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More Mutants and Masterminds Villains

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:14:09 GMT

Hey, America-- it's election day. Did you vote' Because WE did!

Alright, now that that's over let's get on with the artwork.

As previously promised, here's the rest of our artwork from the Mutants and Masterminds RPG supplement entitled "Freedom's Most Wanted." It's all villains, so we got to have some fun designing some creepy and some not-so-creepy bad guys.

The rest of our stuff is as follows: Invisible Inc. and Nero by Comfort; Sky Lord II and the Tic Toc Doc by Adam.

Yes, Tic Toc Doc is a time-traveling villain, and yes he does drive a VW Time Machine called the "Groove Machine." Not as slick as a DeLorean, but it does the job. We really had fun with this assignment, and can't wait to see how these turn out in print.

-- Today's Tidbits --

It's been really nice around where we live, lately. We've been taking a lot of walks and bringing Obi with us. He loves this time of year, though he loathes the sound of leaf-blowers and construction. They've been roofing at our apartment complex the last month and a half or so, and the noise of all the nail guns and falling shingles makes him crazy. He takes it well though, and once we get on the walking trail he's fine.

This is some of the path we walk most days. Isn't it pretty' The pictures can't do it justice, though. We live in a really nice place-- if only health-care were a guaranteed right of citizenship instead of a buy-in business that makes money by excluding people who need it most. Sigh.

Annie-Kin doesn't take as many walks because she's not very good at it and is kind of a pain. Of course, not taking her out as much means she doesn't get used to going out, ensuring she continues to be a pain in the butt on walks. It's a self-fulfilling loop and we know it, but that's how it goes.

Tonight we're going over to our friend Chris' place to watch the election results come in and enjoy the Daily Show/Colbert Report live show. But we'll be drawing all day, naturally. Adam's only got 4 pages left to draw and Comfort is really rolling on the color. Uniques #5 will be done soon, oh yes.

See you soon-
Adam & Comfort

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Convention Report: Windy City Con '08

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:28:58 GMT

Hey again, everybody. We’re back in from Chicago and the Windy City Con, and what a show that was. It was only the first year the show was ever attempted, through the Herculean efforts of Chris Neseman and Brian Salazar from Around Comics, and it was only a one-day show, and yet the figures we saw put the attendance at around 1500 people. 1500 people for a one-day show that had never happened before. I don’t care who you are, that’s impressive.

Disco-era Dazzler by Comfort

Jessica Jones by Adam

Infectious Lass by Comfort

So on the show floor, which was expectedly small but packed with talented people, it felt like a sea of people just washing over at all hours the entire time. The line for tickets stretched all the way down the hall to the elevators, and everyone was in a buying mood. Good for us, great for our bill collectors, a little less great for our poor drawing hands, but all in all it was tremendous. We nearly sold out of Uniques TPB’s, leaving with only two in our hands. When it was all told, we made nearly as much in one day as we did the entire weekend at Mid-Ohio. Quite the stir for a first-time show.

A lot of it was probably Chicago itself. The city has apparently been clamoring for a comic convention other than Wizard World Chicago (which is actually held in Rosemont, outside of Chicago). There were several people we met at our table who had just wandered in off the street thinking “Comic con, eh' Let’s see what this is all about…” It made for a very diverse and interesting populace to interact with.

Scarlet Witch by Comfort with a touch of Adam

Scarlet Witch by Adam

Storm by Comfort

So we drew all day, pitching Uniques to the uninitiated and talking comics with anybody who passed by, taking brief pauses every hour or so to run downstairs and feed the parking meters. The day ended with Adam quickly finishing a Black Widow drawing while the rest of the show was shutting down and packing up.

At some point in the day, one of the two elevators stopped working and since nobody seemed sure of where the stairs were, there was a pretty serious line waiting to get out. Instead of waiting in line, we set our things aside and helped tear down the show for a brief bit. Then we walked the streets of Chicago to get some Mexican food and retired to the after-party at Villains Bar. We talked with Chris and Sal for a bit about how their show went and how they were feeling, just general merriment. Got to say the most brief of how-do-you-do’s to Tom Katers of ‘Tom vs. The Flash’ fame, and spent the rest of the night talking with people who’d been at the show; some for whom this was their first time setting up tables of their own at a con, and others who were looking into self-publishing and wanted to know how dreadful the whole thing is.

