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Archive for ‘Coffee Breaks (Done-in-Ones)’

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Coffee Break #1: Vacation Deflation

by Hero Business C.E.O. on December 9th, 2010
Coffee Break #1: Vacation Deflation

We’re back in business! New Hero Business Comics every Thursday, starting this week! You might notice a few new things. I learned a lot going through the first storyline. During my break, I’ve been refining a number of things (including site design, art and story structure). The pages are a little bigger to provide a little more content each week. The character designs have been tweaked a tiny bit. Overall, I think it’s a much slicker look and I hope you agree!

With that, I bring you our very first COFFEE BREAK. In between storylines, I’ll be doing some done-in-one gag strips centered in the Hero Business universe. Some may be one panel, others will be multi-panel strips around a single joke or theme. It’s all “in continuity” mind you… we’ll even meet some new clients that play into storylines in the future. After about 6-8 COFFEE BREAKS, we’re into the second storyline: “The All-New, All-Different Bravado”!

For today’s piece, I wanted to do a joke around returning from vacation. In a sense, a nice “welcome back” to readers. I also thought the notion of Space-Time Travel Agents was a fun one.

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Coffee Break #2: Ploys For Tots

by Hero Business C.E.O. on December 16th, 2010
Coffee Break #2: Ploys For Tots

Here’s another done-in-one COFFEE BREAK gag with a holiday theme. Yeah, I wasn’t a big fan of “Superman Returns,” if you couldn’t tell. Also a little spoof on some of the more ridiculous action figure variants.

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Coffee Break #3: Holiday Fret-Together

by Hero Business C.E.O. on December 23rd, 2010
Coffee Break #3: Holiday Fret-Together

This week’s done-in-one COFFEE BREAK examines what a holiday party might be like at The Hero Business. Also typical office chit-chat… everyone griping about how “this year’s holiday party wasn’t as good as they used to be” mentality. Also nice to get them out of the office sometimes, even for a short coffee run.

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Coffee Break #4: Pap Flap

by Hero Business C.E.O. on December 30th, 2010
Coffee Break #4: Pap Flap

This week’s done-in-one COFFEE BREAK introduces Glamazon, Morgan’s former roommate and current frenemy. She’s sort of a Brazilian Wonder Woman, and she’s extremely free-spirited. We’ll see more of Glamazon later, don’t worry! I love imagining super-heroes as celebrity types… because, wouldn’t they be?

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Coffee Break #5: Miss Taken Identity

by Hero Business C.E.O. on January 6th, 2011
Coffee Break #5: Miss Taken Identity

OK, some of these jokes are deliciously insider-y to comic book fans. This is one of them. For the past 20-some years, comic  book fans have seen their fair share of reboots and re-reboots. Each of these “reboots” is attributed to a cosmic crisis or time ripple. In truth, the creators either can’t keep the history straight, or ignore the past in an attempt to reboot a property yet again.

So this week’s comic gives us a familiar looking character suffering through yet another identity crisis. Just imagine what a Public Relations Manager would go through trying to keep some of these bios straight!

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Coffee Break #6: Thread Cred

by Hero Business C.E.O. on January 13th, 2011
Coffee Break #6: Thread Cred

Oh, 90s. Why is it so easy to make fun of you? The comics of the 1990s gave us a lot of “hard-edged” vigilante type characters. And a lot of them fancied either trench coats, or pouches, or both.

Also, the idea of Simon and Malefactor having these sideline marketing schemes appealed to me. Arguably, Simon is as villainous as Malefactor… those two are great to pair up.

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Coffee Break #7: Profit Signs

by Hero Business C.E.O. on January 20th, 2011
Coffee Break #7: Profit Signs

I like to do some visually-oriented jokes, so this one appealed to me. I also love that pigeon.

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Coffee Break #8: Curses, Fowled Again

by Hero Business C.E.O. on January 27th, 2011
Coffee Break #8: Curses, Fowled Again

If some dark, mysterious crime fighter kept replacing teen sidekicks, wouldn’t people start to wonder? Somehow, I see Nocturnowl showing up again….

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Coffee Break #9: Minder’s Fee

by Hero Business C.E.O. on February 3rd, 2011
Coffee Break #9: Minder’s Fee

Negotiating ain’t easy at the Hero Business! It pays to be prepared.

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Coffee Break #10: Flack in Black

by Hero Business C.E.O. on February 10th, 2011
Coffee Break #10: Flack in Black

Sweet Christmas, comics can be unintentionally racist! It gets even harder when some of these antiquated notions become part of their history. Here, we see just how blindly old school Bravado can be in that regard.

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