Usually when I revisit a work I am repulsed by it. You are your worst critic after all. I have more projects that I prefer not to acknowledge than the ones I do. I remembered SGS falling in that category, however, in revisiting it to provide this commentary, I'm actually surprised with how cohesive it turned out. There were definitely elements that could stand for some improvement, but I think I did a fairly good job with making the theme cohesive, and I think the double ...
2017-11-17 06:03:55 +0000 UTC
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2017-11-17 05:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Rufus is holding a phone that is connected to Guy's ear piece there. You can see Guy's ear piece, but it was a mistake to make the phone so dark.
2017-11-17 05:55:31 +0000 UTC
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Best joke in the book, right here.
2017-11-17 05:53:04 +0000 UTC
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I like how I have these guys just take SGS's name at face value, and see nothing ridiculous about it.
2017-11-17 05:50:53 +0000 UTC
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Probably should have added some digging tools. This makes it look like she was digging with a cardboard tube.
2017-11-17 05:47:47 +0000 UTC
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Here is where the brush pen really started to fail. Also,
ACTION HAT SAYS READ BOOKS.
2017-11-17 05:44:24 +0000 UTC
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Should've drawn the door hanging off the hinges on this page instead of on the floor in the next.
2017-11-17 05:42:31 +0000 UTC
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So the thing with the red books is admittedly pretty weak, but I decided to go for it anyway. The whole mystery angle is a farce anyway, remember, the joke is that Scooby Doo is being treated like a real profession here. The central focus of the story was actually on the consequences that the depression (that's. what. it. was.) of 2008 had on my generation's sense of identity and belonging. In a sense... it made us feel like ghosts.
2017-11-17 05:39:25 +0000 UTC
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I forgot to draw Rufus' goatee there. Oops.
2017-11-17 05:33:21 +0000 UTC
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Something in particular should be jumping out to you in this page especially.
2017-11-17 05:30:39 +0000 UTC
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"Avocado Toast."
2017-11-17 05:28:39 +0000 UTC
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It may be obvious, but I chose to make this environment all white in order to contrast with the normal dark toned setting of the library.
2017-11-17 05:26:38 +0000 UTC
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Did you catch yet another Action Hat cameo on this page?
2017-11-17 05:23:57 +0000 UTC
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"The point is that you're dumb." Is another favorite line of mine.
2017-11-17 05:21:47 +0000 UTC
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Oh man, this page had too much text.
2017-11-17 05:20:04 +0000 UTC
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That map is inspired by that spoopy library I was talking about earlier.
2017-11-16 05:55:45 +0000 UTC
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This is probably the best page in this book. The team really play well off of each other here.
2017-11-16 05:53:54 +0000 UTC
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I do not miss drawing word balloons into the panels on paper. Don't do that, kids.
2017-11-16 05:50:27 +0000 UTC
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Yeah, so, I used a brush pen for this comic. As I said earlier, I had just started a new career when I began work on this and as a result had just moved. So when the brush pen started to fail I didn't have a place to get a new one just yet and was kinda stuck with it.
2017-11-16 05:48:30 +0000 UTC
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Kinda had to force this bit in order to give Rufus his time to shine as this plot was pretty devoid of people. That's an example of why it is a good idea to do a rough draft, or pilot, of a story. That kind of thing may be easy to miss "on paper" so to speak.
2017-11-16 05:45:54 +0000 UTC
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So, back when this was being drafted as a game, each of the characters would bring a specialty to the table. Guy would have dumb luck, Gail would brave any danger, Nova would have keen observational skills, and Rufus would be able to read people well. These are fairly intact in the comic, but I'm not terribly happy with it. I'd like to think it would have improved with more pages, however, I couldn't prolong the break for Thirteenth Child any longer than I did.
2017-11-16 05:42:16 +0000 UTC
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Rufus and Nova were both adopted into SGS from prior projects, but Guy and Gail are both original to this story. I had originally drafted the project as a point and click adventure, and that is what those two are named after. Guy Tethers after Monkey Island and Puzzle Agent, and Gail Knight after Gabriel Knight. Rufus didn't have a last name in his original project (a 2009 gamer comic called "Blast Processing") so he gained Murphy, after Tex Murphy
2017-11-16 05:37:38 +0000 UTC
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Yo, fun fact: I actually worked at a library that needed an exorcism (like, before I worked there, not during). Yup. In a famously haunted town.
2017-11-16 05:26:15 +0000 UTC
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This ran on April 1st 2013 and featured Action Hat and company along with my running Doc Brown gag from "In My Defense I Wrote This at, like, 3AM"
Also, Ghost Busters reference.
2017-11-16 05:20:39 +0000 UTC
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By the time I began work on SGS I was fortunate enough to begin a career, but not many recent graduates around my age were so lucky. When you're in the kind of debt like you had just purchased a house, by credit card, just for the possibility of having a decent paying job only to find that there are none, it tends to paint the world in some pretty bleak colors (and it doesn't help that I'm frequently told that hardship is brought on by my taste in toast or whatever. I still get panic...
2017-11-16 05:15:59 +0000 UTC
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The idea of Sexy Ghost Squad evolved from a running gag from another comic series I briefly ran called "In My Defense I Wrote These at, like, 3 AM." It was called "Hipster Ghost Adventures" and it was a simple parody of Scooby Doo with the team traveling in a Prius or raiding a fridge for organic kale.
2017-11-16 05:05:07 +0000 UTC
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This was the pilot for the comic The Adventures of Sexy Ghost Squad. It ran during a 3 month break between chapters of Thirteenth Child in 2013.
2017-11-16 04:59:22 +0000 UTC
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OH MY GOSH, CAROL, GET A GRIP.
2017-11-13 06:59:02 +0000 UTC
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2017-11-10 05:00:01 +0000 UTC
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