{"id":2743,"date":"2015-06-25T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/?p=2743"},"modified":"2018-12-17T08:58:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T08:58:51","slug":"ten-years-in-the-making-the-mediocre-origins-of-detulux-incorporated-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/2015\/06\/25\/ten-years-in-the-making-the-mediocre-origins-of-detulux-incorporated-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Years in the Making – the Mediocre Origins of Detulux Incorporated (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DetuluxTen years ago this day, I uploaded a comic strip to my new DeviantArt<\/a>1<\/a><\/sup> account. It was to be my first foray into producing comics online.<\/p>\n

Detulux Incorporated follows the misadventures of Mr. Pain, a white-suited bespectacled arms dealer and his team of misfit henchmen and mercenaries as they find themselves party crashing other people’s stories (based on various films, television, video games, books, comics and other pop culture) in search of new armaments to steal and sell on. On the side, it would explore all the tedious little eccentricities that running an illegal weapons smuggler and seller in a James Bond<\/a> type universe would bring – the henchmen have unionised, the legitimate business front is so flimsy you could poke holes in it with a finger, and someone keeps leaving body armour and medicine kits lying around the base rather than storing them away properly.<\/p>\n

That was the intention, anyway. Unfortunately I got hung up on the first storyline, an extended parody of Resident Evil 4<\/em>, and ten years later we’re only just finishing this horribly outdated parody due to the virtue of passing art duties on to my long-suffering other half Sam.<\/p>\n

However, ten years is ten years (even if some of those years featured no Detulux pages whatsoever). To commemorate the occasion, I decided to mimic something the creative team behind the Escapist’s regular webcomic Critical Miss<\/em> did recently and look back at the 80+ strips completed thus far. It could only be considered a trip down memory lane if memory lane was a street in Victorian London, covered with human effluence, disease and general scum.<\/p>\n

We had enough recorded material for a few hours, so we have chunked it into hour-long chunks2<\/a><\/sup> and placed it in a video3<\/a><\/sup> so I can show relevant comic pages and images to illustrate our conversation. Part 1 covers where the concept of Detulux Inc came from and the first 19 or so pages up to the previously mentioned Resident Evil-inspired storyline.<\/p>\n

You can watch part 1 below!<\/p>\n