Supergirl by Comfort

Black Widow by Adam

Superman by Comfort

We split for home, not reaching our place until 4:30 am thanks to the wonder of crossing time-zones. We were tired but happy - this was a really fun show with some really fun people and we had a great time. There are two things you can count on: driving in Chicago will always suck, and we’ll be back for next year’s Windy City Con.

We’ll be posting again later this week with more Green Ronin ‘Mutants & Masterminds’ stuff, so we’ll see you then.

Keep on keeping on-

Adam & Comfort

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Mutants and Masterminds: Freedom's Most Wanted pt. 1

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:09:51 GMT

Hey, gang - long time no write. We’ve been busy working on Uniques #5 and getting our butts in gear for the last con of 2008: The Windy City Con. Put on by the guys at Around Comics, it’s a short show but should be a nice way to close out the year. Anybody in the Chicago area this weekend, look up the show. It's Saturday only, but worth the time.

In the mean time, our latest work for Mutants and Masterminds was released recently, so we thought we’d show some of that work off. The book is called ‘Freedom’s Most Wanted’ and is a role-playing supplement to their superhero universe that focuses on the villains. We’ll present our stuff in two parts - today, you get the Golden Age Crime League and Goanna by Adam, and Alien Gator and Lenore by Comfort.

And that's it for this week. We'll be back with the rest of these next time, and we'll be posting some previews from Uniques #5 soon too. Keep watching!

-Adam & Comfort

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Convention Report: Mid-Ohio Con '08

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:29:48 GMT

Back from Mid-Ohio, and boy is it good to be home. Our convention season has been a loooong one, and we’ve still got one left this year before it’s all done. Sketches!

Power Girl by Comfort

Power Girl by Adam

Original Characters by Comfort

Kyle Rayner by Adam

Vision by Comfort and Scarlet Witch by Adam

Mid-Ohio Con was once described to us as the ‘sleepiest con in the Midwest,’ and we completely agree with that sentiment. And perhaps it’s all the bad economic news in the last week, but the show turned out to be our least profitable of the year. Though we didn’t make as much money (more than at the same show last year, but less than any other con this year), we still had a really good time mostly due to the people we met and the professionals we hobnobbed with at night. That’s right, people - we’re hobnobbers, now! We do the hobnobbing! Do you hobnob' Because we sure as heck do! Hoo-ah.

Saturday was mostly a day of long lines for other pros. Ethan VanSciver, Alan Davis and Chris Claremont are always a big draw, but there were several names of note that did their best to block off everybody else’s tables with their comically long lines. The attendance was alright, but most of it was tied up waiting for other people. Not that we want to sound like we’re complaining - it turned out fine for us, because we got more time to talk with fans and attendees passing by. We chatted with our friends at Comic Related again, and were interviewed for their show. A few folks who had pre-ordered sketches were by to pick them up, and we sold a bunch of Uniques trade paperbacks.

Sgt. Rock by Adam

Angsty, Awkward teen Raven by Comfort

Awkward teen Power Girl by Adam - these were for a theme sketchbook of superheroes as, well... awkward teens. Fun!

Saturday night we went out to eat with some old and new friends, then retired to the official hotel of the con where we were allowed into a roped-off area for ‘professionals only.’ Being professionals, we waltzed right in. How neat is that' The guards checking badges were all Stormtroopers, but we assured them that they didn’t need to see our identification, as these were not the droids they were looking for. We could go about our day, and moved along.

We spent the next couple hours both maxing and relaxing, talking with more fun chaps and chappettes than we can name (though we must send how-do-you-dos to Jay Fife, Matt Webb, Paul Storrie, Acid Poptart, and David M. Bancroft and his lovely wife). The night ended as we sat around in a big circle and passed around a book of Victorian prose, reading passages in funny voices. When we do it again, Adam will have to remember to use his Skeletor voice once. He remembered Christopher Walken, Kermit the Frog, and humorously exaggerated british and Scottish accents, but amazingly forgot friggin’ Skeletor. Can you believe it' Because we can’t.

