Deadeye Comics - Deadeye Samurai

Yeah for a lot of reasons I won't go into too much detail how badly injured I was and some ways still am - some scars never heal and its usually the mental ones
the resultant blindess and all the other crap takes its toll no doubt - you yourself know how it is
- but the thing is to focus on the present and not the past too much - I got my sight back - s'all the matters

thanks for the love on the Deadeye Samurai book wookie
a lot of me and the cruddy life I've led is in the title character as well as some of the supporting cast as you'll see as the story evolves

Just now is the best time of my life as I have a good family and a good wife - And my skills are coming back year after year
Despite all the bad luck in the past - In many ways I'm a really lucky guy

take care

~_O
Deadeye

You're too modest about some of the details of your injuries. But, I understand. 'nuff said.
Awsome comic creation bro! I can't even draw a stick figure. The figure and the drawings go together very nicely! I'm glad you told me about this site!

Thanks Fox

~_@
Dedi

PM'D you about it

Thanks a lot Aneses

I'll post some more stuff

~_@
Dedi

Great work with the comic.
Keep on!!!

Never seen - or read, come to think of it - Dune.

If he can burn as hot as the sun at his max temperature - I think feeling hot is moot - LOL don't you?

To answer your question tho - remeber the "Still suits" from Dune? the body suit he wears regulates his depowered "human" body temperature similar to that
and only when he powers totally up is this suit destroyed

And that only happens in the direst of occassions as he can take out an entire section of the city if he goes "nova"

You thinking of making a custom of him? Or drawing him?

and as for the color of his clothing - check back across the thread - they vary from white bosysuits and bandgaes ( as hes birnt to start off with befire he learns to heal himself with solar radiation) to black under garments

They range from skin tight clothing to baggy MC Hammer style Samurai pants

cos he burns up in the course of the story - he uses up a lot of different armor styles and costumes until he settles on the Fire retardant suit

...doesn't he get hot in that getup?

but anyways - what colour are we talking for his clothing?

a one piece, heat resistant military grade body suit (resistant up to 700 degrees) that contains his fiery power until he turns up the heat

So other than the trench, hood and glasses, what else does he wear?

thanks mate

The comics rock. Nuff said.

deadeye samurai stuff soon

LOL yep, the Sexy Jutsu, apparently its supposed to be a distraction technique...

It always seems to come in to add comic relief to a situation

LMAO - Thought Ranma was bad for that - now Naruto

Cool I'll go check it out X - thanks for the heads up

LOL yep, the Sexy Jutsu, apparently its supposed to be a distraction technique...

It always seems to come in to add comic relief to a situation

Doesn't naruto turn into a naked girl with clouds surrounding the private parts?

Naruto is awesome! definitely my fave, with bleach in the top picks!

~Gj

Really? I never seen the show

Gonna have to download it

how does he tranform?

What into?

Not exactly transform. In the show the ninja's use "jutsu/jitsu". They are kinda like different skills and moves that they learn to fight with(Example:Phoenix Fire Justu- The user shoots fireballs out of their mouth at the target)

When they do these justu, they form handsigns to focus their chakra(energy) and use the skill(usually shouting the name of the jutsu too). There are a TON of different justu in the Naruto world, allot are pretty cool.

Heres the beginning of episode 5(on youtube most episodes are broken into 3 parts because of the time restrictions):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trlf4JN6qnw
In the opening you can see during the fight scene, Naruto(kid in the orange jumpsuit) uses the clone technique against the big guy(and about 7:00 on you can see the fire technique). That parts actually the best if you want to see jusut examples, they explain all of the basics and show a few off, plus its short

Really? I never seen the show

Gonna have to download it

how does he tranform?

What into?

The way he transforms reminds me so much of Naruto...ya know with the handsign and the "jitsu phrase"...awesome

This is how Deadeye Samurai Changes form

Hes a kinda hooded figure with dark glasses (bit like myself) in a trench before he erupts as a warrior of light

Thanks X

WOW!!!

