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Belter | Episode 27

The Setup, usually takes up about the first quarter of the script. (For a our little serial entertainment, Act I is complete as of this page). The setup includes the inciting incident and the first plot point. The first plot point ends the first act and is often the instant where the hero takes on the central problem. You see that happen here -- as Conlin induces the general solution to who killed Sandy and how he was framed, then thinks, "They should'a done it the other way 'round." At that point he hardens emotionally and takes on the central problem.

Belter | Episode 26

So here we are, 26 pages in and we’re off and running with the real plot of the story. Too slow a build up… or just right? What do you think?

Belter | Episode 25

Layer by layer, O’Donal’s personal Hell is revealed. Who he is, where he came from, what made him the way he is.

Belter | Episode 24

A stroll down memory lane… kicking and screaming the whole way.

Belter | Episode 23

These are the kind of pages that challenge me. Running, jumping, flying, explosions… these things are easy. Talking heads… making that interesting… that’s hard. Easiest pages to write, hardest for me to draw. Gotta’ keep moving the camera, pivot back and forth between characters… gott’a make it seem more than it is… a series of [...]

Orion the Hunter | Episode 59

From “Sand Cats of Rogue, a ten year study,” by Dr. Clive Bailey published in Xenos, the journal of otherworld biology, Spring Issue 2240 CE: I can only hope that one day, with further study, my conclusions will be substantiated.

Belter | Episode 22

The idea of interrogation is to throw them of balance, catch them in a lie, pick at the inconsistencies of their story like a turkey vulture picking at road-kill. Get an emotional response. Goad them into telling the truth. It’s a psychological chess game.

Belter | Episode 21

We’re back!!! Belter will be updating Tuesdays again starting — well starting now. As you can see our buddy, Con is in the shit — OPR is the Office of Processional Responsibility. The cops what watch the cops. So is this about that slap and tickle with Aackster, or something more sinister. Stay tuned.

“Saintly” Pursuits

I just wanted to take a moment and announce that I have been hired on to illustrate a comic book version of an original Leslie Charteris story featuring his Robin Hood of Crime, The Saint. Very excited about this. Novelist Mel Odom is reworking the prose short-story into something that can be done as a one-shot comic. [...]

Webcomics ARE Real!

We’re now coming off our biggest month EVER since we began this little adventure we call Arctos Comics. We’re still in exactly the same situation most publishers are in, trying to scrape together a few shekels. It can be a little discouraging at times, trying to convince our readership to click a couple of ads, [...]