Pulp Tuesday -- The Black Beetle!

Here's another "strip I really hope you're already reading", Francesco Francavilla's The Black Beetle. I've talked about Francesco's great work a couple times here, so I won't get into that, but he just started a new serial adventure featuring the Beetle himself entitled "Kara Bocek" which you can check out at the link just by clicking through. Francesco's got a unique talent for atmosphere that shows in every new episode of this story, and I love how each one feels like it could it fit easily into the Sunday newspaper. Well, not newspapers right now, but you get the idea. Francesco also posts little previews and extras from the strips on his Pulp Sunday blog. Pay attention, you folks who want to create serial adventure strips, this is how it's done.

So here's my attempt at the Beetle and some of the ancillary characters who have shown up so far. I've been wanting to try my hand at the character for a while now, especially after seeing Dave Flora's take on Francesco's impeccable designs. I'm not especially crazy about my overall design here, the text was a bit of an afterthought, having already inked all the characters. It was certainly a lot of fun though.

So go check out The Black Beetle in "Kara Bocek"!