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| Sick Smiley
 darth_paul  Original Characters  2017/10/18 13:36
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| Sick Smiley is the vile father of Smart and Stupid. Design wise he is something of a twisted version of his nephew Skinny. I don't remember why I chose to do this since it was so long ago when I created these characters. Maybe I was going to originally going to do another "evil-twin" thing, but then figured that I had too many of those, so I made him the twisted uncle instead. |
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| Slow Smiley
darth_paul Original Characters 2017/12/17 17:45
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| Slow Smiley is one of the "villains" of the Smiley family, while not truly evil or overly bad, he's not exactly a very good person either, and it is his self-centered nature that is in large part a cause of the villainy that his offspring engage in, causing trouble for the family and others of their city and world. He is named the way that he is not because of any kind of slow thinking or anything like that, but because he likes to take things slow and easy, yet with his inattentiveness to his family, one could say that he is also slow in the former. He is another character with his initials inscribed upon his hat, in this case a dapper top hat, and his facial design is meant to reflect a kind of "grumpy yellow smiley face" with his more angular frown and his dark round glasses. |
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| Spy Smiley
darth_paul Original Characters 2017/12/10 6:23
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| Spy Smiley is the lovely wife of Surveillance Smiley, and of course her entire design is made to reflect that classic 1920's - 1930's female secret agent style, and for her face I just gave her a simple looking pretty cartoon face in line with the rest of the yellow smiley designs. Like her husband, her initials are inscribed into her hat. |
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| Surveillance Smiley
darth_paul Original Characters 2017/12/10 6:22
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| Although he looks more like a typical jungle explorer than an espionage agent, I figured that since his entire personality is based around being observant of things through the use of his ever present binoculars, it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to have him do some international spying along with his globe trotting adventuring. His initials are inscribed upon his pith helmet, and his face is meant to be representative of the classic yellow smiley that shows surprise or shock which exemplifies his nature of seeking out new discoveries. I also thought that the beard and monocle were nice touches. |
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| Smart Smiley
darth_paul Original Characters 2017/10/10 14:57
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| Smart Smiley and his counterpart sibling, Stupid Smiley are the evil cousins of the Smiley Triplets. |
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| Screwy Smiley
darth_paul Original Characters 2017/10/18 13:37
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| Screwy Smiley is the crazy mother of Smart and Stupid. |
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| Shy Smiley
darth_paul Original Characters 2017/12/16 6:56
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| As her name suggests, Shy is very nervous around others and tends to stay hidden as much as possible. So, I just gave her a face that looks a bit like a classic happy rag doll with rosy cheeks and glasses along with curly gray hair to show that she is a demure old lady. She too lacks any kind of "shape symbol," but as is befitting of her job as a cook, she simply has her initials inscribed on her apron. |
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| Super Smiley
darth_paul Original Characters 2017/10/3 16:31
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Super Smiley is the oldest brother of the Smiley Triplets trio, but he doesn't get to lead them. That job goes to his much more level-headed younger sibling, Skinny. Super is great and all for his true heroism and all of his amazing super-powers, but he tends to take action first and think later, which is his greatest weakness, and that's just not very good for guiding others. So, he gladly lets Skinny do all of the thinking for him and their younger brother, Sad, who is too young and melancholy anyway, and just does his part to defend them with his abilities.
Super Smiley was created mainly to of course be a classic ridiculous Superman parody, nothing new really, but I have put my own original spin on the idea nonetheless. His face is also supposed to be something of a stylized "angry face" with his gritted teeth and the lightning bolt eyes meant to represent that he's always ready for action and don't cross him, or he will zap you with his "eye beams." He does exhibit other emotions, of course, but when in action this is his default look. |
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| Scrupulous Smiley
darth_paul Original Characters 2017/10/17 13:42
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| Scrupulous Smiley is the mother of the Smiley Triplets. |
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| Style Smiley
darth_paul Original Characters 2017/10/17 13:41
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| Style Smiley is the father of the Smiley Triplets. |
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| Stupid Smiley
darth_paul Original Characters 2017/10/10 15:03
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| Stupid Smiley is the other half of the evil cousins of the Smiley Triplets. He is the perfect foil to his brother's schemes balancing out Smart's brains with his brainless antics. Hilarity ensues. |
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| Silly Smiley
darth_paul Original Characters 2017/12/17 17:47
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Poor Silly Smiley also falls within the "villain" side of the Smiley family, but she is more of a victim of circumstance than any real kind of bad guy ... or bad gal.  With her selfish husband not doing much to raise their three children, she was left to her own devices to do her best, and since she is by name, a very silly individual, the results didn't turn out so great and two out of the three became real villains. For her look, I just tried to give her a kind of confused face with heart-shaped glasses combined with a grandmotherly style of dress. For the placement of her initials, I have put them on her broach. |
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| Sir Smiley
darth_paul Original Characters 2017/12/18 13:51
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Since I created Strange Smiley to be a Smiley family member from "a realm of the future," I thought I'd do the same with the past and thus here is Sir Smiley. Unlike, Strange, who can freely go to and from any time and dimension he wishes, Sir, doesn't have that luxury and was taken into the present of the Smiley family's world against his will by one of their foes. Tricked by the villain to go against his descendants, he wasn't fooled for long and turned the tables. Unfortunately, he has been stuck as a man out of time ever since, but as an honorable knight, he does his best to make do and help out in the family's fight against evil until his situation can be rectified.
