Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations #2
Special-Man On Another Particularly Eventful Valentine’s Day
I think we can all relate to getting someone the wrong gift and the arguments that can cause. We can also all probably relate to someone making you look bad with the gift they give. That’s what I tried to capture in these first 2 Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations comics.
Try to get the right gifts and try not to let anyone show you up. See you tommorow!
Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations #1
Q-boy On A Particularly Eventful Valentine’s Day (Censored)
Welcome to Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations folks! After last Monday’s The Big Ol’ Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 24 Hourly Comics Jamboree Spectacular that was done in conjunction with Hourly Comics Day to kicks things off there will be 3 of these comics a week on Tuesdays-Fridays. This week will be focused on Valentine’s Day as that is coming up on Sunday.
The part about Special-Man’s girlfriend getting superpowers and them making out on the moon refers specifically to Superman giving Lois Lane temporary superpowers in All Star Superman #3
So get your chocolates and your flowers and have a good one!
Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations #1
Q-boy On A Particularly Eventful Valentine’s Day
Welcome to Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations folks! After last Monday’s The Big Ol’ Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 24 Hourly Comics Jamboree Spectacular that was done in conjunction with Hourly Comics Day to kicks things off there will be 3 of these comics a week on Tuesdays-Fridays. This week will be focused on Valentine’s Day as that is coming up on Sunday.
The part about Special-Man’s girlfriend getting superpowers and them making out on the moon refers specifically to Superman giving Lois Lane temporary superpowers in All Star Superman #3
So get your chocolates and your flowers and have a good one!
The Big Ol’ Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 24 Hourly Comics Jamboree Spectacular
7AM – Special-Man On “Special-Man V The Good Knight: Rise Of America’s Protectors”
February 1 is hourly comic day which is described by KnowYourMeme.com as “an annual event that takes place on February 1st where participants draw one short comic for every hour that they (are) awake”. This is my bastardized attempt at it.
To be clear all these comics were made in advance unlike the brave souls who are actually making comics every hour they are awake.
The attempt here is that a comic will be posted every hour today from 12AM to 12PM. How well will this work out? Who knows? But hey the train wreck might be fun to watch too.
Q-boy Short Holiday Special 2 – The Dimes Before Christmas… A Contest For Every Piece On Earth (Censored)
I honestly would like to do more holiday comics but I usually forget about it until it’s too late. Christmas though is advertised so far in advanced that I actually have time to make one. So I was racking my brain trying to come up with idea for a Christmas themed comic, and I woke one day and thought of “Superman: Peace On Earth” by Alex Ross, and then I thought of most of the rhymes which I quickly jotted them down. I had recently rewatched Felicia Day’s web series “The Guild” on DVD and there was a special feature where they did their version of “The Night Before Christmas” so that inspired the rhymes. Then I got the daunting/scary idea of actually trying to do the comic in a painted style like Alex Ross. So I based the panels of the comic the following Alex Ross images…
So that’s that. Since this will be the last post for this year I’d like to thank you all for reading these comics, and give an extra special thank you to all of you who have liked, retweeted, favorited, or shared these comics in any way. I seriously appreciate it more than you can know.
As I mentioned in the last post I’ll be changing the name of these “Q-boy Shorts” comics to “The History Of Comics With Q-boy”. Some other big plans for next year are the return of “The Bastardized Ninja” and the launch of a third comic “Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations”. This new comic will be sorta like heroes and villians talking in the confessional room in a reality show. The plan for now is to continue the Q-boy comics until I get to the end of the Silver Age of Comics and then to take a break. During that break The Bastardized Ninja comics will be posted. With this new comic “Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations” the plan is to post these comics 3 times a week between posts of the other comics… We’ll see how it goes. Anyways I hope you enjoy, happy holidays and have a great new year!
Oh yeah and I saw Star Wars yesterday and it kicked ass!
rjoynesjr@gmail.com
Q-boy Short Holiday Special 2 – The Dimes Before Christmas… A Contest For Every Piece On Earth
I honestly would like to do more holiday comics but I usually forget about it until it’s too late. Christmas though is advertised so far in advanced that I actually have time to make one. So I was racking my brain trying to come up with idea for a Christmas themed comic, and I woke one day and thought of “Superman: Peace On Earth” by Alex Ross, and then I thought of most of the rhymes which I quickly jotted them down. I had recently rewatched Felicia Day’s web series “The Guild” on DVD and there was a special feature where they did their version of “The Night Before Christmas” so that inspired the rhymes. Then I got the daunting/scary idea of actually trying to do the comic in a painted style like Alex Ross. So I based the panels of the comic the following Alex Ross images…
So that’s that. Since this will be the last post for this year I’d like to thank you all for reading these comics, and give an extra special thank you to all of you who have liked, retweeted, favorited, or shared these comics in any way. I seriously appreciate it more than you can know.
