I'm an SF geek, and my favorite characters were always the anti-heroes.
My mom raised me on reruns of original Trek and first runs of Battlestar Galactica (for note, I like both Battlestar series…the first being right for me when I was a kid and the new one being right for me as an adult) and Buck Rogers. Think about it…Kirk wasn't exactly by the book. If he couldn't fuck it or kill it, what use did he really have for it? Starbuck, who was also a favorite, was a bad boy. The hotshot pilot who drank, gambled, and slept around. Buck was out of time and off for the society he was in, and Hawk, from later in Buck Rogers, was a much the odd man out as Buck had been earlier. Mad Max, Snake Plissken, Vic from a Boy and His Dog…none of them are particularly well-adjusted individuals.
Did I mention I always though Cobra was far cooler than GI Joe (with the exception of Snake-Eyes, Scarlett, and Jinx)? C'mon…Zartan, the Dreadnoks…Baroness was fetish Barbie….
Okay, so GI Joe wasn't exactly hardcore science fiction, but it did have a lot of SF elements.
The anti-heroes and the "bad guys" just always seemed more interesting. Damaged, haunted, driven. When done well, they always had far more depth.
Why are we supposed to root for the "good guys"? Simply because they're "good"? What kind of mindless, programmed response is that? Good and bad are individual perspective. Why is the side of the "light" always the right one? If there is faith to be had, what requires more; to "believe in the light" or to believe in the dark? You can't see what's in the darkness. If faith needs to be had, it's in the places where you can't see whether or not there is something that can hurt you.
You can already see what's in the light, you have to trust in the shadows.
Ah, late night rambling….
re: the last batch of pages and Alyssa's eyes. It's just a bit of a change stylistically in how I approach characters drawn at a certain size. I'm ALWAYS experimenting in my art, even on the page.
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