--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "Shawntae" <howart_at_p...> wrote:
> Ha, having to go to three pages. I guess that last cliffhanger
> indeed leave you in a bit of a spot after all. Heh, I'll just take
> pride knowing I got you to the point you couldn't come up with a
> simple one page solution (kinda like chess this is, or an artist
> version of Heroclix).
No, I just don't like trying to cram everything into one page.
It's hard enough drawing all that stuff at 8.5 X 11, I can't imagine
trying to squeeze _everything_ into those confines!
I also did three pages, because it would allow me to give some of
the newer characters some limelight. Since your strategy (a very
good one at that! Commendable!) left such a dilemma, there was
really only one way I could handle the situation.
Jennica controls gravity, though primarily on herself. Holding 2
other people, while a third is much further away, was straining her
limits. Once she released Jeremy, she would've had an easier time
getting the other two back to earth.
Monique was a key player in this sequence, because her touch
triggers the flight instinct in any creature she comes in contact
with. Conceivably, she could probably win a fight just passing from
one person to the next, sending them all screaming into the
foothills. However, her touch can cause heart attacks in people who
are susceptible to them. So obviously, she is quite careful of what
she does.
Since Jeremy was the only one who could have survived the fall
from that height, Monique touched him, shocking him awake, and
instantly transforming him back (since most of the team's abilities
are triggered by fear or anger). Once armored, Jennica released him
and then set the other two onto the ground.
>
> Okay, I got an answer in mind for you, BUT I need to see just what
> these new characters look like. Particularly the squirrel gal.
Never
> saw her before so no idea how to draw her (that and the outfits
just
> look like big black body suits to me). I do laugh though at the
fact
> you got Forcewave's outfit right while, my going on memory got it
> backwards, since I drew it will away from home.
Actually, I think I screwed up the chest emblem. I was going from
your fourth comic, and he had some horizontal bars on the suit chest
plate.
I will e-mail you a B&W drawing of Jennica's suit. Gimme a few...
>
>
> And just exactly is it that Monique does anyway other than look
> scary?
A lot of the Caterwaul Red/Lot Six kids have abilities which have
similar beginnings. Since it was actually their parents who were
experimented on, the experiments caused genetic anomalies in the
spawn.
For example, Monique, Sheryl and Denise all have different
variations of the same core ability. Denise changes into a
power/life siphon, and becomes intangible in the process (until
she's had too much power contact). Monique is intangible as well,
but she doesn't really steal life or power. She causes the victim's
body to go into a full-fledged attack of blind panic. (I was
tempted to show Walice wet his pants, but I settled for a tail
between the legs instead. See? I'm not being nasty!) This can
cause a host of problems within the victim's body if they are not in
perfect health (such as heart attacks, ruptured vessels and/or
organs, seizures, paralysis, etc..). But, the longer Monique stays
in her less-than-pleasant-to-look-at form, the more dangerous she
becomes. After a short while, her touch causes death, whether she
is approached physically, psychically (sp?) or whatever. Since she
is intangible in this form, she can pretty much go anywhere and do
anything. I like this character having this power, because in her
normal anthro form, she is very loving and caring towards people.
Sort of a Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde thing. Sheryl's power is
the ability to wrap light around herself and others, effectively
making them invisible. She is mute when in her normal anthro form,
and can only speak when invisible (she lost her voice when her
abilities manifested themselves).
>
> Oh, and about how far was Jeremy dropped from where he was punted?
He's probably about a quarter mile from the others.
--JMH
Received on Tue Jun 01 2004 - 18:18:11 CDT