080 – Coon’s Gotta Eat!
079 – A Diver Needs a Crew
Jun 132012
Welcome back to the Wednesday Mash-up.
This week we go a little lower key with one of my favorite movies, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
First off, we have Rick S. Preston, Esquire, played of course by Todrick. When I was drawing my Cats tribute, I finally drew full sleeves on the cast. Now I’m experimenting with pants. It’s a big step in their evolution, at least in the mash-ups. We’ll see how it goes.
It would have made sense to have it be Rich and Tod’s Excellent Adventure, but I decided to cast Red Rich as Ted. And then, as I was saying their full names out loud, it came to me, Red Richedore Logan. It was just too sweet. In fact, if I hadn’t already set it so that Rich was short for Richmond, I would use Richedore. Oh well.
Guiding Rick and Red, is their mentor from the future, Rufoonch.
It’s an abridged edition this week after the two Joe weeks. Until next time…Be excellent to each other, and PARTY ON DUDES!
Jun 062012
It’s that time of week again when pop culture and Age of Animus are on a collision course that produces super awesomeness. It’s time for the Wednesday Mash-up.
Today we go back to the Marvel Universe to complete our look at the Avengers line-up. For those of you who didn’t see part one, you can go back through the artwork archives or click here.
First up, we have the mauve archer, Cooneye, played by the one and only Red Rich, wearing a special purple mask for the occasion. It’s a shame purple isn’t one of the three colours I chose for him because he looks good in it.
Moving right along, we come to Iron Cat, played by the ever cute, Sass. Her distinctive head shape makes it so that I can cover her face with a helmet and you still know instantly who it is…but I drew her without the mask on anyway.
Rounding out the heroes is the mouse running the show, Zo Fury rocking the eye patch and trench coat. Unfortunately, it was the least intricate design, so there’s some pizzazz missing.
And last but not least, is the villain of our piece, played as is custom by Todrick: that manic god of mischief, Loki.
That’s it for this week. I have no ideas yet for next week, so it’ll be a big surprise for all of us.
May 302012
Welcome back to the Wednesday Mash-up. Last week we saw the Animus gang gear up as members of the Joe squad. This week, we see what happens when they join the ranks of Kitty. Yeah, I changed Cobra to Kitty. More on that later.
First, let’s take a look at the Kitty logo, sure to inspire cuteness in the hearts of men.
First is Nektara as the Bear-oness. Surprisingly, I came up with the name pun AFTER I decided to cast Nektara as the Baroness and not the other way around. It was while I was drawing her that I decided I would change the logo. But the Kitty logo was not the original logo I drew.
Originally, Todrick was going to be Fox (Cobra) Commander and Sass was going to be Sasspentor. That was the plan when I drew Bear-oness so I drew a fox logo on her (which I didn’t really like). Then as I went along, I decided that Todrick would make a better match for Serpentor as Vulpintor, so the Cobra Commander role went to Sass. It made more sense to call her Kitty Commander, and that’s when I changed the logo to the cat one. Anyway, here’s Kitty Commander.
You’re probably thinking Vulpintor is next, but I finally decided that since I don’t especially LIKE Serpentor, I wasn’t going to use him. Instead, Todrick got cast as Dr. Noggin-knocker.
Kitty couldn’t do without a world-class tinkerer to build new weapons. They had to settle for Destryan.
Fortunately, they have Scrap-Oonch to pick up some of the slack (chosen specifically for his eye-covering mask). I drew Oonch first, before I thought of changing the Cobra logo, so originally he had a stylized cobra like Scrap-Iron’s on his helmet. I later had to go back and colour over it so I could draw the stylized kitty in its place.
Redtan is the Kitty master of disguise. Unfortunately, his idea of a disguise is changing the colour of his mask!
Zo-rana is much better at disguising herself, but her everyday-wear makes her easy to pick out in a crowd.
Finally, there’s Major Barnabludd, with his bionic arm. I can’t seem to resist giving Barnaby a mustache.
Stormshadow didn’t make the cut for the same reason Snake-Eyes didn’t make the cut last week. Their masks obscure too much of the faces, making it less obvious who’s underneath the mask (and I don’t particularly care for ninjas).
That’s all for this week. Next week, I’ll go back and finish the Avengers. I promise!