Crom Unhinged

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

InterNepotism

The above title is the worst pun I’ve ever made. I hope each of you was prepared to be sullied by it. if not…too bad.

My colleague, and wheel-man, Axe, is a ninja with a pencil. When the film, Panda Girls, first started up it was because Axe had a cool idea, and needed some muscle to kick its ass. I was working a brain dead job, and pretty much inching towards a fantastic homicide/suicide scenario. I didn’t plan to kill anybody, but when you think about the most magnificent suicide the world will ever know, there’s bound to be some kind of collateral damage. Sorry everybody, no harm, no foul.

At any rate, I had contacted him about a plan we’d barely formulated a few years earlier in a 20 minute conversation we had in the corner of a loud party we were both uncomfortable at. We thought, perhaps, that we would make a comic. We were unsure of how to distribute it, but that is a mediocre concern in this day and age; producing it was the clincher. The plan had fallen through, and we hadn’t really spoken to one another since. On a lazy afternoon, during my planning session, I chanced to ask him (since he was on MSN) if he’d thought about giving it another go. He hadn’t really, he was far too busy, but he wanted me to have a look at some work he’d done.

Specifically the work he’d done on some pages for the Army of Darkness comic. I was stoked. I’ve always had a place in my heart for Ash, and his troubles. He was my kind of hero: not a hero, but ready to fuck shit up when he was pushed. I checked it out, and it was cool. Axe does awesome work. It lead, inexorably, into our meeting about another idea he’d had (re: Panda’s). Those first couple meetings were interesting, loud, sometimes angry, and often full of cool ideas. In the end, of the four who began the meetings, two remained. Us. One didn’t believe in the concept, the other was too busy. But sometimes I think it might have been Fate.

Now Axe works on OUR comic (there’s only a few done so far, we were mostly beta testing the idea. It failed somewhat), Panda Girls concept art, Axe and Crom concept art, and the new adventure: Painting.

He’s broken it down into 500 posts he plans to do, and coincidentally it’s called: http://500posts.com/

If you’re into painting, an aspiring artist, or just like cool shit, you should keep an eye on what he’s doing. He’s the real talent in this operation, I’m just the organ grinding monkey.

Sometimes literally.