tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173363052024-03-07T10:21:40.492-08:00Raven Entertainment StudioHome of The Canadian Legion and other comicbook and writing projects.Richard Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768954348547655018noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17336305.post-52329150128519954122012-07-25T05:53:00.000-07:002012-07-25T05:53:04.093-07:00Hello everyone~!In case you were one of the few following this blog, I have started posting on the blogs for Raven Studio on another site: <br /><br />This blog, while useful, doesn't offer the same tracking and insights wordpress provides. Check it out here:<br /><br />http://ricktheraven.wordpress.com/Richard Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768954348547655018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17336305.post-22176381612613216372012-07-19T08:04:00.002-07:002012-07-19T08:08:01.284-07:00PUNCH<b>The Main Heroes of PUNCH - A ROMANCE NOVEL</b><br />
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Dirk Fontaine (Firebird) - Sexy and smart, Dirk is the kind of blue-eyed, blonde haired perfect male that men and women swoon over. Unfortunately he has no interest in having a personal life, or at least not one with any intimacy. It is not that he is a dark and driven vigilante, far from it. He reaches a point in his personal relationships where he pulls back, unable to commit to any intimacy or physical relations. After his parents died, he simply closed himself to any further relationships that weren't trivial and superficial. Something about Tim though left him feeling something he has not felt in a while, taking the young man under his wing just seemed natural and right. Even though it could go horribly wrong.<br />
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Tim Gamble (Kid Razor) - Dark eyes, dark hair and a dark cloud over him, Tim carries a chip on his shoulder with no real explanation of where it came from. When his parents are murdered, he feels guilty over the fact he suddenly feels alive for the first time; that getting revenge for their deaths is the first thing that gave him any direction.<br />
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General Jolli Roger - Earning the rank of General for her military service in the eighties, Jolli has a lot of secrets that she is not sharing. She rose through the ranks of the Army Green Berets and cross-trained with Navy SEALS until becoming an instructor herself. Eventually Jolli had enough of the army and shortly after Dirk's parents died, she took the job training Dirk.
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This year's walk will be starting at Nathan Phillips Square! More info to come!</b>
<a href="http://torontozombiewalk.ca/help_the_walk.html">CLICK HERE</a> for more on the Toronto Zombie Walk!
I am going to try and sell a few limited edition copies of WHITE ZOMBIE at the Zombie Walk. The plan is:
A limited print run and number of copies specifically for the Zombie Walk as a promotion. The official release date would be a week after, online, through Amazon, just in time for Halloween.
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- Ontario Knife RAT-7 D2 Steel
- Mission Knives MPK10 (Titanium)
- Brunton Tag-A-Long Compass
- Butane Lighter (with Marilyn Monroe on it)
- Strike Force flint and steel
- 10 ft of parachute cord
- First Aid Kit (in ziplock bag) which contains butterfly sutures, 1 inch safety tape, one roll of gauze, 1 tube antibiotic ointment
- Spare Socks, extra shoelaces
- Dollar store winter gloves
- HotHands hand warmer pads (disposal)
- Iodine (for water purification)
- Toothbrush
- Multivitamins
- fishing line with hooks (in matchbox)Richard Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768954348547655018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17336305.post-91434876111780391662012-03-16T07:49:00.001-07:002012-03-16T07:49:34.911-07:00Der Verge CreationI thought I would take the opportunity to show everyone how one of my ideas comes together.<br />
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I wanted to do a super villain from space, someone along the lines of Ming the Merciless and Darth Vader, someone who conquered whole planets and civilizations. But I wanted him to be very unpredictable, very multidimensional, someone who was feared for his mind and ingenuity as much as his destructive power.<br />
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I used photoshop to create an idea, a shadow of what I wanted, something that would feel like the character I wanted until I found an artist to bring him to life.<br />
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The name came from the German translation of Space Rapist; Raum-Vergewaltiger, becoming Emperor Raum Der Verge. The sword in the original design was for a double bladed weapon. The character then went into the file with the dozens of others, waiting for his time to come. Some characters have sat for years, others sit no more than a week before being 'finished'.<br />
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In this case, Der Verge sat for about two months. During that time Ethan Wright and I got in touch with each other again. We had worked on something before for a Marvel pitch, before I got tired of trying to pitch to a company whose books I couldn't even read anymore. While trying to decide who I could pay Ethan to illustrate for me, Der Verge just seemed to pop up.<br />