The Music Man by Adam

Telepath and Michael by Comfort and Adam

Iceman by Adam

Sunday was pretty slow, but we did have the great fortune of meeting Jason Mewes and doing a sketch for him. He wanted himself as a Deadpool/Deadshot-esque hero, surrounded by monkeys. We eagerly complied:

The Mewes and the Monkeys by Comfort and Adam

It was really fun, and Jason’s a class-act. Great guy, that Mewes. Not a lot more to say for the con itself. We did a lot of sketches and sold some more comics and talked with some people about Uniques and what we were up to. We do have one thing to say, though: those friggin’ sketch covers have the WORST paper to try and draw or ink on! The worst!!! It smudged and smeared and took forever to dry. It was so hard to get decent work on there. Sometimes they’ll have a different matte finish over the center where the artists draws on, but not these ones. Not these.

Marvel's Death by Adam

Xena by Comfort

Conan by Adam

Sunday night we went out with Bryan J.L. Glass and his wife, Judy. They’ve become dear friends of ours over the years and the conventions, and now that we finally had time to have a relaxed conversation we wound up staying up entirely too late gabbing about comics and theater and the joy of revenge fantasies that could actually happen. Happy time kind of stuff. It was too much fun and even inspiring by the end, which happens sometimes. It was sad to leave knowing that we won’t see them for many months now. Such is the way with convention friends: always so great to be together, always so hard to have to leave.

And that was Mid-Ohio. Not much to it, but that was actually a blessing after the madhouse that was Baltimore. Now we can settle back into working on Uniques #5 and relaxing at home, sleeping in our own bed, showering in our own shower and all those lovely simple pleasures you get after days on the road.

See you soon-
Adam & Comfort

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Original Character Commissions - a Prelude to Mid-Ohio

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:29:44 GMT

Guess what - today we’re putting up NON Uniques art! That’s right, occasionally… okay, rarely we get chances to draw stuff not involving our beloved comic. Here’s a couple commissions Comfort did for a guy we met a long while back. He’s an avid Superhero RPG’er, and has been having us draw the characters from his game ever since. Here’s two of a batch Comf just finished: Yoshiko and Gypsy.

We’ll be seeing the guy these are for at the Mid-Ohio Con this weekend. That’s right - we have ANOTHER convention to go to! If you’ll be in the Columbus area this weekend, look us up at the show. It should be a fun one.

That’s all for today. Now we’re gonna curl up with big ol’ bowls of salad, then cruise over to Chris’ place to watch the Vice Presidential Debates. Promises to be an entertaining weekend, even if our faith in humanity is shaken by the end.

See you next week with the Mid-Ohio wrap-up!

-Adam & Comfort

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Convention Report: Baltimore Comic Con '08

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:10:38 GMT

We're back from Baltimore, and boy what a weekend. We're both exhausted from what turned out to be a ridiculously big, ridiculously crowded show. Well… maybe not ridiculously-- it was no San Diego. But it was certainly a lot more than we expected. We were working constantly. In fact, in the two days of the show Adam didn't get to stand up and leave the table even once. Not even just to stretch his legs! Thank goodness he didn't have to use the bathroom or he'd have been in trouble. We just had too much sketching to do to take any breaks. And for proof, we'll be posting all the sketches we did throughout the post as usual for our recaps.

Valkyrie by Comfort

Green Arrow (Connor Hawke) by Adam

Huntress by Comfort

We arrived Friday, and it was foggy and rainy and generally gray. The fog was crazy thick, and there were buildings whose tops were obscured from it. We got to the con center just to find out we couldn't set up until Saturday, which meant a really early morning for us. So we called it a day, grabbed some Chinese food and went back to our hotel to watch the Presidential Debate.