Looks AWESOME, great work!!!

Spiffy indeed

Jeez - yeah that wouldn't be my kinda place at all that and the fact I got enough Latter Day Saints dudes knocking on my door in Scotland as it is - and always at the worst times, bath-time, wife-time, sleeping in from a party-night before time,

Thanks - its been an uphill struggle for sure - other events happen inbetween like having a family - and you just have to grit the teeth and get on with it - hoping that things work out

And thanks for that last you there said about going to be an awesome addition - I really hope so

hey man us vampires are just as... never mind not worth my tyraid. No dude the sun sucks, here in Utah the screaming desret where the sunlight seems to be getting sucked into us killing life and soul. Once your here you keep getting sucked in and you can never leave once you have kids here. We also get all get all the excess light blinding half of the pople here or at least making them drive as if they where blind anyway.

Well dude congrats on overcoming your difficulties and good luck with everything man and once again welcome to the realm I can tell your going to be an awesome addition

Yeah we both burn up like Nic Cage as GhostRider - Your skin and my peepers hahaha

Thanks for saying the figure looks gorgeous already - I'm very honored and happy that you can see whats its going

yeah about 48 - 50 points of articulation (I'll have a recount) - moving fingers, mutilple joint turns on the arms and two point pinges on the feet with rocker joints - even a moveable jaw to open and shut at one point
Until I had to set the jaw immobile after one of the armature wires broke inside the latex

I'm trying to get a look finalised for his shoulder armour where the japanese sunblast is around his shoulders but its armoured - from the top down view it looks like the eye symbol in my avvy

And I'm going to go for a kneepad /greave look - so I think an Onslaught series ML Pyro might have the parts I need


And that sounds wonderful you can help me block out a strip with pics of your figures. would like to draw a pin up or cover? And would just plain pitch in

Thanks very much Doc

I stumble around in the sunlight too, but that's because it burns so much :P

That figure looks gorgeous already! And it's poseable to boot, right!? I don't know much about Japanese history, so I'd de-rail the comic's plot-train pretty quickly! I used to be able to draw pretty well, I'll try a pin-up. It won't be anywhere near as awesome as those up there but I'll try.

I could definately use my figs to help you story-board some complex scenes and make some new character designs. I could proof-read stuff? Hah, I don't know, but I'll be sure to comment and suggest as you progress!

Yeah people keep thinking its unbelieveable
That I'm absolutely fine that theres nothing wrong with me
Until I step outside into bright light - if its not overcast (luckily Scotland is most of the time)

Then I'm tripping about and banging into things - its just embarrassing and cos of the shades and hoody - folk think I'm a junky


What can you do?

Anything you can think of Doc

For example

You can help design characters for the strip if you want ?
You can pose your customs - take pics and help me plan out a strip even?
Especially if theres a group pic or fight sequence
Can you guest draw from a comicbook script?
Or even do just a one off pinup?
Would you like to guest write an episode?

I'm sure there all kinds of other hints, suggestions and advice you can give me -
so that the comicstrips more fine tooled for general release
I'm one of these guys that like as much feedback as possible to make the best product possible...

And seeing your customs doc - I really think you can help me make some better deadeye customs and give me some hints how to improve them or what figure you think would best for the character I'm making

In fact all you guys can

Pitch in whatever you feel - I got even some of the local schoolkids involved in doing gallery pictures for it

Did someone say proceeds!

:P

What kind of help do you need? I'm not sure I could offer anything you can't already do yourself, which is unbelievable considering the freaky eye thing

Wow Thanks very much for the support Doc!


