Anyone Remember KC Munchkin?

I love working on Love and Capes, but I also love that part where I'm close to the end. It's always nice when the page numbers start with the number two. So, here's page twenty! Mark's on his iPhone playing video games while on monitor duty at the Liberty League satellite. I didn't really want to create an entire fake video game, but I managed to find some screen shots from some old Odyssey 2 video games, and used those as the basis for Mark's game.

My family had the Odyssey 2 when I was a kid. The game system had great box covers, and uniformly pretty lame games. They used sprite graphics instead of original artwork, so Pick Axe Pete looked like your Football player looked like your Basketball player. The game system was outdistanced and out performed by the competing Atari and Intellivision games, but I've still got a soft spot in my heart for it. I thought that look would be perfect for the panel, as it's a simpler look, so it read as more cartoony. The game Mark's playing is based on Invaders from Hyperspace

There's a later panel in this sequence where you can see images on the monitor bank. I used some websites I designed (the Thom Zahler site and the Baltimore Bee site) as well as one of my favorite places for life hack information (43 Folders) to fill the screens.

Page twenty also starts the last sequence of this issue. Yay!

Thom Zahler has eight days left to draw four pages.