Lucky 13! Well, not for that poor drunkard leaning against Robyn’s van. Remember today’s page class, there will be a quiz much later in the story about this! Nudge, nudge.
These pages are kicking my ass as I’m pushing myself to venture into more challenging poses and backgrounds. The exteriors will kill me for sure. Upcoming is the recording studio interior, then the interior to CBGB’s club/bar, then I have the gang lost in the streets of New York at night. Ah well, I wrote the damn thing, so I can’t blame anyone but me. If this is going to 1977’s final story, then I want to go out on a high note with a big story. I just hope my drawing hand survives all of this.
I do take advantage of reusing stuff if I can without compromising the page. Like the first and last panels are essentially the same drawing, plus I altered Lorraine from frame 1 to use in the close up of frame 6. Robyn in frame 4 is a modified drawing from an earlier page. There is a famous quote attributed to artist Wall Wood which goes “Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.” My take on the quote is if you have a deadline, do what’s necessary to meet that deadline.
My own personal philosophy is “Amatuers Copy, Professionals Steal” meaning take something but make it your own because there is nothing original anymore, it’s all been done before. Now I never trace someone else’s art, that’s just taboo for me. But I have traced over photos of my own hands in the past to learn how to draw hands.
Love UFO, especially their 1977 album “Lights Out” which I wore out playing it so much back in 1977. So I figured “Electric Phase” would fit today’s page just right. But even “Lights Out” fits as that’s what Robyn does to the drunk leaning on her van.
UFO…now there’s a band that doesn’t get the mention it deserves, the TV series by the same name was ahead of it’s time too and should have had a much longer run 🙁
And for those who’ve never heard of the show (maybe because it was set in the far future of 1980) and also because it was a British show that got more airplay up here than it did in the US, here’s a taste…catchy theme song too 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2PoXfZdYVU
Yeah, but you have to watch to set it off. Fun, but it ties you down. Can it be set on automatic?
The only objection I had was that Robyn’s holding a very small remote by the standards of 1977. I don’t know where she found it.
Perrhaps she found it here in Alt/1977. Not Time Travelers, we promise! https://www.behance.net/gallery/545221/ALT1977-WE-ARE-NOT-TIME-TRAVELERS
The only minor objection I have is that they got all the way up to the room and the stuff lashed to the roof is still there, alarm or no alarm 🙂
The last time I was in New York, the USN arranged a bus tour through the city for us.
I don’t mean anything by it but that’s where this happened.
We stopped so the girl giving the tour could tell us all about the murals anfd things on the walls but my attention was drawn elsewhere.
Three guys pulled up in a small pickup with a hoisting frame in the back, backed up to the front of a very nice car, then crowbarred the hood open, cut all the lines and wires, had the mounts undone and pulled the engine out, and were gone in less than a minute.
She was just saying “…this area isn’t like it used to be, people here have jobs…”
Of course I had to reply “yes, there go three itinerant auto mechanics right now”
But the best part was when we stopped at Central Park and I said “lock and load” as I folded a beer can back and forth for a sfx…I thought she was going to get off right then and there.
Silly girl, you don’t need to work the slide on a revolver 😉
I missed adding “…at Harlem…” for the car incident…
We also drove under the Brooklyn Bridge, I still have the pictures I took…
…of the burned out police cruiser off to the side.
What if they are more attempts either to wear out the battery, slide under the car to disconnect or cut it the circuit. Soak the van by us of water truck to drown the circuit maybe just buy (despite strict gun control New York was awash with them) David Burkawiz’s son of Sam .38 snub noise and shot the van or overload the circuit. New York had serous crime in the 1970s they’ll be lucky if the van isn’t looted and turned to a burning hulk. At least Robyn isn’t striped naked shaved bald and forced to do the Curly shuffle. The had a alternate history hub what if Richard Nixon wasn’t president Cleveland Ohio would have the burning river, Lake Eire would have mass blooms, America would still lose the Vietnam war, the Apollo program would end. Skylab would crash, cities would have white flight, the oil recession and stagflation would ruin the economy. So the masses would escape to hedonistic discos, see Star Wars and Grease, while watching happy days and going to Kiss concerts . Meanwhile Richard Nixon declared drugs public enemy number 1 starting the war on drugs you couldn’t enjoy pot without fear of the Nixon mohahahaha. But you can take the advice of the Village People and join the navy serving aboard a Virginia nuclear cruiser, fly the then new F 14 tomcat or Los Angeles class nuclear submarine food best in the navy. Alternate history had Robert Kennedy spared of his 1968 assassination as president instead. But under the circumstances he’d be remember as a lesser Kennedy and even if he won the 1972 re election Ronald Reagan would president in 1976 instead of Jimmy Carter. Since the decade was hardly the best Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford who wasn’t even elected and Jimmy Carter with has dumb redneck brother Billy. So plan 9 are brave to face New York city in the 1970s but hid in CBGB or studio 54.
The ‘Son of Sam’ used a .44 Spl 😉 and needed practice.