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Venus Vs. Angels Vs. Coco
This feels a little bit like tying up loose ends — this band, Venus & The Angels, got mentioned waaaaaaaaaay back near the beginning and a few more times since (with the sense that everyone kinda-sorta knows them), and now finally I’m drawing the other two who aren’t Damon.
Let me take a minute to talk about VENUS DESTRUCTO (and this week’s the minute, ’cause this is a pretty minor character overall). You guys know how I love Jem — so, I’ve seen it remarked more than once or twice (lovingly, I hope) that the ladies of Jem look a little bit like drag queens due to the way they’re drawn: tall height proportions, huge wiglike hair, and dramatic makeup. The real reason for all that is that the style’s based on fashion drawings. So, this set a little spark going in my mind ages ago that I wanted one of the semi-rarely-seen third-party bands in the BVBverse to actually be fronted by someone in drag, who’s really tall and imposing in heels and glam-trashy and is maybe sort of half Jessica Rabbit and half Birth of Venus and in fact her stage name’s Venus something and her civilian name’s some really normal guy thing with an “us” sound like Lucas or Marcus (because this is a guy with a stage persona and not a transgender woman, but y’all KNEW these are two different things because you are SAVVY, right.) I like the idea that this band has original songs and oddly wide crossover appeal beyond just gay bars. I also kinda imagine that they sound a little like Peaches.
Coco is actually a former member of this band (which is there in canon, but extremely subtly and easy to miss.) She seems to be pals with Venus, and…maybe not such pals with Seraphim? She doesn’t really know Damon because he replaced her.
It’s weird to me (even though I’m the one doing this) that we haven’t seen either of our main girls in like three pages, but somehow there has been Damon Celestial TWICE. This will be remedied.
Oh yeah, and if you happen to be in the mood for more of my coffee’d-up rambling, I wrote this long thing about some of the thought behind Band Vs. Band. It was mostly to collect my own thoughts, but I thought I’d throw it on the blog in case anyone found it interesting.
ps: the Sepiatones and Elektroskull totally can’t stand each other.
Intermission II
Another inbetweeny comic, featuring JOURNALISM, some questionable school-paper comic strips, and two more previously-incidental characters getting names! This is a world that revolves so much around stage names and pseudonyms, so this felt like a natural fit. You guys remember these girls?
Incidentally, I ran across an entire comic strip about roller derby! It’s called Bonnie N. Collide, and I really dig how she draws.
Oh yeah! And I’ve also been putting up a couple of extra drawings on the secret facebook club, if you feel like checking them out.
Intermission!
…Intermission in which we meet the sleazy real estate developers who want to flatten the club, and in which the rumors that it’s haunted start spreading like wildfire!
I really like all three of these characters, so it’s fun to do something where they’re getting integrated back into the same story that our main bands are currently participating in. I’ve also been refining their designs a little so they’re more distinctive — it’s vaguely bugged me for ages that Stacey’s hair was shaped too much like Honey’s.
Other news:I made a facebook page, and you should join it! We’ll have the comments here same as ever, but this’ll be another little clubhouse with updates and extras and fun discussion. This actually makes me feel sort of funny because, at the very core of my heart, I’m a creator and not a marketer, and I’ve never been fully comfortable with or good at anything that feels like self-promotion. But this will be tons of fun — you guys who post here really make me happy, I’ve been delighted that people I know in real life have gotten into these comix too, and I think having another venue for cartoon band hangouts will be entertaining.
Rivals Vs. Interloper
Sorry that this one was so late! If my weekend goes as productively as I hope, I’ll have another new one ready for Monday. I’ve got comix fever, apparently.
Update: I did not, in fact, have an additional new one up for Monday the 28th. I’m just going to have the next one on Monday the 4th, so that things are back on track with this established schedule where Monday Is The Thing.
…and I just plain like how italics look with this font I’m currently using here for paragraph text.