New Year's Eve (Close Enough!) Post

I'm (Tom) back with a mish-mash of art sneak peeks for our final update of the year 2017.  As I deal with engagement shenanigans from the other side of the world in Saigon (along with 80-90 degree frigid winter, hehe), I sadly read how most of the States are having crazy, almost-record-breaking cold weather.  Hopefully I can put a little smile on your faces with some new art.  Other than that, with things still being in holiday season mode, things are understandably quiet at the moment.  Enjoy, and hope everyone has a Happy (and safe) New Year!!  :)

Glamour Shots: Crom

No, not the Lizard...try a KOMODO

Lover Boy dusting himself off

An early rough of Crom, most likely not in the best of moods

This looks like it could be Electricia in civilian form.  Always has to wear skimpy stuff, huh??

Pre-holiday update

Hey gang, here's your weekly update of the Switch holiday blog. 

As we round the corner into full-blown holiday madness and meeting end-of-the-year deadlines, stress levels around these parts tend to climb to stratospheric heights. Getting married shortly after the new year can certainly add to that stress which is why I'm cutting Tom some slack for failing to chart much progress over the last week or so on this project. The last time I texted with Tom, he was about to have an aneurysm from feeling overwhelmed with life, his other deadlines, and getting The Switch finished. 

Funny digression, real quick. A friend of mind contacted me the other day asking what was going on with Tom. How was he getting married when he's already married to his lovely Facebook bride, Gertrude?! Of course, I quickly explained that now that Gertrude has been missing for several years, Tom was able to legally annul the marriage and is now free to move on and marry again. I do hope the disappearance of Gertrude is solved someday, as well as the whereabouts of Tom's missing children and his former assistant Trong. I prefer to think that Trong and Gertrude fell in love and ran off together. Not that Tom killed them all and buried their bodies in his parents' basement. 

Although while the Nguyen family is in Vietnam for the winter, it might not be a bad time for someone to check that basement...

Anyway, I'm sorry that I can't report any forward progress this installment. I know that the new date targeted by Dynamite to deliver to the printers is January 11. That should leave plenty of time to put any finishing touches on the art/letters/colors after the holidays and finally get this all in the rear view. It's beyond frustrating and I appreciate how understanding all of you have been.

Anyway, here's some preview art for this week...

"THE MOSS FOUND THE MAMMAL HIDING IN THE MOSS'S FUR!"

"I wasn't hiding, you insufferable fool. I've been trapped since you sat on me."

"God, fresh air never tasted so good!"

"These are my boobs. They shoot electricity. If I ever had kids, they're in for a rude awakening if I breast feed them."

That's all for this week, folks. A very merry Christmas and holiday season from all of us here at Team Switch!

With as Many Sneak Peeks As We Show...

...one would think that we're practically giving the book away! Not so fast...even with the 20-page preview our backers received and weekly peeks at the artwork of The Switch, we haven't even scratched the surface of the storyline.  We've been very good about not spoiling the book, and we saved the best for print of course.  Whatever you may conjure in your heads about the images you see, trust me, it's only half the picture without context and Keith's script.  In fact, even Robb's coloring adds an atmosphere of storytelling (as it should) that you may not even expect as you fill in the blanks in your heads with paint-by-numbers.  Here's the thing: some of the art are decoys.  That's right--some of the pencils you see?  Early stages that got changes.  Angles?  Changed.  Some art even scrapped altogether ;)  It's all part of the process--which is what this blog is kind of about anyway, right?

Here's some more for this week....I hope you're enjoying your holidays so far! 

By the way, I'm doing this blog second week in a row because Keith is having father/son time watching the new Star Wars movie---lucky bastid!   But it works out great when he comes back next week because I'll be in Da Nang taking my engagement photos.  Later for now!  

Hello from Vietnam!

Hi, guys! It seems like only a short time ago that I was writing to you from Vietnam....and yet I am back again.  Thanks to Keith for filling in last week and for the props on my engagement.  Not that you care, but today I have to go to the future in-laws to meet that side of the family.  Fun times. 

As Keith mentioned last week...there's not much to report these days as we await final production side of things. It's admittedly slowing down a bit due to the holiday season, but the light at the end gets brighter to print.

So all we can do, other than wait (and you supporters are awesome, you won't regret it), is to throw up the occasional non-spoiler panel and give you updates on behind the scenes stuff/the obligatory art (by the way, I HATE the format of blogspot--am I the only one who has problems with adding photos, and then they jump all over the place??):

It sure doesn't look like an art store...

Not a recent pic, but I picked up supplies just like these at the local art/office supply store. Why?  To work on REWARD HEAD SKETCHES this trip in my spare time :)

Truth looking bad-ass

Electricia looking badass right back

potentially spoiling scene?

Another fun before/after

See u next week....

Hey everyone, it's Friday and that means (for most weeks, anyway) that it's time for another installment of the production blog. I got a message from Tom this morning saying that he was in Japan and asking if I could update the blog for him so here I am, updating the blog. Tom says jump and I update the blog while he continues on to his final destination of Vietnam for the next few months.

I don't actually have much to report today. I haven't heard from Tom in the past few weeks aside from the message I got this morning so I can't give a crystal clear picture of what kind of progress has been made on The Switch since the last blog update. I skimmed through the dropbox folders before posting this and counted about 7 pages that aren't uploaded yet so I'd say we've got approximately 83 pages in the can. I'll bet Tom is cursing me for adding 10 extra pages to the story; without that extra chunk, he'd be done.

There is some exciting non-Switch news according to a video message that our little Tom posted on Facebook/Youtube yesterday morning. Tom is officially engaged and soon to be married! I'm sure hearts (at least one...cough...yaybo...cough) are breaking all over the world as the news spreads and it's hard to believe that Mr Nguyen, who has been a perennially stubborn bachelor from the day I met him, is about to cross the threshold to marital bliss. 

I don't want to speak too deeply into Tom's personal life but I know that preparing for his wedding and also wading through all the red tape from immigration so his soon-to-be wife can return with him to America has taken up a lot of time and given Tom a lot of gray hair over the last few months. Well...welcome to marriage, Tommy! It doesn't get any easier.

Anyway, here's some sneak peek artwork for the week. I'll catch you on the other side... 

Never ask Electricia to give you a breast exam!

Cat fight, Nasty style!

What? There's a giant robot in this book too?

Electricia may have anger control issues

And that's a wrap for this week. Tom will be back next time (I hope?) to announce that he's finished with the book. Fingers crossed...