Bankshot Comics

Yeah, well, funny about that. You may have to wait quite a while. But I think you’re going to like what’s on the other side of this summer. Details to come.

And hungry were my bones.

To be honest, folks, we’ve got a first issue worth of material socked away, but we need to double our readership to see print.

Everyone who enjoys it enough to read it tells one friend, and boom! We get a nice offer from our friends at Shadowline. I’ve taken the liberty of already telling your boss you love it so much you can’t wait till you get home from work to read it. Because I’m thoughtful.

Valerie D’Orazio interviewed me about the secret to my success, which I can sum up for you here as:

• Learn Spanish, or fail to, contritely
• Eat well
• Date a redhead
• Stay out of Newark

That last one is intractable.

If you ever wondered what the unofficial soundtracks were to these comics, there’s a list at Exquisite Thing.

If you haven’t wondered, well, you learn something new every day.

As part of the Dose of Dose promotion, I’m giving out a sketch with the free comics, so Robin LeBlanc asked me to draw Edward, a character of hers.

Of course, I couldn’t portray just the fellow, awesome though gas masks and dusters may be, without including his body-mod-guard Sidney. These were supposed to be warm-ups so I could get a feel for the characters, but I turned out pretty happy with them. He looks rough, she looks tough.

Edward

Sidney

Our friends at Jazma interviewed Chris Ward, who mentions how “terrific” Dose is in the same breath as Giffen & DeMatteiss. High company, I’d reckon.

Because the man works hard to bring you post-apocalyptic riot grrls in a zombie wasteland, and you’re also probably a Star Trek fan.

Ideally these pin-ups get progressively more exotic and then just depraved, because really…Geist’s is no kind of lifestyle at all.

Odd…I just noticed these are running through the “Deficient in Love” comic. Kind of a conflict of messages, really.

Not the real and final images, natch, just something for poor, overworked Andres to go by and hopefully get these flyers featuring the cover image delivered to SDCC in time.

We did a mock-up of a HEIST cover, but nothing solid yet. The idea is, like a classic Bond cover novel, it’ll have a series of titillating shots, but because we’re a) superpowered and b) a villain, it’s going to have a little genre twist and get increasingly more…thought-provoking, not necessarily seductive. Below, the design by Andres after my notes and actual Bond cover girls just as placeholders:

I need to make flyers for SDCC, so I figured, “Hey, I’ll draw it up in the evening, the design part’s done and that’s the hard bit.” First up: the sketches, just rough-stuff, thinking about it. I like the idea of a woman with a cape draped over her, evoking the sheets that so often characterize this kind of dimestore pulp, but we need less horizontal, more vertical for Geist to loom over.

I’ll post a dame a day plus GEIST if I don’t use a luscious shot from the book. It’s hard to even stand in the shadow of Andres and Rocio.

Man, you wouldn’t think drawing enticing ladies would get burdensome. But trying to find a way to show the sickening expansion of novelty in Geist’s world and still keep it sexy…yeesh. I suppose I’ll end up doing an alien as the second woman and move the robot to slot #3.