Corrosion

Corrosion was not supposed to be my next weapon. I completely finished a blade, a trident named Defiance, when I realized I really should draw a handle for it. The original was unfinished, because I couldn't come up with something fitting and moved on. Again, I had no ideas, so I started his one instead. That's why it looks like I took a few weeks off. I was drawing most of the time, but I was also on a self-imposed deadline at my other blog.

Original: January 2, 2008

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Lyssa, the Widow

Spider-Bat, Spider-Bat. Does whatever a Spider-Bat does.

I finished Lyssa days ago, but I've been too wrapped up in editing a post about Fringe that I've been working on for the last year. I have to take some time for this, though, because the other won't be done until at least the 18th, the last day of Fringe's finale. And I promised it months ago. I just completely forgot. So, here is Lyssa. This weapon was originally one of the quickest to come together, and it was also the easiest to draw in iDraw. Didn't take long at all. Simple, I guess, but I like it.

Why Lyssa? I've named a couple after women so far - Kerrigan and Miranda - and I felt like keeping it up. I also immediately thought of The Widow of the Web from Krull. No, it's not a great movie. Still, I love it. You might think it was because of one of my first crushes, Liam Neeson. I had no idea he was in it until I saw it a number of times. My favorite part of it was Ergo (David Battley), who I always remembered as the teacher that delivered the best line from Willy Wonka.

"I've just decided to switch our Friday schedule to Monday, which means that the test we take each Friday on what we learned during the week will now take place on Monday before we've learned it. But since today is Tuesday, it doesn't matter in the slightest."

~Mr. Turkentine, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

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