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Ethan and I talked a bit about costumes we liked. I wanted something between EMPIRE's lead villain and Lars from Tekken 6. Ethan was also a fan of Tekken and so we went with a more down to Earth, fist fighter look. The first draft Ethan sent me was this:<br />
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The first concept design that Ethan sent me was very good. In fact the sword was almost perfect. I'd always wanted a character with a Gun-Sword and he seemed the perfect character to use one. At this point I decided to write up an origin on the character, figuring that would help Ethan understand the kind of guy he was. As a character who can absorb other peoples powers, or an empathic mimic as they call it in Heroes, it was important to know which powers he has at the time he tries to conquer the Earth in the Canadian Legion. Here is the history I sent him (more or less):<br />
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Emperor Der Verge<br />
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Der Verge was once a normal human being living in an alternate world full of superheroes. Born with the ability to absorb superhuman powers, Verge became a hero and often stood against his world's deadliest villains. While still a teenager Verge was known as the hero Echo, while an adult he changed his alias to Mr. Mimic. During those years Der Verge often faced off against an opponent with matching abilities, the mad scientist Joseph Skylark. Their final battle lasted three hours. In a bizarre twist an alien race invaded their Earth as the two men lay exhausted and wounded from their war. Taken prisoner, tortured and powerless, both men made a pact that one would sacrifice themselves so that the other, their arch-nemesis, could survive. It took seventeen months but finally Skylark managed to detonate an explosive device, killing himself but buying Der Verge time to escape. With no superhuman abilities, Der Verge was forced to absorb what he could from the aliens. Their thoughts and alien physiology was terrible to mimic, it changed him down to his very basic form, but with their insect-like abilities at his disposal Der Verge was able to steal a ship. Returning to Earth, Der Verge found the planet completely under alien rule. The moon had become a graveyard for superbeings, a final resting place for hundreds of heroes and villains. Searching the dead for anything that might help him, Der Verge found a gravity gunsword that once belonged to Captain Future.<br />
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As a "Man of Tomorrow" and space hero, Captain Future gave me the link between the superhero universe and the pulp era space stories I was trying to mimic with this villain. Of course the original Captain Future didn't carry a Gravity Gunsword, that was completely made up for the character. The Gravity Gunsword has an edge cut by a futuristic laser, the blade is so sharp it actually cuts through the electromagnetic forces of gravity. Not only will it cut you in half but it could send those two halves flying in opposite directions or straight into the air. At this point I was reading about numerous other pulp heroes and I found one more who seemed a natural fit in the story.<br />
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Der Verge was able to locate the last surviving rebels, some of whom were well past the point of defeat and united them together. Some of the weaker superhumans were still active, including a former District Attorney named Tony Quinn. Quinn had been blinded and scarred by an alien acid attack and left for dead. Carol Baldwin, the daughter of a man known as The Black Bat, was able to transplant her dead father’s corneas unto Quinn, gifting him with her father’s ability to see in total darkness. Tony then took on the mantle of the Black Bat, using the darkness as a weapon against the diurnal alien invaders. Der Verge had changed drastically, the insect-like abilities of the aliens were solar based, but he was also able to absorb Quinn’s power making them an unstoppable team night or day. It seemed as if the aliens were simply evolved intelligent moths, a race of almost humanoid looking creatures with a society structure beyond human understanding. The Gravity Gunsword make it difficult for the aliens to send in flying aircraft and so they send in hundreds of thousands of ground troops. With each victory more and more humans joined in the fight. Der Verge had no sympathy for the humans who worked with the aliens; he killed them as quickly as their alien overlords. Perhaps it was something in the aliens that drove them to conquer other races, something that Der Verge absorbed from them that turned him into a dominant warlord. The moth-men inevitably fell and Der Verge used their space technology to take the fight back to their homeworld. The aliens civilians had no idea what their government had done but this made no difference to Der Verge. He took the young from the planet and shipped them back to Earth where they were slaughtered and fed to the starving people of Earth. The rest of the population was then wiped out, not a single life remained on their world when Der Verge and Quinn left it. At this point Quinn and Der Verge parted ways. Quinn took over the Earth, building a peaceful utopia. Der Verge and the remaining soldiers left for space to proactively protect their home. As the people of Earth built a peaceful utopia, Der Verge was conquering every alien planet he encountered. His armies soon grew to massive sizes, containing soldiers from hundreds of different worlds. Der Verge realized that a whole multiverse of threats existed. .<br />
