D.E.A.D : Blast From The Past (Master Of Disaster)

I don't know if anyone reading this is having quite as much fun with these "Blast From The Past" entries as I am - but I'm really digging these...

That being said, this was one of the ones I had the most fun and the greatest challenge with. Clearly the robot hero Master Of Disaster was, um, a little poorly designed. Remaking him took some doing.


Pushing the redesign a little further than the redraw, I think the end result is actually a kind of cool character I'd be alright drawing again...

The only member of the team left undone is Torture Touch... but I did him about a year ago when I first tried this redraw experiment. I may repost him - or I may take another pass... we'll see.

D.E.A.D : Blast From The Past (Flashback)

Flashback was the leader of the Comet Trails - and when I took his mask off at the end of issue 4, I decided he wouldn't be white. So I finished the couple panels and suddenly realized he was white in all the other issues (you could/can see his face) - so I was faced with a dilemma... should I redraw those pages? Should I say he wore a caucasian mouth cover to disguise his identity? I went for option 3 - and went back through every issue and coloured his face to match the unmasked version in issue 4.


My first real grapple with race: solved in a more conscientious manner than I realized at the time... the race didn't matter, just a logical explanation.

D.E.A.D : Blast From The Past (Trail Blaster)

Another Blast From The Past... this time, from the same comic series, we have Trail Blaster... I know he jumped, he climbed - but I actually don't think he had any powers to speak of. Strange for a kid to create a powerless superhero...



The 10 year old me is freaking out at Trail Blaster WITH SHADING! An skin that resembles skin and EVERYTHING. Cool.

D.E.A.D : Blast From The Past (Fast Fist)

What is D.E.A.D. exactly? "Drawing Every Alternate Day."

I'm trying to keep my output up - even just ensuring I scan some of my sketches and post them here - so for March I'm going to try to get a sketch, a doodle, a strip or SOMETHING up here every second day...


First up is a Blast From The Past... this is something I did a year or so ago - I tried re-drawing one of the characters I created when I was 9. He may or may not bear any resemblance to a character from a major publisher... but his hands shoot off (connected to cables)... yeah. I was 9. Let's make sure that's clear. So, here he is - in his "new" armour (on the left in the old-skool page)... make of it what you will.