Hopefully, this comes across. The idea here is that the bullet hits Nightstik who is obviously resistant to gunfire. More explanation to follow on the next page. The working explanation is that Nightstik’s skin and muscles mimic “natural Kevlar.” A big thanks to Stephen Prescott for his recommendation to add the last panel and suggest […]
This page was a BEAR! The idea was simple. A big dynamic splash page depicting what is seen on first person shooters all the time. Like I said. Simple, right? NOPE! The angle just wasn’t looking right. I twisted it. I turned it. I flipped it. At one point, I was drawing it upside down. […]
I don’t often pat myself on the back, but this page looks pretty good if I do say so myself.I’m a big fan of Frank Miller, and this page is definitely a homage to issue 184 from Miller’s run on Daredevil in the early eighties. A bit of background here. It was important to me […]
I will spare you all the usual excuses as to why this is late. Life, back to school, etc. But here is page 7. I initially did this as a four panel spread,but added the middle black panel and went open panel on the top right to break up the page a little. This page […]
This was supposed to be an easy page. Five senses, five panels, right? Wrong. Five panels became six. Six became seven. This is the danger of writing on the fly. Initially, this was to be a pretty straight forward layout, but the more I worked on it, the more I hated it. I had just […]
Here we get a good look at some physical endurance challenges for Nightstik. Note that Nightstik elects to skip the heat test. This is the part were I ruminate a bit on the arcane and mystical process of producing a comic book. Some pages come together really fast. I get an idea of how to […]
One of the great debates about superheroes is who is fastest, strongest, etc. I tried to make Nightstik “realistically” strong and fast. Here we see him running at Cheetah speed, which is about twice as fast plus a little more than the fastest recorded human has run. This was a fun page to draw and […]
This page is a return to “traditional media.” I penciled this one out old school and inked it with a brush and a bit of pen work. The ground and lettering I did with Manga Studio. I wasn’t nostalgic enough to try and hand letter it. Update: My drawing partner suggested putting the ground into […]
In a two-week span, my son broke his arm, and I was hit with the mother of all summer colds. As I have said more than once. I am glad this is not the way I earn my living! Issue 4 will deal with Nightstik’s powers. What he can do, and more importantly, what he […]
Here we have page 1 of Nightstik #4…