The four "tuffs" featured in this comic are all based off of old Heroclix figures from the Infinity Challenge and Hypertime sets respectively -- from left to right we have Henchman, Lackey, Thug, and Criminal.
I've never been much of a gamer, but back when this game came out I was all about it! Sadly, the game became quite expensive and keeping up with the releases and ever-changing rules eventually forced me to stopped playing/collecting. I still pick up a clix figure now and again if it's a cool sculpt or a character I'm a fan of. In fact, I'd love to get my mitts on the Super Rare Superman #050 from the DC 75th Anniversary set.
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Odd… not a one of them mentioned a fear of heights!
The trick will be measuring up to those rumors!
I have confidence in our hero… mostly.
Ooh, very fun strip! And great use of brush textures! ; )
Very good keep up the good work. =)
Reminds me of a Batman story where kids sitting around a campfire are describing Batman as they think he is. “Night of the Bat”?
@TOM: Indeed…
@CHAD: Thanks, I had fun sloshing the ink around the paper!
@MAC: That was a fun episode, especially the Dick Sprang inspired segment.
Episode? My Google-Fu finally kicked in and I found what I was looking for:
“THE BATMAN NOBODY KNOWS” (BATMAN #250, July 1973). This story, in which a group of kids give Bruce Wayne their take on the “real” Batman, must have been the inspiration for a very similar episode of BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES.
@MAC: Google-Fu? I like it…
Love the panel layout, the characters and the lighting/shading. CM has got these guys pretty freaked out.
….and he can, like, cut GUNS in half WITH HIS MIND!
Nicely done. I’m digging what you’ve done with the shading–very evocative. You manage to do so much with just black, white, and gray.
Yay Heroclix!!!! To the man Denver who got me addicted to that plastic crack!!!