That Got a little Dark...

"Its Hot in this House...."
Based on a True story of when I lived with Hastings. Apparently temperature in very important to beer brewing, and some people take their beer seriously enough to literally loose sleep over this kinda stuff.



"Like Gorillas"
I am not entirely sure how or why I got the idea to write this one. I think Brent may have been involved in the general idea somehow. The concepts seem to have his dirty little Aladdin looking finger prints all of it. Although I think my favorite thing is the way Kyle's neck is turned int he last panel. Atomically correct? No. Should I go in and fix it? Probably. Is it too funny as it is. Yes.


"Establish your Dominance!"
The idea for this one came to me as a variant of the previous comic. I remember I had been bouncing ideas off of Trevor over facebook trying to get some dialog for the other one right and somehow at some point this one sort of grew from a pile of discarded ideas that had gained some level of sentience.


"Our Brenty is on a Date"
This is a cleaned up version of one from 3 or 4 years ago not quite in old enough to be form the golden RTB era but probably my freshman year of college. I always enjoyed this one, as did most of the people who I have had read it. The writing for the dialog was given to me by Trevor while he was visiting me in the dorms. It introduces the character of "Jen" the female variant of Brent who was going to naturally perfect for him though he would be do dense to realize it.


Below is a "Recapping Heep" of the other comics I was able to forge during this term.

Drawin Bout Love

These 4 comics were mostly done with some thought in my head of Valentines Day. This is February and so to some extent I had thought I needed to have some "love" theme.

So just remember-
1. Some times the love of February drive men to summon lust demons form the depths.
2. Some times the love of your family is seen more clearly after you are past the drinking age.
3. Some times loves isn't about what you feel but instead how you choose to word it
4. And sometimes love drives men to offer women money in gratitude of something that was freely given.

"I Did it!"
It only took him 3 strips and a year to do it but Kyle has finally summoned himself a sexy little succubus.... or has he?

I have waiting for the right time to finally make this one but here it is. The lovely young lady in panels 3 and 4 is based off an actual friend of mine and I have decided to immortalize her in cartoon form. All in all I consider this comic to not be an end of a mini story so much as a new jumping point for future story arks. As Kyle will no doubt express the fullness of his feelings on this latest summon in the future and perhaps even take steps to rectify his error.


"My Rowdy Uncles"
This is a comic I made more for myself for the purposes of documentation. It is a visual detailing of my cousins recent wedding reception. The style of telling is a little different then the usual but I think it works well in this case. People always tell me I could get rich it I made comics exclusively about my family. I don't know if that is true or not but here is a way to get an idea I suppose.


"My Bride and Future Dark Queen"
This is one of those amazingly wonderful magic comics I hold so close to my heart, because they actually happened. Some of you may remember the character of Tyler Cote aka "Tyco". You may also remember he has a very unique way of expressing himself and his thoughts/feelings. Again I want to clarify, this comic is real. He literally said all the things in panel 3 about me word for word.



Brent's Date (a working title)
This is a work in progress of a popular old favorite I made when I was a freshman. I won't elaborate on it till it is done but you can look at what I have so far if you want.

That Got a little Dark...

Last Year I decided to draw something Valentine's Day themed. Ever one for tradition here you go.

The Peck, The Fett and the Dog!

I only managed to get 3 completely finished comics up this time. But I did include the modified sketch of what would have turned into #4. Its not much to look but its here too.

"Smarter then you are."
I am not a dog person. However literally everyone I know, the only exception probably being my father, is a dog lover to the max. Recently I had to make a trip home in which I was exposed to my mothers latest pet. The experience was "inspiring". I decided for this comic to take the liberty to fuse mom's current dog with a dog with a dog use to have named "Marry Jane"(seriously). My goal was to create the ultimate obnoxious cartoon animal, minus the ability to speak.



"Chespo Kutata Kreesta"
This idea came about from an actual threat I made to send my "top bounty hunter" after Kyle if he didn't pay up. This lead to the obvious cantina scene parody. Although this comic is not entirely truthful as my top bounty hunter would be Scarlyn. Who I am actually trying to digitally paint a picture of right now, so I might post that in the future at some point.



"A Deception"
For this one I wanted to achieve 3 goals.
1. I wanted it to be funny (duh!).
2. I wanted it feature a lot of characters. Not sure why exactly I guess I just felt the strips lately have been a little Nate, Kyle, Trevor heavy. So You will note that this comic has a lot of people, including the first appearance of "Lindsay" and "Tawnee" in a comic.
3. I wanted to poke fun at Lindsay (just a little bit) and the fact that she doesn't know how to deal with unwanted male affection.
All these considered I am really happy with how this one turned out.


This one is unfinished, I just tossed it up to show kinda what I will be working on next. This one is going to be a little different. Its basically a true story about my cousins wedding reception and how funny my family is without really trying. Its more one I am making just because I want to, but who knows maybe other people will enjoy a glance into the a Bowers party.

Timorous Beasties

I am not sure why exactly but all four of these have to deal with monsters of some form or another... This was not intentional and I didn't even realize it until now as I am posting them. So I hope that doesn't discourage anyone...

