FAILED-PROJECT FRIDAY: The MYSTERY SPORTS CAR dealie, pt.2! (Patreon)

Following up on a Failed-Project Friday post from two weeks ago, here's more of an odd pitch(?) of sorts from 2006 or thereabouts.

If I recall correctly, back then DC Comics was doing an odd product-placement comic of sorts titled Rush City, which featured a sporty-looking Pontiac Solstice (named "Sam," apparently) as driven by, I assume, The Transporter-style badass fella Diego Zhao.

I apparently knew somebody in DC Editorial connected to the book, and was maaaaaybe trying to sleaze my way into working on the title? Alas, I no longer recall any specifics. Nothing came of this effort, of course, but I did produce some character designs and an oddly formatted comic/ storyboard(?) story excerpt, which is seen in all its 6-page glory in today's post.

(For the record, on the sixth page above, I replicated the rather odd-looking shift tree featured in the Rush City comic pages I had been given, rather than searching online and finding out what the heck the Pontiac Solstice's transmission diagram actually looked like. Note that I am still uninterested in finding out if this was accurate or not.)

I can say that Diego Zhao's character designs above are at least partially based on the same Japanese costume photoreference book that I sometimes use for the Empowered character Thugboy, on the sporadic occasions that I actually try to depict him as being of Japanese descent. Yay!

NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: No idea, to be perfectly frank, but something will be going up on Monday, if the good DSL allows and the creek don't rise.