Thanks to all you guys for the support you've given me here my first full day


And No, Bob-a (great screenname Btw) I don't minding talking about it at all - if anything if I just get it all out here
then I don't have to repeat it

I was born with congenital cateracts in both eyes - at the time opthalmic medical practice weren't great
They just said it was short sightedness and I wore 'Joe 90' style thick bottletop glasses to see - I was still a pretty active kid and got the name 'deadeye dick' at that time

but as time wore on my sight just kept getting worse and worse even when operated on - they were baffled as to why I wasn't seeing after the cateract removal - this was before the days of laser surgery

the cateract surgery covered up the real problem - supressed roots in my optic nerves and obscured capsules at the back of the eye
The cataract would always have a foothold to grow back on this as its genetic not acquired thru old age like most cataracts are...

I needed some really good surgery and some of that new lasik treatment

So when I finally got enough cash together I got private medical care operations - rather than those I had done on the NHS - it let me see again better

But only in one eye - the other ones practically dead - no peripheral vision - just see shadows thru it

The Good eye isnt fantastic either - but its better than nothing

I'm still selectively color blind - certain shades of yellow look white for example - but Colors like Red, Blue and Green really pop out at me - sometimes I get tonal shift where color sorta drains slowly but a few blinks of the eye fixes that

I know I always got the danger of going blind again

Infact the way I see just now is like someones turned up the brightness/contrast in my head evrythings too vivid...

So going out and enjoying a bright, sunny day is a bit of a killer
I have to walk around wearing thick black blindsman shades and a hooded top to drown out light like some forlorn vampire

Even Flourescent lighting slays me after a while exposed to it - so I had to quit working as a graphic artist cos of the studio lights
Working in any kind of brightly lit environment was going to be a strain - god knows - I've tried jobs - 6 months in to them I had to leave due to sight difficulties

But back at home - I can control my environment

My PC Screens got an anti glare filter on it that cuts down light, I can dim the contrast/brightness on the screen to suit me - I sit away from windows and close the curtains/blinds

heres a pic from 10 years ago of me and the wife just after my first surgery (it lasted afew months)



So I can still technically work from home - doing what I love doing - making custom stuff - writing/drawing comics
And I got about 300+ people on a mailing list wanting a copy of this comic

So I know its going to sell and be enjoyed

I'll be publishing it when I'm ready thru http://www.Lulu.com

Anybody that wants to work on it with me will obviously get something from the proceeds

yea man love the graphics, keep it up! ^_^

~Gj

I can't sit aorund waiting for the pictures to load (dial-up) but looks good so far!

If you want to post your comics as a thread like this then that's okay, you can also send the pics to Captain Coder and he'll put them in our Comic Section.

ditto very nice keep it up. I do have a question for you though how did you lose your vision what happed? If its to personal thats cool but I am curious.

Nice. The comic rocks man. I really like the figure too, keep em coming

Been trying to post the best shots of this below....in the Submission forum for customs -

can anyone give me a link to it as I can't seem to see anything ?

I just have the submission guidelines and a Blank page where there should be a submissions questionnaire



Again sorry for the webcam pics - I know theyre crappy - Hope the quality shines thru tho
I'm trying to work out my new Digicam and I aint the most technologically minded person

This is my avvy character and my screen name DEADEYE SAMURAI

I'm currently writing/drawing his comic book origins with other artists. just now and god willing I'd be able to let you guys see it on here some day...

Hes a mishmash in design of Kenshi, Rai, Bloodstone, daredevil and Sunfire for their powers
He can form energy weaponry from an ancient sun kami warrior that possesses him
Usually he wields double red sunlight energy katanas

The comic hes based on I'm going to Post over in the Comics section - Please go over and take a look

- I used real cloth for his undergarments
- Parts of LOTR figures Armour for his Arms n Legs
-Starwars Transformers Vader/Tie Fightr Lightsabers for his energy blades
- A Ms Marvel belt sash for his bandana
- My kids costume jewellry for his head and body gems
- And (I Think) An old X-changers Vambrace for his Shoulder armour

Base figure is a mix of

-LOTR Gil Galead (sp?) for the head (filed down and miliputted)
- Ninja Wolverine upper torso
- Bird of Prey Angel legs and hands

A better improved version is coming