Issue 1 page 17

Heeey guys! I'm back. I don't expect that anyone really noticed that I went anywhere but I've kind of been neglecting this blog. Anyway, new page! Captain Miller seems to be making some progress in finding our heroes. As this page demonstrates the Calico Jack world has its share of "retro-tech," like the fact that spaceports use dot-matrix printers. In other news Issue 2 is well on its way, all that remains to be done is to set up the layout and print it, in truth I'm a little embarrassed that it's taken this long.

Issue 1 page 16

Alder reveals her true talent: stating the obvious. Gotta hand it to her, skull and crossbone motifs are usually indicative of piraticalness.

Also, I got a review. Sort of, Everett Patterson of Savage Nobles made a brief mention of Calico Jack here. I think it's awesome, I get compared to Jaime Hernandez and I always find that flattering.

Issue 1 page 15

Yep.

Issue 1 page 14

Not much to say about this except... plumber butt?
Also issue two is nearly completely inked and ready to scan!

Issue 1 page 13

13 pages in and we meet our villain. Sort of. I imagine Captain Miller is pretty darned straight-laced as villains go, for some reason I decided that I didn't want the antagonist to be much of an actual "bad guy." Maybe because I don't think of Jack as being much of a "good guy."
As an aside I drew this page before becoming familiar with Hugo Pratt, now between the hat and the sideburns Miller sort of reminds me of Corto Maltese. Or maybe just a Good Humor man.

Issue 1 page 12

"Yeah? So What? Exploding Rockets are great!"

Issue 1 page 10 and 11

It's a page of Alder riding her bicycle. Not much else to say. I like the layout of this page but I seriously considered cutting the sequence of Alder going to the scrapyard to be much shorter. After getting some creative advice I elected to keep it as is. This sort of quiet page can actually work well for minicomic or a graphic novel, it's not so good for pacing in a webcomic though. I'm not so sure I can call this a webcomic but I can post two pages at once, so why not?



Jack introduces Alder to his latest find!