This is the first post in almost 2 years. Sorry, I’ve been busy finishing issue 6 of the Rogue Asteroid storyline. Now that I’ve completed inking that issue, I have to literally go back to the drawing board for issue[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Spectre: A Dark Matter’s primary antagonist is Searius, a Lorian from the planet Loriar. He belongs to a scavanger race from a distant world. He’s setting up to track the Spectre to their Parkidium deposit discoveries and claim them for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The original mission of the Spectre was to search the galaxy for an element I made up called Parkidium. Parkidium, in my imaginary world, is a metal that emitted energy. As was my goal, this gave the Spectre something to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I envisioned Spectre as an ongoing series of space adventures. In each story they would begin with a scene of Spark, Storbo and Reesa gathering around a high tech table in front of a monitor and speaking to Keplar through[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I created Keplar to be the link between Spark and the Homeworld of Zantibar. Keplar is a member of the High Council and gives mission parameters from the council to his Spectre Team. The way this works is there is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Storbo was supposed to be the strong, silent type. I wanted him to have an attitude and play by his own rules. I also wanted Spark to constantly give him a hard time. His robotic companion, Blip, was intended to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Again, I started with the idea that each member of the Spectre Team would have their own Outposts and meet at Mineta from time to time for group missions. Having Storbo arrive just after Reesa gave Spark the opportunity to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I originally drew this page, Prox was pushing Eeco in the room and he was wearing roller skates. It turned out it wasn’t as funny of a joke as I was hoping and I covered the skates up with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Reesa arriving on Mineta is supposed to be a big reunion. I never really worked out the back story of Spark and Reesa’s prior relationship. I always just had the idea in my head that they were old friends back[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was always one of my favorite pages from Spectre: A Dark Matter. I just love the layout and it’s the first page where I showed a large outer space scene. Searius’s ship releases a probe on the far side[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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