Riki/ The Befuddled Dumbass

i drew lightray orion again

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New Gods (1971) #7

Hmm....

New Gods (1971) #1

The parallels of Avia and Lightray to Izaya and Orion are not that subtle, the fact that High-Father (Izaya) says that Orion reminds him of his younger battle-focused self who lost his Avia before she heard him sing also adds a distinct level of angst all around.

The New Gods (2024) #9

I literally saved this as "hot yapi base". I made Lightray a little more compact (like the 70s) instead of lean like he is in almost every comic ever, it was completely on accident but I do prefer him being more like a mini tank (as Kirby intended

Thank you for the b-day sketch @shadethechangingman 🥺💖💖💖

[Image description: Lightray and Orion are digitally drawn in an lineless artstyle with a solid sky blue background. Lightray's back is facing the viewer as he meet Orion in an embrace, both of them are smiling.

Yes, he might say, punch a hole in your big screen TV if Kalibak’s face is on the news, and then rant a little bit about the forces of evil, yes yes yes, but up until that point he was pretty nice!!!! Maybe a little quiet and broody. BUT NOT AN ASSHOLE.

Nothing can convince me that Orion isn't well-mannered when he's around people and there isn't a war going on. And when he gets too depressed to be around people*??? He walks around naked in the forest, which is a great coping mechanism!

It will symbolically represent how characters owned by a corporate entity are monopolizing my time and interfering with my capacity for original storytelling. But it will also highlight how these characters are nothing more than "OCs" like mine. Fourth World characters were created by Jack Kirby. I firmly believe if Jack Kirby were born today, he would've been the most deranged webcomics artist of all time.

Anyway it'd be stuff like this:

Another sketch from Bedrock City Con 2024. (For Nolan Buro!)