Metal Jaw Comics

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.

1989- Bat-mania hit with the upcoming release of Tim Burton’s Batman. My brothers were searching everywhere for Batman memorabilia. We started going to comic conventions and what not, and they would buy all of these Batman comics, I wasn’t cool enough so I wasn’t allowed to buy Batman comics. I had to look at the other heroes of the time. But going to these conventions another world of comics was opened to me. They made comics about everything. Some series only made it a couple of issues… some only one issue. Kind of like a pilot. These issues intrigued me. Because though they weren’t mainstream and popular… I knew that they at least reached a few people. I usually was that person. I would read a comic only to find out that they didn’t make that many or that it was only one issue. But later on in life, I found that these people who did these comics didn’t just make one series and never write or draw again. They would go on to create and work on thousands of other issues. From there I knew that I wanted to do that. So what, I may not make something everyone will love, but if I could put something out even a few people liked, I would feel accomplished. Don’t get me wrong, I would love to put something out that gained wide attention, but that isn’t my main goal.

I have been sitting thinking of the ideas for various stories and ideas to put in my Metal Jaw Universe. I envisioned a webcomic that doesn’t just lay down one story. At least that is how I want to start it out. I want to put out 4 to 6 different stories to get a feel what people want to laugh at and stuff. Hence why I am calling my overall webcomic Metal Jaw Comics, rather that throw in one worm and see if the fish are biting, I want to throw a net in to let everyone see a bit of variety. So I have a few ideas going through my head and onto paper. Over the next couple of weeks I want to showcase some drawings of the characters with a bit of a synopsis to briefly tell what they are about. I have never been a person to like only one kind of flavor. Sometimes I even like mixing flavors and seeing what comes out. But here lies the dilemma, I often fight with myself in what I like and what I think people will like. I have to keep telling myself that I need to do what I like because if I heed to what people might like, I think my comic will go stale and not the true end product I want out there. So I sit here with a vault of imagination, life observations and experiences in my naval career all trying to find a form in pictures and words for you to enjoy. It isn’t easy, but I know I’ll have fun with it and I hope somebody out there will enjoy it too.

This is something I have wanted to do all my life, as far as I could remember. And now I have finally decided to do something about it. My first character that I created a comic strip that I let people read was a weird freak named The Schniz. People liked reading them, and it felt great. I ended up creating a whole slew of characters that ended up being called The Schniz All-Stars. This was all in High School. My senior year i was able to put The Schniz and his side kick Him in the high school newspaper. Originally me and someone else on the staff wanted to do a strip. James Murphy liked to draw as I did. We decided to collaborate and together we came up with…. uh, nothing. Nada, zip… So i decided that I would write and draw the strip, and then he would draw it and that would be our collaboration. He had no problem with it and neither did I. Our second semester I talked with him and decided that I would take over artistic duties. He was kinda busy being smart and studying and stuff.

So I started. My final issue of the school newspaper my senior year was very special with me, my Journalism teacher let me have a page and a half and I finished off by killing off The Schniz and Him. It was my sign off to High School. After that (7 months later) I joined the NAVY. But throughout the time I have been in, I have written many strips and drawn many jokes for my friends. I love the feeling of producing something and people getting a kick out of it. So after talking to my wife, she encouraged me to do this. So I decided to team up with Zerep Productions and be a subdivision of them. A little step up on the networking. Do my thing while collaborating with them. Because as i have found out throughout the years, working with people always helps the brainstorming. So METAL JAW COMICS is here and gearing up for a full launch soon.

Now there is a lot more to the story of the origin to Metal Jaw Comics and to characters such as Josef Midnite, Boomerang Rabbit, and my personal favorite, SAMSON BURN.

So this is a little taste of the origin… I will put more out there as I get to it. But until then, keep it real.