Detritus regrets taking Aunt Hortense with him on this shopping trip. Bad enough that Saur Thirteen showed up to trash the place – damned Hortense had to get into a shouting match with the thing.
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Monday Morning Nekkid
Another day, another set of sketches.
And Even More Beastie
Beastie’s backstory (at least the second one; the first one, done for the trading card set just had her as superheroine cursed with a trio of demon “assistants) was that she was a former child star. She spent five years on a hit comedy as the cute little kid with super powers around whom wackiness ensued. The twist was that she actually had superpowers. She could lift boulders, bend steel bars and walk away from a fiery car crash. Once she stopped being a cute, smart kid her acting career fell apart because, really, she wasn’t much of an actress. Fortunately her parents had been smart with her money so she wasn’t broke. She still had to work because she wasn’t rich either but at least she could choose her work. And having superpowers in Hollywood meant that she often worked doing stunts or as a bodyguard.
The gent with the dreads is/was her agent or maybe her lawyer. I don’t remember now.
The thing with the teeth is Saur Thirteen, one of those government experiments gone horribly wrong.
King Roach vs Saur Thirteen
While the basic premise of King Roach (kid becomes monster to fight other monsters) has remained the same since the first inspiration, the setting of the series has shifted many times. Sometimes I’ve imagined the story taking place in modern day Seattle. Sometimes it happens in a 1950’s milieu. Sometimes I imagine King Roach as a guide to the Sentient 39 universe; traveling from world to world, dealing with strange human cultures and stranger alien ones. And fighting monsters of course.
The other creature in this sketch is Saur Thirteen, one of those military experiments gone wrong. Saur Thirteen has skulked around my imagination for a couple of decades now. Sometimes he’s a mindless beserker. Sometimes he’s highly intelligent, a reptilian secret agent/soldier. In this version he’s been tamed by a teenage girl and is acting as the protector of a group of outcasts.
