Monday, December 31, 2007

I'm Spamming the HELL Out of This Place!

Seriously. Can someone else post something?

I'm interpreting the lack of activity here lately to mean that you've all been dutifully working on your sample pages.

Well, here's the teaser image for Drunk Duck Adventures.


Happy New Year! I appologize ahead of time to those of you I drunk-dial tonight.

Saturday, December 29, 2007

Harley Quinn: Colors

...and the colored version.

Friday, December 28, 2007

Harley Quinn: Work in Progress

The work-in-progress Harley half of a Harley and Joker pair of drawings for Melissa.
Just because I felt like posting something...plus, apparently we're fighting until I finish Harley.

See Melissa? Proof I'm really working on it.

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Drunk Duck Adventures: Featuring The Mighty Drunk Duckers

So, like I've spoken about with some of you, "Drunk Duck Adventures: Featuring The Mighty Drunk Duckers" is coming. Basically it's sort of a prequel/alt-timeline version of some of the characters in DDCW...in the vein of the Marvel Adventures: Avengers comic. I've been playing around with an amalglamation of my Path style with my regular stuff...and this art is the twisted love-child it produced. I kinda like it.

DD Adventures is going to be set up in issues. The first one by me, the second by PinkDiapers, the third by Cheeko, the Fourth by Acadia, the fifth by Zac, the sixth by Freux, and so on. The nice thing about the set up will be that each "issue" will be stand-alone, so if someone's running behind one month and someone else is running ahead, we can swap months updating so the comic doesn't suffer. Anyone who wants in on this, feel free to email me at: riot.james@gmail.com.

Anyways, here's a preview of the 1st issue.I think I'm going to start doing all my webcomics in this format, as the whole thing fits on the screen without having to scroll...but it's still the right dimensions for printing.

NAG: Pages, everyone? Pages done/almost done? *Looks at calendar* Just a few days now...
-Riot





Saturday, December 22, 2007

Pink!


This was just a tablet sketch so I could play around with some coloring styles. I'm totally into impressionism so I like to add splotches of color everywhere. Not sure if I like it for my MM sample but it was fun to do regardless.

Thursday, December 20, 2007

I live again!

I finally have power back at my house! After the wicked snowstorm, it knocked it out of comission for over a week. It was rough, and I was a total nomad for that time. Falling asleep wherever I passed out? A man could get used to it really. Anyway, I had a lot of fun drawing pretty pictures, but I haven't had the computer to color them. So here's the B&W's and I'll get the rest done sometime soon. ;D

-Wing

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Matt Jacobs moving up

I just heard that Matt our buddy over at 1111 just got a kick ass job in TV. I just wanted to say way to go Matt!

Monday, December 17, 2007

Charcoal in the Brain

Sup, guuuuys0rz?

So like, I have dialup at my house. Wonder of WONDERS! So hit me up on AIM or YAHOO or WHATEVER. If voicechat is possible on dialup, so be it. Want a phone number? Gimme an emailz. I'm dying to talk to you people. I miss you. ;__;

Looks like we have more members! Yay! I love you all. LOVE. o__o

I see CC is #1 again. What have you people been up to..? :D

Okay I will stop uglifying the main page with my blaring text garble. Everyone's pictures have been great! ( the pictures i've seen. i haven't dove too deep yet. i promise i'll do that.. soon. )

Ok. Freux out!

Sunday, December 16, 2007

I hate MonkeyMafia...

...I hate him in the FACE! Why? Because he regularly does a better job rendering my own designs than I do. Goddamn digital artists.
For those of you that don't know MonkeyMafia, he's the brother of our very own EvilTwinPixie, and one hell of an artist.
I know we don't usually post fan-art or anything like that here at MM, but this was just TOO GOOD to be burried in the DDCW forums.

Friday, December 14, 2007


I was thinking about doing Blue Squire in this style for my 6 pages, but it wouldn't give people a good feel for my normal, cartoony style.

So I'll prolly still revamp it. Anywho:

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Gentlemen...BEHOLD!

THREE PAGE DDCW SPREAD!

That is all.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

It's SUPER HAPPY NAG TIME!

Wow. Lookit that. It's December 11th ALREADY.

