Author notes

Pages 17-18: issue 6 - The Trial

shastab24

on June 25, 2012

I'm putting together a crossover project, to start next year and benefit the Hero Initiative.  If you're interested in participating, e-mail me at karamesser@hotmail.com or PQ me on this site.
 
That third panel is supposed to be Locomotive running past the car.  Her power is kind of super-speed, but she isn't as fast as the other speedsters in the HUniverse.  What happens is that she builds up speed, and the faster she goes, the stronger and tougher she gets.  I was thinking of calling her "Freight Train", but that one's played out.  Instead, I like to think that if she went up against Superman, she'd test the old adage of "more powerful than a locomotive".  Also in the third panel: another one of my poorly-drawn cars.  I really need to start using photo reference.
 
Also, things don't seem to be looking good for Ammon Man.  He keeps looking sicker and sicker the more I draw him.  These last few pages I've really come into being able to draw him the way I want to–as a man who looks obviously at death's door.  It's also why he's so pale (which is annoying to color, because the angle I have to look at the screen to make sure it colored the right spots–and yes, his skin isn't just white).  But, contrasting him, it looks like Sparkle has deduced correctly about the wall.  It was only fitting that I was watching the Incredible Hulk TV series on DVD as I was coloring this–it helped keep the inspiration (well, on the DVD cover, since the guy never actually punched anything on that show).
 
But this is my 100th page!  Woo!  I wish I could say I did something special for it (I wanted to draw a bunch of webcomic superheroes celebrating it with my characters), but I didn't have the time to draw it.  Oh well, I guess I'll try again at 200.