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Powers:<br />
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As Echo, Der Verge was a moderate level fighter who would primarily duplicate the powers of the villains he fought in order to defeat them. The only power he "banked" during the early periods was the power of flight. After encountering his nemesis Skylark, Der Verge was forced to take on multiple powers simply to stay a step ahead and stay alive. At this time Der Verge stopped flying and took more close combat abilities from his fellow heroes. In their final battle against each other, Der Verge and Skylark had accumulated the powers of almost fifty heroes and villains between them, using one at a time but able to shift between abilities. At the time of his capture he had no abilities "banked".<br />
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At the time of his escape Der Verge had copied the natural abilities of the moth-men which included superhuman strength, unlimited endurance, resistance to radiation and chemical poisoning, limited need for food and an enhanced healing ability in the sun. After his conquest of the moth-men and the discovery of the Wormhole Nexus at the center of his universe Der Verge encountered a cosmic police force who operated out of the Nexus. They were known as the Cosmic Wave Riders and they almost defeated Der Verge's armies. Der Verge absorbed their abilities, harnessing the Cosmic Wave Energy to make him indestructible. He no longer needs food, drink, sleep or even oxygen to breathe. He still retains the increased senses and abilities of the moth-men and it seems he cannot release these powers the way he can with the others. Defeating a villain of the night who survived the alien invasion Der Verge also gained control over a shadow force, he can use it to create a blanket of darkness which he becomes invisible in. This ability remains active in the cloak he wears. He also possesses a level of mind control and telepathy that has created a labyrinth of locks within his mind and his senses and combat skills are nearly unbeatable. Untouchable at night and almost unstoppable during the day, Der Verge is a powerful force.<br />
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One thing I can't explain to anyone is how many combined hours during this process I read about related material; diurnal animals, nocturnal animals, moths, insects, aliens, etc. I can't even recall how many images of masks and costumes, specifically Parisian and Venician, I sent Ethan.<br />
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TO BE CONTINUEDRichard Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768954348547655018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17336305.post-8683159544453851082012-02-01T06:17:00.002-08:002012-02-01T07:07:52.901-08:00WATCHMEN Prequels: A Knockbuster 25 Years In The MakingI want to clarify my stance on why I do not think the Watchmen books are going to make any sort of impact in the industry. I like a lot of the creative teams on these books but that is irrelevant to what DC is attempting to do with this project. <br /><br />The Watchmen Prequels are not intended to be a natural follow-up to the original in the way that a creator like Scott Snyder follows up a creator like Grant Morrison with his own ideas and his own take on the character's mythology. <br /><br />The Watchmen prequels are intended to be Knockbusters. In the movie business, a kockbuster is a film created with the apparent intention of piggy-backing on the publicity of a major film with a similar title or theme and are often made with a low budget. Often these films are created to be released direct-to-video at the same time as the mainstream film reaches theaters or video outlets.<br /><br />This isn't about honoring the original work, or claiming it is taboo to touch it. There are some projects that actually benefit from a remake, Battlestar Galactica for example. There are even a few prequels that don't completely suck, although I can't think of any off hand. My opposition to these works is the stink of desperation for success that permeates even the preview ads for these new Watchmen books. <br /><br /><a href="http://geekactually.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/almightythor_large.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 256px; height: 359px;" src="http://geekactually.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/almightythor_large.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Imagine your mother and father were married for many years. Then your father left and your mother had to raise you alone. She did a good job, worked hard and raised you right. Now that you've grown up, she wants to get back out there and start dating again. This is what DC is trying to do here, get back out there and draw in the readers they have lost over the years. But seeing these books is like watching your mom struggle to fit into her old jeans or wearing a t-shirt that isn't as flattering as it was 25 years ago. <br /><br />Even worse, I believe they are intentionally trying to intentionally deceive customers into buying the inferior, knock-off product. Now on the shelves next to Watchmen are going to be at least six other little trades and a pirate book. Like the Transmorphers movie they simply create new, similar product and hope for enough add-on or mistaken purchases to sustain the production cost. Nobody who made Transmorphers did it for the right reasons. Nobody, other than the catering company (if they could afford one) had any intention of making a groundbreaking piece of cinema history. Just because the same company that owns Watchmen is doing the Watchmen spin-off material doesn't make it any less cheesy. <br /><br /><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Transmorphers.