Know what you guys better be working on?
Your six pages for the MM Sample Book.
Even PIX is working on hers (Yes, she's alive and told me to tell everyone "Hi!" and that she misses you all).
So...seriously. Get cracking.

That is all.
-Riot

P.S. I just did a freaking "The Land Before Time" mural to pay for the book. I fucking HATE The Land Before Time. If I had to paint almost life-size singing dinosaurs with strong Christian undertones for nothing...well...I'm going to hurt all of you.

Yes, even you, Zac.

Friday, December 7, 2007

Evil Empire Moratorium

I'm start a sort of Elephant Graveyard for all my discontinued comics (and there are a lot them, almost all due to artist starting new classes) and I was wondering if someone could make a cover page for me?

If anyone is interested let me know. It don't need anything facy. I was hoping to get a picture of me putting a body bag into deep storage in a morgue looking place wiht the title "Evil Empire Moratorium" at the top. Or maybe me just me peeking under sheet with a (unseen) dead body under it and a "yep that is dead" sort of expression.

Anyway if everyone is busy I'll just do some MS word art stuff and that will be fine (after all this is for comics that have been discontinued) but I thought I would ask.

DDCW

I'm actually fairly pleased with how today's DDCW page came out today, so I thought I'd share it here.
Maybe, if you're not already reading it, this'll draw you in.

One day, I might even get GOOD at this digital coloring crap.
(I call it "crap" only out of frustration)
-Riot

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Straub

I've always been a pretty big fan of Kris Straub's stuff. I decided to send him some fanart.

Um, this is it. Young Vanderbeam. It kinda looks like Dave dressed up as Vanderbeam, so I guess thats what it is.

GoR 1-4

Okay since Loki is the manager I changed it so Balder stole Thor's name. Also here are two new pages. In general here is what I am thinking.

The way I'm planning things right now Balder & Zues and other godly rivals are in a more successful band that our main characters all loath. Balder being sort of the good "pretty boy" son.

Poseidon I'm writting as sort of an old west cost surf rocker.

Loki is the snake oil peddler band manager. He mainly scores the band low paying gigs and B-string celebrity TV spots while also managing more two more successful bands. This is a sour point between him a Thor.

Thor could be a huge rock star but he to to loyal to his dad to quit the band. He used to give it all he had but these days he has gotten a lazy and doesn't care like he used to.

Vali is sort of an over achiver. He was only brought into the group when Balder quit and he has a chip on his shoulder and something to prove because of that.

Prometheus - Was a huge fan of Odin's original band and jumped at the chance to join up with his former idol. He is kind of ugly and doesn't have much musical tallent but he stays in the band because he can keep the group's van & equipment running.

Odin - Washed up former rocker. Odin used to be in a band that was really successful back in the day but now he is just running on former glory. Original Odin teamed up with Poseidon & Prometheus but after one unsuccessful tour Odin more or less forced his sons into his new band. Since Thor & Vali joined the band has moved up from a total burn out to a B-String band.

Shiva - I really can't get into this character. I'm not sure yet. I'm just having trouble working her into the band.



Page 1:A vertical page of panel separated by static, channel switches as if someone was surfing TV.

Panel A - A large wide screen style panel across the top of the page.The Gods of Rock pump it out hard core on stage.

Panel B - Hades storms off through a movie set looking pissed.
Commentary from the TV: Hades and Demeter break up. Who was cheating on who find out.

Panel C - A TV commercial pushes a Drunk Duck Brew.

Panel D - Baldur, sits back in an interview with a talk show host. Baldur looks very thug and reclines casually back in his chair.
Baldur: ...so my new album is called "Disodinson" and it is sort of a rap/metal sort of thing...From Off Panel: That was MY title!

Page 2
Panel A - Thor sits up on his couch holding a TV Remote looking pissed. In the background Poseidon is drinking a bottle of DD Brew behind the coach.
Thor: I can't belive it, Baldur stole, the %&#$ing title to my solo albumn.

Panel B - Poseidon steps around to the other side of the coach.
Poseidon: That sucks dude. Brothers man the parasites of the world eh?

Panel C - Posidon hands Thor a beer.
Poseidon: Here man, have a brew while you stew about it.

Panel D - Some time later another Vali comes into the room and finds Thor and Posidon very drunk with the evidence of their drinking strewn across the couch.
Vali: Hey, whats going on.
Thor: We're just working on a new album. Drunkodinson.

