160 pages into this story arc and new characters are still being introduced! Or course Azarek’s gang would have to show up eventually. With these guys, I deliberately tried to make some of them a little more weird and alien than some of my more recent designs. I guess you can’t really tell in the main panel, but in the smaller one, you can see that they aren’t all just the usual bipedal shape.
In my original version of the script, they were all going to have technological modifications, like Azarek’s arm. I thought it might be interesting to introduce the element of biomechanical enhancements to the RUNNERS universe, with maybe some reactions of disdain from Hiura’s crew. I thought that might open up some story possibilities for a tech that might be maligned by some while embraced by others.
In the end though, I really had no set story for that tech element. And I just did not feel like investing the extra design time to figure out all their respective mechanical hardware. So I scrapped the idea. Who knows, it may still figure in at some point, but I currently don’t have a plan for it. Although if I do come up with something later, I will be kicking myself for not squeezing it in here first.
Enter the Goon Squad! I think the gang looks interesting without the tech. Seems like three of them haven been to prison. The blue one with the horns either had a DUI or was caught streaking.
I was thinking he got into a brawl with the staff at the space waffle house.
That jellyfish on a pole looking guy seems to have some added tech with blasters on its tentacles.
The jellyfish guy does have two knives sheathed on his tentacles, which I thought would be a fun and different place to have weapons sitting. The tentacles should probably be a tiny bit longer though to effectively use them. Note to self!
This must be a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Only the 2 in the back seem to have a sense of humor, perverse though it may be with a sneer and a smirk?
or woops… I read the one of the right’s chin as his mouth.
I’m sure they’re all evilly smirking on the inside though!