Utility Belt

Hey Everybodies!

Well, the turmoil in my life is taking a vacation, and I managed to have an artistically productive weekend. I finished the issue of the Somnambulist, and started Captain Uranus. We’ll see how the weekday drawing goes, but hopefully I’m over my artists block.

In other news, James Clement and I are still working hard to finish up the prequel issue for the New Recruits, and I’ll be posting them here as an incentive to help fund us on our upcoming Indiegogo initiative. I’ve seen the work he’s done, and it’s gorgeous! I’m very excited for this project!

In other news, Happy Harbour’s 12 Hour Comic Challenge will be a Jam War, pitting teams of creators against each other. I’ve yet to join a team yet… but I’m looking!

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Hey Fellow Babies! Here we are just on the cusp of February, and things are moving along… rather slowly. I think I’m still getting out of my artistic quagmire known as January, and the website hit one small snag. I got up to issue 9, and then the format changed halfway through so I’m struggling to keep everything consistent. I’ll figure it out, I just need to put some time into it.

On the plus side, I’m one page away from finishing the latest installment of the Somnambulist, and while I’m terribly off of my schedule, I’m not that worried about it. If the next issue is late, that’s all right. It’s not like I’m working for Marvel or DC right? Ha ha!

Anyway, life is in a bit of turmoil lately, but between the productive Open Door meetings and my own drive to draw, I’ll get Captain Uranus and Bravo Sierra done in February, hopefully, and you’ll get the new issue soon! (161)

New website day two: Here we are! I’ve uploaded three comics, and more will follow. But I know what you’re asking. “Brad, I have all the copies of Utility Belt! What are you working on now!?!”

I’m glad you asked. I have two projects on the go. First off is my own project, Hat Trick. It’s a 12 issue series, and each comic consists of three different stories.

The Somnambulist is the story of Jack of Spades, an archer assigned to a police squad that is tasked with trans-human criminals, but his life starts to unravel after encountering a horrifying entity known as the Somnambulist.

The Everyday Adventures of Captain Uranus follows the life of a hapless young slacker named Eddie who inherits his grandfather’s house under one condition: That he revive his grandfather’s superhero legacy and become the modern Captain Uranus!

Bravo Sierra is a tightly woven group of stories about the Iraq war, bringing into it superheroes and superhuman powers.

And my second Project is The New Recruits, which I intend to complete with the help of James Clement, a local artist and all-around good guy. We’re planning our Indigogo promotion, as it is over a hundred pages of art. The story follows a group of young superhumans who enter a college to become full fledged superheroes. Some will flourish, others will fail.

So keep your eyes peeled for upcoming announcements on both of these projects! (242)

So, I had a nice website, pretty easy to navigate, and over three hundred individual pages long, which took forever to create. Why the change?

Two reasons. First off, it was terrible to update. The program I was using did not use graphics repeatedly, so it would upload a picture every time it was displayed. With three hundred pages, it took almost an hour to upload when I wanted to update. Plus, somehow I lost the program’s root page, and I didn’t know how to come back from that to edit my pages, so I might’ve had to redo everything anyway, and it was too daunting of a task.

Secondly, I’ve got exciting news. James Clement and I are co-creating a comic called The New Recruits, and to fund it we’re looking at Indiegogo. We’re looking to run our indigogo campaign in February, and I wanted a website to have updates on our progress, as well as information and images for people interested in funding us. I had to change my website, and with the problems I was having, it was time for a change.

So, we’ll see how this goes, and hopefully I’ll have the entire run of Utility Belt, plus extra special bonus comics as soon as I can! It’s an exciting time in the Utility Belt Universe!

Brad (147)

Hey Everybodies! Welcome to the new and improved Utility Belt Website!

Utility Belt is an ashcan comic made in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, by me! Brad James Glenn! It ran for 12 issues, starting with the special 7 Comics of Victory and running to issue 11, and then started the new series, Hat Trick.

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