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Things keep going from bad to worse.
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I, Mummy
A steampunk mummy in a dress from the future. Comic updates every Mummday.
Things keep going from bad to worse.
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In which the cowboy learns that zombies are unfazed by pistolry, and we recall that mummies are flammable.
The fighting moves are great, and the flame effects are excellent. Do you have references for them, too?
Thanks. I believe I relied on parts of different MMA or UFC images for those and filled in the rest. I’m still really bad at drawing figures in weird positions from scratch, but the skills are slowly improving with practice.
Pity about the cowboy, though. I liked how he turned out. C’est la vie.
Just consider him “Western-themed character study #1). Hmmm, freeze-frame images of various activities a la Muybridge? (clothed, of course)
So this must be the start of the fire sequence you were talking about!
So what’s that device that he dropped?
Yep, I had planned a longer flaming inferno sequence, but as you’ll see next week, laying it out was causing me so much trouble that it got shortened to 1 page.
I barely survived a burning house when I was little, so the Hollywood trope of running around through flames didn’t feel right. The heat and smoke will get you before the flames do. Sometimes writing what you know gets in the way. 🙂
Oh, he dropped a firebomb intended to dispose of the evidence.
Aaand now she actually has worse problems than being permanently covered in bandages.
History shows that bandages and fire never work out well. Just ask Charles II of Navarre
Now we’ll never know who the mysterious cowboy is, where the doctor learned akido, AND he won’t get back his security deposit!
The flames look awesome, very natural and the have a lot of energy to them. I can see their movement and how they start to engulf the apartment, even without you showing it. I just hope Jane and Harriet can get out safely! Jane must be pretty flammable, but how fire resistant is a zombie-bird?
The cowboy was the doctor’s assassin. He only stepped out to get his evidence incineration device and returned to find an angry zombie. Karma, I guess.
Did I put in real Aikido moves? Maybe zombies are like the vampires on Buffy: once you’re undead you know all the fighting moves?! Maybe Jane has secret Egyptian kung-fu techniques?! (Ok, not really … perhaps … Hmm…)
Yes, he is an assassin of evil doctors, but WHO is he? What are his hopes and dreams? His favorite ice cream flavor? These things we will never know. You will never be forgotton, Cowboy-Assassin.
Man, what a great action sequence. I think it’s exactly the right length.
And making the first three panels silent works beautifully too. It doesn’t need sound effects.
Plus, yes, she is more flammable than the average person.
Thanks, Groovy Clown. Movies that take a specific, usually horrific, action sequence and remove almost all sound feel more real, IMHO. All I can say is that the next few pages have very little dialog.
Speaking of flaming mummies; it’s happened before, in 1387: http://tapastic.com/episode/40245