Destructor by Ryan

Destructor's a wicked cool robot. I love robots. I love hamburgers. I love hamburgers that have silly names because there's all kinds of junk and stuff on 'em. Oh, and Sean's a vegetarian and Destructor's his baby, so I threw a veggie burger in there. Mmmmm, hamburgers for robots.

p.s. How about that Photoshop coloring, eh? Sweet, right?

Orko Redux by Zach Oat

This week we'll be expanding the scope of the LAW Blog to include characters NOT created by LAW members. The first lucky winner? Fricking Orko from Masters of the Universe. Don't ask me how he won -- it's a long story that involves bourbon, a nostalgic YouTube video and no small amount of emotional blackmail. And while I respect Orko as a person, I hate the way that he looks. Looking at him and hating him, I decided to see what I could do to make him cooler. This was the result.

First, I decided that Orko needed legs, because only losers hover. And since he was going to get tired walking around, I gave him a horse. Specifically, I gave him He-Man's robot horse, Stridor. And I gave him Castle Grayskull to live in, too. Basically, I gave Orko He-Man's entire TV show, because if Orko had legs, a horse and a cool castle, he'd be much, much cooler than a half-naked barbarian. And for the first time, I think my sketch looks better in color!

Call him Vampire Hunter O. Hopefully, other bloggers will draw Orko the way he really looks, because my sketch really isn't the best way to kick off Orko week. I'd say buy a Orko comic, but I'd rather you bought Hero House.

Des-truc-tor?! I barely know her! by Matt P.

It's my goal to make every one of my post titles a pun. We'll see how I fare.

With this piece, I originally wanted to go with a Andy Warhol-esque Campbell soup theme (hence the four boxes) However, I just chose to go with four different poses of Destructor from my bud, STC's comic.

In retrospect it looks very "class picture" like, but I'm still pretty pleased. Really, I'm just glad to be sketching again.

Destructor by Rob Bricken

I ponied up for a sketch pad last weekend, and a new set of problems have arisen. Why is it scanning in a variety of beiges and whites? Why aren't my pencil marks erasing that well? Why am I so terrible at perspective? Questions for the ages. Still, drawing STC's Destructor was hella fun, not just because it's a great comic, but because Destructor is a fabulous design. Still, I think I might prefer an anarchy logo on his stomach instead of the star, but that's probably just me.

Destructor by David

If you stare at the horizon for too long all you can see is fire.

Magnadoodle Destructor by TJ Dietsch

I didn't intend to double dip this time around, but I was babysitting yesterday and the kid brought out a Magnadoodle, which compelled me to try my hand at Destructor again. I think Sean should definitely consider turning this whole thing into a kid's book.

King Suckerman's take on Destructor

These are just straight-up pencils I tinkered with a tad in Photoshop to increase the contrast and mimic (as best I can) the sketchy, gritty quality of Sean and Matt's original strip. I love the design of Destructor and the other characters in the story, so this was a lot of fun to draw.

Destructor by Rickey Purdin

I've always wanted to draw Destructor. Maybe even a little Destructor strip if Sean will have me one day when I stop sucking so hard. The Prison Break story was filled with so many awesome character designs that I can hardly stand it. Just a pure design bonanza. I fucking love comics and KNOW this isn't my last Destructor drawing. Here's Destructor, Tarkor, and a Mer-soldier leaping into action along with my favorite line from the strip.

Destructor vs. Croc-Man by Zach Oat

When I first read Sean's "Destructor Comes to Croc Town," I was blown away. I had to read it twice to make sure I hadn't missed something, some clue to the enigma that was Destructor, but I hadn't. Destructor was simply a metal can of awesome, and he kicked crocodile-man ass. I was going to do an Iron Man tribute cover, having been inspired by Ben Morse's ode to Tales of Suspense, but in the end I just had to do the comic's great, mostly wordless story justice, and show Destructor locked in mortal combat with a massive Croc-Man.





This is the moment when his arm is torn off, and the Croc-Man has yet to learn that that was not necessarily the best move to make. Not only does Destructor now have a five-fingered wingman, he's got a blunt instrument to swing. The scene as drawn by Matt Wiegle is awesome, which is why I tried to computer-color it, in an attempt to do more than lamely imitate Wiegle's amazing art. Eh. Not my forte. Here it is anyway.





Read "Destructor in: Prison Break," then buy both Destructor adventures in Murder.

DESTRUCTOR VS. CHRIS WARD

I LOVVVVE Matt Weigel's Destructor from the Sean T. Collins comic of the same name. Something about the art is right up my alley...if we were speaking in terms of music, Destructor would be considered in my register. I drew Destructor fighting the only robot I've ever created (in 7th grade), which itself must be some kind of Scud rip-off, but I can't remember. I don't think it was on purpose, anyway.

My robot (which, for over 15 years now, has no name) is taking Destructor apart piece by piece, the sad lunk that he is. I felt bad about having my character win this battle after I drew it, sort of like that short story where the kid defeats his father in a wrestling match as an adult, and gets sort of sad and wistful about life and shit like that.

This sketch has a major technical error of Liefeld-ian proportions, which I'll leave you to figure out. It's a mistake I make all the time.

The art in Destructor reminds me of my first comic convention, and this little indie, stapled-together comic I picked up called "Skank the Chimp." My first exposure to stapled-together, indie comics. I was really into SKA at the time, and this rude-boy, scooter riding chimp was indeed appealing. I bought a Skank the Chimp t-shirt, and became known as "Skank" at school because the shirt was so "quirky" and "outsidery" in my backwoods town. I wonder if that indie creator knows how much mileage and lifeblood I got out of his character. A Google search for Skank the Chimp reveals 0 results.