The last entry

Hey everybody, welcome to the very last installment of The Switch production blog! It's bittersweet but don't think of it as a goodbye. Think of it as a "THANK GOD THESE MORONS ARE FINALLY DONE."

So yeah, now that we're no longer in production, this blog will get mothballed. Future messages about The Switch will revert back to the official Kickstarter updates so keep an eye on your inboxes. You never know when you'll hear from us (spoiler alert: you'll be getting one next week).

I thought I'd unveil one last full page of art in this final blog entry and show the world our final likeness reward, that of backer Tony Vaccaro. To the best of my knowledge, we only had Tony's profile pic from his Kickstarter ID to work with but I think Tom captured him pretty well, casting him in the role of Bigfoot below. Welcome to the world of The Switch, Tony, and thanks for your support!

We've got two other likeness rewards also represented on this page that you guys have seen before, Matt Deangelis/Transient and Mackenzie True as The Truth. They join the ghost of Ronald Reagan and the mysterious warrior, Aequitas, to round out the roster of our team of heroes, The Brigade.

And on that note, I'm going to wrap up this blog entry. On behalf of Tom and Robb, we can only say that we're excited the book will finally be getting into your hands. Hugs to all of you and you'll be seeing us pop up in your email very, very soon!

Signing off,

Keith

Cameo shout-outs to backers/supporters

As we finalize the post-production of The Switch, I thought it'd be a good/fun time to show some cameos of some of our supporters who either backed out Kickstarter, or supported in person at one of our many appearances by purchasing Switch prints.  This is aside from the major reward levels where certain backers actually became more relevant characters in the storyline.

Of course, the best time to draw real-life people is when there are crowd scenes (there are a few in this book), and I have to come up with many different faces and looks (pro tip for you aspiring artists out there:  DON'T draw the same cookie-cutter face patterns over and over if you want a convincing scene!). I have two things to rely on here: my early training as a caricature artist (helps differentiate features better--highly recommended for ALL budding comic artists), and a slew of friends/supporters!  The reference is there, now it's just getting an appropriate likeness.  So here are a few shout-outs...and congrats to all for your comic book debut!

Thanks Lennea and Jeremy for your support!

Thanks, Kelly, for your support!

Umm....1990s mullet Mark McGwire?  Thanks for all those home runs I guess!

Shout out to PhoBolsa's Lan and Yevato "Old Boy"!

Shout out to Kyle Le

Hey everybody, we're back at it again for another thrilling week of The Switch production blog! I'm handling the blog duties again this week as I'm not really sure where in the world Tom might be right now. I know he was in Thailand because he sent me pics dressed as a ladyboy. I wish I could share them because he looks BEAUTIFUL but I had to swear not to share them...oh, screw it. Tom will be angry but here's our boy putting the bang in Bangkok. 

Anyway, back to The Switch. We're there, guys. Hard to believe but the last pages are being colored, Bill is plowing through the lettering as I type this and we should be less than two weeks away from sending it to the printer. We really can't wait to announce that it's finally done and off to print. As much as The Switch has been a labor of love for all of us, the lateness of the project has been a constant weight on our shoulders. It'll be a huge sigh of relief for all of us, creators and backers and our publishing partners at Dynamite, to get it out there.

So as the book drags itself over the finish line, I've started drawing my share of the headsketches that everyone is getting. I've also started rounding up our guest artists to finish their reward sketches and begun work on the credit/thank you page where each of you will find your name in the back of the book. Just crossing t's and dotting I's, making sure nothing is forgotten.

Anyway, enough rambling. Here's some preview art with fake captions again this week and then something really special. I'm unveiling a two-page spread that Tom and Robb did an amazing job on. Hope you dig it too.

"Give me back my space-binky, dammit!"

"Nom nom nom, Interstellar teething!"

Is it a battle scene or a visual representation of trying to get this book done?

Anyway, that's it for this week. Thanks as always for the support and patience. See you guys next week!

Keith