Maggie’s eyebrows may be my greatest ever comic creation. Eyebrows are very important to character design. Think about how many choices you get on Mii Maker or the Memoji creator on the iPhone. Eyebrows are a living, vital thing. As men tend to discover in their forties, when their eyebrows suddenly begin to sprint for the moon.
Secret Sentai
I had to take several passes at that big panel. A lot going on. I am satisfied that I got it right. Unfortunately, my delight at the correctness of the final panel led to a sort of disease spreading through the remaining pages, where every day I seemed to have to redraw a panel in its entirety after I’d inked it. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Additional note: I looked at a lot of photos of posed Japanese sentai TV show rosters during the drawing of this page. If we were all so dedicated to symmetrical standing, I think the world wouldn’t be subject to half the trouble it’s in.
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A comical mismatch. Who’da THONK it? &c. UPDATE: Someone (Joe King) in the comments asked me where “Secret Sentai” came from, was it a pun first or a story idea. I wrote the name on the same page as the sketch below from February.
When envisioning the Secret Sentai, I wanted him to be like a battered action figure. One that had had a lot of adventures, been buried, dug up, then chewed by the dog, but ultimately will not quit, ever.
There it is, the downed robot head that Billie failed to notice during the seagull attack. It’s my birthday today.