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 325px; height: 457px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Transmorphers.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Now people will say "this is meant to bring in new readers" but we both know that's a load of shit. It's an attempt to cash in on the publicity and success of Watchmen. If they wanted to bring in new readers, they could have just brought the Watchmen characters into the DCU, Batman VS Rorschach style. How does a Silk Spectre comic bring in new readers? Did someone read Watchmen and decide they wanted to know more about the trampy, messed-up women who bear the Silk Spectre alias? How long until Rorschach meets his long lost father? Or that a mystery for next month, dear readers?<br /><br />You want to know when a comic publisher is releasing something simply for the money? They hide behind the classic line "It's an attempt to bring in new readers", which is the same thing as saying "our hardcore readers don't really want this, but it's not for them, it's for their imaginary friends". Another way to say it would be to say "we just want to take up more shelf space in the stores and retailers will certainly order it!"<br /><br />Now some people actually like Knockbusters, in the 80's the Gremlins knock-off HOBGOBLINS did very well. David Hasselhoff starred in an Evil Dead rip-off and C. Thomas Howell has made quite a career on these types of movies, so I guess you can say even a knockbuster can attract pretty decent talent. But I've never watched one in my life. <br /><br />I just don't have any interest in it. I don't rent, buy or even bootleg knockbuster movies. I don't like B-movies in general. That's not to say they are all bad, that you should not watch them or anything like that. They just aren't for me. I saw THOR, I liked THOR, I don't need to see way the B movie industry has to say on the same character or mythology. I don't need to see what the NEW 52 DC has to say on Watchmen. <br /><br />This is why I am posting this on my blog, because I am not going to engage in debate about the new Watchmen books by DC. You can argue the artistic merits of Jaws 5 until you're red in the face, it's not going to change my mind. <br /><br /><a href="http://mfc.com.mt/filebank/imagebank/Poster%20Great%20White.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 655px; height: 927px;" src="http://mfc.com.mt/filebank/imagebank/Poster%20Great%20White.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />We've crossed a line here as an industry. This isn't about respecting Alan Moore and tarnishing his work, it's about what we put out there for the world to see as comic creators. We're no longer giving them the song and dance show to get them to read our books; Watchmen prequels is us as an industry putting our faces down and our asses up for money. It changes the comic industry, destroying the burlesque show we were putting on and revealing to the world what a crack whore the industry really is. Why bother with new ideas and building an audience when you can simply offer to suck the audiences dick for money, right? I mean you've loved Watchmen for long time, you must want sucky-sucky, right comicboy? It's a desperate grab for cash and non-readers outside the audience will smell it a mile a way. <br /><br />When this fails to create more than a short term rise in sales, what then? What does DC do next? When you've hit rock bottom and don't realize it, how much lower can you really go? The long anticipated Batman/Superman kiss? <br /><br />For decades the comic industry has been losing readers, zombie-like, bite by bite, to other forms of entertainment. Now DC has decided the way to stop that is by cannibalizing themselves. <br />Maybe I am wrong, who knows. Maybe Snakes On A Train was a great film. I'll never know. Even Twilight knock-offs are making money and getting film options. (http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/51667718.html)<br /><br />Maybe I'm just a finicky old man who is looking for some meaning in the stories that I read, maybe my expectations are too high. Maybe I shouldn't expect better than an Adam Hughes/JMS book about the inappropriate relationship between a big blue naked guy and an underage teenager. <br /><br />Whatever.Richard Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768954348547655018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17336305.post-51761560817266107692011-12-06T06:45:00.000-08:002011-12-06T06:49:11.270-08:00LEGION UNLEASHED #1NOW AVAILABLE FROM GRAPHICLY.COM!<br /><br />http://graphicly.com/raven-entertainment-studio/legion-unleashed/1?fb_ref=homepageRichard Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768954348547655018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17336305.post-58163172942564430822011-10-31T13:01:00.001-07:002011-10-31T13:01:22.949-07:00So I haven't touched this blog in a year, but it'll be back, wait and see!Richard Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768954348547655018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17336305.post-7886290690836258142009-04-12T08:12:00.003-07:002009-04-12T08:16:42.819-07:00The Real Price of Comics<br /><br />http://www.newsarama.com/comics/090410-the-price-is-right.html<br /><br />I couldn’t believe the excuses I was reading on Newsarama about the price of comics. I am going to address these excuses in as pleasant a manner as I can muster. <br /><br />RE: Vince Hernandez, Editor-in-Chief of Aspen Comics.