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Fight or Flight

These past couple of weeks have been...interesting.

Comics Obscura is undergoing a bit of a shakeup; the founding members of the group are at odds with our editor-in-chief, the inimitable Jay Jacot. I can't give any specific details, but suffice to say they're at loggerheads right now, and are going to use next Sunday's meeting as a chance to try and resolve the differences. Hopefully everything will work out to peacefully, and we can get back to drawing comics and having a good time.

Not much to report on my end. I just finished the roughs for Redtooth #2, and am moving on to Redtooth #3. Oh, and did you hear about this? I'm also working on a webcomic. When it will come out, I haven't the foggiest. I'm just doing the art and trying to mind my own business.

The webcomic is called (tentatively, and probably finally) Fight or Flight, and we started very early last year. I'm working with a writer, David "Skippy" Crampton, and his co-conspirator, Aaron Mosier. I'm not going to give much away here, but I'll give you a couple concept images, just to tease:
Fig. 1: "Willy, the Origin Robot"

Here is Willy. Willy, meet world. World, meet Willy. And yes, it does sound like "WALL-E", but then again I didn't know about the movie before I named the little guy (at any rate, it's only a working name).

Fig. 2: an "Oracle" robot

Another concept image - we might use it, we might not. It would be cool, though.

Fig. 3: Hunter/Processor Robot.


Fig. 4: Scavenger robot.

There are plans for the webcomic, and then for an MMORPG. At some point. Right now I'm working on the art for FoF #2. Slowly but surely, we're cranking out issues (or installments, or whatever webcomics have).

Rick out.




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Unknown said…
Good hear from you again and nice updates. Those concept designs of robot are very clean and sharp designs. I really dig first one "Willy." Keeps post it on FoF and Redtooth.

Josh out...
March 11, 2009 at 1:25 PM
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