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Note: this artwork was made in year 2011, it's old.
Behold! Tears of joy! Lost artwork unpublished for five long years! Now finally recovered and published for the first time on the internet!
Antiquity Varmint raccoon as my fursona I'm using. He was based on the character I have created in the year 2008 used as a role playing character for some websites (now dead sites). However, I decided to reuse him as a comic book/graphic novel instead and this cover was result after years of trying to figure out how to make comic book series with him in it. His name is Jason Darkcoon, he and Antiquity do look like long lost twin brothers.
In other words, Jason Darkcoon was Antiquity Varmint Prototype. I worked on Jason so much in trying to act like what if I'm Jason Darkcoon? How would I do and act? I bought so much life into Jason. By using myself as a method character acting model for Jason that I become Antiquity raccoon as my fursona now.
Rob The Weasel is shown and seen in the cover here. He's Jason's slapstick partner in crime. Rob really have been gone to places before he was used for four page silent comic story in the year 2015 and can be found in my gallery here. Known as "The Return of the Rob T. Weasel", spin off sequel to the Lethal Heist.
Many pages now have been lost and maybe destroyed over the years. Only few survived, still unscanned and unpublished. The cover survived, because it was sold to my art teacher for $50 in my final high school year. I borrowed it from her to scan it the whole cover page in. It's been unpublished for long five years! Wow, time goes so fast. She really did took good care of it. However, too many old Lethal Heist comic pages now have been lost and unfinished that makes it uncompleted and broken. For now, this cover is the only way to show what it could have been like if it was finished and published as a whole. But for now, it's broken comic and what happens behind the cover will have to be left out to the imagination. It suffered troubled history for years and it was finally canned and shelved during art college years. Lethal Heist was replaced by The Outland Furry Freaks project that did help left the weight off and start over on something fresh and new challenges.
However there's good chances that I would be looking forward to bring back Lethal Heist and try again with fresh new look at the old troubled project.
This was made before Zootopia came out. Kind of creepy and odd at the same time. Because Lethal Heist do have one rabbit as a cop trying to track down Jason Darkcoon himself. However he's a guy. Jason is kind of like Nick Wilde in ways, but totally different characters. This is like pre-Zootopia story, when Zootopia wasn't created yet.
Lethal Heist © Wesley Hoague / Antiquity Varmint
Jason Darkcoon © Wesley Hoague / Antiquity Varmint
Rob T. Weasel © Wesley Hoague / Antiquity Varmint
Bruce Rabbit © Wesley Hoague / Antiquity Varmint
Behold! Tears of joy! Lost artwork unpublished for five long years! Now finally recovered and published for the first time on the internet!
Antiquity Varmint raccoon as my fursona I'm using. He was based on the character I have created in the year 2008 used as a role playing character for some websites (now dead sites). However, I decided to reuse him as a comic book/graphic novel instead and this cover was result after years of trying to figure out how to make comic book series with him in it. His name is Jason Darkcoon, he and Antiquity do look like long lost twin brothers.
In other words, Jason Darkcoon was Antiquity Varmint Prototype. I worked on Jason so much in trying to act like what if I'm Jason Darkcoon? How would I do and act? I bought so much life into Jason. By using myself as a method character acting model for Jason that I become Antiquity raccoon as my fursona now.
Rob The Weasel is shown and seen in the cover here. He's Jason's slapstick partner in crime. Rob really have been gone to places before he was used for four page silent comic story in the year 2015 and can be found in my gallery here. Known as "The Return of the Rob T. Weasel", spin off sequel to the Lethal Heist.
Many pages now have been lost and maybe destroyed over the years. Only few survived, still unscanned and unpublished. The cover survived, because it was sold to my art teacher for $50 in my final high school year. I borrowed it from her to scan it the whole cover page in. It's been unpublished for long five years! Wow, time goes so fast. She really did took good care of it. However, too many old Lethal Heist comic pages now have been lost and unfinished that makes it uncompleted and broken. For now, this cover is the only way to show what it could have been like if it was finished and published as a whole. But for now, it's broken comic and what happens behind the cover will have to be left out to the imagination. It suffered troubled history for years and it was finally canned and shelved during art college years. Lethal Heist was replaced by The Outland Furry Freaks project that did help left the weight off and start over on something fresh and new challenges.
However there's good chances that I would be looking forward to bring back Lethal Heist and try again with fresh new look at the old troubled project.
This was made before Zootopia came out. Kind of creepy and odd at the same time. Because Lethal Heist do have one rabbit as a cop trying to track down Jason Darkcoon himself. However he's a guy. Jason is kind of like Nick Wilde in ways, but totally different characters. This is like pre-Zootopia story, when Zootopia wasn't created yet.
Lethal Heist © Wesley Hoague / Antiquity Varmint
Jason Darkcoon © Wesley Hoague / Antiquity Varmint
Rob T. Weasel © Wesley Hoague / Antiquity Varmint
Bruce Rabbit © Wesley Hoague / Antiquity Varmint
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Comics
Species Mammal (Other)
Size 853 x 1280px
File Size 372.7 kB
Yeah, I realized that after few years ago deciding that the project is dead due to being more as a juvenile thing from my faded youth years. I now changed my mind and willing to do restoration director's cut, however it's more as a remake of the lost comic work with few pages survived. The old project is a confusing mess, lot of drafts and stuff needs to be work out and filled in some things, changing some things around, take things from many drafts out and put them together, add some new things to balance it out etc etc. With enough drafts, it would have created many, many endless versions of the lethal heist comic story, LoL.
The most important thing is, trying to recaptured that spirit of the project that I once have as a young teenager. Because I want it to help me understand my own faded youth years. To see how I feel about it. If it's a director's cut, it would have only less than couple pages LoL. That's why it have to work out as a restoration project to keep lot of things intact to have lot of pages, however I still would have to make choices on how to make it and how it can be a director's cut and restoration at the same time without betraying one other?
The most important thing is, trying to recaptured that spirit of the project that I once have as a young teenager. Because I want it to help me understand my own faded youth years. To see how I feel about it. If it's a director's cut, it would have only less than couple pages LoL. That's why it have to work out as a restoration project to keep lot of things intact to have lot of pages, however I still would have to make choices on how to make it and how it can be a director's cut and restoration at the same time without betraying one other?
That's very interesting!
I think everyone has "lost" projects like these buried somewhere in their cellar. The very old things... or the things you never completed. Even I have them. However if you look at them not thinking "Geez, good that it's buried since it was a bad idea to begin with!" and actually feeling some kind of regret not having done more with it, then it's probably really worth to revisit and even revise it. Who knows, you might actually have something really cool and unique at your hands right there - and maybe now the time has come to finally do these ideas justice and give them the proper execution they deserve? :)
I think everyone has "lost" projects like these buried somewhere in their cellar. The very old things... or the things you never completed. Even I have them. However if you look at them not thinking "Geez, good that it's buried since it was a bad idea to begin with!" and actually feeling some kind of regret not having done more with it, then it's probably really worth to revisit and even revise it. Who knows, you might actually have something really cool and unique at your hands right there - and maybe now the time has come to finally do these ideas justice and give them the proper execution they deserve? :)
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