Maniacs' Blog

More team members from Mechanical Maniacs Moments. Future and Dark Topman, the Nightmare in tights. No, wait … nobody calls him that anymore. He’s the Spinning Demon! Of course it’s been ages since he’s been active so nobody calls him that anymore either! Their sprites didn’t differ from the official one’s too much so I went hyper literal on them.

The author himself – Hadrian from his own Mechanical Maniacs Moments. In both cynical Future flavor and psychotic Dark. Hardian was one of the most influential team scene writers. His influence continued in the Mechs canon long after his tenure as Hardman was over and was even felt in the Mechs series finale! One regret I have is that he never properly finished the Mechanical Maniacs Moments. My quickie joke ending just isn’t a good substitute.

More Mechs from former Hardman Hardian’s Mechanical Maniacs Moments – Future and Dark Gemini from his Paradox Play storyline.

Here’s the next Mech from former Hardman Hardian’s Mechanical Maniacs Moments – Future and Dark Magnet from his Paradox Play storyline.

Moving on to characters from former Hardman Hardian’s Mechanical Maniacs Moments, here is Future and Dark Needle from his Paradox Play storyline. He never properly finished and I didn’t quite execute his vision when I wrapped everything up. This is me finally giving these Mechs variants their due starting with DWN017.

A couple of Series 9 characters. Well, sort of in "Shadow Woman’s" case. Here we have Shadowman’s sister – Psycho Magnet – in her original appearance since, according to the eps, she was made from his designs after he was modified as a ninja robot, and Wave Woman, Waveman’s happy go lucky replacement on the Sinister Six.

Here’s a couple of older pics I picked up and colored in. Nintendo Power Protoman’s shield was totally reworked, but Breaky hardly needed any changes. These guys were traced completely in Flash, which I’ve been using for lines lately. I don’t think I could do an entire group picture like that, but for a single character in this style? Sure. I really like the sharp, consistent lines it gives.

Time for some stuff from yours truly. I haven’t been doing much drawing for the last few years. I got very into writing the epilogues and doing SIms 4 mods and custom content. And, while fun, I want to get back to my roots and draw and Mechanical Maniacs related stuff. And also color some old stuff. Which is what we have here!

So feast your eyes on Torchman VS Bizarro Torchman Blue and Bizarro Shadowman!

I’m finally done with Raijin’s impressive artwork for the maybe-never coming Decommissioned storyline and I’m following that up with art made by Ben back when he was more active years and years ago. These were pulled from his Deviantart page and his section over at Wily’s Warriors.

Enough stalling. It’s time to meet the rest of the Ascendant Ascendant Androids! Gyroman, Napalmman, Star Woman. Stoneman, and Waveman. Raijin has said he’s become more interested in seeing this storyline through, so here’s hoping! Until then you can look at these paces of art and read their profiles and wonder what might have been.