Mark of the Baron

For Tokka.

Final "Hun" Cover Colours

by Paul Harmon and Steve Lavigne

Tales #56 Pin-Up

Mike Hawthorne, who illustrated Steve Murpy's Umbra along with #24 of Tales of the TMNT, has completed the pin-up for Tales #56. I just caught this over at his blog, and I gotta say, it looks pretty damn cool! Having seen the roughs for the first five pages of the book and the Hun and Casey designs, this book is going to be visually awesome (and if you like the story, that's something too!)!

Paul drew something into the roughs that I didn't notice until I looked over them a second time that made me stop and do one of those "CAW!" noises gore-hounds make in Friday the 13th movies or zombie movies when the kills get nasty. Forget the head on the table in #36...! If I can figure out a way of posting something without revealing anything I will!

Prelims -- Casey and April

Good morning, evening, afternoon or day, wherever you may be. Just thought some of the TMNT fans out there might like to see these. They are in no way, shape, or form finals, I just wanted to see what Paul made of Casey and April as I was writing the Hun script. The final, comic book versions could be similar or they could be completely different, but I thought both were really cool either way.

Tales #56

Peter Laird emailed me regarding the follow-up to last years Tales of the TMNT #36. The turtles once again take the backseat for April and Casey in this one, with a big new villain taking centre stage. A few tweaks needed to be made with a couple of bits of dialogue and some grammar (mine is rather poor if I get on a roll and just have to get ideas out as they come), along with a couple of slightly confusing panel descriptions. I can tell you now, this will be a brutal book. Casey will be pushed to his limits, and not just physically either.

Just came back from another extremely satisfying session of Dungeons and Dragons too! Love it! Such a nerd!

I also just realised: Tales #36's sequel happens exactly twenty issues later!

Two Down (almost)...

I had a massive breakthrough on a script that was causing some troubles for me of late. It's the heavy hitting introduction of a character who is new to the comics and will hopefully be around for some time! His name (at the moment) is Hunter Mason, and we have seen him before (in one way or another)!

By the way... This is just concept art, and nothing definite for any of my stories, but Paul whipped this up for me to help me with some writer's block!