How Do I Shot Drum? - More Recording

So, the other thing I do, apart from having a family and taking pictures of toys and trying to train my drawing skills and work 40 hours a week...is drum for local SD bands.  A lot.  This weekend, my band Cotton the Machine hit the studio, and I'm pretty excited about the results so far.  We will probably finish 11 tracks in about a month, and I will be sure to post here when it's done.

I also have an album coming soon from The Secret Seven, the drum tracks for which I recorded a couple months ago.  Two disparate rock bands, two albums...I am a blessed man.

I am hopeful Invictus will return next week.  Stay Tuned!

Invictus - Page 19 and the end of Act 1

 

Act 1 ends here.  I'm excited about where this is going, and I hope you are, too.  Stay tuned - Invictus has just begun!

Invictus - Page 18

Did anyone read the Fantastic Four?  I always appreciated when the artist drew Sue Storm as a translucent figure when she turned invisible.  How easy would it be to cop and and draw nothing?  Pretty easy, I imagine.  Sorry the post is kinda late, but I again got caught up in life and left editing till the last minute.  But I think the results speak for themselves.

Invictus - Page 17

Oh shi....!  If you wondered how Typhoid was able to sneak up on Footloose, wonder no longer.  I used this effect a while back on another pic, and wanted to expand on it.  I'm pretty stoked about the results.

I imagine that stealth tech like this would take a LOT of power in a five-minutes-into-the-future world, which would be why Typhoid doesn't maintain the invisibility all the time.  But she knows how to use it to maximum effect...

Invictus - Page 16

Here is page 16.  Enjoy, and as always, you can read the whole story so far by clicking the link on the right.  Happy Friday!

The Trouble Shooters - A Modern Adventure Team

Last night, I purchased one of the last sets of the Adventure Team Leader and Dr. Venom from the GI Joe Club store - There were 16 sets when I made my purchase, and none this morning.  I guess a lot of folks had the same idea.

The fact is, I'm a fan of the Adventure Team concept, if not necessarily the execution...I'm more of the mind that an Adventure Team should be like the group of geniuses and men-of-action that followed the great Doc Savage around back in the 20's and 30's.  So, inspired by the great kit-bashes of Monte Williams, I present The Trouble Shooters!

I hope to be able to do another dio in the future with these guys, completely unrelated to GI Joe - something a bit more "my own".  That includes modifying the Trouble Shooters to be more their own, and less obviously an amalgamation of parts.  However, Invictus is my first priority, dio-story wise, so until then, meet the (tentative) team and let me know what you think below.

Wow! Thanks, GeneralsJoes.com!

A big shout out to Justin at GeneralsJoes for getting the word oout about Invictus and pointing so many new visitors to this page.  I've been a big fan of that site for the last couple years, and it was Justin's dios that inspired me in part to take up the Invictus project.

So, for all who have come from Generals Joes, a big welcome.  I hope you like what you read, and stay tuned.  I have a lot more planned for Invictus, and some other projects in the wings that I will be posting about here soon.

Yo Joe!