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Monday 9 May 2016

HOW MANTU NEARLY GOT A NEW STORY

In case you didn't noticed. Mantu almost had a another story but I decided to scrap it because I never had the time to finish it and was just too busy with other projects and back then, I only had very strict break times. And that story is called Girl Trouble

I know the title seems generic but I can think of a better story name than that though. Basically the plot goes like this. This story would introduce a new ''female'' villain in Mantu's universe called Cherry Fairy. Now Smith you're saying why a fairy for a villain. Well then my friend in case you didn't notice. Fairies can be evil . Even though sometimes they are good.

Anyhow, the story. Cherry Fairy's evil scheme isn't actually destroying Mantu. Her evil plan was to take over Mantu's home island by firing a love arrow on the ground which attracts many young girls to fall in love with the island's living beings, brainwashing them in the process by kissing them with cooties and then, steal the energy jewels which powers the island inside and use it to take over the world.

While that would seem to be an interest plot. If did make an episode on that. I don't think TV networks would air it at all. Also, here's the whole comic itself, since the pages are double sided. Scanning them one at a time would take up too much space and time.

I would really love to finish this story off but it's just I never find time to finish it. That's daily life for you. I play games, go to college, pretty much everything in the real world.

Friday 6 May 2016

REMEMBERING MY BEST EARLY CHRISTMAS PRESENT EVER


© Cartoon Network/Tom Warburton

I know this is old news from my other site but it's worth mentioning on here but is anyone familiar with Codename: Kids Next Door when it first aired on Cartoon Network back in the early 00's? Does anyone remember the great Tom Warburton who worked closely with Curious Pictures by directing Sheep on the City and created Codename: Kids Next Door for Cartoon Network? Even though most famous cartoonists can have a really busy life. Mr. Warburton in my opinion is such an amazing guy and even has a great heart and love his fans so much that he did sketches for them with their orders for a limited time, had a Q&A session on YouTube and even encourages his fans to draw more G:KND art. Here are my examples:

So why did he do international shippings for a limited time? Because he really loves his fans so much across Earth, not just America. I happened to order something from his Printlabs store when he was doing international orders for a week. Mine was the ''Stay Young'' image that was used in the ending credits from the show's finale. It was so memorable, so tear dropping that it's a great way to bid farewell to the show by ending it with a bang with Mr. Warburton's awesome drawing of Sector V looking into the sunset. After that, Mr. Warburton moved on to work on a children's book called 1000 Times No.

When my order came on boxing day, I was so hyped and honoured seeing my name written by Mr. Warburton, but's that's just the start. Here's what I got inside:

Not only if I just got the print. I even got a set of KND playing cards that were made by Wizards of the Coast for Cartoon Network/Warner Bros. to sell back in the early 00's. Since Mr. Warburton was so awesome, he even does sketch requests by drawing KND characters on sketchcards that are requested by his fans. I would ask him to draw Supersmith but he only does official characters he worked on such as Kids Next Door and other projects. I'm surprised no one asked for Kenny and the Chimp as sketchcard form. For me, I picked Numbuh 3 on both. One for Stay Young and one for the sketchcard because she is my favourite character from the show and dang, she even called my name. Was super cool having his autograph signed three times though. Also, he's a close up in better quality.

And that's all I got to share and I'm very sure Mr. Warburton will do international orders again sometime later this year. And to Tom Warburton, keep up the great work, support and have a great future. Thank you.

DRAWING MY CUTIES NEVER GETS OLD

I happen to do more sketches recently and I have to admit, they looks really cute especially Mantu. I did happen to bring back Hyper Girl because of her beautiness and wears light colors such as light pink and blue. Also, one of the photos features Numbuh 3 from Kids Next Door. Like I was saying, I'm trying to take break from drawing any KND art and focus on my characters more. Here's my work that I just done

I have to admit, I did improve a lot with my sketching skills. I know I haven't Chapter 1 of Kids Squad yet but it will happen. I will let you know when there is a release date.

Thursday 5 May 2016

FUN WITH MANTU AND A SPECIAL GUEST

You know back in the early 00's I used to like The Powerpuff Girls, you know three these pint-size super-heroines who kick butt before bedtime? I liked them because of their cuteness especially. But with thanks to the trashy reboot. I kinda lost interest. When I dug my archives of Bubbles and Mantu done by an old friend of mine. I found some cute pictures of Mantu at the beach. And yes, he does look very cute!

Then why did I give him toes? In my own world. My own species known as balls always have five toes and four fingers. Compared that to five fingers and four toes used in the Kids Next Door pilot P in the OOL. At first, Mantu's hands and toes were going to be white. But I decided to change it to back since it suits him. Anyhow here's more done by my old friend.

And as a bonus. I even added Mantu playing on a game and Smithy being hugged Hyper Girl and Tina.

I have to admit, they are really cute and I really miss him. But oh well. I do happen to have my own Tina Newbie sketches and also a comic laying. If I find more. I will upload them here. So stay tooned!!

