Star Strip issue 1 page 16
bravo1102 on Sept. 19, 2014
Introducing the newest Grey Guy: Lon. Lon is a figure of Lon Chaney in the movie London After Midnight wearng an outfit inspired by Marty Feldman in Mel Brooks'Silent Movie (yucks there as London after Midnight is a silent movie) The Lon Chaney characterization predates the Joker by over a decade and probably inspired it. And yes I have experimented with digital make-up to give Lon the Joker's colors. He is the spitting image of Caesar Romero as Joker.
This pages explains a lot about Grey Guys and alludes to their most common exploit, high-jacking space ships and stripping shirts. Why stripping shirts? It degrades the strippee and since Grey Guys are viewed as so low any way they can bring others down to their level, if not lower, is lots of fun! There's also something fundamentally wrong with their psychological make-up. Some goof during the genetic development of their subspecies no doubt.
I'm going to three pages a week but whether it's Friday or Saturday I'm not sure yet. Currently I'm working on page 23 and have enough content stored up for two or three pages after that. So there is some buffer. I broke another figure yesterday but it'll become an alien figure so the repair can be hidden under some apoxi-sculpt putty.
Banes at 4:06PM, Sept. 22, 2014
Lon is great - there's a face you can trust. Nice depth in these frames. Looks really good!
fallopiancrusader at 7:33PM, Sept. 20, 2014
Glad to see Lon finally making his "official" debut after his brief cameo in the dress rehearsal
jerrie at 5:55PM, Sept. 20, 2014
HEH...After those grey guys went around making those Robofemoids...i guess word got around...see them..toss them, before they convert your girl into a robofemoid!
Ironscarf at 10:31AM, Sept. 20, 2014
Awesome page! Wasn't it Conrad Veidt in The Man Who Laughs though?
El Cid at 4:52PM, Sept. 19, 2014
Should have invested in magical beans instead.
bravo1102 at 10:40AM, Sept. 19, 2014
@KimLuster: the Sideshow Art S. Buck figures are indeed the Grey Guys. My female is the earlier issue with a different more petite body. I have three males and two females each with a subtly different paint job. The females debuted as Babs and Toots in Battle of the Robofemoids. For this comic I repainted Babs' face adding whites to her eyes. Frank is the Hank figure. My third male is painted up as an albino with pink eyes
KimLuster at 7:43AM, Sept. 19, 2014
I really like these Greys - you've done a good job of making them personable! Appearance of the comic continues to be topnotch! So, the figures for these Greys... They look remarkably like some gray-colored pose-able figurines (for drawing references) I got from 'Dick Blick'... Have you already mentioned where you got them and I just forgot? Here's a link to the ones I have http://www.dickblick.com/products/art-s-buck-anatomical-models/
plymayer at 7:16AM, Sept. 19, 2014
Recognized Lon. Not the kind you want to be stuck on a long voyage with. The way he sneaks up on them is precious.
Peipei at 7:10AM, Sept. 19, 2014
How is skin color a big issue in a liberal world but not gender o.o? Interesting!