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />"Any time there's a recession, people are going to be spending less, but publishers still have to pay the talent and they still have to print the books.”</span> <br /><br />Okay so your logic at Aspen Comics is, since people aren’t buying as many books, we’ll continue to print a large number of them and simply increase the price per issue to cover the ones that aren’t selling. Is that what you are saying? <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">"Costs are going up because printing companies need to make their profit and everybody's tightening their belt and reacting to the economy." <br /></span><br />Ah, the generic “blame it on the economy” excuse. Did they raise the price of comics during the last recession during the 80’s? Seriously, raising the prices because people are buying less didn’t work for the car manufacturers, why would it work for a company that rarely puts out any books?<br /><br />RE: Michael DeVito, publisher at Th3rd World Comics<br /><br />First off, I’ve never even heard of this company and I spend a hell of a lot of time online.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">“Despite making the top 300 in sales, we lost money on the book and ultimately the series. Raising the price would have made much better financial sense and probably would have had very limited impact on sales."<br /></span><br />Or to put it in regular English, their book sold well enough but they didn’t make any money. Raising the price a dollar would have given them more cash in their hand. But what you are saying is that you wish you had of milked the people who bought the book for a little more cash, because it wouldn’t have affected the sales numbers all that much. Classy. Th3rd World has two Co-Publishers an Editor In Chief and a Business Director. That is where the money goes, boys and girls. <br /><br />To say the rising cost of creators is partly responsible for the price increases is silly. Creators can only be paid what they are worth, if their books don’t generate the kind of numbers that are profitable, then they aren’t worth the money. There are many, many affordable creators out there that I’ll support in a $2.99 book. There are very, very few creators that can make me buy a four dollar comic.<br /><br />Good old Joe Quesada, always good for a bit of corporate bullshit. He’s really like Stan Lee now, isn’t he? But without the creativity and charm.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">“What I’m saying is that we do work very hard to keep the prices where they are and to keep the top talent here at Marvel and in comics. We could just let these people move to other industries but then where would we all be... Some of these guys could easily be making two or three times what they make in comics by working elsewhere."<br /></span><br />Okay, so the Nu-Marvel logic behind the price increases works this way:<br />Marvel hires Damon Lindelof for Hulk/Wolverine comic that isn’t very good. The book takes forever to come out. However, because Mr. Lindelof works on such shows as LOST, you have to charge more for the books he works on? We’re paying more because Marvel wants to hire outside the comic industry, forcing the price of comics to rise? The industry did quite well without celebrity TV writers and I am sure he wouldn’t be missed. Of course good business sense would suggest that a name writer with mainstream success should be able to sell more issues based on name alone, those extra sales would great more profit and actually let you sell the issues at a cheaper price. But this is Marvel, it doesn’t have to make sense, its MAGIC!<br /><br />Does this mean since Jeph Loeb was fired from HEROES, the cost of his books will go down now?Richard Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768954348547655018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17336305.post-62072851359157494572007-08-31T16:49:00.000-07:002007-08-31T16:51:57.892-07:00Kaidyn Evans<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2yMNodhgbyiYngk7rRxTsBClicHhtokfMnlS6DT9I9s2y2FCmszCTM7LLcghI1hyAGkHt0e-Dy_Nf2ygtCcPuNIz9pv40B-w3hbmv8MM4OKfz-0rYbmveNpdd71nKTd0fpghU/s1600-h/n801745569_985252_3415.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105016419359500178" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2yMNodhgbyiYngk7rRxTsBClicHhtokfMnlS6DT9I9s2y2FCmszCTM7LLcghI1hyAGkHt0e-Dy_Nf2ygtCcPuNIz9pv40B-w3hbmv8MM4OKfz-0rYbmveNpdd71nKTd0fpghU/s320/n801745569_985252_3415.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIl0N82n_AIQDAAJ3YRpTrCBT9wA1k7SgdIRAyKf3uAU6NPyOvrBUW7gv0UytGhGO7HRtKr95jgi1_JT6UfoB4ZymyUz6Sq3zqrFn-URB4KwFM3-6BOF3tpKA9QyAt7qMe1Z56/s1600-h/n801745569_985253_3632.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105016423654467490" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIl0N82n_AIQDAAJ3YRpTrCBT9wA1k7SgdIRAyKf3uAU6NPyOvrBUW7gv0UytGhGO7HRtKr95jgi1_JT6UfoB4ZymyUz6Sq3zqrFn-URB4KwFM3-6BOF3tpKA9QyAt7qMe1Z56/s320/n801745569_985253_3632.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div></div>Richard Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768954348547655018noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17336305.post-1153674261290047732006-07-23T10:03:00.000-07:002006-07-27T08:25:18.143-07:00Silly Illuminati Page 1 & 2<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1193/1669/1600/test.4.