Erik Larsen creates perfect villains. Ridiculous and deadly. It’s a precarious combo, but he does it expertly.
(Remember to order SUPER FREAKS from your friendly neighborhood comic shop [or mail order service])
Patreon Reward: Zombie Easter Bunny
He has risen and wants your chocolate brains.
I watched about 6 horror movies featuring resurrected creatures all day Easter Sunday, but did not broach any Easter horror movies. Had I done so, I probably would have watched Rottentail or Easter Casket based on title alone.
Rachel
She is Risen! What better way to celebrate Easter than with a character famous for undead resurrection. Rachel Beck, star of Rachel Rising. A good, but also disappointing series in that it ended with multiple dangling plot threads. I’m two issues into Five Years as of this writing, so maybe those get touched upon? I dunno.
I wasn’t quite sure how to color Rachel. So, best guess.
Happy Easter!
Francine
Francine Peters-Silver, the other star and center of the Mooreniverse. She’s perfect and if I left my girlfriend for a fictional character, it’d probably be Francine. But she’d probably want to join us, or possible fight me over Francine. Because my girlfriend rules.
I don’t do cheesecake often! I’m not good at it!
Katchoo
Katina Choovanski, the star and center of the Mooreniverse. Not much I can say about her. She’s awesome, and if my girlfriend was going to leave me for a fictional character, it’d probably be Katchoo.
Sam
Samantha Lockyear from Motor Girl might be the absolute most heartbreaking Terry Moore figure in his oeuvre. I wasn’t quite sure what to make of the book as I started, but by the end… Jesus. Far more affecting and impactful than I would ever have hoped.
Zoe
I have not read Serial yet, but Zoe is a supporting character throughout Rachel Rising. She’s cute! She’s quirky! She’s 10! She a possible descendant of Jack the Ripper and loves to kill things!
Julie
Julie Martin from Echo. This might actually be my favorite Terry Moore work. Sure, SiP is far more in-depth and substantial, but I think Julie’s journey throughout the series is heartbreaking and exhilarating, from the unknown powers to the absolute loss of her agency and sense of self.
Tambi
It’s Terry Moore Week! All characters from the major Terry Mooreniverse comics.
When I met my current ladylove, she did not like comics. Which is good, because who needs some Fake Geek Girl bullshit, am I right, my dudes? Comics are for boys! I bet she doesn’t even know Bart Allen’s home address in Alabama!
No, wait, that’s wrong. Who gives a fuck? And, comics are for everyone. There is a comic out there for literally anyone. So, when she broached the subject of possibly wanting to read a comic, I knew I could find SOMETHING she liked. I’m learning her tastes and interests. But she said specifically “I like female protagonists and dark subject matter.”
Done.
Now, there’s a hundred other things I could have found to start her on, but I picked Strangers in Paradise. There were no preconcieved notions, no TV shows or movies to look at and compare. It is its own thing, and it’s a book that I loved when I first read it over 20 years ago. It’s also a book that just kind of fell off my radar at a certain point. I think what happened was that I was buying the trade paperbacks, but then caught up with the monthly comic schedule. I’m just enough OCD that if I buy a comic series in one format, I’m not switching to another. Then, I just bought the trades irregularly. It wasn’t until a few years ago that I finally finished the collection, but I still had never gone back to read where I had stopped.
So, I decided that I would keep up with her. As she read Strangers for the first time, I would re-read alongside her, and then finally catch up and finish the series. I was absolutely delight to find that my ladyfriend loved the series, but fell in love with the characters. I was also delighted to find that, after a rocky start (I mean, the first couple trades are definitely very early 90s), I also remembered what I loved about the series and Terry Moore’s work in general.
The ladyperson is still heading into the end of the first SiP series, but I have plowed forward, and re-read Echo; read Rachel Rising, Motor Girl, and SiP XXV. Currently I’m reading the Endgame of the Mooreniverse, Five Years. I have the Serial omnibus on order, and awaiting Ever in my next monthly comic shipment.
All that is to say, is I’ve fallen down a Terryhole.
And in the course of reading all this stuff, I thought “I should draw some of these characters”.
First up is Tambi Baker, a major supporting character in Strangers, and honestly one that I grew to love quite a bit more than most of the others. She’s sort of the Wolverine or Snake Eyes of the Mooreniverse, but before either of those characters really ran their course. Aloof, cool, badass, mysterious. Tambi!
Patreon Reward: The Catwoman
It’s Zoe Kravitz as The Catwoman from the The Batman movie – of which I will probably never watch.
The next Batman movie I watch will have him in blue & gray spandex with a yellow oval. Robin will be a 10 year old kid, and there will be jokes. Movies are back, baby.