THE SIMPSONS NEWS

Just managed to get done with the revisions for the Halloween show.  It was a pretty hectic last two days of the week. I’ve now moved on to show 21.  My first assignment on the show is the show’s Couch Gag. It was difficult one.  It had a TON of Springfielders and it got complicated. Took me two days to do it.

MY WEEK

In spite of the fact I haven’t got the time, I started working on another Black Terror Kid comic. It’s going to be five pages  long and will only be in black and white.  I’m creating it in order to have something to put up on a gallery for a special event in May.  This means I have till April to finish it.  The gag is written out already. The thumbnail sketches are done, and all I need to do is start drawing it.

This one will be about what happens when the Black Terror Kid tries to sell The Claw some cookies for charity.  I’m looking forward to drawing it.

Once it’s done, the pages will be up for sale at the gallery, so if you like them enough, you could buy them.

Thing is…I probably won’t want to sell them…so…I might jack up the price so that no one buys them.

For more on the Black Terror Kid and his adventures: CLICK HERE.

VIDEO

There’s this dude named Jerzy something or other, that REALLY likes drawing comics.  I guess he’s a podcaster, cartoonist, and comicbook teacher or something and likes talking about creating comics. He has a comic drawing course and stuff. Here’s a video of his Comic Academy, Week 1. Check it out:

I’m obviously joking around. Jerzy is awesome. The videos is great.

WRITING

This was difficult. Action is hard.

I had a few things floating around in my head that I thought should happen in the fight, put them into the treatment.  What I ended up with, I think, is a good basic skeleton of what should happen.  I’ll probably watch some Jackie Chan movies for more inspiration when it actually comes to drawing this stuff for storyboarding.  Especially since a Jackie Chan style fight is what I’m really going for here.

As I’ve been doing the last few weeks, I wrote out the synopsis of the scene followed by the more fleshed out treatment:

Scene 5 (Desire/Aware)

• • Rob tries to escape but the Sorcerers summon monsters to get in his way.  Rob’s Raven gets hit into the bushes while trying to protect Rob. The lead Sorcerer points out to Rob that he is only proving his guilt by attempting to run. THAT is true evidence.

Outdoor Shopping Area – Day continued

Rob is overwhelmingly frustrated. His stomach growls in spite of the chaos around him. He looks down at this hot dog longingly. He searches for escape routes.  If he could just manage to ditch these jerks, he could at least finish his lunch.  The situation is so out of hand that he just wants to wash his hands of the whole thing.

He spots a way out of the  Shopping Area and he goes for it.

Guessing his intention the Other Male Sorcerer calls out to stop him from escaping. The Female Sorcerers summons an enormous Winged Ape which appears before Rob and slashes him, ripping his shirt and nearly knocking the hot dog off his plate. 

Rob gets hit one more time and gets thrown to the side clutching his lunch so that it will be safe.  He lands hard.  He’s dazed and confused for a moment. The Ape attacks again.  Rob’s Raven comes to the rescue  pecking and scratching at the Ape. The Ape swats at the Raven and hits it, sending it flying into some bushes.  Rob comes to his senses just as the Ape turns it’s attention back to him. It lunges toward him.  Rob sees it coming and in the same split second sees another potential exit he can go for. He feints to one side and then uses the Apes momentum to have it crash to the side as he steps over it and goes for the other exit.

Seeing this, the Other Male Sorcerer summons another Winged Ape who blocks Rob’s attempt at freedom. It  backhands Rob and sends him skidding to a stop near a fountain.  Clothes ripped and bleeding Rob quickly gets to his feet as the Ape leaps at him. He uses the nearby fountain to dodge and hide from the thing.  He jumps from the fountain to a wall surrounding the fountain dodging the Ape’s attacks. All the while, nearly dropping and recovering his lunch.  He uses the cover of some nearby trees and benches to avoid the Ape.

He looks for more exits. He sees the other Ape has recovered and is moving in his direction.  Both Apes are between him and an exit.  He turns and see one more exit. His stomach grumbles.  He runs. The Apes try to catch him.  He leaps just as they get to him. They hit each other.  Rob keeps going. He’s home free.  Suddenly an enormous Viper like creature appears from nowhere before him.  Rob comes to a screeching halt.

The Lead Sorcerer smiles, a little tired after having summoned the creature.  He points out to Rob that he says he’s innocent, yet he run like a guilty man.  He tells Rob his actions speak clearly.

The Viper thing lunges at Rob and he moves out the way just in time to avoid it’s fangs.  Rob moves away from it.  All exits blocked.

END OF SCENE

 

I think even if it’s as straightforward as this, the fight scene should work okay.  After all, the point of this scene is to whittle away Rob’s options.

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