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1193/1669/400/test.0.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1193/1669/1600/test2.0.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1193/1669/400/test2.jpg" border="0" /></a>Richard Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768954348547655018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17336305.post-1153671722062630182006-07-23T09:20:00.000-07:002022-02-14T18:25:23.851-08:00Silly Illuminati! Page 3 & 4 & 5<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1193/1669/1600/test3.4.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1193/1669/400/test3.0.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="640" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1193/1669/400/test4.0.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="419" />
<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1193/1669/1600/test5.0.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1193/1669/400/test5.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>Richard Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768954348547655018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17336305.post-1144150433167352572006-04-04T04:24:00.000-07:002006-04-04T04:33:53.856-07:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1193/1669/1600/Picture%20006.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1193/1669/320/Picture%20006.jpg" border="0" /></a> This is my cat, Star.<br /><br />I normally don't post personal stuff, but I thought I would introduce you to my cats, just because I've got nothing else to blog about right now.<br /><br />Star is blind. She can't see at all. Also, she has some kind of sinus infection so although she can smell she creates a lot of snot that she sneezes all over the place. Kind of gross, but she is worth it.<br /><br />Her hearing is great and she can always tell when you are talking to her or about her. She is a little princess. She was used as a breeder but I guess when she started going blind they had no more use for her so we didn't have to pay for her.<br /><br />Sometimes she talks, but not everyday, in fact she is sitting by the sink right now waiting for fresh water. I trained them to do that so I could have company while getting ready in the morning, but now they expect it all the time.Richard Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768954348547655018noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17336305.post-1141049749558855382006-02-27T06:06:00.000-08:002006-02-27T06:15:49.710-08:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1193/1669/1600/darkowlredcopy.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1193/1669/320/darkowlredcopy.jpg" border="0" /></a> The Dark Owl<br /><br />Hero of the night, or psychotic junkie?<br /><br />A normal man with an extraordinary talent in biochemistry, the Dark Owl uses a wide variety of chemicals to give himself mega-human abilities. Strength, speed, flight, enhanced vision, among other abilities. But drug use always come with a price; paranoia, hallucinations, even the possibility of death.<br /><br />Does the Canadian Legion need him, or will they have to take him down?Richard Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768954348547655018noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17336305.post-1134837773541548252005-12-17T08:41:00.000-08:002005-12-17T08:42:53.550-08:00Two New Canadian Legion Pages<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1193/1669/1600/Can.%20Legion%202%20pg.%2012.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1193/1669/320/Can.%20Legion%202%20pg.%2012.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1193/1669/1600/Can.%20Legion%202%20pg.%2013.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1193/1669/320/Can.%20Legion%202%20pg.%2013.jpg" border="0" /></a>Richard Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768954348547655018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17336305.post-1129569272847404992005-10-17T10:14:00.000-07:002005-10-17T10:14:32.853-07:00Poetry Part 2<div align="center">REGRESSION<br /><br />It will be the men and women who can regress<br />back into primitive roles that will<br />survive in the years to come<br />The poet, hunter, painter,<br />The cook, the mother, the child-bearer<br />We’ve complicated ourselves beyond our<br />Natural state, we are chaotic minds trapped<br />Within simple biological bodies<br />A star inside a nucleus, a dream with a sleeper<br />Who will never wake<br /><br />When every human experience is on<br />the television or internet, the only thing new<br />is that which is beyond our normal<br />limits and social mores, the abominable, the horrible<br />The ecstatic, the erotic, the erogenous and alien<br />We regress to something less to feel<br />more human again</div>Richard Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768954348547655018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17336305.post-1129473894750789162005-10-16T07:43:00.000-07:002005-10-16T07:44:54.750-07:00Poetry Part 1A poem from my book:<br /><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">REAL QUIET<br /><br />This is a quiet time<br />A moment where time will stop<br />and all motions come to rest<br />at your feet<br />I want to walk with pride again<br />Instead of struggling for a cause<br />to make it all worthwhile<br />better broken then nothing?