THE FUTURE!

I've decided to embrace the future... and by that I don't mean doing anything in appropriate with a computer or anything involving a female robot. No, what I mean is, I've decided to set my comic in the future. I don't mean like 3000 years, floating cities and cars that fold into suitcase, nor will there be any sort of dramatic apocalyptic scenerio that my comic will take place after. I'm thinking it'll be an unexplained time a few decades in the future. Not too many though... I just watched a discovery channel special about what the world will be like fifty years in the future, and it won't be like that... No flying cars or anything that dramatic... but there will be robots... and technically, there will also be space travel and maybe we've already contacted aliens, and some of them live on earth now (obviously I'll take some liberties for the sake of humor.) I haven't worked it all out yet, but I figure I need something to explain why there's a remote controlled boy running around.

In that theme, I've also been working on a new character... Adam's (the remote controlled boy) grandpa. I figure he's a retired supervillain... Sort of a Vader without the force to sustain him... so he's rather decrepit now... but still carrying the same bad attitude.

I haven't drawn it here, but I'm actually thinking I'm gonna put him in a wheel chair... Really focus on his frailty... I also want to put him in a small cottage with Adam's grandma, who looks like an ordinary grandma. I'm thinkin' it'll be pretty funny... The conflict between his old supervillain lifestyle, and the fact that he's now more likely to become an impromptu babysitter than hold the world hostage to his whims.

Zombies...

I've been debating adding Zombie characters to my comic strip... Personally, I think zombies can be pretty funny (the slow moving kind, not the modern "fast" kind) but I am somewhat hesitant due to the fact that they're everywhere these days.


I'm thinking that having a few shambling zombie-types would might be funny, they could shamble off to work, shamble back home later, shamble up to the bar perhaps... and generally just sort of hang out. I'm kinda modeling them after hippies, although I don't mean it in some sort of annoying preachy way or anything like that and there isn't really a moral or message here, just animated corpses shambling about their business. I don't think they'll eat brains though, maybe they'll be morally opposed to brains, or they'll want to avoid conforming to stereotypes...

Since they'd be part of the neighborhood, I wonder where they'd live... In an abandoned church? An empty crypt in a Tim Burton-esque graveyard? Or do they just have a house, or a mobile home?

Remote Controlled Boy

Work continues on my comic... I'm trying to flesh out characters right now. The first of my primary characters might be the remote-controlled boy. He's a boy who's parents decided that simply filling his daily schedule with all sorts of activities from school, to a designated time for homework, to music lessons, to extra curricular activities, wasn't really enough control over their child's life. So they turned to cutting edge and somewhat crackpot science for the answer....

I'm not sure how well remote controlled boy will work... I'm guessing he's the reluctant type, more of a wanderer than a driven person, regardless who is doing the driving. I'm thinking partial control rather than full control... I could also see some debugging needed... I'll have to start writing some jokes and see where this one goes.

I might have to simplify the brain cap as well... It could get tiring having to redraw that thing over and over again.

Creating a Comic Strip.

The story so far...
There isn't one.

Just a collection of drawings at this point, and some rough ideas that I'm gonna need to flesh out later... and some fluff that won't make the cut.

I'll flesh out some of these concepts in future posts...