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Heroes Con

Luke Herr — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:01:17 +0000

Thanks Tumblr!

I’ll be attending Heroes Con and after that I’ll be wrapping up some projects. Busy busy busy.

MAY DAY 2013: SURVIVE TO LIVE!

Luke Herr — Tue, 07 May 2013 20:39:03 +0000

May and June are going to be some Mister Miracle style tricks to survive.

Right now I am working on a freelance web gig to finish this week. The week after I hope to start at least one more! These jobs will go to pay for Heroes Con where I’ll be displaying under Nerdcenaries and Friends.

In addition I will have two Kickstarters to hopefully print, staple and mail though each day makes that seem a little less likely. Hooray for panic and non responsive collaborators!

And Sounds In Space should be wrapping up to go out next month which means I need to put on my rap hat. For rapping.

I also hope to finish Prison Spaceship so that my collaborator on that can get his art done so we can present that.

And I am still writing weekly pieces for Nerdy With Children. Check out my two pieces on Free Comic Book Day! The Preview and the Review!

And this is also the last week of the very beneficial Gender Through Comic Books class!

And in the meantime, the last page of ERAS Parrish went up.

At least I have you, Justice League Unlimited on Netflix Instant! (And Bejeweled 3).

ERAS Parrish Page 10

Luke Herr — Tue, 07 May 2013 20:30:42 +0000

And it ends on a sudden and abrupt cliffhanger which is less of a question and more of an action scene where we never get to see the action. I thought it was cool because then people could imagine the ending but I was wrong.

Anyway. here is the page in grayscale. This will be a busy month for me – as if there are any non-busy ones. Thanks for reading.

ERAS Parrish Page 9

Luke Herr — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:19:28 +0000

During the Depression, hunks, which we seen as an apotheosis of the choleric vogue at the time, wandered the streets looking for work. Due to hunk discriminatory laws though, many of them ended up forming hunk towns – crudely assembled burgs where they would huddle around a can expecting food to appear. When a hunk would die, their belief would turn out to be correct as the hunk would be quickly cannibalized. The hunks which grew more and more feral over time were eventually brought back into mainstream society when a young man named Adolpho Woxly found the hunks as a strong and easily manageable work source.

Here is the page in black and white:

ERAS Parrish Page 8

Luke Herr — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 03:15:02 +0000

We rejoin our hero Ted a few weeks later – a month later – a year later maybe? He has returned to the ring without a reason for himself to fight and as he sees the life he lost, a chance for a new one appears.

Also points to James for moving the busker speech ahead, shame on me for some bad lines.

And here is the page in black and white.

ERAS Parrish Page 8

Checking In Again!

Luke Herr — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:59:44 +0000

Hey there true believers,

I’ve been busy since I launched *drumroll please* another comic Kickstarter.

And I have also returned to attempting daily weekday posts over at Nerdcenaries.

Additionally the Gender through Comic Books course has started so I am excited!

And I have picked up a few additional web design gigs. Gigs!

I am incredibly excited.

ERAS: Parrish Page 7

Luke Herr — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:55:54 +0000

Hubris and the fall of man!
So Ted’s devotion to being a masculine money earning male while also forcing himself to always be viewed as a hero has removed the one person who loved him from his life. I totally support Gabby on making her ultimatum for Ted because the dude could find other work but he is caught up in having to be the main bread earner for the couple.
I kind of regret not having gone into more detail with the room because it is pretty sparse but I think James did an excellent job balancing the light and the dark of the room. It isn’t as huge and mansion-esqe (good band name) seeming as I’d prefer but it works.
Time to see where this shame spiral leads!

ERAS Parrish Page 7

ERAS: Parrish Page 6

Luke Herr — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:24:04 +0000

We continue with the flashbacks!

So Ted has become a good enough boxer to actually win matches and he ended up with a belt. But Ted’s sister leaves and his entire drive, his target of white knighting vanishes and he started losing again and soon hung up the gloves. Distraught, Ted picks up work at the movie studio as a crew member till he meets Gabby. She was having issues with her makeup so Ted taught her some tricks.

Not pictured is Ted working on prosthetics which leads to him also becoming an actor and starring in movies. I compressed too much and ultimately – none of the origin is needed, especially because of how unclear it is.

And here is the page in black and white.

ERAS: Parrish Page 5

Luke Herr — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:23:16 +0000

So this is part 1 of what was supposed to be the big revealing origin of Ted Parrish and how he got where he was. I’d hoped it would be clear enough on its own but it wasn’t (so if I ever rerelease it I’d add in some captions).

Here though is the artistic intent:

Ted had an older sister (name not given which is kind of horrible on my part – and the fact that people thought she was his mother). His sister got routinely catcalled and Ted being a tough little kid tried to stand up for her and got beaten. Ted’s father, a pastor (Pastor Parrish haha) didn’t like his son getting into fights and scolded him. Ted’s sister liked that he was trying to help her (here is another issue, beyond catcalls we never get the sense of any impropriety, there is no need for Ted to fight), so she ends covering up the bruises. Time goes by and it still happens so Ted keeps fighting but he’s learned to cover up the bruises with makeup by himself. It is this feminine/masculine irony where the boxer is so afraid of his father that he uses makeup to hide his bruises. End Part 1.

I still like the idea, it was just unclear. Was he an orphan, was that his mom? So on and so forth.

Still, better to try and fail than…never succeed.

And as always, here is the page in black and white.

Checking In

Luke Herr — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:59:00 +0000

It has been about three weeks since I last posted so let’d play catchup.

Both of my fundraisers/crowdfunding projects ended up succeeding. Those were The Tomb of Naomi and Sounds In Space.

I completed a new portfolio website in about a day with pretty much total hand coding. I also did some touch ups for another site that I don’t believe I can link to.

I’ve been working on the next comic scripts for ERAS: Fung, Prison Spaceship and I’ve been doing some planning for the comic version of Pharaoh and Ibis.

I’ve been editing work for a friend, I’ve been working on getting myself a job and I’ve been getting paid very little for it.

ERAS: Parrish will update over the next two days – tried for all three posts today but Comicpress was being stupid.

That is all for now.