Whine and Cheese

Tonight, after my workout and dinner, I settled on the couch to pencil more pages of Issue #25 of "Grizzly and The Bear Patrol." It's been fairly slow going, mainly because of everything else I have had to do this summer, which has sucked away my energy. I'm still training the temporary replacements for my coworker on maternity leave. It makes me very reticent to take time off and my vacation time is piling up, so I might need to burn some soon.

Tonight's DVD was "The Boy," a movie that I saw in the theater with friends, but missed out the climax of the film due to a very full, very sore bladder. It was nice to actually see the whole movie. It's not the best flick in the world, but I think it gets better after a repeated viewing.

For the last scenes of the movie, I put the comic book pages away and started a sketch that turned into the below -- The Bear Collector, who is probably my favorite of all the villains I've created. I'll be back at it tomorrow night I think.

Most of the folks on my friends list have seen this already, but I've had some requests from non-LJ folks to see the superhero-comic book that I've been drawing for the better part of a year. It's been a big endeavor and done more for fun than anything else. So here is the entire first issue (24 pages) in a non-friends-only post. The images are very large, so I've put them behind a cut to save space (and those who have read it already). If it were a movie, it'd be PG-13 or so (no nudity, but some suggestive stuff), so use your best judgement of whether you should view it at work.

( Grizzly & The Bear Patrol #1 )