I got the sketch for page three of the first World of Hellmouth comic I’m working on with artist Emmanuel Xerxes Javier, hopefully being released in July. The third page has a guy using a lighter (as per the script I wrote). Now, this story takes place in Cog Town, a metropolis city with strong steampunk influences.

After seeing Javier’s sketch of the zippo-like object my brain deconstructed it into the above concept almost immediately. I sent him this concept, chuckling all the while because he will NEVER need to know or show how it functions! I gave him about nine times more info than he needed to pull off the two panels… but at least I satisfied my creative urges for the night.

This took me about 30 minutes to do up and now I’m actually looking forward to building more steampunk do-hickeys as the comic progresses! You’ll see them here of course!