Panel E - Posidon sits up some at the name.
Poseidon: Dude! Seriously you really should name the album that.
Vali: Maybe you should wait till your sober to call your agent.

Page 3
Panel A - Loki walks into the room with a manilla envolop and look at the TV.
Loki: Arg, Baldur stole your name Thor? I swear I'm gonna kill that guy someday.

Panel B - Thor shrugs.
Thor: Yea, seriously, he is dad's favorite son and he won't even join the band.

Panel C - Poseidon speaks up.
Poseidon: Dude! Your DAD started this band how did that happen?

Panel D - Poseidon takes a drink of beer.
Vali: You know how he gave his right eye for unlimited magic.
Poseidon: Yea.

Panel E - Vali, Thor & Loki all sudder and Poseidon spits out his beer.
Vali: Well he gave something else on the right side of his body for his music.

Page 4
Panel A - Poseidon start to freak out.
Poseidon: Dude that is so sick man! I didn't need to hear he was missing an Odin Sphere.

Panel B- Poseidon continue his rant.
Poseidon: Odin is not right man! Not right!

Panel C - Poseidon clutches he head.
Poseidon: Oh seriously my ears bleed. I wish I could unlearn that. Oh man sick, sick, sick.

Panel D - Poseidon suddenly smiles.
Poseidon: Dude I'll go get Promethus, tell him next.

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Show me the Gods

Does anyone have a list of all our Gods and Art to go with them? I could really use that to get things rolling and have less of Random God in our comic. Now that Random isn't cool and sarcastic but his character is a pain to write for.

Yo, ho, fiddledy dee...

I have that damned "You are a pirate" song stuck in my head.


In other news, here's something I drawed. The new design for The Rioteer's suit. A modern-ish version of this will be making a debut in DDCW after the current "Epic Week" that's going on. Why? Simply because I can.

Monday, December 3, 2007

MM the comic

Well this is my first post in here so I'm just going to share an idea I wanted to talk about. Namely an MM comic.

I like Riots idea of a MM anthology but I think there are some virtues to doing a unified comic you can't get with short anthology pieces.

I think we as a group should start a comic on DD, put up some project wonderful ads on it and use those funds for MM projects like this anthology. We could use the comic both to promote ourselves and MM. With this large a group we should be able to update it often. We ourselves could be characters ala Civil War or it could be even a collective original story. We could make this more then a typical group comic. The MM has a pretty high level of talent here and we can really co-ordinate so we could really make this a decent comics as opposed to most group comics with a fun with updates that are only occasionally fun to read if you are not a contributor on the project.

Riots DD Zombies update really crystallized it for me. Here was a really interesting stand alone update with character we already knew. It was a really good update, but the rest of the comic is often disjointed and the archive doesn't really make a good read in the way other series do. We're already establishing a small mythos with Zack, Riot, & Carlie appearing in both DD Zombies & DD Civil War. It showed me some real potenial. CW had a tone of readers back before it lagged. When it was going strong how many people would have flipped to see Zak and Riot in Zombies that probably have no idea they are in there and thus will never read Riot's update?

What I purpose is this we set a goal. A page number like say 50 pages and try and make a 50 page MM comic which we could sell at conventions. Then post it up on DD with some project wonderful ads. When we get to page 50 we use all the PW money whatever it is, maybe supplemented by yours truly if we are short and print up the project to show at conventions along side the anthology. Something people can just pick up read, enjoy and come back to DD for more of. After that if we decide if it is something we all want to keep doing or just a fun one shot that leaves us with something to show for it or maybe do a new comic.

Since we are all busy with the anthology right now I'm thinking this project probably wouldn't' get started until February but I'd like to start talking about it, and if we green light it, planning it now. We already sort of started talking about something like this with Gods of Rock in Texas but I wanted to kind of formalize it a little here.

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My Evil Ulterior Agenda:

My ultimate goal with Evil Empire and something I hope the Militia can help me on is to start something I want to call The Perfect Seven Project and I think this would be a good first step toward someday seeing the Perfect Seven Project come together.

My idea for the Perfect Seven Project is to get a group of artist/writers together and unite together on one project that by virtue of its many members, updates with consistent quality seven days a week and at the end of each month has a professional looking issue to show for it.

