So, tonight I drew my first three Bearicatures. Mike Hanson, Joshua Shaw and Connor Summach, you have died. Once the image is colored I will send you each a copy to show off to your friends. I am drawing some pretty intense scenes right now, which honestly aren’t far away from this page. I am pretty behind. Part of the reason I am behind is because I took a week to do some non-comic art pieces and have been selling them on eBay to try to make some extra money. The Octo-Bear I sold last week sold for just over $200 which made me very happy. So I am doing more…
These can both be bid on here, at the auctions page. Both are Axe Cop related pieces. The first is obviously Axe Cop. The second is an actual panel from Axe Cop #130 of the Siberian witch doctor cars. Since I do Axe Cop almost 100% digitally, there is very little original art for it, so if you are into original comic pages and are an Axe Cop fan, here you go! These auctions both close around 6pm pacific time on Friday.
We’ve come a long way from WOW Mart. This story is just getting started. Thanks for reading!
Ethan
Oh no not the squirrels!
Who said ‘GAAH!!’? Just curious 🙂
I believe it was Gogs.
My bet would be Gogs too.
Gaahgs.
good one
What do you do in this situation? Bears behind you, cliff in front of you. I say they ditch the van, roll it down the hill, and set it to explode right as the bears are coming out of the trees. BOOM! Bear problem solved.
“I’m pretty a couple squirrels died in his scene”
Nobody ever proofreads the image subtext ^^
speaking of proofreading, you ARE a lovely bear…
I like that I can fix it and make this comment obsolete.
I like to think of this as an adventure game.
Do you:
A: leave WOW mart for good
B: Continue to clean up the gross slop.
A choose-your-own adventure comic? That sounds like a great idea! But it would probably be an artists nightmare.
Erm, I don’t mean promote other’s stuff here in an unwelcome way, but you might want to google *cough*ThrillingTalesOfTheDownrightUnusual*cough*…
Tim Buckley over at Ctrl-Alt-Del has tried it a few times, as have Katie Rice and Luke Cormican of Dumm Comics’ Skadi. Andrew Hussie’s MSPaint Adventures & Homestuck started off that way too, though Homestuck has now turned into something far more insane. The biggest problem with the idea is that unless an artist can manage multiple daily updates like Andrew Hussie does, the story starts to stagnate really fast while you wait for voting and drawing to move things forward. The audience participation seems to make people more impatient.
The other major issue is that, unless the artist cops out and converges the stories periodically, the branching choices become so insane that it becomes impossible to manage.
Oh, so that artist doesn’t have to make multiple story lines. The readers just decide what is going to happen next. That’s a good idea!
There are a couple ways to do a choose your own adventure web comic. You can have the readers vote or suggest where the story goes, and then take it there. Here is a good example of that:
http://www.prequeladventure.com/
Or you can create something that offers an ongoing choice as part of the reading experience. Here is a good example of that:
http://www.epicsplosion.com/
It’s that much closer to becoming reality.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/brown-bears-can-now-use-tools-fear-them/story-fn5fsgyc-1226291941368
it looked like he was talking on his SHELLphone!!!!
dahdum tisss!!!!
…aaaaaand that’s why one should NEVER go camping without one’s parachute. Obviously.
Preferably that model base-jumpers tend to use.
Yeah, I’m dead! So far, it doesn’t feel any different. 🙂
It’s just a stage of grief – denial.
Next page: Van rolls off cliff, explodes, everybody dies, and the protagonist is revealed to be one of the bears.
Sounds good.
Agreed.
I’m just gonna back up a bit… and change my pants.
The expressions on everyone in the van in the first panel are great!
Dang Ethan, I always thought it was just Malachai topping himself at nearly every page of Axe Cop, but everytime I think you’re going to hit an action ” plateau,” you raise it to another notch. I can’t even imagine what’s going to happen next – and you haven’t even started on the mutant bears.
thanks so much. When I was studying action/disaster/monster films I liked, I noticed that the stakes were raised in every action scene, so i am trying to live by that standard. Plus I really love action sequences. I feel much more natural with them than dialog scenes.
And now a moment of silence for those squirrels.
Wonder what they’re seeing on top of that cliff?
My guess would be along the lines of their city burning up and attacking bears or something. Perhaps next panel will be from their point of view either inside the van or just above the van or something.
This shit is freaking awesome!!!!!!!!!!!
GAAAAH!!! is right, for a moment I thought it would be a jurrasic park cliffhanger, but this is probably going to be waaay more tense. And they are totally gonna blow up the gasoline to kill bears. My first thought when I saw all the tanks.
I bet there are bears at the bottom of that cliff.
enter flying giant bears with cat legs and bat wings.
I want to see a squirrelbear now :p
Seeing my name, even in reference to my death, gave me a bit of a thrill. I have the weirdest boner right now.
Actually, I am quite impressed by the fact that the van and all of those 55 gal. drums made it in the first place!
it’s a tough Holtswagon