Yet another beautiful guest page, this time by Anthony Bourne, the creator and illustrator of Gen-Eg, and one of the most superb military artists I’ve had the pleasure of meeting. He and I spoke (albeit briefly, and without recognition) at NYCC, and he, like everyone else who’s chipped into this project, is a total class act. I strongly urge you to check out his other illustration work – it has a loose and really stylish sensibility that belies the heavy subjects he takes on, and he accomplishes more with black and white than many full-color photorealistic painters I know.
As for me, I’m making a change of pace this week, mainly because I’m in a bit of editing where the changes are so modest as to be, to my mind, uninteresting for anyone to look at but me, until they get a little farther along. Instead, if you vote this week you’ll see a piece I did as a submission to an impromptu call for artwork for the new 6th Edition of Ogre. Normally, I don’t do these kinds of things, since specs and competitions generally require heavy output for minimal return. But Ogre being so important a spiritual antecedent to 6-Commando, I made an exception, and a scene came to me on Friday night (when the call was announced) and formed whole, as it were, in my mind. So here’s one for all the Ogre fans of the world.
And so there you go! Until next week, folks!
That’s what we get for trying to be nice…
And they do realize there’s a huge bloody TANK right there, right?
Also, what is the vote picture? I can’t really tell whats going on in it.
Oh, dear. Well, it’s two cybertanks colliding while conventional troops flee into the foreground.
–M
You kinda know somthing is up when the ‘Cheif’ comes out in a white suit, accompanied by bodyguards armed with assault rifles, looking like a James Bond villain.
But as Killercrow has pointed out, they have a gigantic f***k-off tank with them, with sufficient firepower to level the entire village in one salvo… actually more like enough fire power to level the village and the next three over in one salvo.
In his big mechanical heart MIKE knows the natives are right and therefore won’t interfere.
Mike is just a big softie, isn’t he? With his one tiny hand for patting kittens. Concealed, of course… The thing he shares in common with the Russian Killbots.
😀
–M
… or maybe it’s the first sign of his psychosis.
Sure, go ahead. Kill Rucker. I – just like anyone else around him – don’t like him. I even hate him. Do me the favour and get done with him.
BUT DON’T YOU DARE TOUCH MY SWEET, SWEET SARAH!
Kill Riker! uh uh no I mean Kill Ruker!
Except that in doing so he’d kill his own people as well.
–M
Wow! Really cool line work. I love that hand in the third panel!
Yeah, man – Tony’s work is really amazing!
–M
He does have a white suit… How on earth did I miss that? D:
Could be worse though, I suppose. Always enjoyed the variation in characters on this page. Can’t wait to see what the others did with their pages.
That’s what I love about this whole project – the differences in everyone’s work.
–M
The gun in the foreground wins a Jack Kirby Award.
(It’s similar to a gold plated no-prize. :-D)
Er… yes?
–M
Woops, I was commenting on the pic at topwebcomics. Forgot to mention that.
It’s good to know somethings remain the same no matter the universe. 😛