If it becomes successful I'd like to start running the Perfect Seven project as if it were a normal comic. Namely artist & writers doing work in advance, getting paid from the profits from each issue, maybe even officially published through someone like Top Cow. New writers and artists taking over as they go onto bigger and better things.

Basically if this goes the distance I'd like Perfect Seven to become the great starting point for comic carriers. Everyone knows if you get onto The Tonight Show and make the host laugh that you are going places. Well I want Perfect Seven to be that for web comics. I want people who really want to do comic for a living but don't know were to start know that if they can get in and do a run on Perfect Seven that it will be a boon to their resume and get their name known. Obviously that is heck of a goal which would take a lot of work, experience and organization.

That is my other reason why I would like to start with MM the Comic. Obviously the goal of doing 28-31 pro quality pages a month is tough. So I'm starting with something small. In this case just doing a comic with a group of awesome people which we all try and co-ordinate on, update occasionally, and make it readable and enjoyable to people outside the group. If MM the comic actually comes together it will be a good first step towards eventually starting the Perfect Seven Project.

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Gods of Rock

I don't remember all the characters so here is just a little sample of what I was thinking with the charaters I DO remember. I got to admit I'm having trouble getting a feel for all the characters and the series right now but here is a couple of pages off the top of my head.


Page 1
A vertical page of panel separated by static, channel switches as if someone was surfing TV.

Panel A - A large wide screen style panel across the top of the page.
The Gods of Rock pump it out hard core on stage.

Panel B
Hades storms off through a movie set looking pissed.
Commentary from the TV: Hades and Demeter break up. Who was cheating on who find out.

Panel C
A TV commercial pushes a Drunk Duck Brew.

Panel D
Loki sits back in an interview with a talk show host. Loki looks very thug and reclines casually back in his chair.
Loki: ...so my new album is called "Disodinson" and it is sort of a rap/metal sort of thing...
From Off Panel: That was MY title!

Page 2
Panel A
Thor sits up on his couch holding a TV Remote looking pissed. In the background Posidon is drinking a bottle of DD Brew behind the coach.
Thor: I can't belive it, Loki stole, the %&#$ing title to my solo albumn.

Panel B
Posidon steps around to the other side of the coach.
Posidon: That sucks dude. Brothers man the parasites of the world eh?

Panel C
Posidon hands Thor a beer.
Posidon: Here man, have a brew while you stew about it.

Panel D
Some time later another random god (Pick someone I can't rememeber anyone else.) comes into the room and finds Thor and Posidon very drunk with the evidence of their drinking strewn across the couch.
ARGod: Hey, whats going on.
Thor: We're just working on a new album. Drunkodinson.

Panel E
Posidon sits up some at the name.
Posidon: Dude! Seriously you really should name the album that.
ARGod: Maybe you should wait till your sober to call your agent.

Sunday, December 2, 2007

I'm going SANE in a CRAZY world!

I'm not sure what I'm thinking lately.

I keep taking on new projects, even though I lack the time to work on the projects I ALREADY have. So I find myself neglecting my beloved (beloved to ME at least) The Path in order to work on paying gigs that are not personally satisfying in any way (for instance, just did a mural of the Teen Titans in a kid's bedroom so I could put the $ towards the MM book). I miss my comics...I like to think that other people miss them too.

By my calculations, however, that mural pretty much paid for 130 copies of the book. So hoo-ha and hee-haw for MM (sorry, haven't quite gotten TX out of my system)!

On a different note, a spash-page battle for DDCW turned into a double-splash page. Just 20 minutes ago, it started turning into a TRIPLE. Yes, three pages, taped together...it's actually quite epic. When I get home in the morning, I'll take a pic of it and post it for all to see.

I'm going to start nagging you guys now about entries for the book. NAG! Seriously. 30 days, kids. Anyone who DIDN'T get the email I sent out with the specs and page template PLEASE email me at riot.james@gmail.com so I can resend it to you. I don't want this to turn out to be just me, Zac, Acadia, and Wingnut putting stuff in. I really would like to have EVERYONE in MM represented.

That's it for now, gang. I have to go pretend I'm doing work now before someone catches on.
-Riot