Trouble Coyote makes her first appearance in the fourth issue of Misspent Youths. The version of Trouble on the left was drawn while I was still working on the first issue. I’d only vaguely plotted that fourth issue so I really didn’t know what she’d be like yet. I don’t think the girl on the left would have survived as well as Trouble eventually did.
Huge starships enter solar system, consume Pluto, begin harvesting Uranus, at current rate will reach Earth in 100 years
Most stories of alien invasions have the aliens making a beeline for Earth. Sometimes they want to help humanity, sometimes they are just explorers, often they want to take off. But an alien civilization might not be especially interested in either Earth or humanity. If they’ve adapted to life in space a habitable planet (for us) could be just another curiosity. Planets could simply be sources of resources.
And what would humanity do if we knew a technologically superior “enemy” was coming? Band together? Fight more? Invest in defense? Try to contact the invaders?
I have managed to go for over twenty years without really letting myself imagine what The Pile must smell like.
Abbie Guerrecash. Nah. She’s not who you think she is. If I were going to swipe a comic strip character and let her loose in my not at all family friendly comic I’m sure I’d be smart enough not to give her such an obvious pseudonym.
We interrupt this Misspent Youths reunion to announce that Oz-Squad.com is finally live.
There’s just a temp page posted now. And I can already see a need for rewrites. Too bad I can’t blame Steve for the copy 🙁
Buffy made her first appearance in The Highly Unlikely Adventures of Moe and Detritus #2 minicomic. She captured Detritus’s heart and moved into my brain and they’ve been fighting and getting back together up there ever since. And before you ask, that other Buffy didn’t appear in her movie until 1992.
I have a tendency to invent characters just intending to use them for a specific purpose in one, maybe two stories, and then they move into my head and never leave. I don’t remember having any special plans for Cherice. I’d already written the first issue of Misspent Youths when I started putting together the proposal. Cherice was featured in an important scene so I included her in the character list but I really didn’t know what I’d do with her after that. But, like the adventurous chick she is, she just kept showing up.
I didn’t get a lot of fan mail for Misspent Youths but the character of K.Z. O’Neil was the subject of one of my favorite letters. The letter’s writer basically said that he thought K.Z. was hot. I felt pretty flattered that my crude art had that much impact on a reader.
Lab creates bio-engineered horrors to use as weapons. SEAL team assigned to train them. Training effective. Time for a mission.
How many stories have been written about some secret government experiment or Evil Corporation that creates a monster with intention of using it as a weapon? I’m fairly certain that in every one of those stories the monster turns on its creator(s) and must be destroyed. So, been there, done that.
Are scientists really as careless as that? If you’re going to build a monster (and make a profit in the process) aren’t you going to build in enough safeguards that the thing won’t kill you in the test phase?
Sallie Browne appeared briefly in the first issue of Misspent Youths. If I had a specific plan for her character I’ve forgotten it now. But look at her! Can you imagine she would have just stayed on the sidelines?
