Gunslinger

The Mega Dude Squad blog is up and running! MDS is a comic strip I created this past year along with co-author Stephen Guzzetta. We had a year-long run in the Daily Cardinal, one of two daily student newspapers at the University of Wisconsin. I’m going to post one at a time, re-tooled and streamlined versions of each of our comics starting from the very beginning.

It’s going to be sort of like a Special Edition as I have gone back and streamlined a lot of the lettering which I’ve gotten much better at as the series went on. I’ve also changed some of the layouts and frames to make them much more cohesive and visually interesting as well as readable.

Mega Dude Squad is the story of a fledgling super hero squad of misfits as they gather their forces, hang out in their secret Antarctic base, attempt to pick up girls and (try to) save the world. The humor is intended for mature audiences so be forewarned as a lot of the comics are NSFW.

The illustrations began as a grab-bag of comic books from a used book store. We went through and frankenstiened different bits and pieces of the goofiest cliche heroes to create the characters. They were then scanned an traced in illustrator to create the final look of the comic. The fonts and balloons were downloaded free from BlamBot.

All in all, this has been a really fun project that I’m glad is finally going online. Hope you all join the Squad.