He, of course, wears a suit of armor for his overall costume, and his initials are appropriately placed upon his shield and he also has his trusty sword. For the design of his face, I wanted him to be kind of stern and serious, but in a battle ready sense, not in a sense that he is an angry jerk all the time, but I do see him as something of a brash individual all the same. So, his mouth and eyes are all diamond shaped with two short lines extending from his eyes to infer "angry" eyebrows to show that he is not a person to be trifled with. |
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| Voodoo King
darth_paul Original Characters 2017/12/31 7:37
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| Voodoo King and his wife, Voodoo Queen, are the only other real villains of the Smiley Triplets other than their evil family members that I have created for them to go up against. I wanted them to have at least someone else to battle that weren't related to them, and I just happened to make a short comic strip in the early days of these characters where Super Smiley goes up against this goofy native warrior guy with mystical voodoo powers. It was just something that I came up with on the fly and went with it since the story took place on an island beach or something. While he and his wife are not related to the Smiley family, they still share the same design elements as far as their heads and faces go since they both have faces meant to be reminiscent of tribal masks, but still have the same yellow color and simple shapes for their eyes and mouths, which those kinds of masks also typically have. |
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| Slick Smiley
darth_paul Original Characters 2017/12/16 6:54
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| When I created these characters, as I was fleshing out the entire family, I had the idea to give each of them an alliterative name with a double "S" and whichever words that I chose for each one would dictate what kind of personality each one would have and what kind of a silly face each one would have to go along with it. For Slick here, his personality is that of a perpetual prankster, and his face is something of a funny old man look in the stylized yellow smiley face ideal that they all have. His face also matches a bit with his son, Style, since they both have kind of the same big toothy grins. Slick has no shape as a symbol, but rather has his initials inscribed on his huge bow tie, so that is in effect his symbol. |
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| Serious Rhino
darth_paul Original Characters 2016/12/21 15:56
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| Serious Rhino is the co-leader of the Creatures gang along with Jerk Rabbit. I came up with his name as a play on words with "rhinoceros." |
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| Battle Boar
darth_paul Original Characters 2016/12/27 6:16
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| Another character whose name I have no idea where I came up with the idea for his name, but it might have something to do with a variation on the term "war pig." Whatever, the case may be, here is Battle Boar, militaristic gang member of the Creatures. |
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| Pack Rat
darth_paul Original Characters 2016/10/29 6:43
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Pack Rat is the resident techie of the Anizonz ... oh, and she's also a were-rat!
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| Sad Smiley
darth_paul Original Characters 2017/10/3 16:32
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Poor Sad Smiley is always melancholy. He is the youngest sibling of the "Smiley Triplets," and while his two older brothers can usually keep him relatively calm, but it doesn't take much to scare and upset him. He also tends to wander, despite his fears, which only makes things worse for both himself and his brothers, but he can defend himself with a screeching sonic cry if cornered and things become more than he can handle. Besides, he's a living cartoon, so nothing can really truly harm him, but he doesn't seem to fully realize that and worries about everything anyway.
Sad Smiley was created as something of an antithesis of his brother Skinny Smiley, since Skinny was the first character of what would become the Smiley Family. As Skinny is based on a classic yellow smiley face, so is Sad based upon a frowny face. The "X's" for his eyes aren't meant to show that he is dead as such kinds of eyes usually represent, but rather to show that his eyes are always closed or at the very least he squints all of the time since he is almost always afraid and/or in tears. He is always drawn with at least one tear on his cheek, if there aren't more steaming out of his eyes like shown here, at any given time whenever he is present on a comics page. |
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| Fearless Flamingo
darth_paul Original Characters 2017/1/28 9:05
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Fearless Flamingo is the co-leader of the Animals who works along with Kool Wolf in piloting the gang to doing good for their world, and it's very appropriate that he is indeed a pilot!
