Weed All About It!

Would you believe this strip started with the title? Oh, you would? Okay then.

 

RetrosPexive: Think Fast, Father Pex!

 Think Fast, Father Pex is the first stand-alone Pex strip, besides the introductory Diary of a Superhero, and came courtesy of my partner in crime, David Ronayne. It's a parody, of course, riffing not only on one of the hit comedies of the time - the classic Father Ted, but also Harry Enfield, with its little old ladies (imagine them voiced by Enfield and Kathy Burke - please!) And that's it, really!

Pex's character was still percolating at the time the next original story (Pex's Wet Weekend) probably set the hero in place, with no other pop-culture references inbetween. Not the case here, though. Sit tight!

Funderstruck

 

How To Get A Business in Heads

 

Phew! Normality returns from here, probably.

Chicken Dance

 

Started this one nearly a year ago - it's something of a contemporary of The Karkus strip 'Allez!
Les Automatons', I think. 

Guess Who's Coming For Dinner?

 

This one wrote itself very quickly, and gave me a few opportunities: a recurring (sort of) Rezzie character, a callback to Paradise Towers (a late addition!), a fun villain, and another spin on the Giant Chicken Body of Morbius. How could I resist? 

Karkaeology: The Brain of Mavis

The end is where it all starts, of course.
 

Joint Custardy

 

In order to get to the Karkus and Pex being more closely acquainted, I needed to write in a few more stories - and one-pagers are ideal for that. A bit of character, a few gags, a recycled panel or two (row two for those of you playing at home) and some world-building. Done.

Candemonium!

 

How did the Karkus and Pex become old friends by the time of The Brain of Mavis? They saw some stuff, man.

The Gravity of the Situation

What? Oh, come on! The Pex strip has a long and ignoble history of riffing on/ripping off known images. As we'll all see!

RetrosPexive: Diary of a Superhero

 

Let's talk about Pex.

I'm not quite certain I remember when Pex entered the Eratoverse. Sure, it's in the Karkus story The Brain of Mavis, as part of a story set in Paradise Towers - but this one-pager (my first!) accompanied the strip possibly because I thought Pex (who gets limited time in Mavis, it being a Karkus story) needed more fleshing out. Or maybe I had some more ideas in the tank. I'm not sure whether at this stage I intended to introduce a second Erato comic strip to my usual run of TSV submissions... but it probably wouldn't have been long after this that it happened. Pex would get his own ongoing story, with a somewhat unlikely hero in an unusual setting with a few chums to share the scrapes with.

And here we are! Or will be. 

Soon...