Team Zero

So...If you've been watching me for a while, you've seen these guys. A lot. If you haven't, I shall explain:
I've had this project in the works for...nine-or-so years. Onieros. It's a comic, or rather it's going to be one when either A) I'm done drawing Dis; B) a wealthy benefactor decides to offer me financial support so that I can do this comic-thing full-time, all day, every day.

It's a science-fiction...epic. I guess it's an epic. It's really big. The story revolves around a group of eight individuals who end up hanging out together in close quarters for a few years, and the things they go through. These characters can be divided into three groups: the group of idiot teenagers from Earth, Eloise (who, together with her wardrobe, is enough to make up her own group) and then these four...

The "mighty" crew of the F.S. Reaver Imp! They are occasionally competent.

In the center: Kestrel Zero, the la capitana. Generally chipper. Hyperempathetic bleeding-heart. Lives for junk food. Kinda short, but 100% muscle...except for her head, which is mostly air. Personal information is scarce, but she has a Martian accent.

Moving left: C. Lamarck Simon. Mechanic and engineer. Fixes broken stuff and makes the rest of it work better. Impatient and generally cranky. Has some identity issues he doesn't talk about. Birthplace: Bellona, Acidalia (Mars.) Oh, he's a chimpanzee, by the way. Kinda.

Moving further left: Vincent J. Arrio. Does heavy lifting. Vulgar, talkative, and touchy-feely. Funny accent, weird dialect, and a lisp on top of that. Watches a lot of TV. Illiterate. Dislikes having to smoke through a pressure filter while in space. Ex-con. Birthplace: Palatina, Vesta.

On the far right: James P. Makarios. Accountant, legal counsel, and guy who deals with paperwork in general. Also drives. Rich family. Has a lot of synthetic prosthetics after getting shot-and-also-blown-up. Pill-popper. Speed demon. Reads a lot. Stutters. Birthplace: Phoenix, Pluto-Kuiper.

These four characters are, um...more important than anything else I have ever done.

(c) J. E. Seames 2008

(Alas, this is kindof a bad drawing. The sketch was nice, but I was very sloppy with the inking. )