Sometimes, I really CAN do it all!
This weekend saw my second New York Comic Convention, and man the thing was absolutely ENORMOUS. At least a hundred thousand people there, I heard someone say. Couldn’t tell you who, though – there were too many people! Super huge thanks are due to Denny Fincke and Jeff Brennan, who very kindly shared their space with me for a few hours, providing me not only with a home base, but also some valuable experience in how exactly one runs a table like that. Everyone I met at the show was super-awesome to me – in contrast to last year, I can’t say I had a single bad interaction at the whole show! I got to meet Phil Reed from Steve Jackson Games, whose boardgame Ogre, I’m sure you know, is a great favorite of mine; Evan Dahm of Rice Boy, who once gave me some great words of encouragement that he probably has forgotten but which were a great inspiration to me; Chris Cope and Eric Hutchinson of Neo Revolver, who were awesome enough to chat with me for quite a while, and give me a free comic, to boot; Christopher Herndon of Blunderbuss Wanderlust who didn’t think I was coming back for a copy of his book (fooled you!); Melissa Curtin of Strange Someone, whose artwork is what I am now aspiring to; and of course, the Starfleet crew from the USS Sutherland – McKinley Station informs me the new Warp Core is arriving on Tuesday.
So yeah, great times had by all.
Downside: I broke my front tooth. Twice. I broke it the first time sometime late last week, and had it rebuilt on Friday. Painlessly, thank God. But then tonight, while eating supper, the damn edge snapped right off again. Goddamn it. My dentist will be wringing his hands over this one. And I’ll be searching the recesses of my wallet to pay for it. But what can you do? Call the dentist tomorrow morning, that’s what.
But at any rate, with all THAT excitement, I still have a nice, neat, new page for you. And here it is!
So now I must rest. Until next week, comrades, be well!
Hmm… fancy uniform.
Also, thats a pretty snazzy room he’s got there 😀
sooooo… I just went through every comic to check… is sierra troop Sarah’s unit? I feel like I remember the name from somewhere, but i cant find it.
Also, what ever happened to Placeman? We never saw him after he ran off leaving Sarah alone… (Just a question I thought of while scanning the archives 😛 )
He’s probably a small cloud of radioactive vapour by now
Well, he survived the first bomb, but disappeared after that. It’s conceivable that he was killed in the following launch, but it seems unlikely that either side would hit the same worthless piece of battlefield a second time without a good reason.
I don’t want to wreck it for you, but as regards Milo Placeman, to take a Tolkeinesque approach, “He may yet have a part to play, for good or evil.”
–M
Fantastic 😀 glad to hear he wasn’t forgotten!
Heh – I based the QNM uniform on the Free French uniform the Foreign Legion wore in North Africa in World War Two. Seemed appropriate.
And Rucker’s room is based on officers’ quarters on a nuclear submarine – the USS Philadelphia, I believe.
–M
For having all these screens around you would think that they would look at them more often. Perhaps it is a side effect of my IT work that I do so? Or it could be a remainder from a game where we try to identify the maker of a computer used in a movie based on its case, or a peripheral.
😀
Well, to be sure, AFSCON computers are pretty damn boring. No internet, no graphics except for maps and such, and only a very basic video interface… they never invented the MP3 in the 6-Commando universe!
–M
Why do I get the feeling that if Sarah doesn’t pull through, Maj. Rucker shouldn’t be near loaded firearms :'(
Think Tom’s going to have a wig-out session?
He already can’t go near strong magnets. It has no bearing on the story, really, but part of his background is that he had a head injury in Mosul in the mid 80’s, and has a metal plate on the left side of his skull. He was a First Lieutenant back then, and his men used to complain that he ruined their radio reception.
–M
Beautiful page!
Thanks, Aviv! It was, again, one of those pages that didn’t seem to come together until the last fifteen minutes. There are tons of tiny details and things I missed between the sketch and the inks, but overall it came out pretty well I think!
–M
A screw it, he’s secretly in love with her and doesn’t even know!
Oh, I think he knows.
😉
–M
Replacing a Bronniford with a Bronniford, or is this a flashback and I just missed the memo?
Flashback. I’m glad you posted your doubts – I’m never quite sure if what I’m drawing comes off right until I post it. So thanks!
–M
I hate leaky sink pipes!
Yeah right? Especially when you’re in a bunker underground! It makes the atomic war up top seem that much more irritating!
–M