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2014-04-16

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Page 100! Post your favorite 100-related videos below! hahaha

Those were some good (and odd) videos last week. Thanks!

2014-04-09

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I dunno, man. Looks like a trap to me. How many pages are left in this story, anyhow? Hmm.

There are only 10 pages left to Silk & Honey, and the very next page is Page 100! I feel the need to celebrate. If you’ve got a favorite celebration song, post a YouTube link below, and let’s get this party started!

2014-04-02

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When you put a big cowboy hat on Silk in human form, it almost looks like her head’s too small.  ART IS HARD

At any rate: this page is your They’re In A Hurry Montage. Next week starts our final scene! Only 12 pages to go before we’re done!

YouTube links to that “You Need A Montage” song, and/or “Taking the Ring to Mordor” jokes in the comments below, beginning in 3…2…1…

2014-03-26

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Forget all that stuff I said. Just RUN!

Or fly, as the case may be.

Only 12 pages left! We’ve got one transition scene next page, then it’s the Final Scene. Thanks for sticking around for almost two years to check out Silk & Honey! If you know someone who digs cowboys and monsters, bring them by! Because once we’re done here, I’m gonna start up Locus: Godslayer.

And I’m reading on the Facebook Tal page that there might be a new Talislanta book available via Kickstarter at some point this year. That would be fun to throw some art at! Where the Tal fans at?

Plus I’m coloring a comic for DJ Coffman. Did I tell you guys that yet? He’s the guy who got me the Kiss 4K job. Where the Kiss fans at?

This is gonna be a good year for me gettin’ some art Out There.

 

In her succubus form, Silk’s pretty tall because she’s got all that extra leg going for her. That’s why she grows between panel 1 and panel 2.

As for Spook: He’s 6’9″ tall. Locus was wearing 7″ heels almost all through the comic, which made Spook seem shorter than he is next to her.

Seriously: the size discrepancies between the characters in Locus got blurred and confused a lot more than it should have, and all because of footwear or monster legs. It made me crazy at times.

It’s something I’m going to pay extra attention to in Godslayer.

 

Hampstead does a fantastic job of staying out of the range of The Gun throughout his weird, wheel-shaped, never-ending life. That’s because Spook’s right: if he gets shot with it, he’d be dead FOREVER. Stuck in that weird place we saw briefly in Locus #13 and #20.

Xel’Duum and The Bloodied Ones came back from that place because the Sepharan pretty much forced them back, for her own nefarious reasons. Locus returned because her parents used Una’to Xel (The Kiss of Life) to bring her back. We will see how that affects her once Godslayer gets rolling.

You’re correct on Spook being a smooth gentleman, too! This summer I’ll be telling the story on how Spook and Moondoggie met, and you’ll get to see just how smooth he is!

This is gonna be a good year for Locus comics. 🙂

2014-03-19

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On pages like this, I wish this comic were in color.

This is one of the last 14 pages of Silk & Honey! Only 13 left after this. I’m very busy finishing them up, on top of a lot of other things.

One of these things is making preparations for Godslayer, and it’s driving me nuts that I can’t tell you anything about it yet without giving stuff away.

But I can show you logo designs, right? You guys don’t mind seeing that, do you?

 

Regarding vampires:

Those three girls in issue 2 were Revenants. They’re like vampires, but without any will of their own. They’re more like zombies, and I mean the old-school Haitan zombies, not the stuff on TV and in theaters now.

Unlike those girls from issue 2, Sorrow has her will and her mind intact. She’s still pretty weird (especially in the Romance Department) because she’s technically dead.

At some point I do need to explain where vampires come from and the ways in which creating a vampire can be tweaked. I think I’ve got a spot for it in Godslayer.

Short version: Necromancers make vampires. Vampires don’t (and can’t) make other vampires.

I mean, unless they’re NECROMANCER VAMPIRES, like the Old Blood.

2014-03-12

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Showdown! Please click this link and listen to the music while reading today’s page.

I’ve mentioned this before, but it bears repeating on a page like this one: a lot of Silk & Honey is my personal love letter to The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, which is the Greatest Western Movie Of All Time. Hands down.

I dig Once Upon A Time in the West, and even High Noon (which Once Upon A Time in the West was a love letter to!), but nothing beats GBU, man. Nothin’. Let me explain:

GBU came out towards the tail end of the Western Movie Craze that had gripped the US from the 1950s (if not before!) to the 1970s (or thereabouts), and to fully understand this movie, you had to have watched all (or at least a lot) of the films that came before it. You had to be well-versed in the shared universe these films all dipped into. By the time GBU hit the screens, there were a lot of shared western tropes that audiences more or less took for granted.

One of these tropes was the character who was The Fastest Gun In The West, or at least The Fastest Gun In The Movie. For most of these films, there was one and only one Fastest Gun, and he was usually the good guy.

Then GBU came out, and gave its audience THREE Fastest Guns. Blondie, Tuco and Angel Eyes were all dead even when it came to gunslingin’. Unlike the films that came before, it wasn’t the speed of the draw that was important, it was the man doing the drawing.

Blondie had brains–he was the smartest one by far…which I think is why he came off as so lucky in the film. Tuco was sneaky and cunning–more animal instinct than human reason. Angel Eyes was barely human at all. He was a flat-out cold-blooded, ruthless killer devoid of any compassion whatsoever. And when all three of these men are in pursuit of the same goal, who wins?

