I tried to post this material before, some of it was very experimental. The storytelling is fairly straight forward, but the experimental part is in the artwork, I tried different textures -- I used funky 70's poster art inspired designs for the spaceship, which I think the comicbook editors I submit sample artwork to didn't understand, sometimes I forget that editors are not all artists so they don't understand that there is a difference between technique and style. I did a tutorial at my art group on design -- with this work in mind. In comics in the fifties, every spaceship look like a rocket or a saucer. Star Trek, changed that so for most of the 70's spaceships were derivative of that, Star Wars changed the dynamic again in the late 70's, so on and so forth. And I won't talk about Iron Wolf with wooden Galleons in space, actually I will talk about Iron Wolf. In design, we need to be close to derivative. In other words, until the cultural dynamic changes, we need to meet the expectation of what a a space ship looks like. So my spaceship control boards were these funky designs and because they did not fit the cultural dynamic, I think potential employers were not desirous of seeing more. I based the character on hair bands of the 80's who were rebellious carryovers of the rock bands of the 70's -- Sunboy is Bon Jovi, Cosmicboy is Van Halen, and Tyroc has an afro.
