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Be afraid, for the first time in a long while I actually have sketches that accompany the..."ecclectic" thought processes that go into me creating a new character. Consider it the first ever documentary sketch.

Like I mentioned on A-Bomb's submission, the process started with me thinking (at the 3am alchemy hour, naturally), "If there's 3 Hulks (original, red, and "Son of Hulk"), 3 She-Hulks (original, red, and "Daughter of Hulk"), and 2 Abominations (evil green and blue good), why has there never been a She-Abomination?"

The first idea was to totally She-Hulk it up, make her sexy AND horrifying (no problem for a veteran K-Girl designer...I still have people telling me they'd "hit dat" about my Aqua-Slug girl. Yeesh...), and, since I consider myself a "writer who can draw" I was trying to come up with a backstory, or at least an identity for her. Since the Hulk creative teams are the most incestuous lot in comics (seriously, he had THREE constant members of his supporting cast for 50 years...not counting Talbot, but who does?..and ALL THREE are now gamma-fueled powerhouses within the past five years), she was originally going to be another supporting cast member: Marlo Chandler, Rick Jones' ex-wife (and Grey Hulk's ex-girlfriend).

Something about the first sketch wasn't clicking in my head, though, so I tried to shake the rust off with an action shot of her smashing...someone. Who to draw fighting her, though? Immediately, I thought of my own gamma-powered girl of action, Gemma "She-Beast" McCoy, which just as immediately got me thinking that, instead of her being a new Abomination, she'd be the daughter of one of the current models...which made the busty, older-looking version I drew immediately non-headcanon.

So, teenage female Abomination, daughter of Emil Blonski (since I doubted Rick Jones would ever mistreat his daughter enough to make her turn villainous, even if she was a semi-reptilian freak of nature)...of course, once I started coming up with a backstory, I ended up feeling sorry for her and, being me, wanted to immediately subvert the normal paradigm for super-confrontations. Suddenly, the image of the nascent teen brute wearing cutoffs and sobbing over a plate of needlessly rich dessert to a sympathetic Gemma ("THEY CALLED ME SHREK!" "Aw, geez...yeah, they used to call me 'Giant-Size Girl-Thing'...") sprang to mind and refused to leave, and all of a sudden I had a fifth member of my growing group of "daughters of the Avengers," and her design altered to fit, becoming much less "monster sexy" and much more "white-trash emo cute."

Until I can think of a better name for her, I'm just using the name of Rick Jones' current alter-ego, A-Bomb (I say "current" because, c'mon, he's RICK JONES...he's gonna have a new heroic identity within the decade, just watch).

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Be afraid, for the first time in a long while I actually have sketches that accompany the..."ecclectic" thought processes that go into me creating a new character. Consider it the first ever documentary sketch.

Like I mentioned on A-Bomb's submission, the process started with me thinking (at the 3am alchemy hour, naturally), "If there's 3 Hulks (original, red, and "Son of Hulk"), 3 She-Hulks (original, red, and "Daughter of Hulk"), and 2 Abominations (evil green and blue good), why has there never been a She-Abomination?"

The first idea was to totally She-Hulk it up, make her sexy AND horrifying (no problem for a veteran K-Girl designer...I still have people telling me they'd "hit dat" about my Aqua-Slug girl. Yeesh...), and, since I consider myself a "writer who can draw" I was trying to come up with a backstory, or at least an identity for her. Since the Hulk creative teams are the most incestuous lot in comics (seriously, he had THREE constant members of his supporting cast for 50 years...not counting Talbot, but who does?..and ALL THREE are now gamma-fueled powerhouses within the past five years), she was originally going to be another supporting cast member: Marlo Chandler, Rick Jones' ex-wife (and Grey Hulk's ex-girlfriend).

Something about the first sketch wasn't clicking in my head, though, so I tried to shake the rust off with an action shot of her smashing...someone. Who to draw fighting her, though? Immediately, I thought of my own gamma-powered girl of action, Gemma "She-Beast" McCoy, which just as immediately got me thinking that, instead of her being a new Abomination, she'd be the daughter of one of the current models...which made the busty, older-looking version I drew immediately non-headcanon.

So, teenage female Abomination, daughter of Emil Blonski (since I doubted Rick Jones would ever mistreat his daughter enough to make her turn villainous, even if she was a semi-reptilian freak of nature)...of course, once I started coming up with a backstory, I ended up feeling sorry for her and, being me, wanted to immediately subvert the normal paradigm for super-confrontations. Suddenly, the image of the nascent teen brute wearing cutoffs and sobbing over a plate of needlessly rich dessert to a sympathetic Gemma ("THEY CALLED ME SHREK!" "Aw, geez...yeah, they used to call me 'Giant-Size Girl-Thing'...") sprang to mind and refused to leave, and all of a sudden I had a fifth member of my growing group of "daughters of the Avengers," and her design altered to fit, becoming much less "monster sexy" and much more "white-trash emo cute."

Until I can think of a better name for her, I'm just using the name of Rick Jones' current alter-ego, A-Bomb (I say "current" because, c'mon, he's RICK JONES...he's gonna have a new heroic identity within the decade, just watch).