Now THAT…
…is one hell of a HANGOVER remedy! I can’t tell you how many times in my misbegotten youth that I sure could have used a good venting of the kidneys and a shot of adrenaline to help me make it into work on time the morning after a particularly rough night. I’m sure a good many of you Daredevilers out there can relate.
Seriously though, for a shockingly long time now Dan, Evin, and I have been talking about what would happen if the Captain ever got really, REALLY drunk, and what the procedure would be for getting him back in working order, for lack of a better phrase. Venting his kidneys was something that came up pretty early in our discussions, and some parties (I won’t name who) actually wanted to show (i.e. make Danilo draw) his kidneys being vented. BLECH. Luckily for you, and more so for Danilo, cooler heads prevailed and we ultimately decided to leave it up to your imagination. (Yes, this is really the type of stuff that we spend out valuable time arguing about.)
Oh yeah, did I mention that the Daredevils are under attack by a NAZI SUB?! I know for a fact that some of you have been waiting for just this type of development for some time now. Well, never let it be said that we do not aim to please!
But, ask yourself, how is the Custer supposed to fight back without a crew? Be here NEXT WEEK when we introduce the All-NEW, ALL-DIFFERENT Deep Dive Daredevils. Nuff said!
In other news, by the time this blog goes live ALL of the DDD Kickstarter rewards will be in the mail and on their way to our backers. So, if you’re a backer, rejoice, the wait to get your hands on Deep Dive Daredevils No. 1 is nearly over!
Anyways, till next week!
-Matt-
(Cue, “Der Furor’s Face” by Spike Jones and his City Slickers)
Don’t look now folks, but is seem the “Bratwurst Brigade” jus’ sent a pocket battleship/U-boat hybrid to do battle with our favorite gang of cut-throats… HEY… do we get to see the underwater oar system they use on that class, just like the “Aligator” of Union fame during the “War of Northern Aggression”?
“EIN REICH, EIN VOLK, EIN… VAT der SCHTUMPNAGEL is DAT ting in der vater? Loooks kinda schmaltzy, Ja? Zumbuddy runt offer a vatter heater mit ein Sturmgeschutz, nicht var?
Good eye, Sarge!
You pretty much described exactly what we asked Danilo to draw inspiration from for the enemy sub – a combination between a Destroyer battleship and a U-boat.
At 1:55 in this video: Curse your teutonic preparedness!
…Not sure why you directed us to that video, but I must admit it was pretty funny.
…And here we lay to rest the notion of airborne bombardment.
Though the second turret on the nazi ship is rather unique looking. It makes you wonder if the turrets on this nazi sub are retractable their shape would be heck for drag if no other systems were in place.
One other question, In the last panel is that baseball bat guy from when the sea-vamps got on the ship?
The big turret is actually our riff on a railgun. And, yeah, it definitely retracts into the hull.
YES, that is the baseball bat guy from Pitch Black Day in the last panel! We didn’t ask for him specifically in the script, but that is one of the wonderful things about Danilo – he never draws a throwaway crewman. Once he has created them they show up again and again. It brings so much unspoken continuity to the stories. I, for one, love it!
I’m thinking that second gun looks like the upper receiver on a GIANT Colt Woodsman…
There are more 2nd characters to come… I give the writers a few ideas that came to me while I´m drawing them, then, I leave to the team if they want to develope them or not….like with Deveraux and McGinty.
But, yes, this is one of the 2nd characters I like the most. We sure going to see him again!
1. Rejoycing!
2. That kid on the sub deserves a medal, just for staying on the sub when everyone else got shore leave.
3. If I am ever found in such a drunken state, PLEASE allow me to sober up the old fashioned way, and DO NOT vent my kidneys, and administer an Adrenaline shot!
Yeah, poor kid. I guess if the skipper doesn’t get to go ashore than either does his little buddy.*
*Intentional Gilligan’s Island reference
Oh look nazis, that’s refreshing.
For fear of SPOILERS I can’t say much to assuage your fears…
But, I will say this – we did our take on were-beasts in Secret of the Beaufort Sea and Dracula in Pitch Black Day, and I, for one, think that we did some surprising things with those well-worn monster archetypes.
So, hang with us in the coming weeks and see where we take this situation. And, I can say with confidence that if you think you know where this is going, you might want to think again.
NAZIs do make excellent advisaries in a story… most people will show no/little sympathy towards such a creature… and they do have such predictable tendancies- but it is worth everyone’s while to note that Hitler didn’t trust the Wehrmacht, the Kriegsmarine or the Luftwaffe a great deal- most active duty military were not allowed membership into the NAZI party unless they were SS.
There were exceptions, of course…
Now I’m picturing wave after wave of Zombie Nazis.
Set ramming speed! All hands brace for impact!
Persons acting as if Nazis shouldn’t be used because they’re too much of a cliche are forgetting something – this is the late 1930s (the first story was in 1937, IIRC). Unless you’re in a REALLY divergent alternate history (such as Larry Correia’s Grimnoir novels), there WILL be Nazis in play.
Using Nazis in a post-WWII setting – that’s cliche. Not using them in 1938 – that’s called “unrealistic”. Of course, these “Naughty Nazis” are obviously not quite normal ones, so who knows where the story will go from here.
“Heil Hitler!”
“Heil Myself.”
-”To Be or Not to Be” (1982 Mel Brooks remake – the original Benny/Lombard version was good too, and eerily prescient).