DOGTOWN

Illustrated by Chris McJunkin

Dogtown is a second series I'm working on with Chris McJunkin and will appear in my upcoming anthology Science Hero.  I've been really focused on structure with this series.  Each chapter will be 8 pages and focus on a different character and situation in the city neighborhood of Dogtown.  Through this series of vignettes, I hope to create a pastiche of crime, social, and political drama.  As you might notice from looking at these pages, each chapter will also be represented by a predominant color, the first chapter being blue.

I really like writing Dogtown because it allows me to reach for different influences than the superhero stuff.  Dogtown is more verbose than Zero's Heroes because it's primarily inspired by my two favorite novelists, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and Robert Heinlein. 

Chris completely illustrates the pages by himself, and he really brings his A game.  Everything from the pencils, to the colors, to the letters is all his work.  He's got a great eye for design and often times improves the layouts of the page from how they were originally written.  The man's a true talent and I'm lucky to have him creating this book with me.

Here are the first three pages of Dogtown:  The Cold Goodbye.

Muscles and Mullets

Muscles & Mullets is a short story I did with Grant Perkins and Jamie Roberts.  I'm a big fan of these two British artists, particularly when they're together.  So, I was really excited to get to work with them.  Grant's work appears twice in Zero's Heroes, albeit, not on the website.  He has a pin up in the Volume 01 trade paperback and another pin up in the Convention Special.

Muscles & Mullets is about Bolt Nova and his brother Crash.  Together they run an intergalactic detective agency where they run into any manner of alien, cartoon, or fantastic characters.  In this particular story, the Brothers Nova are hired by The Guitar Wizard to track down his priceless guitar, The Paramount Axe.  I think this is the most straightforward "comedy" story I've done so far, even more so than Zero's Heroes.  Grant and I came up with the story after a few email exchanges.  Once I realized that we had the same silly sense of humor, the whole story sort of wrote itself.  Though I can always see flaws in my work, I really liked the way this turned out and plan to do more with these characters.

Though this 10 page story was completed quite some time ago, it is finally going to appear in an upcoming anthology I'm working on that should be ready to print in January.  The anthology, titled Science Hero, will contain two other comics by myself and different artists which I believe will come together to form a really nice package.

Cover Art
Pencils - Grant Perkins
Inks - Mike Bunt
Colours - Owen Watts

Pencils - Grant Perkins
Colours - Jamie Roberts

Pencils - Grant Perkins
Colours - Jamie Roberts