I think these are more character sketches for the Basket Case series idea but, honestly, I don’t remember. If they are, then that my version of Duane in the upper left.
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Brothers’ Keepers
Character sketch for the undeveloped Basket Case comic book.
Happy Freaks
More Basket Case sketching.
Belial on the Road
The Basket Case movies feature the former conjoined twins Duane and Belial Bradley. They were separated as children and now Duane carries Belial around in a large wicker basket. Duane looks like a normal, sorta nerdy white guy. Belial is a head, an arm and a mass of flesh. I’ve only seen Basket Case 2. That one features the Bradley brothers finding love as part of a family of improbable freaks.
That sparked an idea for an ongoing comic book – Duane and Belial would search the country for other persecuted monstrosities. Some would join the family, others would try to kill the family. It would have been a wonderful excuse to draw improbable freaks and hideous violence on a regular basis.
It also would have required getting the rights to the characters and finding a publisher who was interested in the property. That wasn’t something I had the energy for in 1999. I certainly don’t have the energy for it now.
Pulp Heroes
At the top of the page is another sketch of Purdue Granninger. The thing on the right is nothing specific.
Under that is Belial in the process of being redesigned. The original movie version is a crawling sort of creature and I wanted something more active.
A version of Fu Manchu is under Belial. Next to him is a random freak.
At the bottom is a Shadow analogue – the Ifrit. More on him in a later post.
Belial in the Palace
This page seems to have been done soon after I watched Basket Case 2. The blob with the face and hands is Belial, the “basket case” of the title. I had an idea for a comic series sequel to the film. I’ll go into that in a later post.
The people on the page are Dave, The Jade Buddha and Sister D from Bugfuck Palace.
