post page seven by tomorrow, when you finally get to see Stickboy's giant robot!

College Follies: The God Awful Cover Edition!

Didn't have time to draw a page last night and decided to wrap up one last relatively quick image I needed done before checking into print-on-demand. Below is the variant for issue one (the original is pictured to the side). Everything but the word balloons was inked by hand.  I'll see if I can't get the variant covers done in print-on-demand (the price on the cover reflects what the print issue's price will be). If not, they'll be available on Amusedom at the very least. I've been wanting to do this one for awhile....

Are you the type of person who has to who loves to buy variant covers that look like ten minute convention sketches when the regular cover is a spectacular painted master piece? Well, have I got a variant for you that has mastered the art of underachieving! I present to you the College Follies God Awful Cover Variant!

 

Hey look, fictional Super Rangers merchandise!

Between a busy afternoon at work and walking around zombie-like after working til 2:30 a.m., I didn't have time to draw a page last night so I did this little piece below. I'll be using it as a promotional ad and  probably a filler to help issue two get to the 8 page length it needs for print-on-demand.

 

This gag is inspired by a talking plush doll I got for $5 of one of the Power Rangers Samurai. He says phrases from the series when you push his chest. Life just isn't complete until you can have a doll say "Power Rangers Samurai, victory is ours." whenever you want. Anyway, it got me thinking what it would be like if there were dolls like that for issue three's Power Rangers parody.

 

Worth noting is the inclusion of Stickboy's girlfriend Kinkygirl who doesn't appear in the issue but if I ever do a follow-up, would have some gags as the Hot Pink Ranger. The line that popped in my head for her was just too good not to put in...

 

 

 

Page Five Pencils...Behold The Psychobot!

And so on this page we finally get to see a giant robot...and it's a 50 story tall robotic version of Psychoboy. What did you expect would be Psycho's zord? A Mechagodzilla clone? Please, we're in Psycholand now, we go by his rules.

 

We also have the classic "jump and get in the cockpit of your zord" scene from the show, which gets me excited just looking at it.

 

I didn't have time to start page six on Sunday so I won't get to post that until later in the week. Trust me, the giant fish-on-robot action will be worth the wait.

 

 

 

 

Page Four Pencils...Flailing Your Arms Around To Summon Gaint Robots!

Page four and five are penciled. I'll post five tomorrow and hopefully have six done tonight. These pages went a little faster as I designed them on the page rather than sketching out the panel separately and then recreating it on the page. I think they turned out decent. The lack of martial poses makes them a bit easier to draw.

 

Here's my one panel of Psychoboy without his helmet on...

 

 

And here's the bottom where Stickboy is trying to summon his giant robot before being interrupted by Psycho's laughter. You gotta admit those arm gestures do look kinda funny...

 

 

Tomorrow...you get to see a big honking robot!