Spooky Party

Some sort of Monster reunion, A cryptid Mash if you will...

Or the Halloween themed episode.

Just the band going to a Halloween party at a friend from highschool of theirs’ house.

Also, I can't believe how long this one took me. More than I was expecting it to, for some reason I kept second guessing their costume choices. Did they feel on character enough and such? You may have noticed that from the sketch I posted some time ago, only 2 costumes made it to the finish line. But Here it is! And I'm pretty happy with the result.

• Lil is going as a ghost. She was actually this close (👌) of being the ghost last year, with the sheet and everything, but in the end I went with RJ because, him being so big it was funnier looking. But this year Lil is actually doing it and with a more detailed costume because I didn't want to repeat the sheet. Besides, there's a vibe with Lil and ghosts, (Oh, and Witches) I've suggested before. And will probably be exploring in the future.

• Tak as a demon Nun. Tak is going with the most original and detailed costume that even includes body make up and all, and that's because it's canon that she always goes hard on her Halloween costumes, after all, she's a queer art school student, it only makes sense. I mentioned before that with her I was sort of overwhelmed with the options and that was the reason, I could see her going as pretty much everything, big or minimalist, serious, goofy or sexy, and even crossdressing. 

  And having so many options I had a hard time deciding, so in the end I just went with a design I came up with and really liked. It does fit her really well too with what I just said, it's kind of goofy but really well done, and pretty provocative. I think Tak’s mom kind of hates it but she's also kind of impressed.

• RJ is going as Jack Torrance from The Shining, and to be honest, there's not a lot of thought to it, but that kind of fits, RJ is a pretty practical pragmatic guy and it's on character of him for him to go for a costume he could make just with clothing from which half of it he probably already owns. 

  Not to say that he didn't put any effort on his costume, he let Zara put some make up on him to look tired and he still had to look for the jacket and considering his size that could be pretty hard, which may be another reason for him to tend to go with simpler costumes. Except for his Judge Doom costume, he was inspired that year.

• Diana as a Skeleton. This one is another case of me reusing a scrapped idea from last year. She was going to go as a skeleton in last year's piece and actually that idea got pretty far. It made it to coloring, but in the end I watched Alien on tv and I came up with the Ripley idea that I ended up liking better, besides I used the skeleton costume somewhere else. But I really liked how she looked in the skeleton costume so here it is finally in all its glory. 

  Canon wise, let's say it's the same reasoning for her. She tried out a skeleton costume in the store and liked it, but later she saw Alien with the band and changed her mind, but this year she's actually going for the Skeleton costume she liked.

• Tony as Beetlejuice. I mean, this one was easy. For a moment I considered also reusing a scrapped idea from last year where he was going to go as a cameraman from the Skibidy Toilet series, in part as a joke to annoy his friends but that made sense last year, not so much now. But in the end I decided to go with Beetlejuice especially since I've heard the sequel was actually good.

  (Unfortunately I haven't seen it yet, I got sick on the premiere weekend and haven't had the chance) I can imagine Tony going around doing the voice and cracking jokes, and hell, some of them are actually good! Lol.

• Zara as a vampire. Yes I'll admit it! I went with this one mainly due to the visual gag of a bird with fangs, but it also makes sense for her. She likes to look pretty on Halloween and she's having fun, doing the “Blah Blah Blah” thing and all that. Besides, I'm sure she also likes the bird fangs gag just as I do. Besides this costume has the added benefit of being a music reference and having its own theme song, kinda… 

  “Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress” by The Hollies is at least here in México often know as “La Vampiresa de Negro” or The She-Vampire in Black. It's also one of the songs that's been playing in my head on a loop while working on this thing. So I also imagine her humming it around. What is the other song that has been playing in my mind you ask? Easy…

• Davo as half of Pink Floyd's “Wish you were here” album Cover. And he is the one that gave me the most problems choosing a costume. I've always seen these Halloween pictures in regards to Davo as a contradiction he allows himself. As he’s always trying to look like a tough, serious guy (failing often) so he feels it seems kind of odd that he always works so hard on his Halloween costumes but he also knows it is really fun, so he came up with a rule for himself as a sort of excuse. 

  His costumes have to be music and Rock related. But this year a lot of ideas I came up with didn't feel “on character” for him even through his “rule” So I/he came up with a new reform to the rule. Maybe the costume can be music related but not necessarily a direct reference to something like in previous years. So he was going to be the devil, but in the evil band manager “Sell me your soul” type archetype.

  And I had a kind of cool design with a cigar and everything, but Tak was already going as a devil and I didn't want to repeat and that's when I thought about Pink Floyd’s “Have a cigar” that, while not using the figure of the devil, abords similar themes while critiquing the music industry.  And then I also remembered that the cover is pretty cool. Lol. And visually touches those themes as well.

  So here's Davo as the man on fire from the cover, I like to think Tak helped him a bit with making the fire out of painted cellophane Which is better than Davo's very first idea. Turning himself on fire… but just a little bit. 

And as you can see, for some reason I put a lot of effort on coming up with the costumes this year and because of that I want you to actually be able to see them. So how about this for a Patreon exclusive?! Obviously by this point you already saw them but I’m adding the individual character PNGs. They're like baseball cards! Lol

Anyways. Back to work on commissions/comics!

Happy Halloween!!!

In a month…