Shibboleth Lover

If you don't already know it, I have a problem about the way fantasy tends to use 'race' when it talks about culture.   Primativism, tribalism etc are conflated into a set of stereotypes which would be clearly racist if applied to a real world group of people.

But are there limits to this?  Are all fantasy races just people in funny costumes?  Are there times where a truly alien part of your biology makes you act and think differently to human beings?

Enter the Shibboleth, my beast men whose biological drive to mate and produce progeny drives their culture and their actions.  While not truly evil, they are dangerous and humans have a good reason to be afraid of them.

Through the Shibboleth I'm trying to test the limits of race where you have something we don't have in our world - sentient beings that are biologically different from us.  They are the selfish gene gone wild, nature bloody in tooth and claw.  But, do they are have potential to overcome?  Can nurture win over nature?  These are, I think, really interesting questions.

This is a taboo?

On Y! Gallery they are debating whether toddler porn should be allowed, and yet this image can't be uploaded.

Gotta wonder about priorities sometimes.

Still, it's nice to be controversial with so little effort, but what is the problem with bisexuality anyway? 

Rainbow Connection

Just like Kermit told us.

Orcs in jocks

It seems that some of my costume design choices have confused a couple of readers, especially the mixing of modern bits and pieces, especially with the Ix.   Now, apart from the fact that I think Orc boys in undies are much cuter than Orc boys in loincloths, there is some method here.  

I really like the One Piece Manga and  I especially like the way Oda san mixes modern streetwear with the pirate stuff, it gives the whole setting a great feeling of familiarity and displacement at the same time.  Some I'm trying something similar, to break out of the traditional fantasy rut a bit.  

Also, Tolkien & co were allways pissing and moaning about the advanced technology of the dark ones, well along with medicine and proper sanitation, wouldn't comfortable underwear be a major breakthrough for a medieval society?

The Boys on the way to the gym

I'm taking a little break to recharge before I start plotting out chapter 4, which is going to be a doozy, 24 pages, lots of exposition and background but hopefully not dull and too talky.  I also get to introduce Raul who has been   on my mind for a while now.

So, in the meantime, something which I liked in my sketchbook and have finished up here.

Unfinished valentine

It's hideously late and I only got as far as laying down the flat colours, but here you go anyway.

Hiya

Hey there, how's it going?

Fantasy and Racism

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Golgomogg

Well, that's his name for the moment,  I haven't settled completely but I wanted something pretentious and fantasy.  As things play out we'll find out he's not what he seems to be.

Haven't done a giant cock character yet, so he'll be interesting to play with.  Not my kind of thing usually (just looks too painful) but lots of guys seem to like it so I'll see what I can do with him.

Naxela

This is one of the first sketches I did of Naxela, the central dude in the story.  Crooked Sabre is the narrator and he will appear fairly regularly as he and Nax are a couple (with pretty relaxed boundaries).  Anyway, Nax is one of those generals who are either a great leader or a mass murderer depending on whose side you are on (and yes his name is an unsubtle cue to a historical inspiration).

Ix or Orcs?

Let me introduce the Ix, lovable green guys, basically my take on orcs.  Later on I'll stick in some of the material from my story bible about them, as long as there aren't too many spoilers.

The idea was to think of orcs as a created race, a kind of medieval supersoldier or replicant.   This makes a lot of the ethnic slurs in Tolkien et al a whole lot more offensive, if that's possible.   So you have a slave race, genetically engineered and they are the bad guys, apparently.  Humans however are genetically pure.  Now where else have I heard those ideas?

Why are they green?  Don't know yet, maybe they photosynthesise?

Working on The Broken Knight

Just letting you all know that I'm working hard on the second Crooked Sabre story, "The Broken Knight".  It's all pencilled and lettered, just gotta get the inks finished, coloured and we are away.

This is so slow, wish I had a studio like Herge.

Yes, its an adult blog

Let's get this out of the way, right from the start.  This IS an adult blog, hell let's just go the whole hog and say its porn.  No point in trying to nice it up as 'adult erotica', it's all about the sex.  This is mainly going to be where I post my Crooked Sabre sex comic, but I'll also stick up design art, bits and pieces.

I'll talk more about the Crooked Sabre comic in a bit.  I'm having trouble finding a home.  The comic is on Y! Gallery, which is fine for the man on man action but I've got some bi stuff coming up and they have very strict rules about that kind of stuff.

Which is a little odd,  they allow very borderline underage stuff there but no women.  I guess theres a worry that if they opened the gates they would be overrun by generic straight hentai porn.

So this will be the only place I can publish the whole unexpurgated comic.  Until someone complains and I get shut down.

First Post

Nervous, in anticipation, I'm putting up a picture just to see what happens.