Many of you might not know the person Backslash is based on, it is a good friend of mine who I have lived with, worked with and had many fun adventures with. Through our friendship a playful rivalry came up possibly from us looking something alike and both wanting to establish ourselves as “the better one!” called “the twins” “good and evil” “the boys” by friends its clear to see we sometimes strived to define ourselves based on a superiority to the other. To that end something like what happened in this comic is not far from reality at all! My friend and I would prank each other on a regular basis and each one would lead to a bigger retaliation. It was great to bring it out in the characters based on us!

As for the art itself, I really had fun with this, I liked having full backgrounds, I loved the slow fade up as Backslash regains conciseness, and I really loved the flashback going to a black and white manga style. it was start to finish fun! This also marks my first 9 panel comic! Okay so some would say a black frame isn’t art… (me about ten comics ago.) so even then its still 8 panels and thats not to bad! I am a fan of this and I know no one else would catch this but Doug reading is my tip of the hat to Danger Mouse, my favorite cartoon as a wee little Doug, when ever he would drive or read or pilot his ship, to save on animation costs no doubt, his mouth would be covered so it was partial nose and eyes. So glad I got to add that in!

Also….. I loved drawing the past Backslash and Doug! hehe

Check out the COMIC HERE,