I think this one speaks for itself. This is my first foray into drawing fire in a very long time – let me tell you, fire is NOT easy to draw.
So. We had a few unusual things happen in the last update to the theme I use to run the comic, and they have been resolved. So, extra-super-special thanks to Frumph, creator and continuous updater of the ComicEasel plugin on which I rely, not only for jumping on the update, but also for being so patient with my barrage of “It’s broken and I’m too dumb to know what to do” messages. He’s the man.
As for me, last week was really heck on wheels. Tons of work, meetings, changes, more changes, misunderstandings… it’s all still hanging a little, but this being Labor Day weekend, I get Monday off to try to make sense of it all and hopefully not freak out entirely. Basically, all week I was the ranking officer on deck, so to speak, pretty much running the show on a really big and difficult project that has a lot of moving targets, yet I wasn’t really in a position to make the kind of authoritative decisions that were really required, so I was kind of left just hoping there isn’t some kind of a blow-up come Tuesday morning. We’ll just see.
Anyhow, I’m taking the opportunity to sleep a little more than usual, and hopefully to have a leisurely, low-key day tomorrow. I hope everyone else does, too. All the best, folks!
Everything has changed. The old rules don’t work anymore. There is a new variable.
MIKE.
In the words of Dave Bowman, “Well, we’re in very serious trouble.”
Fire is a pain in the ass to draw, excellent title page!
Thanks! It’s hard enough to photograph fire, even. I mean, an ignited combusting plasma? Come on.
burn the evidence!
Fire will cleanse our sins! 😉
Fire may be hard to draw, but you did an excellent job of it.
Kind of you to say. I’m not sure I got it totally right, but I got it as right as I’m able to at the moment.
Hmmm, what kind of blue-prints is he burning here? The one in the middle looks like one for a multi-stage-missile, while the rolled up one looks more like some sort of Cruise-Missile…well well, I wonder what will be revealed to why he did burn them. ^^
Really well done job on the flames you did there. 😉
All kinds. 😉
Chapter 6 – Peace on Earth.
One of the first chapter titles making sense. With most of the others, I didn’t get the meaning. If there was one…?
Chapter 1: Russian Roulette. I think that one is fairly clear, unless the concept has fallen into disuse.
Chapter 2: The Longest Shadow refers to a Polish aphorism that “Regret casts a shadow longer than Death itself,” so maybe that was obscure.
Chapter 3: Mr. Transistor is a reference to Mike.
Chapter 4: Take Me To The River refers to the title of a song by Al Green. The critical lyrics are: “Take me to the river/And wash me down/Won’t you cleanse my soul/And put my feet on the ground.”
Chapter 5: Afterimage seems fairly self-explanatory, now that the chapter is over.
Anyway, a little bonus insight for you. 😀
Chapter 6: Peace on Earth, obviously a “Dr. Strangelove” reference. Y’know, where they finally figure out the prefix code so they can recall the bombers? Good times… 🙂
Purity of Essence?
Actually it’s a reference to the Stanisław Lem novel Pokòj na Ziemi, which I highly recommend.
It’s also in “Dr. Strangelove”, since both “Peace on Earth” and “Purity of Essence” were on the paper on Gen. Ripper’s desk. That’s what Group Capt. Mandrake reads, and it gives him the prefix code. So, TAKE THAT! 😉
I totally missed the Stanisław Lem connection, but allow me to share another great product of Poland (translated for the English-speaking audience): http://www.konradokonski.com/SITM/comic/sitm-266/. It’s an acquired taste, but it’s worth it. 😀
Well done flames indeed, and light. 🙂
Thanks. Had to stare at a lot of photographs to figure it out and even so…
“A” for effort, but I highly doubt that those are the only copies. 🙁
He’s got to start somewhere.
Flames….yes they are difficult. You can make them a more artistic style or work to draw them as realistic as possible or a mix up of them. And that is just b/w!
By burning the plans he maybe hopes that these weapons won’t be able to be made anymore…then again as the old saying goes ”You can’t put the genie back in the bottle”.