"The Inner Darkness"
This began as a sketch did of my roommate one evening when I couldn't sleep. I don't remember why I decided to draw him a feral cave creature, exactly, but I believe it had something to do with him being a bit broody that day and saying something about needing to "battle his dark side and become productive". At any rate I looked at the sketch a few days later and somehow stretched it out into this.


"I Gave You Life"
This is one I sketched up at the end of last quarter immidiately following the creation of T-Sev 3 part series. I guess HK-Trevor-7, much like the characters he is a rough parody of is just contagious. I decided to give the reader more of a glimpse into the kind of creature he was, and just really get a more solid feeling for his personality.



"Programing is Glitched"
In addition to introducing Trevor-7 at the end of last term I also in the same series introduced Artemis. I can't quite remember how this idea came to me, I think I just wanted to have something introducing and awkward interest between the computer and the robot. I might flush out this awkward relationship in the future if the idea proves to be funny to other people besides me. Oh and don't get me started on Artemis and Hal 9000, that guy was a dick.


"Remember How I wanted a Succubus?"
Do you remember how Kyle wanted to summon a succubus? Well he did, and if you don't remember how that adventure ended I encourage you to check it out again. This comic is meant to be a follow up to that story, not directly following but some times after. Things still aren't working out for Kyle still as you can see. I eventually intend to do at least 1 more of this series in which he actually succeeds at summoning someone. The concepts for that are still kinda in the rough though, so for now your get "Cthflowndulu de Profundis Infernos"

The Necrocomicon

My plan for this coming term is to continue the comic production from spring and fall in preparations for the art book I eventually I hope to create for my senior capstone. The goal follows a plan almost identical to last term of, 2 new comics a week 3 if I can manage it.

The Process will be simple. I will begin as before with a rough sketch or at least some loose concept that I have jotted down on paper. After which I will scan the sketches and proceed to ink the outlines, add color, definition and text bubble in Photoshop.
Note the Transformation in the examples provided below.





The eventual goal of producing these comics would be reach a number that would be suitable to form an appropriately sized book. The book I am thinking would not be a "Comic Book" in the classic sense of a dark story driven narrative, but rather a humorous collection of my work. An anthology of the strips I have done over the past several years. This is common among newspaper strips and even web comics to release something like this every several years.

Timeline wise I would like complete at least 2-3 comic strips a week depending on the length and number of panels. Following this timeline it should put me with at least 20 new comics by the end of term if not more. As to what the strips will each be about I will have to determine that as the week draw nearer.

Week 1- Initial Planning & 2 Strips (I gave You Life) (The Inner Darkness)



Week 2- 2 New strips (Concepts to be decided)

Week 3 -2 New strips (Concepts to be decided)

Week 4- 2 New strips (Concepts to be decided)

Week 5- 2 New strips (Concepts to be decided)

Week 6- 2 New strips (Concepts to be decided)

Week 7- 2 New strips (Concepts to be decided)

Week 8- 2 New strips (Concepts to be decided)

Week 9 -2 New strips (Concepts to be decided)

Week 10- 2 New strips (Concepts to be decided)

If for whatever reason something prevents me from meeting a weekly goal of 2 strips, then I will add them them onto future weeks spaced out evenly.

Possibly in the future I will work on concepts for other elements of the book, such as front and back cover, table of contents and devoted to my personal commentary on individual strips should I choose to include it. This is only a secondary goal however and will probably not be focused upon heavily until the final term of the project.

Final Projects as a Whole

Here are all the comic I made this term. I have dived them into 3 categories.

The Stand Alones.
These were a handful of strips that just sort of came to me and I rolled with. Kyle assisted in brainstorming out some of these. I am pleased with how they turned out.
"Cutie Nicknames"


"BBQ Sauce on Those Walls"


"The Dueling Roses"


"Prepare the Yamatto Cannon"


"The Beta-Guy"


Trevor's Mayhem (A miniseries of unfortunate events)
As a brief comment on these as a whole. These were slightly cleaned up versions of very a very old series I made in high school. The original was a bit shorted then this and certainly less organized.
"Lock the Door and Get the Rifle"
he actually did something like this when we were 16 with the game "Gun"

"I'm not thinking anything Sexual"
He actually did this too...

"Manga Porn"
He would have done something like this.


"How Often Does He Do This?"


"Resolution"
He actually did this too. More then once, quite frequently too. In fact "Look Asians" was what he offered as his "foreign policy" when running for student body president our senior year.


The Creation of T-sev.
These were just some strips I thought would be kinda fun to do. A little different then the stuff I usually do but hopefully still entertaining. Again they draw on the character of Trevor heavily, no doubt becasue I had just finished the previous mini series and was still in the "Trevor Mind set"



So there you have it for this term. I have some sketches of what it to come in the future that I may scan and put up soon. I have some more comics with Artemis and T-sev as well as a few of Kyles continued attempts to summon a succubus and hopefully some with Brent who was strangely absent for most of these.