March M.O.D.O.K. Madness 2018 - Part 2

March M.O.D.O.K. Madness 2018

(Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing)

It's time for another submission to the March M.O.D.O.K. Madness Blog!

In this case, it's a team-up of two Jack Kirby creations, Devil Dinosaur and M.O.D.O.K.

And, it ends with a rather bad pun, so there's that.

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STEP ONE:  A little peek behind the curtain as to my working (HA!) process: here is the doodle in the margins which was the germ of the idea for this post.  I thought it would be amusing to give M.O.D.O.K. a bonding moment with everyone's favorite crimson-colored T-Rex, Devil Dinosaur, over their tiny arms.  It was worthy of a smirk, or perhaps even a quiet titter, at best.  But, then I thought of the line "GASP!  You have tiny, vestigial arms just like mine...  I cannot kill such a noble creature" and thought it could be expanded into a actual comic page which ends in a team-up (of sorts).

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STEP TWO:  Here are the digital pencils, done on a 1,500px by 2,250px canvas at 300dpi.  I made it a little more cartoony, ala Calvin and Hobbes (one of the greatest comic strips ever).

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STEP THREE:  Followed by the inks, which were done mostly using a 7pt. hard brush.  Of note, in panel 3 of the pencil page, it cropped off Devil Dinosaur's rear end enough that it didn't visually read as if he had a tail.  He just sort of looked like he was squatting down... perhaps getting ready to leave some coprolites for future generations.  So, I moved him over just enough to have some of his tail showing, but still leaving enough room for the word balloons.  Also, I changed the direction of M.O.D.O.K.'s cowlick on top of his head.  Not sure why, but it seemed funnier leaning the opposite direction.

Oh, and I got rid of the Kirby Krackle/energy bubbles coming out of his headband.  It looked as if I were drawing him as drunk, rather than readying up a Mindblast.

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STEP FOUR:  And here is the finished comic page.  The colors were all one on a separate Multiply Layer, and the lettering was added.  I also decided to change the word "Kill" to "Harm" in panel 4, to make it seem as if M.O.D.O.K. was so moved by his connection to Devil Dinosaur, even the though of harming him was too much to think about, let alone killing him.

I threw in a shadow under Devil Dinosaur in the last panel so he didn't look like he was floating in space for no reason.  I will also admit the car crash of logos and fonts in the last panel makes my inner-graphic designer cry a little bit.  

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Done digitally in Photoshop.

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