Continuing The Adventures of Lucky Vega: In this latest strip we learn the purpose of the fantastic new technology whose rather creative testing by Lucky and Roger we've been watching. It turns out to have been made for a lot more than sparring inside of holograms!
Now we're starting to get into the "meat" and "juice" of our story. In the weeks ahead, we'll learn to what other purposes Lucky and his friends will put the Vega Shield and the other super-high-tech innovations of Vega Enterprises! It promises to be a wild ride!
I know, I know, it's been a while.
By way of explanation, I haven't posted anything new in The Adventures of Lucky Vega for the past several weeks because I've been sidetracked by other work and other projects--one of which is this year's mind-boggling Quantum Christmas Card. And when you see that, I hope you'll think our little hiatus was well-justified. Also, in the set of new strips for Lucky that I had completed there were a few panels that I wanted to take back for re-drawing because, frankly, I wasn't satisfied with them and I didn't want them going out the way I had them. However, work on the strip is back in progress, so it's time to pick up where we left off.
Next week the Holiday season begins in earnest and I expect to be with you through it with not only The Adventures of Lucky Vega but some other things I hope you'll enjoy seeing almost as much as I enjoyed doing them--including that Christmas Card! So keep on coming back, hear?
So how does Lucky and Roger's test of the Vega Shield in the Immersion Room finally end up? The arrival of Lucky's father decides the outcome of their contest. But will Dr. Vega be impressed with any of it? He doesn't exactly seem happy to see what's going on. Time will tell what's going on with Poppa!
As Lucky and Roger continue their very creative test of the Vega Shield, they haven't yet noticed that they have an audience. Dr. Esteban Vega, Lucky's Dad, doesn't seem very impressed with what his son is up to. Is he just annoyed at the way Lucky is using the equipment or could something else be going on? Future strips will tell!
And now, the start of another reveal and the first little plot twist for the first story in The Adventures of Lucky Vega.
Quantum Comics Blog will be back after the Labor Day Weekend with more of our preview of The Adventures of Lucky Vega. Meanwhile, please join me in celebrating what would have been the 96th birthday of the man without whom you'd be surfing some other Blog right now. At Kirby-Vision, it's Jack "King" Kirby's birthday, and a number of artists and I have contributed a suite of drawings to honor the King of Comics. Thanks and have a great holiday.
Don't let me hear you say you can't get ideas when ideas are all around you all the time. Sometimes they're even sitting right in your hand. Case in point: Since the lead characters in The Adventures of Lucky Vega don't have super-powers (this is pre-Environauts, remember), I wanted them to have some clever weaponry. One idea that I came up with was the Vega Shield, the reveal of which we saw last week. But energy shields are a very familiar idea; I wanted Lucky and his posse to have something that was distinctly theirs. It then occurred to me that a very clever idea was right at hand--right there in the very materials that I work with as an artist!
Some of you fellow artistic types are probably familiar with the way some inking and coloring pens are made these days. Some of them are actually two pens in one, with a different kind of point at each end. Typically, one end will be a marker-type point and the other will be a brush-like point. In a flash of inspiration I imagined a weapon that would be kind of like one of those pen combinations. At one end it would be a light sabre, typical of the weapons used as the Jedis and Siths in Star Wars. But at the other it would be a particle beam weapon, comparable to Star Trek's phasers and any of the myriad other such beam weapons in popular fiction. This was the birth of the Vega Duoblade! Problem solved, unique weapon created! See, you just have to look in the right place for the right idea.
