These three pages were done for Halloween on the Shadowgirls site. There’s a bit of a backstory t
o tell about these guys, which I didn’t have the opportunity to do so at the time.
See, I originally did these three pages as part of the 24 hour comic day challenge. The idea was the draw a 24 page comic in 24 hours. I was gonna try it, but honestly… I wasn’t ready for it. Despite some people talking down to me like I’m a coward or looking for an excuse to not do it. I just wasn’t ready. I know when I’m ready to do something or not. I used to have a habit of rushing into projects I hadn’t thought out thoroughly… I have a ton of false starts to Transformers fan comics that have beginning, but nary an end. I got tired of that, and in my age, I decided to take my time on all projects now. That’s why I’ve only done two TF: Mosaics and why I don’t do a lot of projects. I want to make sure I’m ready for them. (Even though I still flounder every now and then.) Thing is though, the comic for the 24 hour challenge needs to be done ONLY IN THAT 24 HOUR PERIOD. Meaning the story ideas and scripts I was writing were a “no go“. I would have been cheating. So… Like I said. I wasn’t ready, the project got postponed until later. (I’d still like to do it. Just not right now.)
Anyway, this story was actually going to be 24 pages long. The Progenitors here were still going to go door to door getting candy, Toward the end, they would have gotten the idea of just stealing other children’s candy, because it’s easier. There was going to be a larger plot as well, with Becka and Lindsey trick or treating as well, sharing some dialogue, including a look into the family life of Lindsey and her crazy parents. It was eventually going to handled as a “Grinch who stole Christmas” parody, with all the dialogue rhyming. (The title was originally going to be ‘The Progenitors who stole Halloween’.) I sorta ran into problems with Lindsey and Becka’s costumes. I wanted them to be themed. They had gone through a couple of ideas including Becka as Robin and Lindsey as Harley Quinn, as a Jedi and Jabba Slave Girl, as Stormy and Rainbow Brite, and two members of the Voltron Force. As I realized the story needed to be done that day, the story got edited down, and the girls were totally cut.
I still wanted to do something for Halloween though, and D.Rod suggested, shortening it to a three pager and getting the joke done quicker. So, that I did. The pages were all drawn in one day, except for the last page, because I was having difficulty with Charon’s costume. I didn’t know what to make it. The Baroness costume was not my first choice. I originally was going for Jem, from Jem and the Holograms… But in B&W, Jem doesn’t come across as obvious. So Baroness is was.
I did have a little fun doing the short story like this though. I’ll probably do another one in the future. I got one in mind already…