The rest of the gang of killers from the back part of the wrap around cover of UGLI STUDIOS PRESENTS #2… I really loved some of the designs for the villains I created for the “The Painted Ladies of San Quentin” and it was awesome to bring these four men to life on the page- Especially the leader of the gang the one eyed “El Alacran” – the Scorpion in English.  I enjoyed his odd body language in this page and the different stances and weapons for his three (un-named as of yet) killers.  From a story point of view- we find out what gang “Injun” runs with- the Dangerous “El Alacran” and his rag tag band of pressional killers.  By doing the top panel from the Leader of the Bandit’s POV I’m telling the reader he is like a field general observing everthing and calling the shots to “Injun” and everyone else in his crew- this implies power, and symbolically he has a general’s shoulder epaulette, the backstory is he killed a high ranking Yankee officer and now wears his symbol of rank.  My internal story teller also made it so the “Injun” was so dangerous, so fearsome he really the 4 Mexican banditos let him operate alone and kept their distance, sort of like “Wez” from George Miller’s ROAD WARRIOR.  One of the lines I have for El Alacran is “We don’t kill Gringos for money, we do it for fun…”

 

Needless to say, the stakes are rising in this story by this point, and El Alacran wants EVERYONE dead- Elijah Holman and Xi Chou Long…

 

These four guys have grown on me, and you can see their original designs I did last August here.