That is what made GBU the greatest Western movie in my eyes. So much so that it’s been a Thanksgiving tradition in my house to watch this film while the turkey’s cooking.

And just as there were closeups of everyone’s eyes during the 3-way showdown in GBU, so there is a similar scene here.

(GBU opened with an extreme closeup, too…just like Silk & Honey did. And I put the cemetery from the 3-way showdown in Locus, back at the end of Issue 13, but I’m not sure anyone noticed…I probably could’ve drawn it better!)

At any rate: there you go! What’s gonna happen? Tune in next week!

2014-03-05

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Spook and Silk’s Triumphant Pose are one of the big payoff images I’ve been waiting to draw since I started this comic almost two years ago!

The next page is another payoff page, so stop by next week! Then we’ll wrap up this scene and get started on the Final Scene of Silk & Honey. As of today, there are only 15 pages left to our story.

And (as always) Victor “More Human Than Human” Couwenbergh has been hard at work putting together a new website for Locus: Godslayer, which features a countdown to the launch of the newest Locus story. Head over to locusgodslayer.com and check it out!

My gratitude to Vic for tackling the “web” part of this “webcomic” thing. Thanks to him, Godslayer won’t have the same problems Locus did when it came to site formatting or downtime or any of the other nonsense resulting from bad hosting or my own meager skills. Woo hoo!

The huge bore on the pistol is the extreme foreshortening from him pointing it almost right at the camera. But that does remind me:

I promised to explain the caliber of the pistol, and I never did! Oops. Sorry.

Short story: it’s a magic gun. It’ll pretty much shoot any bullet you put into it.

As for the end: all my comics have an ending, because I believe all good stories have endings, too. The old “let’s keep this going every month” thing that the Corporate Comics do just ain’t my bag.

With that said: there are plenty more Silk and Spook comics waiting to be told. In fact, after Silk and Honey’s over, I’ll be starting the comic on how Spook and Moondoggie met.

Stay tuned!

2014-02-26

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It’s not a gun you should shoot one-handed. Unless you’re Spook.

Stop by next week! First shot’s been fired and we’re not even to The Showdown yet. Jeez.

2014-02-19

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As if things aren’t complicated enough!

Click the Back Gun above if you missed the Valentine’s Day post! It’s a full color job of our girl Sorrow here, covered in even more blood.

Which, unfortunately, does indeed look like chocolate, but that’s what you get for using a yellow highlight with a warm purple complement mixed over the base color, which is a reddish brown.

(which, incidentally, works great for coloring Zulu warriors. Blood? Not so much, I guess)

See, the coloring technique that came out of Locus (and an old how-to forum post by Tony Moore) works on EVERYTHING…except blood. But I got some ideas about that.

Anyway: go check out that Valentine’s Day Sorrow pic before I recolor it! hahaha

And stop by next week! We’re building up to the Big Showdown.

2014-02-14

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Holy Random Update, Batman!

That’s right, it’s Valentine’s Day and time for another of Stef Marcinkowski’s Valentine’s Day Sex Drives. I did this last year (for the first time) with a quick pinup of Silk. Click here to see that.

This year, of course, is Sorrow the vampire. Because everyone needs a little Sorrow on Valentine’s Day. Right?

Funny story:

I was gonna beg out of this year’s VDSD, and even emailed Mr Marcinkowski to tell him so. I got the most polite “tough shit you’re already on the list you’d better post SOMETHING” email I’ve ever read! hahaha It was amazing. Hat’s off to you, Stef.

And here are the rest of the people for whom Stef doesn’t take “no” for an answer:

 

 

The Complete List of Valentine’s Day Sex Drive 2014 Participants

Byron Wilkins: 1977 The Comic | Liz Staley: Adrastus | Jeremy Begin: After the Dream | Tom Szewc (with Maxwell Vex of Agents of the Endtimes): Alone in a Crowd | John Peters: Ardra | Mark Egan: Back Office and Bata Neart | Hiro Odan: Bridge University | Notos: Buying Time | Peter Anckorn: By The Book | Melissa Stone: Children of the Tiger | J. E. Flint and E. Flint: The Chronicles of Loth | Lou Graziani: Cy-Boar | Doomy: Demented | Amy Letts: Epic Fail | Davy Shirley: Fera | Brion Foulke: Flipside | Dave Barrack: Grrl Power | Rick: HeadWound | Spaces: Holy Bibble | Hushicho: Incubus Tales | Phil and Max: Indifferently Evil | Doug Jacobs: Impure Comics | Mike Aston and Shaun Nicholls: Lacey Investigations | R(ed): Meiosis | J. Mackenzie Graham: Mozhaets | TK Doherty: Nikki Sprite | Niauropsaka: Raspberry Rain | Vas Littlecrow WojtanowiczRasputin Barxotka and Rasputin Catamite | Stef Marcinkowski: Sarah Zero | Officer M: The Soul of a Hero | Cihan Şeşen: SPINE | Sean Harrington: Spying With Lana | Juno Blair B.: Star Cross’d Destiny | Foust: Steel Siren (Trendkill Comics) | John Kratky, Tobias Gebhardt and Stephen Yan: Tales of Hammerfist | Chella Morgan: TDUGN | The D-Wrek: Twenty Four Seven | Jerry McMasters: Webcomic Pete | Rinkelle: Xenobiosis | Yellowgerbil: Zoe the Vampire