Monster-Liz line-art

This is a drawing I completed a few weeks ago. I keep meaning to color it, but I've been too busy.

Dual Trailer Work in Progress.

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Today dualcomic.com was launched. The home of all things Dual. It is currently pretty bare bones, offering such lavish amenities as a link to this blog.

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Carina's edited montage.

Much like Liz's edited montage, Carina had a character sketch montage that was cut from the final edit of the the comic. The first part of Dual is chiefly about the impact Liz and Carina have upon Bill and Yasu. I originally thought it would be helpful to get to know the characters as Bill and Yasu know them... The montages caused pacing problems. Also, they gave us more information about Liz and Carina than we had about Bill and Yasu, which didn't feel right.

CAPTION:

- Carina’s favorite food is fried bananas, but she isn’t crazy about Bananas Foster. She takes her coffee with cinnamon and honey, rather than cream or sugar. She’s been reading The Bell Jar once a year since she was sixteen. Hotel rooms make her horny. She loves the rain and sometimes makes it drizzle to suit her fancy.

Helena Jefferson was born in Negril, Jamaica on May 3, 1973. Her father, Able, owned a tavern and her mother, Sariah, was a witch.

- Before little Helena could walk, Able was charged with murder and fled the country to avoid arrest. Distraught over losing her husband, Sariah began to lose touch with reality.

- At age three, Helena’s mother sent Helena to live with Helena’s aunt Patty in Durazno, Uruguay.

- On her fifth birthday, Helena learned her first spell from her aunt. It was a simple charm to remove stains and clean spots on clothes, carpets, or furniture.

- Helena and her aunt moved in with an old witch named Pastora, in Pasadena, California, just before Helena started second grade. Patty and Pastora began Helena’s education in Macumba, Vodun, Voodoo, and even the Seven Forbidden Mystical Arts, outlawed at the council of Nacia.

In third grade, Helena resurrected a pet bird. Like in the movies, the undead thing was “wrong” and it pecked a neighbor’s dog to death.

- In 1985, she watched a news report about a mysterious explosion at a local park’s playground. She felt a strange urge to visit the park and begged her aunt for three days to take her there, with no success.

- In middle school, she made several unsuccessful attempts to contact her father.

- At age 15, Helena began to call herself Carina and lost her virginity to a pimple-faced usher during the Accidental Tourist at the dollar theater.

- After taking ecstasy at a high-school graduation party, she thought she spoke with the goddess Athena.

- In 1994, Carina graduated from UCLA with a bachelor’s degree in Women’s Studies.

- One night in August 1996, while getting high at an underground rock-show, she felt uncontrollably drawn to a stranger who seemed to be talking to himself-- me.

A little late for the holidays...

I have placed an order for some buttons. Once they arrive, I will disperse them via S.A.S.E. from interested recipients. More information to follow soon.

Liz's background.

The following is one of two significant segments removed from the original Dual script. Mostly due to pacing.

Montage depicting moments in Elizabeth’s life.

CAPTIONS:

- Liz will tell you her favorite film is Somewhere in Time, but I know it is really The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. She loves smelling the pages of new books before she begins to read. Use of the word “irregardless” makes her skin crawl. Strawberry is her shake-flavor of choice and she can’t stand the concept of dried fruit, especially prunes.

- Christened Elizabeth Emma Van der Heim, she was the second daughter and fifth child born to missionaries, Hubert and Florian Van der Heim, on March 15, 1887 on the island of Upolu in the Kingdom of Samoa.

- She cherishes a nearly-forgotten memory of her parents burying her younger brother, Christopher.

- At age six, a pack of lycanthropes attacked her village, killing thirty-three victims including Liz’s father and siblings.

- Liz and her mother were taken to Atlanta, Georgia.

- Her mother and grandparents raised her to believe Liz’s survival of the attack and recovery from fatal wounds was nothing short of a miracle.

- At age ten, she shared her first kiss with Bobby Nichols while playing Marco Polo at her favorite swimming hole.

- She claimed her first human victim at fourteen.

- In 1911, in Macon, Georgia, Liz was tried, convicted, and executed for the murder of three mill workers.

- Liz attended the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City.

- Liz experienced her first airplane flight in 1941, from Dallas, Texas, to New Orleans, Louisiana.

- On her seventy-first birthday, in Paris France, she met the first lycanthrope she had encountered since being attacked as a child.

- In 1960 a jealous lover pushed her under a train outside of Milan, Italy.

- Tripped out on LSD, she had sex with Jim Morrison on a park bench near Venice Beach, California, one night in 1965.

- Liz attended Bobby Kennedy’s speech at the Ambassador Hotel on the night he was assassinated.

- Liz purchased a Beta-Ma video camera in 1982 and was able to watch her own transformation for the first time in her life.

In 1996, she tried to eat my imaginary friend and met me.

creeper peepers.

Two panels from an upcoming screen (36) that ended up being cropped on the finished page. I wanted to share the full panels in all their glory.

Liz Wallpaper.

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I know... she sorta looks like Two-Face.

Screen 9, Panel 2 process

A little glimpse into the process for creating Screen 9, Panel 2.