As I mentioned in the last post I’ll be changing the name of these “Q-boy Shorts” comics to “The History Of Comics With Q-boy”. Some other big plans for next year are the return of “The Bastardized Ninja” and the launch of a third comic “Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations”. This new comic will be sorta like heroes and villians talking in the confessional room in a reality show. The plan for now is to continue the Q-boy comics until I get to the end of the Silver Age of Comics and then to take a break. During that break The Bastardized Ninja comics will be posted. With this new comic “Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations” the plan is to post these comics 3 times a week between posts of the other comics… We’ll see how it goes. Anyways I hope you enjoy, happy holidays and have a great new year!
Oh yeah and I saw Star Wars yesterday and it kicked ass!
rjoynesjr@gmail.com
Q-boy Short #32 I Can See We’re Not Going To Get Along / The History Of Q-boy Part 30
Now we meet Spiderous-Man, Dr. Do, and The Smasher. Spiderous-Man and Dr. Do actually first appeared way back in Q-boy #1 (Spiderous-Man on page 15 and Dr. Do on page 19). This is the first time seeing The Smasher but we met his female counterpart The Fem-Smasher back in Q-boy #2 on page 3. This comics is based on combining the covers of Superman And Spider-man and Batman VS The Incredible Hulk as seen below…
The thing at the ending with Jerry talking about beating the Smasher by giving him a Coke was a subtle jab at the finale to Mad Men… I really hated that finale… A lot…. Anyways I wrote this one shortly after watching that. That all I got for this one. Next time we meet two super-teams and a big battle royale results. Hope you all had a good Independence Day, and as always hope you enjoy and see ya next time.
rjoynesjr@gmail.com
Q-boy Short # 30 Nothing To Thumb Your Nose At / The History Of Q-boy Part 28 (Censored)
So what’s this one all about you might ask. Well this one is referencing a guy named Bill Finger who co-created Batman, and may have done a lot of the heavy lifting in that but isn’t given as well known as he should be and wasn’t given much of the credit. The big panel at the end is based on the cover of a comic where Superman and Shazam fought as shown below…
Another comic that recently did a homage to this cover is The Hero Business. Click the link check it out. We’ll definitely be seeing more of Kill-Man (and Q-girl getting drunk) over time. Next time we’ll find out who “The Emperor” and “The Guy” are, and we’ll sorta meet a new character… Oh and a certain monster that appeared once before returns. Seriously though should it be “Kill-man” and “The Kill-man”? Anyways hope you enjoy and see ya next time.
rjoynesjr@gmail.com
Q-boy Short # 30 Nothing To Thumb Your Nose At / The History Of Q-boy Part 28
So what’s this one all about you might ask. Well this one is referencing a guy named Bill Finger who co-created Batman, and may have done a lot of the heavy lifting in that but isn’t given as well known as he should be and wasn’t given much of the credit. The big panel at the end is based on the cover of a comic where Superman and Shazam fought as shown below…
Another comic that recently did a homage to this cover is The Hero Business. Click the link check it out. We’ll definitely be seeing more of Kill-Man (and Q-girl getting drunk) over time. Next time we’ll find out who “The Emperor” and “The Guy” are, and we’ll sorta meet a new character… Oh and a certain monster that appeared once before returns. Seriously though should it be “Kill-man” and “The Kill-man”? Anyways hope you enjoy and see ya next time.
rjoynesjr@gmail.com
Q-boy Short # 29 Don’t Trust Those New &*#@%es / The History Of Q-boy Part 27
Here we have the grand meeting of the 3 Q-ladies, and Freedom Female to boot! For this one I made some attempts at drawing in Adobe Illustrator, but once again it just wasn’t a good fit for me so I’m back to Adobe Flash. We also see here Q-girl getting drunk which we will continually see as one of her defining character traits. Wait is “getting a drunk” or ever being an alchoholic a character trait? Anyways you can see this goes way back of the first appearance of “modern Q-girl” way back on page 21 of Q-boy #2. This cover below show what this comic was based on…
Next time we’ll see two of our Q-ladies and we’ll be introduced Q-boy’s greatest rival Kill-man! From there Q-boy with the help of some new creators really hits the Silver Age of comics running! Should be a wild ride! You gotta wonder though what’s Q-girl’s drink of choice. Hope you enjoy and see ya next time!
rjoynesjr@gmail.com
Q-boy And The Ninja 
