To fellow creative brothers & sisters who have had to belly up to the bar with the devil and sign on the dotted line with a producer or manager, I give you my sympathy… for the devil! That would have been too easy of a title by the way.
From the stories I’ve heard and what little experience I had with a musical agent, this is not too far off from what they really are. A great story I’ve read is the Beatles manager Brian Epstein offered to pay them a weekly sum (something they could live on but not be rich) for the rest of their lives for the rights to their music. They turned him down luckily, but many a starving artist has gone for that sort of deal and regretted it much later.
Also, how many artists have we seen on VH1 going “my manager/agent/dealer ripped me off for millions…” VH1 wouldn’t have a network if it weren’t for thieving agents/managers/producers. Bud and the gang are about to find that out.
“Master of Reality” was just an awesome record, and it still rocks to this day, some 38 years later. Slow and dark, the album reinforced Sabbath as “the devil’s music” even though many of their songs have Christian subject matters. Go figure. But the album title fits perfectly for today’s comic as Bud is about to find out how producers are truly a Master of Reality… their own usually.
This was fun one to draw. I realize that the upcoming storyline has a lot of dialog. Comic strips characters that just stand and talk can get boring real quick, so I’m gonna be testing myself to see if I can up with “natural” but exciting poses for all those “talking head” frames I’ve got coming up soon.
See you Wednesday!
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What better song from this album then “Sweat Leaf” eh?
Discussion (19) ¬
Nice one Byron 🙂 of all the music from the ‘old days’ I think this album is still the best, as you say it still rocks on
So let me get this straight. Mother’s wear bras but the Devil does not.
RE: Bearman – Well, why would the Devil want to wear a bra? Some women claim the Devil invented the bra. Having never worn one, but been the “operator” of a few, I can see why. Damn things…
Hate t’point it out, but you have a typo on ‘expected’. It, uh, has extra p in it.
so harriet is the daughter of the devil
hmmmm I wonder if that is a good thing or a bad thing
Yeah, that’s more like what I always pictured too…
ha! I like this one.
Dont you love stereotypes?
And if Bud wins he gets a shiny fiddle made of gold.
But if he loses, the producer gets his soul.
RE: Typos… well, I use to write the scripts in Word and let it spell check stuff, but lately I’ve been writing the scripts directly in Manga Studio EX and it does not have a spell check… so back to Word I guess. I hate using Word, but most of my typos come from typing to fast and not really “seeing” the error as you read it in your mind as what it suppose to say. Ah, the joys of being one’s own editor. Where is my editor anyway? Hmmm…
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Yes, most depictions of the Devil are these huge masculine figures. But women play a better devil then men, as women are smarter… and if you’re gonna trick people out of their souls, well, you gotta be sharp. Men just ain’t that smart, let’s face it. I am one, I’z knowz first hand.
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See, she pulls it off just fine! Perfect record producer – for sure.
Heheheheh!!!! Awesome!
OMG it’s Liz Hurley!
Really, Liz Hurley made a very good Devil in Bedazzled, much better looking than Peter Cook in the original.
Will the band have to sign in blood? Please make them sign in blood. Everything they say about the record companies is true you know.
Ah, old-school Sabbath! 🙂
Bud isn’t very bright marshmellows in a hair and thinking Ms Satan is Barbara Eden or a genie.