<br />I want just one real thing<br />Something touched by God<br />that makes me special<br />like your love, or divine wisdom</div>Richard Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768954348547655018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17336305.post-1129473705806468062005-10-16T07:41:00.000-07:002005-10-16T07:41:45.813-07:00The beginning of a story . . .Didn't get too far on this one. . .<br /><br />Killer Cars<br /><br />People killed: 41,471 People injured: 3,192,000 Passenger vehicle occupants killed: 31,811 Children age 15 and under killed: 2,990 Annual cost of motor vehicle crashes : $150.5 billion (1994 number, latest available)<br /><br />I find it hardTo drive yourStupid carI find it hard'Cause I neverGet that farAnd you put myBrain in overloadI can't change gearsI cannot see the road You got concrete eyesAnd I cannot see your faceAnd I failed in life'Cause you crushed meWith your handsAnd you put myBrain in overloadI can't change gearsI cannot see the road<br /><br /><br /><br />Page 1Panel 1:<br />A middle aged man waves to his wife and their baby as he gets into the car to head off to work.<br />Everyone is all smiles and even the baby manages to wave to her daddy goodbye.<br /><br />Panel 2:Inside the car, the man turns the key and looks frustrated when it doesn’t start.<br /><br />CAPTION: I FIND IT HARD TO DRIVE YOUR STUPID CAR.<br /><br />Panel 3:<br />The car starts and the man smiles.<br /><br />Panel 4:HIGH ANGLE: The car now speeds down the highway, in the background is a large billboard with a Radiohead poster. Not too obvious but there nonetheless.<br /><br />CAPTION: I FIND IT HARD CAUSE I NEVER GET THAT FAR.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Page 2<br /><br />Panel 1:<br />The car gets stuck in traffic, the man waits patiently, waiting for the slow moving vehicles to start to move again.<br /><br />CAPTION: AND YOU PUT MY BRAIN IN OVERLOAD, I CAN’T CHANGE GEARS, I CANNOT SEE THE ROAD. Killer Cars<br /><br />People killed: 41,471 People injured: 3,192,000 Passenger vehicle occupants killed: 31,811 Children age 15 and under killed: 2,990 Annual cost of motor vehicle crashes : $150.5 billion (1994 number, latest available)<br /><br />I find it hardTo drive yourStupid carI find it hard'Cause I neverGet that farAnd you put myBrain in overloadI can't change gearsI cannot see the road You got concrete eyesAnd I cannot see your faceAnd I failed in life'Cause you crushed meWith your handsAnd you put myBrain in overloadI can't change gearsI cannot see the road<br /><br /><br /><br />Page 1Panel 1:<br />A middle aged man waves to his wife and their baby as he gets into the car to head off to work.<br />Everyone is all smiles and even the baby manages to wave to her daddy goodbye.<br /><br />Panel 2:Inside the car, the man turns the key and looks frustrated when it doesn’t start.<br /><br />CAPTION: I FIND IT HARD TO DRIVE YOUR STUPID CAR.<br /><br />Panel 3:<br />The car starts and the man smiles.<br /><br />Panel 4:HIGH ANGLE: The car now speeds down the highway, in the background is a large billboard with a Radiohead poster. Not too obvious but there nonetheless.<br /><br />CAPTION: I FIND IT HARD CAUSE I NEVER GET THAT FAR.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Page 2<br /><br />Panel 1:<br />The car gets stuck in traffic, the man waits patiently, waiting for the slow moving vehicles to start to move again.<br /><br />CAPTION: AND YOU PUT MY BRAIN IN OVERLOAD, I CAN’T CHANGE GEARS, I CANNOT SEE THE ROAD.Richard Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768954348547655018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17336305.post-1128862811739878752005-10-09T05:56:00.000-07:002005-10-09T06:08:53.406-07:00I TOUCHED HER THIGH AND DEATH SMILED<br />By Richard Evans<br />With help from Jim Morrison<br /><br /><br />Page 1<br />Panel 1:CLOSE-UP of Jack Doran, the perfect Aryan astronaut, sporting a 5 O Clock shadow beneath his darkened helmet. The space suit he wears is futuristic, smaller and leaner then those we use today. The helmet is a Buzz Lightyear style bubble helmet. A camera is embedded in the upper portion of the glass. Jack wears a suit that covers the back of his head but leaves his face bare. He is the chiseled American of the future. We look directly into his face, close enough that it blocks out the background.<br />JACK<br />WE’RE ALL IN MENDIS.<br />DROP US.<br /><br />CAPTION: LIONS IN THE STREET & ROAMING<br />DOGS IN HEAT, RABID, FOAMING.<br />A BEAST CAGED IN THE HEART OF THE CITY.<br /><br /><br />Panel 2:LARGE PANEL: At the top of the panel is the bottom of a space personnel carrier. 12 astronauts much like Jack drop out of the bottom sideways, drifting out into space. It looks as if someone has tossed dolls out into space.<br /><br />CAPTION: THE BODY OF HIS MOTHER<br />ROTTING IN THE SUMMER GROUND.<br />HE FLED THE TOWN.<br /><br />Page 2<br /><br />Panel 1:<br />CUT TO: The control room of the ship. Mendis sits at the computer terminal with a headset on. Mendis wears a pair of tiny glasses and is still rather young. His dark black hair is shaved down to the scalp.<br />MENDIS<br />JUST LIKE IN THE DRILLS BOYS.<br />LET YOUR FORCEFIELDS ABSORB THE HEAT.<br />WHEN THE FIRE IS GONE, ACTIVATE THE JETPACKS.<br />YOUR VITALS ARE GOOD.<br />JUST RELAX AND ENJOY IT.<br /><br /><br />CAPTION: HE WENT DOWN SOUTH<br />AND CROSSED THE BORDER<br />LEFT THE CHAOS & DISORDER<br />BACK THERE<br />OVER HIS SHOULDER<br /><br />Panel 2:CUT TO: A lush alien planet. A few of the astronauts, including Jack, drop to the ground. A jetpack on their back maneuvers them with an anti-gravity system, which appears to be nothing more then an glowing orb inside a normal looking jetpack, just where the exhaust would normally be. A few of the astronauts higher up in the atmosphere have a pink energy bubble around them. It is transparent, much like a membrane or a soap bubble.