Saturday we arrived really early to set up, and from the moment the doors opened at 10 in the morning, we were at a constant frantic pace. We didn't stop drawing all day, and we aren't exaggerating. We got to do some sketches for Cat from our Uniques Forum, and it's always particularly nice to run into people from our little fanbase. Comfort got to listen to the Kirkman vs. Bendis panel, which was interesting-ish, but seemed to get stuck on numbers and money and never got around to the more important questions of what serves the comic industry and where we need to go in the future. Nice to have been there to listen, but we wish they could have gotten to the meat of the topic instead of just the green.

Telepath vs. a Skrull by Adam for Cat from the Uniques Forum

Michael by Comfort

Female Archangel by Adam

Power Girl by Comfort

Saturday night we took advice from Adam Hughes and Allison Sohn and went to the Cheesecake Factory. Yes, it turns out they do more than cheesecake. We waited for at least two hours, and this after not being able to eat more than a banana and a couple protein bars all day due to business. By the time we finally got to eat we were almost dying of hunger. We'll tell you this, though - have you ever had a dream where you were eating cheesecake' The CF cheesecake tastes like that dream. It was creamy perfection.

After that we were going to meet up with Steve and Kevin from Wizard, who we'd met and befriended at the Chicago Con. They were going to be at the Marriot, they told us, and really wanted to hang out. Turns out there are four Marriots in downtown Baltimore, and we went to all three wrong ones before finding the one we were looking for. It was a long time spent walking in the drizzling rain and fog, feeling sticky and sweaty and gross.

Elektra by Comfort

Mary Jane by Adam

Catwoman and Black Cat by Comfort

Black Cat by Adam

Black Cat by Comfort... we did a LOT of Black Cats!

Human Torch by Adam

Finally getting to the place, we sat down and drew for a while, chatting with Mike Norton and Bryan & Judy Glass - all some of our favorite people, even though we've only just met Mike recently. The guy just has a laid-back, lackadaisical way about him that's immediately endearing. Steve and Kevin arrived later and we sat with them talking into the early hours. We also met Sterling Gates, whose first issue writing Supergirl is released this week. Go read it! (you're welcome, Sterling). Stories were swapped, laughter was had, and we went to bed way too late.

Hawkeye and Mockingbird by Comfort

Snow White and Bigby Wolf from Fables by Adam

Red Sonja by Comfort

Red Sonja and Tigra by Adam

An original, multi-winged character by Comfort

Sunday was more of the same - busy, busy, CRAZY. We did as much business on Sunday as we do on a big Saturday. It was berserk, and other people we talked to who had done the show in the past agreed that the attendance was much bigger this year than usual. When the day ended, we were still working on sketches for a guy who had been working with Tommy Castillo. While he and Tommy broke down their setup, we were frantically trying to finish drawings for him.

Needless to say, we did good business. Uniques continues to find new fans everywhere we go, and the response remains almost universally positive. It's getting easier and easier for us to speak in unequivocally optimistic terms about growing our fanbase, because there has yet to be a show we've attended since starting the comic that hasn't ended with huge sales and excited readers. We're going to have to go back to press for issue 4, because there's no way what we have left will last us for both of the cons we have left this year.

Batgirl (Cassandra Cain) by Comfort

Thrillkiller Batgirl by Adam

Jubilee by Comfort

Captain America by Adam

Deadpool by Comfort

So that was Baltimore. We hardly got to talk to any of the other professionals there, which was disappointing because there were a lot of people we'd wanted to meet. But all of us at the show were so busy it just wasn't happening. We didn't get to walk the floor and see what else was happening at the show, either. Really, there isn't much we can say about the show because we hardly got to see any of it. We can say that the fans were great and the attendees were enthusiastic all around, so it was fun even though exhausting. We'll definitely be back next year.

We're back to work now, but this weekend we have yet another con to go to - the Mid-Ohio Convention. It's one of our favorites, and should be a nice relaxing show after the madness of Baltimore. We'll end as we usually do, with some costumes we got pictures of at the show. We saw a lot more awesome outfits in addition to these, but were usually too busy drawing or talking to stop and get pictures.

See you soon-