Since I haven't updated my website, I thought I'd show you the first peek of what I'm working on. It's a new ongoing comic series about this dude, Hank, who travels from town to town in search of his father, who was a legendary private investigator. Dad was abducted when Hank was 17. Hank barely managed to escape. Over the past 20 years, Hank has never stopped searching for his old man. And he tries to live "off the grid" because whoever took his dad has been searching for HANK for 20 years too.
I don't have a title for it yet. But it took me a week or two to get the look I wanted for Hank. And I'm writing the first episode.
Anyway, you're the first people to see this. What do you think of his look?
One love.
67 comments:
Way to blow his cover a-hole!
Sheesh!
That photograph will self-destruct in five seconds.
Why does he have green hair?
Okay, I'm evil, I know.
I like the idea, it sounds fun. Will there be zombies?
Looks like John Cusack.
No, but really, he does have that Jeremiah Johnson look to him. Mountain Man tough... yeah, hiding in them thar hills, in his underground bunker, only comes out for women and supplies. Has a soft spot for ABBA music. I get it.
Why does he have green hair?
Why I oughta...
I like the idea, it sounds fun. Will there be zombies?
No. "The Walking Dead" has outdone anything anyone else will ever try with zombie comics. (BTW: Might wanna order those volumes before somebody in Hollywood options it.)
Some of the other titles Robert Kirkman writes are already in development. A lot of this leads to "developement limbo" because a lot of studios wanna buy up projects just so the OTHER studios can't make an instant hit of it.
Still, I met Robert Kirkman. If somebody offers him a check for $2 million, he's gonna take it. He's just a regular guy like anybody else.
So no, no zombies. CERTAINLY no vampires.
In my pitch, I'd say it's "Kung Fu" meets "The Fugitive". Old school. Rated Adults Only. You might have to enter a pssword to get into it. Or I'll hide an Easter Egg on the site somewhere.
Has a soft spot for ABBA music. I get it.
Close. Air Supply.
Not Air Supply! Aieeeee!
Sounds cool, actually. Get to work. I've been checking, and you haven't been updating. New shit now! New shit Now!
Air Supply.
As long as it's not REO Speedwagon.
Is he wearing a turtle neck?
Always hated REO. Buncha dorks. Neil Young is going to be in town soon. I've seen him so many times, though. Hmmm.
BTW, SoS, Ripley's mom's apparently in the hospital again. At least it sounds like it in his latest post, if you wanna go send good wishes!
Not Air Supply! Aieeeee!
Nah. I'm boosting a background fact from Jim Croce.
Apparently Croce got his first full time gig playing at a steak house/bar. They hated him, mocked him, threw shit at him, etc.
But he stuck with it and by the time he quit the bar, he had a repertoire of over 3,000 songs. From rock to blues to folk to love songs to drunken sing-alongs.
So, that's another part of who Hank is. He's a troubadoor.
Is he wearing a turtle neck?
No, there's a collar under the beard. And the shirt is from his first new job at a video store.
Hank has never worn a turtleneck in his life.
New shit now! New shit Now!
And just leave MV and Dr. Gravity hanging?
Plus the new series has no title and starts with a totally sweet action scene that I'm still working on.
Always hated REO. Buncha dorks.
REO, from Champaign, IL. Only half an hour away. They played our new "colluseum". Didn't go.
Turns out I could fight that feeling.
Well, new shit about MV and Dr. Gravity would still be new shit, wouldn't it? More, more!
Well, an artist should never disappoint his fan, so I will do some work this weekend. Update by Monday.
Get a room u 2.
We got one, right here!
Voyeur!
Wait, wait....
I gotta find another quarter...
Fetish boy! Where's the HAPPY HOUR tonight, brudda?
Why does this always happen with my site? Months go by, I update it like crazy, nobody visits. I get sidetracked. No updates. Suddenly, an old friend from MPLS says she dropped by and got caught up.
I need to make connections!!
The Masked Vigilante stuff is just for my own amusement (and coyote's, apparently). So that's why I want to do a serious project with an actual storyline that makes sense.
Something I could perhaps sell one day.
Who cold play Hank? 37 years old, big, breardy. Jason Segal could do it. That's the only person I can think of right now.
Hank has never worn a turtleneck in his life.
Sure looks like a turtleneck.
Maybe a unitard?
Fetish boy! Where's the HAPPY HOUR tonight, brudda?
Planet Thailand 212.
Just a short elevator ride away!
Thank Bacchus!
Happy Hour is where you find it, baybee!
I need to make connections!!
Do what I do, hang out by the dumpsters until a kid in an overcoat wanders by...
Maybe a unitard?
You're a unitard. It's like a baseball shirt. It's the video store uniform.
Do you drive into the city, or mass trans it?
Here it is.
Great Thai food.
