I’m gonna do this catch up post differently because no matter what I try, I can’t get my galleries to show the captions *legibly* over the previews. But first, I am actually officially announcing a new comic that I am in fact, actively working on and not brainstorming forever! Featuring the sedate pixie dream girl, Cosette “Cozy” (Surname Unclear,) look forward to Video Cosette, a laid back series about vintage arcade games, fanservice, and how to stop worrying and love this horrible world.
Not long after I posted this, Piku pointed out this is basically Chuckie’s fit from Child’s Play
The gag is she cobbled together an ultra-super wide Darius custom cabinet by duct taping multiple machines together but then I got to wondering if you could *do that* given that the actual machine uses mirrors to ‘hide’ the gaps between the CRT monitors inside the cabinet. Mostly people just kept saying “A HUGE” though…
Sometimes when I do these ‘lounging’ pics I just kind of make up plush toys or stuff I wish was real and a decorative HEAVY MACHINE GUN pillow would kinda rule honestly.
I decided to go back to ink and color some old sketches I liked. The Athena one coming next is a bit more accurate to the arcade flyer pose than this Psycho Soldier one because the more I looked at the art for the original it reminded me of Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights poster.
I actually had the Athena Pose from the official flyer pretty much fully formed in my head when I sat down to rough this out and only needed to reference the finer details. Maybe that’s not much of a flex when it amounts to ‘red bikini and a sword’ but I also tried to do a bit more 80s ‘floof’ in her hairstyle to fit the vibe.
I have kind of a fascination with games that are ‘interesting’ if not necessarily ‘good.” An 80s arcade game with a bunch of equipment that actually changes the character’s appearance is so weirdly cool, it’s a shame about the actual game!
Listen, I can’t make the commentary for every single sketch super interesting. The original posting just says “I said, look for openings on the screen, dude.”
I should really post here more often, but this one at least was at the end of an actual month so I can neatly include all the sketches from May in one spot for once. When I did a yearly art review stream, it was a real pain to just sort everything out by month before starting the process of picking the best thing per month. I should curate things better here since social media sites either keep imploding or go nuts over-moderating. I do not, and am not especially interested in turning this into an ‘e-commerce’ page, just a space that I keep my own level of control over.
