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 Hey! You can now check out the 9 pg preview of The Badguys here

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Cover to The Badguys #01

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A full colored page with letters. Just a cover away from releasing the online preview.

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Went back and re-did the first page.

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Bolt and Zero just catching up.

Getting closer to releasing the 9 pg preview online! Stoked

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More colors! This time from page 04 with the ever so lovely Valentine

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More colors from the 2 and 3 page spread.

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Some updates on the comic- Currently we are lettering and coloring the first issue. We hope to have a preview up soon, fully colored and lettered. In the meantime here's some colored panels from page 01. Making this comic thing happen!

-Orlando

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It's comic writing time. Currently working on Issue Zero - a short and (if all goes according to plan) free prequel issue to the series.

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Very excited to say that Justine Raymond has joined the Badguys team as colorist. Here's a couple of colored panels. You can check out more of her stuff at her website, http://www.jmarieray.com/

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Five page preview of the inked artwork for issue one!

-Orlando

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Aaand the next version. It's like the previous two had a baby. Funny that.

(One day, when I really need my ego crushed, I'll throw up the crappy versions I made.)

L.

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Some WIP character colors

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Let's do this

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Origin story

I've wanted to do a slightly longer text post for a few days now, and while I’m sitting in a movie theatre and waiting for the lights to go down, I thought I’d give it a crack.

The Badguys is the first comic I’ve written (apart from a very short story called Zombie Napoleon that I wrote years ago. But the less said about that the better. I’ll probably get drunk and post it eventually). It’s been what they call a ‘learning experience’.

I’ll definitely write more about how I decided to script and plot and other writerly things down the track, because I think it’s interesting and it might be helpful to some people, but today I just wanted to give a brief history of how things started. For posterity.

So I mentioned earlier that I first had the idea for the comic about a year ago, and it took me close to another six months to have a workable plot and script that I could actually show to my beta readers. More importantly, it was something I liked enough to be willing to show to prospective artists to try and find a collaborator. Even more importantlier, it was something I liked enough to actually put my own money behind and pay an artist. Seriously, people. Pay your artists. 

From there, I advertised in a few places, but I struck gold with meeting Orlando on the comicbookcollabs subreddit. He was the very first of quite a few applicants, and shameless plug incoming, he was awesome. He brought a style to the project that changed a lot of how I thought about it, and his visuals made writing (and re-writing) that much easier. We’re currently on inks of the first issue, and working with him has been fantastic.

It’s been working from the ground up for both of us in a lot of ways, but since there needs to be a moral or something at the end of this, here it is. Find a good artist. Pay them.

On another note, I just got my first colour samples. Aaaaah.

-L.

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An early version of the Doctor Zero caption with a bunch of fonts. It didn't exactly make the cut.