I'll be belly up to the bar in less than 2!
Do what I do, hang out by the dumpsters until a kid in an overcoat wanders by...
I'm not looking for a hand job. I'm looking for internet traffic.
Two entirely different approaches are required.
Here it is.
Dollar beers! I could put away a few Saporros right about now.
I'm not looking for a hand job.
Don't knock it til you've tried it, though I was hinting toward pharmaceuticals.
though I was hinting toward pharmaceuticals.
Oh, I got that covered. Plenty of "artist's inspiration" for the weekend.
Do you drive into the city, or mass trans it?
Drive? Fuck no! I sail past all the ijits sitting in their cars on the FDR via good clean 'lectric train.
Mass trani!
Boy, that sounds like it could be a scary scene! Stilettos and lycra minis everywhere!
Mmmm, shrimp dumplings. I'm in, snark!
Stilettos and lycra minis everywhere!
Heh. Sounds like a normal Monday 'round here.
It's the video store uniform.
No way Grizzly Adams works in a video store. That's the first place the guys with the mind eraser thingys look when they get into town. Loadin' up on pornos and swedish fish. Ya know?
Yeah, but I think he's talking about stilettos and lycra minis on dudes.
If that's your normal Monday, I'd start taking Mondays off.
No way Grizzly Adams works in a video store.
He applies for many jobs, but there's a reason why he ends up at the video store in the opening episode.
Hey, I like my dudes purtied up. Don't you?
All right! Video store ninja! Now we're talkin' dude!
He likes the little chick with the sweet tits and tight ass working the checkout counter only to find out it's really his long lost daughter?
Ow! That'll hurt.
Hey, Obama's on the ACORN attack!
I like my dudes far, far away from me.
All right! Video store ninja! Now we're talkin' dude!
Right! He knows everything about movies and prefers to stick to video stores, but he suppliments with playing guitar in clubs and solving an occasional "private problem" in town.
Think about if you had spent the last 20 years on the road, all the stuff you'd learn. 3,000 songs. 1,000 mixed drinks. Every imaginable "odd job".
While the rest of us have spent 20 years at a career with a family and a bunch of stuff and holidays, this guy is free of all that. He reads. He watches movies. He plays music. Tokes a spliff. Bounces at a club. Tends some bar. Gets in a fight.
Not exactly a ninja. Definitely a fighter.
He likes the little chick with the sweet tits and tight ass working the checkout counter only to find out it's really his long lost daughter?
Um.
Long lost daughter? Negative.
Long lost relative of any kind? Negative.
Tight little package working the checkout counter? AH-firmative.
Newt. hehe. AH-firmative.
Wow. Hank sounds like Repairman Jack.
Repairman Jack.
Oh Jesus!
You're havin' a repairman fantasy aren't ya?
Mr. big and burly's on his back, head all up in your pipes. He looks up at you and says, "I can fix the problem. But it's gonna take all my skills and... a big black dildo."
Is "Repairman Jack" the name of your gigantic white dildo with a kickstand?
You should call it "Joe the Plumber". Timely.
Repairman Jack.
You'd like him, MV. I've read all the books, and maybe you've seen the movie based on his first RJ book "The Keep?"
But yes, I fantasize about him all the time.
Cool! The next RJ book is out - gotta stop at Costco and pick it up. Hooray!
I made a list of Repairman Jack novels in order. Looks like something I'd dig.
Did the same with Robert Parker and his three characters: Spenser, Jesse Stone, and Sonny Randall, and all of their books in order.
I've read most of them already, but it's been 10 years for some so I'mma get caught up from the beginning.
As soon as I finish "Cell" by Stephen King, which you HAVE to have read, Coyote.
Making lists is a sign of dementia.
List of things I need to do now;
1. HAPPY HOUR!!!!
Booo! I want Happy Hour.
You would totally love Repairman Jack, MV, he's way cool. Off the grid vigilante for hire.
I've read The Cell a long time ago. Like all King's books, still a good read, but dang, if that wasn't one of his most misogynistic books ever. Lisey's Story was pretty good, and Duma Key was great, I thought.
I did nothing this weekend. Absolutely nothing. And it was everything I ever dreamed it could be.
I watched so many movies, I couldn't even list them all.
Californication made me cry two weeks in a row. Entourage last night was brilliant.
Maybe someday I'll get caught up on True Blood, but right now there's just no way to make me interested in vampires right now.
I heard Anna Paquin got naked on it the other night. That's unusual. We've never seen her naked before and Sarah Jessica Parker kept her close on for 117 seasons of "what that girl needs is a dick in her ass!"
But then Weeds over at Showtime pushed the limit by allowing Mary Louise Parker a couple of really hot nude scenes.
So I guess HBO said, "Anna, we're gonna need to see your breastesses."
That's okay with me. I love nudity. Who doesn't love nudity?
