The Borad was an easy, early conscript into Erato. The best baddie from (allegedly) the worst Doctor's worst story? Sign him up! I don't think a lot went into the design - I just took the basis of the baddie (half man, half Morlox), put him into a Tim Burtoniser and... a prancing, slightly dandyish, vainglorious foe was born. The essence of the Borad is he's forever thinking he's too clever for the Karkus, but loses every time anyway. And he's a pleasure to draw - although I've accidentally flipped his flipper hand around in at least two of his appearances (he's correctly aligned here.)
The Borad's clone brood were a quick answer - I may have had a more terrifying prospect in the early doodles, but this simpler version was the one that stuck - complete with Burton stripey socks. And there's another cameo by the Karkus dog in an unmade script section somewhere...
In the real world the Borad's duplication was done by photocopier - many, many, many generations created and thereby distressed on a short break on a library photocopier while I was otherwise working there in my university day job. This is the last Karkus strip I did from Dunedin, before I moved to Wellington.
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