Henchmen for Hire

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Where’s Lowla?

by admin on June 26th, 2017

I wish I had been able to use more of new Henchman (Henchperson?) Lowla in The Rookie, but a lot of her work was sort of ‘behind the scenes’ in this tale, and I was trying to keep the story to a tight nine pages. She’ll be showing up more prominently in the next story arc Origins. and will play a more critical role in the tale.

The Rookie will conclude with next week’s installment, and then I’ll be taking a short break as I prepare for Comic Con Honolulu on July 28-30, where I’ll be hunched behind a table in Artist’s Alley. Drop by and say Hi if you have a chance!

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Foom!

by admin on June 19th, 2017

If you’ve been reading Henchmen for Hire for any length of time, you know I have a fondness for sound effects. I started really getting into comics towards the beginning of the Silver Age Marvel Lee-Kirby era, and of course this was also the time when Adam West’s Batman was one of the biggest things on TV. I think all the ZAPs and POWs of the period sort of burned into my brain and became an essential part of the comic experience.

Every now and then I’ll try to leave an image like the one in the first panel without any sound effect, and it will always look too dull and ‘quiet’ to me. It’s not for everybody, but I think the sound effects are part of the fun, and they lighten up action scenes that could be pretty heavy without them. I enjoyed the Deadpool movie, but I found it a little too violent (I know it’s supposed to be like that, but I still had a hard time with it) and I wonder if there were a few BAMs and WHAMs mixed in, it might have taken some of the hard edges off for me. Like I said, not for everybody….

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A Little Help Here?

by admin on June 12th, 2017

I used to watch a lot of boxing on television, and it was always interesting to hear what a boxer’s cornermen would be telling a fighter as they tended to him between rounds. Usually the guy was leaning back on his stool in the corner, trying to catch his breath and gather his wits after he’d been pounded on for three minutes by his opponent, and his handlers would be yelling encouragement and instruction at him, all while closing his cuts and pouring water into his mouth and wiping sweat out of his eyes. It was a minute of chaos squeezed between rounds of mayhem, and you could usually get a good sense of how a fight was going from how chaotic the activity in the boxer’s corner was.

Tinker and Evers are pretty good guys to have in your corner if you’re in a boxing match. They’re calm and cool, and they give good advice. Of course, just like in a boxing match, if the fighter isn’t able to use the instructions he’s been given, then they won’t do him much good….