
Sheesh, it's been forever since I've updated this thing. Anyway, what's up with me you ask? Well tons. Tons, I say! We finished the pilot for FX and are currently waiting for the big green light to come down. If and when that happens, we have to take off running to hit the schedule that's tentatively laid out. Til then, we're all taking some much needed time off. Which means I get to experiment with designs like the above.
On his forum, White Chapel, Warren Ellis posts a weekly redesign/remodel thread. The above is my take on Click Rush, The Gadget Man. Via the site:
The Gadget Man. Click Rush, the Gadget Man, was created by Lester Dent and appeared in Crime Busters from 1937 to 1938. Rush was a tall, lean, strong young man with brown hair and eyes. (Brown was his favorite color; he usually dressed all in brown.) Rush was an amateur investigator who invented gadgets towards this end. He'd come to the "big city" with the "notion of selling super-modern, crook-catching gadgets to the police." After the cops laughed him out of the station house he went out on his own.
Well, okay. He was prompted by a talking toad: "Bufa, of the species Bufonidae, which feeds on snails, slugs, insects, and such undesirable things....(I'm) eager to hire an expert private detective to investigate crimes I think need solving." The toad succeeds in convincing Click to solve crime (the $10,000 fee for each crime helped, too.) but proved to be an only average boss, enjoying giving Click the razz and showing a mean sense of humour.
Among Rush's gadgets include a portable x-ray device, phone-tapping equipment, a bulletproof vest, a repeating hypodermic needle he used to deliver a knockout drug; exploding matches; knockout gas vials; containers of liquefied tear gas; and a number of other such things.

