Tag Archive for Eryck Webb

The Mysterious Captain Kraken by Eryck Webb

May 3, 2012 Blog, League of Aquatic Heroes

Finally, here’s the sixth, and final, “Christmas Commission” featuring The Mysterious Captain Kraken. Art by Eryck Webb.

Captain Kraken is the leader of the League of Aquatic Heroes. He’s a psionic soldier of a long-forgotten race called the Krakatoa. The Krakatoans are a highly reclusive race who live in the deepest depths of the sea. Their physiology is highly adapted to the tremendous atmospheric pressures of the ocean. This is not so much due to a highly resilient body structure, but due to an innate psionic sheath that protects their forms at all times. Members of the soldier class are gifted with the ability to manipulate this psionic force outwards, and are trained to harness those energies in an offensive and defensive nature.

Captain Kraken has abandoned his society in order to concentrate his efforts to help protect the surface dwellers. He tends to shout orders, verbally and mentally, at the League while in combat. Although a capable hand-to-hand combatant, Kraken tends to stay back and analyze and affect the battle from range.

He is a skilled tactician and deductive thinker, but even more outstanding is the unharnessed power of his mind. This power is something Captain Kraken is afraid to tap too deeply into for fear of awakening a dark force the Krakatoans believe is the source of their species: their ancient and slumbering god, The Deep One of Many Eyes.

The Uncanny Blowfish by Eryck Webb

April 13, 2012 Blog, League of Aquatic Heroes

This is the fourth “Christmas Commission” gift to self featuring a LOAH member: The Uncanny Blowfish! It is done by the drawing-machine Eryck Webb.

So, why “Uncanny”? Primarily, because the adjective has a longterm connection to the X-Men of course! Blowfish is a mutant. He’s the “one that doesn’t belong” in the crowd–the central narrative theme in the second LOAH story arc.

The rest of LOAH are actually water-based entities. Blowfish is a human mutation, a freak of nature to both aquakind and humankind, a bipolar specimen (literally). He’s both a vibrant extrovert as well as a brooding loner. Rules are optional when it comes to getting things done. He respects the law, but his heart is dedicated to the freedom of living creatures, even if it means facing the law itself.

That’s the kinda guy Blowfish is: the guy you wanna hug but are afraid too because of the retracting quills that spike out of his body when his adrenalin rises, or he feels threatened. Blowfish gets it too. He doesn’t try to get too close to people because he’s afraid of hurting them if he does. Instead, he finds some gnarly waves to ride and forget about the things “normal” people get too do… and then he goes and finds criminals to punch. Whatever works, right?

The Sensational Swordfish by Eryck Webb

February 9, 2012 Blog, Comic Stuff, League of Aquatic Heroes

Here’s the third of the Holiday Commission League of Aquatic Heroes set I gifted to myself this Christmas, done by restless artist Eryck Webb. Swordfish is a swashbuckling mermaid, how could I give her any other adjective other than “sensational”?

It’s not clear in the two webcomics arcs how she goes from having two legs to a fish tail, but the answer is attached to that sash around her waist. It’s likely the only design requirement for her wardrobe ever.

In my comic series Raven Nevermore (coming soon!), in issue #3, a ship captain who carries contraband on her ship is introduced. She goes by the name Captain Alakai. Some people call her Swordfish. Coincidence? No. It’s simply my way of sending a shout out to alternate timeline / alternate world concepts in comic book history. It’s fun times.

The Incorruptible Orca by Eryck Webb

January 23, 2012 Blog, Comic Stuff, League of Aquatic Heroes

The second commission featuring the League of Aquatic Heroes members by artist Eryck Webb is in! Here you have the Incorruptible Orca! Dependable, honest and loyal, Orca propels through the oceans as an ever-vigilant sentry of the deep waters!

His posture here is telling of his chivalric nature; a trait that makes him possibly a bit naive, but he stands confidently and true.

Orca uses a high frequency sound waves to echo locate under and above water. The entire surface of his body reads the rebounding sound waves as the bounce off objects. He can emit sound blasts that can shatter objects and leave living creatures stunned or paralyzed. If it wasn’t for his devotion to a strict Code of Honor, he’d be a serious threat to the Seven Seas.

The Astonishing Boston Crab by Eryck Webb

December 15, 2011 Blog, Comic Stuff, League of Aquatic Heroes

The first of a set of commissions for the Holiday Season! League of Aquatic Heroes is still alive and well within my head. I’ve been following a Deviant Artist by the name of Eryck Webb for about 2 years now and have always wanted to work with him on something. He’s running a $20 per colour commission deal on Deviant Art for the Holidays. If you have any characters you want–original or otherwise–throw him an email (go to his Deviant Art page for details!)

The LOAH characters are a group I still wish to push in the future! I couldn’t pass up the chance to have Eryck give each toon some new life. Here’s the Astonishing Boston Crab! He’s always felt like something out of a pulp horror comic from the 60s in my mind. There’re some great texture here and I love the heavy shadows which add to the ambiance of his creepy factor!