One of the great things about Uni was getting briefs for coursework that let you really dream up some fun things to play around with. As a cartoonist, exploring real life characters to re-imagine is part challenge, part “just-what-exactly-can-I-get-away-with-here-while remaining-true(ish) to the original?”. Enter James Clark Maxwell and the Tentacles of Fear.
Our real life hero was a genius Scottish physicist, who worked out a really complicated set of equations for electromagnetism that fly over my head higher than a randomly passing satellite. What if he accidently created a rift in time and space during an experiment sabotaged by evil Baron Von Frank, founder of the sinister Scarlet Sun cult? What if… Yes, well, another project to develop further, however, moving right along to character development.
So our Hero has a beard, messy hair and a bow tie. Now to get to work.
An ambidextrous, middle aged, unwilling action hero…
James Clark Maxwell did have a dog. He called ALL of his pooches Toby. Either he was particularly attatched to that name or it was way too much effort to remember a different one. However, this one is called Walter by everyone else except JCM who wonders why his scotty dog gives him a blank look most of the time.
Having escaped from the failed experiment, JCM finds himself attacked by a cultist and a malevolent creature. Luckily Walter brought two friends to help out.
This is the early development stage for a comic book graphic novel.
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