THE ORIGINS OF ZONK THE MARTIAN

11 Years Ago, one of the support staff at school created an awesome martian like creature for me. He was going to be the villain by destroying major cities and taking over the world. But however with thanks to my inspirations. I decided to change him to be the good guy and fight against intergalactic baddies. He wields a space blaster and even has a detachable eye. What's his name?

The main logo says it all!!

I did happen to do some sketches here and then:

I know there's isn't much but I do have more here: http://www.deviantart.com/browse/all/?section=&global=1&q=zonk+the+martian

I also happen to write a major backstory about him so here we go:

When Zonk was going to be a villain, he became the super galactic hero, but how come did he become one of them? Well many decades ago, Zonk originally lived on Mars with his inhabitants called Martians. Zonk thoroughly enjoyed his daily routines and has been pitching plans to visit Earth and conquer the planet. When until all of a sudden, an evil spaceship swoops down on Mars and attacks their inhabitants. The Martians ran away for cover as a vile and evil mercenary space lizard named Decko manages to capture on Martian for Professor Evil Brain's test subject to transform a living martian into a robotic space suit for the evil space queen to wear in order to become immortal and conquer the universe. Enough power for her and the suit to destroy any living star, any living planet and any living Galaxy!!

That evil space queen is called Queen Dimer XV and she ordered Prof. Evil and Decko to capture the martian and use their body as a fashion trend for her supersuit to wear. When Zonk got captured and was brought into Professor Evil's laboratory, Zonk is defenseless and helpless. Once the project begins to kick off, Evil cuts out Zonk's eye and his assistants began taking his organs out and replaced them with mechanical robot parts so that the suit is more comfortable for the queen to wear when controlling Zonk's body.

Hours later, Zonk's only remaining living organs and is his eye, his small brain and a tail. His living eye found out that he is woking up inside a jar labelled ''Eye'' on a shelf. Zonk peers down and found out his motionless body on the experiment table. He pushed and rammed the jar so hard that it fell off the shelf and shattered on the floor.

Once Zonk broke free out of the jar, Prof. Evil heard a glass shatter and quickly ran into the room. Zonk manages to jump back into his body just in time before Evil came in and saw what happened. Prof. Evil tries to power down his body only to be hit by a heavy object that Zonk threw. Zonk then founds himself that he had two things in his robotized body. A pocket space bike which can fly in deep space and on land, and a plasma blaster for combat which would of been used against heroes who try to fight Dimer. Zonk looks at his blaster and he accidently fires it, seeing the plasma projectile bouncing around the lab, it zapped down Prof. Evil for the count and Zonk was impressed with his accidental shot. He twirls his blaster before putting it in his pocket and manages to escape with his spacebike before Evil wakes up.

During Zonk's return to Mars. He heard a faint cry from someone, someone that he thinks it could be a damsel in distress being held by Queen Dimer. Zonk decides to scout the planets to find the princess, but she is nowhere to be seen. The problem is, he doesn't know which planet she is held. Meanwhile. Decko has been told by Evil that Zonk has gotten away from the experiment and orders him to destroy Zonk so that he can deliver his body to the queen asap. Decko accepts the deal and then sets off, waiting for the time to ambush him. And this is where Zonk's quest begins.

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And dang that was a long backstory. Also I'm not done with today just yet. Watch out for more blog entries.

Wednesday 4 May 2016

SCC IN STAR WARS

So today is May the 4th and why do we celebrate that day?

Many Star Wars fans consider this day Star Wars due to the fact the phase ''May the force be with you!'' has the same saying as May 4th. As a result.. Star Wars day is born!

Now I'm not usually a fan. I happen to have an awesome friend called FarinaArtist and he decided to draw out my characters if they happen to make an appearance in Star Wars:

Tina and Supersmith by FarinaArtist

According to my friend. Tina is half human and half Twi'tek while Supersmith is a Jedi Knight. Here's more:
Training Tina by FarinaArtist

Also. If you don't know who that guy is called. He's called Jared Farnando and he could happen to be her mentor. And I guess that's all the Star Wars stuff I got to share. Watching any Star Wars films tonight or even playing on Battlefront?

Tuesday 3 May 2016

3 NEW GAMES ADDED TO FRIENDS OF NINTENDO HUMBLE BUNDLE

In case you guys didn't notice. Humble Bundle has revealed another 3 set of games for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS. If you happened to paid to p ay $9.75 (£6.70) or more, you will be able to redeem two more Wii U games and one more Nintendo 3DS game. Here are the following titles announced:

Wii U:

Swords & Soldiers II (Ronimo Games):

Runbow (13AM Games):

Nintendo 3DS:

Nano Assault EX (Shin'en Multimedia)

Also regarding Nano Assault. I highly recommend you should check it out. It's made by the same peeps who made Fast Racing NEO. :D

By the way, to claim those games. You just have to go back to your downloads list on Humble Bundle and you will find 3 codes for these games waiting to be claimed. You will not get them unless you paid $9.75 (£6.70) or more and you have a week to buy the bundle. If you want to extend your Wii U and 3DS library much more. Now it's a great time to do so as you only have a week. : )