First off, Happy 4th of July, everybody! Let's all eat red meat and blow stuff up.
Anyway, let's break today's page down panel by panel. Why not?
Panel 1: For some reason, I always associate the Color Blue with Psychic Energy. I'm not sure why. But yeah, when I think Psychic Power I think Blues and Purples (Tei Harlequin's Psychic Energy is typically rendered in Pinks to match her color scheme). Anyway, the Blue Background and Blue Eyes on the Mystery Man represent a sudden rush of Psychic Energy. The Red Dialogue is an obvious reference to "The Power of the Word" from Garth Ennis's "Preacher".
Panel 2: The Vertionce is frozen solid by a mixture of Mind Control and Telekinesis. He's not happy about this.
Panel 3: Okay, I screwed up a lot on this page. First, without even consciously doing it, I stole Arnold Schwartzenneger's famous pose from "Conan". I don't know how this happened. Second, I've been experimenting with my Art, especially my Inking, and I went crazy with the Cross Hatching on that Right Shoulder Guard. Seriously, what was I thinking there? Cross hatching doesn't work on Shiny Metal anyway. Lastly, in the previous page, the Sun was behind our Heroes and in front of the Vertionce. But on this page, the Sun is Magically BEHIND the Vertionce. Whaaaaaaa? It's a good thing I'm not a Popular Artist, or my detractors would have a field day with this panel. Yeesh.
Panel 4: What I love about comics is that the more I draw a character, the more comfortable I get with drawing that character. Take Tea Cup for example. When I first started drawing this version of the character, I admit, it was difficult to do things with the character. He's got a non traditional, bulky body, no neck, cylindrical arms (the whole no elbows thing has screwed me up a LOT), tiny legs, and those weird fingers (what's up with those things? They've got no knuckles! Why do I design these things?!?). But the more I draw the character, the more I get to where I can make all of those odd things work for me, and so we end up with Panel 4. Not only do we have a guy with no knuckles cracking his knuckles (COMIX!!!!), but look at that expression on his face. I lub eet! He's gonna enjoy this.
OH! I forgot some stuff. First off, all the Psychic Freeze stuff was Boolah's idea, and it's a good one. Also, the Time Clock in the Upper Left Hand Corner of Panel 4 was also Boolah's idea, and it shows us how much time our HFSAC Heroes have to put a Beat Down on the Frozen Vertionce. Keep an eye on the Clock.
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