Thunderbirds Are Go

Looks like I’ve got the kinks worked out of the wordpress setup, so it’s full speed ahead on the scripts now.  Still need to sort out a way to display the archives as just titles rather than the full posts - I like having the first page of the script on the main post, but it’s just not needed elsewhere.

One thing I’ve shamelessly stolen from the excellent comics blogs 4thletter and Mightygodking is the randomised title image. So far I’ve only got three, and while it would be easy enough to just scan in some interesting looking panels and slap the “…guys writing comics” box in the corner, it.. just doesn’t seem right.

What I wanted to do was use art that was comissioned by or explicitly drawn for me or Matt.  It’s more personal, and ties the title into the theme of the site.

• Title one

  …is a cropped and colored picture of Kerr Avon from the cult British sci-fi series Blake’s 7, as drawn by the immensely talented Michael Avon Oeming. I fell in love with his style while reading POWERS, and comissioned this piece at DragonCon 2007 when I found out his middle name is a reference to the Blake’s 7 character (can’t find a link to this at the moment so you’ll have to take my word for it).  I quickly dropped some colors + lettering on it in Photoshop.

• Title 2

  …is a selection of panels from a one page script I wrote for the Transformers Mosaic project and drawn by my good friend Heather O’Connell. Originating on the IDW forums, the quality of the entries was… erratic at best. Heather’s art is always supurb, and she turned my rather overblown script into something beautiful.  Originally in amazing black and white tones, I added digital colors and a few contrast tweaks here and there.

• Title 3

  …is a quick sketch that I requested from the wonderful Kate Beaton at the recent UK Web & Mini Comix Thing. You are doing yourself a disservice if you aren’t following her comic about history and assorted other things.

Next week Matt’s either posting his absurd IDW-Transformers parody “Bow Before Birdbrain”, or something else entirely (he claims it is a secret).  The week after that will be issue #2 of London’s Calling.

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