User blog:Raidra/Throwback Thursday: Oddly Drawn Helicopter

Not too long ago our friend Icydice made a video roasting one of his old pastas. I've been meaning to do this for a while, but his video made me decide to roast a page from my very first comic book, more specifically the helicopter. This is page eight of SLJ#1 (Super League of Justice number 1) from the summer of 1996. I was thirteen years old and about to enter the eighth grade. Notice that in the first panel the helicopter looks pretty good. After that, I really don't have an answer. It just somehow becomes the helicopter equivalent of a clown car. I also don't have an answer for the second police officer's neck in the eighth and last panel (Ouch!). You gotta love how panel 5 has Super Creature popping up from the bottom like the scary walrus from that one episode of Pingu, though. As weird as this page is, it's actually one of my favorites because 1) it's so strange and 2) it was just me having fun. I don't think I've ever drawn a helicopter since. I mean, I should I when I did such a memorable job the first time?

In case anyone's interested in comparing this to my later work, here are some pages from my most recent comics. I haven't been able to make any comics in a long time, but these are all from the last two or three years, so they should provide a good contrast. They're still bizarre, but at least they're better drawn. You'll notice that at some point I had a breakthrough, which was to use a ruler to make the panels.