Jake & Leon #14

I just noticed that I misspelled “Critic”. Pretend it’s an homage’s to Doug’s past misspells. 🙂

I need to get Leon a new “Knuckles” headpiece. Jake is dressed as Chris G’s “G-Man.

This comic was in honor of Doug and Rob Walker of “That Guy With The Glasses” coming to Connecticut to attend U-Con at UConn, a free convention sponsored by the animation club at the University of Connecticut, with Doug in the comic as his most famous character, the Nostalgia Critic. The “Bat Credit Card” has become a running gag at his convention appearances. It began with his review of Batman and Robin, considered the worst of the Batman movies, and rightfully so. If it didn’t have Alicia Silverstone in the Batgirl outfit, it would be completely unwatchable.

The “video game bar guy” refers to Dominic, another Doug Walker character in the series Video Game Confessions. It’s about a bartender who tells stories of video game characters who come into the bar he works at, the Pixel Palace, while doodling scenes from the story. It’s a great presenation, and worth checking out. (Except for Pac-Man’s story. That was sick and wrong in the bad way.)

Outside of Leon in panel 1, this is the first time I used the various nibs I picked up to ink the comic. (Not that you can tell too much outside of line thickness. The lines don’t scan as dark as I want them to, so I have to fix it before I start the computer coloring and lettering.) I think I finally has the size where I want it, but since my computer is at the largest viewing size, I should check to see how it looks at other settings before making a final decision. Any help is appreciated.

Final note: Jake and Leon actually switched places in this comic. If you’ve noticed, usually Jake is on the left and Leon is on the right. That usually happens because that’s how it works. For this comic, however, I wanted Leon to be standing there as Jake runs in, so the flow worked better with Jake on the right. I didn’t really notice it until I was inking the comic. Interesting? Maybe to me, as I’m trying to figure out how to do this comic-making thing before I get to the “real” comics.