Build-a-Baddie Returns (And It’s Bigger, Badder, and More Chaotic)
The last Build-a-Baddie Poll was such a hit, it spun off not one but two projects — a microfic and a 1,500-word short story!
So naturally… we’re doing it again.
Welcome back to Build-a-Baddie — the crowd-sourced character experiment where you decide:
I take your winning combo and turn it into a brand-new illustration.
There’s also a Wildcard section if you want to whisper your weirdest ideas into the void. No promises… but I will read them.
Voting opens this week on Patreon. Bring your best (and worst) ideas.
Transcript — Evolution Success Stories
A single-panel cartoon shows two bug-like creatures standing on a forest floor surrounded by large green leaves. Both have tall, thin, purple bodies with spindly limbs and antennae. The bug on the right has colorful, symmetrical butterfly wings with orange, black, and white patterns and looks relatively normal — an evolution success story The bug on the left has a strange, mismatched set of wings that resemble bold, graphic signage instead of natural wings. The wings are black with bright orange arrows and large words pointing in different directions, including “TASTY,” “HERE,” and “YUM!” with arrows directing attention toward the bug’s own body. The malformed-wing bug looks uneasy, while the butterfly-wing bug looks on. Beneath the comic, a caption reads: “All I’m saying is… it’s easy to be a fan of evolution if all you hear about are the success stories…”
To the right of the panel is a blue box that reads: “Intermission — The Evil Inc storyline will continue next week.”
As always, I spent a decent percentage of my time at Wizard World Philadelphia doing commissioned sketches — something I really enjoy doing at conventions.
This one was extra special, though. The owner of the book, Jeff, has been having me add commissions to his book for years now — and at several different conventions. He’s a sketchbook connoisseur — with several books, organized by theme, floating around the convention floor at all times.
This book, I had the honor of beginning
and ending. The theme was “Creator-owned,” and all of the sketches inside were of creator-owned characters as drawn by their creators. I opened the book with an illustration of Argus the Gargoyle from
Greystone Inn (my first daily comic).
And I closed it with the illustration above, a group shot featuring several Evil Inc cast members along with a whole slew of characters from the book.
It was great fun to do, and since Jeff was kind enough to share a scan with me, I figured I’d share it with you.
