Capes-n-Babes

Webcomic creators like to pride themselves on the fact that their work is “unfiltered” – usually, that means there’s no editor to look things over, catch mistakes or make suggestions. Generally, that’s a pretty good thing – at least from a creative standpoint. But every now and then, it’s sometimes a good thing to have someone look over your work and make some suggestions.

A big shout out goes to my wife, Judi, for today’s strip.

Originally, I had Roy in the first panel and wasn’t really satisfied with the payoff in the last panel. That is, until my wife suggested I replace Roy with Marc in the first panel. When I did that, suddenly things fell in to place.

Moral of the story: Sometimes having an editor isn’t such a bad thing after all!

Now for something cool!

A couple of days ago, Stephen L. Fox sent me a Facebook message with a totally awesome surprise. He did a Roy pin-up sketch and wanted to know what I thought of it. I told him I wish I could say it was awesome but that would be an injustice to the word “awesome”. It was BEYOND awesome. He must have liked that compliment because a few days later, he sent me a full color version.

A smaller version is posted below so it can fit inside the blog. If you want to see the larger version, go to the Capes & Babes Facebook Fan Page and you can see it there.

You can find more of Stephen’s REDNECK SUPERHEROS comic over at www.nexcomic.com

Here is Stephen’s pin-up of Roy: