Good Knight, Watchman! A Big Bang Team-Up?!

Here are some sample panels for a proposed team-up between Chris Ecker's Big Bang character The Knight Watchman and our favorite Man of Molecules. But Ms. Megaton Man seems a bit impatient with all the requisite cross-dimensional explication necessary to bring these two imaginary worlds together...

See more recent Ms. Megaton Man art!

Vs. Everybody and Everything! A Stray, Orphaned Pin-Up

Here is a piece of art I generated in relation to War of the Independents #4 (which will include Megaton Man and Yarn Man cameos, and features Ben Edlund's The Tick, Jeff Smith's Bone, and others in the main narrative), but deemed it too Image-centric to submit it to Dave Ryan for consideration as an ersatz pin-up for the issue. Possibility for a separate project?! MM has teamed with Valentino's Captain Everything and Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon before, but no discussions are underway. Still, thought it would be fun to throw some color on it and post to see if I could start any viral rumors!!

The flat-colored linework.

The linework, inked on vellum.

The original sketchbook doodle I blew up and transformed into linework.

Three's a Crowd: Trent Phloog Rooms with Connie Carlyle and the Stella Android!

Here are the roughs to the last 8 pages of The New Megaton Man #3 (part of the Megaton Man: Return to Megatropolis graphic novel, a work in progress). In this sequence, Trent Phloog returns to his bachelor pad to find it has been sublet to Connie Carlyle -- but where is he going to stash the Stella Android -- first seen in Megaton Man: Bombshell #1 (Image Comics, July 1999)? Can one cartoonist possibly dredge up more loose-end storylines from the previous millennium? Stay tuned! We're just getting started!!

(Originally posted in October 14, 2014 with rough pencil layouts; updated May 3-4, 2015 with inked tiers.)

See the origin of Connie here.

Moving Back to Megatropolis! Secrets of the Phloog Pad

Megaton Man moves back into his old apartment in Megatropolis, but doesn't know where to stash the inert Stella Android he salvaged from a bout with Bad Guy back at the turn of the millennium. A scene from the third issue of his new (or at least unpublished) adventures that I am currently inking...

(Yes, I realize I am posting pages out of reading order -- and poorly lit to boot -- but whoever said a free sneak peak had to be coherent?! Excelsior!)

Below: The art above, partially inked:

Quiet Time with the Stella Android! A Half-Page in Progress

Here's a new flat-colored page rendered in Photoshop this morning. Below that is the inked linework completed yesterday, the original pencil rough from last fall, and some other shots of me completing the art. Megaton Man has brought along the Stella Android (first seen in Megaton Man: Bombshell #1, Image Comics, 2000) along to his new-old apartment in the city, but has mixed feelings for this (at the moment) inanimate object, since she replicates the See-Thru Girl and mother of his child (the Earth Mother, now leader of the Doom Defiers). Is that enough backstory for an already-talky half-page?!

Here's the colored half-page from May 1, 2015.

Here's the original light blue and graphite pencil rough.

Finishing up the inking yesterday, April 30.

Correcting the "Q" so that it appears to be reflected in reverse in the mirror.

The inked layer on Clearprint Design Vellum and the printout of the scanned layout. The two sheets are adhered with Elmer's Repositionable Glue Stick, which then comes off with a rubber cement pick-up. (Using it on the pencil original is messy and tends to destroy the layout, so I scan and print it out for convenience.)

This angle shows the corrections made with Luma Bleed-Proof White. My own homemade combination of old and new technologies to bring you state-of-the-art cartooning!