film critique

i had originally included edward norton's american history x tattoo as another way to tell the 2 hulks apart, but that doesn't work out so well when you accidentally give it to both of them in the same panel.

i think the reason i never finished this one was that the references were becoming increasingly obscure and i didn't know how to get past the escalating violence. sometimes i'm not "making a comic" as much as "drawing people fighting" with a tacked-on ending.

aimless comics #1

i realized today that this comic, which i totally believed i'd finish one day, has been sitting in my "immediate-access" drawer at work for over a year. just now, blogging, i realized that "droor" is not a word.

this would have been a sequel to parts one and two, if there had been anyplace to take it (wow, i really enjoyed using "anyplace" as one word just now). unfinished, you can see all the mistakes that normally i would have photoshopped out.

in case you don't know, daxflame is a hilariously awkward kid with a (fake?) youtube channel.
my favorite dax videos include:
1. halloween special
2. a convienient truth
3. a christmas carol's dead

the scooter reference comes from his other channel, BerniceJauchTalk.

free post-its

along with the free notepads, we office workers get all the free post-it notes we can use. the great thing about that is that such a tiny surface is far less daunting to approach with a pen. if i screw up a doodle, who cares? it's just a post-it.

so here i condensed a couple prime post-it doodles (albeit unrelated) into one stackable, savable notepad page.

on top, a group inspired by my november 2008 viewing of spamalot at chrysler hall in norfolk. black knight and john cleese both appear, as does a medieval colossus (of the x-men) and my good friend greg steele (for some reason). the others i cannot identify, even though i've left hints for myself. the true answer could be lost to the ages.

EDIT: i just realized who the other knights are - jeff goldblum and magneto. no word on the horned damsel yet.

below, battle of the hulks. from left to right: edward norton's hulk, ang lee's hulk and lou ferrigno's hulk. i started a comic strip with a fight between norton and lee, but ultimately felt that the inclusion norton's american history x swastika was in bad taste, so i never finished. maybe some day.

axe attack

this is from one our weekly friday meetings at work, where about a dozen of us get together to report on what we've spent the week doing. or in my case, to doodle while a bunch of backend programming talk goes way over my head.

the week i drew this, i was finishing up the lord of the rings trilogy (in book and film forms), so i was clearly preoccupied with fantasy imagery (and again, drawing myself).

this was also a study for using myself as a character in my acusor comic strips, although needlessly intricate, in retrospect.

i threw an elf woman in there so that if anybody noticed my doodles, it wouldn't be all shirtless men. i'm terrible at drawing females. there's an elusive balance between simple and feminine that i haven't figured out exactly how to translate yet. anyway, she ended up in the comic, too.

not sure why one of the matts came out bald.