Anna Paquin, however, as always seemed like a bit of a runt to me.
I was pretty lazy, too, wasn't feeling great - low level nausea for days. I'm prolly fighting something off, which is better than getting something, I suppose. I caught up on Primeval amd Heroes, finally finished Iron Man which is a science geek's dream, so I liked it a lot. Watched The Happening which I don't think was as horrible as a lot of people were saying; it was like an extended Twilight Zone episode. Watched half of Run Fatboy Run before turning it off to go to bed. I liked it better when it was called Liar, liar and had a supernatural twist.
So, paradox and turk are on their own now. Too bad Erin can't think of a damn thing to write about. Poor TLC, it may not recover from the boredom.
I have Run Fatboy Run rented. For Simon Pegg, obviously.
Speaking of, the list of movies I watched is coming into focus:
Hot Fuzz
House of D, written and directed by David Duchovny. Pretty good, actually.
Almost Famous, gotta rewatch every once in a while. And speaking of Cameron Crowe, I also watched Jerry Maguire and Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
The Edge, recorded off cable.
You Don't Mess With The Zohan
The Man Who Wasn't There, a great Coen Brothers, along with Miller's Crossing.
Enchanted because I love Amy Adams.
The Brave One, cuz I was waiting for Entourage
I know there's more, but I'm having a brain fart.
...along with Miller's Crossing.
'Bout one of my favorite movies of all time. One of them ones you can't be interupted viewing. Deep dudes.
Fucking pissed at Shirin at TLC always dissing our troops. Fuck her... practically advocating killing them. They are already treated like shit but to her, they deserve it!?
Has anyone read about the guys in Co. Springs who returned from Iraq and are going on killing sprees. They need help... lock them up, give them drugs, they are a danger to society. The stupid government and military doesn't realize Iraq and our crazy continual deployments is doing this to them. Fucking insane. I'm pissed.
Paradox has never responded to me, ever, and he lives in the same area I grew up in. So if TLC folds it won't bother me.
Maybe Erin should jump in for comic relief! Which I desperately need now!
"Almost Famous" was like what I saw at a distance. And it used to piss us off when the rock stars would pick our girlfriends out of the crowd and take them away for a few days. Then the young females would wonder why we gave them the cold shoulder for a couple of weeks. You damn right we were jealous!!
Jealous of the girls, for fucking rock stars or jealous of the rock stars for fucking the girls? Heh.
Sorry, I'm trying to get a fookin' network printer to work on remote, and it ain't working. Pisses me off!
But I'll look for the CO story, I hadn't heard that one.
Shirin's a girl??
Shirin's a girl??
Unless, like a lot of foreigners... she got her, he's and she's mixed up. Could of swore she spoke in the female tense and of being a mother once.
Jealous of the girls for getting free drugs and partying with the rock stars I guess... fucking in those days didn't really concern most of us... since everyone was fucking each other anyway.
I put up a link to the soldier story at LEFT is RIGHT. We are loading a lot quicker nowdays.
And it used to piss us off when the rock stars would pick our girlfriends out of the crowd and take them away for a few days.
HAHAHAHA!!!! Never to be heard from again. "Band Aids". Prolly got traded to Humble Pie for $40 and a case of Heinekin.
That was such a brilliant movie. So glad Crowe got a best original screeplay Oscar for that.
Oh, I guess I'll go over to TLC, see if I can't stir some shit.
TLC. (snores)
Yeah, they've been really boring lately! SoS, that's one of the reasons I didn't go to LisR - the slow loading! I'll try again, 'cos I really like the Friday Fun. I always find good games to waste time on there! Thanks!
Oh dear, I guess Steve's out for six months maybe more. I guess Erin's gonna have to step up to the plate. We can change the face of Arakis...um...TLC! Long live the fighters!
Yup, it's a real snoozefest over there today.
You guys, on the other hand, are just rippin' it up over here....cough, cough.
Woohoo! Par-tay! Boobies!
Ahem.
Better?
You don't really mean it though.
So no. ;)
Boobies tomorrow on TLC, howzat?
Alright a-hole number one on my list is the masked vigilante needs another compadre to help him make the world right and his name is Sammy (you should of already had that figured out, dummy). As far as Hank, I'm thinkin no beard, more of a King Tut look (without the head gear of course) from the TV Batman.
You're thinking Hank should look like this??
As for the comic, I'm thinking season 2 is pretty much wrapped. Pimp Hand is the season finale.
In other words, I've written myself into a corner. I don't know where to go from here, so The Masked Vigilante is gonna go on hiatus while I get this new thing started.
Don't worry. You're gonna love it. And we'll get back to MV and crew (with more guest stars -- everybody wants to see themselves in the comic).
I'm imagining switching back and forth between series.
Lots to do, so we'll see if something new comes out tomorrow.
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