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A Difficult Decision

After conversing with my brother yesterday about story concepts and ideas for what is going to be produced in Metal Jaw Comics, I have come to a hard decision I had to make. One of the characters I was going to use in my comics was going to be one of my firsts. The Schniz is someone I created when I should have been paying attention in school. I was able to use this character when I was allowed to submit a comic strip to my high school newspaper. The strip was called "The Schniz & Him." It wasn't very funny to tell you the truth, because of the newspaper; I wasn't using the humor that I had started him off with. During the second semester, I went away from the few panel gags to present a storyline that incorporated all of the things we as seniors had voted on for our class representation. Ultimately I ended the story with a page and a half send off that had the two main characters sacrificing themselves for the world. Since then I have tried to come up with ways to update and change my character. All being failures in my eyes. So I have decided that I am not going to utilize this character in anything I am putting on this site. It was very hard to say that to myself, but I think that it is best for me seeing as how I want Metal Jaw Comics to succeed. Maybe one day I will redraw some of the old strips as a sort of retro thing, but I'll have to see. So goodbye Schniz... practically nobody knew ya.

"Zombie and Ghost"

I have a certain place in my heart for ghosts and zombies. I don’t know why. When I was little that kind of stuff used to scare the stuffing out of me. As I got older though, I revisited many of the movies that once did this, and upon seeing these “scary” movies I laughed. But at the same time I could see how at a younger age it would scare someone. I would think about these movies and stories and stuff and be fascinated by it all. The concepts and thought processes that go against people’s psyche. The stories in a whole are able to scare people by going to their vulnerabilities in a setting that is fantasy. I have always toyed around with the notion of making a story that played off of folklore and legends of “monsters” and what not. I watch Supernatural now, which pretty much took up that idea.

So I decided to take these ideas and make fun of them. Not so much as disrespectful to my fascination with these, but a poke at the cliché they have become. I have yet to come up with concrete names for these two characters, but the premise is going to be a ghost and a zombie chiding each other as they attack… or at least attempt to attack two Humans. My original title was just going to “Zombie, Ghost, Ted and Alice.” I look at that and I feel that I can do better, cause with that title, the main characters don’t have any personality and are just cardboard stereotypical versions of what I would like to make them. But until I come up with something I am just going to call them Z & G. These are brand new characters I am coming up with and not something that I am pulling from my back catalogue of ideas. So creating unique and interesting personalities is a little difficult. I want them to be stereotypical but at the same be a little different and play around with ideas.

The Schniz

This is The Schniz. This is the best way I can think to introduce my Characters. I created him when I was supposed to be paying attention in Algebra Class 12 years ago. I will try and create a whole bio for him later... he is complex... I mean croutons, what the flip is he...