POV

Sooner or later, you have to get to work and start creating a product. Much of this first (upcoming) story has been outlined for years. For whatever reason, I refused to commit to definitive designs. Much has been previewed here already. A few key characters have yet to have my full commitment. They will.

Time to start putting up a product, time to start having fun.

HAPPY 2012!!!!!!

I’ve been gone for a moment (understatement…ABOUT FOUR MONTHS)!!!!! I wanted to do a Santa pic for the holidays, oh well…now is as good as time as any!  Actually I’m pretty sure there will be more holiday themed images popping up over the course of the year, and maybe a few more Santas. What can I say, I’m a fan of Santa!

I’m glad to be back, more to come!!!!

It’s been a while since I’ve put up a post. I’ve been busy living, whatever that means.

Annnnnddd…while I’ve been living, the rest of the world has been turning. Turning into what, is the question. Actually the world is what it’s always been…one tough place to live.

The Penn State Debacle, or as Wikipedia terms it the Penn State child sexual abuse scandal, is a real life tragedy full of sordid details and an endless array of seemingly respectable characters complicit in the scandal. Pedophilia, greed, and a conspiracy of silence has traumatized the lives of at least 8 children and their families, and shocked the Penn State community, college football fans and the public at large. Of course, among all of the college scandals (and there are plenty of them), this one has taken the cake, and now the public demands “justice” (it’s in quotes on purpose).

Speaking of justice,  ”the new 52” Justice League No.2 has a back up feature in the comic that has details of some Wonder Woman’s early exploits in Man’s World, told through conversation between Steve Trevor and Amanda Waller. And boy has she been dispensing “justice”…run, Jerry Sandusky (the alleged perpetrator) run, or don’t depending on your point of view. Wonder Woman rescues children from kidnapping and slits the throat of a kidnapper in front of them. Now this issue predates the scandal but still!  I’m not suggesting that the Penn State Scandal and the comic shares any links at all…other than crimes against children…oh, and downright shameful behavior from those that we believe in.

There will always be predators, but witnessing child rape and not preventing it; slitting the throat of a kidnapper, more accurate, Wonder Woman slitting the throat of a kidnapper in front of children… Lord have mercy.

Reality, fiction…ugh.

What is not fiction is that she, as a character, has stood for something more. Joe Paterno, and “the others” (those with influence and who knew of Sandusky), allegedly stood for more…that it seems wasn’t the reality.

I was at work, on a Sunday, and while working and talking on the phone…the doodles started. Working on character designs, and other stuff (I’m not ready to show), Wonder Woman and Donna Troy (yes that’s her)…maaaaagically popped out of the pencil and onto the paper. And I thought, she’s really disappointed, in everybody.

I know I am.

I’m soooooooooo in the early stages of design with this character, that it’s okay to preview this prelim.