Here the Lizards visit Scarecrow and the Kid. Scarecrow is the tall woman and Scarecrow isn’t actually her name. She’s a hero(ine) with no name wandering a post-apocalyptic wasteland, kicking ass and righting wrongs. Scarecrow was intended to be the name of the comic series of which she was to be the star. The Kid is named The Kid. He grew up watching and rewatching his grandfather’s collection of western movies. He thinks he’s a gunfighter. Fortunately he’s been practicing the art of the quick draw since he was four so he’s fast and accurate with his weapon.
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Don’t Mess With Badger
Don’t mess with Badger. Badger can drive. He might have to sit on a pile of rocks in order to see over the dashboard but that won’t stop him. He’ll drop one of those rock on the accelerator and go, baby!
And thus we come to the end of another sketchbook.
Coyote Goes To War
It’s not that Coyote wanted to help the pilgrims. Scarecrow really didn’t give him much choice. She took his wagon and his patent medicine and said he could come along. Badger now, Badger drove the wagon off the cliff and through the walls of the Wiretemple. When Badger does the right thing he does it with enthusiasm.
Coyote’s Paws
For the Scarecrow story I didn’t want to just have Coyote be an anthropomorphic creature; standing on two legs with human hands. He wasn’t Coyote the trickster (though he was a trickster), he was an evolved (mutated?) coyote. I imagined him with articulated paws that he knuckle walked on like an ape. When he sat down he could use the paws to manipulate tools as well as a human.
Coyote, Wirepriest, Badger
The story title was something like: “How Coyote Did a Good Deed”. In the story Scarecrow ropes Coyote and Badger into helping a band of pilgrims escape from a Wiretemple.
A Little Bit of Scarecrow
The figure with the short hair and facial marking on the left (as well as the sketched in, unfinished, undetailed figure on the right) is from Scarecrow. I got the idea to do a short story featuring the character when my King Roach story was bogging down. I hadn’t given up (the King Roach characters on the page indicate that) but other story/character ideas were crowding my imagination, demanding that I pay a little attention to them.
