DAYS OF THE SCORPION! by 14-16 year old D.J. Coffman
Sometimes I feel bad for people just starting out drawing comics and they think they suck. I get e-mails from 14 year old kids thinking of quitting. I always tell them I should scan in some of my art I did when I was their age... sooooo without further delay... ladies and gentlemen, meet, THE SCORPION.
Upper Left: Scorpion was my first character I created in the Super Hero genre. I was 14 and knew freaking NOTHING about creating comics. These were passed around by my friends in Junior High. -- Middle: Lonewolf was the second character I designed. He was blind but had the instincts of an animal. He also had three sharp fingers. Yeah, I was digging Wolverine there I guess. Hah.... --- Right and Bottom: Random pages from other crap I drew at the time.
 
You know that fight scene in Xmen on top of the Statue of Liberty? I did that in 1992! Well, poorly, but STILL....
 
I actually did about 8 comics with the Scorpion.. This was the re-vamp version. My first RE-issue of a number one of anything. hahahaha....
 
A page from the FIRST Scorpion Book. Dig those color pencils!!! YEAH!!! "OKY! WAMA! HAMA!"
 

The story developed.. with... uh... well, Scorpion's weapon, the original owners were a bad ass alien race who brought it here to hide on Earth. And they warned Scorpion if it ever fell into the wrong hands, they'd come back and destroy the whole planet. Sooooo, Scorpion needed a mo-fuggin TEAM to defend that weapon under his mansion. HELL YEAH!---- This was the summer of 1992. So you can actually see a LITTLE progression in my art from January to July. But still... CRAP!!!!

TEAM ROSTER:

Atlas: Big guy with mullet-- ATLAS: He was just super strong and invulnerable. The powerhouse guy to bust through crap. Yeah, original, huh?

Blades: Guy in front with swords- Kitaryu Katshuri, aka, BLADES- he had the power to control Inertia. Which, is what i said then, but now I realize its more of a kinetic energy. But Inertia sounded cool when I was 14. :)

Katana- Chick in blue-- "Katana" She was a master thief and could blast people with some sort of energy. Woo.

Shadow: Guy in front with Red and the shadow guy behind him. He had the power to split into two people-- his good side and bad side. He called his bad side, "Blacky" and blacky never spoke, of course.

Adam Thomas: aka, Scorpion. Guy in background with the coat and pony tail blowing. --

Here's a page from the 100 page book I had. "Regulators"---

SCORPION LEAGUE: Soon to be a major motion picture..... uh... yeah... CALL ME, HOLLYWOOD!

Send me e-mail and let me know what you think of my old 1992 Drawings! And KIDS, don't quit drawing! Hell, adults, DON'T STOP. -

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