(Also, a bit of behind the scenes info about this character. The majority of this group of characters are actually quite old, having been created in 1995, but this guy and Hot Dawg, are new creations that I just made up now. I did this because, I needed to add two extra characters to make their numbers even with the Creatures, their rivals. Another thing with this guy is that the reason that he is a flamingo is that, Game Bird, another member of this team, was originally such a bird, but I did not feel that him being such an animal really matched to his name, so I decided to make him a different kind of water fowl that more appropriately fit, and he became a black swan, while this new character became the flamingo.) |
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| Howla the She-Wolf
darth_paul Original Characters 2015/11/14 7:28
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| Had planned on submitting this one for Halloween, along with her counterpart, Brutica, but better late than never. Anyhow, Howla and Brutica are a couple of characters that debuted in a short Halloween comic that I posted several years ago. I have, however, referred to that comic in Howla's bio here, so their debut encounter is canon, and thus the two women officially have a rivalry now. Howla, here, got more of a bio and backstory than, Brutica, though mainly due to available space in my bio format, but also because Howla has always been more of a fleshed out character than her rival for me in the first place, and I also needed to use this character's bio to introduce a unique concept in my universe that states that creatures such as werewolves, vampires, and the like do not necessarily come from Earth in the CSCU, but from another world and have basically spread throughout the universe from there. This is the same planet that my race of ant-people comes from as well as my green-skinned elf-people. |
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| Strange Smiley
darth_paul Original Characters 2017/12/18 13:49
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| Strange Smiley is the member of the Smiley family from the future, and his name, and job title at least come from a combination of"Doctor Strange" and "Doctor Who," but that's where the similarities and inspirations end because he really has more in common with "Rip Hunter" than either of those two. Although there are supposed to be others with his occupation, I have yet to really create any of these "D.O.C.T.O.R.s" other than him, so I haven't decided if his suit is a standard uniform or just his own unique look among them. I just wanted to give him a regular futuristic jumpsuit style with his initials etched on his belt. For his face, I just went with another variation of the plain "yellow smiley face" with his more angular mouth coupled with the fancy headset and a mop of parted hair just because I thought it looked cool. |
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| Military Mite
darth_paul Original Characters 2016/12/27 6:17
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| O.K., this one is quite obvious, the best buddy of Battle Boar here is of course named after the term "military might." When I was formulating the members of this cartoony animal gang, it was just too good to pass this up when the idea came to me to make a partner for Battle Boar. |
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| Dumb Mutt
darth_paul Original Characters 2016/12/28 5:50
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| This poor unfortunately named guy comes from the rather insulting term that has often been hurled at many a dog just trying to get some attention or perhaps protect their home only to get shooed away or worse along with the insult. However, upon creating this character, I just ran with it, and he really is a complete imbecile. This poor pooch is very lovable in spite of his sheer stupidity though and only lives to serve. |
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| Skinny Smiley
darth_paul Original Characters 2017/10/3 16:29
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Skinny Smiley is a character that I made back when I was in high school. He was made as a joke for me to have an actual character that is nothing but a stick figure. He is also of course based on a smiley face emoticon, or as they are called now, "emojis." However, at the time of his creation neither of those words existed. Ahead of it's time.  |
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| Ringa
darth_paul Original Characters 2018/9/29 11:52
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| Ringa is the twin sister of Black Mask of the Super-Mutant Nine. Her job is to protect her home world of the dark moon of Night-Zox, a role she carries on alone after her brother joined up with the heroic team. |
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| Cranky Crock
darth_paul Original Characters 2016/12/28 5:51
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| Cranky Croc and Angry Alligator are look alike cousins of the Creatures gang who act as the organizations tough-guy enforcers. For their names I just thought about how alligators and crocodiles just have surly temperaments and came up with some alliterative names along those lines. |
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| Game Bird
darth_paul Original Characters 2017/1/28 9:06
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| As I noted in my comments about Fearless Flamingo, Game Bird here was originally the one who was a flamingo when I first created him back in 1995. However, since I like for my characters to have more than one meaning to their names, it didn't make much sense for a flamingo to be called a game bird, since birds that are hunted for game are chickens, ducks, quails, etc. and not flamingos. I could have just made him another rooster or duck, but I felt like those kinds of birds are too common in cartoons, so I decided to go with a black swan since it was different and it also allowed me to keep him with a similar design to his original look as a flamingo that ended up going to Fearless. He keeps the long skinny legs and neck while now being in line with what a game bird is, however, in my usual way of using word play, he is of course not hunted for game, but is rather an individual who hunts for games to play himself and is the undisputed master at it. |
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| Creepy Cougar
darth_paul Original Characters 2016/12/27 6:18
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| The only thing that I can say about how I came up with this guy is how cats both big and small silently creep up on their prey before they pounce which is very much a part of his bio above. I just decided to take the meaning of creepy much further and made him an absolute weirdo who no one except his partner likes to have near them, but they keep him and his buddy around due to pity since although they are a criminal gang, they aren't totally heartless. |
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| Bumbling Bug
darth_paul Original Characters 2016/12/21 15:58
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| Bumbling Bug is the well-meaning, but hopelessly clumsy member of the Creatures gang. His name is of course derived from the word "bumblebee." |
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