So it’s occurred to me that I haven’t really shown off any new artwork on here lately, despite being hard at work on multiple things. Let’s fix that.

I was planning on doing a series of illustrations of characters that I made up when I was a kid, starting with this guy, Saber Moon.

In the 3^rd or 4^th grade, there was a group of girls in my class who’d play Sailor Moon when we went outside. I was friends with the head of the group, the one who got to be Moon herself, but I REALLY had a crush on the girl who played Sailor Venus. Knowing little about the show, but enough to know that I didn’t care about Tuxedo Mask, I decided to join up with these girls by making my own character, who’s a bit of a ripoff of Servo from Super Human Samurai Syber Squad, known in Japan as Gridman. You guys remember that show, right? Also, I devised other Saber characters to bring a few of my male friends into the game, but they weren’t that into it. Despite being a cyborg, android, whatever, I insisted that Sailor Venus was Saber Moon’s girlfriend, and the others kind of went with it. However, the girl herself was not interested in dating me. So my most elaborate plan ever concocted to get a girl to like me failed, as it goes.

I still want to do more of these, but I just haven’t really gotten the chance.

I colored a couple of pages of James Lyle’s art for a comic he’s working on as practice for coloring other people’s work more. The comic is called Game of Horror, written by Shane Berryhill. I think their plan for now with their publisher is to release it in black and white, but it was cool getting to do this. James didn’t really give me any directions, just told me to go nuts, so I went for a giallo look, like Argento’s Suspiria or a Mario Bava film.
 

I got to color another thing for Xylon Otterburn, but I’m not sure I can show you any of that yet. If it gets published, we’ll be in the company of some big names that, really, I probably don’t deserve to be in the company of.

Next up, here’s a piece of fanart I did of Kamen Rider ZO.

I don’t know anything about any of the Kamen Rider series, really. But I found out that Keita Amemiya, director of Mechanical Violator Hakaider and the Zeiram films, directed and did monster designs for two 45-minute movies, Kamen Rider J and Kamen Rider ZO. So I watched both and was really into them, especially ZO, which had all the same crazy elements that I love Zeiram and Hakaider for. Seriously, check those movies out, they’re great.

I’m also working like crazy on my new webcomic, which I’m JUST about ready to announce. Here’s a quick little promo thing I threw together for fun. You’ll recognize some of these faces from the FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT poster I did a few months back.

I started inking the first page of the comic today. I’m really excited for it.

And finally, Burst Reach 4 is nearly ready! Here’s the cover, which showcases what you’ll find in the book itself. Gonna try to have it ready and printed in time for Free Comic Book Day next weekend, just lacking the inside and back covers as well as putting the whole thing together.

Many thanks to Alejandro Bruzzese for helping me out with this. Dude has a really good eye for design and composition and is a killer artist himself. He also provided a blurb to go on the back cover that I can‘t stop grinning about.

Okay, enough talk, back to making comics.