<br />Perhaps one of the last astronauts can be seem descending wrapped in a fireball just like a meteor.<br /><br />Panel 3:CUT TO: CLOSE-UP of a pair of feminine alien eyes. Too large and wide for the smooth face they occupy. She watches from the trees at the alien intruders to her planet.<br /><br />CAPTION: ONE MORNING HE AWOKE IN A GREEN HOTEL<br />WITH A STRANGE CREATURE GROANING BESIDE HIM.<br />SWEAT OOZED FROM ITS SHINY SKIN.<br /><br />Panel 4: Mendis appears on the side of the panel, overlayed on top of the shot of the planet. Mendis relays more orders from to the team. The 12 astronauts stand on a knoll overlooking a beautiful rain forest of strange plants and trees.<br />MENDIS<br />ALRIGHT EVERYONE LOOKS GOOD.<br />PERFECT LANDING.<br />IF YOU WANT TO PAY THE RENT BOYS,<br />YOU BETTER FIND SOMETHING GOOD DOWN THERE.<br /><br />CAPTION: IS EVERYBODY IN?<br />THE CEREMONY IS ABOUT TO BEGIN.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Page 3<br />Panel 1:The astronauts break up, each of them heading off in a different direction. Mendis speaks over their helmet radios with one final warning. Jack is closest to the “camera”.<br />MENDIS<br />THE GRAVITY IS LOW<br />AND THE ATMOSPHERE IS DEADLY<br />SO BE CAREFUL. I’M GOING TO SLEEP,<br />SEE YOU ALL BACK HERE IN 8.<br />OVER.<br /><br />Panel 2:Jack enters the forest, brushing aside giant leaves that drape over each other like layers of green silk.<br /><br />CAPTION: WHO CALLED THESE DEAD TO DANCE?<br /><br />Panel 3:<br />Time passes as Jack moves deeper into the jungle. He looks at a wrist mounted display that tells him a lifeform has been located.<br />JACK<br />I GOT SOMETHING HERE, A LIFEFORM PERHAPS.<br />I’M GOING TO CHECK IT OUT.<br /><br /><br />Page 4<br /><br />Panel 1:<br />Jack moves into a clearing next to a waterfall. On a rock near the water sits the female alien, curled up as if sleeping in a fetal position.<br /><br />CAPTION: WAS IT THE YOUNG WOMAN<br />LEARNING TO PLAY “GHOST SONG” ON HER BABY GRAND?<br />WAS IT THE WILDERNESS CHILDREN?<br /><br />Panel 2:The alien woman begins to stir, rising herself up from the rocks slowly. Jack’s eyes open wide.<br />JACK<br />CAMERA OFF.<br /><br />CAPTION:<br />WAS IT THE GHOST-GOD HIMSELF?<br />STUTTERING, CHEERING,<br />CHATTING BLINDLY?<br />Panel 3:<br />The alien woman sees Jack and smiles seductively. At least if she were human it would appear to be seductive.<br /><br />CAPTION: I CALLED YOU UP TO ANOINT THE EARTH.<br />I CALLED YOU TO ANNOUNCE SADNESS FALLING LIKE BURNT SKIN.<br /><br /><br />Page 5<br />Panel 1:Suddenly the alien woman bolts like a deer, into the forest at top speed. Jack extends his hand to try and call her back, but she is gone.<br />JACK<br />NO,<br />WAIT!<br />Panel 2:Jack leaps over the rock she was sleeping on and chases after her.<br /><br />CAPTION: I CALLED YOU TO WISH YOU WELL,<br />TO GLORY IN SELF LIKE A NEW MONSTER<br /><br />Panel 3:Ahead of him the alien woman breaks through a grove of trees and disappears on the other side. Jack quickly pursues.<br /><br />CAPTION: AND NOW I CALL ON YOU TO PRAY.<br /><br /><br />Page 6<br /><br />Panel 1:Bursting through the trees, Jack comes out the other side standing on the edge of a canyon. Below, about 200 feet, is a gorge.<br /><br /><br />Panel 2:<br />Below in the gorge Jack spots the woman/alien disappear into a cave.<br /><br />Panel 3:Closing his eyes, Jack steps off the edge of the cliff. The lower gravity allows him to float gently to the bottom of the gorge.<br /><br /><br /><br />Page 7<br /><br />Page 1:Jack enters the cave where the alien woman waits. She has her back to the wall, her arms spread out, in a very sexy, aggressive pose.<br />JACK<br />I WON’T HURT YOU.<br />PLEASE, BE CALM.<br /><br />Panel 2:<br />The alien woman approaches Jack like a small child, fearfully with her hand out to him.<br /><br />Panel 3:<br />She places her hand on his helmet as if trying to caress his cheek. Jack is mesmerized by her beauty.<br /><br /><br />Page 8<br /><br />Panel 1:Jack does not even notice that the alien woman releases the locks on his helmet, pushing back the glass of the bubble and revealing him to the atmosphere.<br /><br />Panel 2:She takes his head to her breasts, holding him like a child. The atmosphere chokes him so quickly that he can barely even get his hands up to fight back, even though he tries feebly.<br /><br />CAPTION: WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS,<br />WE CAN WHIP THE HORSE’S EYES<br /><br />Panel 3:LARGE PANEL: A tear rolls down the aliens face as she holds the dead astronauts limp body in her arms.<br /><br />CAPTION: AND MAKE THEM SLEEP,<br />AND CRY.Richard Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768954348547655018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17336305.post-1128175096102416822005-10-01T06:56:00.000-07:002005-10-01T06:58:16.103-07:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1193/1669/1600/Issue%201%20Legion_page2.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1193/1669/320/Issue%201%20Legion_page2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />A sample page from The Canadian Legion 1: Black Magic .Richard Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03768954348547655018noreply@blogger.com2