2004 Comics: Bermuda Triangle, part 2

In 2004, I continued making comics set in the Bermuda Triangle. This one centered around 3 characters: Judith, Samuel, and Stephen. They were a pirate gang that lives in the Triangle until they cross paths with Bonnie and Clyde. They are sent to the outside world to find B+C's daughter Vera, but end up battling villains named Clarence and Jameson (me). It reads right to left (traditional japanese manga style) because I intended to submit it to Shonen Jump's call for submissions and that was their guideline.

I never heard back from Shonen Jump, but Tokyo Pop came to FIT and reviewed my 31 page creation. They were very surprised I did the whole thing myself, but told me I had too many panels per page for a manga and did not like my design layout for the type (not shown here because it was that bad). I kept in touch and showed my work to them again at NY Comic con, they were very happy to see me but nothing came of it work wise. I look at these pages now and I'm very happy with them, there's a lot of technique.

It ended with a huge fight scene, a lot of hand drawn action lines a la Dragon Ball, I'm proud of myself.

I did another BT comic that year; taking tokyopop's suggestions of doing my book left to right, having less panels per page, and doing all of the screentones as a pattern in photoshop.

This book was much weirder, it had Judith and Stephen taking a drug called "Swipe" and battling each other while they were out of their minds, ending with a huge Ladybug installation falling and Judith catching it. All of the lines done with ink and ruler. The characters were a little too posed, but there's some good stuff in here.